[Biofuel] A quest to ruin the Earth
* SENATE PUTS OIL COMPANIES FIRST IN FIGHT OVER ARCTIC REFUGE* *Statement by NRDC Legislative Director Karen Wayland* WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 16, 2005) -- Today the U.S. Senate, by a vote of 49-51, defeated an amendment by Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) that would have removed a provision of the Senate budget bill that authorizes energy development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The following is a statement by Karen Wayland, legislative director at NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council). "Drilling the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge won't make a dent in gas prices at the pump or break our dependence on Middle East oil. "This was really a vote for Big Oil, not for the solid majority of Americans who oppose turning America's last great wilderness into a vast, polluted oil field. "President Bush and his Senate allies resorted to a sneaky budget maneuver to get their way. Now, Congress is one step closer to trading away an irreplaceable national treasure for a few drops of oil that we wouldn't see for a decade or more. "If the oil industry can drill in the Arctic Refuge, then no place, no matter how pristine, will be safe. "But there is still a lot of political tundra to cross before this fight is over. We'll keep battling every step of the way. "Increasing America's energy security doesn't require selling off our natural heritage and letting oil companies despoil our last best places. Using better technology in our cars and trucks -- so they go farther on a gallon of gas -- would save more than 10 times the amount of oil in the refuge, and save consumers billions of dollars at the pump." The Natural Resources Defense Council is a national, nonprofit organization of scientists, lawyers and environmental specialists dedicated to protecting public health and the environment. Founded in 1970, NRDC has more than 1 million members and online activists nationwide, served from offices in New York, Washington, Los Angeles and San Francisco. To all Americans on the Biofuel list(I am assuming you've joined this list due to your distaste of oil companies); join NRDC and take action against drilling in Alaska. Write your senatorsdo something, please! Peace Marc ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
RE: [Biofuel] Biofuel and my home oil furnace.
Hi Tim, Something I did forget to mention You might want to look into changing the jet aperture on the burner (should be a simple case of buying a correct sized part & swapping) The reason being the viscosity difference between heating Dino oil & BioD. Sorry I can't give exact specs - I've seen a superb link somewhere for what you need, I just can't find it. If I find it I'll post it for you. I'm working towards a BioD heated home myself, but I'm just so far behind compared to where I wanted to be by now - I should start turning work away! Regards Malcolm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Smith Sent: 18 March 2005 12:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Biofuel and my home oil furnace. Thanks everyone. This looks promising and something I will be looking into with a bail hay barn I'm planning on. Jules, I found some great info after I googled. http://www.google.com/search?q=biodiesel+home+heating+fuel By the way Ray, $1.19 is what I remember it being at... I prepay for my oil during the summer and haven't had a refill in a long time, so I could be wrong. Your $1.89 could be closer to what I actually paid. It's one of those things I like to try and forget. Cheers, Tim ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] where can i start?
I am also new just about to get my feet wet and probably more than that . as I was researching this process I happened across this I hope it will help. Derick - Original Message - From: "Andrew & Tracey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 1:08 PM Subject: [Biofuel] where can i start? Hi everybody, my wife and i are new to this list and also new to making our own fuel. We would like to know is there anyone who can teach us or tell us where to get plans for making ethanol. We are in the process of buying a small farm in a large fruit producing area and have access to quantities of spoiled fruit, (eg) apples, plums, all stone fruit and lots of vegetables. We also have large quantities of scrap timber at hand and think we would be irresponsible not to try our hand at making fuel. Any help to get us started will be appreciated. I am handy with tools and have welding equipment. We also anticipate makin some dam fine wine,lol. kind regards Andrew & Tracey. ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Attachment converted: Handmade:Extreme Research Corp.htm 1 (TEXT/MSIE) (000BDBF7) ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
