Re: [Biofuel] Isuzu NPR

[Zeke Yewdall]

We've been running our 2000 Isuzu NPR on B20 for about 8 months now.  Seems
to run a little smoother, but little harder time starting on cold mornings
(40F or below).  No other issues so far.  It had about 120,000 miles on it
when we got it.  We haven't even changed the filters yet.We haven't
tried B100 in it yet either -- probably do that when it warms up a little
more here (still freezing at nights some times).

On 5/1/07, George Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Anyone have experience running B99 in an Isuzu NPR?  I have a recently
purchased 1989 4 Cyl. NPR.  I also have a local source (Vashon Island, WA
USA) of B20 and B99 (Williams Heating).  Any warnings, precautions or
recommendations?  I'm also looking at purchasing a new Isuzu NPR 4 cyl.
Diesel as well as a new Mitsubishi FUSO 4x4 FG140 4 cyl. diesel and would
be
interested in running b99 in those vehicles.  Is it better to start with a
new vehicle?  Do you thereby eliminate some of the concerns caused by
dinodiesel use?  I saw nothing in the archives re: NPRs, so I'm a little
nervous...

Thanks much,

George

George Page
www.seabreezefarm.net
Vashon Island, WA USA



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[Biofuel] Isuzu NPR

[George Page]

Anyone have experience running B99 in an Isuzu NPR?  I have a recently
purchased 1989 4 Cyl. NPR.  I also have a local source (Vashon Island, WA
USA) of B20 and B99 (Williams Heating).  Any warnings, precautions or
recommendations?  I'm also looking at purchasing a new Isuzu NPR 4 cyl.
Diesel as well as a new Mitsubishi FUSO 4x4 FG140 4 cyl. diesel and would be
interested in running b99 in those vehicles.  Is it better to start with a
new vehicle?  Do you thereby eliminate some of the concerns caused by
dinodiesel use?  I saw nothing in the archives re: NPRs, so I'm a little
nervous...

Thanks much,

George

George Page
www.seabreezefarm.net
Vashon Island, WA USA



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Re: [Biofuel] Patented GMO jatropha

[James Quaid]

It's from Central America.  The Portuguese and Arabs spread it all over 
world by the end of the 16th century.  It was prized for soap and 
perfume production.  The Southern US is it's  northern most range.  It's 
used for de-desertfication and it is inter cropped with food crops.  So, 
third world farmers, reclaim farmland, use it a nitrogen fertilizer,  
make biodiesel and use the fuel for electrification and water pumping.   
See   for more details.


I've no idea what the GMO version will do, pro or con.


Regards,
JQ


Joe Street wrote:
Since that plant is not native to this continent will I have to get a 
permit from anyone to import the seeds?

What is the procedure with that?
Joe

James Quaid wrote:
I'd like to give you a recommendation.  But, the last batch of seeds 
I purchased aren't sprouting too well.  This may be due to the ground 
temps being below 70F.  Jat likes 75 - 80F soil temps.  Contact me in 
3 weeks and I'll give you a status report.


Has anyone else sprouted Jat successfully in the US?  I'm at it's 
most nothern range 33 deg N lat.


Regards,
JQ

Mike Cappiello wrote:

please tell me how you aquired the seeds. thanks, Mike
cappiello
--- James Quaid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

  

Keith,

I'm doing a Jatropha cultivation experiment in AZ.
It survived the 115F. 
But the 24F killed a 1/3 of my test planting. It is
very sensitive to a 
hard freeze. And according to what I've read,
standard breeds will 
produce 300 gal/ acre 600 gal/acre if it blooms
twice. Jatropha 
originally from Central America. I'd be very
interested to see what the 
GMO stuff does especially in cold climes.


I'm having a heckuva time sprouting seedlings. The
current batch of 
seeds I have is from Suriname. We will be doing an
acre test planting on 
a farm with saline wells. Jatropha can allegedly

handle salt pretty well.

Here's what the Germans are doing with it:


Regards,
JQ

Keith Addison wrote:


http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-biodiesel1707apr17,0,4223949.story?
  

track=mostemailedlink
'Farming our fuel'
Officials from a local company will tout the
  
jatropha plant today in 


Tallahassee. "We're doing things right here in
  
Orlando that are going 


to change America."

Rich Mckay | Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted April 17, 2007

ABOUT BIODIESEL
What is it?
Biodiesel is a fuel made from rendered vegetable
  
oils or animal fats 


refined through a chemical reaction with an
  

alcohol.


What can be used to make it?
Soybean oil is used to make most of the biodiesel
  
in the U.S. 


Restaurant grease or any vegetable oil such as
  
corn, canola, 


cottonseed, mustard oil also can be used. Jatropha
  
oil is widely used 


in India and Asia. Other companies are developing
  
ways to make 


biodiesel out of algae, restaurant scraps and even
  

animal carcasses.


Why bother?
Biodiesel is considered an alternative to
  
petroleum diesel because it 


can be grown, rather than pumped from a well. It
  
is also considered a 


neutral gas. It doesn't put back into the
  
atmosphere anything it 


didn't absorb when it was part of the environment.
Is it as powerful as diesel?
It is considered to have the same power as
  

petroleum diesel.


What engines can use it?
It can be mixed with petroleum diesel and used in
  
unmodified diesel 


engines. Engines can be modified to run 100
  

percent on biodiesel.


What does biodiesel smell like?
That depends its source. Some say it smells like
  
french fries. 


Biodiesel made from jatropha doesn't have a strong
  

odor.


SOURCE: Sentinel research
 
America, meet your next tank of gas -- made from
  

superpowered seeds.


A couple of Orlando entrepreneurs say that a
  
Malaysian variety newly 


approved for U.S. import could help solve
  
America's energy woes and 


boost Central Florida's economy with a new cash
  

crop.


State Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson,
  
along with executives 


from the Orlando-based Xenerga Inc., are scheduled
  
to introduce a 


patented version of the jatropha plant today in
  

Tallahassee.


"We're doing things right here in Orlando that are
  
going to change 


America," said Dave Jarrett, a company spokesman.
  

"Just wait and see."


The oil pressed from the jatropha nut can be used
  
to make biodiesel, 


producing six to eight times the amount of energy
  
extracted from 


soybeans -- the most common crop used for
  

biodiesel in the U.S.


Xenerga president Jason Sayers and his business
  
partner Victor Clewes 


have the exclusive patent on the high-octane
  
version of the plant 


with seeds that grow inside bunches of fat green
  
pods the size of 


peach pits.

It can produce 1,600

[Biofuel] Biodiesel compatible gravity-fed filter?

[Matt Wilson]

Hey all,

I would like to filter our biodiesel between our drying/storage 55 gal. drum 
and the truck.  We are using gravity to fill jugs, then use the jugs to fill 
the tank- we don't have a dedicated fuel pump.  I am having a hard time finding 
an in-line 3/4" fuel filter that is biodiesel compatible but still filters to 
around 5-10 microns without needing pump pressure.  

I purchased a Goldenrod no. 495 gravity filter, but they only suggest it for 
B20.   Bio-tek's "High alcohol filter" works with B100, but I was told that it 
needs the pressure of a pump.  

Any ideas, or am I chasing a mythical beast? 

Thanks,

Matt


   
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[Biofuel] one mans junk is..

[AltEnergyNetwork]

Hi all,

It is simply amazing/disgraceful  how much we waste as a society and the amount 
of
unnecessary garbage that we generate going into landfills.
If all the resources of manufacturing, materials and energy wasted
on making these products in the first place is calculated...then many times 
only to be
thrown away is simply criminal.

 Here is a partial list from an informal study we did on what people throw out
and of what was salvaged simply by evening walks with some friends
and my dog over the past year on the night
before trash day. Call it dumpster diving if you want except
 there are no dumpsters and it's all piled right by the curb.
 I make no apologies for picking up something I can
use for free, recycles it and keeps it out of the dump.

Area was a mixed resident working/middle class are of approx 10 square blocks.
Nothing scientific but it sure was interesting.


8 persian style tapestry carpets
all 10ftx15ft, clean, no stains, no fraying, no pet pee,  and in perfect 
condition.

16 microwave ovens, all clean, various sizes, all perfect working
condition
1 micro still scealed in factory plastic. (Who throws out a brand new 
microwave?)
I know, I know, some people have concerns about microwave ovens but still.

8 multi disc cd sound systems varied from 20watts-200 watts all
working

16 sets of speakers, perfect condition, current models, all working, 
cosmetically a-ok

6 large boxes of kitchen wares, non chipped or cracked.. soup bowls,
dinner plates, cups saucers, glasses, table ware,
cloth napkins, 3 new bath towels, 2 new sheets still in packaging.

1 large box with 24 sets of unopened boxed candles

1 LCD flat screen computer monitor, perfect working condition.

14 recently manufatured (2-3yrs old) computer printers from various makes,
all working no problems, all drivers downloadable

1 all in one scanner, printer, copyer,
a1 condition needs ink


1 projection tv
cracked plastic but I removed bottom projection system
and now have a 8ft square screen
projected on a white wall, pretty cool for a free projection tv!


various audio and computer cables, all working
2 microphones

20 different potted house plants from 1ft to 10ft high,
all healthy

2 cordless phones, both working,

4 high end audio amplifiers/tuners, both working

35 various framed artwork prints, none broken or damaged


2 boxs of kitchen gadgets, garlic press, strainers, food processors,
clean and working


1 bread machine, a-1 excellent condition, almost brand new
and makes dilicious homemade bread
I might add..love it


5 computer keyboards, various configurations, all working fine.

4 DVD players, all working fine

1 surround sound tv sound system and 5 compact speakers,
a1 working..great sound


1 box containing a complete 14 piece high end copper coated cook
set. pots and pans,
including lids, clean and in perfect shape


1 ikea style cloths beuro,
a1, no scratches, nice finish and a bonus. I opened up one of the
drawers and found an envelope containing a 50 dollar bill!!
made my day.

2 brand new quilted bed comforters still in store packaging.


1 thermoelectric 12 volt camp cooler, a1 perfect working condition.

