Re: [Biofuel] Gaza doctors say patients suffering mystery injuries after Israeli attacks
Dear Keith, It's very distressing to read about the sufferings of the people targeted by Israeli weapons epecially during the periodof Ramzan, the holy month of fasting for the Arabs - not that is acceptable in other months. I remember having read an article released early this year by the Institute of Science in Society under ISIS Press Releaseonthe website http://www.i-SIS.org.uk/BW.php It's too long and even w/o being subjected to the attack one can feel the effect!The abstract of the article is below. -- ABSTRACT The ultimate weapon Electromagnetic weapons operate at the speed of light; they can kill, torture and enslave; but the public are largely unaware that they exist, because these weapons operate by stealth and leave no physical evidence. Electromagnetic weapons have been tested on human beings since 1976. By widely dispersing the involuntary human test-subjects, and vehemently attacking their credibility, it has been possible for the United States to proceed with these human experiments unhindered by discussions or criticisms, let alone opposition. --End of Abstract From the symptoms described in the Guardian story it looks as if actual field experiments are being carried out by Israel. I reproduce below a para from an article Remember our own Mortality by James Carrell in the Boston Globe with reference to the current situation in Iraq. When we humans are in touch with the common fate that awaits us all, the bond among us becomes unbreakable. Not only that each one of us will die, but also that each one knows it. That knowledge , once claimed, is the source of our inevitable commpassion and is the ground of the communion that is our species' natural condition. War , therefore is not the normal state but an aberration. On that bond of common fate and common knowledge rests every hope for peace. Regards, Subramanian, D.V On 10/24/06, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1924675,00.html Guardian Unlimited | Special reports |Gaza doctors say patients suffering mystery injuries after Israeli attacks· Deaths caused by burning and internal wounds · Jerusalem denies using experimental weapon Rory McCarthy in Gaza CityWednesday October 18, 2006The GuardianPalestinian girl injured in an Israeli air raid arriving at Shifahospital. Photograph: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images Doctors in Gaza have reported previously unseen injuries from Israeli weapons that cause severe burning and leave deep internal wounds,often resulting in amputations or death.The injuries were first seen in July, when Israel launched operations in Gaza following the capture of an Israeli soldier by Palestinian militants.Doctors said that, unlike traditional combat injuries, there was nolarge shrapnel found in the bodies and there appeared to be a dusting on damaged internal organs.Bodies arrived severely fragmented, melted and disfigured, said Jumaa Saqa'a, a doctor at the Shifa hospital, in Gaza City. We foundinternal burning of organs, while externally there were minute pieces of shrapnel. When we opened many of the injured people we founddusting on their internal organs.It is not clear whether the injuries come from a new weapon. TheIsraeli military declined to detail the weapons in its arsenal, but denied reports that the injuries came from a Dense Inert Metal Explosive (Dime), an experimental weapon.In Gaza, Dr Saqa'a said the small pieces of shrapnel found inpatients' bodies did not show up under x-ray. We are used to seeing shrapnel penetrate the body making localised damage. Now we didn't see shrapnel, but we found the destruction, he said.Most of the injuries were around the abdomen, he said. The doctorsalso found that patients who were stabilised after one or two days suddenly died. The patient dies without any apparent scientific cause, he said.At the Kamal Odwan hospital, in Beit Lahiya, the deputy director,Saied Jouda, said he had found similar injuries. We don't know what it means - new weapons or something new added to a previous weapon, he said. He too found patients with severe internal injuries withoutsigns of any large shrapnel pieces. There was burning, big raw areas of charred flesh, he said. This must be related to the type of explosive material.Photographs of some of the dead from Shifa hospital showed bodiesthat had been melted and blackened beyond recognition. In several cases doctors amputated badly burnt limbs.At least 250 Palestinians have died in Gaza since the latest militaryoperations began and hundreds more have been injured.Neither of the doctors could give exact figures for the numbers of patients suffering the new injuries, although both said that most of those brought in during July showed signs of these injuries.Dr Saqa'a said the injuries occurred over six weeks beginning in lateJune, while Dr Jouda said he believed patients admitted even in recent days still showed signs of unusual injuries. The health
Re: [Biofuel] Industry Girds For Sprawling E.U. Regulatory Scheme
