[biofuel] espaol
Hola Guillermo, encontraste uno, pero solo entiendo el espaol, el alemn lo silbo y nada ms. Dispongo de informacin sobre el biodiesel. En la medida de mis posibilidades alguna respuesta creo que podr darte. Espero tus noticias. Atentos saludos Rodolfo Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [biofuel] Honduras Proposal
Mr. Keith Addison Mr. Ryan Grace Dear Mr. Addison and Mr. Grace: At our Foundation, Sugar Cane Research Org., we have identified five areas of industrial conversion of sugar cane to renewable energies for our research portfolio of 2004: 1- Fuel Ethanol. A micro distilleriy with a capacity of 1,000 liters ethanol/day is scheduled to begin operations within 60 days. This distillery will be set up to demonstrate how to produce fuel ethanol with the minimum capital costs and maximum industrial efficiency, by the implementation of the HS/LE Fermentatio Process, the most advanced and economical process ever developed to this date. Honduras could look at fuel ethanol as the renewable fuel that might completely replace gasoline in spark ignited vehicular engines. Several automobile manufacturers already offer Variable Fuel vehicles that can use blends containg as much as 85% ethanol; Neat Ethanol cars have been manufactured in Brazil for quite a long time, where you do not need a single drop of gasooline. 2- E-Diesel. A laboratory and pilot plant will be set up to develop a process to produce a Diesel Oil renewable substitute. Worldwide there is some experience already with blends of 90% Diesel-10% Ethanol, however, our goal is to substanatially increse the ethanol component. I think we've got the right idea already. 3- Bio-gas. A Bio-gas plant for anaerobic generation from sugar cane and other agricultural wastes is our number 3 Renewable Energy Project for 2004. We count with the help of an specialist in this field with some 18 years of experience, who has put up a few dozen Bio-gas plantas in Colombia and in other South American countries. Our project will feature the combined production cycle of: Bio-gas + Fertilizer + Milk, in a closed-loop fashion. 4- Combustible gas by thermal decomposition of biomass. A biomass gasification plant to use sugar cane trash, bagasse and other crop residues will be set up to demonstrate the feasibility of conversion of biomass to an internal combustion gaseous engine fuel. 5- Solid fuel briquettes from biomass. There are several countries around the world that have already succeeded in the production of Bagasse Coal for domestic use. We intend to join in with a small demonstration project. The complementary part of the above projects rely on our GADA Sugar Cane Production System (*) to supply maximum amounts of sugar cane, bagasse and trash per Hectare, which translate into the capacity to produce the equivalent of 20,000 liters of ethanol/Ha/ /12 months + 36 MT bagasse + 36 MT trash, while: * Sustaining high productivity of cane plants to 10, 20 and even 30 ratoons - no more replanting fields following 4 or 5 ratoons. We can show sugar cane fields 20 and 30 years old still producing 150 MT cane/Ha/13 months with high factory sugar yields, * Using minimal applications of chemical fertilizers por crop, usually as low as only 2 kg. N-P-K formulas per MT of harvested cane. * Reduced irrigation Vs. convential furrow irrigation, * Elimination of Glyphosphate-based ripening agents by just using good fertilization management, * Recovering low fertility soils, * Building up organic matter content in soils, * Recovering soils of high salts content due to continued deposition of minerals from irrigation water. We would welcome a scheduled visit to Colombia by Agronomists from Honduras to visit some of the 2,500 Hectares cultivated by the GADA Sugar Cane Production System, which consistently delivers yields in the range of 150 to190 MT cane/Ha/13 months, should you be interested in seeking consultancy from our Foundation. Also, the HS/LE Fermentation Process is available from us. We can certainly lend Honduras a big hand in reaching the country's renewable energy goals. We look forward to your comments, and beg to remain, Sincrely, Luis R. Calzadilla VP Operations Fundacin Sugar Cane Research Org. (A non-for-profit research entity) Cali, Colombia Tel (572) 893-6627 557-0627 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (*) The GADA Sugar Cane Production System was developed during more than 15 years of dedication and hard work, by Dr. G. Domnguez, Founder and President of Fundacin Sugar Cane Research Org. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[biofuel] Re: Ethanol Deliveries (was Test Batches... )