1 thermoelectric hot/cold water dispenser, a1 working condition

3 halogen table lamps, a1 working condition

1 large tupperware container containing 14 high quality cutting knives
a1 condition

3 large aquariums, including pumps, filters and clean gravel

1 weed wacker, perfect condition

1 gas lawn mower, working condition

1 hepafilter air cleaner, working condition

large assortment of boxes of screws, fasteners, hinges, nails etc
all in original packaging

2 8000btu air conditioners, both recent efficient models, both
working a-1

1 box containing 3 recent model harddrives..all working but need
to be reformatted

1 walkytalky set..working

5 oil lamps, various, decorative, working and undamaged

2 electric cloths irons..brand new, still in original packaging

1 collapsable snow shovel for car.. cool.. its in my car
as well as a new high end widow scraper, squeegy, colapsable


1 box containing 6 decorative crystal flower vases

1 complete ratchet set and ratchet

2 metal ramps for car repair

2 metal traction aids for ice

2 multidriver screwdriver sets with bits


2 brand new tarps one 20ftx 30ft other one 10x15

1 folded space blanket.(metalized mylar) in original package

2 deadbolt locks, brand new, including keys

countless cans of unopened or almost full latex and acrylic paint,
glues, varnishes etc


1 black leather easy chair..perfect condition

1 black leather office chair.. perfect condition

2 coleman camp stoves..working a1

6 folding camp chairs.. a1 clean, working


3 four slice toasters..clean and working

countless vcrs..although that's to be expected

I still use 4 of them anyway..never had to buy one even 15 years ago..
always found one in working condition.

countless color tvs of all sorts, many
working a 1 but I don't bother with them anymore..
same as many monitors..not worth it f

[Biofuel] [Fwd: Nuclear oilsands on Tory agenda - Calgary Herald - 2007.05.01]

[Darryl McMahon]

 Original Message 

Nuclear oilsands on Tory agenda; Party will vote on further study of
energy option
The Calgary Herald
Tue 01 May 2007
Page: A1 / FRONT
Section: News
Byline: Jason Fekete
Dateline: EDMONTON
Source: Calgary Herald
Edition: Early
Story Type: News
Length: 760 words
Illustration: Colour Photo: Treasury Board President Lloyd Snelgrove ;
The future of nuclear power in the oilsands will face
a judgment day this weekend, when members of the
governing Progressive Conservatives vote at their
annual convention whether to further explore the
controversial energy option.
A resolution from the Calgary-Mountain View Tory
constituency association, which will be voted on at
the party convention in Edmonton, calls on the
government to immediately strike a committee to
study and draft recommendations "for the
construction of nuclear power plants for use in tar
sands development."
However, several hurdles remain before nuclear
energy could ever come to Alberta, including
winning public support for the initiative and
achieving regulatory approval.
The PC party's renewed interest in nuclear comes as
Treasury Board President Lloyd Snelgrove -- Premier
Ed Stelmach's top lieutenant -- argues nuclear power
is "a natural fit" for the oilsands and the only way to
substantially cut emissions.
"It makes no sense to not look at it," Snelgrove said
Monday, noting he'll vote in support of creating a
committee to analyze the nuclear option and initiate
public consultation.
"If nuclear energy is our best environmentally
friendly source of energy, particularly with the
oilsands . . . then I think we have to look at it."
While Snelgrove noted he's no expert on the issue, he
said the provincial government must meet the
"pollution standards" and expectations of the rest of
the world.
Giving this weekend's vote additional weight are
promises from Stelmach to listen more to the
grassroots and heed their wishes when drafting
government policy.
Energy Minister Mel Knight and other Tories were
quick to note Monday that pursuing the nuclear
option in the oilpatch isn't high on their to-do list
right now, but may be worth analyzing in greater
detail.
"I have to be open to all alternate energy projects,"
Knight said. "Industry players will make the right
determination when that time comes."
A number of companies have indicated their interest
to conduct feasibility studies on using nuclear energy,
but there are currently no applications in front of the
government, he added.
Liberal environment critic David Swann warned,
though, the government must tread cautiously on the
file and should instead be investing in more
sustainable energy options.
"I think we have to be very careful about the nuclear
option," Swann said, noting costs and waste issues
are major concerns. "The priority should be energy
efficiency and renewables -- not nuclear."
Intergovernmental Relations Minister Guy Boutilier,
MLA for the Fort McMurray area, said the
government's priority is renewable energies, but is
willing to review all options.
"Presently, nuclear is probably lower at the bottom of
the barrel when it comes to energy resources,"
Boutilier said. "We'll never rule it out quite simply by
the perspective that it's an important energy source
that the rest of the world requires."
Alberta Alliance Leader Paul Hinman, who
represents the riding of Cardston-Taber-Warner, said
nuclear is the most economical and clean way to
produce reliable electricity, and is calling for a plant
to be built in southern Alberta.
"I'd let one go in my backyard," Hinman said.
Today, enormous amounts of natural gas are used to
create steam that is pumped underground to separate
bitumen -- thick, tar-like crude oil -- from the sands.
Nuclear plants are viewed as an option because they
not only generate electricity, but would help produce
steam for the oilsands process. However, they can
cost billions and, with regulations, take 10 years to
build.
Environmental groups such as the Pembina Institute,
an Alberta-based think-tank, are against going
nuclear to extract bitumen, warning the dangers of
disposing of the waste outweigh potential benefits
such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the
oilpatch.
"I'd hate to see the narrow focus on nuclear prevent
other options," said Pembina's Dan Woynillowicz,
noting geothermal and gasification processes are also
available for oilsands production.
In Ottawa, the idea of using nuclear energy in the
oilsands is gathering steam. Federal Natural
Resources Minister Gary Lunn said recently nuclear
power is an option worth pursuing.
And Husky Energy chief executive John Lau has said
his company is exploring nuclear's potential and that
it is "the right long-term approach for oilsands."
A recent poll of 812 Albertans, which was provided
to the Herald, suggested nuclear power for the
oilsands is highly contentious in Alberta, with 45 per
cent behind the idea and 43 per cent against. Twelve
per cent were unsure.
Opposition was highest in

[Biofuel] [Fwd: The great green hope (ethanol) - Calgary Herald - 2007.04.29 (long)]

[Darryl McMahon]

 Original Message 

The great green hope; Governments are banking on a big bang for fuels
made from grains. The move essentially pits the livestock industry
against the ethanol industry, and who will come out the winner remains
to be seen
The Calgary Herald
Sun 29 Apr 2007
Page: E2
Section: Calgary Business
Byline: Hanneke Brooymans
Dateline: EDMONTON
Source: Edmonton Journal
Edition: Final
Story Type: Business
Length: 3187 words
Illustration: Photo: Brian Gavriloff, Edmonton Journal / Bill
Churchward, general manager of Alberta's only ethanol plant, Red
Deer-based Permolex, holds some
fuel-grade ethanol. ; Colour Photo: Brian Gavriloff, Edmonton Journal /
Drew Pritchard, operations superintendent of Husky Energy's
Lloydminster, Sask., ethanol
plant, looks at a pile of dried distillers grain, a byproduct of
ethanol. ; Graphic: How ethanol is made from grain ;
EDMONTON - Alberta thinks of itself as an energy
leader, but the petro-rich province has been a laggard
when it comes to biofuels.
The industry's undisputed pioneer is Brazil. After
three decades of hard work, the South American giant
last year squeezed about 17 billion litres of ethanol
from sugar cane.
The United States has surged ahead of the pack. Its
115 ethanol plants, fed by the massive Midwest corn
belt, can churn out almost 22 billion litres annually.
Another 86 plants are under construction.
Plants are popping up in Canada, too, though at a
more modest rate.
Alberta, so far, has just one. But the province wants
to change all that.
The Ed Stelmach government has grand visions of a
vast biofuels industry extending its tendrils into all
corners of Alberta. Farmers will prosper by growing
crops for biofuel production; the shaky forestry
sector, besieged by pine beetles and low prices, will
branch into producing ethanol from cellulose, or
plant fibre.
But huge questions remain, including: Who will pay
to build the plants and infrastructure needed to get the
fledgling industry on its feet? And is bioenergy
actually of any benefit to the environment?
Alberta took a big step toward a biofuels future last
October when it announced a $239-million bioenergy
program.
It was taking a cue from the federal government,
which had announced the previous May its intention
to legislate the blending of ethanol into the gasoline
we pump into our vehicles.
Ottawa backed this up in March by budgeting $2
billion over the next seven years to promote
investment in renewable fuels. Though the federal
ethanol mandate isn't yet law, it's coming, and many
provincial governments are acting to ensure their
voters don't miss out on a guaranteed market.
Provinces like Saskatchewan, with three ethanol
plants, and Ontario, with 10 ethanol plants either
operating or under construction, have proved that
when it comes to producing fuel from crops, initiative
matters.
Figuring out the formula to attract these plants is
becoming crucial, as federal and provincial cash
pours into the industry, allowing companies to pick
and choose where to locate.
Alberta's program "is really just the first step," said
Matthew Machielse,
director of biofuels for Alberta Energy. "If we can
attract the ethanol infrastructure here, then likely
those plants will extend into green chemicals, extend
into green materials, all of those other constituents
that have even higher value than just ethanol."
He even envisages Alberta's shoppers swinging
grocery bags made from bioplastics manufactured in
the province.
Machielse says Alberta wants to be a player in
meeting the federal government's mandate, which
would require five per cent ethanol in gasoline by
2010 and two per cent biodiesel in diesel by 2012.
"Otherwise all we're doing is exporting our
feedstocks to other jurisdictions who capture the
value added."
While the provincial government recently distributed
the first $5 million of its bioenergy program, it still
has a lot of catching up to do. Some of the major
players in the industry are showing little interest in
locating here.
Husky Energy, a biofuels pioneer that has declared its
ambition to be the largest ethanol producer in
Western Canada, seems to be building plants
everywhere but in Alberta. Last fall, it opened a plant
in Lloydminster on the Saskatchewan side of the
border. Now, it's busily erecting its clone in
Manitoba. And it just might put up a third plant near
Prince George, B.C.
Iogen, an Ottawa-based biotech company, was
considering Alberta as one of a handful of potential
sites for its first commercial-scale plant that would
produce ethanol from plant fibre. Since then, it has
shied away from its Alberta option -- the province's
labour market is too hot, the company decided.
Ideally, the province would prefer that farmers
themselves invest in ethanol facilities by forming
co-operatives and pooling their money together.
But scrounge might be a more accurate word after the
financial thrashing farmers have taken from drought
and mad cow disease.
Alberta farmers have come out

[Biofuel] FDA posting on melamine

[Kirk McLoren]

  ---
FDA alert posted quietly tonight:
http://www.fda.gov/ora/fiars/ora_import_ia9929.html
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Re: [Biofuel] Bayer Corporation gets Rachel Carson honors

[Keith Addison]

>That's nothing.  Big Pharma is trying to ban vitamins and carrot juice
>in the US.

