Re: [Biofuel] Redmond cooking oil collector could benefit from state program; Go Bio collects used cooking oil from restaurants to be converted into biodiesel.

[fox mulder]

Please remove me from the mailing list.

On Sat, 12/12/15, Darryl McMahon  wrote:

 Subject: [Biofuel] Redmond cooking oil collector could benefit from state 
program; Go Bio collects used cooking oil from restaurants to be converted into 
biodiesel.
 To: Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org
 Date: Saturday, 12 December, 2015, 15:44
 
 
http://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/3807423-151/redmond-cooking-oil-collector-poised-to-benefit-from#e
 
 
 [image in on-line article]
 
 Redmond cooking oil collector could benefit from state
 program
 
 Go Bio collects used cooking oil from restaurants to be
 converted into 
 biodiesel.
 
 By Ted Shorack / The Bulletin / @tjshorack
 
 Published Dec 11, 2015 at 12:05AM / Updated Dec 11, 2015 at
 05:56AM
 
 Go Bio has collected about a half-million gallons of used
 vegetable 
 cooking oil in Central Oregon since 2008.
 
 Jeff Rola, who started the Redmond-based business, predicts
 he’ll hit 1 
 million gallons in the next three years as Oregon begins to
 roll out its 
 latest standards attached to the Clean Fuels program that
 will go into 
 effect in January.
 
 The program began in 2009 with House Bill 2186 and has gone
 through 
 different phases with a goal of reducing greenhouse gas
 emissions within 
 the state.
 
 The standards adopted by the Environmental Quality
 Commission aim to 
 reduce the amount of carbon released from transportation
 fuels by 10 
 percent by 2025. The prescribed reduction will come in the
 form of oil 
 companies buying clean fuel credits to offset carbon
 emissions from the 
 fuel they sell or by selling biofuels with gas and diesel.
 
 That could mean a boost in revenue for Go Bio if the market
 demand for 
 used cooking oil to produce biodiesel trickles down to the
 company.
 
 The Clean Fuels program recognizes biodiesel, natural gas,
 electricity, 
 propane and ethanol as “clean fuels,” which release less
 carbon into the 
 atmosphere than gasoline and diesel.
 
 “I hope that the program strengthens the price structure
 for used 
 cooking oil so I can get a higher price for it and pay a
 higher price to 
 the restaurants,” Rola said.
 
 Go Bio pays for and collects cooking oil from about 200
 businesses 
 throughout Central Oregon and then hauls the waste product
 to Salem 
 where Sequential Pacific Biodiesel turns it into a usable
 fuel for 
 diesel engines.
 
 When Rola started the business seven years ago, he picked up
 barrels of 
 the used cooking oil in a pickup. He now has several trucks
 that run on 
 biodiesel and collect used vegetable oil from holding tanks
 at 
 restaurants. The volume of oil is higher at fast food
 restaurants.
 
 Several larger companies collect used cooking oil in Central
 Oregon as 
 well. Rola said Go Bio is the only one based locally.
 
 The current price for collected used cooking oil is the
 lowest it’s been 
 in five years, Rola said. The Clean Fuels program could
 change that 
 eventually.
 
 “It should create a higher demand for used cooking oil
 especially for my 
 product,” he said.
 
 The state program has instituted standards to reduce
 emissions based on 
 carbon-intensity values, a calculation of how much carbon is
 generated 
 by a particular transportation fuel.
 
 Because used cooking oil is essentially waste, its carbon
 footprint will 
 already be accounted for in the system, Rola said. In
 contrast, soybean 
 and corn production for biofuels has less of an offset value
 because of 
 the fuel used in the process to make it a finished product.
 
 The Legislature passed Senate Bill 324 earlier this year
 adding to the 
 program and giving direction to the commission. The bill was
 signed by 
 Gov. Kate Brown in March.
 
 The program has been attacked by the oil and trucking
 industry. 
 Opposition groups filed a lawsuit challenging the standards.
 A U.S. 
 District judge dismissed the case in September.
 
 Three ballot initiatives could also threaten the program’s
 current 
 structure if the measures are brought to voters in the
 November 2016 
 election and approved.
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Re: [Biofuel] Causes of fuel injection pump failures

[fox mulder]

Thank you for such a good information. I am saving this, as the text books 
would never tell you.
The problem I am experiencing at the moment is that when i drive the jeep at 
speed for 15 o 20 min. the engine cuts off. Then after waiting for a 10 minutes 
it restarts. Then it cuts off in  shorter time. Do you think replacing the 
injection pump would solve the problem?

fox

--- On Wed, 29/7/09, Roderick Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 From: Roderick Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [Biofuel] Causes of fuel injection pump failures
 To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org
 Date: Wednesday, 29 July, 2009, 5:27 AM
 Hello , I am replying directly to
 Fox's injection pump failures, and from my experiences,
 First i would like to state that  99% of pump failures are
 from microscopic dirt  both in bio-diesel and wvo. I am
 talking about dirt particles that pass through 1 and 2
 micron filters. these tiny specs slowly increase the
 tolerances and gap within the gear pumps of common rail fuel
 systems and also polishes the pistons of inline mechanical
 pumps. The problem slowly creaps up on you after many hrs
 and miles, You may first notice hard starting only on warm
 engines, reason being the slow cranking speeds and low
 viscosity of  hot fuel tend to bypass internally inside the
 pump creating a bypass situation. If the engine is switched
 over to pure petro diesel ( hot and thinner), the problem
 can even become worse for starting . Fuel becomes very thin
 and loses viscosity with heat. My suggestion is to
 centerfuge all  home made fuel. This would give you the
 exact same
  cleanliness of petro diesel which has been also
 centrifuged.  When I ran 75,000 litres of 1 micron
 filtered biodiesel through a 2006 common rail Cummins, I
 ended up with a slightly longer cranking time now after two
 years ( only noticable when the engine is hot), My fuel
 sample that i thought was perfect from washing and filtering
 showed up trace residual dirt after spinning it in a test
 centrefuge!!  Definitly food for thought ehh? 
 .
  Rod Roth Cranbrook BC
 
 
       
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Re: [Biofuel] effect of biodiesel on injection pump

[fox mulder]

Dear Keith,
I am making biodiesel from waste rapeseed oil that has been used to fry fish 
and chips(fries). I am making methyl ester. I stir wash it three times and I 
heat and cool it before using it. I started using it in VW passat in 2004/2005. 
Immediately I noticed loss in power. I continued to use it till july 2007 when 
I started to have problem with it in that the car would cut off whilst driven 
at speed. I took it the VW dealer. They
carried out the diagnostics. Their report was that computer module linked to 
temperature sensor and the injection pump need replacing.
From 2007 till now I used B100 in Jeep cherokee 2.5 TD. It worked without any 
problems till a few days ago. I am having the same problem as VW passat two 
years ago.
Incidently, i have looked into VW guide book. It warns against using biodiesel 
unlesss the car is converted to biodiesel. Otherwise, injection system of the 
car would be affected.
Fox
--- On Wed, 29/7/09, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [Biofuel] effect of biodiesel on injection pump
 To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
 Date: Wednesday, 29 July, 2009, 5:01 PM
 Hi Fox
 
 Sorry you're having trouble.
 
 What kind of biodiesel are you using?
 
 Best
 
 Keith
 
 
 Thank you Mark for good infomation. At present i am
 having the same 
 problem with jeep cherokee 2.5 TD 1997. It's OK with
 the shorter 
 trips. The engine switches off when it is driven at
 above or at 50 
 mies per hour for some time. After waiting for 15 to 20
 minutes it 
 restarts and drives at 50 mph for a while and then it
 cuts off. Do 
 you think if I replace he injection pump, the problem
 will be solved.
 
 fox
 
 --- On Tue, 28/7/09, Thompson, Mark L. (Boise IPG) 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
 
   From: Thompson, Mark L. (Boise IPG) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Subject: Re: [Biofuel] effect of biodiesel
 on injection pump
   To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org
 
 sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org
   Date: Tuesday, 28 July, 2009, 6:36 PM
   The location of the sensor, on my 98
   Jetta at least, in inside the injector
 pump.
   Just under the access cover, it is submerged
 in diesel.
   With the right tool, it is only about a 5
 min job to
   replace.
 
   The temperature can be read using a VagCom
 interface and
   software for a PC.
 
   What symptoms you describe are common for a
 cracked temp
   sensor. Intermittent or complete failure of
 the sensor.
   Highly unlikely you lost your ECM. VW TDI
 ECM's are so
   hyper sensitive, they will shutdown the
 engine if there is
   any remote possibility of damaging the
 engine.
   As for a bad injector pump, id be skeptical
 of that. I
   would guess you had a bad sensor and the
 shop misdiagnosed
   it.
   Not surprising when it comes to TDI's,
 Dealers, and $$$.
 
 
   Mark
 
   -Original Message-
   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
   On Behalf Of fox mulder
   Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 7:47 AM
   To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org
   Subject: Re: [Biofuel] effect of biodiesel
 on injection
   pump
 
 
   Dear JQ,
   I am refering to the electronic temperature
 sensor that
   senses the temperature of the diesel that
 goes to the
   injection pump. All in all it's the
 injection system that is
   affected by the biodeisel.
   What action did you take James? Did you
 carry out the
   electronic diagnosis?
   When i had passat diagnosed. I was told that
 I needed to
   replace the whole computer module and the
 injection pump.
   The cost of this was astronomical.I just got
 rid of the car.
   It seems i need to do the same with the
 jeep.
   fox
 
 
 
 
 
   --- On Mon, 27/7/09, James Quaid [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   wrote:
 
    From: James Quaid [EMAIL PROTECTED]
    Subject: Re: [Biofuel] effect of
 biodiesel on
   injection pump
    To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org
    Date: Monday, 27 July, 2009, 11:29 PM
    Fox,
   
    Interesting info.
   
    I had a similar problem using a
 combination of diesel
   and
    WVO in an 85
    VW TDI Jetta. Where I would start it on
 diesel and
   switch
    to WVO after
    the engine was up to temp.
   
    It died at a red light one day and I
 had to have it
    towed.  However an
    hour later it started right up. It was
 also hard to
   start
    if you had
    turned it off and the engine was warm.
 A 15 - 30 min
   wait
    and it would
    start. 
   
    What temp sensor are you referring
 to??
   
    Thanks.
    JQ
   
   
    -Original Message-
    From: fox mulder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
    Reply-to: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org
    To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org
    Subject: Re: [Biofuel] effect of
 biodiesel on
   injection
    pump
    Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:07:17 +
 (GMT)
   
    Dear All,
    I used 100% biodiesel in VW passat and
 jeep cherokee
    limited for the last few years. Prior
 to jeep I used
   it in
    passat

Re: [Biofuel] effect of biodiesel on injection pump

[fox mulder]

Dear JQ,
I am refering to the electronic temperature sensor that senses the temperature 
of the diesel that goes to the injection pump. All in all it's the injection 
system that is affected by the biodeisel.
What action did you take James? Did you carry out the electronic diagnosis?
When i had passat diagnosed. I was told that I needed to replace the whole 
computer module and the injection pump. The cost of this was astronomical.I 
just got rid of the car. It seems i need to do the same with the jeep.
fox





--- On Mon, 27/7/09, James Quaid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 From: James Quaid [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [Biofuel] effect of biodiesel on injection pump
 To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org
 Date: Monday, 27 July, 2009, 11:29 PM
 Fox,
 
 Interesting info.
 
 I had a similar problem using a combination of diesel and
 WVO in an 85
 VW TDI Jetta. Where I would start it on diesel and switch
 to WVO after
 the engine was up to temp.
 
 It died at a red light one day and I had to have it
 towed.  However an
 hour later it started right up. It was also hard to start
 if you had
 turned it off and the engine was warm. A 15 - 30 min wait
 and it would
 start.  
 
 What temp sensor are you referring to??
 
 Thanks.
 JQ
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: fox mulder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Reply-to: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org
 To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org
 Subject: Re: [Biofuel] effect of biodiesel on injection
 pump
 Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:07:17 + (GMT)
 
 Dear All,
 I used 100% biodiesel in VW passat and jeep cherokee
 limited for the last few years. Prior to jeep I used it in
 passat. after three years, I found that the car would cut
 off and would not start. after waiting for 10 to 15 minutes
 it would start and go for a few miles, then it would cut
 off  again. I paid a lot of money to have it diagnosed.
 They found that the injection pump and the temperature
 sensor need replacing.
 After using th biosiesel in jeep for two years, I am
 encountering exactly the same problem.
 Has anyone else experienced the same situation as me? If
 so, would you advise me as to what you have learnt. 
 
 fox
  
  
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Re: [Biofuel] effect of biodiesel on injection pump

[fox mulder]

Thank you Mark for good infomation. At present i am having the same problem 
with jeep cherokee 2.5 TD 1997. It's OK with the shorter trips. The engine 
switches off when it is driven at above or at 50 mies per hour for some time. 
After waiting for 15 to 20 minutes it restarts and drives at 50 mph for a while 
and then it cuts off. Do you think if I replace he injection pump, the problem 
will be solved.

fox

--- On Tue, 28/7/09, Thompson, Mark L. (Boise IPG) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 From: Thompson, Mark L. (Boise IPG) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [Biofuel] effect of biodiesel on injection pump
 To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org 
 sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org
 Date: Tuesday, 28 July, 2009, 6:36 PM
 The location of the sensor, on my 98
 Jetta at least, in inside the injector pump. 
 Just under the access cover, it is submerged in diesel.
 With the right tool, it is only about a 5 min job to
 replace. 
 
 The temperature can be read using a VagCom interface and
 software for a PC. 
 
 What symptoms you describe are common for a cracked temp
 sensor. Intermittent or complete failure of the sensor. 
 Highly unlikely you lost your ECM. VW TDI ECM's are so
 hyper sensitive, they will shutdown the engine if there is
 any remote possibility of damaging the engine. 
 As for a bad injector pump, id be skeptical of that. I
 would guess you had a bad sensor and the shop misdiagnosed
 it. 
 Not surprising when it comes to TDI's, Dealers, and $$$. 
 
 
 Mark 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 On Behalf Of fox mulder
 Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 7:47 AM
 To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org
 Subject: Re: [Biofuel] effect of biodiesel on injection
 pump
 
 
 Dear JQ,
 I am refering to the electronic temperature sensor that
 senses the temperature of the diesel that goes to the
 injection pump. All in all it's the injection system that is
 affected by the biodeisel.
 What action did you take James? Did you carry out the
 electronic diagnosis?
 When i had passat diagnosed. I was told that I needed to
 replace the whole computer module and the injection pump.
 The cost of this was astronomical.I just got rid of the car.
 It seems i need to do the same with the jeep.
 fox
 
 
 
 
 
 --- On Mon, 27/7/09, James Quaid [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
 
  From: James Quaid [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: Re: [Biofuel] effect of biodiesel on
 injection pump
  To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org
  Date: Monday, 27 July, 2009, 11:29 PM
  Fox,
  
  Interesting info.
  
  I had a similar problem using a combination of diesel
 and
  WVO in an 85
  VW TDI Jetta. Where I would start it on diesel and
 switch
  to WVO after
  the engine was up to temp.
  
  It died at a red light one day and I had to have it
  towed.  However an
  hour later it started right up. It was also hard to
 start
  if you had
  turned it off and the engine was warm. A 15 - 30 min
 wait
  and it would
  start.  
  
  What temp sensor are you referring to??
  
  Thanks.
  JQ
  
  
  -Original Message-
  From: fox mulder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Reply-to: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org
  To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org
  Subject: Re: [Biofuel] effect of biodiesel on
 injection
  pump
  Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:07:17 + (GMT)
  
  Dear All,
  I used 100% biodiesel in VW passat and jeep cherokee
  limited for the last few years. Prior to jeep I used
 it in
  passat. after three years, I found that the car would
 cut
  off and would not start. after waiting for 10 to 15
 minutes
  it would start and go for a few miles, then it would
 cut
  off  again. I paid a lot of money to have it
 diagnosed.
  They found that the injection pump and the
 temperature
  sensor need replacing.
  After using th biosiesel in jeep for two years, I am
  encountering exactly the same problem.
  Has anyone else experienced the same situation as me?
 If
  so, would you advise me as to what you have learnt. 
  
  fox
   
   
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Re: [Biofuel] effect of biodiesel on injection pump

[fox mulder]

Dear All,
I used 100% biodiesel in VW passat and jeep cherokee limited for the last few 
years. Prior to jeep I used it in passat. after three years, I found that the 
car would cut off and would not start. after waiting for 10 to 15 minutes it 
would start and go for a few miles, then it would cut off  again. I paid a lot 
of money to have it diagnosed. They found that the injection pump and the 
temperature sensor need replacing.
After using th biosiesel in jeep for two years, I am encountering exactly the 
same problem.
Has anyone else experienced the same situation as me? If so, would you advise 
me as to what you have learnt. 

fox
 
 
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Re: [Biofuel] Eyeless in Gaza

[fox mulder]

What an evil thought,justifying the genocide in Gaza
by extropolating it to the wild mid-west of America.
Know one thing, Israel is among the sea of Islam. At
present Jews are doing a good job pis the moderate
muslims. It doesn't need reminding there are 1.2
billion muslims on this planet.
fox 
--- Friedrich Friesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 Sorry Roberto,
 I forgot the Mohawks!
 So it looks like, Israel took lessons in genocide
 from the Yankees!
 This explains a bit the compliance of the US! and
 Canada to... but than
 Harper said in his excuse to the Natives...: some
 of the Children even
 died did he wanted to say some 50 000 ???
 (www:hiddenfromhistory.org)
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 Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Eyeless in Gaza
 
 Friedrich Friesinger wrote:
 
 Roberto,
 And still there is an other small
 difference,Niagra-falls is not besieged
 and more so not for 60 Years and no US American
 stole the Land of the
 Niagrans
   
 
 
 I think the Mohawks might disagree with that . .
 .
 
 There is a miserable failure to the international
 community to accept this
 genocide!
 Eli Wiesel sayd the on who stands by and does
 nothing to prevent the
 killing
 is as guilty as the one who kills!
 We need a global actionplan to counter this
 deterioration of humandignity
   
 
 
 But with so much killing going on, it's hard to
 feel empathy after 
 awhile.  With so much misery in the world, it can
 begin to feel 
 overwhelming.
 
 robert luis rabello
 The Edge of Justice
 The Long Journey
 New Adventure for Your Mind
 http://www.newadventure.ca
 
 Ranger Supercharger Project Page
 http://www.members.shaw.ca/rabello/
 
 
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Re: [Biofuel] Eyeless in Gaza

[fox mulder]

Hi all,
I hope there is a speck of humanity in some of us.
Your president approves it on TV and blames the whole
genocide on Hamas that has no military identity. Hamas
is only a political organisation that was elected by
the people of the land.
Ask the ordinary israelies. They would tell you that
the Jews are the chosen people and are superior to
every race on this planet and that palistineans are
trouble for the Jews and they deserve to die.

quote from Yahoo
Meanwhile, in Gaza City, relief workers found four
starving children sitting next to their dead mothers
and other corpses in a house bombed by Israel, the
International Committee of the Red Cross has said.

The ICRC said: They were too weak to stand up on
their own. One man was also found alive, too weak to
stand up. In all there were at least 12 corpses lying
on mattresses.

The body has accused Israel of delaying ambulance
access to the hit area and demanded it grant safe
access for Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances to
return to evacuate more wounded.

Pierre Wettach, ICRC chief for Israel and the occupied
Palestinian territories, said: This is a shocking
incident. The Israeli military must have been aware of
the situation but did not assist the wounded. Neither
did they make it possible for us or the Palestinian
Red Crescent to assist the wounded.

In another house, the team found 15 survivors of
Israeli shelling including several wounded, the ICRC
said. Three corpses were found in another home.
Israeli soldiers posted 80m away ordered the rescue
team to leave the area, which they refused to do.

An Israeli offensive launched in the Hamas-controlled
Gaza Strip on December 27 has drawn increasing
international criticism over mounting civilian
casualties. At least 700 Palestinians have been
killed, including more than 200 children and 90 women.

The number of wounded has risen to over 3,100 with
nearly half women and children.

Israeli warplanes have continued to bomb targets
across the Gaza Strip and tanks advanced on
Palestinian guerrillas. Residents in Gaza described
the overnight bombardments to the east of the city as
among the heaviest in the offensive.
fox 
--- Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi Bob
 
 Keith,
 
  I realise our main focus is biofuel but
 nevertheless I am grieved
 that no-one has seen fit to at least comment on the
 ongoing genocide in
 Gaza.
 
 Uh, we just did...
 
 It's happened so many times before, but instead of
 becoming 
 indifferent to it it seems the outrage has
 accumulated, and now it's 
 spilling over, worldwide, excepting in... (fill in
 the blanks).
 
 Anyway, this time it's mostly just an election ploy.
 
 :-(
 
 Best
 
 Keith
 
 
 Are we now one-eyed, or worse, eyeless?
 
 Regards,
 
 Bob.
 
 
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Re: [Biofuel] HELP TO NEW BIODIESEL HOMEBREWER

[fox mulder]

try KOH rather than NaOH.
--- andres alejandro portilla [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 Hello,,Could somebody tell me if 0.276 inches of
 soap is normal after first
 washing of biodiesel, please?
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Re: [Biofuel] GALLAWAY

[fox mulder]

As a matter of fact. Iran has never threatened any
country, although the western media misinterpreted
Ahmadinajad's comment on Israel. With regard to the
Iran Iraq war, whilst USA armed Sadam Hussain, Israel
sold arms to Iran at 10x higher price( remember the
contra/North scandle in the 80's ). Israeli general
threatened Iran on tv. He said 'we will turn Iran into
a radioactive wasteland. Who is Axes of evil? I fear
USA will give Israel a go ahead to fire bunker busting
missile tiped with small nuclear bombs just before
goerge bushes presidency ends.
fox
--- Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/375.html
 
 Ai-yah!
 
 Sigh...
 
 One of the fundamental findings of cognitive
 science is that people 
 think in terms of frames and metaphors - conceptual
 structures. The 
 frames are in the synapses of our brains -
 physically present in the 
 form of neural circuitry. When the facts don't fit
 the frames, the 
 frames are kept and the facts ignored. -- George
 Lakoff
 
 Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a
 cloud of comforting 
 convictions, which move with him like flies on a
 summer day. -- 
 Bertrand Russell.
 
 :-(
 
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Re: [Biofuel] Potassium Methylate

[fox mulder]

You make a solution of potassium methanoate, when you
dissolve potassium in methanol. Solution is in a
liquid form. how to make it, go to journeyforever
website.
fox
--- DK  G Morrissey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi guys.
 