Some interesting takes - esp. the last comment about trusting the EU... would we rather trust a chemical mfr.?? Although this seems somewhat cumbersome, so are diseases and eaths caused by safe chemicals... safe according to the mfrs... DDT was the best thing ever for pests not so good for everything else though... anyway, I'm sure you get the idea... Won't be long and I'll become a Raging Grandpa grouch about all this crap... g - Original Message - From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 4:31 PM Subject: [Biofuel] Industry Girds For Sprawling E.U. Regulatory Scheme http://www.precaution.org/lib/06/prn_industry_girds_for_reach.061013.htm Greenwire, October 13, 2006 Industry Girds For Sprawling E.U. Regulatory Scheme [Rachel's introduction: The chemical industry continues to oppose REACH, Europe's proposed new precautionary chemicals policy -- but the handwriting is on the wall. REACH is coming, in one form or another.] By Russell J. Dinnage A landmark European Commission plan for overhauling chemical regulations is on its way to becoming law. Five years in the making, REACH -- the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals Act -- is a 600-page tome that has been making the rounds in government offices and corporate headquarters throughout Europe, generating thousands of public comments for European Union officials to review. The proposal is on track to become law sometime next year. Some experts are questioning U.S. readiness for a such a sweeping proposal that figures to reshape the global regulatory landscape for chemical manufacturers and all businesses that use chemicals. Businesses in the United States are completely not focused on this topic, said Angela Logomasini, who tracks risk and environmental policy for the Washington-based Competitive Enterprise Institute. The reality of REACH is that it will affect everything in the business. From downstream manufacturers, importers, domestic users -- people are not aware that it could become a globally focused phenomenon. But it is not easy to assess REACH's effect on U.S. interests. There is, first of all, a lack of consensus about how deeply the law would dig into industry's bottom line. The Bush administration, for example, considers REACH a very important issue, but it has yet to produce an official evaluation of its potential economic impact on the U.S. chemical industry, said Matt Braud, spokesman for the Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration. Nonetheless, the administration has a strong opinion on REACH. In our view, and as expressed by many other governments, the E.U.'s proposal remains overly expansive, burdensome and would be difficult to implement effectively, Braud said. We believe the E.U.'s stated objectives of protecting human health and the environment are worthy policy goals; however, achieving those goals must be applied in ways that are consistent with the E.U.'s obligations to its trading partners under the World Trade Organization. Small and mid-sized U.S. chemical companies are keenly aware of REACH and are actively preparing for its impacts, said Jim Cooper, a spokesman for the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association. The American Chemistry Council, which represents large companies, did not return calls for comment on REACH's potential financial effect, and DuPont Chemical Corp. spokesman Dan Turner said the company is examining REACH but it does not have any comprehensive financial impact estimates yet. A price tag in the billions REACH would require the registration of more than 30,000 chemical substances used in manufacturing within 11 years for the stated purpose of protecting human and environmental health. The proposal resembles the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, which regulates pesticides in the United States. A November 2005 Government Accountability Office report said REACH would eliminate the distinction between new and existing chemicals and require chemical companies to submit certain basic information on chemical products produced over certain volumes. Specifically, REACH affects all chemicals manufactured in or imported into the European Union in quantities of 1,000 kilograms (2,204.6 pounds) or more. REACH's Article 23 requires all chemical companies doing business in Europe to submit testing data to the new European Chemicals Agency. If a substance has qualities deemed carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic, further testing must be conducted at a company's expensive on animals and results submitted to the agency for a safety review. Of 30,000 substances expected to come under regulation in 2010, 1,500 are estimated to have carcinogenic qualities, the European Union says. No one can say with certainty how much it will cost to register a substance. But the E.U.'s 2003 Extended
[Biofuel] Bio fuel cells - Landfill Power
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[Biofuel] IS WVO BIO-DEGRADABLE?
Hi All I had a WVO spill in my basement and am wondering if it is bio-degradable. Can I dump this WVO on the land and expect it to go away? Thanks for your help. Roy __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] IS WVO BIO-DEGRADABLE?
I suppose you could compost it. Just spreading it on the ground will probably take a while for it to break down. -dave On Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:51 AM, ROY Washbish wrote: Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:51:01 -0700 (PDT) From: ROY Washbish To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: [Biofuel] IS WVO BIO-DEGRADABLE? Hi All I had a WVO spill in my basement and am wondering if it is bio-degradable. Can I dump this WVO on the land and expect it to go away? Thanks for your help. Roy __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] IS WVO BIO-DEGRADABLE?