Not just the US, everywhere. But at least Greenpeace and the ETC 
Group aren't giving them prizes for it.

Best

Keith


>Keith Addison wrote:
>
> >Unbelievable! Well, almost...
> >
> >Bayer's press releases below. Excerpt:
> >
> >
> >
> >>"Bayer employees are proud that we as a company take action that
> >>supports the public interest and demonstrates corporate citizenship
> >>that benefits humankind," said Dr. Attila Molnar, President and CEO,
> >>Bayer Corporation. "In meeting our responsibilities to society,
> >>Bayer relies on its core values of improving quality of life while
> >>harmonizing commercial efficiency, ecology and social commitment."
> >>
> >>
> >
> >A little sanity here:
> >Coalition Against Bayer Dangers
> >http://www.cbgnetwork.de/4.html
> >
> >Also here:
> >http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&q=Bayer
> >Bayer
> >
> >And here:
> >http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=corporate+criminals+bayer
> >corporate criminals bayer - Google Search
> >
> >
> >
> >Bayer to be Honored by Rachel Carson Homestead Association
> >
> >2007-04-19 17:19:21 -
> >
> >PITTSBURGH, April 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bayer Corporation
> >will be honored tomorrow, Friday, April 20, by the Rachel Carson
> >Homestead Association at a reception that kicks off a yearlong series
> >of special events commemorating the centennial of the birth of author
> >and ecologist Rachel Carson.
> >
> >One of the Homestead Association's key events, the Rachel Carson
> >Legacy Challenge reception hosted by Teresa Heinz Kerry at the
> >Senator John Heinz History Center, will recognize Bayer and 15 other
> >companies and organizations. Specifically, Bayer is being honored for
> >its continued support and implementation of its various local,
> >national and global environmental initiatives, some begun more than a
> >decade ago, that are designed to foster a healthier planet.
> >
> >Throughout the centennial year, Bayer is also helping to sponsor a
> >number of special environmental education programs organized by the
> >Homestead Association.
> >
> >"Bayer employees are proud that we as a company take action that
> >supports the public interest and demonstrates corporate citizenship
> >that benefits humankind," said Dr. Attila Molnar, President and CEO,
> >Bayer Corporation. "In meeting our responsibilities to society, Bayer
> >relies on its core values of improving quality of life while
> >harmonizing commercial efficiency, ecology and social commitment."
> >
> >The objective of the event is to highlight how commitment to
> >environmentally sustainable practices can make a tangible difference
> >in the health, quality of life, environment and economic viability of
> >local, regional and global communities.
> >
> >"We applaud Bayer Corporation for continuing to take 'green steps to
> >a sustainable future,' by making permanent, measurable changes in
> >behavior and policies that promote Rachel Carson's environmental
> >ethic," said Patricia M. DeMarco, executive director, Rachel Carson
> >Homestead Association. "As a forward-thinking company, Bayer clearly
> >understands that by committing to this challenge, it will help build
> >conditions for a more sustainable, healthy world."
> >
> >Bayer's Sustainability Progress
> >
> >Bayer works to develop technologies that increase energy efficiency
> >and protect drinking water; helps to eradicate pandemic diseases in
> >the developing world; strengthens science education in the United
> >States; introduces sustainable business practices to today's
> >students; and reduces its own footprint globally. Bayer was one of
> >the first chemical companies to join the Responsible Care(R)
> >initiative and publish an environmental report in 1993. Several years
> >later, it would become one of 45 founding members of the United
> >Nation's Global Compact and join the Global Reporting Initiative.
> >
> >More than a decade ago, Bayer set an ambitious goal to reduce
> >greenhouse gas emissions from more than 400 facilities worldwide in
> >absolute numbers by 50 percent from 1990 to 2012, while
> >simultaneously increasing manufacturing output. Since 1990, Bayer has
> >bettered the greenhouse gas emission targets specified in the Kyoto
> >Protocol and cut direct greenhouse gas emissions worldwide by more
> >than 70 percent.
> >
> >Through technical improvements and structural changes, Bayer also has
> >cut its worldwide energy use by 26 percent between 2000 and 2005. The
> >Carbon Disclosure Project, a coalition of more than 200 worldwide
> >institutional investors, lists Bayer as "Best in Class" in worldwide
> >climate protection.
> >
> >Bayer was one of the first members of the Chicago Climate Exchange --
> >the world's first and America's only voluntary, legally binding
> >greenhouse gas reduction and trading system for emission sources in
> >North America and Brazil.
> >
> >Bayer's climat

Re: [Biofuel] Bayer Corporation gets Rachel Carson honors

[Kirk McLoren]

A kinder greener world
  astroturf

Mike Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  That's nothing. Big Pharma is trying to ban vitamins and carrot juice 
in the US.

Keith Addison wrote:

>Unbelievable! Well, almost...
>
>Bayer's press releases below. Excerpt:
>
> 
>
>>"Bayer employees are proud that we as a company take action that 
>>supports the public interest and demonstrates corporate citizenship 
>>that benefits humankind," said Dr. Attila Molnar, President and CEO, 
>>Bayer Corporation. "In meeting our responsibilities to society, 
>>Bayer relies on its core values of improving quality of life while 
>>harmonizing commercial efficiency, ecology and social commitment."
>> 
>>
>
>A little sanity here:
>Coalition Against Bayer Dangers
>http://www.cbgnetwork.de/4.html
>
>Also here:
>http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&q=Bayer
>Bayer
>
>And here:
>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=corporate+criminals+bayer
>corporate criminals bayer - Google Search
>
>
>
>Bayer to be Honored by Rachel Carson Homestead Association
>
>2007-04-19 17:19:21 -
>
>PITTSBURGH, April 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bayer Corporation 
>will be honored tomorrow, Friday, April 20, by the Rachel Carson 
>Homestead Association at a reception that kicks off a yearlong series 
>of special events commemorating the centennial of the birth of author 
>and ecologist Rachel Carson.
>
>One of the Homestead Association's key events, the Rachel Carson 
>Legacy Challenge reception hosted by Teresa Heinz Kerry at the 
>Senator John Heinz History Center, will recognize Bayer and 15 other 
>companies and organizations. Specifically, Bayer is being honored for 
>its continued support and implementation of its various local, 
>national and global environmental initiatives, some begun more than a 
>decade ago, that are designed to foster a healthier planet.
>
>Throughout the centennial year, Bayer is also helping to sponsor a 
>number of special environmental education programs organized by the 
>Homestead Association.
>
>"Bayer employees are proud that we as a company take action that 
>supports the public interest and demonstrates corporate citizenship 
>that benefits humankind," said Dr. Attila Molnar, President and CEO, 
>Bayer Corporation. "In meeting our responsibilities to society, Bayer 
>relies on its core values of improving quality of life while 
>harmonizing commercial efficiency, ecology and social commitment."
>
>The objective of the event is to highlight how commitment to 
>environmentally sustainable practices can make a tangible difference 
>in the health, quality of life, environment and economic viability of 
>local, regional and global communities.
>
>"We applaud Bayer Corporation for continuing to take 'green steps to 
>a sustainable future,' by making permanent, measurable changes in 
>behavior and policies that promote Rachel Carson's environmental 
>ethic," said Patricia M. DeMarco, executive director, Rachel Carson 
>Homestead Association. "As a forward-thinking company, Bayer clearly 
>understands that by committing to this challenge, it will help build 
>conditions for a more sustainable, healthy world."
>
>Bayer's Sustainability Progress
>
>Bayer works to develop technologies that increase energy efficiency 
>and protect drinking water; helps to eradicate pandemic diseases in 
>the developing world; strengthens science education in the United 
>States; introduces sustainable business practices to today's 
>students; and reduces its own footprint globally. Bayer was one of 
>the first chemical companies to join the Responsible Care(R) 
>initiative and publish an environmental report in 1993. Several years 
>later, it would become one of 45 founding members of the United 
>Nation's Global Compact and join the Global Reporting Initiative.
>
>More than a decade ago, Bayer set an ambitious goal to reduce 
>greenhouse gas emissions from more than 400 facilities worldwide in 
>absolute numbers by 50 percent from 1990 to 2012, while 
>simultaneously increasing manufacturing output. Since 1990, Bayer has 
>bettered the greenhouse gas emission targets specified in the Kyoto 
>Protocol and cut direct greenhouse gas emissions worldwide by more 
>than 70 percent.
>
>Through technical improvements and structural changes, Bayer also has 
>cut its worldwide energy use by 26 percent between 2000 and 2005. The 
>Carbon Disclosure Project, a coalition of more than 200 worldwide 
>institutional investors, lists Bayer as "Best in Class" in worldwide 
>climate protection.
>
>Bayer was one of the first members of the Chicago Climate Exchange -- 
>the world's first and America's only voluntary, legally binding 
>greenhouse gas reduction and trading system for emission sources in 
>North America and Brazil.
>
>Bayer's climate strategy includes developing products that conserve 
>natural resources. These include refrigerator insulation, lightweight 
>automotive materials and thermal insulation for buildings, all of 
>whic