hell, let's just drive down to LA (on cheap biodiesel) for the conference at the end of the month and pick some up then. Save you a LOT of freight that way. Anyone else in the Bay Area interested in this? mark --- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Ken Provost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 1/2/04 9:34 PM, Dave Shaw at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken and James, I wish that we'd got more accomplished with regards to our ethanol deliveries. I'm finally getting a shop space cleared out for my projects, so I'd be willing to go in on a bulk buy... but what I'm really interesetd in is getting that tanker truck rolling north with 2,500 gallons of ethanol Hoo Yeah! . we've got people all over the state waiting to store 500 gallons on their farms for internal combustion use and ethyl esters production. I just hope that he's going to sell the fuel at a reasonable price (is $2.25 too much?) I'm putting together a small buy from Parallel Products as soon as the holidays are over -- four 15 gal. poly drums on a pallette. Price is right around your figure, but the freight is hefty, of course. If anyone wanted experimental quantities in the Bay Area, I could sell a little of it at cost (incl. freight). I emailed David Blume at alcoholcanbeagas cuz someone mentioned they were going to start a fuel ethanol depot in Santa Cruz, but he never responded. Another long shot might be to try to hook up with the oil refineries in North Bay -- they get railcars full of fuel grade EtOH from the Midwest, to blend with gasoline. Last year they didn't know what I was talking about, but now they might. -K Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[biofuel] Bio-remediation, oil absorption with kenaf
The Evaluation of Kenaf an Oil Sorbent Catherine E. Goforth Research has determined that kenaf plant fines, milled fines, and milled core have exceptional absorption properties. For this reason, kenaf may possibly be used as oil sorbents in industrial socks, pillows, booms, or floor sweeps. Researchers at the Milsaps Sorbent and Environmental Laboratory in Jackson, Mississippi, compared the absorption performances of kitty litter, peat moss, and various types of polypropylene fabrics to kenaf materials. To determine the levelof sorbency, these materials were tested in diesel fuel, lightÐweight crude petroleum, and heavyÐ duty crude petroleum. The results indicate that the most efficient kenaf materials are the kenaf plant fines, which are essentially the particles from the separation process, and milled fines, which are the core that has been hammermilled. The two polypropylene fabrics used in this study had the highest sorption rates of the materials tested. However, in the light crude test, the sorbency of the kenaf plant fines (11.98 g) was greater than the poorer polypropylene fabric (9.81 g) and is within the same range as the better polypropylene fabric (16.61 g). This is an important discovery since polypropylene has become a standard in industriasituations. The kenaf plant fines performed better than all other kenaf materials in the diesel, light crude, and heavy crude tests (Tables 1, 2, and 3). Both the kenaf plant fines and milled fines performed better than peat moss and kitty litter in all tests. The greatest difference was found in the light crude test (Table 2). Kenaf plant fines consist of pores that not only sorb oil but also prevent the oil from leaking after absorption. This property will be very important to industries because of great concerns regarding waste minimization in industrial settings. Milled core kenaf was compared to extruded kenaf. The milled core was determined to perform better than extruded kenaf in all three tests (Tables 1, 2, and 3). Extruded kenaf does not sorb as well as other kenaf materials because of reduced porosity. The extrusion process compacts the pores; therefore, the pores are unable to sorb oil easily. The results of the study conclude that kenaf plant fines and kenaf milled fines are excellent sorbent materials, both of which are comparable to sorbent materials that are currently used in industrial settings. Also, milled core is very comparable to currently used floor sweep products. Kenaf shows definite potential for use in socks, booms, and pillows because of its absorption and retention properties. These properties will be beneficial in helping to manage the handling of industrial waste. Reference Millsaps Sorbent and Environmental Laboratory. Research Report: Kenaf Project, Mississippi State University. December 30, 1992 Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[biofuel] Kenaf Core as an Enhancer of Bioremediation
A. Borazjani and Susan Diehl The wood treatment industries have been in operation in the United States for more 100 years. Two of the more potent and most commonly used wood preservatives are pentachlorophenol (PCP) and creosote. These preservatives are used to treat wood products such as crossties, utility poles, marine piles, and structural lumber. Before federal and state laws regulated the use of these preservatives, misuse in the handling, accidental spillage, and improper disposal of creosote and PCP led to large areas of contaminated soils and water. Industrial sites contaminated by past use of PCP and creosote are being cleaned up by nature's own bacteria and fungi. Research by the Environmental Biotechnology Group of the Mississippi Forest Products Laboratory (MFPL) is identifying microorganisms and methods of carrying out this process, which is called bioremediation. During this process, contaminants (such as PCP, creosote, and petroleum products) can be converted to