[biofuels-biz] Refill Madness

2001-08-11 Thread Keith Addison

http://www.globalhemp.com/News/2001/August/refill_madness.shtml

Week of August 8 - 14, 2001

Hemp-Powered Car Rolls Its Own Fuel
Refill Madness

Erik Baard, The Village Voice

Hemp Across America: The Hemp Car crew (All photos from hempcar.org)
While high-powered lobbyists clashed, seduced, and debated their way 
to a House energy bill last Wednesday that called for drilling Arctic 
preserves and left renewable fuel by the wayside, the dialogue at the 
helm of one alternative-fuel program went something like this:

Where are we parking? I don't see any place to park.

I dunno. Where are you looking?

Are we parking here?

Such was the chatter inside the confusedly circling Hemp Car, a 1983 
Mercedes station wagon powered by oil squeezed from cannabis seeds 
and converted into biodiesel, a cleaner vegetable substitute for the 
petroleum product. Its passengers were activists from Virginia on a 
U.S. tour, who eventually pulled up and parked on a sidewalk for a 
pit stop in Minneapolis. The situation in Bush's Washington is much 
the same: If you're looking for far-out energy resources that blow 
smoke in the face of Big Oil, you have to roll your own 
opportunities. Though the Hemp Car is trundling across the wilds of 
America, D.C. is never far out of mind-that's where the tour began on 
July 4 and will conclude at the start of October.

We're promoting biomass for fuel instead of drilling in the Arctic 
or taking a new look at nuclear power, explains Hemp Car 
spokesperson Scott Fur. The adventure began with Grayson and Kellie 
Sigler, the eco-activist couple at the heart of the Hemp Car effort, 
who were itching to take a cross-country trip without choking the 
scenery. Research led them to industrial hemp. That's right, the 
industrial stuff-you won't get a buzz from tailgating the Hemp Car. 
Not that the crew would mind.

We see nothing wrong with responsible people using marijuana. We're 
frankly sick of nonviolent drug offenders being thrown in jail, Fur 
fumes.

But mixing those issues may prove a bit too combustible for biofuel 
allies on Capitol Hill. Just ask South Dakota senator Tim Johnson, 
who introduced a bill to his chamber's energy committee in July 
requiring that renewables like biodiesel and ethanol, an alcohol 
additive made from cellulose, compose 2 percent of transportation 
fuel by 2008 and 5 percent by 2016. Johnson is girding for a fight 
with hardline conservatives in the pocket of Big Oil. I would 
guess, notes spokesperson Bob Martin dryly, that industrial hemp 
would be a little harder to sell than biodiesel based on soybeans.

If hemp is too taboo for Washington, there have been enough other 
demonstration vehicles to stage a Cannonball Run. Best known among 
them are the Veggie Van, the Grease Car, and Greasy Gretta the 
Volkswagen Jetta. They can all trace their ancestry to the diesel 
engine showcased at the 1900 World's Fair, which ran on straight 
peanut oil. Today's Grease Car also runs on pure vegetable oil and 
used grease, but needs to be warmed first by burning 
diesel-coventional or bio. And it broke down on the return leg of its 
tour. Justin Carven, the 24-year-old who invented it as a college 
project, now sells conversion kits for $795.

Oddly enough, for the pilots of the Hemp Car, one of the bedrock 
rules is abstinence. In the car we're trying to keep everything by 
the book, everything above board, so nothing bad happens, Fur says. 
He figures a station wagon emblazoned This Car Powered by Hemp and 
Make It Hempen is already a traveling KICK ME sign. Even industrial 
hemp, with THC levels so low you'd have to smoke a doobie the size of 
a telephone pole to get high, is illegal to grow (but not use in 
finished form) in America. It doesn't help that most Canadian farmers 
who started growing hemp plants-whose fiber can also produce paper 
and cloth and strengthen plastics-in a federal experiment in 1998 
have already abandoned it. Officials there say processing it was 
uneconomical and teenagers raided fields to sell the drug-free 
clippings, misrepresented as kind bud to naive classmates. The Hemp 
Car gets most of its stash from China; it's processed by Apple Energy 
in Virginia and shipped to points along the route.