[Biofuel] Re: [NESEABuildingEnergy] The President's Proposed Energy Policy
Thanks for posting this. In Sweden it was similar energy policies implemented already after the 1973 crises and I remembered that I thought that the Americans now finally would come on board and get serious about it. We were very optimistic about it and our work. What a misjudgment Hakan At 07:53 PM 3/18/2005, you wrote: So long ago, so little to show... Primary Sources: The President's Proposed Energy Policy Tonight I want to have an unpleasant talk with you about a problem unprecedented in our history. With the exception of preventing war, this is the greatest challenge our country will face during our lifetimes. The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly. It is a problem we will not solve in the next few years, and it is likely to get progressively worse through the rest of this century. We must not be selfish or timid if we hope to have a decent world for our children and grandchildren. We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now, we can control our future instead of letting the future control us. Two days from now, I will present my energy proposals to the Congress. Its members will be my partners and they have already given me a great deal of valuable advice. Many of these proposals will be unpopular. Some will cause you to put up with inconveniences and to make sacrifices. The most important thing about these proposals is that the alternative may be a national catastrophe. Further delay can affect our strength and our power as a nation. Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern. This difficult effort will be the "moral equivalent of war" -- except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not destroy. I know that some of you may doubt that we face real energy shortages. The 1973 gasoline lines are gone, and our homes are warm again. But our energy problem is worse tonight than it was in 1973 or a few weeks ago in the dead of winter. It is worse because more waste has occurred, and more time has passed by without our planning for the future. And it will get worse every day until we act. The oil and natural gas we rely on for 75 percent of our energy are running out. In spite of increased effort, domestic production has been dropping steadily at about six percent a year. Imports have doubled in the last five years. Our nation's independence of economic and political action is becoming increasingly constrained. Unless profound changes are made to lower oil consumption, we now believe that early in the 1980s the world will be demanding more oil that it can produce. The world now uses about 60 million barrels of oil a day and demand increases each year about 5 percent. This means that just to stay even we need the production of a new Texas every year, an Alaskan North Slope every nine months, or a new Saudi Arabia every three years. Obviously, this cannot continue. We must look back in history to understand our energy problem. Twice in the last several hundred years there has been a transition in the way people use energy. The first was about 200 years ago, away from wood -- which had provided about 90 percent of all fuel -- to coal, which was more efficient. This change became the basis of the Industrial Revolution. The second change took place in this century, with the growing use of oil and natural gas. They were more convenient and cheaper than coal, and the supply seemed to be almost without limit. They made possible the age of automobile and airplane travel. Nearly everyone who is alive today grew up during this age and we have never known anything different. Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of coal and permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power. The world has not prepared for the future. During the 1950s, people used twice as much oil as during the 1940s. During the 1960s, we used twice as much as during the 1950s. And in each of those decades, more oil was consumed than in all of mankind's previous history. World consumption of oil is still going up. If it were possible to keep it rising during the 1970s and 1980s by 5 percent a year as it has in the past, we could use up all the proven reserves of oil in the entire world by the end of the next decade. I know that many of you have suspected that some supplies of oil and gas are being withheld. You may be right, but suspicions about oil companies cannot change the fact that we are running out of petroleum. All of us have heard about the large oil fields on Alaska's North Slope. In a few years when the North Slope is producing fully, its total output will be just about equal to two years' increase in our nation's energy demand. Each new inventory of worl
Re: [Biofuel] Is Methane Production in Urban conditions possible?