harmless byproducts, such as carbon dioxide and water. Bioremediation is far less expensive when compared to other cleanup methods, and it does not require transport of hazardous wastes through cities and communities. The soil itself is not destroyed, and unlike incineration, bioremediation does not produce hazardous ashes. Bioremediation has been approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as the cleanup method for more than 20 abandoned woodåÐ treatment facilities. One problem encountered when using bioremediation on contaminated soil is the soil environment often does not encourage the bacteria and fungi to degrade the pollutants. Pollutants often absorb to soil particles in such a way that the microorganisms cannot come in contact with them. This makes the pollutants unavailable for breakdown. Other environmental factors that greatly influence breakdown rates include temperature, oxygen, nutrient availability, pH, moisture content, light intensity, and organic matter. Many of these environmental factors can be controlled by a process called landåÐfarming. LandåÐfarming is the treatment of contaminated soil using conventional soil management techniques such as tilling, irrigation, and fertilization to enhance microbial degradation ofpollutants. Researchers at the MFPL have been looking at different ways to speed bioremediation of contaminated soil by altering the soil environment. One way to alter the soil environment, and hopefully enhance pollutant breakdown, is through the addition of organic matter. Kenaf has been shown to have an excellent ability to absorb oil, equal to the best synthetic organic products. Kenaf fines also contain many pores, which will not only absorb the oil, but also allow for less leakage or release of oil once absorbed, and will allow much greater contact between the oil and the microorganisms. Kenaf is also biodegradable, high in protein, and contains very large numbers of natural microorganisms. Preliminary studies at the MFPL have found that kenaf absorbed over 55% of the oil from oilåÐcontaminated soil. Removal of pollutants from soil particles by the kenaf should make the pollutants more available to the microorganisms, thus enhancing pollutant breakdown. In addition, the leaching potential of kenaf appears to be low, with only 0.02% of the oil leaching from contaminated kenaf. This means that once the pollutant is absorbed to the kenaf, only a very small amount will leach from the kenaf into the groundwater. Microorganisms native to kenaf were able to biodegrade 55% of the oil from contaminated kenaf. Thus the kenaf itself may provide more microorganisms to assist in the bioremediation. We believe that kenaf has a great potential as an effective enhancer of bioremediation of organic woodåÐtreating wastes because of its biodegradability, excellent sorbency, cost, size, and environmental friendliness. Because of these capabilities, researchers at the MFPL are exploring the use of kenaf to enhance microbial degradation of soil contaminated with PCP and creosote. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [biofuel] SwRI wins EPA contract for development of hybrids
Daimler/Chrysler, for example, announced in 2000 that it would not commercialize its diesel hybrid (ESX3) because it cost $7,500 more to make than their comparable gasoline powered car, a Dodge Intrepid. As late as April 2002 General Motors' CEO and President G. Richard Wagoner Jr. told Business Week, How will the economics of hybrids ever match that of the internal combustion engine? We can't afford to subsidize them. This was a lot of reading, but I did remember most of them. To choose just one thing, recently something that has come up that has surprised me and a few others. Felix Kramer of calcars.org, very involved with efforts to bring out PIHEVs, brought this up in the evworld.com group, that the Daimler part of D-C actually seems to be embracing PIHEVs a bit more than zero: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/jan04/0104epow1.html That, in a nutshell, is the promise of the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, and it is about to be demonstrated in a US $1.5 million pilot program based at a facility of DaimlerChrysler AG in Mannheim, Germany. Several U.S. organizations are helping fund the project; they include EPRI, California's South Coast Air Quality Management District, the utility colossus Southern California Edison Co., and the Metropolitan Energy Center of Kansas City, Mo. In retrospect it makes sense to me that the U.S. industry-government partnership would conspire to do things just-for-show while no one told the Euros or the Asians it was supposed to stop there. A gross oversimplification of course. GM, by their latest statements, wouldn't know the full value or importance of hybrid technology if it showed up as a firm order for 10,000,000 vehicles. :-) I thought you were going to say something else. Have you moved in yet, by the way? Yes. For those reading, Keith is referring to a house I bought in Southern Arizona, (moving away from SD, CA, USA) which is a terra-dome structure. I think, but am not sure yet, that it was built 19 years ago according to the designs of this company: http://www.terra-dome.com/ Here is a recent picture: http://www.herecomesmongo.com/td/DSCN0015a.JPG So, I have low heating and cooling costs, no structure-supporting wood (no houses without termites going for them in Arizona it seems), too much to learn about home-ownership, and we'll see how it works out. Regards Keith Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[biofuel] Re: Used motor oil