Re: [Biofuel] Rooting without commercial rooting hormone

[Tom Irwin]

Hi Kirk and all,
I suppose weeping willow will work. It´s a Salix. Is one better than another?
Tom Irwin
 




From:  Kirk McLoren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Reply-To:  biofuel@sustainablelists.orgTo:  biofuel Subject:  [Biofuel] Rooting without commercial rooting hormoneDate:  Tue, 1 May 2007 08:34:24 -0700 (PDT)

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/rosesorg/msg0720433521555.html  
   
  
Posted by EireannE Dublin (My Page) on  
Wed, Mar 23, 05 at 21:08  
  
  
  
  
  
  
Sorry about the long post, but perhaps I can shed some light on the topic. All plants contain the necessary hormones (IAA, NAA, and IBS) to root, otherwise how would they root in the first place? The only reason some cuttings are hard to root, or won't root at all on their own is because of the plants natural process of damage control, i.e. wound response.  
Abscisic Acid is a stress hormone that plants use to automatically dieback injured areas in response to wounding or disease such as occurs at the severed end of a cutting. Adding additional hormone to a cut stem to induce rooting is one method of counteracting this response, but essentially all you are doing is disinfecting the area while providing enough additional hormone to maybe (maybe not) develop more mass than the abscisic acid released during the wound response can cope with. Eventually, if you're successful, it's because you reach a point where the wounded area is either partially closed, and/or the root material has eclipsed it, and abscisic acid stops being produced.  
Why explain all this? Because there is another method (already mentioned) that works just as well without stressing the plant by forcing it to grow both more mass as well as fight the effects of abscisic acid, willow water. Someone already mentioned aspirin being the same thing, well it is and it isn't.  
Aspirin, which as we all know comes from the bark of the willow tree, does contain one of what appears to be two necessary/active ingredients in willow water for successful root incubation. This is Salicylic Acid. Salicylic acid is an abscisic acid inhibitor. That's to say, not only will it stop the affect of already present abscisic acid on wounds, but it stops the wound response and production of abscisic acid all together. On top of this it acts as an anti-coagulant keeping the fresh cut open and allowing the cutting to wick much needed water and nutrients during this vital stage.  
The second vital ingredient, a substance that you won't get from aspirin, is rhizocaline. A mysterious yet naturally occurring compound of what is thought to be vitamins B, H, boron, sugar and/or other nitrogenous minerals that act in conjunction with IAA, and IBS. Research has found that this is the key catalyst to promoting root formation. All plants contain and use it, but willow has such an abundance as to make it king of rhizocaline.  
If extracted and used properly, willow water can be the most effective way to produce rooted cuttings. There are many recipes for making it; leaving willow branches in water for 4 weeks to root; steeping 6 inch willow cuttings in cool water for 72 hours; or 1 inch cuttings for 24 hours; boiling the cuttings; mashing and splitting the cuttings and brewing them in bot recently boiled water. There are loads, and some of these may be more (or less) effective than others. But to get the real expert's advice, go to Dr. Makota Kawase who in the mid 1960's discovered rhizocaline by experimenting with willow and has been developing the process ever since.  
Dr. Kawase's advice: "cut current year's growth from any Salix species. Then, remove the leaves and cut into one inch pieces. Place these right side up (Eireann: direction is important since rhizocaline and IAA move polarly down the stem of any cutting) in a glass, add 1/2" of hot water, cover with a plastic bag and let sit 24 hours. Steep your cuttings in this for and additional 24 hours, and then place in the rooting medium with or without rooting hormone, as needed (Eireann: My suggestion is without). The willow water may be stored in the refrigerator and covered to prevent contamination, but is best used up within three days."  
Additionally Dr. Kawase encourages the use of etoilation in promoting rooting. Total darkness, he found, increased rooting "sharply" up to four days, which is three days faster than anything I ever did with store bought rooting hormone. The basal tips MUST be in darkness for rooting to occur. 

  

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Re: [Biofuel] Flying F Bio-Fuels

[Joe Street]

What's the 'F' stand for in 'Flying F Biofuel' ??

J;^>


Kirk McLoren wrote:


6800 for a 40 gallon batch is well . . .
As high as a giraffes tail?
 
Kirk


*/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote:

Has anyone heard about this company? They make a reactor and are
selling it. I was approached by the head of maintenance. He said
they are considering purchasing a unit. I'm inclined to think its
way over priced.

www.ffbiofuels.com


-dave



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Re: [Biofuel] Flying F Bio-Fuels

[Keith Addison]

>Righto.  This is what I thought.  Here will be an interesting case. 
>About 3 years ago I approached the Maintenance department about 
>making a reactor and they throughly laughed at me.  Now, given the 
>diesel prices, they are looking at these options.  It will be 
>interesting to see if I can persuade them to actually learn what is 
>behind this mysterious biodiesel process.  Further to that, it will 
>be a miracle if I can convince them that this reactor is not only 
>over priced, but merely a high priced water heater with a pump and a 
>few hoses.
>
>I'll keep you informed.

Please do Dave, and best of good luck!

Keith


>On Tuesday, May 01, 2007  2:37 AM, Keith Addison wrote:
> >>6800 for a 40 gallon batch is well . . .
> >>As high as a giraffes tail?
> >
> >Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 16:37:11 +0900
> >From: Keith Addison
> >To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
> >Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Flying F Bio-Fuels
> >
> >:-)
> >
> >Same as this, said about the FuelMeister two or three years back:
> >"You could make an excellent processor plus more than 8,000 gallons
> >of high-quality biodiesel for that price."
> >
> >Anyone can make a good processor, except, it seems, people who sell
> >them. AFAIK there still isn't a commercially available small-scale
> >processor that's worth having.
> >
> >www.ffbiofuels.com says this: "You'll be making fuel the day it arrives!"
> >
> >Pagandai recently said this:
> >
> >"Understanding of the process is vital to operate the plant." - Prof.
> >P.V. Pannir Selvam, Technology Center, Department of Chemical
> >Engineering, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN),
> >Brazil, Biofuel mailing list, 15 Apr 2007
> >
> >I completely agree with Pagandai, seen it so often!
> >
> >Dave, nice small-scale processor designs here that the head of
> >maintenance might consider:
> >http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_processor.html
> >
> >Joe Street's processor
> >http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_processor.html#joestreet
> >
> >Best
> >
> >Keith
> >
> >
> >>Kirk
> >>
> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>
> >>Has anyone heard about this company? They make a reactor and are
> >>selling it. I was approached by the head of maintenance. He said
> >>they are considering purchasing a unit. I'm inclined to think its
> >>way over priced.
> >>
> >>www.ffbiofuels.com
> >>
> >>
> >>-dave


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Re: [Biofuel] Patented GMO jatropha

[Joe Street]

Keith Addison wrote:

>
>No problem if you compost the cake. (It's not yellow, is it, the 
>cake?) (And is your compost Bin Laden with nice organic compostibles?)
>  
>
LMAO where do you get your material? Too funny.  You put me in such a 
good mood I think I need to listen to some music.  Maybe I'll go buy 
some Anthrax cd's

>Trouble with castor oil for biodiesel is the high viscosity, exceeds 
>all standards specs. Pannir said the problem could be solved but 
>didn't say how. Maybe by using ethanol as an additive? But I think 
>that wouldn't fit the standards specs either.
>  
>
Well I have been injecting recovered methanol into my engine's air 
intake just recently and it seems quite happy to run on it. This turns 
out to be easier than reusing it in the biodiesel process. Water in the 
methanol lowers combustion temperature and thereby reducues oxides of 
nitrogen.:) sweet. I don't know yet whether ethanol shares methanol's 
lack of detonation under high compression but if it does I think that 
would be the answer as it would be ok to have in the fuel system, unlike 
methanol.  Would probably help the winter issues somewhat as well.

>Still no "best crop" though, it depends in the circumstances. And 
>yield might not be the only consideration.
>
>Best
>
>Keith
>
>  
>
What. You mean like you might consider something else like whether there 
might be another side to unleashing non native speicies into the great 
outdoors or something like that? What?

J


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Re: [Biofuel] Bayer Corporation gets Rachel Carson honors

[Mike Weaver]

That's nothing.  Big Pharma is trying to ban vitamins and carrot juice 
in the US.

Keith Addison wrote:

>Unbelievable! Well, almost...
>
>Bayer's press releases below. Excerpt:
>
>  
>
>>"Bayer employees are proud that we as a company take action that 
>>supports the public interest and demonstrates corporate citizenship 
>>that benefits humankind," said Dr. Attila Molnar, President and CEO, 
>>Bayer Corporation. "In meeting our responsibilities to society, 
>>Bayer relies on its core values of improving quality of life while 
>>harmonizing commercial efficiency, ecology and social commitment."
>>
>>
>
>A little sanity here:
>Coalition Against Bayer Dangers
>http://www.cbgnetwork.de/4.html
>
>Also here:
>http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&q=Bayer
>Bayer
>
>And here:
>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=corporate+criminals+bayer
>corporate criminals bayer - Google Search
>
>
>
>Bayer to be Honored by Rachel Carson Homestead Association
>
>2007-04-19 17:19:21 -
>
>PITTSBURGH, April 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bayer Corporation 
>will be honored tomorrow, Friday, April 20, by the Rachel Carson 
>Homestead Association at a reception that kicks off a yearlong series 
>of special events commemorating the centennial of the birth of author 
>and ecologist Rachel Carson.
>
>One of the Homestead Association's key events, the Rachel Carson 
>Legacy Challenge reception hosted by Teresa Heinz Kerry at the 
>Senator John Heinz History Center, will recognize Bayer and 15 other 
>companies and organizations. Specifically, Bayer is being honored for 
>its continued support and implementation of its various local, 
>national and global environmental initiatives, some begun more than a 
>decade ago, that are designed to foster a healthier planet.
>
>Throughout the centennial year, Bayer is also helping to sponsor a 
>number of special environmental education programs organized by the 
>Homestead Association.
>
>"Bayer employees are proud that we as a company take action that 
>supports the public interest and demonstrates corporate citizenship 
>that benefits humankind," said Dr. Attila Molnar, President and CEO, 
>Bayer Corporation. "In meeting our responsibilities to society, Bayer 
>relies on its core values of improving quality of life while 
>harmonizing commercial efficiency, ecology and social commitment."
>
>The objective of the event is to highlight how commitment to 
>environmentally sustainable practices can make a tangible difference 
>in the health, quality of life, environment and economic viability of 
>local, regional and global communities.
>
>"We applaud Bayer Corporation for continuing to take 'green steps to 
>a sustainable future,' by making permanent, measurable changes in 
>behavior and policies that promote Rachel Carson's environmental 
>ethic," said Patricia M. DeMarco, executive director, Rachel Carson 
>Homestead Association. "As a forward-thinking company, Bayer clearly 
>understands that by committing to this challenge, it will help build 
>conditions for a more sustainable, healthy world."
>
>Bayer's Sustainability Progress
>
>Bayer works to develop technologies that increase energy efficiency 
>and protect drinking water; helps to eradicate pandemic diseases in 
>the developing world; strengthens science education in the United 
>States; introduces sustainable business practices to today's 
>students; and reduces its own footprint globally. Bayer was one of 
>the first chemical companies to join the Responsible Care(R) 
>initiative and publish an environmental report in 1993. Several years 
>later, it would become one of 45 founding members of the United 
>Nation's Global Compact and join the Global Reporting Initiative.
>
>More than a decade ago, Bayer set an ambitious goal to reduce 
>greenhouse gas emissions from more than 400 facilities worldwide in 
>absolute numbers by 50 percent from 1990 to 2012, while 
>simultaneously increasing manufacturing output. Since 1990, Bayer has 
>bettered the greenhouse gas emission targets specified in the Kyoto 
>Protocol and cut direct greenhouse gas emissions worldwide by more 
>than 70 percent.
>
>Through technical improvements and structural changes, Bayer also has 
>cut its worldwide energy use by 26 percent between 2000 and 2005. The 
>Carbon Disclosure Project, a coalition of more than 200 worldwide 
>institutional investors, lists Bayer as "Best in Class" in worldwide 
>climate protection.
>
>Bayer was one of the first members of the Chicago Climate Exchange -- 
>the world's first and America's only voluntary, legally binding 
>greenhouse gas reduction and trading system for emission sources in 
>North America and Brazil.
>
>Bayer's climate strategy includes developing products that conserve 
>natural resources. These include refrigerator insulation, lightweight 
>automotive materials and thermal insulation for buildings, all of 
>which increase energy efficiency, lower fuel consumption and reduce 
>emissi

[Biofuel] Bayer Corporation gets Rachel Carson honors

[Keith Addison]

Unbelievable! Well, almost...

Bayer's press releases below. Excerpt:

>"Bayer employees are proud that we as a company take action that 
>supports the public interest and demonstrates corporate citizenship 
>that benefits humankind," said Dr. Attila Molnar, President and CEO, 
>Bayer Corporation. "In meeting our responsibilities to society, 
>Bayer relies on its core values of improving quality of life while 
>harmonizing commercial efficiency, ecology and social commitment."

A little sanity here:
Coalition Against Bayer Dangers
http://www.cbgnetwork.de/4.html

Also here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&q=Bayer
Bayer

And here:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=corporate+criminals+bayer
corporate criminals bayer - Google Search



Bayer to be Honored by Rachel Carson Homestead Association

2007-04-19 17:19:21 -

PITTSBURGH, April 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bayer Corporation 
will be honored tomorrow, Friday, April 20, by the Rachel Carson 
Homestead Association at a reception that kicks off a yearlong series 
of special events commemorating the centennial of the birth of author 
and ecologist Rachel Carson.

One of the Homestead Association's key events, the Rachel Carson 
Legacy Challenge reception hosted by Teresa Heinz Kerry at the 
Senator John Heinz History Center, will recognize Bayer and 15 other 
companies and organizations. Specifically, Bayer is being honored for 
its continued support and implementation of its various local, 
national and global environmental initiatives, some begun more than a 
decade ago, that are designed to foster a healthier planet.

Throughout the centennial year, Bayer is also helping to sponsor a 
number of special environmental education programs organized by the 
Homestead Association.

"Bayer employees are proud that we as a company take action that 
supports the public interest and demonstrates corporate citizenship 
that benefits humankind," said Dr. Attila Molnar, President and CEO, 
Bayer Corporation. "In meeting our responsibilities to society, Bayer 
relies on its core values of improving quality of life while 
harmonizing commercial efficiency, ecology and social commitment."

The objective of the event is to highlight how commitment to 
environmentally sustainable practices can make a tangible difference 
in the health, quality of life, environment and economic viability of 
local, regional and global communities.

"We applaud Bayer Corporation for continuing to take 'green steps to 
a sustainable future,' by making permanent, measurable changes in 
behavior and policies that promote Rachel Carson's environmental 
ethic," said Patricia M. DeMarco, executive director, Rachel Carson 
Homestead Association. "As a forward-thinking company, Bayer clearly 
understands that by committing to this challenge, it will help build 
conditions for a more sustainable, healthy world."

Bayer's Sustainability Progress

Bayer works to develop technologies that increase energy efficiency 
and protect drinking water; helps to eradicate pandemic diseases in 
the developing world; strengthens science education in the United 
States; introduces sustainable business practices to today's 
students; and reduces its own footprint globally. Bayer was one of 
the first chemical companies to join the Responsible Care(R) 
initiative and publish an environmental report in 1993. Several years 
later, it would become one of 45 founding members of the United 
Nation's Global Compact and join the Global Reporting Initiative.

More than a decade ago, Bayer set an ambitious goal to reduce 
greenhouse gas emissions from more than 400 facilities worldwide in 
absolute numbers by 50 percent from 1990 to 2012, while 
simultaneously increasing manufacturing output. Since 1990, Bayer has 
bettered the greenhouse gas emission targets specified in the Kyoto 
Protocol and cut direct greenhouse gas emissions worldwide by more 
than 70 percent.

Through technical improvements and structural changes, Bayer also has 
cut its worldwide energy use by 26 percent between 2000 and 2005. The 
Carbon Disclosure Project, a coalition of more than 200 worldwide 
institutional investors, lists Bayer as "Best in Class" in worldwide 
climate protection.

Bayer was one of the first members of the Chicago Climate Exchange -- 
the world's first and America's only voluntary, legally binding 
greenhouse gas reduction and trading system for emission sources in 
North America and Brazil.

Bayer's climate strategy includes developing products that conserve 
natural resources. These include refrigerator insulation, lightweight 
automotive materials and thermal insulation for buildings, all of 
which increase energy efficiency, lower fuel consumption and reduce 
emissions. Fueling the "green building" revolution are Bayer's 
innovative coatings, adhesives and polycarbonate materials. Currently 
under development are nanomaterials. This technology will make films 
and coatings with enhanced

[Biofuel] Rooting without commercial rooting hormone

[Kirk McLoren]

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/rosesorg/msg0720433521555.html
   

   Posted by EireannE Dublin (My Page) on   Wed, Mar 23, 05 at 21:08

  Sorry about the long post, but perhaps I can shed some light on 
the topic. All plants contain the necessary hormones (IAA, NAA, and IBS) to 
root, otherwise how would they root in the first place? The only reason some 
cuttings are hard to root, or won't root at all on their own is because of the 
plants natural process of damage control, i.e. wound response.   Abscisic Acid 
is a stress hormone that plants use to automatically dieback injured areas in 
response to wounding or disease such as occurs at the severed end of a cutting. 
Adding additional hormone to a cut stem to induce rooting is one method of 
counteracting this response, but essentially all you are doing is disinfecting 
the area while providing enough additional hormone to maybe (maybe not) develop 
more mass than the abscisic acid released during the wound response can cope 
with. Eventually, if you're successful, it's because you reach a point where 
the wounded area is either partially closed, and/or
 the root material has eclipsed it, and abscisic acid stops being produced.   
Why explain all this? Because there is another method (already mentioned) that 
works just as well without stressing the plant by forcing it to grow both more 
mass as well as fight the effects of abscisic acid, willow water. Someone 
already mentioned aspirin being the same thing, well it is and it isn't.   
Aspirin, which as we all know comes from the bark of the willow tree, does 
contain one of what appears to be two necessary/active ingredients in willow 
water for successful root incubation. This is Salicylic Acid. Salicylic acid is 
an abscisic acid inhibitor. That's to say, not only will it stop the affect of 
already present abscisic acid on wounds, but it stops the wound response and 
production of abscisic acid all together. On top of this it acts as an 
anti-coagulant keeping the fresh cut open and allowing the cutting to wick much 
needed water and nutrients during this vital stage.   The second
 vital ingredient, a substance that you won't get from aspirin, is rhizocaline. 
A mysterious yet naturally occurring compound of what is thought to be vitamins 
B, H, boron, sugar and/or other nitrogenous minerals that act in conjunction 
with IAA, and IBS. Research has found that this is the key catalyst to 
promoting root formation. All plants contain and use it, but willow has such an 
abundance as to make it king of rhizocaline.   If extracted and used properly, 
willow water can be the most effective way to produce rooted cuttings. There 
are many recipes for making it; leaving willow branches in water for 4 weeks to 
root; steeping 6 inch willow cuttings in cool water for 72 hours; or 1 inch 
cuttings for 24 hours; boiling the cuttings; mashing and splitting the cuttings 
and brewing them in bot recently boiled water. There are loads, and some of 
these may be more (or less) effective than others. But to get the real expert's 
advice, go to Dr. Makota Kawase who in the mid
 1960's discovered rhizocaline by experimenting with willow and has been 
developing the process ever since.   Dr. Kawase's advice: "cut current year's 
growth from any Salix species. Then, remove the leaves and cut into one inch 
pieces. Place these right side up (Eireann: direction is important since 
rhizocaline and IAA move polarly down the stem of any cutting) in a glass, add 
1/2" of hot water, cover with a plastic bag and let sit 24 hours. Steep your 
cuttings in this for and additional 24 hours, and then place in the rooting 
medium with or without rooting hormone, as needed (Eireann: My suggestion is 
without). The willow water may be stored in the refrigerator and covered to 
prevent contamination, but is best used up within three days."   Additionally 
Dr. Kawase encourages the use of etoilation in promoting rooting. Total 
darkness, he found, increased rooting "sharply" up to four days, which is three 
days faster than anything I ever did with store bought rooting hormone.
 The basal tips MUST be in darkness for rooting to occur. 