So far, so good with American authorities, Fur reports. Actually, 
our only experience was positive, he says. When we pulled into 
Detroit from Canada, the border cops said, 'You know, there's no way 
we can let you in with a car like that without being searched.' And 
so they took us into this room and through the window we could see 
the dog just laying there with his head on his paws and all the 
border cops stood around the car and got their pictures taken with 
it. Their only questions were like, 'How is the tour going?' and 'How 
many miles per gallon do you get?'

They know the difference between marijuana and hemp, adds Fur, 
whose uncle is a New York City cop. But that doesn't spare the crew 
some ribbing. One of the most frequent 

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RE: [biofuel] Ethanol is a net energy loser~Bigtime

2001-08-11 Thread Hanns B. Wetzel

No Todd,

345 is what oil companies consider is the average number of days that an oil
well is actually producing per year, allowing for maintenance shut downs
etc.

Hanns

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Hanns,

I think you can trust me when I tell you that I am also at the top of the
list in issuing all encompassing phrases and statements.

Not trying to be a snit, but the 345 was a typo, yes?

Anyway, it's been a terribly long week, and Monday starts all over again
tomorrow. I do believe that I will taste a little amber malt before I
recycle myself in the morning.

Here's mud in yur eye!

Todd
Appal Energy
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From: Hanns B. Wetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 10:44 PM
Subject: RE: [biofuel] Ethanol is a net energy loser~Bigtime


 Todd,

 absolutely correct thta was kind'a toungue in cheek. The oil figures
were
 yearly not daily, it was late and I read it too quickly. Divide by 345 to
 get the correct result.

 Hanns

 -Original Message-
 From: Appal Energy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Friday, 10 August 2001 6:06 AM
 To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: Re: [biofuel] Ethanol is a net energy loser~Bigtime


 No doubt ???

 Absolutely ?

 Correct 

 Todd
 Appal Energy
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]


  No doubt all what professor Pimentel has said is absolutely correct. But
 in
  50 years time when world conventional oil production is down to 17
billion
  barrels per day and demand for oil equivalent in liquid fuels is 70
 billion
  barrels per day, American motor vehicles are not going to be powered
 solely
  by ethanol produced from corn.
 
  There will be other far more efficient methods of producing energy for
  transportation. Enzymatic conversion of cellulosic feed stocks to sugars
 and
  alcohols will no doubt be one of them. If we already have the technology
 to
  clone stud animals today, then surely we will soon have the technology
to
  genetically engineer plants that produce their own enzymes not only for
  cellulose-sugar conversion, but also sugar-alcohol conversion. We will
  simply mash up these plants, put them into a fermentation tank, add
water,
  raise the temperature and distil the resulting beer.
 
  Deriving liquid fuels from natural gas, coal, shale, tar sands and
methane
  hydrates etc. will not only be too expensive, but also create
atmospheric,
  land and water pollution which by 2050 will no longer be politically
  acceptable in any part of the world. Therefore a combination of reduced
  demand for liquid fuels and cheap bio fuels produced from dedicated
energy
  crops is the most likely long term scenario.
 
  In the meantime however, what if it takes 70% more energy to produce
 ethanol
  from corn that the ethanol produces? It is good for the atmosphere, it
is
  good for the farmers, it makes cars run better and it boosts technology
  development.
 
  So the industry is subsidised. What would we rather do? Spend the tax
 dollar
  on something that is good for the rural GDP and good for the planet, or
 make
  OPEC wealthier, spew more CO2 into the atmosphere and have our economies
 run
  down a path of ever increasing environmental cost and diminishing
 resources.
 
  Sometimes one wonders what these so called scientists do for common
sense.
  They are so busy investigating, analysing, and tabulating, that they
loose
  sight of the practical world that we live in.
 