 I have heard that there is now a liquid catalyst
 available called Potassium
 Methylate. Does anyone know a recipe that uses this
 stuff and how to
 calculate volumes from titration.
 
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Re: [Biofuel] i-blew-up-my-2008-f350-on-biodiesel (supposedly)

[fox mulder]

Hi, Chris,
I used biodiesel in my passat tdi for two and half
years. Eventually biodiese could not work with the
injection system perfectly. The injector pump and
computer unit that sends the temperature to the
injector pump valve packed up. Now, I read the new
manual for passat which does warn of the adverse
effect on the injection system, if biodiesel used.if
your vehicle comes with direct injection system I
would recomment not use the biodiesel.
fox
--- Chris Tan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/05/02/i-blew-up-my-2008-f350-on-biodiesel/
 
 Best, 
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Re: [Biofuel] Open letter from Islam to Christianity

[fox mulder]

You have been brain washed by the western media which
reinforces your evangalical belief. How do you know
they did it. A great many number of muslims died in
the world trade centre.
--- swalms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Perhaps they should state they deplore the attacks
 of 911. or do they?
 
 -Original Message-
 From:
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 On Behalf Of
 Bob Molloy
 Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 6:26 PM
 To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org
 Subject: [Biofuel] Open letter from Islam to
 Christianity
 
 
 
 
 138 Muslim Scholars Issue Open Letter to Christian
 Religious Leaders 
 | IslamToday / Agencies|

 11 October 2007
 
 138 of the world's leading Muslim scholars and
 intellectuals from all
 branches of Islam (Sunni and Shia, Salafi and Sufi,
 liberal and
 conservative) had come together to write a letter
 entitled A Common Word
 Between Us and You, to the world's Christian
 leaders. 
 
 The drafting of the letter was organized by the
 Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute
 for Islamic Thought in Amman, Jordan. Though its
 message has been said by
 Muslim scholars many times before, it is the first
 time so many high-profile
 Muslims have come together in public to make such a
 unified call for peace. 
 
 The letter was launched first in Jordan this
 morning, and then in other
 countries over the course of the day, the letter
 gets its final unveiling at
 a joint press conference in Washington D.C. this
 afternoon by Mustafa Ceric,
 Grand Mufti of Bosnia, and John Esposito, Director
 of the Prince Alwaleed
 Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
 at Georgetown
 University. 
 
 In a display of unprecedented unity, the letter -
 which calls for peace
 between the world's Christians and Muslims - is
 signed by no fewer than 19
 current and former grand ayatollahs and grand muftis
 from countries as
 diverse as Egypt, Turkey, Russia, Syria, Jordan, and
 Palestine. War-torn
 Iraq was represented by both Shi'ites and Sunnis. 
 
 It is addressed to Christianity's most powerful
 leaders, including the pope,
 the archbishop of Canterbury and the heads of the
 Lutheran, Methodist and
 Baptist churches, and, in 15 pages laced with
 Qur'anic and Biblical
 scriptures, argues that the most fundamental tenets
 of Islam and
 Christianity are identical: love of one (and the
 same) God, and love of
 one's neighbor. 
 
 On this basis the letter reasons that harmony
 between the two religions is
 not only necessary for world peace, it is natural.
 
 As Muslims, we say to Christians that we are not
 against them and that
 Islam is not against them - so long as they do not
 wage war against Muslims
 on account of their religion, oppress them and drive
 them out of their homes
 . Our very eternal souls are all at stake if we fail
 to sincerely make every
 effort to make peace, the letter reads. 
 
 If Muslims and Christians are not at peace, the
 world cannot be at peace.
 With the terrible weaponry of the modern world; with
 Muslims and Christians
 intertwined everywhere as never before, no side can
 unilaterally win a
 conflict between more than half of the world's
 inhabitants, the scholars
 wrote. 
 
 Our common future is at stake. The very survival of
 the world itself is
 perhaps at stake,
 
 It's an astonishing achievement of solidarity,
 says David Ford, director
 of the Cambridge University's Interfaith Program. I
 hope it will be able to
 set the right key note for relations between Muslims
 and Christians in the
 21st century, which have been lacking since
 September 11. 
 
 One profound obstacle to establishing positive
 relations among mainstream
 Muslim and Christian groups, argues Ford, has been
 the lack of a single,
 authoritative Muslim voice to participate in such a
 dialogue. This letter
 changes that. It proves that Islam can have an
 unambiguous, unified voice,
 says Aref Ali Nayed, a leading Islamic scholar and
 one of the letter's
 authors. 
 
 Sources:
 
 Emily Flynn Vencat, Giving Peace a Chance Newsweek
 October 11, 2007
 
 Peter Graff, Unprecedented Muslim call for peace
 with Christians Reuters
 October 11, 2007
 
 Jumana Farouky, Muslim Leaders Send Peace Message
 Time October 11, 2007  
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Re: [Biofuel] Video; beginning of the third world war

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Re: [Biofuel] I am creating artificial life, declares US gene pioneer

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Source: http://www.guardian .co.uk/science/ 2007/oct/
06/genetics. climatechange



I am creating artificial life, declares US gene
pioneer
· Scientist has made synthetic chromosome 
· Breakthrough could combat global warming

Ed Pilkington in New York 
The Guardian 
Saturday October 6 2007 
Craig Venter, the controversial DNA researcher
involved in the race to decipher the human genetic
code, has built a synthetic chromosome out of
laboratory chemicals and is poised to announce the
creation of the first new artificial life form on
Earth.

The announcement, which is expected within weeks and
could come as early as Monday at the annual meeting of
his scientific institute in San Diego, California,
will herald a giant leap forward in the development of
designer genomes. It is certain to provoke heated
debate about the ethics of creating new species and
could unlock the door to new energy sources and
techniques to combat global warming.

Mr Venter told the Guardian he thought this landmark
would be a very important philosophical step in the
history of our species. We are going from reading our
genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us
the hypothetical ability to do things never
contemplated before.

The Guardian can reveal that a team of 20 top
scientists assembled by Mr Venter, led by the Nobel
laureate Hamilton Smith, has already constructed a
synthetic chromosome, a feat of virtuoso
bio-engineering never previously achieved. Using
lab-made chemicals, they have painstakingly stitched
together a chromosome that is 381 genes long and
contains 580,000 base pairs of genetic code.

The DNA sequence is based on the bacterium Mycoplasma
genitalium which the team pared down to the bare
essentials needed to support life, removing a fifth of
its genetic make-up. The wholly synthetically
reconstructed chromosome, which the team have
christened Mycoplasma laboratorium, has been
watermarked with inks for easy recognition.

It is then transplanted into a living bacterial cell
and in the final stage of the process it is expected
to take control of the cell and in effect become a new
life form. The team of scientists has already
successfully transplanted the genome of one type of
bacterium into the cell of another, effectively
changing the cell's species. Mr Venter said he was
100% confident the same technique would work for the
artificially created chromosome.

The new life form will depend for its ability to
replicate itself and metabolise on the molecular
machinery of the cell into which it has been injected,
and in that sense it will not be a wholly synthetic
life form. However, its DNA will be artificial, and it
is the DNA that controls the cell and is credited with
being the building block of life.

Mr Venter said he had carried out an ethical review
before completing the experiment. We feel that this
is good science, he said. He has further heightened
the controversy surrounding his potential breakthrough
by applying for a patent for the synthetic bacterium.

Pat Mooney, director of a Canadian bioethics
organisation, ETC group, said the move was an enormous
challenge to society to debate the risks involved.
Governments, and society in general, is way behind
the ball. This is a wake-up call - what does it mean
to create new life forms in a test-tube?

He said Mr Venter was creating a chassis on which you
could build almost anything. It could be a
contribution to humanity such as new drugs or a huge
threat to humanity such as bio-weapons .

Mr Venter believes designer genomes have enormous
positive potential if properly regulated. In the
long-term, he hopes they could lead to alternative
energy sources previously unthinkable. Bacteria could
be created, he speculates, that could help mop up
excessive carbon dioxide, thus contributing to the
solution to global warming, or produce fuels such as
butane or propane made entirely from sugar. 

We are not afraid to take on things that are
important just because they stimulate thinking, he
said. We are dealing in big ideas. We are trying to
create a new value system for life. When dealing at
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Re: [Biofuel] Sign Petition Against Attacking Iran

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Source: http://www.afterdow ningstreet.org/iran




Sign Petition Against Attacking Iran
Submitted by davidswanson on Wed, 2006-12-27 21:36.
Iran 

1. We have posted a new petition addressed to the
Joint Chiefs of Staff and All U.S. military personnel
urging them to refuse an illegal order to attack Iran.


Because we want to display your signatures publicly
and do not want spam machines to sign the petition, we
require that you log in first to access the petition.
In order to log in, you must register.

Once you are logged in, please click here to sign the
new petition. If you see a message that says access
denied that means you are not logged in.

Supporters of this new petition are listed at the link
above. 

TEXT OF PETITION:

ATTENTION: Joint Chiefs of Staff and all U.S. Military
Personnel:

Do not attack Iran.
Any preemptive U.S. attack on Iran would be illegal.
Any preemptive U.S. attack on Iran would be criminal.

We, the citizens of the United States, respectfully
urge you, courageous men and women of our military, to
refuse any order to preemptively attack Iran, a nation
that represents no serious or immediate threat to the
United States. To attack Iran, a sovereign nation of
70-million people, would be a crime of the highest
magnitude. 

Legal basis for our Request – Do not attack Iran:

The Nuremberg Principles, which are part of US law,
provide that all military personnel have the
obligation not to obey illegal orders. The Army Field
Manual 27-10, sec. 609 and UCMJ, art. 92, incorporate
this principle. Article 92 says: A general order or
regulation is lawful unless it is contrary to the
Constitution, the law of the United States …

Any provision of an international treaty ratified by
the United States becomes the law of the United
States. The United States is a party and signatory to
the United Nations Charter, of which Article II,
Section 4 states, All members shall refrain in their
international relations from the threat or use of
force against the territorial integrity or political
independence of any state… As Iran has not attacked
the United States, and as the U.S. is a party and
signatory to the Charter, any attack on Iran by the
U.S. would be illegal under not only international law
but under the U.S. Constitution which recognizes our
treaties as the Supreme Law of the Land. When you
joined the military, you took an oath to defend our
Constitution.

Following the orders of your government or superior
does not relieve you from responsibility under
international law. Under the Principles of
International Law recognized in the Charter of the
Nuremberg Tribunal, complicity in the commission of
war crime is a crime under international law.

Background:

The Bush Administration' s charges against Iran have
not been proven. Neither the development of nuclear
weapons, nor providing assistance to Iraq would, if
proven, constitute justification for an illegal war. 

An attack on Iran might prompt the formidable Iranian
military to attack U.S. troops stationed in Iraq.
Thousands of our soldiers might be killed or captured
as prisoners of war. A U.S. attack against Iranian
nuclear facilities could also mean the deaths, from
radiation poisoning, of tens of thousands of innocent
Iranian civilians. The people of Iran have little
control over their government, yet would suffer
tremendously should the U.S. attack. Bombing raids
would amount to collective punishment, a violation of
the Geneva Convention, and would surely sow the seeds
of hatred for generations to come. Children make up a
quarter of Iran's population. 

Above all, we ask you to look at the record of our
actions in Iraq, which U.S. intelligence admits is “a
cause celebre for jihadists” – a situation that did
not exist before we attacked. We must face the fact
that our rash use of military solutions has created
more enemies, and made American families less safe.
Diplomacy, not war, is the answer. 

Know the Risks Involved in Refusing an Illegal Order
or Signing This Statement:

We knowingly and willingly make this plea, aware of
the risk that, in violation of our First Amendment
rights, we could be charged under remaining sections
of the unconstitutional Espionage Act or other
unconstitutional statute, and that we could be fined,
imprisoned, or barred from government employment.

We make this plea, also aware that you have no easy
options. If you obey an illegal order to participate
in an aggressive attack on Iran, you could potentially
be charged with war crimes. If you heed our call and
disobey an illegal order you could be falsely charged
with crimes including treason. You could be falsely
court martialed. You could be imprisoned. (To talk to
a lawyer or to learn more about possible consequences,
contact The Central Committee for Conscientious
Objectors, Courage to Resist, Center on Conscience and
War, Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers
Guild415-566-3732 , or the GI Rights Hotline at   
877-447-4487 .) ** 

Final 

Re: [Biofuel] Ahmadinejad blames certain big powers for the plight of a large share of humanity

[fox mulder]

 

 

 
 

 

 
 
 

 
 
Ahmadinejad blames certain big powers for the plight
of a large share of humanity, but 
his own government's repressive policies have left him
open to criticism [GALLO/GETTY] 

It was quite a week for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the
Iranian president. 
 
First he faced down the president of Columbia
University and a host of hostile questioners in
Harlem. 
 
Then he headed down to Midtown Manhattan, where for 45
minutes he held the world's attention at the United
Nations, before heading farther south, to Caracas,
Venezuela, for talks with his close ally, President
Hugo Chavez.

Your Views
 
The countries that feel threatened ... should prepare
for defense, and even counterattack

Adolfo Talpalar, Stockholm, Sweden

Send us your views
 

Local papers, such as the Daily News and The New York
Post, featured headlines announcing that The Evil has
Landed and lambasting the Mad Iran Prez for his
past denials of the Holocaust, refusal to
unequivocally renounce a quest for nuclear weapons,
and call to have Israel wiped off the map (an
inaccurate translation of the Persian bayad az
safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad, which is better - but
less violently and therefore less usefully - rendered
in English as erased from the page of time or
fate). 
 
Even Lee Bollinger, the president of Columbia
University, introduced him with an unprecedented - and
to the minds of many academics, not to mention
Iranians, uncouth - verbal attack, accusing him of
being little more than a petty dictator. 
 
In its critiques of Ahmadinejad' s speech at Columbia,
the mainstream US press focused most of its attention
on Ahmadinejad' s tendentious claim that there are no
homosexuals in Iran (belied by an evening stroll
through Tehran's famous Daneshjoo Park), and his
attempt to redefine his position on the Holocaust (it
happened, but more research is needed to know its true
extent). 
 
At the UN, his criticism of widespread human rights
violations elicited the expected derisive response in
light of his own government's increasingly repressive
policies, while his declaration that the nuclear case
against Iran is closed suggested, to most
commentators, continued intransigence by Iran in the
face of supposedly universal opposition to its nuclear
programme. 

Discourteous treatment
 
Few commentators considered how Ahmadinejad' s words
were heard outside of the US media circus. 
 
And those who did, such as Timothy Rutton of the LA
Times, focused purely on the reaction in the Muslim
world, arguing that, as a totalitarian demagogue,
Ahmadinejad gained legitimacy because of the
discourteous treatment by Columbia's president. 

 
Ahmadinejad speaks to a wider audience 
than just his western listeners [Reuters] 


Rutton wrote: Bollinger's denunciation was icing on
the cake, because the constituency the Iranian leader
cares about is scattered across an Islamic world that
values hospitality and its courtesies as core social
virtues.
 
To that audience, Bollinger looked stunningly
ill-mannered; Ahmadinejad dignified and restrained. 
 
Underlying Rutton's argument is the still-widespread
belief, whose roots lie deep in Europe and America's
histories as imperial powers, that Muslims and the
other formerly colonised peoples value honour,
pride and hospitality far more than they do issues
of substance. 
 
Indeed, they remain incapable of making well-reasoned
and documented criticisms of a West, and the United
States in particular, that remains by definition
technologically, politically, and morally superior to
the developing world.

'Poverty and deprivation'
 
It's no wonder, then, that almost no one in the
American media focused on the substantive claims of
Ahmadinejad' s speech at the UN. 
 
Chief among them were his argument regarding the
alarming situation of poverty and deprivation .

Let me draw your attention to some data issued by the
United Nations, he said, before calling to the
attention of the world's leaders the fact that close
to one billion people live on less than $1-a-day and
that there is a rapidly increasing gap between the
world's rich and poor.

He mentioned the continued disgraceful figures for
infant mortality, schooling and related human
development indicators in the developing world. 
 
Perhaps wanting to be courteous, Ahmadinejad blamed
certain big powers for the plight of a large share
of humanity - he might have added that according to UN
estimates almost half the world lives on less than $2
per day. 
 
But he didn't need to name names; most of the
developing world, including the Muslim world, share
his belief that their plight is linked to a world
economic system whose goal, for more than half a
millennium, has been to exploit the peoples and
resources of the rest of the world for the benefit of
the more advanced countries of the West.

 
Few considered how Ahmadinejad' s words were
heard outside of the US media circus [AFP] 


That is precisely why so many people in the developing
world remain opposed to 

Re: [Biofuel] Michael Moore will be appearing again on Oprah today, Thursday, September 27th.

[fox mulder]

Source: http://www.youtube. com/watch?
v=R5rXxXyeOY8mode=relatedsearch=

Thursday, September 27th, 2007 

Michael Moore will be appearing again on Oprah today,
Thursday, September 27th. Oprah has received thousands
of letters from viewers since Mike's appearance in
June -- viewers who wanted to share their own health
care horror stories. So she invited a number of them
to come on today's show, which will feature not only
Mike but the head of the health insurance lobby in
D.C. 

The theme of the show is, 'It Can Happen to You.' And,
unfortunately, it can. Joining Oprah and Michael on
the show will be Steve Skvara, the steelworker who
famously popped the health care question at the
Democratic presidential debate in August, and Civia
Katz, a Pennsylvania woman who saw 'SiCKO' and decided
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Re: [Biofuel] Weapons left by US troops 'used as bait to kill Iraqis'

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Source: http://news. independent. co.uk/world/
middle_east/ article2996115. ece

 

Weapons left by US troops 'used as bait to kill
Iraqis' 
By Kim Sengupta in Baghdad 
Published: 25 September 2007 
US soldiers are luring Iraqis to their deaths by
scattering military equipment on the ground as bait,
and then shooting those who pick them up, it has been
alleged at a court martial. The highly controversial
tactic, which has hitherto been kept secret, is
believed to have been responsible for the deaths of a
number of Iraqis who were subsequently classified as
enemy combatants and used in statistics to show the
success of the surge in US forces.

The revelation came in court documents, obtained by
The Washington Post , related to murder charges
against three US soldiers who are alleged to have
planted incriminating evidence on civilians they had
killed. In a sworn statement, Captain Matthew Didier,
the officer in charge of a sniper platoon, said:
Basically we would put an item out there and watch
it. If someone found the item, picked it up and
attempted to leave with the item, we would engage the
individual as I saw this as a sign they would use the
item against the US forces. 

Capt Didier, of the 1st Battalion 501st Infantry
Regiment, said members of the US military's Asymmetric
Warfare Group visited his unit in January and later
supplied ammunition boxes filled with drop items to
be used  to disrupt the AIF [Anti-Iraq Forces]
attempts at harming coalition forces and give us the
upper hand in a fight. 

Within months of the introduction of the strategy,
three snipers in Capt Didier's platoon were charged
with murder for allegedly using the baits  to try to
cover up unprovoked shootings. Specialist Jorge
Sandoval and Staff Sgt Michael Hensley are accused of
placing a spool of wire, sometimes used to detonate
roadside bombs, in the pocket of a man who had been
cutting grass with a rusty sickle after he was killed
on 27 April this year. 

Sgt Evan Vela is accused of shooting an Iraqi prisoner
twice in the head with a 9mm pistol on the orders of
Staff Sgt Hensley. The two soldiers told investigators
that the man was carrying an AK-47 rifle. Other
soldiers have testified that the rifle was planted
next to the Iraqi after he was shot. 

In earlier testimony Pte David Petta said he believed
that classified items were to be placed on people
killed by the sniper unit if we killed somebody that
we knew was a bad guy but didn't have the evidence to
show for it. 

The court martial of Spc Sandoval is due to start in
Baghdad this week. His father, Curtis Carnahan,
accused the US military of holding the proceedings in
a war zone to try to minimise publicity. 

I feel you can't prosecute our soldiers for acts of
war and threaten them with years and years of
confinement when this [bait] programme, if it comes
to the light of day, was clearly coming from higher
levels. 

A US military spokes-man said: We don't discuss
specific methods of targeting enemy combatants. The
accused are charged with murder and wrongfully placing
weapons on the remains of Iraqi nationals. There are
no classified programmes that authorise the murder of
local nationals and the use of 'drop weapons' to make
killings appear legally justified. 

A US military source said baits had been left by a
number of units. The guys picking them up are
sometimes bad guys. But how do you know each time? 

Robert Emerson, a British security analyst, said:
This seems a highly arbitrary and suspect way of
carrying out counter-insurgency operations.



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Re: [Biofuel] Volkswagon Rabbit and Cummings 5.9 Diesel

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I used biodiesel in VW Passat TDI for just over 2 
years. Eventually the injection system packed up. the
injector pump was affected and the electronic computer
control that senses the temperature and sends the
temperature to the injection system became faulty. My
experience tells me that one should not use BD in tdi
system.
Has anyone else had similar experience?

fox
--- Michael Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 Both engines will run B100. It is the fuel system
 that will eventually need
 repairs. A sudden switch to the clean biodiesel fuel
 will result in a
 thorough cleaning out of the existing crud in the
 fuel system, which will
 end up in the fuel filter. So, plan for it, and have
 a spare filter on hand.
 
 In the near term future any rubber components of the
 fuel system will
 dissolve and begin to leak. I have a '92 Chevy 6.2L
 with no modifications at
 all. It has been burning blends of biodiesel for two
 years with no leaks,
 but I will not be surprised when they start. On the
 other hand a leak is
 easy to discover and makes finding the failed part
 easy to identify.
 
 I live in northern Wisconsin. Making biodiesel from
 waste vegetable oil does
 not make as good a fuel as from virgin oil. It is
 possible, but requires a
 lot more time to wash and dry, and I still end up
 with a fuel that is not
 usable in temps below 30F. From experience I now
 begin blending when the
 overnight lows reach 40F. When the overnight lows
 reach 30F I am at a 50%
 blend, and by 0F I do not use any biodiesel. But
 days of below zero temps
 are not many. I only purchased one tank of all
 petro-diesel last winter.
 