Helo Bioteo There are several good problems regarding aplication of Bates methods that need a good engineering work. Our small research group wish that our biofuel members can learn and solve the problems one by one , but need time and effort as your case Some data are available on food waste to fuel from DOE , USA, Baba atomic research center(BARC) , India .To acess this you can use google scholar. Food wastes need animal waste too , also a pretreatment process some milling , hydrolysis and solubilization.You can achive this by using a part of recycled efluents.Using solar energy at 50 C was sucessfuly done by BARC and thus the enzymatic hydrolysis is made possible as well as parcial sterization . Then you can use Indian , chinese , plastic plug flow bioreactor to produce methane . Instead of storage using compressor ,storgae in tyre can be achied and also a concrete tanks coverd with reinforced fiber glass tanks. can be also done . The Chines type simple closed tank bioreactor can be also used for running the motor. Here in Brasil some farmer has sucessfuly stored the biogas doing some more reinforcements to fiber glass and also made posssible compression using stones on the tank, simple less costlier as there is no power consumption for compresion Using activated carbon in the storage tank . low pressure compressor can be used to achieve high pressure as you wish and this method is still under experimental phase . Very high pressure is not needed and hence no problem in biogas storage, as the the motor can do the compression In several country europe , usa , India , china ic engine are operated without the use of compressor. The use of compressor is very good if you can have very large plug flow plastic biodigestor to make the agitation by recirculating the biogas. Morever horizantal low pressure tanks can be an economical option using compressor to be used as storage tank before combustion in IC .Care should be taken to remove the H2S in the biogas before storge Thus expert knowelge and engineering consultancy are needed so that your project will have sucess. Several good case study are avaialbale in internet that can be the starting point and also do read again http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): > http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ > Feel free to contact us and go ahead solving the problems Wish you best sucess On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:38:50 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In urban conditions I obviously dont have too much access to dung. But > what i do have access to is an university canteen. Lots of food wasted > there. Has anydbody porducede methane form food scraps? I could collect > from there. And put in to the digester. Has anybody done this? > How should i porceed? Get the scrap food, mush it up with a little with > water. Add a little dung, humand dung, after allthe food was prepared for > humans. And then wait? Iexpect it hould get good yields since it has a > laot of protein in it. > > I read the article on beates chicken car but what i dont understand about > it was how did he sotre the methane in his car. Obviously it was in > constant production mode. So he either had a very strong digester where > the pressure would buildup or he had a very large digester or gas > collector. > > Another option is that he did very short trips. > > I have experience in binding plastic sheets with a special welding > machine. The first thing that came in to my mind whe i read about > digesters was to make one very long and flexible one like intestines. That > way I could control the folw manually by pushing if necessary. > > The problem im thinkin of at the moment is storing the gas in the car. > Does anybody know to which pressure i can inflate the inner tire of a > lorry? I think that it should have atleast 100L of volume, and with > pressure i would expand a little but if it can hold pressures up to 6-7 > atm (with its volume expanding to 300L or so) then it would be just enough > for a round trip to work and back. > > I calculated that the equivalent of one gallon of gasoline is 7,8m3 of > methane. > A 15L diving bottle compressed at 100 bars could only hold 1500L = 1.5 m3 > so i would need like 4, and that would start ghettin expensive because of > the necessary regulators. And most importantly i dont have a compressor > that can compress to 100 bars. And putting fridge compressors would work > but that mabn become risky at such high pressures. > > With the tire i could have the same amount in a single container without > the need for regualtors. I could use several tires(one in the back seat > etc) to expand the range... this seems like the only feasible s
RE: [Biofuel] where can i start?
Yes, good question...I would like to know too.. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew & Tracey Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 5:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Biofuel] where can i start? Hi everybody, my wife and i are new to this list and also new to making our own fuel. We would like to know is there anyone who can teach us or tell us where to get plans for making ethanol. We are in the process of buying a small farm in a large fruit producing area and have access to quantities of spoiled fruit, (eg) apples, plums, all stone fruit and lots of vegetables. We also have large quantities of scrap timber at hand and think we would be irresponsible not to try our hand at making fuel. Any help to get us started will be appreciated. I am handy with tools and have welding equipment. We also anticipate makin some dam fine wine,lol. kind regards Andrew & Tracey. ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