  Hanns




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Re: [biofuel] Hydrogen

2001-08-11 Thread steve spence

Also check out http://www.webconx.com/2000/hydrogen.htm

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Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 11:41 AM
Subject: [biofuel] Hydrogen


 From
 Worldwatch Online.
 http://www.worldwatch.org/

 NEW RELEASES
 Hydrogen Futures: Toward A Sustainable Energy System
 Fueled by concerns about urban air pollution, energy security, and climate
 change, the notion of a hydrogen economy is moving beyond the realm of
 scientists and engineers and into the lexicon of political and business
 leaders. Interest in hydrogen, the simplest and most abundant element in
the
 universe, is also rising due to technical advances in fuel cells-the
 potential successors to batteries in portable electronics, power plants,
and
 the internal combustion engine.  Order online, read QA, view the forum
 discussion, view the related links, or read the news release.





 
 Elabore caseramente biodiesel para su actual motor de gasoil petrol’fero
 La soluci—n a sus problemas energŽticos.

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[biofuel] Hydrogen

2001-08-11 Thread Pedro M.

From
Worldwatch Online.
http://www.worldwatch.org/

NEW RELEASES
Hydrogen Futures: Toward A Sustainable Energy System
Fueled by concerns about urban air pollution, energy security, and climate
change, the notion of a hydrogen economy is moving beyond the realm of
scientists and engineers and into the lexicon of political and business
leaders. Interest in hydrogen, the simplest and most abundant element in the
universe, is also rising due to technical advances in fuel cells-the
potential successors to batteries in portable electronics, power plants, and
the internal combustion engine.  Order online, read QA, view the forum
discussion, view the related links, or read the news release.






Elabore caseramente biodiesel para su actual motor de gasoil petrol’fero
La soluci—n a sus problemas energŽticos.

http://sitio.de/energia
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[biofuel] Re: Oil subsidies, (was Ethanol/Big Time Loser)

2001-08-11 Thread Edward Beggs

Hanns: you presented a great reminder for me that we really need to focus on
getting the point across to consumers that we do not pay the real price of
oil...
   
   

You said:

 So the industry is subsidised. What would we rather do? Spend the tax
   dollar
on something that is good for the rural GDP and good for the planet,
 or
   make
OPEC wealthier, spew more CO2 into the atmosphere and have our
 economies
   run
down a path of ever increasing environmental cost and diminishing
   resources.

--


   
And here is one link I just found on the cost of subsidies in the USA, for
fossil oil.

http://www.icta.org/projects/trans/rlprexsm.htm


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Re: [biofuel] Re: Oil subsidies, (was Ethanol/Big Time Loser)

2001-08-11 Thread Tee

The real price with subsidies and tax write offs is around $16/gal.

Tee

At 12:28 PM 8/11/01 -0700, you wrote:
Hanns: you presented a great reminder for me that we really need to focus on
getting the point across to consumers that we do not pay the real price of
oil...



You said:

  So the industry is subsidised. What would we rather do? Spend the tax
dollar
 on something that is good for the rural GDP and good for the planet,
  or
make
 OPEC wealthier, spew more CO2 into the atmosphere and have our
  economies
run
 down a path of ever increasing environmental cost and diminishing
resources.

--



And here is one link I just found on the cost of subsidies in the USA, for
fossil oil.

http://www.icta.org/projects/trans/rlprexsm.htm


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Re: [biofuel] Re: Oil subsidies, (was Ethanol/Big Time Loser)

2001-08-11 Thread Edward Beggs

...$16 over and above the market price... or higherdepends on which
study you use. There are plenty of them and they vary, depending on
methodology and contingent valuation placed on the services the
environment provides. Where is the $16 number from?

Ed B.
www.biofuels.ca



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Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: [biofuel] Re: Oil subsidies, (was Ethanol/Big Time Loser)


 The real price with subsidies and tax write offs is around $16/gal.

 Tee

 At 12:28 PM 8/11/01 -0700, you wrote:
 Hanns: you presented a great reminder for me that we really need to focus
on
 getting the point across to consumers that we do not pay the real price
of
 oil...
 