 Last winter my truck failed to start three separate
 times, and each time
 required a tow to a heated garage to thaw out.
 However, in defense of
 biodiesel I need to admit that each time it failed
 to start we found a
 needed repair on the truck. The first failure we
 discovered the glow plug
 relay was not cycling properly, the second failure,
 we found the fuel heater
 was not cycling on at all, and the third failure we
 found the circuit I use
 to plug in the engine block heater was tripped (bad
 extension cord). So I
 can blame biodiesel for last year's problems. We
 will see this winter if my
 diesel ownership skills have improved.
 
 Bottom line, go for it. You will learn what you need
 as you go.
 
 Michael
 
 
 
 On 9/25/07, Tony Marzolino [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
 
  Hello List,
I just purchased a 1984 Rabbit. Also a friend
 has a 1989 Dodge with a
  5.9 turbo diesel Cummings engine.
 
Are they any modification needed to these cars
 before running
  bio-diesel?  We live in upstate NY, so I assume
 B100 would not work in the
  winter.  What is a suggested mixture (i.e. B75 or
 B50)?
 
Thanks,
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Re: [Biofuel] Israeli nuclear reactor

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Source: youtube
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Re: [Biofuel] Salt water as fuel?

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Source: http://www.post- gazette.com/ pg/07252/
815920-85. stm
 
Salt water as fuel? Erie man hopes so
Sunday, September 09, 2007
By David Templeton, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

For obvious reasons, scientists long have thought that
salt water couldn't be burned.

So when an Erie man announced he'd ignited salt water
with the radio-frequency generator he'd invented, some
thought it a was a hoax.

John Kanzius, a Washington County native, tried to
desalinate seawater with a generator he developed to
treat cancer, and it caused a flash in the test tube.

Within days, he had the salt water in the test tube
burning like a candle, as long as it was exposed to
radio frequencies.

His discovery has spawned scientific interest in using
the world's most abundant substance as clean fuel,
among other uses.

Rustum Roy, a Penn State University chemist, held a
demonstration last week at the university's Materials
Research Laboratory in State College, to confirm what
he'd witnessed weeks before in an Erie lab.

It's true, it works, Dr. Roy said. Everyone told
me, 'Rustum, don't be fooled. He put electrodes in
there.' 

But there are no electrodes and no gimmicks, he said.

Dr. Roy said the salt water isn't burning per se,
despite appearances. The radio frequency actually
weakens bonds holding together the constituents of
salt water -- sodium chloride, hydrogen and oxygen --
and releases the hydrogen, which, once ignited, burns
continuously when exposed to the RF energy field. Mr.
Kanzius said an independent source measured the
flame's temperature, which exceeds 3,000 degrees
Fahrenheit, reflecting an enormous energy output.

As such, Dr. Roy, a founding member of the Materials
Research Laboratory and expert in water structure,
said Mr. Kanzius' discovery represents the most
remarkable in water science in 100 years.

But researching its potential will take time and
money, he said. One immediate question is energy
efficiency: The energy the RF generator uses vs. the
energy output from burning hydrogen.

Dr. Roy said he's scheduled to meet tomorrow with U.S.
Department of Energy and Department of Defense
officials in Washington to discuss the discovery and
seek research funding.

Mr. Kanzius said he powered a Stirling, or hot air,
engine with salt water. But whether the system can
power a car or be used as an efficient fuel will
depend on research results.

We will get our ideas together and check this out and
see where it leads, Dr. Roy said. The potential is
huge.

In the life sciences, the role of water is infinite,
and this guy is doing something new in using the most
important and most abundant material on the face of
the earth.

Mr. Kanzius' discovery was an accident.

He developed the RF generator as a novel cancer
treatment. His research in targeting cancer cells with
metallic nanoparticles then destroying them with
radio-frequency is proceeding at the University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center and at the University of
Texas' MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

Manuscripts updating the cancer research are in
preparation for publication in coming months, Mr.
Kanzius said.

While Mr. Kanzius was demonstrating how his generator
heated nanoparticles, someone noted condensation
inside the test tube and suggested he try using his
equipment to desalinate water.

So, Mr. Kanzius said, he put sea water in a test tube,
then trained his machine on it, producing an
unexpected spark. In time he and laboratory owners
struck a match and ignited the water, which continued
burning as long as it remained in the radio-frequency
field.

During several trials, heat from burning hydrogen grew
hot enough to melt the test tube, he said. Dr. Roy's
tests on the machine last week provided further
evidence that the process is releasing and burning
hydrogen from the water. Tests on different water
solutions and concentrations produced various
temperatures and flame colors.

This is the most abundant element in the world. It is
everywhere, Dr. Roy said of salt water. Seeing it
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Re: [Biofuel] The Greatest Story Never Told

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Source: rense.com
http://www.rense. com/general78/ gstst.htm




The Greatest Story Never Told
By Stephen Lendman
9-13-7

No issue is more sensitive in the US than daring to
criticize Israel. It's the metaphorical third rail
in American politics, academia and the major media.
Anyone daring to touch it pays dearly as the few who
tried learned. Those in elected office face an
onslaught of attacks and efforts to replace them with
more supportive officials. Former five term
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney felt its sting twice in
2002 and 2006. So did 10 term Congressman Paul Findley
(a fierce and courageous Israeli critic) in 1982 and
three term Senator Charles Percy in 1984 whom AIPAC
targeted merely for appearing to support anti-Israeli
policy.   DePaul University Professor Norman
Finkelstein has long been a target as well for his
courageous writing and outspokenness. Depaul formally
denied him tenure June 8 even though his students call
him truly outstanding and among the most impressive
of all university political science professors. It's
why his Department of Political Science endorsed his
tenure bid stating his academic record exceeds our
department's stated standards for scholarly production
(and) department and outside experts we consulted
recognize the intellectual merits of his work.   It
didn't help, and on August 26 got worse. The
university acknowledged Professor Finkelstein is a
prolific scholar and an outstanding teacher. Yet it
issued a brief statement canceling his classes and
placing him on administrative leave with full pay and
benefits for the 2007-8 academic year (that) relieves
professors from their teaching responsibilities. For
now, Finkelstein' s long struggle with the university
ended the first day of classes, September 5. Both
sides agreed to a settlement, and a planned day of
protests was curtailed. But as Chicago Tribune writer
Ron Grossman put it in his September 6 column
headlined Finkelstein deal ends DePaul tiffthe
underlying struggle between supporters of Israel and
champions (like Finkelstein) of the Palestinians
continues, not just at the North Side campus but
across the academic world.   That struggle is nowhere
in sight in the dominant media that includes major
print publications, commercial radio, television and
so-called Public Broadcasting and National Public
Radio both of which long ago abandoned the public
trust in service to their corporate and government
paymasters.   In all parts of the major media, no
Israeli criticism is tolerated on-air or in print, and
any reporter, news anchor, pundit or on-air guest
forgetting the (unwritten) rules, won't get a second
chance. Support for Israel is ironclad, absolute, and
uncompromising on everything including its worst
crimes of war and against humanity. Open debate is
stifled, and anyone daring to dissent or demur is
pilloried, ridiculed, called anti-semetic, even
threatened, ostracized, and finally ignored. In his
seminal work on Middle East affairs, Fateful
Triangle, Noam Chomsky put it this way: Israel
has been granted a unique immunity from criticism in
mainstream journalism and scholarship. ...   Call it
the myth of the free press in a nation claiming to
have the freest of all. It's pure fantasy now and in
an earlier era, journalist A.J Liebling said it was
only for those who own(ed) one. Today, they're
giants operating the way Edward Herman and Noam
Chomsky explained in their classic book on the media
titled Manufacturing Consent. The authors developed
their propaganda model to show all news and
information passes through a set of filters. Raw
material goes through them, unacceptable parts are
suppressed, and only the cleansed residue fit to
print (and broadcast on-air) reaches the public. The
New York Times calls it All The News That's Fit to
Print. By its standard, it means sanitized news only
leaving out the most important parts and what readers
want most - the full truth and nothing else.   The
same goes for the rest of the dominant media that
serve as collective national thought control police
gatekeepers filtering everything we read, see and
hear. They manipulate our minds and beliefs, program
our thoughts, and effectively destroy the free
marketplace of ideas essential to a healthy democracy.
In America, that's nowhere in sight.   The problem is
most acute in reporting on Israel. Criticism of the
Jewish state is stifled in an effort to portray it as
a model democracy, the only one in the region, and
surrounded by hostile Palestinians, other Arab/Muslim
extremists and whoever else Israel cites as a threat,
real or contrived. The truth is quite opposite but
absent from corporate-controlle d media spaces.   How
The Newspaper of Record Reports on Israel   This
article focuses mainly on the media's lead and most
influential voice, The New York Times. It's been
around since 1851 when it quietly debuted saying
we intend to (publish) every morning (except
Sundays) for an indefinite number of years to come.

Re: [Biofuel] A video promoting Naomi Klein's new book Shock Doctrine is worth watching on its own merits

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A video promoting Naomi Klein's new book Shock
Doctrine is worth watching on its own merits

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Re: [Biofuel] Al-Jazeera man 'close to death' at Guantanamo Bay

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Source: http://news. independent. co.uk/world/
americas/ article2956428. ece

 

13 September 2007 20:54 

Al-Jazeera man 'close to death' at Guantanamo Bay 
By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor 
Published: 13 September 2007 
An al-Jazeera journalist captured in Afghanistan six
years ago and sent to Guantanamo Bay is close to
becoming the fifth detainee at the US naval base to
take his own life, according to a medical report
written by a team of British and American
psychiatrists 

Sami al-Haj, a Sudanese national, is 250 days into a
hunger strike which he began in protest over his
detention without charge or trial in January 2002. But
British and American doctors, who have been given
exclusive access to his interview notes, say there is
very strong evidence that he has given up his fight
for life, experiencing what doctors recognise as
passive suicide, a condition suffered by female
victims of Darfur .

Dr Dan Creson, a US psychiatrist who has worked with
the United Nations in Darfur , said Mr Haj was
suffering from severe depression and may be
deteriorating to the point of imminent death.

He said the detainee's condition was similar to that
of Darfuri women in Sudan whose mind suddenly
experiences an irreversible decline after enduring
months of starvation and abuse. He said: In the midst
of rape, slow starvation, and abject humiliation, they
did whatever they could to survive and save their
children; then, suddenly, something happened in their
psyche, and, without warning, they would just sit down
with their small children beneath the first small area
of available shade and with no apparent emotion wait
for death.

In June this year a Saudi man became the fourth
prisoner to take his own life at Guantanamo Bay .
Guards found him dead in his cell. Two Saudis and a
Yemeni prisoner were found hanged in an apparent
suicide at Guantanamo in June last year. A senior US
officer caused outrage at the time by describing the
suicides of three men as an act of asymmetric warfare
and a good PR move on the part of terrorist suspects.

Mr Haj, 38, was sent on assignment by al-Jazeera
television station to cover the war in Afghanistan in
October 2001. The following month, after the fall of
Kabul , Mr Haj left Afghanistan for Pakistan with the
rest of his crew.

In early December, the crew were given visas to return
to Afghanistan . But when Mr Haj tried to re-enter
Afghanistan with his colleagues, he was arrested by
the Pakistani authorities – apparently at the request
of the US military.

He was imprisoned, handed over to the US authorities
in January 2002, taken to the US military compound in
Bagram, Afghanisatan, then Kandahar, and finally to
Guantanamo in June 2002.

His lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, of the human rights
charity Reprieve, said his client had endured months
of brutal force-feeding and lost nearly a fifth of his
body weight during the hunger strike.

Mr Stafford Smith said: The US military is rightly
afraid of a fifth prisoner dying in their custody. But
they wrongly respond by treating prisoners worse.
Blankets and clothes are removed in case they are used
to commit suicide. The harshest methods of forced
feeding are deployed – Sami has suffered the feeding
tube being forced down into his lungs by mistake
several times.

The warning about the condition of Mr Haj coincided
with the release of Guantanamo transcripts which
describe the hostility between guards and their
prisoners. The transcripts includes details of guards
interrupting detainees at prayer, detainees flinging
body waste at guards and interrogators withholding
medicine.

Dr Hugh Rickards, a British psychiatrist, warned in
his report that the level of Mr Haj's mental suffering
appears so acute that it is my duty as a medical
practitioner to put this in writing to ensure
appropriate assessment and treatment.

Dr Mamoun Mobayed, a British psychiatrist based in
Northern Ireland, and a third member of the team who
has also been given access to written notes of recent
interviews with the prisoner, said there was also
concern about the mental health of Mr Haj's wife and
seven-year-old son, who was just one when his father
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Re: [Biofuel] [video] bush's staged chat with troops

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Re: [Biofuel] [video] bush's staged chat with troops

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Re: [Biofuel] A warning about the prospect of an immin ent but staged “9/11” attack followed by a strike on I ran

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http://www.opednews .com/articles/ opedne_jim_
fetz_070830_ scholars_ endore__22the. htm






August 30, 2007

Scholars endorse The Kennebunkport Warning: Report
ominous signs of a privatized takeover of the nation

By Jim Fetzer

A warning about the prospect of an imminent but staged
“9/11” attack followed by a strike on Iran and
imposition of martial law in the US has been issued by
Cynthia McKinney, Webster Tarpley and others. Known as
“The Kennebunkport Warning” (August 26, 2007), it has
drawn support from Scholars for 9/11 Truth. According
to its founder, James H. Fetzer, not only are there
multiple indications the United States is about to
attack Iran, but a series of rather odd events suggest
that martial law may be near at hand. “The threat is
not from our own military, the strength of which is
being depleted by the ongoing occupation of Iraq, but
from privatized armies, such as Blackwater USA, which
appear to be growing stronger as the US Army is
growing weaker.” 

According to The Kennebunkport Warning, extensive
evidence suggests that those allied with the neo-con
faction headed by Vice President Cheney “are
determined to orchestrate and manufacture a new 9/11
terror incident . . . (to) be used as a pretext for
launching an aggressive war against Iran and for
imposing a regime of martial law here in the United
States. . . . We solemnly warn the people of the world
that any terrorist attack with weapons of mass
destruction taking place inside the United States or
elsewhere in the immediate future must be considered
the prima facie responsibility of the Cheney faction.”

Fetzer, a former Marine Corps officer, observes that
the privatization of military force has created a new
problem for the citizens of this nation. “In the past,
we have had confidence that the US military, our
national guard, our local police and armed citizens
had the combined ability to withstand threats to our
liberty from our own government. But our military is
broken, the National Guard has been placed under the
President’s control, and our access to ammunition now
appears to be being cut off, which compromises our
capacity to resist tyranny.”

That our level of engagement in Iraq cannot be
continued has been conveyed by many sources.
Associated Press reporter Lolita C. Baldor (August 19,
2007) has written that our level of engagement in Iraq
cannot be sustained. “Sapped by nearly six years of
war, the Army has nearly exhausted its fighting force
and its options if the Bush administration decides to
extend the Iraq buildup beyond next year.” Many
general officers and National Guard commanders have
said similar things, but the effects of a depleted
military may have unexpected ramifications.

The control of the National Guard has been placed
directly at the disposal of the President of the
United States over the opposition of all fifty
governors. “I can’t imagine a more blatant violation
of states' rights than this,” Fetzer said. “It used to
be the case that the Republican Party stood for
states' rights. But then it also stood for balanced
budgets, Constitutional government, a
non-interventionist foreign policy, and keeping the
government out of our personal lives. I simply do not
understand why any principled Republican would support
this administration. Maybe there aren’t any left.” 

An article by Reuters (August 26, 2007) confirms that
the US is the most heavily armed nation in the world,
with 90 guns per 100 people. According a Small Arms
Survey conducted by the Graduate Institute of
International Studies in Geneva, each year about 4.5
million of some 8 million new rifles, shotguns and
hardguns are sold to US citizens, who own about 270
million of the world's 875 million known firearms.
“Ordinarily, I would consider this to be a source of
security,” Fetzer observed, “but the Second Amendment
is meaningless if our access to ammunition is cut
off.”

Fetzer was recently startled to read in The Capital
Times (August 28, 2007) that police departments across
the country are so starved for ammunition that they
are resorting to target practice with paint-ball guns.
“This is quite shocking,” he said. “Most police
ammunition is .38 and 9mm caliber, not the kind that
our military requires. The profit margin on the sale
and manufacture of bullets is so great and the demand
is so strong that it is difficult to imagine how this
could happen absent a deliberate policy to curtail
access to ammo. Without bullets, those vast stocks of
weapons are useless. This appears to be a very clever,
insidious plan.”

Other developments raise Fetzer’s concern, including a
report (wesh.com, August 22, 2007) that members of the
1st Battalion, 265th Air Defense Artillery are being
deployed from Florida to the nation’s capital for a
year’s duty, “where they will operate high-tech
weapons systems against any 

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Re: [Biofuel] Robert Fisk: Even I question the 'truth' about 9/11

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Source: The Independent
http://news. independent. co.uk/fisk/ article2893860.
ece





Robert Fisk: Even I question the 'truth' about 9/11 


Each time I lecture abroad on the Middle East, there
is always someone in the audience – just one – whom I
call the raver. Apologies here to all the men and
women who come to my talks with bright and pertinent
questions – often quite humbling ones for me as a
journalist – and which show that they understand the
Middle East tragedy a lot better than the journalists
who report it. But the raver is real. He has turned
up in corporeal form in Stockholm and in Oxford, in
Sao Paulo and in Yerevan, in Cairo, in Los Angeles
and, in female form, in Barcelona. No matter the
country, there will always be a raver.

His – or her – question goes like this. Why, if you
believe you're a free journalist, don't you report
what you really know about 9/11? Why don't you tell
the truth – that the Bush administration (or the CIA
or Mossad, you name it) blew up the twin towers? Why
don't you reveal the secrets behind 9/11? The
assumption in each case is that Fisk knows – that Fisk
has an absolute concrete, copper-bottomed fact-filled
desk containing final proof of what all the world
knows (that usually is the phrase) – who destroyed
the twin towers. Sometimes the raver is clearly
distressed. One man in Cork screamed his question at
me, and then – the moment I suggested that his version
of the plot was a bit odd – left the hall, shouting
abuse and kicking over chairs.

Usually, I have tried to tell the truth; that while
there are unanswered questions about 9/11, I am the
Middle East correspondent of The Independent, not the
conspiracy correspondent; that I have quite enough
real plots on my hands in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Iran,
the Gulf, etc, to worry about imaginary ones in
Manhattan. My final argument – a clincher, in my view
– is that the Bush administration has screwed up
everything – militarily, politically diplomatically –
it has tried to do in the Middle East; so how on earth
could it successfully bring off the international
crimes against humanity in the United States on 11
September 2001?

Well, I still hold to that view. Any military which
can claim – as the Americans did two days ago – that
al-Qa'ida is on the run is not capable of carrying out
anything on the scale of 9/11. We disrupted
al-Qa'ida, causing them to run, Colonel David
Sutherland said of the preposterously code-named
Operation Lightning Hammer in Iraq's Diyala
province. Their fear of facing our forces proves the
terrorists know there is no safe haven for them. And
more of the same, all of it untrue.

Within hours, al-Qa'ida attacked Baquba in battalion
strength and slaughtered all the local sheikhs who had
thrown in their hand with the Americans. It reminds me
of Vietnam, the war which George Bush watched from the
skies over Texas – which may account for why he this
week mixed up the end of the Vietnam war with the
genocide in a different country called Cambodia, whose
population was eventually rescued by the same
Vietnamese whom Mr Bush's more courageous colleagues
had been fighting all along.

But – here we go. I am increasingly troubled at the
inconsistencies in the official narrative of 9/11.
It's not just the obvious non sequiturs: where are the
aircraft parts (engines, etc) from the attack on the
Pentagon? Why have the officials involved in the
United 93 flight (which crashed in Pennsylvania) been
muzzled? Why did flight 93's debris spread over miles
when it was supposed to have crashed in one piece in a
field? Again, I'm not talking about the crazed
research of David Icke's Alice in Wonderland and the
World Trade Center Disaster – which should send any
sane man back to reading the telephone directory.

I am talking about scientific issues. If it is true,
for example, that kerosene burns at 820C under optimum
conditions, how come the steel beams of the twin
towers – whose melting point is supposed to be about
1,480C – would snap through at the same time? (They
collapsed in 8.1 and 10 seconds.) What about the third
tower – the so-called World Trade Centre Building 7
(or the Salmon Brothers Building) – which collapsed in
6.6 seconds in its own footprint at 5.20pm on 11
September? Why did it so neatly fall to the ground
when no aircraft had hit it? The American National
Institute of Standards and Technology was instructed
to analyse the cause of the destruction of all three
buildings. They have not yet reported on WTC 7. Two
prominent American professors of mechanical
engineering – very definitely not in the raver
bracket – are now legally challenging the terms of
reference of this final report on the grounds that it
could be fraudulent or deceptive.

Journalistically, there were many odd things about
9/11. Initial reports of reporters that they heard
explosions in the towers – which could well have
been the beams cracking – are easy to dismiss. Less so
the report that the body of a female air crew member
was 

Re: [Biofuel] Sony Develops Battery that Generates Electricity Through Sugar

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Source: http://www.associat edcontent. com/article/
356569/sony_ develops_ battery_that_ generates. html





Sony Develops Battery that Generates Electricity
Through Sugar


  Model shows off four bio batteries connected to a
Walkman. A video demonstration on Sony's website was
able to show the bio battery powering up the device. 
Credit: Sony
Copyright: Sony 


Sony announced Thursday at their headquarters in Tokyo
that their company has developed a bio battery that
can generate electricity from sugar. The battery makes
use of the enzymes in sugar to act as catalyst.
According to Sony, these enzymes are produced through
the application of power generation principles found
in living organisms. 

The bio battery consists of a cellophane separator
which has an anode (the positive electrode in an
electrolytic cell or a storage battery) that consists
of sugar-digesting enzymes and mediator on one side,
and a cathode (an electrode through which (positive)
electric current flows out of a polarized electrical
device) that has oxygen-reducing enzymes and mediator
on the other side. The system works when the anode
extracts electrons and hydrogen ions from the sugar
through enzymatic oxidation then the hydrogen goes to
the cathode through the separator and once there, the
hydrogen ions and electrons absorb oxygen from the air
to produce water. Sony calls this process,
electrochemical reaction and when the electrons pass
through the outer circuit, it generates electricity. 

Sony reveals that their bio battery has an output
power of 50 mW through tests conducted on the battery.
Sony stated that their bio battery currently has the
world's highest output power for passive type bio
batteries. According to Sony's press release, the
power output of their bio battery is enough to
power-up a memory type Walkman. 

Sony stated that in order to have a high power output,
they developed a system of breaking down sugar that
efficiently immobilizes enzymes and the mediator at
the anode and a new cathode structure has helped in
efficiently supplying oxygen to the electrode. 

