Prophets of the Alphabet - Eco Journey in Balkans

Eco Auto is traveling in Balkans as a part of the "Prophets of the Alphabet" international project. The Prophets of Alphabet project freely retraces the journey of St. Constatin (Cyril) and St. Methodus, who created the first script for Old Slavonic—the glagolic (cyrilic) alphabet in the 9th century. In one month we will travel through Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Srbia, Bosna and Hrezegovina, Monte Negro, Macedonia and Bulgaria.
You can find more info about the project at: www.prophets-alphabet.info.
English blog at: http://prophets-alphabet.blogspot.com/
Czech Blog at: http://proroci-pisma.blogspot.com/
Photogallery: http://www.flickr.com/photos/standa/collections/72157600146599382/

Back home

After more than 3 months, traveling more than 12.000 km Im back home. It was very nice experience. I managed to collect more than 600 l of used oil. I found partners for recycling used oil and converting cars to run on vegetable oil in Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and Bulgaria. I met many nice people and recorded their wishes. Im planning to publish some. Thanks to all beautiful people I met for sharing their thoughts and I miss the great hospitality. Im looking forward to your comments.

Klausův ekonomický rozvoj = cesta do pekel

Jsem v Sofii a na Internetu jsme si precetl odpovedi prezidenta Václava Klauze americkému kongresu k otázkám globálního oteplování.
Názory našeho prezidenta na vliv globálního oteplování na naší civilizaci je zbytečné komentovat. Je jen velká škoda, že svým "ne-vědomím" výrazně škodí. Jako ekonom a prognostik by měl vědět, že pouze rovnovážný stav muže zaručit dlohodobou existenci systému. Současný nerovnovážný stav v nárůstu populace a spotřebě energie je cestou konce této "ropné" civilizace. Vice jak 80 % energie, které lidstvo spotřebuje ( cca 15 TW ročně) pocházi z tkzv. neobnovitelných zdrojů - ropa a zemní plyn.
Z dostupných (vědeckých) informací je zcela zřejmé, jaké aktivity naší civilizace výrazně přízpívají k tvorbě tkzv. skleníkových plynů. Největším tvůrcem CO2 je automobilová doprava. Spojené státy svojí činností vytvářeji 25% CO2. Česká Republika přizpívá 0.5 % což je k počtu obyvatel, také výrazné množství. Druhým plynem, který má vliv na oteplování planety je metan. Lidská činnost se na jeho tvorbě podílí více jak polovinou z čehož, živočišná výroba ( chov zvířat ) má podíl 37 %.

Mé doporučení americkému kongresu je:
Snížení spotřeby energie na 2 kW ročně na 1 osobu ( současná spotřeba v USA je 11.4 kW)
Přechod na obnovitelné zdroje energie
Omezení automobilové dopravy
Omezení živočišné výroby

Letošní zimu jsem strávil cestou do Egypta autem poháněným použitým rostlinným olejem a téměř 3 měsíce jsem neviděl déšt. Důsledek této změny klimatu povede k velkému nedostatku vody. Ekonomcké a sociální důsledky, této změny je těžké si představit. Vědci odhadují že do roku 2010 více jak 50 milionů lidí bude muset v důsledku klimatických změn opustit místa kde žijí.
Na zastavení současného negativního vlivu člověka na globální oteplovaní a odvrácení klimatických změn planety má lidstvo příštích 10 let.
Když čtu názory pana prezidenta, tak jsem velmi skeptický, že se najde dostatečná politická vůle k včasnému prosazení, těcho nutných změn životního stylu nejen američanů

Survival of our civilisation

I cleaned 60 l of oil I got yesterday and went to see a movie called "The planet". It was a very nice Swedish documentary showing the current situation in global warming and the catastrophic consequences in the near future. It was again very shocking how ignorant we are and how little time we have to take some actions before it will be too late. The documentaries I saw show quite clearly that we have 10 years to reduce the activities which cause the global warming. The question is how ? In my journey I see that there is a lot of oil damped to the water sewage which is also very bad for the ecology. Recycling vegetable oil and using it as an renewable energy source can help to reduce the CO2 emissions. If my project can make more people aware of the current situation and possibilities of using the vegetable oil as a good fuel alternative it be small step for the better future. If we want to keep the population ( any growth will be more difficult) we have to lower our consumption. This will be a very difficult task for the so called "developed" world which consumes and pollutes the most If we do not make the changes the price in suffering and the loss of human lives will be enormous. I my journey I have visited many ancient cities and lost civilizations. Most of them were destroyed by earth quakes. This is the first time in the history that activity of some species can change the climate and cause the distinction of many other spices and its own. Despite all this very pessimistic future I still believe that we will manage to live more in balance with nature.

Collecting 120 l of oil

I went back to see if I can get more oil in the restaurants and I was very surprised that the restaurant which did not have any oil yesterday had almost 100 liters of oil. I was very surprised how much used oil they can have in one day. I arranged to come back latter and transfer it to my barrels. At 1 pm I went to see a very nice Israeli documentary about a palestinian primary school where Arab and Jew kids are taught together. The name of the documentary was Bridge over the Wadi. It showed very well the deep differences between the arab and jews cultures and possibility how to come closer. After this nice experience I went to the oil and I managed to get 30 more liters from the same restaurant I collected 60 l the day before. After the messy business I had a nice dinner at the restaurant which gave me 100 l. I went back to see the T
"Gulf Stream, a River Under the Ocean". It was a very nice documentary showing the very possible consequences of the global warming on the golf stream and the related changes in the weather and the bad impacts to our society. It was quite alarming to see what the near future of our civilization could look like. After this I saw a very nice American movie called "Red without blue" It was a very nice story about twin boys who became gay and one changed his sex. It filmed in 3 years and captured very well the family relations. It was an international premiere and I met the young directors from San Francisco.