 
 
 You said:
 
   So the industry is subsidised. What would we rather do? Spend the tax
 dollar
  on something that is good for the rural GDP and good for the
planet,
   or
 make
  OPEC wealthier, spew more CO2 into the atmosphere and have our
   economies
 run
  down a path of ever increasing environmental cost and
diminishing
 resources.
 
 --
 
 
 
 And here is one link I just found on the cost of subsidies in the USA,
for
 fossil oil.
 
 http://www.icta.org/projects/trans/rlprexsm.htm
 
 
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Re: [biofuel] Re: Oil subsidies, (was Ethanol/Big Time Loser)

2001-08-11 Thread Tee

It was a report from about 2 years ago.
It was based on just the government subsidies and the tax cuts.
Don't have it any more. Had a harddrive melt down plus some of my zip disks 
failed
and I lost about half of my data.
I'll do a check and see if it's still somewhere out on the web.

Tee
t 01:11 PM 8/11/01 -0700, you wrote:
...$16 over and above the market price... or higherdepends on which
study you use. There are plenty of them and they vary, depending on
methodology and contingent valuation placed on the services the
environment provides. Where is the $16 number from?

Ed B.
www.biofuels.ca



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To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: [biofuel] Re: Oil subsidies, (was Ethanol/Big Time Loser)


  The real price with subsidies and tax write offs is around $16/gal.
 
  Tee
 
  At 12:28 PM 8/11/01 -0700, you wrote:
  Hanns: you presented a great reminder for me that we really need to focus
on
  getting the point across to consumers that we do not pay the real price
of
  oil...
  
  
  
  You said:
  
So the industry is subsidised. What would we rather do? Spend the tax
  dollar
   on something that is good for the rural GDP and good for the
planet,
or
  make
   OPEC wealthier, spew more CO2 into the atmosphere and have our
economies
  run
   down a path of ever increasing environmental cost and
diminishing
  resources.
  
  --
  
  
  
  And here is one link I just found on the cost of subsidies in the USA,
for
  fossil oil.
  
  http://www.icta.org/projects/trans/rlprexsm.htm
  
  
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[biofuel] warning trojan

2001-08-11 Thread greg

someone twice has tried to send me a trojan. deleat any email from [EMAIL 
PROTECTED]  person does not have a account.  greg


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[biofuel] Refill Madness

2001-08-11 Thread Keith Addison

http://www.globalhemp.com/News/2001/August/refill_madness.shtml

Week of August 8 - 14, 2001

Hemp-Powered Car Rolls Its Own Fuel
Refill Madness

Erik Baard, The Village Voice

Hemp Across America: The Hemp Car crew (All photos from hempcar.org)
While high-powered lobbyists clashed, seduced, and debated their way 
to a House energy bill last Wednesday that called for drilling Arctic 
preserves and left renewable fuel by the wayside, the dialogue at the 
helm of one alternative-fuel program went something like this:

Where are we parking? I don't see any place to park.

I dunno. Where are you looking?

Are we parking here?

Such was the chatter inside the confusedly circling Hemp Car, a 1983 
Mercedes station wagon powered by oil squeezed from cannabis seeds 
and converted into biodiesel, a cleaner vegetable substitute for the 
petroleum product. Its passengers were activists from Virginia on a 
U.S. tour, who eventually pulled up and parked on a sidewalk for a 
pit stop in Minneapolis. The situation in Bush's Washington is much 
the same: If you're looking for far-out energy resources that blow 
smoke in the face of Big Oil, you have to roll your own 
opportunities. Though the Hemp Car is trundling across the wilds of 
America, D.C. is never far out of mind-that's where the tour began on 
July 4 and will conclude at the start of October.

We're promoting biomass for fuel instead of drilling in the Arctic 
or taking a new look at nuclear power, explains Hemp Car 
spokesperson Scott Fur. The adventure began with Grayson and Kellie 
Sigler, the eco-activist couple at the heart of the Hemp Car effort, 
who were itching to take a cross-country trip without choking the 
scenery. Research led them to industrial hemp. That's right, the 
industrial stuff-you won't get a buzz from tailgating the Hemp Car. 
Not that the crew would mind.