A video posted on Sony's website demonstrates the
capabilities of their bio battery. In one
demonstration, four bio batteries are connected then a
glucose solution is poured unto one of the batteries.
The batteries converted the glucose solution into
electricity and powered up a memory Walkman. In
another demonstration, Sony used an ordinary sports
drink which contains sugar, poured it unto a the bio
battery and the battery was able to turn on a small
fan. 

Sony's bio battery test cell specifications measures
39 millimeters cubed and weigh 40 cc without the
casing. Sony's bio battery's casing is made up of
vegetable-based plastic and designed to look like a
biological cell. 

Sony already presented their research as an academic
paper at the 234th American Chemical Society National
Meeting  Exposition in Boston, Massachusetts. 



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Re: [Biofuel] Robert Fisk: The Iraqis don't deserve us. So we betray them...

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Source: The Independent
http://news. independent. co.uk/fisk/ article2886358.
ece




Robert Fisk: The Iraqis don't deserve us. So we betray
them... 


Always, we have betrayed them. We backed Flossy in
Yemen. The French backed their local harkis in
Algeria; then the FLN victory forced them to swallow
their own French military medals before dispatching
them into mass graves. In Vietnam, the Americans
demanded democracy and, one by one - after praising
the Vietnamese for voting under fire in so many
cities, towns and villages - they destroyed the
elected prime ministers because they were not abiding
by American orders. 

Now we are at work in Iraq. Those pesky Iraqis don't
deserve our sacrifice, it seems, because their elected
leaders are not doing what we want them to do.

Does that remind you of a Palestinian organisation
called Hamas? First, the Americans loved Ahmed
Chalabi, the man who fabricated for Washington
the'weapons of mass destruction (with a hefty bank
fraud charge on his back). Then, they loved Ayad
Allawi, a Vietnam-style spook who admitted working for
26 intelligence organisations, including the CIA and
MI6. Then came Ibrahim al-Jaafari, symbol of electoral
law, whom the Americans loved, supported, loved again
and destroyed. Couldn't get his act together. It was
up to the Iraqis, of course, but the Americans wanted
him out. And the seat of the Iraqi government - a
never-never land in the humidity of Baghdad's green
zone - lay next to the largest US embassy in the
world. So goodbye, Ibrahim.

Then there was Nouri al-Maliki, a man with whom Bush
could do business; loved, supported and loved again
until Carl Levin and the rest of the US Senate Armed
Forces Committee - and, be sure, George W Bush -
decided he couldn't fulfil America's wishes. He
couldn't get the army together, couldn't pull the
police into shape, an odd demand when US military
forces were funding and arming some of the most brutal
Sunni militias in Baghdad, and was too close to
Tehran.

There you have it. We overthrew Saddam's Sunni
minority and the Iraqis elected the Shias into power,
and all those old Iranian acolytes who had grown up
under the Islamic Revolution in exile from the
Iraq-Iran war - Jaafari was a senior member of the
Islamic Dawaa party which was enthusiastically seizing
Western hostages in Beirut in the 1980s and trying to
blow up our friend the Emir of Kuwait - were voted
into power. So blame the Iranians for their
interference in Iraq when Iran's own creatures had
been voted into power.

And now, get rid of Maliki. Chap doesn't know how to
unify his own people, for God's sake. No interference,
of course. It's up to the Iraqis, or at least, it's up
to the Iraqis who live under American protection in
the green zone. The word in the Middle East - where
the plot (al-moammarer) has the power of reality -
is that Maliki's cosy trips to Tehran and Damascus
these past two weeks have been the final straw for the
fantasists in Washington. Because Iran and Syria are
part of the axis of evil or the cradle of evil or
whatever nonsense Bush and his cohorts and the
Israelis dream up, take a look at the $30bn in arms
heading to Israel in the next decade in the cause of
peace.

Maliki's state visits to the crazed Ahmedinejad and
the much more serious Bashar al-Assad appear to be, in
Henry VIII's words, treachery, treachery, treachery.
But Maliki is showing loyalty to his former Iranian
masters and their Syrian Alawite allies (the Alawites
being an interesting satellite of the Shias).

These creatures - let us use the right word - belong
to us and thus we can step on them when we wish. We
will not learn - we will never learn, it seems - the
key to Iraq. The majority of the people are Muslim
Shias. The majority of their leaders, including the
fiery Muqtada al-Sadr were trained, nurtured,
weaned, loved, taught in Iran. And now, suddenly, we
hate them. The Iraqis do not deserve us. This is to be
the grit on the sand that will give our tanks traction
to leave Iraq. Bring on the clowns! Maybe they can
help us too. 



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Re: [Biofuel] Chinese eco-city heralds revolution in urban living

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Chinese eco-city heralds revolution in urban living
LONDON, England (CNN) -- On an island off the coast of
the Chinese city of Shanghai , architects, engineers
and contractors are preparing to build a new city
later this year. In itself, this is nothing special
one would think.



Dongtan, the eco-city being built off the coast of
Shanghai on the Yangtze River .

more photos » 



With 20 percent of the world population living in
China and national population figures set to hit 1.47
billion by 2020, there is always demand for new
housing.

But the city that is to be built on Chongming Island
at the mouth of the Yangtze River is like no other in
the world: Dongtan eco-city is planned to be first
truly environmentally and economically sustainable
city.

Situated on a plot of land that is around two-thirds
the size of Manhattan , Dongtan is surrounded by
wetlands and lies beside a bird sanctuary where
hundreds of rare migratory birds seek refuge.

It was these unusual natural conditions that sparked
the ambitious idea of creating a new urban concept for
an entirely sustainable city that would minimally
impact the surrounding environment.

Planning started in 2005, after the London-based
engineering and design firm Arup signed a contract
with the Shanghai Industrial Investment Corporation
(SIIC).

We were asked to create an 'eco-demonstrator' ,
explains Roger Wood, Arup's project coordinator for
the Dongtan project since 2004, a project that
incorporated a number of ideas and design concepts
that would increase the Chinese understanding of
sustainability.

 China has known about sustainability for 20 years,
but -- like everyone else -- it has just not been able
to apply it as a concept.

The project is to be implemented in several phases,
starting with a one square-kilometer plot that is
expected to be ready in time for Shanghai 's 2010
World Expo and that will house around 5,000 people.
The 6.5 square kilometer start-up area will be
developed to accommodate 80,000 people by 2020 and by
2050, the city is projected to cover an area of 30
square kilometers and have a population of half a
million.

Building a community spirit

Today the site is still isolated from the mainland,
but the opening of a bridge and tunnel link in 2008
will reduce travel times to and from the island from
over three hours to just one hour.

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Dongtan is however not to be just another dormitory
town from which people commute to Shanghai : the new
city will provide jobs to its inhabitants.

It is what we call integrated urbanism: we look not
just at the environment, but also at social and
economic aspects: employment opportunities, the way
people work, the way people play, the way they move
around the city, says Wood.

At the same time, the project also deals with
technical aspects like how to provide a sustainable
water supply, how to treat wastewater, how to recycle
and process waste and how to reduce the use of cars,
by concentrating activities around three village
entrees and encouraging people to walk, use bikes or
public transport.

The important thing is that we are not restricting
people; we are trying to encourage them to think about
the way they live. Questions like: how much
electricity do you use and what type of electricity?
says Wood, adding that cars in Dongtan will run on
hydro-fuel or electricity, thus reducing noise and
improving air quality.

But what will daily life in Dongtan be like? Wood
describes a typical day, in which people can walk
their children to school, head on to work, easily meet
their partners and friends for lunch and enjoy the
many green spaces.

At the same time people will also be more aware of
their impact on the environment. They will get
electricity from wind turbines and they will be able
to monitor their energy and water use in the home.

The project is very much about creating a community,
says Wood. Community is very important and it is
something the Chinese are very good at now, but which
may disappear with the current explosive growth of
cities.

Visionary concept

Despite all the new technologies and sustainable
concepts, Dongtan will remain a recognizably Chinese
city.

After studying the site and its history and looking at
the elements that make up the traditional Chinese
city, designers came up with ways to give Dongtan a
Chinese feel. There are lots of water spaces and
bridges with what the Chinese call 'dreamy pools'. It
is a city that is close to nature and that helps
people understand nature, says Wood.

Using ideas from Dongtan, Arup is today working on the
development of master plans for three other eco-cities
in China and also master plans for cities in Russia ,
Britain and Saudi Arabia .

The key of the Dongtan concept is that all elements
are considered. And in principle this can be applied
anywhere else in the world. But it does take a
visionary to make 

Re: [Biofuel] Christians, Jews in Holy Land alliance

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Christians, Jews in Holy Land alliance
Editor's note: This is part of a series of reports
CNN.com is featuring from an upcoming, six-hour
television event, God's Warriors, hosted by CNN
chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour.



Sondra Oster Baras:  Israel has many enemies. We have
to take advantage of every single one of our friends.


MELBOURNE, Florida (CNN) -- Sondra Oster Baras is an
Orthodox Jew doing an unorthodox job.

If you had asked me 10 years ago what I would be
doing with my life, I don't think I would have told
you I'd be in church, she said.

Baras stumps for money from evangelical Christians to
support Jewish settlements in the occupied territories
-- land she calls biblical Israel .

A recent stop finds her in Melbourne , Florida ,
visiting Pastor Gary Christofaro at his First Assembly
Church of God.

Christofaro and his flock take their Jewish roots so
seriously that on Friday nights they observe the
Jewish Sabbath with Hebrew prayers.

This is not just religious ritual. They support Israel
-- which to them includes Jewish settlements on the
occupied West Bank . Church members tour settlements
with Baras and have donated more than a $100,000 to
support them.

If it wasn't for what the Jews brought to
Christianity, there would be no Christianity,
Christofaro said. There is a promise to those who
bless Israel to be blessed. Those who curse it will be
cursed.

Christofaro and Baras are part of a growing alliance
between evangelical Christians and Israelis. Watch the
bond between observant Jews and evangelical Christians
»

A recent poll found that 59 percent of American
evangelicals believe Israel is the fulfillment of
biblical prophecy.

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs estimates 85
million evangelicals believe God tells them to support
Israel -- more than six times the world's Jewish
population.

One of the most successful Jewish fundraisers, Rabbi
Yechiel Eckstein, raised $39 million last year from
Christian Zionists to fund human services and
humanitarian work in Israel and the settlements.

Christian Zionists often converge on Washington by the
thousands to lobby members of Congress in support of
Israel .

Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I- Connecticut , was among the
speakers at last month's convention of Christians
United for Israel .

There are a lot more Christian Zionists in America
than Jewish Zionists, the former Democratic vice
presidential candidate told the group. The support of
Christian Zionists today is critical to Israel 's
security and strength and to America 's security and
strength. Watch behind-the-scenes with CNN's
Christiane Amanpour for the making of the TV special
God's Warriors 

Back in church, Baras told the congregation: We need
to stand together so that our governments will believe
that the land of Israel , the entire land of Israel ,
belongs to the Jewish people.

Baras said God called her to this work. She left her
high-powered, high-paid job as a Wall Street lawyer
and moved to Israel in 1984.

I was never fully American, she explained. I was
Jewish. Judaism was not only her religion but also
her nationality.

We learned how to read Hebrew before we learned how
to read English, she said.

Her parents, who narrowly escaped the Holocaust, sent
her to Zionist summer camps that championed the Jewish
homeland.

My parents felt very safe in America ... but there
was always a part of them that said there needs to be
an Israel in the event that we have another Hitler.
Put it all together and I couldn't help but be a
Zionist.

Baras moved her family to Karnei Shomron, a settlement
deep inside the West Bank .

Just by building my house ... I was strengthening the
Jewish presence here in Samaria , she said, referring
to a biblical name for the northern part of the West
Bank .

In 2002, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up
inside a pizza parlor in her neighborhood, killing
three children. She said she fought back by
encouraging support from evangelical Christians in
America .

If we give any part of that land to the Arabs, we are
looking at terrorism, she told a church audience.

Christofaro' s Florida congregation responded with
money -- all while singing a prayer for peace in
perfect Hebrew.

Their money builds parks, child care centers and music
therapy programs -- projects that make Jewish life in
the settlements more comfortable. And more permanent.

If you don't live somewhere, if you don't take
possession of it, it is not yours, Baras said.

Some people say Jews and evangelical Christians make
strange bedfellows, given historical anti-Semitism.

Because of this doctrine of a Jew being a
Christ-killer ... so much hatred and anti-Semitism has
been propagated throughout the Earth, Christofaro
said.

Now such historic anti-Semitism has given way to an
urgent support of Israel among some evangelicals, many
of whom believe that when Jews live in all of the Holy
Land -- what they call Greater Israel -- only then
will Christ return and true 

Re: [Biofuel] Biodiesel in V6 diesel engine

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Hello all,
Has any had experience with using Biodiesel in V6
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Re: [Biofuel] Beyond batteries: Storing power in a sheet of nanocomposite paper

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Source: http://physorg. com/news10624516 4.html

 

 

Beyond batteries: Storing power in a sheet of
nanocomposite paper 


A sample of the new nanocomposite paper developed by
researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Infused with carbon nanotubes, the paper can be used
to create ultra-thin, flexible batteries and energy
storage devices for next-generation electronics and
implantable medical equipment. Credit:
Rensselaer/Victor Pushparaj




Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have
developed a new energy storage device that easily
could be mistaken for a simple sheet of black paper. 

 

The nanoengineered battery is lightweight, ultra thin,
completely flexible, and geared toward meeting the
trickiest design and energy requirements of tomorrow’s
gadgets, implantable medical equipment, and
transportation vehicles. 



Along with its ability to function in temperatures up
to 300 degrees Fahrenheit and down to 100 below zero,
the device is completely integrated and can be printed
like paper. The device is also unique in that it can
function as both a high-energy battery and a
high-power supercapacitor, which are generally
separate components in most electrical systems.
Another key feature is the capability to use human
blood or sweat to help power the battery. 

Details of the project are outlined in the paper
“Flexible Energy Storage Devices Based on
Nanocomposite Paper” published Aug. 13 in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 

The semblance to paper is no accident: more than 90
percent of the device is made up of cellulose, the
same plant cells used in newsprint, loose leaf, lunch
bags, and nearly every other type of paper. 

Rensselaer researchers infused this paper with aligned
carbon nanotubes, which give the device its black
color. The nanotubes act as electrodes and allow the
storage devices to conduct electricity. The device,
engineered to function as both a lithium-ion battery
and a supercapacitor, can provide the long, steady
power output comparable to a conventional battery, as
well as a supercapacitor’s quick burst of high energy.


The device can be rolled, twisted, folded, or cut into
any number of shapes with no loss of mechanical
integrity or efficiency. The paper batteries can also
be stacked, like a ream of printer paper, to boost the
total power output. 

“It’s essentially a regular piece of paper, but it’s
made in a very intelligent way,” said paper co-author
Robert Linhardt, the Ann and John H. Broadbent Senior
Constellation Professor of Biocatalysis and Metabolic
Engineering at Rensselaer . 

“We’re not putting pieces together – it’s a single,
integrated device,” he said. “The components are
molecularly attached to each other: the carbon
nanotube print is embedded in the paper, and the
electrolyte is soaked into the paper. The end result
is a device that looks, feels, and weighs the same as
paper.” 

The creation of this unique nanocomposite paper drew
from a diverse pool of disciplines, requiring
expertise in materials science, energy storage, and
chemistry. Along with Linhardt, authors of the paper
include Pulickel M. Ajayan, professor of materials
science and engineering, and Omkaram Nalamasu,
professor of chemistry with a joint appointment in
materials science and engineering. Senior research
specialist Victor Pushparaj, along with postdoctoral
research associates Shaijumon M. Manikoth, Ashavani
Kumar, and Saravanababu Murugesan, were co-authors and
lead researchers of the project. Other co-authors
include research associate Lijie Ci and Rensselaer
Nanotechnology Center Laboratory Manager Robert
Vajtai. 

The researchers used ionic liquid, essentially a
liquid salt, as the battery’s electrolyte. It’s
important to note that ionic liquid contains no water,
which means there’s nothing in the batteries to freeze
or evaporate. “This lack of water allows the paper
energy storage devices to withstand extreme
temperatures,” Kumar said. 

Along with use in small handheld electronics, the
paper batteries’ light weight could make them ideal
for use in automobiles, aircraft, and even boats. The
paper also could be molded into different shapes, such
as a car door, which would enable important new
engineering innovations. 

“Plus, because of the high paper content and lack of
toxic chemicals, it’s environmentally safe,” Shaijumon
said. 

Paper is also extremely biocompatible and these new
hybrid battery/supercapcit ors have potential as power
supplies for devices implanted in the body. The team
printed paper batteries without adding any
electrolytes, and demonstrated that naturally
occurring electrolytes in human sweat, blood, and
urine can be used to activate the battery device. 

“It’s a way to power a small device such as a
pacemaker without introducing any harsh chemicals –
such as the kind that are typically found in batteries
– into the body,” Pushparaj said. 

The materials required to create the paper batteries
are inexpensive, Murugesan said, but the 

Re: [Biofuel] VW Passat TDi

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Dear All,
I have VW Passat TDi. I have been using the biodiesel
for 2 and 1/2 years, I find that the fuel filter
begins to clog up after 6 months. Loss of power
becomes apparent. Further at speed fuel supply cuts
off. After coming to a halt, the car does not start
again. After half an hour, the car restarts. Does any
one know whether its the fuel filter or the fuel pump?
regards

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Re: [Biofuel] Accidental war with Iran

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Re: [Biofuel] FREEDOM FROM FEAR

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Source: amnesty
http://thereport. amnesty.org/ eng/Freedom- from-fear





IRENE KHAN: FREEDOM FROM FEAR
On 10 December 2006, while the world celebrated
International Human Rights Day, I was in Jayyus on the
West Bank. The small village is now divided by the
Wall - or more accurately a high iron fence. Built in
defiance of international law, and ostensibly to make
Israel more secure, the Wall's main effect has been to
cut off the local Palestinian population from their
citrus groves and olive orchards. A once prosperous
farming community is now impoverished.

Every day I have to suffer the humiliation of
checkpoints, petty obstructions and new restrictions
that stop me from getting to my orchard on the other
side. If I cannot cultivate my olives, how will I
survive? cried one angry Palestinian farmer. 

As I listened to him, I could see in the distance the
neat red roofs and white walls of a large and
prosperous Israeli settlement. I wondered if those who
lived there believed that a Wall threatening the
future of their neighbours could truly enhance their
security.

Earlier that week, I had visited Sderot, a small town
in the south of Israel, which had been subjected to
rocket attacks from Palestinian groups in Gaza.

We are frightened, one young woman resident told me.
But we know that there are women like us on the other
side who are also suffering, who are also afraid, and
who are in a worse situation than us. We feel empathy
for them, we want to live in peace with them, but
instead our leaders promote our differences and create
more distrust. So we live in fear and insecurity.

This brave Israeli woman understood what many world
leaders fail to comprehend: that fear destroys our
shared understanding and our shared humanity. When we
see others as a threat, and are ready to negotiate
their human rights for our security, we are playing a
zero-sum game.

Her message is sobering at a time when our world is as
polarized as it was at the height of the Cold War, and
in many ways far more dangerous. Human rights - those
global values, universal principles and common
standards that are meant to unite us - are being
bartered away in the name of security today as they
were then. Like the Cold War times, the agenda is
being driven by fear - instigated, encouraged and
sustained by unprincipled leaders.

Fear can be a positive imperative for change, as in
the case of the environment, where alarm about global
warming is forcing politicians belatedly into action.
But fear can also be dangerous and divisive when it
breeds intolerance, threatens diversity and justifies
the erosion of human rights.

In 1941, US President Franklin Roosevelt laid out his
vision of a new world order founded on four
freedoms: freedom of speech and of religion; freedom
from fear and from want. He provided inspirational
leadership that overcame doubt and unified people.
Today far too many leaders are trampling freedom and
trumpeting an ever-widening range of fears: fear of
being swamped by migrants; fear of the other and of
losing one's identity; fear of being blown up by
terrorists; fear of rogue states with weapons of
mass destruction. 

Fear thrives on myopic and cowardly leadership. There
are indeed many real causes of fear, but the approach
being taken by many world leaders is short-sighted,
promulgating policies and strategies that erode the
rule of law and human rights, increase inequalities,
feed racism and xenophobia, divide and damage
communities, and sow the seeds for violence and more
conflict. 

The politics of fear has been made more complex by the
emergence of armed groups and big business that commit
or condone human rights abuses. Both - in different
ways - challenge the power of governments in an
increasingly borderless world. Weak governments and
ineffective international institutions are unable to
hold them accountable, leaving people vulnerable and
afraid.

History shows that it is not through fear but through
hope and optimism that progress is achieved. So, why
do some leaders promote fear? Because it allows them
to consolidate their own power, create false
certainties and escape accountability.

The Howard government portrayed desperate
asylum-seekers in leaky boats as a threat to
Australia's national security and raised a false alarm
of a refugee invasion. This contributed to its
election victory in 2001. After the attacks of 11
September 2001, US President George W Bush invoked the
fear of terrorism to enhance his executive power,
without Congressional oversight or judicial scrutiny.
President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan whipped up fear
among his supporters and in the Arab world that the
deployment of UN peacekeepers in Darfur would be a
pretext for an Iraq-style, US-led invasion. Meanwhile,
his armed forces and militia allies continued to kill,
rape and plunder with impunity. President Robert
Mugabe of Zimbabwe played on racial fears to push his
own political agenda of grabbing land for his
supporters. 

Only a common 

Re: [Biofuel] Carter on Blair

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Source: http://news. bbc.co.uk/ 2/hi/americas/
6672035.stm
 
Saturday, 19 May 2007, 09:50 GMT 10:50 UK  

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Carter attacks Blair's Iraq role  
  
Jimmy Carter has won a Nobel Prize for his charitable
work


Carter on Blair  
Former US President Jimmy Carter has criticised
outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair for his
blind support of the war in Iraq. 
Mr Carter told the BBC Mr Blair's backing for US
President George W Bush had been apparently
subservient . 

He said the UK's almost undeviating support for the
ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq had
been a major tragedy for the world. 

His comments came as Mr Blair paid what is likely to
be his last visit to Iraq. 

He flew into the capital, Baghdad, for talks with
President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nouri
Maliki at which he is expected to push for greater
reconciliation between Iraq's Sunni and Shia factions.


