Seminar on Biofuels & Other Alternatives for Home Heating: Aug 30 @2 pm

Thinking of switching to a more environmentally-friendly heating fuel?

If you've been thinking about how high your home heating bills will run this winter, or if you’ve been pondering questions like, How can biofuels be used for home heating? What biofuels are available? What’s Biodiesel? What are the advantages of BioDiesel? What are some of the issues and problems to keep in mind? How can I get biodiesel? How can vegetable oil be converted to BioDiesel?, then this seminar’s for you!

Mark your calendar for Saturday, August 30 at 2pm, buddy up with some carpoolers (or bike it) and head out to Flamig Farm at 7 Shingle Mill Road, West Simsbury, for a seminar on “Biofuels & Other Alternatives for Home Heating,” sponsored by The Solar Energy Association of Connecticut. The seminar will feature presentations by Will Eakins, Randy Sykes, Carl Genrich, and David Henri, designers and users of alternative-fuel home heating systems.

“Biofuels & Other Alternatives for Home Heating
Saturday, August 30, 2008, 2pm
Flamig Farm, 7 Shingle Mill Road, West Simsbury

The steeply rising cost of heating fuels has made more urgent the search for alternative fuels. Alternatives to the conventional petroleum-based fuels have been known for some time, and need to be used more widely. Biofuels, including Biodiesel, are an important class of alternative fuels.

The session will include talks by four speakers who have been using biofuels for heating their homes, a demonstration of a Biodiesel Processor (which converts vegetable Oil to Biodiesel) and some of the equipment.

The talks and demonstrations will be followed by an open discussion. Those attending are invited to bring in their questions and ideas, and information about other systems they know of.

TONIGHT - Public Forum on Energy Issues with John Larson

If you missed last week's meeting of the US Select Committee on Energy and Global Warming at Hartford's Mark Twain House, here's another chance to find out more about US energy policy as it develops:

United States Congressman John B. Larson
Will Hold a Public Forum on Energy Issues

East Hartford Town Hall
Council Chambers
740 Main Street
East Hartford, CT

Monday, August 4, 2008
5:30-7:30 pm

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Poll after poll shows that energy will be the most important issue on voters’ minds this election. The American people want congress to tackle the rising cost of gas and oil and they want long term solutions to our looming energy crisis. Congressman Larson will lay out the debate that occurred on this important issue in Washington. He will talk about the policies that came to the floor including oil speculation, increasing domestic production and releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. He will take questions and also talk about where the debate goes from here and what progress is likely to be made when Congress returns to Washington in September. All members of the public are invited to attend.

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For more information please call Congressman Larson’s Hartford office at (860) 278-8888.