Thanks Dave --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suppose you could compost it. Just spreading it on the ground will probably take a while for it to break down. -dave On Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:51 AM, ROY Washbish wrote: Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:51:01 -0700 (PDT) From: ROY Washbish To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: [Biofuel] IS WVO BIO-DEGRADABLE? Hi All I had a WVO spill in my basement and am wondering if it is bio-degradable. Can I dump this WVO on the land and expect it to go away? Thanks for your help. Roy __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] IS WVO BIO-DEGRADABLE?
Even clean petroleum is biodegradable, I suppose. When spilled on the ground, the volume will overwhelm any existing plants. As time passes it become difficult to see the visual evidence of a spill. Spills that have brine associated with the petroleum are another matter. Evidence of the spill remains for years. Where such spills are on, crop land the evidence eventually disappear, but i still takes a long time. Not that I recommend WVO be spread on the ground. Why not salvage it? Could you gently wash it with water in a drum, and draw the water off, after it separates? Doug, N0LKK Kansas USA inc. When all else fails- Amateur Radio http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/pscm/sec1-ch1.html ARES [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suppose you could compost it. Just spreading it on the ground will probably take a while for it to break down. -dave On Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:51 AM, ROY Washbish wrote: Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:51:01 -0700 (PDT) From: ROY Washbish To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: [Biofuel] IS WVO BIO-DEGRADABLE? Hi All I had a WVO spill in my basement and am wondering if it is bio-degradable. Can I dump this WVO on the land and expect it to go away? Thanks for your help. Roy __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Industry Girds For Sprawling E.U. Regulatory Scheme
While many here is the USA cry excess government regulation, without considering that a good portion of the regulation is authored by those being regulated. I suspect the same is true in Europe, and the remainder of the World. Spin... Spin... Spin... Doug, N0LKK Kansas USA inc. A. Lawrence wrote: Some interesting takes - esp. the last comment about trusting the EU... would we rather trust a chemical mfr.?? Although this seems somewhat cumbersome, so are diseases and eaths caused by safe chemicals... safe according to the mfrs... DDT was the best thing ever for pests not so good for everything else though... anyway, I'm sure you get the idea... Won't be long and I'll become a Raging Grandpa grouch about all this crap... g ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] IS WVO BIO-DEGRADABLE?
its biodegradeable, but itll make a godawful sloppy mess. put the sludge into a compost pile, and mix it in real well. Jason ICQ#: 154998177 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: ROY Washbish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:51 AM Subject: [Biofuel] IS WVO BIO-DEGRADABLE? Hi All I had a WVO spill in my basement and am wondering if it is bio-degradable. Can I dump this WVO on the land and expect it to go away? Thanks for your help. Roy __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.11/493 - Release Date: 10/23/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.11/494 - Release Date: 10/24/2006 ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] I did it!
I am finally running my 1983 Chevy Pickup on biodiesel! I first started visiting the biofuels website 5 years ago, and after 5 years I am finally doing it! I have a question; how do you separate the impurities from the glycerine? My wife is wanting to use some of it to make soaps. Is it difficult? Thanks for the help that many of you have given me. I really appreciate it! Bobby Clark _ All-in-one security and maintenance for your PC. Get a free 90-day trial! http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwlo005002msn/direct/01/?href=http://www.windowsonecare.com/?sc_cid=msn_hotmail ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] I did it!
three cheers and a beer! what are you using for your catalyst, and which process do you use? it is relatively simple, phosphoric acid can be used, also sulphuric, and the byproduct has more immediate value, but hydrocloric acid can be used as well (sold as muriatic- used to balance swimming pool water). DO NOT (repeat) DO NOT use nitric acid. it could very well blow up and hurt/kill you. BTW, where did you find a diesel s10? i thought chevrolet diesels pre-duramax were junk? Jason ICQ#: 154998177 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Bobby Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 11:59 AM Subject: [Biofuel] I did it! I am finally running my 1983 Chevy Pickup on biodiesel! I first started visiting the biofuels website 5 years ago, and after 5 years I am finally doing it! I have a question; how do you separate the impurities from the glycerine? My wife is wanting to use some of it to make soaps. Is it difficult? Thanks for the help that many of you have given me. I really appreciate it! Bobby Clark _ All-in-one security and maintenance for your PC. Get a free 90-day trial! http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwlo005002msn/direct/01/?href=http://www.windowsonecare.com/?sc_cid=msn_hotmail ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.11/494 - Release Date: 10/24/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.11/494 - Release Date: 10/24/2006 ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] IS WVO BIO-DEGRADABLE?
