Re: [Biofuel] Patented GMO jatropha
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: http://www.d1plc.com 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 nation's fuel supply by 2012. Only about 75 million gallons of biodiesel were sold in the U.S. last year, compared with about 6 billion gallons of
[Biofuel] crosspost [Alternative_Medicine_Forum] EMF-Omega-News 28. April 2007
cell phones should be reserved for emergencies only. Kirk Redaktion Buergerwelle e.V. (BI Omega-CI Omega) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Redaktion Buergerwelle e.V. (BI Omega-CI Omega) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:24:24 +0200 Subject: [Alternative_Medicine_Forum] EMF-Omega-News 28. April 2007 Dear Sir, Madam, Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, for your information. Best regards, Klaus Rudolph Citizens' Initiative Omega Member of the Buergerwelle Germany (incorporated society) Protectorate Union of the Citizens and Initiatives for the Protection against Electrosmog Mechanism of a short-term ERK activation by electromagnetic fields at mobile phone frequency http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3662948/ Mobile phone emission modulates interhemispheric functional coupling of EEG alpha rhythms http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3644609/ Electromagnetic Radiation: Influences on Honeybees http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3644649/ Extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields as effectors of cellular responses in vitro: possible immune cell activation http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3666260/ Reduced melatonin leads to increased body length of children http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3663068/ Autism Spectrum Disorder, Chemical Sensitivities, CFS, Electrosensitivity, Sleep Disruption and Increased Cancer Risk http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3666355/ The Dangers of Cell Phones http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3642978/ Brain cells are affected by cell phones http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3663208/ Cancer clusters at phone masts http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3643243/ Is there friction within the Interphone study group? http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3644730/ Germans worried about the health effects of mobiles http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3638044/ Danger on the airwaves: Is the Wi-Fi revolution a health time bomb? http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3643222/ Wi-Fi: Children at risk from 'electronic smog' http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3643230/ Wifi internet 'poses a health risk for pupils' http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3644514/ Wireless Oakland went live in a test today http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3642285/ Concern about Wi-Fi health danger spreads to NZ from British schools http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3646264/ Anti-mast campaigners showcase Coleshill cancers http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3646558/ Public Wi-Fi may turn your life into an open notebook http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3644775/ Cell Phones Join Pesticides GMOs as Possible Cause of Mass Disappearances of Bees http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3648930/ Public policy education briefing on the inadequacy of U.S. federal policy regulating the environmental and human health effects of Radiofrequency (RF) radiation http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3647926/ Plans to bring mobile phone masts under control http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3637745/ The school that took on mobile phone companies http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3642272/ The Big Bee Death http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3642348/ Phone mast pulled down after school cancer scare http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3653117/ Anger as experts fail to demand ban on building homes near power lines http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3643317/ Residents phone masts protest http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3647687/ The War on Wi-Fi http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3650242/ Health fears over city's wireless network http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3650200/ Wi-Fi and National Education http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3650367/ Researchers call for study on WiFi health effects http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3650829/ Dispelling the Wireless Myths http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3651819/ Health Fears over Wireless Internet in Schools http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3657624/ Do You Have Microwave Sickness? (Update) http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3277817/ The inescapable health risks of city-wide wi-fi http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3660132/ Warning Over School Wi-Fi Systems http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3663030/ Warning on wi-fi health risk to children http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3666276/ Norfolk doctors want cell tower moved http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3657741/ Honeybeeworld ...EMF exposures? http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3656661/ Honey bees navigate by observing changes as small as 0.6% in the Earth's magnetic field http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3662270/ Mobile Phones and Vanishing Bees http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3656399/ A honey trap set by phone masts http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3665837/ Bees give mobile phone firm the wrong buzz http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3666227/ T-Mobile mast gets go-ahead http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3651219/ Battling for Mobile Phone Mast Controls http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3655865/ Phone mast will stay after Pull it down move fails http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3655903/ Phone mast plans thrown out
[Biofuel] EDITORIAL - Is Any Commercial Pet Food Safe?
