[Biofuel] Ottawa Forum - concurrent with the Review of Arctic Offshore Drilling Inuvik Roundtable
Background The Canadian National Energy Board (NEB) is hosting a Roundtable in Inuvik, Northwest Territory, from Sept. 10 to 16. The formal sessions are being held from Monday Sept. 12 to Friday Sept. 16. Two friends of mine applied as intervenors, and their submissions were accepted. However, although the NEB had $300,000 to fund travel for presenters, my friends were denied funding. As they are based in near Kemptville, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec, self-funding the trips was prohibitive. In discussions with others, I learned others were in a similar situation, including a fellow from Halifax, Nova Scotia. The NEB says they will webcast their Inuvik proceedings. I have made arrangements with the Canada Science and Technology Museum to rent a room there for the week (Sept. 12-16) to allow those interested an opportunity to view the Inuvik proceedings as a group, and also make presentations locally, which will be recorded and posted on the Web afterward. We still have space for a few presenters (related to Arctic tradition and culture, oil drilling technology, spill impact and costs, alternatives, etc.) and attendees. Attendence fee is by voluntary contribution; there is no formal fee to participate in the Ottawa forum. More information is available at: http://www.restco.ca/Inuvik_RT_Ottawa.shtml Or, feel free to contact me until Sept. 2nd (I'll be out of Internet range much of Sept. 3-9.) -- Darryl McMahon The Emperor's New Hydrogen Economy http://www.econogics.com/TENHE/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Ethanol and gasoline
Hi all Would someone who has David Blume's Alcohol Can Be a Gas! please look up something for me? I can't get at my copy at the moment. What does Mr Blume say about blending 95% ethanol (190-proof) with gasoline? Miscible or not? Thanks! Keith ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Ethanol and gasoline
Hi Keith pp356,357: Blending There is a myth that anything less than 200-proof alcohol will separate from gasoline due to the small amount of water in the alcohol. Gasoline, alcohol, and water are miscible (stay dissolved in one another), depending on temperature and on water and alcohol content. [...] ... at about 68°F, alcohol with as much as 45% water will mix with gasoline and not separate. At 4% water, alcohol will form a stable mix with gasoline down to about minus 22°F! ... A reference is given, AC Castro, CH Koster, and EK Franleck, Flexible Ethanol Otto Engine Management System 942400 (Warrendale, PA: Society of Automotive Engineers International, 1994) Regards Dawie Coetzee From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Sunday, 28 August 2011, 18:59 Subject: [Biofuel] Ethanol and gasoline Hi all Would someone who has David Blume's Alcohol Can Be a Gas! please look up something for me? I can't get at my copy at the moment. What does Mr Blume say about blending 95% ethanol (190-proof) with gasoline? Miscible or not? Thanks! Keith ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20110828/62e787c3/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] 'Cooperatives Aren't Charity'
http://www.truth-out.org/%E2%80%98cooperatives-aren%E2%80%99t-charity/1314459716 'Cooperatives Aren't Charity' Saturday 27 August 2011 by: Kanya D'Almeida, Inter Press Service | Interview Washington - As industrial production penetrates all corners of the planet and transnational capital gains have unfettered access to virtually every country and community, the United Nations has declared 2012 to be the 'International Year of Cooperatives (IYC)'. Slated to be launched on Oct. 31 at U.N. headquarters in New York, the IYC should be a reminder to the international community that it is possible to pursue both economic viability and social responsibility, said U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. While the high-level meeting will no doubt generate enormous awareness on the necessity of sustainable and alternative economies like cooperatives, many individuals and organisations have been working quietly for years to bring worker-owned enterprises to fruition. IPS Washington correspondent Kanya D'Almeida spoke with Brian Van Slyke, founder of the Toolbox for Education and Social Action (TESA), a worker-owned cooperative created to democratise education and the economy, while furthering the cooperative movement. Excerpts from the interview follow: Q: What was the philosophy and vision behind TESA? A: TESA was created to strengthen two intertwined movements: the efforts to democratise education for social change and the struggles to democratise our economy. I believe the connection between these two movements is crucial because the ways in which we learn and teach directly influence the ways that we work and interact with each other. TESA's mission is to create democratic educational resources that cultivate people's abilities to make social and economic