Mr Blair is due to leave office at the end of next
month. 

'Global schisms' 

Mr Carter said that if Mr Blair had distanced himself
from the Bush administration' s policy during the
run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq it might have made
a crucial difference to American political and public
opinion. 

One of the defences of the Bush administration. ..
has been, okay, we must be more correct in our actions
than the world thinks because Great Britain is backing
us, he told the Today programme on Radio 4. 

So I think the combination of Bush and Blair giving
their support to this tragedy in Iraq has strengthened
the effort and has made the opposition less effective
and prolonged the war and increased the tragedy that
has resulted. 

The war had caused deep schisms on a global basis,
he said, and he hoped Mr Blair's successor, Gordon
Brown, would be less enthusiastic in his support for
it. 

The former US president has been a fierce critic of
the US-led war in Iraq. 

In an interview last year, he said he was
disappointed by Tony Blair's failure to use his
influence with President Bush more wisely. 

In 1976, Mr Carter unseated the incumbent Gerald Ford
to become the 39th US president, serving until 1981. 

He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, for what
presenters cited as decades of work seeking peaceful
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Re: [Biofuel] Jeep diesels

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Has any one run Jeep diesel on biodiesel? If so, any
problems?

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Re: [Biofuel] WVO contaminated with diesel fuel

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--- JAMES PHELPS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Joe I re ran some bio with Diesel in it and it was
 inert to the reaction and was intact afterward as
 near as I could tell.
 
 Jim
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   Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 3:03 PM
   Subject: [Biofuel] WVO contaminated with diesel
 fuel
 
 
   I have been searching the archives with various
 keywords for a post 
   about what happens when you try to react oil that
 has a few percent of 
   petroleum diesel in it.  I seem to remember the
 subject came up some 
   time back but I cannot find it.  Does anyone know
 what happens in this 
   case?  Does the petroleum spoil the reaction ( I
 am wondering about acid 
   base reaction here) does it go along for the ride
 unaffected?  If anyone 
   knows or can remember the thread I would much
 appreciate to hear from you.
 
   Joe
 
 
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Diesel is an alkane. You often find that alkanes are
not very reactive where as fatty acids react with
sodium ethnoate to form methyl ester. 

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Re: [Biofuel] US soldier admits to rape and murder of 14-year-old Iraqi girl

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Source: http://news. independent. co.uk/world/
americas/ article1987669. ece

 

US soldier admits to rape and murder of 14-year-old
Iraqi girl

By Rupert Cornwell in New York

Published: 16 November 2006

One of the four US soldiers accused of raping and
murdering a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and of then
murdering her family pleaded guilty yesterday and
agreed to testify against the other defendants.

Specialist James Barker of the 101st Airborne Division
agreed to the plea deal at a military tribunal in
Kentucky to avoid the death penalty, his lawyer David
Sheldon, said.

Prosecutors assert that the four men raped the teenage
girl then killed her, her parents and her
seven-year-old sister in the family's home in
Mahmoudiya, a village about 20 miles south of Baghdad.

The other three men are Pte Jesse Spielman, Pte Bryan
Howard and Sgt Paul Cortez, all members of the 502nd
Infantry, 101st Airborne Division. They are charged
with rape and premeditated murder. They are also
charged with arson after prosecutors alleged they
doused the body of the rape victim with kerosene and
set it on fire.

Cortez was also arraigned yesterday at the start of
his court-martial. He is likely to enter a plea on 11
December and could be sentenced to death if convicted.
In addition former soldier Steven Green has been
charged in a civilian court and is awaiting trial in a
Kentucky jail.

The damaging case comes as the top US commander in the
Middle East flatly opposed any fixed timetable for the
withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, saying it
would hamper the ability of both the US and Iraqi
forces from dealing with the ever-spiralling violence.

General John Abizaid, head of US Central Command told
the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday that a
timetable would remove all flexibility' on the
handover to Iraqi forces of responsibility for
maintaining security.

Gen Abizaid was the first top military figure to
appear before Congress since the ousting of Donald
Rumsfeld from the Pentagon.

He was speaking on another day of violence in Iraq,
which included the deaths of six more US soldiers,
bringing the total lost to 2,858 since the March 2003
invasion.

One of the four US soldiers accused of raping and
murdering a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and of then
murdering her family pleaded guilty yesterday and
agreed to testify against the other defendants.

Specialist James Barker of the 101st Airborne Division
agreed to the plea deal at a military tribunal in
Kentucky to avoid the death penalty, his lawyer David
Sheldon, said.

Prosecutors assert that the four men raped the teenage
girl then killed her, her parents and her
seven-year-old sister in the family's home in
Mahmoudiya, a village about 20 miles south of Baghdad.

The other three men are Pte Jesse Spielman, Pte Bryan
Howard and Sgt Paul Cortez, all members of the 502nd
Infantry, 101st Airborne Division. They are charged
with rape and premeditated murder. They are also
charged with arson after prosecutors alleged they
doused the body of the rape victim with kerosene and
set it on fire.

Cortez was also arraigned yesterday at the start of
his court-martial. He is likely to enter a plea on 11
December and could be sentenced to death if convicted.
In addition former soldier Steven Green has been
charged in a civilian court and is awaiting trial in a
Kentucky jail.

The damaging case comes as the top US commander in the
Middle East flatly opposed any fixed timetable for the
withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, saying it
would hamper the ability of both the US and Iraqi
forces from dealing with the ever-spiralling violence.

General John Abizaid, head of US Central Command told
the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday that a
timetable would remove all flexibility' on the
handover to Iraqi forces of responsibility for
maintaining security.

Gen Abizaid was the first top military figure to
appear before Congress since the ousting of Donald
Rumsfeld from the Pentagon.

He was speaking on another day of violence in Iraq ,
which included the deaths of six more US soldiers,
bringing the total lost to 2,858 since the March 2003
invasion. 

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Re: [Biofuel] Robert Fisk: Mystery of Israel's secret uranium bomb

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Source:  http://news. independent. co.uk/world/
fisk/article1935 945.ece
 
Robert Fisk: Mystery of Israel's secret uranium bomb 
Alarm over radioactive legacy left by attack on
Lebanon 
Published: 28 October 2006 
Did Israel use a secret new uranium-based weapon in
southern Lebanon this summer in the 34-day assault
that cost more than 1,300 Lebanese lives, most of them
civilians? 

We know that the Israelis used American
bunker-buster bombs on Hizbollah's Beirut
headquarters. We know that they drenched southern
Lebanon with cluster bombs in the last 72 hours of the
war, leaving tens of thousands of bomblets which are
still killing Lebanese civilians every week. And we
now know - after it first categorically denied using
such munitions - that the Israeli army also used
phosphorous bombs, weapons which are supposed to be
restricted under the third protocol of the Geneva
Conventions, which neither Israel nor the United
States have signed.

But scientific evidence gathered from at least two
bomb craters in Khiam and At-Tiri, the scene of fierce
fighting between Hizbollah guerrillas and Israeli
troops last July and August, suggests that
uranium-based munitions may now also be included in
Israel's weapons inventory - and were used against
targets in Lebanon. According to Dr Chris Busby, the
British Scientific Secretary of the European Committee
on Radiation Risk, two soil samples thrown up by
Israeli heavy or guided bombs showed elevated
radiation signatures. Both have been forwarded for
further examination to the Harwell laboratory in
Oxfordshire for mass spectrometry - used by the
Ministry of Defence - which has confirmed the
concentration of uranium isotopes in the samples.

Dr Busby's initial report states that there are two
possible reasons for the contamination. The first is
that the weapon was some novel small experimental
nuclear fission device or other experimental weapon
(eg, a thermobaric weapon) based on the high
temperature of a uranium oxidation flash ... The
second is that the weapon was a bunker-busting
conventional uranium penetrator weapon employing
enriched uranium rather than depleted uranium. A
photograph of the explosion of the first bomb shows
large clouds of black smoke that might result from
burning uranium.

Enriched uranium is produced from natural uranium ore
and is used as fuel for nuclear reactors. A waste
productof the enrichment process is depleted uranium,
it is an extremely hard metal used in anti-tank
missiles for penetrating armour. Depleted uranium is
less radioactive than natural uranium, which is less
radioactive than enriched uranium.

Israel has a poor reputation for telling the truth
about its use of weapons in Lebanon. In 1982, it
denied using phosphorous munitions on civilian areas -
until journalists discovered dying and dead civilians
whose wounds caught fire when exposed to air.

I saw two dead babies who, when taken from a mortuary
drawer in West Beirut during the Israeli siege of the
city, suddenly burst back into flames. Israel
officially denied using phosphorous again in Lebanon
during the summer - except for marking targets -
even after civilians were photographed in Lebanese
hospitals with burn wounds consistent with phosphorous
munitions.

Then on Sunday, Israel suddenly admitted that it had
not been telling the truth. Jacob Edery, the Israeli
minister in charge of government-parliame nt
relations, confirmed that phosphorous shells were used
in direct attacks against Hizbollah, adding that
according to international law, the use of
phosphorous munitions is authorised and the (Israeli)
army keeps to the rules of international norms.

Asked by The Independent if the Israeli army had been
using uranium-based munitions in Lebanon this summer,
Mark Regev, the Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman,
said: Israel does not use any weaponry which is not
authorised by international law or international
conventions.  This, however, begs more questions than
it answers. Much international law does not cover
modern uranium weapons because they were not invented
when humanitarian rules such as the Geneva Conventions
were drawn up and because Western governments still
refuse to believe that their use can cause long-term
damage to the health of thousands of civilians living
in the area of the explosions.

American and British forces used hundreds of tons of
depleted uranium (DU) shells in Iraq in 1991 - their
hardened penetrator warheads manufactured from the
waste products of the nuclear industry - and five
years later, a plague of cancers emerged across the
south of Iraq.

Initial US military assessments warned of grave
consequences for public health if such weapons were
used against armoured vehicles. But the US
administration and the British government later went
out of their way to belittle these claims. Yet the
cancers continued to spread amid reports that
civilians in Bosnia - where DU was also used by Nato
aircraft - were suffering new forms of cancer. DU
shells were 

Re: [Biofuel] Israel Plans for War With Iran and Syria

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Israeli officials 'face war crimes risk'


Israel's public officials have been told to watch what
they say in public about the Lebanese and Palestinian
conflicts for fear of being prosecuted for war crimes,
political sources say.

The sources say the foreign ministry has established a
legal team to deal with efforts by foreign groups to
arrange the prosecution abroad of Israelis involved in
the war against Hezbollah guerrillas and crackdowns on
Palestinians.

A ministry memorandum issued to Israel's military and
other government agencies urges officials to avoid
belligerent remarks that could potentially be used to
back up allegations they were complicit in excessive
use of force in Lebanon or Gaza.

The type of language now considered off-limits
includes 'crushing' the enemy, and 'cleansing',
'levelling', or 'wiping out' suspected enemy
emplacements, a political source who saw the memo
told Reuters.

The source quoted the memo as censuring one official
who called for Israel to respond to Hezbollah rockets
strikes against the strategic port city of Haifa
during the 34-day war by getting rid of a village in
Lebanon.

The foreign and justice ministries declined to
comment.

Political targets

According to the memo, numerous war crimes lawsuits
against Israeli officials were being prepared. It
cited venues such as France, Belgium, Morocco and
Britain, but no further details were immediately
available.

Three Moroccan lawyers said last month they were suing
the Israeli defence minister, Amir Peretz, over the
recent offensives. 

Israel Radio reported that a Danish politician also
tried to have Tzipi Livni, the foreign minister
detained and prosecuted during a recent visit to
Copenhagen but the request for an arrest warrant was
turned down by prosecutors.

An Israeli cabinet minister said that while military
officials had been singled out in foreign lawsuits,
politicians were still largely immune.

There is, without a doubt, an effort among various
organisations to lash out at our officers and
commanders, Isaac Herzog, the tourism minister, told
Israel's Army Radio by telephone during a visit to
Finland.

Of course this does not affect the political
echelons.

Israel says its armed forces act within international
norms and accuses Hezbollah and Palestinian factions
of inviting civilian casualties by operating within
populated areas.

Exchange rumours

Meanwhile Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister,
denied rumours of a deal that would see Palestinian
prisoners released in exchange for Corporal Gilad
Shalit, the soldier captured by fighters in Gaza on
June 25.

He was quoted as telling the defence and foreign
affairs committee that all the publications and
information about the possible release of the
kidnapped soldiers are false.

On Sunday, the Yediot Aharonot newspaper said that
under secret talks negotiated by Egypt, Israel could
release up to 800 Palestinian prisoners in return for
Shalit.

Israel has demanded Shalit's unconditional release,
but local media have reported that talks have been
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Re: [Biofuel] Who would win a debate on world issues between President Bush and Iranian President Ahmadinejad?

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Source: cnn
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Who would win a debate on world issues between
President Bush and Iranian President Ahmadinejad? 

Results of the survey at the moment of sending this
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Re: [Biofuel] Israeli Leaders Fault Bush on War

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Source: http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/081206.html


Israeli Leaders Fault Bush on War

By Robert Parry
August 13, 2006

Amid the political and diplomatic fallout from
Israel’s faltering invasion of Lebanon, some Israeli
officials are privately blaming President George W.
Bush for egging Prime Minister Ehud Olmert into the
ill-conceived military adventure against the Hezbollah
militia in south Lebanon.

Bush conveyed his strong personal support for the
military offensive during a White House meeting with
Olmert on May 23, according to sources familiar with
the thinking of senior Israeli leaders.

Olmert, who like Bush lacks direct wartime experience,
agreed that a dose of military force against Hezbollah
might damage the guerrilla group’s influence in
Lebanon and intimidate its allies, Iran and Syria,
countries that Bush has identified as the chief
obstacles to U.S. interests in the Middle East.

As part of Bush’s determination to create a “new
Middle East” – one that is more amenable to U.S.
policies and desires – Bush even urged Israel to
attack Syria, but the Olmert government refused to go
that far, according to Israeli sources.

One source said some Israeli officials thought Bush’s
attack-Syria idea was “nuts” since much of the world
would have seen the bombing campaign as overt
aggression. 

In an article on July 30, the Jerusalem Post referred
to Bush’s interest in a wider war involving Syria.
Israeli “defense officials told the Post last week
that they were receiving indications from the US that
America would be interested in seeing Israel attack
Syria,” the newspaper reported.

While balking at an expanded war into Syria, Olmert
did agree on the need to show military muscle in
Lebanon as a prelude to facing down Iran over its
nuclear program, which Olmert has called an
“existential” threat to Israel.

With U.S. forces bogged down in Iraq, Bush and his
neoconservative advisers saw the inclusion of Israeli
forces as crucial for advancing a strategy that would
punish Syria for supporting Iraqi insurgents, advance
the confrontation with Iran and isolate Hezbollah in
Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.

But the month-long war has failed to achieve its goals
of destroying Hezbollah forces in south Lebanon or
intimidating Iran and Syria.

Instead, Hezbollah guerrillas fought Israeli troops to
a virtual standstill in villages near the border and
much of the world saw Israel’s bombing raids across
Lebanon – which killed hundreds of civilians – as
“disproportionate.”

Now, as the conflict winds down, some Israeli
officials are ruing the Olmert-Bush pact on May 23 and
fault Bush for pushing Olmert into the conflict.

Building Pressure

Soon after the May 23 meeting in Washington, Israel
began to ratchet up pressure on the Hamas-led
government in the Palestinian territories and on
Hezbollah and other Islamic militants in Lebanon. As
part of this process, Israel staged low-key attacks in
both Lebanon and Gaza. [For details, see
Consortiumnews.com “A ‘Pretext’ War in Lebanon.”]

The tit-for-tat violence led to the Hamas seizure of
an Israeli soldier on June 24 and then to Israeli
retaliatory strikes in Gaza. That, in turn, set the
stage for Hezbollah’s attack on an Israeli outpost and
the capture of two more Israeli soldiers on July 12.

Hezbollah’s July 12 raid became the trigger that Bush
and Olmert had been waiting for. With the earlier
attacks unknown or forgotten, Israel and the U.S.
skillfully rallied international condemnation of
Hezbollah for what was called an unprovoked attack and
a “kidnapping” of Israeli soldiers.

Behind the international criticism of Hezbollah, Bush
and Olmert justified an intense air campaign against
Lebanese targets, killing civilians and destroying
much of Lebanon’s commercial infrastructure. Israeli
troops also crossed into southern Lebanon with the
intent of delivering a devastating military blow
against Hezbollah, which retaliated by firing Katyusha
rockets into Israel..

However, the Israeli operation was eerily reminiscent
of the disastrous U.S. invasion and occupation of
Iraq. Like the U.S. assault, Israel relied heavily on
“shock and awe” air power and committed an inadequate
number of soldiers to the battle.

Israeli newspapers have been filled with complaints
from soldiers who say some reservists weren’t issued
body armor while other soldiers found their equipment
either inferior or inappropriate to the battlefield
conditions.

Israeli troops also encountered fierce resistance from
Hezbollah guerrillas, who took a page from the Iraqi
insurgents by using explosive booby traps and ambushes
to inflict heavier than expected casualties on the
Israelis. 

Channel 2 in Israel disclosed that several top
military commanders wrote a letter to Lt. Gen. Dan
Halutz, the chief of staff, criticizing the war
planning as chaotic and out of line with the combat
training of the soldiers and officers. [Washington
Post, Aug. 12, 2006]

One Israeli plan to use llamas to deliver supplies in
the 

Re: [Biofuel] George Galloway _ Lebanon. View it while you can

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   Check this interview out!
   I am amazed they let him speak.
   Kirk

  

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 his over all view is that he is sickened by the
pictures he sees, on sky news every hour, of burned
and maimed babies and children. the double standard of
the countries like UK and USA is apparent.
Please listen to the former president Carter who is an
intellectual not lunatic like Bush.


Source: cnn
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/05/carter.mideast.ap/



Carter: Bush Israel's 'worst ally' in D.C.

PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Michigan (AP) -- Former President
Carter, who helped broker the historic Camp David
peace accord, said President Bush has pursued an
erroneous policy that has fostered violence in the
Middle East.

Carter said the United States should work for an
immediate cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah and
the world community should concentrate on a long-term
solution, but he is uncertain whether Bush can
accomplish a cease-fire.

It depends on whether world opinion is strong enough
to get the administration to change its erroneous
policy, which has been to encourage the continuation
of attacks on both sides, Carter, a Democrat, told
The Grand Rapids Press in an interview Friday.

Carter's comments came a day before the U.S. and
France agreed on a draft U.N. Security Council
resolution that calls for an end to the fighting
between Israel and Hezbollah, but would allow Israel
to defend itself if attacked. ( Full story)

As president, Carter helped broker the Camp David
peace accord between Israel and Egypt, the first peace
deal between the Jewish state and an Arab nation.

In my opinion, maybe the worst ally Israel has had in
Washington has been the George W. Bush administration,
which hasn't worked to bring a permanent peace to
Israel, Carter told the newspaper.

Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, were in Kent County's
Plainfield Township, near Grand Rapids, on Friday to
attend a fundraiser for their son, Jack, who has
launched a longshot bid to oust Nevada Republican Sen.
John Ensign.

President Carter also called for a withdrawal of U.S.
troops from Iraq.

In my opinion, we should make every effort now to
withdraw American troops from Iraq, Carter said. I
would say certainly begin a major withdrawal no later
than the end of this year. 
 




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Re: [Biofuel] The G8 convened just as Israel's tanks pounded

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The G8 convened just as Israel's tanks pounded
Palestinian towns, villages and refugee camps, while a
few miles away its warplanes set Lebanon's skies
ablaze, turning its nights into an inferno of bombs,
death and misery.


Scores of innocent people have lost their lives.
Villages have been levelled, and bridges, hospitals,
roads, airports, fuel storage facilities and even milk
factories have been destroyed. 

Years of regeneration effort are reduced to rubble.
Pressure from the Americans and their British and
German allies is such that no mention is made of a
ceasefire in the statement issued. Israel is given
leave to impose its agenda on Lebanon at gunpoint.
After all, Ehud Olmert had said it: there can be no
talk of a ceasefire, since Israel needs more time. 

This unconditional support for Israel as it invades,
occupies, demolishes, maims and massacres puts the
entire Western moral and political order to the test. 

While evangelising about democracy and reform, the US
and increasingly Europe continue to give Israel open
leave punish the Palestinian people collectively for
their electoral choice, through air raids, ground
incursions, siege and starvation. 

 

 
In its latest military operation in the Gaza Strip,
which has left more than 200 civilians dead, many of
whom are children, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF)
have abducted the Palestinian deputy prime minister,
along with two cabinet ministers and 56
parliamentarians. On July 1 its warplanes attacked the
headquarters of the recently elected Palestinian prime
minister, Ismail Haniyeh.

While preaching freedom to the people of the region,
the US and many Western countries do not hesitate to
provide political cover for the illegal seizure and
occupation of Arab land in Palestine, Lebanon and
Syria. 

And while filling the air with demands for the release
of two captured Israeli soldiers, it turns a blind eye
to the 10,000 Palestinian and Lebanese civilians
languishing in Israeli jails, about 4,000 of whom are
detained administratively without charge or trial.
 
The US has to know it cannot aid and abet aggressive
occupation and rampant expansionism while hoping to
win Muslims' hearts and minds. The two cannot go
together 
 
No wonder that most have lost faith in the
American-led rhetoric of democracy, human rights and
reform.
 
Much of the region's troubles issue from this
increasing convergence between American and Israeli
policy in the Middle East. The similarity between the
two strategies concocted in Tel Aviv and Washington is
such that it has become increasingly difficult to tell
which is which. 

Breaking what has been a taboo for decades, Professors
John Mearsheimer and Steve Walt concluded in their
article The Israeli Lobby that American foreign
policy is more representative of Israeli than American
national interests. The US Middle East policy is
contrary to the long-term strategic interests of the
United States.

The alliance between the US and Israel is not
something new. Since the end of the 1950s, preserving
Israel's security was passed from the British to the
US. 

Ever since, American national interests have been seen
as wedded to those of the state of Israel. However,
what is new is that Israel has moved from a proxy at
the service of British/American interest in the
strategic Middle East to a definer of American policy
itself.

It has become customary for consecutive British and
American administrations to provide full support for
Israel in its invasions, incursions and wars. With
Bush and Blair, however, the usual frigid calls for
restraint have vanished, making way for assertions of
Israel's right to defend itself and combat terrorism. 