Thanks Jason Roy --- Jason Katie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: its biodegradeable, but itll make a godawful sloppy mess. put the sludge into a compost pile, and mix it in real well. Jason ICQ#: 154998177 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: ROY Washbish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:51 AM Subject: [Biofuel] IS WVO BIO-DEGRADABLE? Hi All I had a WVO spill in my basement and am wondering if it is bio-degradable. Can I dump this WVO on the land and expect it to go away? Thanks for your help. Roy __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.11/493 - Release Date: 10/23/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.11/494 - Release Date: 10/24/2006 ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] IS WVO BIO-DEGRADABLE?
Yes it is, I had 35 gallons that I tilled into garden soil last fall, and it composted in great, but I had to till it a couple of times. Raised a fantastic crop of squash and cucumbers in that spot! Jim - Original Message - From: ROY Washbish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 3:51 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] IS WVO BIO-DEGRADABLE? Thanks Jason Roy --- Jason Katie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: its biodegradeable, but itll make a godawful sloppy mess. put the sludge into a compost pile, and mix it in real well. Jason ICQ#: 154998177 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: ROY Washbish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:51 AM Subject: [Biofuel] IS WVO BIO-DEGRADABLE? Hi All I had a WVO spill in my basement and am wondering if it is bio-degradable. Can I dump this WVO on the land and expect it to go away? Thanks for your help. Roy __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.11/493 - Release Date: 10/23/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.11/494 - Release Date: 10/24/2006 ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Incinerators Are Making A Comeback (Or Trying)
From: Rachel's Democracy Health News #877, Oct. 19, 2006 http://www.precaution.org/lib/06/prn_incin.061019.htm[Printer-friend ly version] Incinerators Are Making A Comeback (Or Trying) By Peter Montague Cheap waste disposal prevents us from making progress against pollution. So long as waste disposal remains cheap, corporations and governments have little incentive to recycle, re-use, compost, or avoid making waste in the first place. If disposal is cheap, there is no compelling reason to invest in green chemistry, clean production, alternative energy, green building, or http://www.mbdc.com/cradle-to-cradle manufacturing. Cheap disposal = landfills and incinerators. Let's talk incinerators. Garbage incinerators are making a big comeback in the U.S. -- or trying to. The City of Los Angeles, California is thinking about http://www.precaution.org/lib/06/prn_la_may_get_7_incinerators.050624 .htmbuilding seven of them. There may be as many as 40 (or more) proposed incinerators of one kind or another in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the lower 48. All of them promise to take mixed municipal waste and heat it up to reduce the volume of garbage and extract small amounts of useful energy in the process. Heating mixed waste (garbage) creates toxic air emissions and the toxicant-containing residual -- whether ash or a rock-like clinker -- will be buried in the ground where it remains available forever, threatening groundwater. These new incinerators are http://www.no-burn.org/resources/library/Incinerators_In_Disguise_Cas eStudies.pdfnever called incinerators -- they go by names like pyrolysis or gasification plants, or plasma arc melters, or simply conversion machines. But they all propose to heat mixed waste, extract some energy, and bury the leftovers in the ground. Rarely does anyone ask, How much energy will it take to start from scratch and re-create all the goods destroyed by the incinerator? No one asks because the answer reveals that incinerators are huge energy- wasters, not energy-savers. As http://www.no-burn.orgMonica Wilson of GAIA says (quoting http://www.bigpicture.tv/index.php?id=45cat=a=93Paul Connett), Even if you could make an incinerator safe, you couldn't make one sensible. Two things seem to be driving the incinerator resurgence: (a) the recent glimmer of recognition in Washington that dependence on oil is a bad for the planet and especially bad for the U.S.; and (b) a federal law that requires electric utilities to buy any electricity produced by incinerators. For political reasons, incinerators have always been attractive to some local officials. Take the proposal being pushed right now in St. Petersburg, Florida, where http://www.precaution.org/lib/06/prn_candidate_pushes_power_plant.061 013.htmCecil D. Davis IV is running for City Council. Mr. Davis is proposing to move 500 mostly-black families out of their homes in south Brooksville to replace them with an incinerator, which he promises will be built in record time if he gets elected. The up-front costs to taxpayers will be $500 million. Local governments rarely get a chance to play around with a huge sum like $500 million of other people's money. All the political insiders get to scoop off their own little slice of this huge pie -- lawyers, bankers, engineers, environmental consultants, construction firms, labor leaders, regulatory experts, realtors, lobbyists, and all manner of other hangers-on will get a change to snag their own tenth-of-a- percent and make a bundle. (A tenth of a percent of $500 million is $500 thousand.) Furthermore, all the money will be sloshing around during the short planning and construction phase. After the machine is built, and the profits have been taken, the builders and their friends can retire into the woodwork and disappear, leaving the taxpayers and future City Councils to deal with mounting problems for the next 30 years or more. And the problems are substantial. We searched a national database of newspapers for incinerator stories that were published during the first three weeks of October, 2006, and here are some of the problems being reported: ** In Akron, Ohio a company called Akron Thermal http://www.precaution.org/lib/06/prn_will_akron_utility_ever_be_solve nt_akron_t.061001.htmowes the city $5 million in unpaid sewer and water bills, $845,000 in unpaid rent, and $80,000 in unpaid franchise fees. Akron Thermal also owes the state of Ohio $3.2 million in unpaid excise taxes, and it owes Summit County about $300,000 in unpaid public utility personal property tax. Akron Thermal no longer burns garbage because the plant suffered a serious explosion in 1984, killing 3 workers, when a New Jersey firm sent some illegal garbage to the plant. A decade a later, a scam to avoid paying plant fees resulted in the arrest of a dozen waste haulers and plant employees, costing the city $500,000. Now the plant burns wood chips and
[Biofuel] Forces Join Behind Waste-based Energy
From: Waste News, Oct. 9, 2006 http://www.precaution.org/lib/06/prn_waste-based_energy_plan.061009.h tm[Printer-friendly version] Forces Join Behind Waste-based Energy By Joe Truini It's the birth of a new partnership, and a new term, to boot. Several waste industry groups, along with a professional and a governmental organization, have formed a loose coalition to promote recovering energy from waste, what they call waste-based energy. The coalition wants to educate lawmakers and the public that waste provides a vast amount of resources to generate energy and that there is a distinction among the various technologies, said Ted Michaels, president of the Integrated Waste Services Association, which represents the waste-to-energy industry. To avoid some confusion, we wanted to make it clear that there was a whole universe of waste-based energy, he said. Federal and state policy makers ought to look at developing a full range of incentives to encourage waste-based energy projects. Such projects not only include burning waste to create electricity, or waste-to-energy, but other means of converting waste to energy, such as capturing landfill gas. The energy capacity available from solid waste is largely untapped, said John Skinner, executive director and CEO of the Solid Waste Association of North America. Joining SWANA and the ISWA in the partnership are the National Solid Wastes Management Association, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the U.S. Conference of Mayors. But the coalition's efforts simply distract from real waste management and energy-saving solutions such as waste prevention, reduction and recycling, said Monica Wilson of the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives. And pushing waste-to-energy and landfill gas projects under the umbrella of renewable energy takes away from other sources such wind and solar power, Wilson said. It just sounds like an attempt to take advantage of America's growing concern over energy costs, she said. I'd say these folks are trying to move us in the wrong direction. But waste-based energy not only provides reliable and affordable energy, it also can lessen the cost of waste management services for cities, said Tom Cochran, executive director of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. The coalition has not developed an action plan but will work with Congress, federal agencies, state governments and private companies to promote waste-based energy. Its goal is to increase incentives and investment in the industry. We are certainly interested in keeping our eyes open on the Hill for opportunities, Michaels said. It's a matter of educating folks and letting them know that there is an awful lot of energy that can be tapped in the waste stream. The nation's 89 waste-to-energy plants have total power generation capacity of nearly 2,700 megawatts, about 20 percent of all renewable energy. Contact Waste News reporter Joe Truini at (330) 865-6166 or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Against An Imperial Internet