   
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[Biofuel] video - plant propagation

[Kirk McLoren]

http://s93.photobucket.com/albums/l74/mcplants83/?action=view¤t=Softwoods.flv
   
  and how to build the box
   
  http://www.freeplants.com/frame%20set.htm

   
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Re: [Biofuel] Flying F Bio-Fuels

[DHAJOGLO]

Righto.  This is what I thought.  Here will be an interesting case.  About 3 
years ago I approached the Maintenance department about making a reactor and 
they throughly laughed at me.  Now, given the diesel prices, they are looking 
at these options.  It will be interesting to see if I can persuade them to 
actually learn what is behind this mysterious biodiesel process.  Further to 
that, it will be a miracle if I can convince them that this reactor is not only 
over priced, but merely a high priced water heater with a pump and a few hoses.

I'll keep you informed.



On Tuesday, May 01, 2007  2:37 AM, Keith Addison wrote:
>>6800 for a 40 gallon batch is well . . .
>>As high as a giraffes tail?
>
>Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 16:37:11 +0900
>From: Keith Addison
>To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
>Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Flying F Bio-Fuels
>
>:-)
>
>Same as this, said about the FuelMeister two or three years back:
>"You could make an excellent processor plus more than 8,000 gallons
>of high-quality biodiesel for that price."
>
>Anyone can make a good processor, except, it seems, people who sell
>them. AFAIK there still isn't a commercially available small-scale
>processor that's worth having.
>
>www.ffbiofuels.com says this: "You'll be making fuel the day it arrives!"
>
>Pagandai recently said this:
>
>"Understanding of the process is vital to operate the plant." - Prof.
>P.V. Pannir Selvam, Technology Center, Department of Chemical
>Engineering, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN),
>Brazil, Biofuel mailing list, 15 Apr 2007
>
>I completely agree with Pagandai, seen it so often!
>
>Dave, nice small-scale processor designs here that the head of
>maintenance might consider:
>http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_processor.html
>
>Joe Street's processor
>http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_processor.html#joestreet
>
>Best
>
>Keith
>
>
>>Kirk
>>
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>Has anyone heard about this company? They make a reactor and are
>>selling it. I was approached by the head of maintenance. He said
>>they are considering purchasing a unit. I'm inclined to think its
>>way over priced.
>>
>>www.ffbiofuels.com
>>
>>
>>-dave
>
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Re: [Biofuel] Food boom brings unpalatable truths

[Keith Addison]

It seems the widespread US angst following the toxic pet food debacle 
is being put to good use in posing "food safety" and "food security" 
as a mere matter of controlling foreign imports, with the underlying 
assumption that all is well and good with the domestic portion of the 
US food supply. What a joke (if you like sick jokes). The industrial 
food system, in whatever nation, is not characterised by anything 
that could sanely be termed "food safety" or "food security". IMHO.

Best

Keith


>Food boom brings unpalatable truths
>
>http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/food-boom-brings-unpalatable-truths/ 
>2007/04/28/1177459990913.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2
>
>Disaster â*¦ a woman cries after thousands of fish died of unknown 
>pollution at
>her aquaculture farm in Hangzhou a day before World Environment Day last
>year.
>Photo: Reuters/China Dai
>
>April 28, 2007
>
>China's huge food export market could be making the world sick, write Ariana
>Eunjung Cha in Shanghai and Kelly Burke.
>
>SOMETHING was wrong with the babies. The villagers noticed their heads were
>growing abnormally large while the rest of their bodies were skin 
>and bones. By
>the time Chinese authorities discovered the culprit - severe malnutrition
>from fake milk powder - 13 had died.
>
>The scandal unfolded three years ago after hundreds of infants fell ill in
>eastern China and became the symbol of a broad problem in China's economy.
>Quality control and product-safety regulation are so poor in this country that
>people cannot trust the goods on store shelves.
>
>Until now, the problem has received scant attention outside China. In recent
>weeks, however, consumers everywhere have been learning about China's safety
>crisis. Tainted ingredients that originated there made their way into pet food
>that has sickened and killed animals around the world, with nearly 4000 deaths
>reported in the US. Although no animal deaths have been reported in
>Australia, high-end pet food products imported from the US have also 
>been pulled from
>Australian shelves.
>
>With China playing an ever-larger role in supplying food, medicine and animal
>feed to other countries, recognition of the hazards has not kept up.
>
>By value, China is the world's No.1 exporter of fruits and vegetables, and a
>major exporter of other food products ranging from apple juice to garlic and
>sausage casings. Its agricultural exports to the US surged to $US2.26 billion
>last year - nearly 20 times the $US133 million of 1980. China's food 
>exports to
>Australia were worth $450 million in 2006, up from $345 million the previous
>year, and dominated by prawns, cereal, fruit juice and vegetables.
>
>China has been especially poor at meeting international standards. The US
>subjects only a small fraction of its food imports to close 
>inspection, but each
>month rejects about 200 shipments from China, mostly due to concerns about
>pesticides, antibiotics and misleading labelling. In February, 
>border inspectors
>for the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) blocked peas tainted by
>pesticides, dried plums containing banned additives, pepper contaminated with
>salmonella and frozen crayfish that were filthy.
>
>The Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service samples 5 per cent of food
>imports and a spokesman said although the overall number of rejections were
>small, "the major cause of rejections of imports from China are 
>heavy metals and
>pesticides".
>
>Since 2000, some countries have temporarily banned whole categories of
>Chinese imports. The European Union stopped prawn shipments because of banned
>antibiotics. Japan blocked tea and spinach, citing excessive 
>antibiotic residue. And
>South Korea banned fermented cabbage after finding parasites.
>
>As globalisation of the food supply progresses, "the food gets more anonymous
>and gradually you get into a situation where you don't know where exactly it
>came from and you get more vulnerable to poor quality", said Michiel Keyzer,
>director of the Centre for World Food Studies at Vrije University in 
>Amsterdam.
>
>Chinese authorities, while conceding that the country has many safety
>problems, say other countries' assessments of products are sometimes 
>"not accurate".
>They have implied that the bans may be politically motivated, aimed at
>protecting companies that compete with Chinese businesses.
>
>China's State Food and Drug Administration, Ministry of Health and Ministry
>of Agriculture, which along with other government agencies are responsible for
>monitoring food and drug safety, this week declined to answer written
>questions.
>
>But reflecting anxiety over food safety issues and increasing international
>pressure, President Hu Jintao on Wednesday urged the farming sector to improve
>food safety and develop the organic sector, state media reported. Hu promised
>stricter rules on growing and processing, the People's Daily reported.
>"Without agricultural standardisation, there can be no agricultural 
>modernisa

Re: [Biofuel] Patented GMO jatropha

[Joe Street]

Since that plant is not native to this continent will I have to get a 
permit from anyone to import the seeds?

What is the procedure with that?
Joe

James Quaid wrote:

I'd like to give you a recommendation.  But, the last batch of seeds I 
purchased aren't sprouting too well.  This may be due to the ground 
temps being below 70F.  Jat likes 75 - 80F soil temps.  Contact me in 
3 weeks and I'll give you a status report.


Has anyone else sprouted Jat successfully in the US?  I'm at it's most 
nothern range 33 deg N lat.


Regards,
JQ

Mike Cappiello wrote:


please tell me how you aquired the seeds. thanks, Mike
cappiello
--- James Quaid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 


Keith,

I'm doing a Jatropha cultivation experiment in AZ.
It survived the 115F. 
But the 24F killed a 1/3 of my test planting. It is
very sensitive to a 
hard freeze. And according to what I've read,
standard breeds will 
produce 300 gal/ acre 600 gal/acre if it blooms
twice. Jatropha 
originally from Central America. I'd be very
interested to see what the 
GMO stuff does especially in cold climes.


I'm having a heckuva time sprouting seedlings. The
current batch of 
seeds I have is from Suriname. We will be doing an
acre test planting on 
a farm with saline wells. Jatropha can allegedly

handle salt pretty well.

Here's what the Germans are doing with it:


Regards,
JQ

Keith Addison wrote:
   


http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-biodiesel1707apr17,0,4223949.story?
 


track=mostemailedlink
'Farming our fuel'
Officials from a local company will tout the
 

jatropha plant today in 
   


Tallahassee. "We're doing things right here in
 

Orlando that are going 
   


to change America."

Rich Mckay | Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted April 17, 2007

ABOUT BIODIESEL
What is it?
Biodiesel is a fuel made from rendered vegetable
 

oils or animal fats 
   


refined through a chemical reaction with an
 


alcohol.
   


What can be used to make it?
Soybean oil is used to make most of the biodiesel
 

in the U.S. 
   


Restaurant grease or any vegetable oil such as
 

corn, canola, 
   


cottonseed, mustard oil also can be used. Jatropha
 

oil is widely used 
   


in India and Asia. Other companies are developing
 

ways to make 
   


biodiesel out of algae, restaurant scraps and even
 


animal carcasses.
   


Why bother?
Biodiesel is considered an alternative to
 

petroleum diesel because it 
   


can be grown, rather than pumped from a well. It
 

is also considered a 
   


neutral gas. It doesn't put back into the
 

atmosphere anything it 
   


didn't absorb when it was part of the environment.
Is it as powerful as diesel?
It is considered to have the same power as
 


petroleum diesel.
   


What engines can use it?
It can be mixed with petroleum diesel and used in
 

unmodified diesel 
   


engines. Engines can be modified to run 100
 


percent on biodiesel.
   