This is as though Israel were a wretched occupied
country, not the world's fourth-largest military force
and the region's sole nuclear power. It has repeatedly
invaded its neighbours' lands, colonising the Egyptian
Sinai desert, Lebanon, the Syrian Golan Heights and
the Palestinian territories. 

While preaching freedom to the people of the region,
the US and many Western countries do not hesitate to
provide political cover for the illegal seizure and
occupation of Arab land in Palestine, Lebanon and
Syria
 
Its massive military arsenal has been used to impose
and expand illegal settlement, pursue collective
punishment of the local populations and terrorise its
neighbours through raids, kidnappings, assassinations,
massacres, violations of air space and territorial
waters and detentions of scores of prisoners with
impunity.  

Since 1979 Israel has received over $130 billion and
continues to receive nearly 40 per cent of total US
foreign aid. Direct American aid to Israel in recent
years has exceeded $3.5 billion annually, with an
additional $1 billion through other sources, and has
been supported almost unanimously in congress, even by
liberal Democrats who normally insist on linking aid
to human rights and international law.

Israel's long record of violation of international law
is made 

Re: [Biofuel] HRW: Israel Guilty of War Crimes

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Source: Informed Comment
http://www.juancole.com/2006/08/hrw-israel-guilty-of-war-crimes-human.html

Thursday, August 03, 2006

HRW: Israel Guilty of War Crimes 

Human Rights Watch, after extensive investigation, has
concluded that the Israeli military is guilty of war
crimes. HRW says:

Israeli forces have systematically failed to
distinguish between combatants and civilians in their
military campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Human
Rights Watch said in report released today. The
pattern of attacks in more than 20 cases investigated
by Human Rights Watch researchers in Lebanon indicates
that the failures cannot be dismissed as mere
accidents and cannot be blamed on wrongful Hezbollah
practices. In some cases, these attacks constitute war
crimes.

The 50-page report, “Fatal Strikes: Israel’s
Indiscriminate Attacks Against Civilians in Lebanon,”
analyzes almost two dozen cases of Israeli air and
artillery attacks on civilian homes and vehicles. Of
the 153 dead civilians named in the report, 63 are
children. More than 500 people have been killed in
Lebanon by Israeli fire since fighting began on July
12, most of them civilians. 

“The pattern of attacks shows the Israeli military’s
disturbing disregard for the lives of Lebanese
civilians,” said Kenneth Roth, executive director of
Human Rights Watch. “Our research shows that Israel’s
claim that Hezbollah fighters are hiding among
civilians does not explain, let alone justify,
Israel’s indiscriminate warfare.” 



HRW's investigations do not bear out the excuse that
the high civilian casualty rate is because of
Hizbullah hiding among civilians:

' Human Rights Watch researchers found numerous cases
in which the IDF launched artillery and air attacks
with limited or dubious military objectives but
excessive civilian cost. In many cases, Israeli forces
struck an area with no apparent military target. In
some instances, Israeli forces appear to have
deliberately targeted civilians. 

In one case, an Israeli air strike on July 13
destroyed the home of a cleric known to have sympathy
for Hezbollah but who was not known to have taken any
active part in the hostilities. Even if the IDF
considered him a legitimate target (and Human Rights
Watch has no evidence that he was), the strike killed
him, his wife, their 10 children and the family’s Sri
Lankan maid. 

On July 16, an Israeli aircraft fired on a civilian
home in the village of Aitaroun, killing 11 members of
the al-Akhrass family, among them seven
Canadian-Lebanese dual nationals who were vacationing
in the village when the war began. Human Rights Watch
independently interviewed three villagers who
vigorously denied that the family had any connection
to Hezbollah. Among the victims were children aged
one, three, five and seven. 

The Israeli government has blamed Hezbollah for the
high civilian casualty toll in Lebanon, insisting that
Hezbollah fighters have hidden themselves and their
weapons among the civilian population. However, in
none of the cases of civilian deaths documented in the
report is there evidence to suggest that Hezbollah was
operating in or around the area during or prior to the
attack. '


 
 






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Re: [Biofuel] US Muslims criticise Bush over Israel

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US Muslims criticise Bush over Israel

 
 

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American Muslims have criticised the US government for
its reluctance to condemn Israel, as they worry about
countless relatives and friends trapped in Lebanon.

US officials have said Israel has the right to defend
itself, since its incursion into Gaza three weeks ago
and air raids on Lebanon; but president Bush's stance
is offending Americans who are Muslims or of Arab
descent.

Early last week, a coalition of 11 major Muslim
organisations publicly called on Bush to forcefully
condemn the attacks on Gaza and to designate as war
crimes the destruction of Palestine's civilian
infrastructure.

After the Israeli bombing of Lebanon, the appeals for
denouncing Israel have multiplied.

Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest US
Muslim rights group, said: Once again, America's
image and interests worldwide are being harmed by
one-sided support for Israeli actions. 

We're urging Muslims in America and other people of
conscience to contact their elected officials to tell
them that we have to have balanced foreign policy for
the Middle East, one that is driven by American
interests, not Israeli interests.

US must lobby

Zainab Al-Suwaij, the director of the American Islamic
Congress, had an even more immediate goal, urging the
US to actively lobby for an end to the current
violence.

The policy for the US should be stopping the
violence, period, and starting to solve the problem
through negotiations.

We're urging Muslims in America and other people of
conscience to contact their elected officials to tell
them that we have to have balanced foreign policy for
the Middle East, one that is driven by American
interests, not Israeli interests.

Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on
American-Islamic Relations 
 
The American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
announced at a rally outside the White House on
Tuesday to protest Israeli military action in Lebanon
and Gaza.

The committee, founded in 1980 by James Abourezk,
former US senator of Arab descent, calls itself the
largest Arab civil rights group in the United States.

Leaders of Arab-American communities around the United
States plan to meet in Washington on Wednesday to
discuss the crisis in the Mideast.

Dual nationals

The plight of an estimated 25,000 US citizens in
Lebanon, many of whom are dual nationals, has injected
a sense of urgency to the gathering.

The Arab American Institute, which says it represents
the policy and community interests of US Arab
Americans, said 40 per cent of the 3.5 million
Arab-Americans are of Lebanese descent.

The institute has posted on its website photographs of
Arab-American vacationers, children and visitors
trapped in Lebanon by the fighting.

James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute,
said: In many cases (there is) no way for them to
leave, even if a plan were to be developed, they can't
go from one part of the country to the other to get
out.




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Re: [Biofuel] Physicists Letter to President Bush on nuclear option, April 17, 2006

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Source: UCSD

http://physics.ucsd.edu/petition/physicistsletter.html


Physicists Letter to President Bush on nuclear
option, April 17, 2006   Press release 
In anticipation of
 President Bush's statement: nuclear strike option is
on the table, April 18, 2006 

Authored by: Philip Anderson, Nobel Laureate ; Michael
Fisher, Wolf Laureate ; David Gross, Nobel Laureate ;
Jorge Hirsch, Professor of Physics ; Leo Kadanoff,
National Medal of Science ; Walter Kohn, Nobel
Laureate ; Joel Lebowitz, Boltzmann Medalist ; Anthony
Leggett, Nobel Laureate ; Eugen Merzbacher, President,
American Physical Society, 1990 ; Douglas Osheroff,
Nobel Laureate ; Andrew Sessler, President, American
Physical Society, 1998 ; George Trilling, President,
American Physical Society, 2001 ; Frank Wilczek, Nobel
Laureate ; Edward Witten, Fields Medalist 
The letter was read in public on April 26, 5:00 PM, at
Lafayette Park, across from the White House, and
delivery in person to the White House was attempted,
however White House staff refused to take delivery.
The letter was delivered by certified mail to the
White House (Label/Receipt Number: EQ210249212US) 
A shorter version of the letter was published in the
International Herald Tribune 
pdf version of the letter with signatures 



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Re: [Biofuel] Full Text : 'Honestly, only in Palestine'

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Source: Le Monde diplomatique
http://mondediplo.com/2006/06/04women

'Honestly, only in Palestine'

By Wendy Kristianasen

Palestinian women came to the fore during the first
intifada, which 
erupted 
at the end of 1987, as their husbands and sons were
killed, injured or 
arrested. They joined in collective action to boycott
Israel. They 
crammed 
their gardens and tiny plots of land with fruit and
vegetables, 
chickens and 
goats. Women's organisations were divided into
factions: Fatah, the 
Communist party, the Democratic Front for the
Liberation of Palestine 
(DFLP) 
and the Popular Front (PFLP) each had their own
organisation. Hamas was 
not 
part of the intifada's unified leadership and its
women stayed at 
home.

Much has changed in 20 years. Soraida Hussein, who
works at the 
Ramallah 
office of the Women's Centre (Merkez al-mar'a),
explained: With the 
Oslo 
accords in 1993 we agreed to take part in
state-building and we stopped 
working in separate political groups. Some who didn't
agree with Oslo 
left 
the women's movement. Now with Hamas in power, it's a
moment to 
re-examine 
where we're going, politically and in our society.

Somehow we have to accede to people's wishes, which
means supporting 
Hamas, 
but also keep our own personal identity. In my case
that's secular. At 
first 
I felt pushed into a corner. But now I think we can
work with Hamas so 
long 
as we state our differences clearly. I will never wear
the hijab. And I 
want 
to prevent my daughter from being forced to wear it.
But I'm very aware 
that 
she may choose to veil. If that happens, I'll have to
learn how to be 
happy 
for her in that choice. It will be a good lesson for
me.

What distinguishes the women's movement in Palestine
from those of 
other 
countries is the occupation. Soraida said: Here at
the centre we talk 
about 
women's rights and checkpoints: society under
occupation. We're trying 
to 
build our independent state but also, and this is much
harder, keep our 
humanity intact. By respecting the rights of others we
like to think 
we're 
defending the Palestinian house from the inside. We
have to open the 
windows 
and let in the sun: love, humanity, dialogue.

Khaleda Jarrar, a secular parliamentarian, says: The
problem with 
secular 
activists is that our organisations speak to women
from above, through 
workshops and training. Unlike Hamas, we've no organic
relation with 
the 
grass roots. Over half of the people who voted for
Hamas in the January 
elections were women. Hamas's women members played a
big part in the 
election campaign, going inside people's homes. Men
couldn't do that.

I visited Jamila Shanty, 49, in Jabaliya refugee camp,
in Gaza, where 
she 
was born. She is one of three Hamas women PLC members
in the Gaza Strip 
and 
third on the Hamas list (after the prime minister and
Sheikh Abu-Teir 
from 
Jerusalem). She is proud of that. She said: I am a
Palestinian woman 
who 
has lived all the suffering of the Palestinian people
and has always 
lived 
as a refugee. Her family came from Al Majdal, a
farming village near 
Ashkelon. Unusually, she never married; she was too
busy with an 
academic 
career in philosophy and psychology, which took her to
Saudi Arabia for 
nine 
years to support my family - I had five younger
siblings - in return 
for 
all my father had done to promote my studies. By then
there was no one 
I 
thought suitable to marry. There were plenty of men
but they didn't 
want 
women with careers.

I have a message for society: we have to
differentiate between 
religion and 
tradition. We women should stay inside the tent of
Islam, but we should 
go 
out and work and play an active role. Ten years ago
that wouldn't have 
been 
possible here in Gaza. Now it is, and that's to do
with Hamas. Reforms 
were 
now needed especially in inheritance and divorce:
women aren't getting 
their rights, that's because of tradition. In Hamas
we're preparing 
women, 
putting them in the picture. We're not going to
neglect them and we're 
not 
going to force anyone to veil. It's a free society.


'You have far to travel'

Maha, in black, with niqab (face covering) and gloves,
prepared 
breakfast 
for me because I was going to the Erez crossing point
into Israel, just 
a 
few miles away, to return to Ramallah. Tension rose
whenever Erez was 
mentioned: You have far to travel, you need food.
Jamila and I ate 
together: fresh soft cheese, olives, tahina, hot pitta
bread, tiny 
falafels, 
accompanied by huge glasses of sweet mint tea. In the
narrow streets 
outside 
black-robed women, a few in niqabs, went about their
business. There 
were 
flags on all the buildings: yellow for Fatah, green
for Hamas and, less 
often, red for the left and the large black flag of
Islamic Jihad. A 
doubly-claimed mosque sported both green and yellow.
Beyond the donkeys 
and 
carts weighed down with plants and vegetables, past
the crowds of small 
children, the unpaved sandy sideroads gave way to a
roughly tarmacked 
road 

Re: [Biofuel] 'Fly-by-wireless' plane takes to the air

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Source:  
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn9176feedId=online-news_rss20


'Fly-by-wireless' plane takes to the air
16:31 16 May 2006
NewScientist.com news service
Duncan Graham-Rowe


A plane with no wires or mechanical connections
between its engine,  
navigation system and onboard computers – only a
wireless network – 
has  
been built and flown by engineers in Portugal.

The 3-metre-long uncrewed plane AIVA relies entirely
upon a Bluetooth  
wireless network to relay messages back and forth
between critical 
systems  
– a technique dubbed fly-by-wireless.

Tests flights carried out in Portugal have shown that
the system works  
well. Cristina Santos, at Minho University in
Portugal, who developed 
the  
plane, says the aim is primarily to reduce weight and
power 
requirements.  
Also, if you do not have the cables then the system
is much more 
flexible  
to changes, she says.

Many modern planes already use electronic wires,
instead of the 
mechanical  
links and cables found in older planes, to connect
components. This is 
a  
lighter and more compact way to control these systems.
Some planes, 
such  
as the Boeing 777 even use optical fibres, which can
carry multiple  
signals through a single cable.
Radio jamming

Replacing wires with wireless radio links is a logical
next step says  
Peter Mellor from the Centre for Software Reliability
at City 
University  
in London, UK, who was not involved with the project.
But he adds that 
it  
raises completely new safety issues.

Such wireless links could be susceptible to
electromagnetic 
interference  
or even jamming, Mellor suggests. And it could be more
difficult to 
build  
in back-up wireless connections, he says. If you jam
one link you 
would  
jam both, he warns.

But Santos and colleagues are working on this. She
says Bluetooth is  
already fairly resistant to disruption as it is
designed to guarantee a  
certain minimum data stream will always get through.
It has mechanisms  
for dealing with interference, she says.
In-car radio

Even so, Santos says the system would need extensive
testing before she  
would be willing to ride in a fly-by-wireless plane.
She also admits 
that  
stringent aviation regulations may mean the technology
first appears in  
cars rather than planes.

Cables are already a problem in cars, Santos says,
because many  
manufacturers cram ever more electronic gadgetry into
each new model.

She admits the idea of having no physical connections
may seem scary at  
first but believes ultimately it will become an
accepted way to control  
brakes and even steering mechanisms in road vehicles.

The findings were presented on Tuesday at the
International Conference 
of  
Robotics and Autonomous Systems in Florida, US.
 
 


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Re: [Biofuel] [off topic]'Racist' marriage law upheld by Israel

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Source: The Independent
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article484122.ece


'Racist' marriage law upheld by Israel



Israel's High Court has narrowly upheld a law denying
Palestinians 
from the West Bank and Gaza married to Israeli
citizens the right to 
live in the country with their spouses.

The judges voted by six to five not to cancel a
four-year-old 
amendment to the Citizenship Law which outlaws family
unification 
in Israel between Palestinians and Arab citizens of
Israel.

It was passed as a one-year emergency measure in 2002
on the ground 
that it was needed to protect Israeli security. But
the amendment, 
described yesterday by the Knesset member Ran Cohen,
of the left-wing 
Meretz party, as rooted in racism, has been renewed
every year since 
then.

Israel's Chief Justice, Aharon Barak, sided with the
minority on the 
bench, declaring: This violation of rights is
directed against Arab 
citizens of Israel. As a result, therefore, the law is
a violation of 
the right of Arab citizens in Israel to equality.

Muad el-Sana, an Israeli Arab lawyer who is married to
a Palestinian 
woman from the West Bank town of Bethlehem and works
for Adalah, one 
of the agencies bringing the case, declared: This is
a very black 
day for the state of Israel and also a black day for
my family and 
for the other families who are suffering like us. The
government is 
preventing people from conducting a normal family life
just because 
of their nationality.

Wile the court had granted el-Sana's wife, Abir, a
university 
lecturer, a temporary injunction preventing her
deportation, Mr 
el-Sana said the high court's ruling would make it
almost impossible 
for the couple and their two children, aged 2 years
and five months, 
to continue living together. Their individual petition
said that he 
has no right to live in Bethlehem and she has no right
to live with 
her husband in the Negev.

Mohammed Barakeh, a prominent Arab Knesset member on
Sunday said the 
ruling  gives racism a shady alibi. He added: The
fact that the 
ruling was opposed by several of the judges is a ray
of light that 
does not illuminate the darkness of the court's
decision and the 
Knesset's legislation.

Official figures show that of 22,000 applications for
such 
reunification since the Oslo accord in the mid 1990s
only 6000 have 
been granted. Adalah said yesterday that the state had
said that it 
had interrogated only 25 of these for alleged
involvement in 
terrorist activities and that the state anyway had
ample capacity to 
carry out security checks during the staged process
towards legal 
status. Adalah said last night that in 1980, at the
height of 
apartheid, a South African court had refused to
approve orders 
similar to the present Israeli law because they
contradicted the 
right to a family.

Last year the then Interior Minister Ophir Pines-Paz
slightly 
modified the law by widening ministerial discretion to
award legal 
status to Palestinian spouses. Yesterday Haim Ramon,
Israel's Justice 
Minister, indicated he would be seeking to recast the
law to apply 
equally to all ethnic groups but warned that no
country was obliged 
to admit citizens form an authority with which it was
in conflict. He 
added: We have to remember that this law was
legislated during the 
Palestinian uprising, when several people who received
citizenship 
through family unification carried out attacks.

The outgoing judge Michael Cheshin, who voted with the
majority, said 
during a debate in February: The Palestinian
Authority is an enemy 
government, a government that wants to destroy the
state and is not 
prepared to recognize Israel... Why should we take
chances during 
wartime? Did England and America take chances with
Germans seeking 
their destruction during the Second World War? No one
is preventing 
them from building a family but they should live in
Jenin instead of 
in [the Israeli Arab city of] Umm al-Fahm.

* The Israeli army said it had killed at least seven
Palestinian 
militants in the West Bank yesterday. One of the men
killed was Elias 
Al Ashkar, blamed for suicide attacks including the
one in Tel Aviv 
on 17 April which killed 11.

 


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Re: [Biofuel] Poll in favor of bombing Iran

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--- D. Mindock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
 I think this poll shows how the short term memory of
 Americans is totally lacking. Also it shows
 how effective the propaganda machine of BushCo is.
 In a word, terrorfying.
 Peace, D. Mindock  P.S. We have met the enemy and he
 is us.
 
 
 Poll: Strong U.S. Support for Bombing Iran 
 An Internet poll sponsored by NewsMax.com reveals
 that Americans are overwhelmingly in favor of the
 United States undertaking military action to stop
 Iran's nuclear weapons program. 
 
 Nearly 60,000 people have taken part in the poll so
 far, and more than nine out of 10 say U.S. efforts
 to contain Iran's weapons program are not working. 
 
 A large majority of respondents also believe that
 Iran poses a greater threat than Saddam Hussein did
 before the Iraq War. 
 
 NewsMax will provide the results of this poll to
 major media and share them with radio talk-show
 hosts across the country. 
 
 Here are the poll questions and results:
  
 1) Do you believe U.S. efforts to contain Iran's
 nuclear weapons program are working?
 Working: 7 percent
 Not Working: 93 percent 
 
 2) Should the United States rely solely on the U.N.
 to stop Iran's nuclear weapons program?
 Yes: 11 percent
 No: 89 percent 
 
 3) Do you believe Iran poses a greater threat than
 Saddam Hussein did before the Iraq War?
 Yes: 88 percent
 No: 12 percent 
 
 4) Should the U.S. undertake military action against
 Iran to stop their program?
 Yes: 77 percent
 No: 23 percent 
 
 5) Who should undertake military action against Iran
 first?
 U.S.: 45 percent
 Israel: 35 percent
 Neither: 20 percent 
 
 
 


 
 
 
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hi, Americans are still living in the wild west. They
have to catch up with the rest of the civilised world.
The only super power left-should behave with
responsibilty for this planet. Unfortunately US is run
by cow boys. God help this planet.
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Re: [Biofuel] FFA's as Weed Killer

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--- Ryan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

From what I remember from my botany courses,
 plant leaves are also very 
 tightly regulated to reduce water loss.  A leaf is
 basically a large, flat 
 surface coursing with fluid; exactly what you would
 do to promote 
 evaporation.  To slow evap., most leaves have
 passive pores that close in 
 dry conditions as well as a secreted waxy surface. 
 If the FFA were 
 disrupting the waxy surface or causing the pores to
 open or both, you would 
 get rapid fluid loss, browning, wilting, etc., but
 the plant would repair 
 and recover in a short time.
 
Gooeyness...hmmm...surface gooeyness?  Or the
 whole leaf is a spongey 
 mess?  Maybe the waxy seal balling up like oil drops
 in water?
 
Ryan
 
 
 From: Thomas Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Reply-To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
 To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
 Subject: Re: [Biofuel] FFA's as Weed Killer
 Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 14:25:47 -0400
 
 Bob,
   In response to my note: One day later
 ~24hrs, the leaves were 
 browning
 and wilted.
   You wrote:
  I sure would like to see some references on the
 mechanism of this 
 effect.
 
   I wonder if the FFAs are disrupting the
 structure of cell membranes.
 All cell membranes are phospholipid bilayers with
 hydrophobic fatty acids
 pointing inward towards each other and away from
 water. The hydrophilic
 phosphates are on the inner and outer surfaces
 interacting w. water. 
 Replace
 water w.FFAs and this structure could be
 compromised.
  After 24 hrs the leaves are more than wilted,
 they are gooey (for lack
 of a better word).
  I'd be interested in knowing the mechanism as
 well. I dug up a few
 treated dandelions 3 - 4 days after treatment. The
 roots seemed fine. This
 morning, a week after treatment, some of the
 sprayed plants are sprouting
 new leaves and the sickly-looking dandelions have
 sent up new flowers. The
 effect does not seem to be systemic.
 I like that. It seems very effective against a
 variety of weeds that lack
 tap roots or runners.
   
 Tom
 
 
 - Original Message -
 From: bob allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
 Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 11:49 AM
 Subject: Re: [Biofuel] FFA's as Weed Killer
 
 
 
 Howdy
 
 Thomas Kelly wrote:
   Hi Bob,
   What do you mean  a dilute solution?   I
 sprayed the FFAs, full
   strength, on the leaves of some weeds.
 