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Alan Petrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gasoline Fumes wrote: Hi, I just joined the group. I'm very interested in making biodiesel, but have a question about using used motor oil as a diesel fuel. I know it wouldn't be bio, but it seems like a good way to get rid of the oil. Can it be converted to diesel fuel using the same methods as SVO? Or is there another way? And how clean would it burn? If you're going to use waste motor oil as fuel the first thing you want to do is filter the heck out of it. Run it through a 5 micron filter. And then run it through again. Then just run it about a gallon or so per tankful of diesel. It _will_ crud up your fuel filter, though not badly so. AP Thanks, but I was hoping to refine it somehow first. I'll probably just give the oil to a guy I know with a waste oil furnace. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [biofuel] Re: State Run Bio-Fuel Factories for mass and economic production to reduce the
Dave/Hakan: Darryl McMahon sent me a mail mentioning about LADWP, this is a publically owned company. They could generate more than 200 million annual reverue for the city of Los Angeles. So it's a government owned company that is doing a good job. And why not building a municipal LABF, SFBF or NYBF? I cannot think of any State Owned comany that is making money for the people? Maybe a State Owned CALBF factory, plus some CALBF stations? I can't wait to see the new company Logo! Ha! Tricia - Original Message - From: Dave Shaw To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 9:39 AM Subject: [biofuel] Re: State Run Bio-Fuel Factories for mass and economic production to reduce the --- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Hakan Falk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tricia, I was thinking about this and wrote US instead of Australia in my earlier posting. It seems to me that the best use of the present governor is to persuade him to make a couple of state produced movies. That would really make a difference in California's budget and an efficient use of his talents. Hakan Hakan, That is hilarious!!! Great idea, we should drop a line to Arnie. Back to the serious issue Tricia was bringing up, my trajectory towards developing a regional biofuels program in the Santa Cruz/Monterey Bay area is based on other forms of public and semi-private funding (community foundations, DoE, Agricultural Departments, etc.). Having the state budget in decay doesn't help but at the same time it is a source of funding that we are not relying on (though we certainly can use all the help we can get). Why nobody is giving domestic BioFuel a little help? new moves. We need BioFuel and there is not enough of production. Public run Bio Fuel factories sounds okay to me? It's better than import more oil from Middle East! Thankfully we will not be inconvenienced (much) by the states' unwillingness to give out new licenses to sell electricity back to the grid. Trisha, you can bet that the city of Santa Cruz or Berkeley would be willing to stick their heads out on the line to forward a progressive stance on the issue. (Though I don't know of any public works power projects in progress that would cause them to do so.) Deconstructing our energy monstrosity won't be easy. It's a many-headed hydra. The governments are not going to give us *too much* help though they *cannot* stop us. Only roadblocks. Becuase there is a strong consumer market for fuels like biodiesel, and therefore as you stated, not enough production, we *will* see more biodiesel production facilites. Will they be publically owned, or will they be Edison owned. That's up to whoever organizes the facility in your area. The business folks are often more ahead of the game than the activists (who are sometimes caught up complaining), but in my area I've beat them to it. *Noone's* putting in a biofuel facility in our county without me hearing about it ;) Public Power to the People! Dave Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT -- Yahoo! Groups Links a.. To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [biofuel] Re: State Run Bio-Fuel Factories for mass and economic production to reduce the