From: TomPaine.com, Oct. 16, 2006 http://www.precaution.org/lib/06/prn_imperial_internet.061016.htm[Pr inter-friendly version] Against An Imperial Internet By Bill Moyers and Scott Fogdall Bill Moyers is host of The Net At Risk, a documentary special airing Wednesday, October 18 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). Scott Fogdall is with Films Media Group. Visit http://www.pbs.org/moyerswww.pbs.org/moyers. It was said that all roads led to Rome. However exaggerated, the image is imprinted in our imagination, reminding us of the relentless ingenuity of the ancient Romans and their will to control an empire. For centuries Roman highways linked far-flung provinces with a centralized web of power. The might of the imperial legions was for naught without the means to transport them. The flow of trade -- the bloodstream of the empire's wealth -- also depended on the integrity of the roadways. And because Roman citizens could pass everywhere, more or less unfettered on their travels, ideas and cultural elements circulated with the same fluidity as commerce. Like the Romans, we Americans have used our technology to build a sprawling infrastructure of ports, railroads and interstates which serves the strength of our economy and the mobility of our society. Yet as significant as these have been, they pale beside the potential of the Internet. Almost overnight, it has made sending and receiving information easier than ever. It has opened a vast new marketplace of ideas, and it is transforming commerce and culture. It may also revitalize democracy. Wait a minute! you say. You can't compare the Internet to the Roman empire. There's no electronic Caesar, no center, controlling how the World Wide Web is used. Right you are -- so far. The Internet is revolutionary because it is the most democratic of media. All you need to join the revolution is a computer and a connection. We don't just watch; we participate, collaborate and create. Unlike television, radio and cable, whose hirelings create content aimed at us for their own reasons, with the Internet every citizen is potentially a producer. The conversation of democracy belongs to us. That wide-open access is the founding principle of the Internet, but it may be slipping through our fingers. How ironic if it should pass irretrievably into history here, at the very dawn of the Internet Age. The Internet has become the foremost testing ground where the forces of innovation, corporate power, the public interest and government regulation converge. Already, the notion of a level playing field -- what's called network neutrality -- is under siege by powerful forces trying to tilt the field to their advantage. The Bush majority on the FCC has bowed to the interests of the big cable and telephone companies to strip away, or undo, the Internet's basic DNA of openness and non-discrimination. When some members of Congress set out to restore network neutrality, they were thwarted by the industry's high spending lobbyists. This happened according to the standard practices of a rented Congress -- with little public awareness and scarce attention from the press. There had been a similar blackout 10 years ago, when, in the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Congress carved up our media landscape. They drove a dagger in the heart of radio, triggered a wave of consolidation that let the big media companies get bigger, and gave away to rich corporations -- for free -- public airwaves worth billions. This time, they couldn't keep secret what they were doing. Word got around that without public participation these changes could lead to unsettling phenomenon -- the rise of digital empires that limit, or even destroy, the capabilities of small Internet users. Organizations across the political spectrum -- from the Christian Coalition to MoveOn.org -- rallied in protest, flooding Congress with more than a million letters and petitions to restore network neutrality. Enough politicians have responded to keep the outcome in play. At the core this is a struggle about the role and dimensions of human freedom and free speech. But it is also a contemporary clash of a centuries-old debate over free-market economics and governmental regulation, one that finds Adam Smith invoked both by advocates for government action to protect the average online wayfarer and by opponents of any regulation at all. In The Wealth of Nations, Smith argued that only the unfettered dealings of merchants and customers could ensure economic prosperity. But he also warned against the formation of monopolies -- mighty behemoths that face little or no competition. Our history brims with his legacy. Consider the explosion of industry and the reign of the robber barons during the first Gilded Age in the last decades of the 19th century. Settlements and cities began to fill the continent, spirited by a crucial technological advance: the railroad. As
[Biofuel] Sustainability of Brazilian bio-ethanol
http://www.bioenergytrade.org/downloads/sustainabilityofbrazilianbioethanol.pdf 1.2Mb pdf Sustainability of Brazilian bio-ethanol - Edward Smeets, Martin Junginger, André Faaij, Arnaldo Walter, Paulo Dolzan (State University of Campinas), Utrecht University, The Netherlands, August 2006, ISBN 90-8672-012-9 This study was commissioned by: SenterNovem, The Netherlands Agency for Sustainable Development and Innovation, Utrecht, The Netherlands. The study forms part of the programme Strategic Support of International Collaboration (STROIS) of the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment. Executive summary The Dutch society recognizes the need for sustainable production and use of biomass. This has been expressed by environmental groups and the Parliament. The Dutch government decided to seek solutions by developing sustainability criteria and certification of biomass by