What does biodiesel smell like?
That depends its source. Some say it smells like
 

french fries. 
   


Biodiesel made from jatropha doesn't have a strong
 


odor.
   


SOURCE: Sentinel research

America, meet your next tank of gas -- made from
 


superpowered seeds.
   


A couple of Orlando entrepreneurs say that a
 

Malaysian variety newly 
   


approved for U.S. import could help solve
 

America's energy woes and 
   


boost Central Florida's economy with a new cash
 


crop.
   


State Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson,
 

along with executives 
   


from the Orlando-based Xenerga Inc., are scheduled
 

to introduce a 
   


patented version of the jatropha plant today in
 


Tallahassee.
   


"We're doing things right here in Orlando that are
 

going to change 
   


America," said Dave Jarrett, a company spokesman.
 


"Just wait and see."
   


The oil pressed from the jatropha nut can be used
 

to make biodiesel, 
   


producing six to eight times the amount of energy
 

extracted from 
   


soybeans -- the most common crop used for
 


biodiesel in the U.S.
   


Xenerga president Jason Sayers and his business
 

partner Victor Clewes 
   


have the exclusive patent on the high-octane
 

version of the plant 
   


with seeds that grow inside bunches of fat green
 

pods the size of 
   


peach pits.

It can produce 1,600 gallons of biodiesel per
 

acre, compared with 
   


soy's 200 gallons, Sayers said.

A Lake Wales farmer is ready to grow 5,000 acres
 

of the genetically 
   


enhanced jatropha, Jarrett said. And unlike soy,
 

which takes lots of 
   


tending, fertilizer and water, the jatropha plant
 

can grow happily in 
   


arid soil, with little water and almost no
 


tending.
   


"Think of it as farming our fuel," Sayers said.

President Bush mandated that refineries should
 

have renewable fuels 
   


blended into 7.5 billion gallons of the 

[Biofuel] Monsanto's Soybean Monopoly Challenged in Munich

[Keith Addison]

http://www.etcgroup.org/en/materials/publications.html?pub_id=616
ETC Group - Publications - Monsanto's Soybean Monopoly Challenged in Munich
News Release
ETC Group
April 30, 2007
www.etcgroup.org

Monsanto's Soybean Monopoly Challenged in Munich

European Patent Office Will Decide Fate of Species-Wide Soybean Patent
on 3 May 2007

On 3 May 2007 ETC Group (a Canadian-based international civil society 
organization - formerly known as RAFI) together with "No Patents on 
Life!" and Greenpeace will continue a 13-year legal battle against 
one of biotech's most notorious patents. At an appeal hearing at the 
European Patent Office in Munich, civil society organizations will 
argue that Monsanto's patent (European Patent No. 301-749) on all 
genetically engineered soybeans - unprecedented in its broad scope - 
must be revoked. "No patent symbolizes the brokenness of the patent 
system better than Monsanto's species-wide patent on genetically 
engineered soybeans," said Hope Shand of ETC Group. "Monsanto's 
patent is both technically flawed and morally unacceptable," said Shand.

Critics refer to EP 301-749 as a "species-wide" patent because its 
claims extend to all biotech soybean seeds -- irrespective of the 
genes used or the genetic engineering technique employed. The patent, 
initially awarded to US-based biotech company Agracetus in 1994, was 
acquired by Monsanto when it purchased Agracetus in 1996.

According to industry sources, Monsanto's biotech seeds and traits 
accounted for almost 90% of the worldwide area planted to genetically 
modified soybean seeds in 2005. What's more, genetically engineered 
soybeans reportedly account for almost 60% of the global soybean area 
- an increasingly dominant share of one of the world's most important 
food and commodity crops.

"The statistics speak for themselves," said Greenpeace's patent 
expert Dr. Christoph Then. "A single company has been awarded 
sweeping monopoly control over one of the world's most important food 
crops."

ETC Group's Shand asserts, "Monsanto's patent is undermining the 
economic security of farming communities and jeopardizing access to 
seeds - the first link in the food chain. Whoever controls the seeds 
controls the food supply." According to a ranking of the world's 
largest seed companies released today by ETC Group, Monsanto is the 
world's largest seed company, with over 20% of the global proprietary 
seed market. ETC Group's new ranking of the top 10 seed companies is 
available here:
http://www.etcgroup.org/en/materials/publications.html?pub_id=615

The livelihoods of Argentina's soybean farmers are directly affected 
by Monsanto's species-wide patent because the company is using its 
exclusive monopoly to deny Argentine soybeans from entering European 
markets. Monsanto alleges that Argentine farmers aren't paying 
royalties to Monsanto for using the company's patented soybean seeds.

Critics point out that Monsanto's defense of its patent is not 
surprising, but it is hugely hypocritical. Before Monsanto acquired 
the patent in 1996, the company vigorously opposed the patent - which 
was then owned by Agracetus. In 1994 Monsanto submitted an 
exhaustive, 292-page opposition statement to the EPO that shredded 
the technical merits of Agracetus's soybean patent. Monsanto's 
lawyers wrote that the soybean patent should be "revoked in its 
entirety," is "not...novel," "lacks an inventive step," and 
"sufficient disclosure [of scientific method] is woefully lacking." 
But after Monsanto acquired Agracetus in April 1996, Monsanto 
withdrew its challenge, reversed its position and announced that it 
would defend its newly acquired patent!

In 2003 - more than nine years after the patent was first awarded and 
legally challenged - an EPO patent tribunal heard legal arguments 
against the notorious patent. Opponents were shocked when EPO upheld 
Monsanto's monopoly in 2003. Today, nearly two-thirds of the patent's 
20-year term has expired. On 3 May 2007 EPO's appeal tribunal will 
have one last chance to revoke Monsanto's unjust monopoly on one of 
the world's major food crops.

"If EPO fails to revoke the patent after 13 years of bureaucratic 
delays it will simply confirm that corporations can use unjust 
patents to monopolize markets, destroy competition and jeopardize 
worldwide struggles for food sovereignty," said Hope Shand of ETC Group.

"Case-by-case legal battles against immoral and unjust patents is an 
unworkable strategy - Europe needs new patent legislation that 
expressly prohibits patents on life," said Ruth Tippe of "No patents 
on Life!"

For more information contact:

Hope Shand or Kathy Jo Wetter, ETC Group
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel: +1 919 960-5223

Jim Thomas, ETC Group
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel: +1 514 516-5759

Dr. Ruth Tippe, "No patents on Life", Germany
Tel:  0049 1728963858
http://www.keinpatent.de/

Dr. Christoph Then, Greenpeace, Germany
Tel: 0049 1718780832
http://www.greenpeace.de

Re: [Biofuel] Fw: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel

[Keith Addison]

Hello Mike

>Google "prior art patent"
>
>I don't think there is much to worry about

That the patent offices themselves don't seem to be much interested 
in checking for prior art is cause for concern.

But I agree, this Ben Gurion University patent is not something I'd 
worry about, as we all seem to agree.

Thanks!

Best

Keith


>Keith Addison wrote:
>
> >I'd appreciate some opinions on this, if anyone would like to comment.
> >
> >Just to stir it up a bit, a somewhat ridiculous small company in
> >Japan called Someya Shoten which feels it leads the world in matters
> >biodiesel took out a patent on transesterification some years ago.
> >
> >So is Ben Gurion University infringing on Someya Shoten's patent?
> >
> >Or is the whole thing preposterous, since transesterification was
> >invented/discovered about 150 years ago and is thoroughly in the
> >public domain no matter who decides to patent it, and no matter which
> >dumb patent office that doesn't check anything decides to grant the
> >patent?
> >
> >Would the best advice to the Sahel group be to ignore it and just get
> >on with it?
> >
> >Has anybody patented the human nose yet, or failing that, the air
> >noses breathe?
> >
> >All best
> >
> >Keith
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>I had this email from a group working with biodiesel in the Sahel. If
> >>it's true, it seems ridiculous to me.
> >>
> >>See:
> >>http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/ia.jsp?IA=IL2006000622&REF=RSS
> >>(WO/2006/126206) PRODUCTION OF BIODIESEL FROM BALANITES AEGYPTIACA
> >>
> >>Best
> >>
> >>Keith
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:20:52 +0200
> >>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>Subject: Fw: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel
> >>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>
> >>>- Original Message -
> >>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 11:16 AM
> >>>Subject: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel
> >>>
> >>>Dear Sirs,
> >>>
> >>>We are supporting NGO 's and cooperatives in Afrika,
> >>>there is a big need to produce oil from all possible plants, nuts ,
> >>>seeds of any other vegetable origine , for human consumption or for
> >>>producing energie.
> >>>One of the NGO ' s in the Sahel-region helps the local population to
> >>>organise the collecting of the fruits and nuts
> >>>to improve their oil production from the nuts of the Balanites tree.
> >>>The Balanites tree is very popular by the population , the fruits
> >>>are sweet amere but the  juice is used as a drink and sold to the
> >>>town , the nuts are very hard and inside, the kernel  contains 40 to
> >>>48% of oil.
> >>>Sometimes the used as lamp-oil.
> >>>The whole tree is very interesting for public health , on
> >>>internet is a lot of information about that.
> >>>The NGO will make the use as lamp-oil better by transesterification
> >>>to obtain biodiesel that the should burn in
> >>>small diesel cookingoven ,so that they don't have to use the wood ,
> >>>which is one of the biggest problem in this region.
> >>>Further the don't have electricity ,  the have diesel generator ,
> >>>but the irrigularity in delivery and the high prices of gasoil makes
> >>>it to difficult in using them  all the time.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>The problem :
> >>>
> >>>There is a pattent on "the invention" to make biodiesel from
> >>>BALANITES OIL .(WO/2006/126206) dated november 2006 by the BEN
> >>>GORION UNIVERSITY
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Please can you inform us, Is it  possible to take a patent on the
> >>>transesterification process of oil to produce Biodiesel?
> >>>
> >>>Is this ALL Patent possible?
> >>>
> >>>Is this NEW  and what is new on this invention?
> >>>
> >>>Is this not in contradiction with statements of many Organisations -
> >>>World Wide - for the devellopment of POOR COUNTRIES ,
> >>>
> >>>Thanks for your attention
> >>>
> >>>we remain with kind regards
> >>>
> >>>marc van de velde
> >>>Leningstraat 19
> >>>2140 ANTWERP
> >>>Belgium
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>production and office in POLAND
> >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 


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Re: [Biofuel] Flying F Bio-Fuels

[Keith Addison]

>6800 for a 40 gallon batch is well . . .
>As high as a giraffes tail?