Tricia, In Sweden it was quite common to form local electricity companies for electricity distribution, for a village, town or city. Lately many of them has been bought up. Funny enough as a part of the privatization of electricity in Sweden. The problem was the ownership of power lines and land that they are located on, the same with the distribution and ownership of lines within a community. It show that the grid and lines are available to a number of private electricity producers, which you can sign supply contract with. The suppliers use the same hardware distribution at a equal cost and can sell it to any consumer at competing prices. The model is also used for the privatization of PTTs. The system with a local electricity distributor works quite good and I think that your suggestion is very workable in the end. It will give incentives for the local communities to keep distribution and consumption effective, if it is done in the right way. I think however that California tried to live with this, but the suppliers did illegal cooperation and price fixing. Utilizing the problem of that California could not control the peak demands in a sufficient way. The sad thing is that this is to a large part incompetence on the part of the users, power companies and the state of California also. On my web site, I did a section that deals with the California problem. http://california.energy.saving.nu/ it is old and the forum is not working any longer, but it is still some valid information. Hakan At 11:24 04/01/2004, you wrote: Dave/Hakan: Darryl McMahon sent me a mail mentioning about LADWP, this is a publically owned company. They could generate more than 200 million annual reverue for the city of Los Angeles. So it's a government owned company that is doing a good job. And why not building a municipal LABF, SFBF or NYBF? I cannot think of any State Owned comany that is making money for the people? Maybe a State Owned CALBF factory, plus some CALBF stations? I can't wait to see the new company Logo! Ha! Tricia - Original Message - From: Dave Shaw To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 9:39 AM Subject: [biofuel] Re: State Run Bio-Fuel Factories for mass and economic production to reduce the --- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Hakan Falk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tricia, I was thinking about this and wrote US instead of Australia in my earlier posting. It seems to me that the best use of the present governor is to persuade him to make a couple of state produced movies. That would really make a difference in California's budget and an efficient use of his talents. Hakan Hakan, That is hilarious!!! Great idea, we should drop a line to Arnie. Back to the serious issue Tricia was bringing up, my trajectory towards developing a regional biofuels program in the Santa Cruz/Monterey Bay area is based on other forms of public and semi-private funding (community foundations, DoE, Agricultural Departments, etc.). Having the state budget in decay doesn't help but at the same time it is a source of funding that we are not relying on (though we certainly can use all the help we can get). Why nobody is giving domestic BioFuel a little help? new moves. We need BioFuel and there is not enough of production. Public run Bio Fuel factories sounds okay to me? It's better than import more oil from Middle East! Thankfully we will not be inconvenienced (much) by the states' unwillingness to give out new licenses to sell electricity back to the grid. Trisha, you can bet that the city of Santa Cruz or Berkeley would be willing to stick their heads out on the line to forward a progressive stance on the issue. (Though I don't know of any public works power projects in progress that would cause them to do so.) Deconstructing our energy monstrosity won't be easy. It's a many-headed hydra. The governments are not going to give us *too much* help though they *cannot* stop us. Only roadblocks. Becuase there is a strong consumer market for fuels like biodiesel, and therefore as you stated, not enough production, we *will* see more biodiesel production facilites. Will they be publically owned, or will they be Edison owned. That's up to whoever organizes the facility in your area. The business folks are often more ahead of the game than the activists (who are sometimes caught up complaining), but in my area I've beat them to it. *Noone's* putting in a biofuel facility in our county without me hearing about it ;) Public Power to the People! Dave Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.htmlhttp://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuelhttp://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT
Re: [biofuel] Re: Used motor oil
Gasoline Fumes wrote: Thanks, but I was hoping to refine it somehow first. I'll probably just give the oil to a guy I know with a waste oil furnace. That's probably best. It's the soot in the oil that makes the most problem. Diesels put a LOT of soot in their oil. Up to 3% of the mass of oil in a typical diesel might consist of soot. And fuel filters won't get it out. Even fine fuel filters only go down to 2 microns, and they're usually only about 85% efficient there. Soot particles are in the neighborhood of .3 microns. They are abrasive, but I really don't know what they might do to an injection pump. A lot of diesel operators do use their waste oil as a fuel additive, though, so it can't be too bad. But a good waste oil furnace should burn everything, soot included. AP Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[biofuel] Fwd: FW: Feeling Patriotic?