 I guess my assumption was wrong- when I recover
 ffa's I get a very
 viscous liquid which would be hard to spray. but
 then my wvo is about
 half saturated fat.
 
 
   One day later ~24hrs, the leaves were browning
 and wilted.
 
 I think todd also mentioned such an effect.  I sure
 would like to see
 some references on the mechanism of this effect.
 
How would I test the pH of FFAs? I use wide
 range pH paper to test 
 my
   wash water. I don't think they'll work on FFAs.
 
 try taking a gram or so of your ffa's and add it to
 about 100ml water.
 Free fatty acids will not dissolve well and should
 not change the pH
 paper reading.  I just tried it with a sample of
 oleic acid. pH of the
 solution/emulsion was unchanged after adding the
 oleic acid.
 
 
It appears as though some of the weeds I
 sprayed last week are
   sending
   up new shoots.
 
 I'll try spraying some oleic acid on a plant or two
 (as soon as it quits
 raining) and see what happens.
 
 
   
Tom
   - Original Message -
   From: bob allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
   Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 11:34 AM
   Subject: Re: [Biofuel] FFA's as Weed Killer
  
  
 howdy Thomas
  
   I am a little surprised that a dilute solution
 of ffa's would have any
   impact on plant life over a 24 hour period. My
 guess is that your
   solution contains more than ffa's.  What is the
 pH ? how about total
   dissolved solids, ie salts ?  Do you have any
 idea of the concentration
   of the ffa (in water I assume)?
  
   Thomas Kelly wrote:
  I've been gardening for over 30 years by
 essentially building dirt
   and caring for my plants from the ground up.
   I've been know to chop off a weed's head now
 and again or yank them 
 from
   the ground. I've squished bugs by the
 thousands and lured others to
   deadly traps. I've never used a spray that has
 any real obvious results
   (dead insects or weeds).
  I've been splitting my glycerine co-product
 into FFA's, potassium
   (and some sodium) phosphate, and crude
 glycerine.
  Yesterday I sprayed FFA's on some weeds in
 an area of the garden 
 that
   hasn't been turned yet. Today they appear to be
 dying. It didn't seem 
 to
   discriminate ... dandelions, wild mustard,
 plantain, grass  all
   withering.
  I'm a bit taken back. The sprays I concoct
 from chives, peppers,
   mulberry leaves etc. are intended to
 repel/discourage pests. I don't 
 see
   any corpses. 

Re: [Biofuel] For Robots, Fuel Cells That Double as Muscles

[fox mulder]

Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/21/science/21find.html?
pagewanted==print

March 21, 2006

For Robots, Fuel Cells That Double as Muscles 
By KENNETH CHANG


Ray H. Baughman, a professor of chemistry at the
University of Texas 
at Dallas, has not built an android. He has not built
a brain or an 
eye or a robotic equivalent of some other complex body
part. 
Instead, he has built something that will also be
crucial for future 
androids: artificial muscles.

Today's crude humanoid robots already use gears,
pulleys and pistons 
to mimic the actions of muscles. But they are
electrically powered, 
requiring that they be plugged in and tethered by an
extension cord 
or powered by batteries, which drain quickly.

Dr. Baughman's advance, reported in the current issue
of the journal 
Science, is that his new muscle fibers double as fuel
cells. Just 
like real muscles, they power themselves instead of
relying on 
external electrical power. Chemical energy also
delivers a greater 
bang.

The most advanced battery can only store only about
one-thirtieth 
of the energy that is stored chemically in fuels such
as methanol, 
Dr. Baughman said.

He and his colleagues have made two types of
artificial muscles. One 
is a nickel-titanium alloy coated with platinum, which
causes the 
fuel — currently methanol, but hydrogen or alcohol
could work, too — 
to react with oxygen, producing heat. The metal
shrinks; the muscle 
flexes. The artificial muscle can apply 100 times as
much force as 
real muscle.

Dr. Baughman said the technology was simple enough
that it could 
find commercial applications in as few as three years.

The second artificial muscle, currently less powerful,
is made of a 
sheet of nanotubes, tiny but superstrong cylindrical
molecules of 
carbon. The reaction of fuel and oxygen releases
electrical charges 
that repel each other and cause the nanotube sheet to
expand.

To put such artificial muscles into robots will
require solving 
other problems, like how to control the amount of fuel
going to the 
muscles. The analogy of a circulatory system is
really what's 
needed, Dr. Baughman said.

But for the future, he said, it is not entirely
far-fetched for an 
android to walk into a bar.

 
 






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Re: [Biofuel] [off topic]US marines 'massscred Iraqi civilians'

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US marines 'massscred Iraqi civilians' Tuesday March
21, 09:11 AM  
Click to enlarge photo 
 
 

A US magazine has released a video it claims shows a
civilian massacre by American marines in Iraq.

The incident, which happened last November in the town
of Haditha, was captured by a journalism student, Time
Magazine says.

The graphic footage shows heavily bloodstained rooms,
and bodies of the alleged victims wrapped in rugs at
the house and in the local morgue.

Residents in the Iraqi town claim the incident
happened shortly after a roadside bomb killed a US
Marine in a western Iraqi town last year.

US forces went into nearby houses and shot dead 15
members of two families, including a three
year-old-girl, residents said.

American troops immediately cordoned the area and
raided two nearby houses, shooting at everyone
inside, said a witness. It was a massacre in every
sense of the word.

Time said the available evidence did not provide
conclusive proof that the Marines deliberately killed
innocent civilians.

The US Military, after being presented with evidence
in January, concluded that civilians were killed by
Marines, Time said, victims of collateral damage
rather than deliberate murder.

Lieutenant General Peter Chiarelli, the number-two US
commander in Iraq, said about 12 Marines were under
investigation for possible war crimes in the incident.
He said the case was referred to the Naval Criminal
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Re: [Biofuel] Methanol-powered artificial muscles start to flex

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Source:  
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8859feedId=online-news_rss20


Methanol-powered artificial muscles start to flex
19:00 16 March 2006
NewScientist.com news service
Zeeya Merali


Methanol-powered artificial muscles have been created
by researchers  
aiming to create battery-free robotic limbs and
prosthetics.

One day you could find yourself sitting in a bar next
to a humanoid  
robot, who is taking a shot of vodka to give himself
the energy to go 
to  
work, jokes Ray Baughman, a nanotechnologist at the
University of 
Texas  
at Dallas, US.

The most athletic robots around today are chained to
a power source, 
so  
they can't move about freely, he explains. In an
effort to remove the  
robots from their battery-shackles, Baughman and
colleagues have 
designed  
two types of artificial muscle that also act as fuel
cells – 
converting  
chemical energy to mechanical movement.

The first type of muscle is made from a
nickel-titanium shape-memory 
wire  
coated in a platinum catalyst. When fumes of methanol,
hydrogen and 
oxygen  
pass over the platinum coating, they react, releasing
heat that warms 
the  
wire, making it contract. When the flow of fuel is
stopped, the wire  
expands and returns to its original length. The wire
muscle can 
generate  
100 times the force of a natural muscle of the same
size, says 
Baughman.
Energy saver

The team's second artificial muscle is made from
sheets of carbon  
nanotubes, coated in a catalyst. It is not yet as
powerful as the wire  
muscle, but could potentially overtake it, he says.

As the fuel reacts with oxygen above the surface of
the nanotube sheet, 
it  
releases a charge that make the sheet expand. The big
advantage of the  
nanotube muscle is that it can also act as a
capacitor, storing up  
electric energy it does not immediately need for later
use, Baughman  
explains.

The team are now working out exactly how to control
the flow of fuel in  
practical prosthetic applications. Baughman believes
that people with  
limited finger or arm mobility could control an
artificial muscle using  
very slight movements to open and shut a valve to
release the fuel. A  
second challenge for the group is ensuring that the
muscles do not  
overheat as they contract, adds Baughman.

“It is very clever that the muscle itself is the
fuel cell,” says 
Siegmar  
Roth, an artificial muscle expert at the Max Planck
Institute in  
Stuttgart, Germany. “This will be very good for
medical applications  
because you can’t put high voltages into humans, but
these work on 
low  
voltages.”

Reference: Science (vol 311, p 1580)



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Re: [Biofuel] [off topic]How Islamic inventors changed the world

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Source: The Independent
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article350594.ece



How Islamic inventors changed the world


 From coffee to cheques and the three-course 
meal, the Muslim world has given us many 
innovations that we take for granted in daily 
life. As a new exhibition opens, Paul Vallely 
nominates 20 of the most influential- and 
identifies the men of genius behind them


Published: 11 March 2006

1 The story goes that an Arab named Khalid was 
tending his goats in the Kaffa region of southern 
Ethiopia, when he noticed his animals became 
livelier after eating a certain berry. He boiled 
the berries to make the first coffee. Certainly 
the first record of the drink is of beans 
exported from Ethiopia to Yemen where Sufis drank 
it to stay awake all night to pray on special 
occasions. By the late 15th century it had 
arrived in Mecca and Turkey from where it made 
its way to Venice in 1645. It was brought to 
England in 1650 by a Turk named Pasqua Rosee who 
opened the first coffee house in Lombard Street 
in the City of London. The Arabic qahwa became 
the Turkish kahve then the Italian caffé and then
English coffee.

2 The ancient Greeks thought our eyes emitted 
rays, like a laser, which enabled us to see. The 
first person to realise that light enters the 
eye, rather than leaving it, was the 10th-century 
Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physicist 
Ibn al-Haitham. He invented the first pin-hole 
camera after noticing the way light came through 
a hole in window shutters. The smaller the hole, 
the better the picture, he worked out, and set up 
the first Camera Obscura (from the Arab word 
qamara for a dark or private room). He is also 
credited with being the first man to shift 
physics from a philosophical activity to an
experimental one.

3 A form of chess was played in ancient India but 
the game was developed into the form we know it 
today in Persia. From there it spread westward to 
Europe - where it was introduced by the Moors in 
Spain in the 10th century - and eastward as far 
as Japan. The word rook comes from the Persian rukh,
which means 
chariot.

4 A thousand years before the Wright brothers a 
Muslim poet, astronomer, musician and engineer 
named Abbas ibn Firnas made several attempts to 
construct a flying machine. In 852 he jumped from 
the minaret of the Grand Mosque in Cordoba using 
a loose cloak stiffened with wooden struts. He 
hoped to glide like a bird. He didn't. But the 
cloak slowed his fall, creating what is thought 
to be the first parachute, and leaving him with 
only minor injuries. In 875, aged 70, having 
perfected a machine of silk and eagles' feathers 
he tried again, jumping from a mountain. He flew 
to a significant height and stayed aloft for ten 
minutes but crashed on landing - concluding, 
correctly, that it was because he had not given 
his device a tail so it would stall on landing. 
Baghdad international airport and a crater on the Moon
are named after 
him.

5 Washing and bathing are religious requirements 
for Muslims, which is perhaps why they perfected 
the recipe for soap which we still use today. The 
ancient Egyptians had soap of a kind, as did the 
Romans who used it more as a pomade. But it was 
the Arabs who combined vegetable oils with sodium 
hydroxide and aromatics such as thyme oil. One of 
the Crusaders' most striking characteristics, to 
Arab nostrils, was that they did not wash. 
Shampoo was introduced to England by a Muslim who 
opened Mahomed's Indian Vapour Baths on Brighton 
seafront in 1759 and was appointed Shampooing 
Surgeon to Kings George IV and William IV.

6 Distillation, the means of separating liquids 
through differences in their boiling points, was 
invented around the year 800 by Islam's foremost 
scientist, Jabir ibn Hayyan, who transformed 
alchemy into chemistry, inventing many of the 
basic processes and apparatus still in use today 
- liquefaction, crystallisation, distillation, 
purification, oxidisation, evaporation and 
filtration. As well as discovering sulphuric and 
nitric acid, he invented the alembic still, 
giving the world intense rosewater and other 
perfumes and alcoholic spirits (although drinking 
them is haram, or forbidden, in Islam). Ibn 
Hayyan emphasised systematic experimentation and 
was the founder of modern chemistry.

7 The crank-shaft is a device which translates 
rotary into linear motion and is central to much 
of the machinery in the modern world, not least 
the internal combustion engine. One of the most 
important mechanical inventions in the history of 
humankind, it was created by an ingenious Muslim 
engineer called al-Jazari to raise water for 
irrigation. His 1206 Book of Knowledge of 
Ingenious Mechanical Devices shows he also 
invented or refined the use of valves and 
pistons, devised some of the first mechanical 
clocks driven by water and weights, and was the 
father of robotics. Among his 50 other inventions was
the combination 
lock.

8 

Re: [Biofuel] [off topic]Autopsy: No Arabs on Flight 77

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Source:  http://www.physics911.net/olmsted.htm





Autopsy: No Arabs on Flight 77


By Thomas R. Olmsted, M.D

I am an ex Naval line officer and a psychiatrist in
private practice in New Orleans, a Christian and
homeschool dad. It troubled me a great deal that we
rushed off to war on the flimsiest of evidence. I
considered various ways to provide a smoking gun of
who and why Sept 11th happened. Astute observers
noticed right away that there were no Arabic sounding
names on any of the flight manifests of the planes
that crashed on that day.

A list of names on a piece of paper is not evidence,
but an autopsy by a pathologist, is. I undertook by
FOIA request, to obtain that autopsy list and you are
invited to view it below. Guess what? Still no Arabs
on the list. In my opinion the monsters who planned
this crime made a mistake by not including Arabic
names on the original list to make the ruse seem more
believable.

When airline disasters occur, airlines will routinely
provide a manifest list for anxious families. You may
have noticed that even before Sep 11th, airlines are
pretty meticulous about getting an accurate headcount
before takeoff. It seems very unlikely to me, that
five Arabs sneaked onto a flight with weapons. This is
the list provided by American of the 56 passengers. On
September 27th, the FBI published photos of the
hijackers of Flight 77.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the Armed Forces
Institute of Pathology (AFIP), does a miraculous job
and identifies nearly all the bodies on November 16th
2001.

The AFIP suggest these numbers; 189 killed, 125 worked
at the Pentagon and 64 were passengers on the plane.
The AA list only had 56 and the list just obtained has
58. They did not explain how they were able to tell
victims bodies from hijacker bodies. In fact, from
the beginning NO explanation has been given for the
extra five suggested in news reports except that the
FBI showed us the pictures to make up the difference,
and that makes it so.

Now, being the trusting sort, I figured that the
government would want to quickly dispel any rumors so
we could get on with the chore of kicking
Osama/Sadaam's butt (weren't these originally two
different people?). It seemed simple to me. . .produce
the names of all the bodies identified by the AFIP and
compare it with the publicized list of passengers. So,
I sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to
the AFIP and asked for an expedited response, because
we were getting ready to send our boys to war on the
pretext that Osama/Saddam had done the deed. Fourteen
months later, a few US soldiers dead, many Iraqi
civilians pushing up daisies, and I finally get the
list. Believe me that they weren't a bit happy to give
it up, and I really have no idea why they choose now
to release it.

No Arabs wound up on the morgue slab; however, three
ADDITIONAL people not listed by American Airlines
sneaked in. I have seen no explanation for these
extras. I did American the opportunity to revise
their original list, but they have not responded. The
new names are: Robert Ploger, Zandra Ploger, and
Sandra Teague. The AFIP claims that the only
passenger body that they were not able to identify
is the toddler, Dana Falkenberg, whose parents and
young sister are on the list of those identified. The
satanic masterminds behind this caper may be feeling
pretty smug about the perfect crime, but they have
left a raft of clues tying these unfortunates
together.

The Passengers

In the foregoing, I presented evidence from the Armed
Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP), that there were
no Arabs on American Airlines Flight 77. This doesn't
really jibe with the official story, so someone isn't
telling the truth. This list itself is suspect because
there is a special group of bone guys that are
called in whenever the government needs an
adjustment to their story.

About bone guys: No, we're not talking folks that
hang around secret Ivy League fraternities. On May 31,
2002, the Washington Post had this to say about 'bone
guys':

...When remains of the Waco dead or 9/11 Pentagon
victims or Desert Storm casualties -- or most recently
Chandra Levy -- need to be studied, the bone guys at
the Smithsonian are called in. The bone guys read
skeletons like intricate topological maps. Sometimes
they can make identification from a skull fragment the
size of a quarter. They can read race in the teeth and
gender in the brow. They can tell you who had an
asymmetric nose. They can tell you who may have been a
factory worker, because bones grow more pronounced to
accommodate certain muscles, and who may have been a
weaver or a tailor, based on grooves in the teeth
where thread was held

In other words, these were the fellows who helped tidy
up the government's story at Waco and are studying
the Sept 11th remains as well.

By now you have probably heard that many of the
hijackers named by the FBI are alive and well. The
Information Times, an on-line publication, reported
that Saudi Arabia's 

Re: [Biofuel] first time confusion

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--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 i suppose i was reluctant to give much detail on the
 effects i am having with 
 my first batches since i am unsure of the quality of
 my methanol and lye and 
 was waiting on reliable higher quality material to
 arrive before i get really 
 confused. however my third batch gave me a slightly
 cloudy amber BD with a 
 thick brown glycerin on the bottom but gave me a
 mayonaise-like emulsion with 
 wash test that lasted for 2 days until i dumped it. 
  out of curiosity i tried 250 ml of HEET, 3.5g
 lye to 1 liter of virgin 
 vegetable oil and got a cloudy amber BD with a hard,
 peach colored glycerin and 
 a wash test gave me the same emulsion. i keep the
 temperature between 55-60 
 deg Celsius and i blend for 1 hour, settle for 24
 hours. i want to blame the 
 quality of my lye and methanol until i get the good
 stuff to try again, but i 
 will check to dry the oil first next time since i
 ASSUMED virgin oil to be dry. 
 thank you very much.
 Richard   Allison
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20 min. blending
if cloudy-soap production
add some salt to precipitate the soap
wash several times
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Re: [Biofuel] BD ethanol method

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--- Blas Antonio Guanes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 HI all:
   I am new in making biodiesel. I have some doubts, I
 read something in 
 Journeytoforever, but I didn't understand well.. I
 want to make BD with 
 ethanol and NaOH. Everything says that it should be
 used 3,5 grams of NaOH 
 by liter of Oil.. But Ken Provost says that 7 grams
 are good..Which the 
 correct proportion is? KOH is very expensive here in
 Paraguay. I proved with 
 3,5 4,5 and 7 grams.. None worked. I don`t know what
 I made bad.How much as 
 ethanol should use?  The ethanol is pure, here it is
 sold as fuel.
   Could somebody send information of a sure method?
 

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 3.5 g sodium hydroxide per litre of oil with
methanol Not ethanol

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Re: [Biofuel] Nuclear War against Iran

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--- Rexis Tree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Well, actually we dont have to worry about aftermath
 of a nuclear war,
 because we wont be there to worry about if there is
 a nuclear war happened.
 
 I just wish that if there is ever a nuclear war, I
 will have a clear view to
 see the beautiful firework show of giant fireball
 and mushroom before the
 heat wave cooked me into radioactive dust.
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 Don't forget the only country that used the nuclear
bomb on human beings is USA. She is prepared to use
the nuclear bomb om Iran to protect on behalf of
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Re: [Biofuel] Is Washington Planning a Military Strike on Iran?

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--- Hakan Falk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
 Sometimes I wonder why they add in things that might
 had happened, but did not.
 
 At 07:56 05/01/2006, you wrote:
 snip
 -- as evidenced by Erdogan's recent phone call to
 Ariel Sharon,
 congratulating the prime minister on his recent
 recovery from heart
 surgery.
 
 We now know that Sharon never underwent a heart
 surgery, it was 
 scheduled, but could not be done because of his
 massive stroke. He 
 did however recover from a minor stroke earlier, but
 heart surgery?
 
 Hakan
#

I remember who is responsible for the masacre of
inocent wemen and children in two refugee camps in
labonan in the early 80's. Also myriad palistinian
prisoners in into a football stadiium and never got
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Re: [Biofuel] The Anglo-American War of Terror

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--- Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Michel Chossudovsky: The Anglo-American War of
 Terror
 
 The World is at the crossroads of the most serious
 crisis in modern 
 history. In the largest display of military might
 since the Second 
 World War, the United States and its indefectible
 British ally have 
 embarked upon a military adventure, which threatens
 the future of 
 humanity.
 
 http://tinyurl.com/btj3v
 

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticlecode=CHO200
 
 51221articleId=1576
 
 The Anglo-American War of Terror: An Overview
 
 by Michel Chossudovsky
 
 December 21, 2005
 
 GlobalResearch.ca
 
 Paper presented at the Perdana Global Peace Forum
 2005
 
 Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
 
 14-17 December 2005
 
 The debate regarding war and Militarization raises
 the broad issue of 
 national sovereignty.
 
 I am particularly gratified as an economist to
 participate in this 
 important event in the Nation's capital, in
 Malaysia, a country which 
 at a critical moment in its history, namely at the
 height of the 1997 
 Asian crisis, took the courageous stance of
 confronting the 
 Washington Consensus and the international financial
 establishment.
 
 Under the helm of Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad,
 carefully designed 
 financial measures were taken to avoid the collapse
 of the ringgit, 
 thereby foreclosing a scenario of economic
 dislocation, bankruptcy 
 and impoverishment, as occurred in Thailand,
 Indonesia and South 
 Korea.
 
 These 1997 measures forcefully confronted the
 mainstream neoliberal 
 agenda. In retrospect, this was a momentous
 decision, which will go 
 down in the Nation's history. It constitutes the
 basis for an 
 understanding of what is best described as economic
 and financial 
 warfare.
 
 Today we have come to understand that war and
 macro-economic 
 manipulation are intertwined. Militarization
 supports economic 
 warfare. Conversely, what is referred to
 euphemistically as economic 
 reform supports a military and geopolitical agenda
 
 Introduction
 
 The World is at the crossroads of the most serious
 crisis in modern 
 history. In the largest display of military might
 since the Second 
 World War, the United States and its indefectible
 British ally have 
 embarked upon a military adventure, which threatens
 the future of 
 humanity.
 
 An understanding of the underlying historical
 background is crucial. 
 This war agenda is not the product of a distinct
 neo-conservative 
 project. From the outset of the Cold War Era, there
 is a consistent 
 thread, a continuum in US military doctrine, from
 the Truman 
 doctrine to Bush's war on terrorism.
 
 Foreign Policy adviser George F. Kennan had outlined
 in a 1948 State 
 Department brief what was later described as the
 'Truman doctrine.
 