changes in their communities. We build and distribute our own materials as well as work with other organisations to develop educational resources for their needs. TESA is a worker-owned operation, which strives to be involved with the cooperative movement. Q: What is TESA doing to further the cooperative movement? A: One of our most interesting initiatives is Co-opoly: The Game of Cooperatives, an exciting game about the growing cooperative movement. This is a game of solidarity, where everyone wins - or everybody loses. By playing Co-opoly, people discover the unique benefits, challenges, and workings of the cooperative world. The game cultivates an understanding of how the co-op model can strengthen communities and organisations, and allows players to practice the skills needed to participate in a co-op. TESA also runs Cultivate.Coop, a free online hub for sharing knowledge on cooperatives and cooperation, as well as a space to collaboratively build educational tools for the co-op community. In addition, we are collaborating with the Green Worker Cooperatives (GWC), who incubate environmental- friendly worker-owned co-ops in the South Bronx - one of the most impoverished parts of New York City. GWC and TESA are creating a democratic-education curriculum for GWC's Cooperative Academy. Q: Can coops thrive in small, disparate pockets? Or do they need to go global? A: Co-ops are surviving in independent pockets in many places, but have also succeeded in creating regional and even national cooperative networks. In the Basque region of Spain, the Mondragón cooperative system is a federation of over 200 successful worker cooperatives. Other countries, such as Italy, Argentina, Brazil, and Japan, also have thriving cooperative networks. In the U.S., unfortunately, cooperatives have tended to have little connection with other co-ops. Thankfully, this trend is shifting and co-ops are beginning to collaborate on a wider scale, with growing organisations such as the Valley Alliance of Worker Cooperatives as well as the recently launched Principle 6: Cooperative Trade Movement initiative. Q: The United Nations has declared 2012 to be the International Year of Cooperatives - what could this theme hope to achieve? A: In this age of austerity, in which basic social services are stripped away while mega corporations continue to reap extraordinary profits, people are really starting to embrace alternative models. The slogan of the International Year of the Cooperative is cooperative enterprises build a better world, and co-ops all across the globe are gearing up to utilise this unprecedented endorsement to get out the word about their mission and to invigorate the cooperative movement. What's important to know about cooperatives is that they aren't charity - co-ops are solidarity-based and self-help efforts. They're organisations in which the members equally own one share, equally make decisions with one vote per member, and receive an equitable benefit from their participation in the co- op. Just as importantly, they are a solution that can be implemented to improve people's lives right now. The
[Biofuel] Youth Subdued - 8 Ways Young Americans Have Been Dominated
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/07/28/youth-subdued/ JULY 28, 2011 Youth Subdued - 8 Ways Young Americans Have Been Dominated by BRUCE E. LEVINE Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance to domination. Young Americans-even more so than older Americans-appear to have acquiesced to the idea that the corporatocracy can completely screw them and that they are helpless to do anything about it. A 2010 Gallup poll asked Americans Do you think the Social Security system will be able to pay you a benefit when you retire? Among 18- to 34-years-olds, 76 percent of them said No. Yet despite their lack of confidence in the availability of Social Security for them, few have demanded it be shored up by more fairly payroll-taxing the wealthy; most appear resigned to having more money deducted from their paychecks for Social Security, even though they don't believe it will be around to benefit them. How exactly has American society subdued young Americans? 1. Student-Loan Debt: Large debt-and the fear it creates-is a pacifying force. There was no tuition at the City University of New York when I attended one of its colleges in the 1970s, a time when tuition at many U.S. public universities was so affordable that it was easy to get a B.A. and even a graduate degree without accruing any student-loan debt. While those days are gone in the United States, public universities continue to be free in the Arab world and are either free or with very low fees in many countries throughout the world. The millions of young Iranians who risked getting shot to protest their disputed 2009 presidential election, the millions of young Egyptians who risked their lives earlier this year to eliminate Mubarak, and the millions of young Americans who demonstrated against the Vietnam War