[Biofuel] Global Bully Goes to Guatemala
Global Bully Goes to Guatemala By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman There's something profoundly disturbing -- sickening, really -- about watching a bully at work. You feel either complicit, or powerless, or both. The global bully, the United States, has just coerced Guatemala, its latest victim, into repealing an important law to lower the price of pharmaceuticals and promote generic competition. The U.S. ambassador to Guatemala acknowledged that the Guatemalan law was intended to advance public health objectives. But, no matter, he said -- U.S. commercial interests in the form of Big Pharma demanded that the law go. Here's how this went down, what it will mean, and what can be done: The United States has negotiated a trade deal with the Central American countries. It goes by the acronym of CAFTA (US-Central America Free Trade Agreement). CAFTA is a complex agreement, but in shorthand you can consider it an extension of NAFTA to Central America. CAFTA includes a chapter on patents, copyright and other forms of monopoly protections for knowledge. All of the CAFTA countries are already members of the World Trade Organization, which requires countries to adopt U.S.-style patent systems, featuring 20-year patent protection of all products, including pharmaceuticals. Although it imposed on countries the requirement to adopt 20-year patents for drugs, the WTO also contains certain safeguards. Most important among them is the right to undertake compulsory licensing -- enabling governments to authorize generic competition for on-patent products. These safeguards are vital, especially in the developing world. Patent monopolies drive up prices, and are the main reason drug prices are so high. The best remedy to these high prices is generic competition. Evidence: The price of a triple-drug AIDS therapies in developing countries has fallen by 98 percent over the last six years, thanks to generic competition, as well as an international campaign for access to medicines. But in CAFTA, the United States proposes to eviscerate countries' right to speed up generic competition and undertake compulsory licensing for pharmaceuticals, most importantly by requiring CAFTA members to establish special monopoly protections for pharmaceutical regulatory data (known as "data exclusivity"). To gain regulatory approval to sell generic versions of drugs already approved for market, generic companies generally do not repeat safety and efficacy studies, which are very time consuming and relatively costly. Instead, they typically show their product is chemically equivalent to, and works the same in the body as, the brand-name drug. Then they rely the drug regulatory agencys approval of the patented product to earn approval for the generic version of the product. But the U.S.-imposed provision would prevent this, and establish a 5-10 year period during which generic firms could not rely on the brand-name companies' tests. As a result, brand-name companies would get protected monopolies even if a product is not on patent, or even if a compulsory license was issued. Under pressure from the United States, Guatemala has adopted exclusivity on two separate occasions in recent years. But each time, after health advocates pointed out the dangers, the provisions have been eliminated. Making Big Pharma very unhappy. So John Hamilton, the U.S. ambassador to Guatemala, issued what amounted to an ultimatum: Guatemala had to change its law to provide data exclusivity, as is required by CAFTA, or the U.S. Congress wouldn't approve the deal. And so Guatemala did. Despite intense street protests, including by people with HIV/AIDS, the Guatemalan Congress last week imposed a data exclusivity regime, and then approved CAFTA. Get this: the United States demanded the change on data exclusivity even as it acknowledged that Guatemala had rid itself of such rules in order to advance public health objectives. In an op-ed in the Guatemalan press demanding a change in the country's data protection rules, Ambassador Hamilton wrote, "there is no doubt" that Guatemala had rescinded data exclusivity rules "out of its concern to protect public health." But no matter. Protecting public health isn't a good enough reason to offend Pfizer. Unfortunately, this is not just an esoteric matter. It will have life-and-death consequences. "In Guatemala today, 78,000 people are infected with HIV/AIDS," says Berta Chete, who works with the Association Gente Positiva, an organization of people living with HIV/AIDS in Guatemala. "Nearly 13,500 of us are in urgent clinical need of ARV treatment. But only an estimated 3,600 people receive it. Most of them get it from the Social Security system and non-governmental organizations. The Ministry of Health only provides treatment to 350 patients." The government has the duty to provide treatment, she points out. But, "we doubt that t
Re: [Biofuel] Global Bully Goes to Guatemala