If you think it is restricted to pet food you are very naive my friend Everything is broken. Those that were to protect us are lackeys of the corporations. Kirk EDITORIAL IS ANY COMMERCIAL PET FOOD SAFE? by Robert Jay Russell, Ph.D., Coton de Tulear Club of America President [EMAIL PROTECTED] com www.CotonClub. com April 27th, 2007. Since March 16th, I have written more than 150 pages of information about the mass poisonings of pet foods on the CTCA's CotonClub e-ZINE. I have been fairly good at predicting where this crisis would go, and what potential pet foods would be declared deadly. But tonight, the U.S. government and the pet food industry achieved a new low that even I did not see coming. Namely, the ingredient labels on the cans and packages of pet food may be total fictions. Further, the advertisement and web site declarations of the pet food companies may be utter lies. For example, Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul declared on its web site, its packaging and its brochures that its products contained absolutely no wheat gluten, corn gluten, rice gluten or rice protein concentrate. This was and is a lie. Natural Balance pet foods similarly advertised and published on its packages that its products were absolutely free of glutens and protein concentrate additives. That, too, was and is a lie. The voluntary list of pet food companies that claim all safe ingredients but that have substituted cheap Chinese protein glutens is likely growing by the minute. There is some question, of course, whether or not the individual pet food companies that relied upon the very few actual producers and canners left in America really knew that the canners and packagers had been substituting cheap, poisonous Chinese crap for their much touted healthy pet foods. But who knew what and when is irrelevant to the dead and dying pets and their grieving owners out there in the real world. Tonight, there is not a single ingredient label on any processed food -- pet or human -- that should be trusted by any sensible consumer. Indeed, the FDA actually allows food packagers six months to change their ingredient labels once they change ingredients on their unsuspecting consumers. I wonder just how many people with Celiac Disease have died terrible deaths when their supposedly gluten free packaged food had its ingredients switched for cheap, imported glutens? We are beginning to see how many pets may soon be dying of kidney failure because of bogus ingredient labels, and that toll may be unimaginable in the end. Remember: even an honest, health conscious, pet-loving, pet food company owner may have no idea what the canner he/she uses is actually putting into the food he/she markets and sells. Remember: this administration' s FDA is not working on behalf of your family's safety. When you censor, then fire scientists from government protective agencies (e.g., NOAA, EPA, USDA, FDA), when you place corporate lobbyists in positions of agency power, when you cut funds such that inspections are no longer possible, when you trash manufacturing and import rules and product regulations. .. you are left with snake oil salesmen to supply America with food and drugs and only rumor mills and blogs to protect citizens from them. Late breaking news: there is an unconfirmed internet rumor, probably far more reliable than anything a company web site or the FDA is telling you, that some pet stores are quietly pulling every Natural Balance pet food product off their shelves. No explanation given. - - - -- (c)2007 Dr. R. J. Russell the CTCA - Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.___ 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] EDITORIAL - Is Any Commercial Pet Food Safe?