We see nothing wrong with responsible people using marijuana. We're 
frankly sick of nonviolent drug offenders being thrown in jail, Fur 
fumes.

But mixing those issues may prove a bit too combustible for biofuel 
allies on Capitol Hill. Just ask South Dakota senator Tim Johnson, 
who introduced a bill to his chamber's energy committee in July 
requiring that renewables like biodiesel and ethanol, an alcohol 
additive made from cellulose, compose 2 percent of transportation 
fuel by 2008 and 5 percent by 2016. Johnson is girding for a fight 
with hardline conservatives in the pocket of Big Oil. I would 
guess, notes spokesperson Bob Martin dryly, that industrial hemp 
would be a little harder to sell than biodiesel based on soybeans.

If hemp is too taboo for Washington, there have been enough other 
demonstration vehicles to stage a Cannonball Run. Best known among 
them are the Veggie Van, the Grease Car, and Greasy Gretta the 
Volkswagen Jetta. They can all trace their ancestry to the diesel 
engine showcased at the 1900 World's Fair, which ran on straight 
peanut oil. Today's Grease Car also runs on pure vegetable oil and 
used grease, but needs to be warmed first by burning 
diesel-coventional or bio. And it broke down on the return leg of its 
tour. Justin Carven, the 24-year-old who invented it as a college 
project, now sells conversion kits for $795.

Oddly enough, for the pilots of the Hemp Car, one of the bedrock 
rules is abstinence. In the car we're trying to keep everything by 
the book, everything above board, so nothing bad happens, Fur says. 
He figures a station wagon emblazoned This Car Powered by Hemp and 
Make It Hempen is already a traveling KICK ME sign. Even industrial 
hemp, with THC levels so low you'd have to smoke a doobie the size of 
a telephone pole to get high, is illegal to grow (but not use in 
finished form) in America. It doesn't help that most Canadian farmers 
who started growing hemp plants-whose fiber can also produce paper 
and cloth and strengthen plastics-in a federal experiment in 1998 
have already abandoned it. Officials there say processing it was 
uneconomical and teenagers raided fields to sell the drug-free 
clippings, misrepresented as kind bud to naive classmates. The Hemp 
Car gets most of its stash from China; it's processed by Apple Energy 
in Virginia and shipped to points along the route.

So far, so good with American authorities, Fur reports. Actually, 
our only experience was positive, he says. When we pulled into 
Detroit from Canada, the border cops said, 'You know, there's no way 
we can let you in with a car like that without being searched.' And 
so they took us into this room and through the window we could see 
the dog just laying there with his head on his paws and all the 
border cops stood around the car and got their pictures taken with 
it. Their only questions were like, 'How is the tour going?' and 'How 
many miles per gallon do you get?'

They know the difference between marijuana and hemp, adds Fur, 
whose uncle is a New York City cop. But that doesn't spare the crew 
some ribbing. One of the most frequent 

Farm Show - was Re: [biofuel] a lurker speaks

2001-08-11 Thread Keith Addison

Here's Farm Show's search url, useful:

http://www.farmshow.com/searchdb.asp

Keith Addison
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Tokyo
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ed  me to, i`ve been collecting books and mags like that for 30 or so years.
and they always seen to repeat every 10 years, so none of it sinks in.  greg
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  Greg - I've always enjoyed that one. I built it myself...some amazing
  stuff from the farm workshops.
 
  Ed B.
  www.biofuels.ca
 
 
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  Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 6:00 AM
  Subject: [biofuel] a lurker speaks
 
 
   hi allmost of the time , i just look at what has interested me for
  more that 30 years. most of the time, people seem to discover what was
  discovered before.before they return, i hope they remember this is biofuel
  not nukefuel. anyway, to the point, lookover   www.farmshow.com  i just
got
  my farm show magazine energy-saving idea book. some of the ideas are 25
  years old. and i think it will help the people here. some of it it
biofuel,
  woodfuel, corncobfuel. thank you   greg
  


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