A bully is someone who hurts, frightens or tyrannizes over someone who is weaker. One who knows that that death is the immanent consequence of his or her bullying is called a premeditated murderer. And those who acquiesce to the tactics of the bully are complicit in the premeditation and murder. Someday soon the rest of the world is going to tell the US to shove it up its tailpipe - that the American way is far more reprehensible than it is civil, humane, or socially responsible. The "carrot and stick" method is what one uses for animals to be trained for the plow, not human beings. And its about time the plow horses realized that they're a lot mightier than the piddly assed fool holding the stick. Todd Swearingen - Original Message - From: "Keith Addison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 7:39 AM Subject: [Biofuel] Global Bully Goes to Guatemala 18 Mar 2005 Global Bully Goes to Guatemala By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman There's something profoundly disturbing -- sickening, really -- about watching a bully at work. You feel either complicit, or powerless, or both. The global bully, the United States, has just coerced Guatemala, its latest victim, into repealing an important law to lower the price of pharmaceuticals and promote generic competition. The U.S. ambassador to Guatemala acknowledged that the Guatemalan law was intended to advance public health objectives. But, no matter, he said -- U.S. commercial interests in the form of Big Pharma demanded that the law go. Here's how this went down, what it will mean, and what can be done: The United States has negotiated a trade deal with the Central American countries. It goes by the acronym of CAFTA (US-Central America Free Trade Agreement). CAFTA is a complex agreement, but in shorthand you can consider it an extension of NAFTA to Central America. CAFTA includes a chapter on patents, copyright and other forms of monopoly protections for knowledge. All of the CAFTA countries are already members of the World Trade Organization, which requires countries to adopt U.S.-style patent systems, featuring 20-year patent protection of all products, including pharmaceuticals. Although it imposed on countries the requirement to adopt 20-year patents for drugs, the WTO also contains certain safeguards. Most important among them is the right to undertake compulsory licensing -- enabling governments to authorize generic competition for on-patent products. These safeguards are vital, especially in the developing world. Patent monopolies drive up prices, and are the main reason drug prices are so high. The best remedy to these high prices is generic competition. Evidence: The price of a triple-drug AIDS therapies in developing countries has fallen by 98 percent over the last six years, thanks to generic competition, as well as an international campaign for access to medicines. But in CAFTA, the United States proposes to eviscerate countries' right to speed up generic competition and undertake compulsory licensing for pharmaceuticals, most importantly by requiring CAFTA members to establish special monopoly protections for pharmaceutical regulatory data (known as "data exclusivity"). To gain regulatory approval to sell generic versions of drugs already approved for market, generic companies generally do not repeat safety and efficacy studies, which are very time consuming and relatively costly. Instead, they typically show their product is chemically equivalent to, and works the same in the body as, the brand-name drug. Then they rely the drug regulatory agencys approval of the patented product to earn approval for the generic version of the product. But the U.S.-imposed provision would prevent this, and establish a 5-10 year period during which generic firms could not rely on the brand-name companies' tests. As a result, brand-name companies would get protected monopolies even if a product is not on patent, or even if a compulsory license was issued. Under pressure from the United States, Guatemala has adopted exclusivity on two separate occasions in recent years. But each time, after health advocates pointed out the dangers, the provisions have been eliminated. Making Big Pharma very unhappy. So John Hamilton, the U.S. ambassador to Guatemala, issued what amounted to an ultimatum: Guatemala had to change its law to provide data exclusivity, as is required by CAFTA, or the U.S. Congress wouldn't approve the deal. And so Guatemala did. Despite intense street protests, including by people with HIV/AIDS, the Guatemalan Congress last week imposed a data exclusivity regime, and then approved CAFTA. Get this: the United States demanded the change on data exclusivity even as it acknowledged that Guatemala had rid itself of such rules in order to advance public health objectives. In an op-ed in the Guatemalan press demand
[Biofuel] CAFE vs ANWR
standards here: http://blog.john-hayes.com/?postid=90 Thought you guys might be interested. I strongly recommend reading the blog version since it has lots of embedded links but the plain text is below. jh President Bush clearly believes that drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve is a good way to foster independence from foreign oil. According to FOX NEWS, the President recently said "We could recover more than 10 billion barrels of oil from a small corner of ANWR ... We can now reach all of ANWR's oil by drilling on just 2,000 acres. Developing a small section of ANWR would not only create new jobs but would reduce our dependence on foreign oil by up to a million barrels a day." And you know what? He's absolutely right. A million barrels a day is certainly a lot of oil. But frankly, there has been so much spin on this issue between the Heritage Foundation and ANWR.com on one side and the Sierra Club and NRDC on the other, it's hard to know who to believe. So I did what any good scientist does: I