RE: Take that, Iowa!!

2008-01-11 Thread Dan M
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jim Sharkey > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:08 PM > To: brin-l@mccmedia.com > Subject: Take that, Iowa!! > > > I'm sure some of you knew this, what with your big brains and all, > but I found it

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

2008-01-11 Thread William T Goodall
On 12 Jan 2008, at 00:10, Dave Land wrote: > On Jan 11, 2008, at 11:10 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote: > >> Lance A. Brown wrote: >>> This is not necessarily true - if there's unused land and the new crop grows into that land, then this would have no positive impact in the

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

2008-01-11 Thread Charlie Bell
On 12/01/2008, at 6:10 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote: >> > You didn't parse my e-mail address. Do it now. > There's plenty of suitable land for sugarcane here... :-) Hasn't it got rainforest on it? Charlie ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

2008-01-11 Thread Dave Land
On Jan 11, 2008, at 11:10 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote: > Lance A. Brown wrote: >> >>> This is not necessarily true - if there's unused land and the new >>> crop >>> grows into that land, then this would have no positive impact in the >>> food price. The reverse would even be more likely, since if

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

2008-01-11 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 02:16 PM Friday 1/11/2008, Jim Sharkey wrote: >Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > >I, too, have issues with all those cellulouses who > yakity-yak >constantly, oblivious of where they are driving . . . > >Hang up and ferment, you cellulouses! We're having an energy crisis >here! > >Oh, the costs of a

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

2008-01-11 Thread Lance A. Brown
Trent Shipley wrote: > How much private land is there that could be converted from lower yield to > cellulose production? Could ex-farms on the Montana and Dakota prairies be > put back into production as cellulose ranches? (In AZ we can grow agave on > some private ranch land.) I dunno. We

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

2008-01-11 Thread Trent Shipley
On Friday 2008-01-11 12:04, Jim Sharkey wrote: > Lance A. Brown wrote: > >Being able to grow switchgrass on marginal land not suitable for > >other, more traditional, crops is one of its benefits. > > To me that certainly seems like one of its biggest benefits. It's > grass; it doesn't require nea

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

2008-01-11 Thread Trent Shipley
On Friday 2008-01-11 12:04, Jim Sharkey wrote: > Lance A. Brown wrote: > >Being able to grow switchgrass on marginal land not suitable for > >other, more traditional, crops is one of its benefits. > > To me that certainly seems like one of its biggest benefits. It's > grass; it doesn't require nea

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

2008-01-11 Thread Jim Sharkey
Ronn! Blankenship wrote: >I, too, have issues with all those cellulouses who yakity-yak >constantly, >oblivious of where they are driving . . . Hang up and ferment, you cellulouses! We're having an energy crisis here! Oh, the costs of an extra "u." :-( Jim __

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

2008-01-11 Thread Lance A. Brown
Alberto Monteiro wrote: >>Unused land suitable for corn or sugarcane? >> > > You didn't parse my e-mail address. Do it now. > There's plenty of suitable land for sugarcane here... :-) Yer right. I didn't. Assumption has once again worked against me. :-) --[Lance] -- Celebrate The Circle

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

2008-01-11 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 01:04 PM Friday 1/11/2008, Jim Sharkey wrote: >Lance A. Brown wrote: > >Being able to grow switchgrass on marginal land not suitable for > >other, more traditional, crops is one of its benefits. > >To me that certainly seems like one of its biggest benefits. It's >grass; it doesn't require nea

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

2008-01-11 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Lance A. Brown wrote: > >> This is not necessarily true - if there's unused land and >> the new crop grows into that land, then this would have no positive >> impact in the food price. The reverse would even be more likely, >> since if it becomes not viable to turn the food crop into fuel, >> the

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

2008-01-11 Thread Julia Thompson
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Jim Sharkey wrote: > > Lance A. Brown wrote: >> Being able to grow switchgrass on marginal land not suitable for >> other, more traditional, crops is one of its benefits. > > To me that certainly seems like one of its biggest benefits. It's > grass; it doesn't require nearl

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

2008-01-11 Thread Jim Sharkey
Lance A. Brown wrote: >Being able to grow switchgrass on marginal land not suitable for >other, more traditional, crops is one of its benefits. To me that certainly seems like one of its biggest benefits. It's grass; it doesn't require nearly the same kind of care that more traditional food cr

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

2008-01-11 Thread Lance A. Brown
Alberto Monteiro wrote: > This is not necessarily true - if there's unused land and > the new crop grows into that land, then this would have no positive > impact in the food price. The reverse would even be more likely, > since if it becomes not viable to turn the food crop into fuel, > the new cr

Re: ATL Gmail

2008-01-11 Thread Mauro Diotallevi
On Jan 4, 2008 8:10 PM, Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Doug Pensinger wrote: > > Does it filter spam before it checks the users filters? I set up a Brin-l > > label and filter it using the to: address. I would hope it filters to my > > label _before_ it send

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

2008-01-11 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Lance A. Brown wrote: > >> The problem with corn is that it produces a lower energy ethanol. >> Sugarcane *is* much better in that regard. >> But why are you worried about sugarcane? We don't use it all that much >> in the US, even for making sugar. Last I heard, sugar beets was the >> big resou

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

2008-01-11 Thread Charlie Bell
On 11/01/2008, at 10:39 AM, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: > Jim Sharkey wrote: >> >> I'm sure some of you knew this, what with your big brains and all, >> but I found it interesting: >> >> http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=grass-makes-better-ethanol-than-corn >> >> _Scientific America

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

2008-01-11 Thread Lance A. Brown
Robert Seeberger said the following on 1/10/2008 8:56 PM: > The problem with corn is that it produces a lower energy ethanol. > Sugarcane *is* much better in that regard. > But why are you worried about sugarcane? We don't use it all that much > in the US, even for making sugar. Last I heard, sug

Soda (was Re: Take that, Iowa!!)

2008-01-11 Thread Jim Sharkey
Julia Thompson wrote: >1) Where do you order Dublin Dr. Pepper? I just order it from here: http://www.dublindrpepper.com/ >2) Mexican Coke. I've heard its praises sung before, but I'm in NJ, so... >Some high-end US soda bottlers are making their stuff with cane >sugar. They did an article

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

2008-01-11 Thread Julia Thompson
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Jim Sharkey wrote: > > Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: >> Jim Sharkey wrote: >>> _Scientific American_ is saying grass as a source of ethanol has the >>> potential to be vastly more efficient than corn. Pretty cool >>> stuff, I think. > >> But still less efficient t

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

2008-01-11 Thread Jim Sharkey
Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: >Jim Sharkey wrote: >>_Scientific American_ is saying grass as a source of ethanol has the >> potential to be vastly more efficient than corn. Pretty cool >>stuff, I think. >But still less efficient than sugarcane :-P Probably true, but I'd wager grass i

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

2008-01-11 Thread Robert Seeberger
On 1/10/2008 11:09:29 PM, Ronn! Blankenship ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At 06:13 PM Thursday 1/10/2008, Lance A. Brown wrote: > > > > >Perhaps. The use of corn to produce ethanol is already driving the > >cost > >of corn higher, impacting food costs already[1]. I > don't think we want > >to u

Re: Writing workshops +

2008-01-11 Thread Max Battcher
G. D. Akin wrote: > Does anyone have any experience with or knowledge of Gotham Writers' > Workshop? How about any other on-line workshops? I've been amici (inactive lurker) with Critters Workshop (http://www.critters.org/) for a while and was semi-active for a few months. It's focused around