all had in common the absence of pacifying huge student-loan debt. Today in the United States, two-thirds of graduating seniors at four-year colleges have student-loan debt, including over 62 percent of public university graduates. While average undergraduate debt is close to $25,000, I increasingly talk to college graduates with closer to $100,000 in student-loan debt. During the time in one's life when it should be easiest to resist authority because one does not yet have family responsibilities, many young people worry about the cost of bucking authority, losing their job, and being unable to pay an ever-increasing debt. In a vicious cycle, student debt has a subduing effect on activism, and political passivity makes it more likely that students will accept such debt as a natural part of life. 2. Psychopathologizing and Medicating Noncompliance. In 1955, Erich Fromm, the then widely respected anti-authoritarian leftist psychoanalyst, wrote, Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man. Fromm died in 1980, the same year that an increasingly authoritarian America elected Ronald Reagan president, and an increasingly authoritarian American Psychiatric Association added to their diagnostic bible (then the DSM-III) disruptive mental disorders for children and teenagers such as the increasingly popular oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). The official symptoms of ODD include often actively defies or refuses to comply with adult requests or rules, often argues with adults, and often deliberately does things to annoy other people. Many of America's greatest activists including Saul Alinsky (1909-1972), the legendary organizer and author of Reveille for Radicals and Rules for Radicals, would today certainly be diagnosed with ODD and other disruptive disorders. Recalling his childhood, Alinsky said, I never thought of walking on the grass until I saw a sign saying 'Keep off the grass.' Then I would stomp all over it. Heavily tranquilizing antipsychotic drugs (e.g. Zyprexa and Risperdal) are now the highest grossing class of medication in the United States ($16 billion in 2010); a major reason for this, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2010, is that many children receiving antipsychotic drugs have nonpsychotic diagnoses such as ODD or some other disruptive disorder (this especially true of Medicaid-covered pediatric patients). 3. Schools That Educate for Compliance and Not for Democracy: Upon accepting the New York City Teacher of the Year Award on January 31, 1990, John Taylor Gatto upset many in attendance by stating: The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions. A
Re: [Biofuel] Ethanol and gasoline
Thankyou Dawie! Perfect, problem solved. Thanks so much for taking the trouble. All best to you Keith Hi Keith pp356,357: Blending There is a myth that anything less than 200-proof alcohol will separate from gasoline due to the small amount of water in the alcohol. Gasoline, alcohol, and water are miscible (stay dissolved in one another), depending on temperature and on water and alcohol content. [...] ... at about 68°F, alcohol with as much as 45% water will mix with gasoline and not separate. At 4% water, alcohol will form a stable mix with gasoline down to about minus 22°F! ... A reference is given, AC Castro, CH Koster, and EK Franleck, Flexible Ethanol Otto Engine Management System 942400 (Warrendale, PA: Society of Automotive Engineers International, 1994) Regards Dawie Coetzee From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Sunday, 28 August 2011, 18:59 Subject: [Biofuel] Ethanol and gasoline Hi all Would someone who has David Blume's Alcohol Can Be a Gas! please look up something for me? I can't get at my copy at the moment. What does Mr Blume say about blending 95% ethanol (190-proof) with gasoline? Miscible or not? Thanks! Keith ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Ethanol and gasoline
Hello all. I wish to comment that like this: Gasoline engines are sensitive to water, too sensitive to accept anything but a very small portion of water containing alcohol in the gasoline. Any alcohol blend in gasoline should originate from anhydrous alcohol.The fact that ethanol in water is corrosive does not make it better. Some of the ethanol will drop a hydrogen atom to the water and create acid and an ethoxide ion, both are aggressive. The diesel engines, as a contrast, can accept up to four per cents of water without even long-term problems. But then the engine in question has to be prepared for ethanol as fuel, of course. Best regards Jan W - Original Message - From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 6:59 PM Subject: [Biofuel] Ethanol and gasoline Hi all Would someone who has David Blume's Alcohol Can Be a Gas! please look up something for me? I can't get at my copy at the moment. What does Mr Blume say about blending 95% ethanol (190-proof) with gasoline? Miscible or not? Thanks! Keith ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