went looking for data on ANWR. In doing so, I discovered a few interesting things. First, from approval, it will be 7 to 12 years before the first oil is produced. And it then takes another 3 to 4 years for a field to hit peak production. This means that ANWR oil won't make make any difference for a long time. Second, I learned that at peak production in 2025, ANWR would reduce foreign oil consumption between 3 and 6 percent. In the mean resource case, dependence on imported oil would be reduced "from 70 percent ... to 66 percent in the mean resource case. The high and low oil resource cases project a 2025 oil import dependency of 64 percent and 67 percent, respectively." Four Percent. For comparision, we got 20.3% of our imported oil from the Persian Gulf in 2003. Assuming 60% of our oil is imported, that means the Persian Gulf supplied a little over 12% of our total consumption in 2003. Now consider that we could displace Persian Gulf imports entirely by increasing average fuel economy by 3.25 mpg. Of course, oil is fungible commodity, so we'd still buy oil from the mideast - we'd just buy much less. But from 1979 to 1985, a 3.25 mpg improvement was achieved every 32 months. From 1977-85, average fuel economy increased by 7.6 mpg. Even if the fleet average creeps up more slowly due to slow vehicle turnover, increasing CAFE standards would certainly make a very real different in oil consumption. And it certainly won't take until 2025 to make a difference. But the car makers have already achieved all the easy gains in fuel economy, right? Realistically, no. The auto industry has made plenty of technological advances in the last 20 years - they've just chosen to put those advances exclusively into horsepower rather than fuel efficiency. In 1985, the Corvette jumped from 205 to 230 hp. But today, you can buy a 240hp Minivan. Do we really need 240hp to get the kids to soccer practice? Certainly, the anemic underpowered cars Detroit made in the mid 80s are gladly forgotten, but surely there has to be a happy compromise. If the spacious 200hp Malibu Maxx can get 32 mpg on the highway, shouldn't Chevy be able to make a 150hp version that breaks 40 mpg? And this doesn't even consider ultraclean hybrids and turbodiesels running domestically produced biodiesel. In fact, the only reason fuel economy hasn't continued to improve is because Congress hasn't directed the NHTSA to increase CAFE standards signicantly since 1985 when the passenger and truck standards were set at 27.5 and 20.2mpg respectively. Worse yet, the EPA says fuel economy is at a 20 year low, presumably because SUVs and trucks are exempt from the the gas guzzler tax. In 2003, Senators Bond and Levin introduced legislation instructing the NHTSA to increase CAFE standards but did not say by how much. Senator Durbin's amendment that would have raised the truck average to 27.5 and the passenger car average to 40 mpg by 2015 was voted down 32-65. Note that this vote occurred after 9/11 "changed everthing." So the next time you hear someone talking about drilling in ANWR, ask them to ask their senator why they voted again increasing CAFE standards when it will reduce oil consumption 3 times as much and sooner to boot. Thus, the case against ANWR has nothing to do with the enivronment whatsoever. It's simply about the most practical way reduce dependance on foreign oil. Besides, money spent on Alaskan oil is still spent on oil, while money saved via fuel savings is money than can be invested or spent elsewhere. ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] where can i start?
I'd start off with a good homebrewing book first. Get to know the fermentation process =hic= first! ;) Just remember, that after you juice your fruit... rotten or not, to boil it to kill any bacteria. Then add some citric acid to prevent further bacterial infection. Bacteria hate acidity. Yeast love it. It was a match made in heaven. Get champagne yeast. It will give you the highest yield of alcohol. The trick for you will be figuring out just how much juice to add to water so that the yeast eat all the sugar and leave no leftovers when making alcohol. Too little juice/sugar, and you'll need to make more batches. :) Anyone interested in a brewfest in Dayton, Ohio. =giggle= Now... if only there were an EASY way to turn cellulose into sugars. You could make ethanol from hay / grass clippings / leftover crop feedstock / etc. On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 07:08:52 +1000, Andrew & Tracey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody, my wife and i are new to this list and also new to making our > own fuel. We would like to know is there anyone who can teach us or tell us > where to get plans for making ethanol. We are in the process of buying a > small farm in a large fruit producing area and have access to quantities of > spoiled fruit, (eg) apples, plums, all stone fruit and lots of vegetables. We > also have large quantities of scrap timber at hand and think we would be > irresponsible not to try our hand at making fuel. Any help to get us started > will be appreciated. I am handy with tools and have welding equipment. We > also anticipate makin some dam fine wine,lol. kind regards Andrew & Tracey. -Sir Woody Hackswell ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] CAFE vs ANWR