:-)

Same as this, said about the FuelMeister two or three years back: 
"You could make an excellent processor plus more than 8,000 gallons 
of high-quality biodiesel for that price."

Anyone can make a good processor, except, it seems, people who sell 
them. AFAIK there still isn't a commercially available small-scale 
processor that's worth having.

www.ffbiofuels.com says this: "You'll be making fuel the day it arrives!"

Pagandai recently said this:

"Understanding of the process is vital to operate the plant." - Prof. 
P.V. Pannir Selvam, Technology Center, Department of Chemical 
Engineering, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), 
Brazil, Biofuel mailing list, 15 Apr 2007

I completely agree with Pagandai, seen it so often!

Dave, nice small-scale processor designs here that the head of 
maintenance might consider:
http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_processor.html

Joe Street's processor
http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_processor.html#joestreet

Best

Keith


>Kirk
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>Has anyone heard about this company? They make a reactor and are 
>selling it. I was approached by the head of maintenance. He said 
>they are considering purchasing a unit. I'm inclined to think its 
>way over priced.
>
>www.ffbiofuels.com
>
>
>-dave


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[Biofuel] Blaming the lobby

[Keith Addison]

"Is the pro-Israel lobby extremely powerful in the United States? As 
someone who has been facing the full brunt of their power for the 
last three years through their formidable influence on my own 
university and their attempts to get me fired, I answer with a 
resounding yes. Are they primarily responsible for US policies 
towards the Palestinians and the Arab world? Absolutely not."

--

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/787/op35.htm
Blaming the lobby
As someone who has been facing the full brunt of the might of the 
pro-Israel lobby in the US, Joseph Massad* explains the deceit behind 
blaming the lobby for US policies towards the Palestinians and the 
Arab world


In the last 25 years, many Palestinians and other Arabs, in the 
United States and in the Arab world, have been so awed by the power 
of the US pro-Israel lobby that any study, book, or journalistic 
article that exposes the inner workings, the substantial influence, 
and the financial and political power of this lobby have been greeted 
with ecstatic sighs of relief that Americans finally can see the 
"truth" and the "error" of their ways.

The underlying argument has been simple and has been told time and 
again by Washington's regime allies in the Arab world, pro-US liberal 
and Arab intellectuals, conservative and liberal US intellectuals and 
former politicians, and even leftist Arab and American activists who 
support Palestinian rights, namely, that absent the pro-Israel lobby, 
America would at worst no longer contribute to the oppression of 
Arabs and Palestinians and at best it would be the Arabs' and the 
Palestinians' best ally and friend. What makes this argument 
persuasive and effective to Arabs? Indeed, why are its claims 
constantly brandished by Washington's Arab friends to Arab and 
American audiences as a persuasive argument? I contend that the 
attraction of this argument is that it exonerates the United States' 
government from all the responsibility and guilt that it deserves for 
its policies in the Arab world and gives false hope to many Arabs and 
Palestinians who wish America would be on their side instead of on 
the side of their enemies.

Let me start with the premise of the argument, namely its effect of 
shifting the blame for US policies from the United States onto Israel 
and its US lobby. According to this logic, it is not the United 
States that should be held directly responsible for all its imperial 
policies in the Arab world and the Middle East at large since World 
War II, rather it is Israel and its lobby who have pushed it to 
launch policies that are detrimental to its own national interest and 
are only beneficial to Israel. Establishing and supporting Arab and 
other Middle East dictatorships, arming and training their 
militaries, setting up their secret police apparatuses and training 
them in effective torture methods and counter-insurgency to be used 
against their own citizens should be blamed, according to the logic 
of these studies, on Israel and its US lobby. Blocking all 
international and UN support for Palestinian rights, arming and 
financing Israel in its war against a civilian population, protecting 
Israel from the wrath of the international community should also be 
blamed not on the United States, the studies insist, but on Israel 
and its lobby. Additionally, and in line with this logic, controlling 
Arab economies and finances, dominating key investments in the Middle 
East, and imposing structural adjustment policies by the IMF and the 
World Bank which impoverish the Arab peoples should also be blamed on 
Israel, and not the United States. Finally, starving and then 
invading Iraq, threatening to invade Syria, raiding and then 
sanctioning Libya and Iran, besieging the Palestinians and their 
leaders must also be blamed on the Israeli lobby and not the US 
government. Indeed, over the years, many pro-US Arab dictators let it 
leak officially and unofficially that their US diplomat friends have 
told them time and again how much they and "America" support the Arab 
world and the Palestinians were it not for the influence of the 
pro-Israel lobby (sometimes identified by the American diplomats in 
more explicit "ethnic" terms).

While many of the studies of the pro-Israel lobby are sound and full 
of awe-inspiring well-documented details about the formidable power 
commanded by groups like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee 
(AIPAC) and its allies, the problem with most of them is what remains 
unarticulated. For example, when and in what context has the United 
States government ever supported national liberation in the Third 
World? The record of the United States is one of being the implacable 
enemy of all Third World national liberation groups, including 
European ones, from Greece to Latin America to Africa and Asia, 
except in the celebrated cases of the Afghan fundamentalists' war 
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[Biofuel] Economic Armageddon Is Coming

[Keith Addison]

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17587.htm

Economic Armageddon Is Coming

By Joel S. Hirschhorn

04/24/07 "ICH" --- -- Stop being a compliant consumer.  Face the ugly 
truth.  Don't get fooled by the stock market.  Accept the need for 
the mistreated middle class to become the revolutionary class.  The 
British military establishment's most prestigious think tank sees 
what too few over-consuming Americans are willing to anticipate.  
Unjustified and mounting economic inequality is planting the seeds 
for global economic conflict. 

Here is what the new report from the UK Defense Ministry's 
Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre warned might happen by 
2035.  "The middle classes could become a revolutionary class. The 
growing gap between themselves and a small number of highly visible 
super-rich individuals might fuel disillusion with meritocracy, while 
the growing urban under-classes are likely to pose an increasing 
threat...Faced by these twin challenges, the world's middle-classes 
might unite, using access to knowledge, resources and skills to shape 
transnational processes in their own class interest."

Consider the wisdom of economist John Maynard Keynes: The rich are 
tolerable only so long as their gains appear to bear some relation to 
roughly what they have contributed to society.  Think of it as 
proportional and justified economic success.  This can be tolerated 
by poor and middle class people if they believe the economic system 
is fair and properly rewards those who work harder or have better 
capabilities.  But truly obscene economic rewards angers people.  
When most prosperity and wealth is unfairly channeled to relatively 
few Upper Class people, it is only a matter of time until fuming, 
resentful people in the Lower Class decide enough is enough and 
revolt.  Perhaps violently, if the political system remains 
controlled by the Upper Class. 

A ton of data demonstrate how crazy our economic system has become 
where a relatively few receive astronomical gains that no rational 
person could see as justified.  One study tracked down home ownership 
data for 488 CEOs in the S&P 500 Index set of companies. The typical 
home of the CEOs has 12 rooms, sits on 5.37 acres, and carries a $3.1 
million price-tag.  Companies big enough to rate S&P 500 status hiked 
their median CEO pay by 23.78 percent in 2006 to $14.8 million.  In 
comparison, U.S. worker weekly wages rose just 3.5 percent in 2006.

Despite what you hear about the sagging housing market and the many 
people facing foreclosure, business at the top end of the U.S. 
housing market is booming.  Sales of homes in the $5 million-and-up 
price range rose 11 percent last year, reports the Dallas-based 
Institute for Luxury Home Marketing. Ten residential properties sold 
for over $28 million in 2006. The most expensive in New Jersey sold 
for $58 million; it went to Richard Kurtz, the CEO of Advanced 
Photonix, a telecom supplier.  In the "ultra-luxury market" a set of 
suites in New York's fabled Plaza Hotel was converted last year into 
one-bedroom condos that start at $6.9 million.

 From another study we learn that pay for American college presidents 
over the past decade has jumped seven times faster than pay for 
college faculty.  In 1996, only one college president took home over 
$500,000. In 2006, 112 college presidents hit that mark. Meanwhile, 
after inflation, compensation for college professors increased just 5 
percent since 1996.  And college students have faced rapidly mounting 
tuition far higher than inflation rates.

CEOs are getting away with economic murder.  Bob Nardelli, the CEO 
who departed Home Depot early this year, had an exit package worth 
$210 million.  IBM CEO Sam Palmisano took home $18.8 million in 2006 
and will receive $34.9 million in deferred pay and $33.1 million in 
retirement benefits when he leaves IBM.  Even more extreme is the 
case of Occidental Petroleum CEO Ray Irani. The interest income alone 
on the $124 million that ended the year in Irani's deferred-pay 
account totaled $679,396.  The Los Angeles Times estimated Irani's 
total payoff for 2006 at $460 million.  Leslie Blodgett, the top exec 
at cosmetics giant Bare Escentuals, collected $118.9 million in 2006, 
with most of that coming from the $117.7 million she cleared cashing 
out stock options.  She received 4 million additional stock options 
before 2006 ended.

Economists Emmanuel Saez of the University of California at Berkeley 
and Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics found that the 
richest 10 percent of the U.S. population received 44 percent of the 
pretax income in 2005. This was the highest since the 1920s and 1930s 
(average: 44 percent) and much higher than from 1945 to 1980 
(average: 32 percent).  With more than 140 million U.S. workers, that 
top 10 percent equals 14 million workers.  The bottom half of that 
top 10 percent had incomes of about $110,000.  That may not seem all 
that hig