This is a forwarded message Date: Sunday, 04 January, 2004, 12:16:08 Subject: FW: Feeling Patriotic? ==Original message text=== Whatever your political inclination, just read this, please. Please. Jennifer Sellers 01/03/04 (ICH) I sat up and watched the ball fall in New York's Times Square and felt joy and hope for the New Year. When the crowd sang, I'm proud to be an American, I teared up and felt the unity of a nation. At least momentarily. I wish I did believe in my country, in its ability to know right from wrong, to weed out the truth from the propaganda, and to stand united. We'll never agree on everything but at least we should agree on our basic values, truth, freedom, and integrity. I wish my country could think with its head instead of with emotion. That we could separate fact from fear and lie from spin, that we could see the consequences instead of simply feeling. But in truth that's not the America we live in. We live in a country filled with anger on both sides of the political spectrum. Some legitimate, some pumped by radio hosts proficient in the talent of working a crowd. It's so easy to hate when we're already free floating with it. It's easy to hate when our essence is filled with fear. It's easy to be worked into a patriotic frenzy, seeing only black and white, ignoring the grey of history. It's easy to focus on ourselves and block out whatever we find distasteful and unpleasant. Like the thousands of innocent civilians we have massacred in Iraq. I truly wonder how we would feel if someone decided to free us from the inequities of our society and there are plenty we should be freed from. Would we be grateful if our children's legs were blown off in the process? Would we feel thankful when our sons lose half their face and both their arms. Would we see the logic in tearing down an entire country just to literally build it back block by Halliburton block. Would we really appreciate that? I doubt it. I imagine we would take to the streets like mad dogs and fight with any and all weapons we could get our hands on, including our kitchen knives, to fight off the liberators. How easy it is to believe when we we're filled with hate and fear. It doesn't really matter if in truth, we're the ones drowning at the time. Our inability to save ourselves makes our hate that much stronger. We honed our hate during the cold war. Those dirty ruskies, those evil commie pinkos. We grew comfortable with hate and actually realized we needed a good place to park our anger. And although we have a reason to be angry after 9/11, it is all the more necessary to think instead of feel. We do need to protect ourselves, but do we need to do so at our own demise? By our own hand? Forget that democracy as we learned in high school social studies is a thing of the past. The new question is do we have a democracy or is it in name only. Should we adore the king who can parlay falsehoods and obvious lies to exploit our deepest fears? To scare us so that we ignore our own problems? To ignore the fact that we're running on empty if we're running at all. Forget that millions are still out of work and forget that the jobless numbers are 'how do we say, subject to interpretation'. Hopefully the economy is improving, but our deficit is soaring with no constraints in sight. Is there really a free lunch? Forget that the news is no longer news and that the king has seen fit to contact news organizations that don't parlay facts that portray him in a positive light. Forget that you won't hear about that on our news and that if you want to be informed, you have to dig for the truth. While you're at it, forget that a free press is important. But remember, this is democracy at work. Wave that flag, now. Forget that health care is rising so rapidly that the middle class is finally feeling the pinch. By the end of another term, the entire middle class will be affected. Lest the middle class forget that twisting the Medicaid law to cover your elderly parents in a nursing home will no longer be available. Hopefully, you have the 40 grand a year it will cost to take care of them. The administration does. Just out and out forget that the elderly have just been screwed and so cleverly under the phrase 'choice'. Was this administration thinking of Sophie? They've put the elderly between a rock and a hard place, forced to choose between a lesser Medicare plan that in truth will not supply adequate medication to those who need it, or be forced to join an HMO, however delighted the HMO might be to have them now that they will have an infusion of new private business. Forget that like an infatuated lover, a cad is wooing you. Forget that you're really not an idiot and should see through at least some of it and forget that your own foundation is being ripped out from under you. All is well. Things are looking up. Forget that the environment matters and that this administration has the worst
Re: [biofuel] Re-insurer counts cost of global warming
Keith All, Either 3 or 4 years ago, a worldwide body of re insurers made a donation of IIRC $100,000 to, again IIRC, the International Solar Energy Society to further their work. They announced they did this because of the THEN steeply rising costs of natural disasters. They showed a graph showing IIRC longterm disaster costs running around 1 $B/yr for some time, then rising to ? $7B in the previous year. Close to exponential increase. If its up to $80B now, seems the curve is continuing apace. Build your [storm cellar, seawall, deeper well, Arc, whatever] now. Wynn Keith Addison wrote: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1018055.htm . 30/12/2003. ABC News Online Tuesday, December 30, 2003. 1:19pm (AEDT) Re-insurer counts cost of global warming The world's biggest re-insurance company, Munich Re, has attributed a sharp increase in weather-related disasters around the world to global warming. In its latest annual report, the company - which insures insurance companies - puts the combined cost of this year's global natural disasters at close to $80 billion. The report says the natural disasters have also claimed at least 50,000 lives worldwide. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