a commission sustainable production of biomass (duurzame productie van biomassa, DPB). Between January 2006 and July 2006 these criteria have been developed. Parallel to these developments, in February 2006 this project was commissioned by SenterNovem on behalf of the Dutch Ministry for Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment. As Brazil is one of the most likely countries to export bio-ethanol from sugar cane to the Netherlands, the sustainability of Brazilian bio-ethanol is the main topic of this report. The main objective of this report was a comparison of Dutch sustainability criteria and the current Brazilian practice, and quantification of the consequences for ethanol production in terms of production method and production costs if these sustainability criteria are applied. To this end, the Dutch sustainability demands for bio-ethanol were investigated, including stakeholder consultation in the Netherlands (NGO's, industry), and an extensive assessment of the current ecological, economic and social impacts of ethanol production based on sugar cane in Brazil was carried out. While the current study contains many different types of uncertainties, no prohibitive reasons where identified why ethanol from São Paulo principally could not meet the Dutch sustainability standards set for 2007. In many impact categories, Brazilian ethanol from sugar cane scores average to (very) positive, see also table I for a summary. For a number of other criteria, problems are identified, but it also appears that these may differ strongly between the individual plants. Furthermore, for most of these issues, measures can be identified to improve performance (when needed). For the future and the whole of Brazil, too many uncertainties remain to determine whether also additional criteria from 2011 onwards can be met. First of all, it is as yet unclear how additional land use for sugar cane may cause indirect / induced land-use, and how large the actual impacts will be on land use, biodiversity etc. Second, it is also uncertain whether and how the Dutch sustainability criteria will deal with these indirect impacts, as these criteria are not yet clearly defined. It is important to recognize that sustainability criteria lead to higher production costs - depending on the strictness of the sustainability criteria, we estimate additional ethanol costs of up to 56%, though in case mechanical green harvesting is applied, additional ethanol costs are estimated at 24%.While the latter may not necessarily be prohibitive given current oil prices, it is clear that some financial support is most likely needed to stimulate sustainable ethanol production. Regarding the future developments, first of all, Brazil is currently intensifying its agriculture and meat production. Further raising the productivity of agriculture and meat production is a key factor of keeping a neutral land balance, thus enabling compliance with criteria on biodiversity, food and fodder availability etc. Second, a promising example is the organic sugar cane production (as demonstrated and in the São Francisco sugar mill), where substantial ecological and social improvements compared to conventional sugar cane production have been achieved over a period of twenty years, including development of native forest area, and a yield increase of over 20% compared to conventional cane production. This could be a case study for the development of additional sustainability criteria. However, it should also be clear that switching on a large scale to organic farming cannot be achieved within a short period of time. Recommendations for further research include amongst others additional local data collection (e.g. on occurrence of child labour), development of new methodologies, e.g. on carbon soil, biodiversity, food security and land use dynamics, and exploring the possibilities and requirements of a certification system for sustainable ethanol. ___ Biofuel mailing list
[Biofuel] Body Counts
I generally get my news from National Public Radio. Has anyone else noticed that as the mid-term elections have drawn close, the news is no longer reporting total US military losses? I've been hearing about October being the "worst month this year" for US casualties, but there is no longer any mention of the overall American death toll. Is this true of other media outlets, too? Of course, there isn't any discussion of an overall Iraqi death toll, either, though I'm hearing about "official" deaths in Baghdad on a daily basis. I listened to a Carl Rove interview this afternoon and felt struck that he sounded like a raving lunatic. Maybe he is, and maybe that's how he talks, but I heard a sense of desperation in his voice I hadn't been expecting. He thinks the Republican party will retain its hold on both houses of Congress--as if the Democrats would really DO anything to stop the direction of my country anyway . . . I'd really like a bumper sticker that says: "End the war--send the twins!", but I don't think the nice Fatherland Security folks at the border would appreciate my message! robert luis rabello "The Edge of Justice" Adventure for Your Mind http://www.newadventure.ca Ranger Supercharger Project Page http://www.members.shaw.ca/rabello/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