I saw an article last night that implies the same issue is about to break on food for human consumption in North America. The article on CBC news Canada Customs now has alerts up for food products of Chinese origin. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/04/27/melamine-cfia.html Darryl Kirk McLoren wrote: If you think it is restricted to pet food you are very naive my friend Everything is broken. Those that were to protect us are lackeys of the corporations. Kirk EDITORIAL IS ANY COMMERCIAL PET FOOD SAFE? by Robert Jay Russell, Ph.D., Coton de Tulear Club of America President [EMAIL PROTECTED] com www.CotonClub. com April 27th, 2007. Since March 16th, I have written more than 150 pages of information about the mass poisonings of pet foods on the CTCA's CotonClub e-ZINE. I have been fairly good at predicting where this crisis would go, and what potential pet foods would be declared deadly. But tonight, the U.S. government and the pet food industry achieved a new low that even I did not see coming. Namely, the ingredient labels on the cans and packages of pet food may be total fictions. Further, the advertisement and web site declarations of the pet food companies may be utter lies. For example, Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul declared on its web site, its packaging and its brochures that its products contained absolutely no wheat gluten, corn gluten, rice gluten or rice protein concentrate. This was and is a lie. Natural Balance pet foods similarly advertised and published on its packages that its products were absolutely free of glutens and protein concentrate additives. That, too, was and is a lie. The voluntary list of pet food companies that claim all safe ingredients but that have substituted cheap Chinese protein glutens is likely growing by the minute. There is some question, of course, whether or not the individual pet food companies that relied upon the very few actual producers and canners left in America really knew that the canners and packagers had been substituting cheap, poisonous Chinese crap for their much touted healthy pet foods. But who knew what and when is irrelevant to the dead and dying pets and their grieving owners out there in the real world. Tonight, there is not a single ingredient label on any processed food -- pet or human -- that should be trusted by any sensible consumer. Indeed, the FDA actually allows food packagers six months to change their ingredient labels once they change ingredients on their unsuspecting consumers. I wonder just how many people with Celiac Disease have died terrible deaths when their supposedly gluten free packaged food had its ingredients switched for cheap, imported glutens? We are beginning to see how many pets may soon be dying of kidney failure because of bogus ingredient labels, and that toll may be unimaginable in the end. Remember: even an honest, health conscious, pet-loving, pet food company owner may have no idea what the canner he/she uses is actually putting into the food he/she markets and sells. Remember: this administration' s FDA is not working on behalf of your family's safety. When you censor, then fire scientists from government protective agencies (e.g., NOAA, EPA, USDA, FDA), when you place corporate lobbyists in positions of agency power, when you cut funds such that inspections are no longer possible, when you trash manufacturing and import rules and product regulations. .. you are left with snake oil salesmen to supply America with food and drugs and only rumor mills and blogs to protect citizens from them. Late breaking news: there is an unconfirmed internet rumor, probably far more reliable than anything a company web site or the FDA is telling you, that some pet stores are quietly pulling every Natural Balance pet food product off their shelves. No explanation given. - - - -- (c)2007 Dr. R. J. Russell the CTCA Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check out new cars at Yahoo! Autos. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48245/*http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html;_ylc=X3oDMTE1YW1jcXJ2BF9TAzk3MTA3MDc2BHNlYwNtYWlsdGFncwRzbGsDbmV3LWNhcnM- ___ 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):
Re: [Biofuel] crosspost [Alternative_Medicine_Forum] EMF-Omega-News 28. April 2007
Kirk McLoren wrote: cell phones should be reserved for emergencies only. Kirk That may or may not be wise advise, I don't know and, doubt anyone knows for certain. I am fairly certain if everyone followed that advise there would be no cell phone network and if there where, service would be prohibitively expensive to own one for emergencies. Yes prepay phones and air time are cheap to purchase to have on for emergency use. But those who purchase service contracts actually subsidize they prepay users. A $15 refurb phone, $15 activation fee and 15* cents a minute ain't gonna pay the bills. :) Doug, N0LKK Kansas USA inc. * all prices are what it costs for Altell's pay-per-minute, the best prepay option in my area. ___ 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] Fw: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel
There is one precedent set that I know of regarding a patent of what I would call an intuitive process. A while back a company called PanIP held a patent for what is basically e-commerce. It read something like, Any site with images that takes credit card numbers... They started extorting small companies with massive lawsuit threats. I'm not sure in what order things occurred, but basically they were finally counter sued and the company had to pay back all the legal fees it had incurred in its little rampage. This gives us a little hope that anyone that is granted a patent for a well known and documented process wouldn't be able to enforce infringement. On Friday, April 27, 2007 6:08 PM, doug wrote: Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:08:00 +1000 From: doug To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Fw: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel Yes, but I think the problem is that the Patent office does not check the validity of patents. The test comes when the patent goes to court (so feeding the Legal fraternity...) regards Doug On Saturday 28 April 2007 08:18:05 am Fritz Friesinger wrote: Hi Keith, to my knowledge,anything belong to the public domaine kan not be patented.A simple dokumentet description of the process should be enough to dismiss any patentclaim! Fritz ___ 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/