Thank you John for this > Posted an analysis on the case for drilling in ANWR versus raising CAFE > standards here: http://blog.john-hayes.com/?postid=90 May I suggest a correction or two? > John Hayes wrote: > So the next time you hear someone talking about drilling in ANWR, ask > them to ask their senator why they voted again or against > increasing CAFE standards > when it will reduce oil consumption 3 times as much and sooner to boot. > It's simply about the most practical way to > reduce dependance on foreign oil. ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] Who is the freest; was Global Bully Goes to Guatemala
- Original Message - From: Keith Addison> Global Bully Goes to Guatemala > By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman > > There's something profoundly disturbing -- sickening, really -- about > watching a bully at work. > > You feel either complicit, or powerless, or both. > > The global bully, the United States... I didn't read all of this but I would like to agree with the bit about the bully. When you have got , for what ever reason, a militaristic/politically-motivated-war-fare scheme in progress I think you let in a plethora of bad spirits, a veritable, pandoras box of bad goings on which some types of people thrive on and others don't. Maciavelli advocated this as a means to an ends (much in the same way as some newer types of organic gardener adovate using systemic weed killer on land to kill everything before starting on an organic scheme.). More socialist countries like Spain, France and Germany have put their collective foot down and said NO to this kind of goings on.We in the UK and other coalition countrys have not. Who is the freest? JD2005 ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] Methane producing plant in Mongolia
Use search of google scholar and google you will get a a lot of information. sd Pannir selvam On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:22:03 +0800, Davaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Panni, > > Thakns for your message. Could you send some links about the heating of > reactor. > Thanks Davaa > > - Original Message - > From: "Pannir P.V" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 8:43 PM > Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Methane producing plant in Mongolia > >Helo Davaa > > Welcome here for this group. > > Very good work are available from USA internet about the heating > your bioreactor. > > Solar heating or the heat from the biogas combustion can be reused. > > Here in south of the Brasil , biodigestor do work in low tempertaure > with lossin production .But can work . > > In summer you can protect the reactor too. > Even in extreme climate change in Europe , USA , the biogas > production is possible , but need apropriate measures. > > sd > Pannirselvam > Brasil > > On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:42:33 +0800, Davaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > I have just joined the mailing list. I look forward to learning a lot from > > your community. > > My name is Davaa from Mongolia. My brother and myself have a farm with 24 > > cows nearby capital city Ulaanbaatar. I was searching web sites to find > > usefull information for improving the efficiency of the farm. > > > > I found lot of information about biogas plant, including the paper > regarding > > the Construction for GGS 2047 Model Biogas Plant. This is very informative > > and usefull reference for myself. > > > > I'm evaluating whether to build similar biogas plant here in Mongolia or > > not. > > The basic problem here is the temperature extreme range. During summer > > reaches +35 centigrade during the day and +15 during night. During winter > > most of days minus 26 centigrade during day and -40 centigrade during > night. > > > > Is some have an experience building biogas plant in a similar climat? > > > > Look forward to hearing. > > > > Best regards, > > > > G. Davaa > > Mongolia > > > > ___ > > Biofuel mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > > > Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): > > http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ > > > > -- > Pagandai V Pannirselvam > Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN > Departamento de Engenharia Qumica - DEQ > Centro de Tecnologia - CT > Programa de Ps Graduao em Engenharia Qumica - PPGEQ > Grupo de Pesquisa em Engenharia de Custos - GPEC > > Av. Senador Salgado Filho, Campus Universitrio > CEP 59.072-970 , Natal/RN - Brasil > > Residence : > Av Odilon gome de lima, 2951, >Q6/Bl.G/Apt 102 >Capim Macio > EP 59.078-400 , Natal/RN - Brasil > > Telefone(fax) ( 84 ) 215-3770 Ramal20 > 2171557 > Telefone(fax) ( 84 ) 215-3770 Ramal20 > 2171557 > ___ > Biofuel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): > http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ > > ___ > Biofuel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): > http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ > -- Pagandai V Pannirselvam Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN Departamento de Engenharia Qumica - DEQ Centro de Tecnologia - CT Programa de Ps Graduao em Engenharia Qumica - PPGEQ Grupo de Pesquisa em Engenharia de Custos - GPEC Av. Senador Salgado Filho, Campus Universitrio CEP 59.072-970 , Natal/RN - Brasil Residence : Av Odilon gome de lima, 2951, Q6/Bl.G/Apt 102 Capim Macio EP 59.078-400 , Natal/RN - Brasil Telefone(fax) ( 84 ) 215-3770 Ramal20 2171557 Telefone(fax) ( 84 ) 215-3770 Ramal20 2171557 ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
[Biofuel] Two Years Later
Where are You Gonna Be? http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21541/ -K ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