 What this 1948 document conveys is continuity in US
 foreign policy, 
 from Containment to Pre-emptive War. In this
 regard, the 
 Neo-conservative agenda under the Bush
 administration should be 
 viewed as the culmination of a post World War II
 foreign policy 
 framework. The latter has been marked by a
 succession of US sponsored 
 wars and military interventions in all major regions
 of the World. 
  From Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan, to the CIA
 sponsored military 
 coups in Latin America and Southeast Asia, the
 objective has been to 
 ensure US military hegemony and global economic
 domination, as 
 initially formulated under the Truman Doctrine at
 the outset of the 
 Cold War.
 
 Despite significant policy differences, successive
 Democratic and 
 Republican administrations, from Harry Truman to
 George W. Bush have 
 carried out this global military agenda.
 
 Moreover, Kennan's writings pointed to the formation
 of an 
 Anglo-American alliance, which currently
 characterizes the close 
 relationship between Washington and London. This
 alliance responds to 
 powerful economic interests in the oil industry,
 defense and 
 international banking. It is, in many regards, an
 Anglo-American 
 extension of the British Empire, which was
 officially disbanded in 
 the wake of the Second World War.
 
 The Truman doctrine also points to the inclusion of
 Canada in the 
 Anglo-American military axis. Moreover, Kennan had
 also underscored 
 the importance of preventing the development of a
 continental 
 European power that could compete with the US.
 
 With regard to Asia, including China and India,
 Kennan hinted to the 
 importance of articulating a military solution:
 
 The day is not far off when we are going to have to
 deal in straight 
 power concepts. The less we are then hampered by
 idealistic slogans, 
 the better
 
 Weakening the United Nations
 
  From the outset of the Cold War, the objective was
 to undermine and 
 ultimately destroy the Soviet Union. Washington was
 also intent upon 
 weakening the United Nations as a genuine
 international body, an 
 objective that has largely been achieved under the
 Bush 
 

Re: [Biofuel] BD process question

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--- Joe Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hello, I have a question about biodiesel processing
 I hope someone can 
 help me with;
 I read the excellent info on the journey to forever
 site and checked the 
 archives about washing etc.  I am interested in
 using mechanical 
 agitation to speed up the process of washing but I
 wonder if I am being 
 too impatient or something.  Some background on what
 I am doing
 I have been using the single stage process so far. 
 I started to learn 
 with virgin canola oil and then went to waste canola
 oil from a local 
 pub.  In every case I have done my titrations
 carefully using a good 
 quality burette and stock KOH solution carefully
 mixed using a 
 laboratory grade electronic scale and DI water. 
 When I did the 1 liter 
 test batches I got a clean split with only 2 layers
 and after 4 washes 
 with acetic acid on the first one I have ended up
 with BD that is 
 cloudy.  After heating the BD for drying it became
 spectrally clear and 
 remained that way after cooling.  I had given an
 extended waiting time 
 of more than a week to see if it would clarify on
 it's own but this did 
 not happen.  After the clarification by heating I 
 took it down to the 
 freezing point and it remained clear after thawing. 
 Then I did my first 
 5 gallon batch in a water heater.  My reractor is a
 vacuum type and I 
 use a circulation pump for mixing and washing etc. 
 Again I obtained a 
 good clear split but this time the BD clarified
 after heating (began to 
 clear at about 50 deg. C. and I heated it to 135 deg
 C.) and I was 
 shocked to see it cloudy the following day after it
 cooled.  I reheated 
 again this time to 170 deg. C. and it was better
 after cooling but not 
 near as clear as the other 1 liter test batches. So
 questions:
 What is it exactly that causes the cloudiness?  Is
 it water content?  I 
 notice the BD from the test batches after all is
 done has a smell 
 similar to oil based paint or linseed oil but had a
 much sweeter 
 aromatic smell while it was being heated.  The large
 batch more so.  Is 
 this due to residual methanol (which I thought I
 completely removed 
 after the reaction using vacuum distillation at 55
 deg C and 25 in Hg)?
 Does the cloudiness indicate that the reaction was
 not correct (excess 
 caustic?) I didn't have a problem with soaps.
 Any recommendations?
 
 
 Thanks in advance for any help you can offer
 
 Joe
 
 
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biodiesel is hygroscopic. on cooling it absorbs water.
if yopu want it to be clear
try puttng an air tight lid on it.
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Re: [Biofuel] [off topic]Israel plan for new settler homes

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Source:
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Friday, 3 June, 2005, 08:42 GMT 09:42 UK  
 
Israel plan for new settler homes  
 
Maale Adumim, east of Jerusalem, is already home to
35,000 settlers 
Israel has announced plans to build 22 more homes in a
Jewish 
settlement in the West Bank. 
This comes a week after US President George W Bush
called on Israel 
to stop all settlement expansion in line with
commitments made under 
the roadmap. 

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said the plan,
announced on 
Thursday, undermined efforts to revive talks. 

He urged the international community to try to stop
the building at 
the Maale Adumim settlement, east of Jerusalem. 

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is pushing ahead
with plans to 
withdraw from the Gaza Strip but has said Israel will
hold on to 
parts of the West Bank, including the Maale Adumim
settlement and 
another at Ariel, to the north of Jerusalem. 

In April, Israel unveiled plans for 3,500 extra homes
on occupied 
land near Maale Adumim - the largest Israeli
settlement in the West 
Bank - forming a corridor to Jerusalem. 

Israel has occupied the West Bank and Gaza since 1967.


The international community considers all settlements
in Gaza and 
the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, as illegal
under 
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Re: [Biofuel] [off topic] Israeli settlers poisoning our sheep, say West Bank farmers

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Source: The Independent
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=63


Israeli settlers poisoning our sheep, say West Bank
farmers



Highly toxic chemicals have been spread on Palestinian
sheep pastures 
in 
what villagers believe is an escalation of a campaign
of harassment 
against 
them by Jewish West Bank settlers.

Amnesty International has called on the Israeli
authorities to 
investigate 
fully a systematic poisoning attack which they say has
killed more than 
20 
sheep in Tuwani, a village of 250 people, and two
others in the south 
Hebron hills.

The poisoning here and in Umm Faggara and Kharruba
came to light after 
a 
series of violent attacks over the past year by masked
men on 
international 
volunteers accompanying shepherds and protecting
Palestinian children 
walking to and from school in Tuwani from the outlying
village of Tuba. 
The 
last, on 16 February, left a Italian human rights
activist, Johannes 
Steger, with a fractured jaw, a torn retina and
amnesia.

The villagers blame the nearby settlers of Maon and
Havat Maon for the 
attacks, which have prompted the army and police to
provide an armed 
escort 
for the children travelling round the settlement
between the two 
villages.

Amnesty has accused the Israeli police - who are fully
responsible for 
this 
section of the occupied West Bank - of failing
adequately to 
investigate 
the poisoning and bring its perpetrators to justice.
Police say they 
have 
made arrests in connection with attacks but do not yet
know who is 
responsible for the poisoning and that an
investigation is continuing.

The Palestinian farmers have been obliged to
quarantine their flocks 
and 
stop selling or consuming their milk, meat and cheese
in what one 
villager, 
Hafez Hareini, said was an economic disaster for the
area.

Salem al-Adra, 74, said he had lost three of his 30
sheep from two 
poisoning episodes, and that 80 others among the 1,250
grazed by 
shepherds 
in Tuwani and Umm Faggara had fallen sick, with
symptoms such as 
diarrhoea 
and foaming at the mouth.

The al-Adra family produced a bag of green pellets
collected by 
volunteers 
which Amnesty says analysts from both Bier Zeit
University and the 
Israeli 
Nature Protection Authority had identified as barley
treated with 
2-Fluoracetamide, a powerful rodenticide banned in
several countries.

Amnesty says a second poisoning uncovered in the first
week of April 
used 
Brodifacoum, an anti-coagulant and another highly
toxic rodenticide.

Naim al-Adra said: The settlers just don't want us to
enter our land.

His father added: They are wicked people. It's very
easy to explain. 
They 
just don't like the smell of Arabs. When they came
here first in 1982 
it 
was very easy for the first year. But then they said,
'We are going to 
take 
your land piece by piece'.

Emily Amrusy, spokeswoman for the Yesha Council, the
settlers' umbrella 
body, said the international activists had laid the
poison to frame the 
settlers. She said she did not know why escorts had
been provided for 
schoolchildren.

Shelley Stanley, 22, an American volunteer working in
Tuwani, said she 
had 
gone to Kyriat Arba police station to report that she
had been told by 
a 
security guard at the Maon settlement that the
poisoning had been the 
work 
of Havat Maon settlers.

The policemen took a statement, she recalled, but
when I asked what 
would happen, he said, 'This is way over our head; we
are waiting for a 
decision'.


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Re: [Biofuel] Fw: acetone

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--- Kenneth Kron (CEO) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I can give you a data point about biodiesel and
 particulates.  I tried
2 oz/gallon of acetone in my B100 since that is
 the biggest issue I
have with my biodiesel, just to clarify other
 issues are the VOCs and
minute quantities of carcinogens in the exhaust
 but I haven't heard of
any ways to remediate those that are easy to
 implement.  So when I run
2oz of acetone/gallon of BD my particulate levels
 go from fairly
noticeable to very difficult to detect.  I
 realize that's not very
scientific but I'd encourage anyone with the
 appropriate instruments
to do further research.   I'd certainly donate
 biodiesel to an
interesting study if you'll cover transport from
 Richmond CA.
kk
Derick Giorchino wrote:
 
 - Original Message - 
 From: Derick Giorchino 
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 8:04 AM
 Subject: FW: acetone
 
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Derick Giorchino
 [[2]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 7:29 AM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: acetone
 
 
  I did try adding 4oz run of the mill acetone to my
 40 gal tank of dino diesel
 and using the read out picked up 2.3 mpg under real
 life driving. I commute the
  same distance each day some surface roads and some
 cruse control miles. my nex
 t test will be to add 2 oz per 10 gal and see the
 results. ill let you know. as
  far as the cat and o2 sensor the thing that kills
 them is abrasives such as ca
 rbon particles braking loose and kind of sand
 blasting the membrane. the cat sh
 ould be better off since the claim is less smoke
 there again the soot would be
 the thing that clogs it.
 my question is how it will work on bio diesel. this
 will take me more time sinc
 e I have yet to have a successful test batch, but
 that's for another time.
 
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Dear Ken,

Thank you for this info.

I believe acetone causes the fuel to atomise
optimally. In a way the role of acetone is to catalyse
vaporisation.As the original claimer suggested that
acetone reduces the surface tension of the fuel
liquid.
Acetone must not act as a solvent as the amount used
is miniscular(i.e. the proportion of a catalyst). Also
acetone is in a mixture.

best wishes,
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Re: [Biofuel][off topic]Israel clears officer of killing journalist who had white flag

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Source:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=629505

Israel clears officer of killing journalist who had
white flag
By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem
15 April 2005

The British government formally protested to Israel
after the army 
officer
who opened fire when the film-maker James Miller was
shot dead in Gaza 
two
years ago was acquitted of disciplinary charges.

The decision by the head of Israel's Southern Command
to clear the 
officer
overturned a recommendation by the military advocate
general that he 
should
be severely disciplined. Mr Miller was killed in Rafah
in 2003 while 
walking
back to his lodgings displaying a white flag and
clearly identifying 
himself
to troops as a journalist.

The officer acquitted yesterday has admitted opening
fire and a 79-page
report by Brigadier-General Avihai Mandelblit, the
advocate general, 
held
that the first lieutenant in the Bedouin Desert
Reconnaissance 
Battalion had
fired in clear breach of army rules of engagement.

Mr Miller's widow Sophy said the decision makes a
mockery of Israeli 
claims
that they follow due process where IDF soldiers have
acted criminally 
and
outside their own rules of engagement.

Mr Miller's family had been bitterly disappointed when
they were told 
at a
meeting with General Mandleblit in Tel Aviv last month
that the officer
would not be prosecuted because of a lack of ballistic
evidence proving 
the
bullet which killed Mr Miller came from the officer's
weapon. But they 
- and
British officials - were assured that the advocate
general was 
recommending
a stiff disciplinary sentence.

Baroness Symons, the Foreign Office minister, has
summoned Zvi Heifetz, 
the
Israeli ambassador in London, on Monday to protest at
the decision and 
urge
that it be reversed, a message also strongly conveyed
in a letter last 
night
by Simon McDonald, the British ambassador in Tel Aviv,
in a letter to 
Shaul
Mofaz, Israel's Defence Minister.

Yesterday, Baroness Symons said she was shocked and
saddened by the
decision by the Brigadier-General Guy Tzur, the
Southern Command chief 
of
staff. The Israeli army said General Tzur decided that
under the 
conditions
then - including frequent terrorist attacks; thick
darkness and 
earlier
that same day the soldiers were fired at by anti-tank
missiles - the
shooting was reasonable. The family's lawyers are
seeking reversal of 
the
decision. .

Mr Miller, an award-winning documentary maker who had
been working on a 
film
about Palestinian children caught up in the conflict,
was shot while 
walking
openly with two colleagues to their apartment.

They were carrying a white flag with a torch shone on
it, their helmets 
were
clearly marked TV and they called out that they were
British 
journalists
as they approached an armoured personnel carrier to
ask permission to 
leave.
Israeli claims of heavy fire between Palestinians and
Israeli troops at 
the
time were disproved because an Associated Press
cameraman filmed the
incident.

Mrs Miller said the family believed there had been no
genuine will to
uncover the truth because the site of the shooting had
not been secured 
for
forensic investigation. It was bulldozed three days
later and Israeli
authorities took 11 weeks to impound the guns involved
in Mr Miller's 
death
for ballistic examination. 

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Re: [Biofuel] Acetone in fuel increases mileage by 15 -35%

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 --- 1 palm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
 Hello members,
  
 The acetone post is very interesting. will it harm
 catalytic converter ,oxygen sensor and fuel
 injection system?
  
 oilpalm1
 
 subramanian D.V [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hello members,
 
 The information below came in one of the Emails. 
 
 http://pesn.com/2005/03/ 17/6900069_Acetone/ 
 
 Acetone In Fuel Said to Increase Mileage 15-35%
 
 Readily-available chemical added to gas tank in
 small proportion improves the fuel's ability to
 vaporize completely by eliminating the surface
 tension that causes some particulates to note fully
 vaporize. 
 
 by Louis LaPointe Adapted by Sterling D. Allan with
 LaPoint's permission for Pure Energy Systems News
 
 Acetone (CH3COCH3), also called dimethylketone or
 propanone, is a product that can be purchased
 inexpensively in most locations around the world,
 such as in the common hardware store. Added to the
 fuel tank in tiny amounts, it aids in the
 vaporization of the gasoline or diesel, increasing
 fuel efficiency, engine longevity, and performance
 -- as well as reducing hydrocarbon emissions
 
  How Much to Use
 
 Add in tiny amounts from about one part per 5000 to
 one part per 500, depending on the vehicle -- just a
 few ounces per ten gallons of gas than demand·.
 
  I have never seen a problem with acetone, and I
 have used ACETONE in gasoline and diesel fuel and in
 jet fuel (JP-4) for 50 years.
 
  See also
 
 Acetone as a Fuel Additive (index at PESWiki) Fuel
 
 The qty of acetone to be mixed with petrol works out
 2cc to 20 cc per 10 litres of petrol. The PESWiki
 link mentioned does not give any guidance about the
 mixing ratio. I am about to try this on our family
 car . Acetone is available in the local chemicals
 market in 2 qualities-- commercial quality at the
 lower price equivalent of 2 U.S.dollars a litre and
 the one for laboratory use at 6 dollars a litre. 
 
 Could any of the members of this forum tell me the
 difference between commercial quality and laboratory
 quality acetone? Does the ratio mentioned above for
 mixing with gasoline apply to commercial or lab
 quality acetone?
 
 Anybody else had the same positive result ?
 
 Regards,
 
 D.V.Subramanian.
 
 Chennai, India . 

No acetone is very volatile. It will vaporize before
it gets to catalytic converter. People pour it on
their nails t remove nail varnish. It should not harm
anything

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RE: [Biofuel] [off topic]US opposes Israeli settlement plan

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US opposes Israeli settlement plan

The United States has opposed Israeli plans to expand
the illegal 
Jewish 
settlement of Maale Adumim near Jerusalem with some
3500 homes.

The White House on Monday also said US President
George Bush would 
raise 
the issue during next week's scheduled meeting with
Israeli Prime 
Minister 
Ariel Sharon.

We oppose the expansion of any settlement activity.
That has been our 
view 
and that remains our view, White House spokesman
Scott McClellan said 
when 
asked about settlement expansion plans in the West
Bank.

Settlement activity will be a subject that comes up,
when Bush and 
Sharon 
meet next Monday at the US president's ranch in
Crawford, Texas, 
McClellan 
said.

The spokesman's comments, however, fell short of the
position expressed 
last month by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Rice response

In response to news of Israeli plans to build the
homes between Maale 
Adumim and Arab East Jerusalem, Rice said settlement
expansion should 
come 
to a full stop, because it could threaten progress
towards peace.

We oppose the expansion of any settlement activity.
That has been our 
view 
and that remains our view


A senior Bush administration official said
Washington's stance had not 
softened since Rice's statement. The official called
the White House's 
message direct, clear and unequivocal.

Another official said the Bush administration was
putting pressure on 
Israel largely behind the scenes before the
Bush-Sharon meeting.

Rice and Bush's national security adviser, Stephen
Hadley, were 
expected to 
raise the issue later on Monday in talks with Dov
Weissglass, a top 
Sharon 
adviser.

Sharon's scheme

Sharon believes an extension of Israel's biggest
colony, already home 
to 
30,000 people, is in line with Bush's assurance to him
last year that 
Israel could expect to keep some large settlement
blocs under a final 
peace 
accord.

A strip between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim will
certainly be built. At 
what time, under what circumstances, at which phase
during negotiations 
... 
I honestly don't know, said Israeli Vice-Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert.

Palestinians say the latest project on land Israel
occupied in the 1967 
Middle East war would cut them off from East
Jerusalem, which they want 
as 
the capital of their future state.


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Re: [Biofuel] ( off topic) Israel confirms settlement growth

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Source: BBC News

Last Updated: Monday, 21 March, 2005, 16:36 GMT

Israel confirms settlement growth

About 390,000 Jewish settlers already live in the West
Bank

The Israeli government has confirmed plans to increase
the size of its 
largest settlement in the West Bank.

  Approximately 3,500 homes are planned for Maale
Adumim, east of 
Jerusalem.

  The settlements at Ariel in the northern West Bank,
and Gush Etzion, 
south of Jerusalem, are also expected to be expanded.

  Israeli officials confirmed that Defence Minister
Shaul Mofaz has 
approved the construction of the new homes in Maale
Adumim.

  Defence Ministry spokeswoman Shiri Eden said the
expansion of the 
settlement is part of an overall development plan for
Maale Adumim 
approved by the government in 1999.

  Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said the
Israeli plan 
threatened hopes of restarting the Middle East peace
process.

  [This] sabotages all efforts seeking to get the
peace process back 
on 
track, he told the AFP news agency.

The Israeli government wants to determine Jerusalem's
fate by 
presenting the settlements and wall as a fait
accompli.

  We ask the Quartet and American President George
Bush: what happened 
to the two-state vision and how can we have peace
while settlements and 
the wall continue to be built? Mr Erekat said.

  Under the peace plan known as the roadmap, Israel
pledged to freeze 
the growth of settlements on land occupied since 1967.
The plan is 
sponsored by the quartet of the US, Russia, European
Union and United 
Nations.

  The international community considers all
settlements in Gaza and the 
West Bank, including East Jerusalem, as illegal under
international 
law, though Israel disputes this.

  About 400,000 Jewish settlers live in Gaza and the
West Bank, 
including East Jerusalem - alongside more than four
million 
Palestinians.

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Re: [Biofuel] off topic ; Annan: Hizb Allah must be factored in

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Annan: Hizb Allah must be factored in

The UN must recognise Hizb Allah as an important
factor in implementing the resolution calling for
Syria's full withdrawal from Lebanon and the
disarmament of the country's militias,
Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said.
The UN chief was responding to a question about the
disarmament of Hizb Allah, which showed its strength
on Tuesday at a huge pro-Syrian rally in Beirut
attended by hundreds of thousands of people who
chanted anti-US slogans. 
Ê
Two huge banners read in English: Thank you Syria
and No to foreign interference.
Annan said the world needed to accept that in every
society different groups may hold different views. 
Ê
Of course, we need to be careful of the forces at
work in Lebanese society as we move forward, he said.

Ê
But even the Hizb Allah - if I read the message on
the placards they are using - they are talking about
non-interference by outsiders ... which is not
entirely at odds with the Security Council resolution,
that there should be withdrawal of Syrian troops,
Annan said.

But that having been said, we need to recognise that
they are a force in society that one will have to
factor in as we implement the resolution, he said. 
Ê
Outnumbered
The rally by Hizb Allah vastly outnumbered anti-Syrian
rallies of the past weeks. 
Ê
---
We need to be careful of the forces at work in
Lebanese society as we move forward 
Kofi Annan, 
United Nations secretary-general
-
The Syrian-backed Lebanese resistance group, which is
funded by Iran, is the best armed and best organised
faction in Lebanon and enjoys strong support among
Lebanon's Shia Muslim community. 
Many of the signs at the rally in Riad al-Sulh square
denounced UN Security Council Resolution 1559, which
calls for Syrian troops and intelligence agents to
leave Lebanon immediately and demands the disarming of
militias, referring to Hizb Allah. 
Syrian soldiers entered Lebanon in 1976 to try to
quell a civil war that began the previous year. They
remained through 14 years of fighting that ended in
1990, and about 14,000 are still there, though they
have started pulling back to the border. 
No timetable 
Annan declined to discuss the timetable for
withdrawal, saying he sent Terje Roed-Larsen, his top
envoy on the Syria-Lebanon issue, to talk to top
officials in Beirut and Damascus this week about the
pullout and was awaiting his return. 
Ê
 
After his discussion, then I will know better how we
are going to proceed, Annan said. I am going to give
a report to the council in April. I hope I will be
able to report progress. 
The secretary-general was asked whether the United
Nations was considering sending a force to Lebanon
after the Syrian withdrawal to ensure security. The
world body has a peacekeeping force in southern
Lebanon, but it has no mandate to operate elsewhere in
the country. 
I've read in certain newspapers that the UN may have
to send in a force to monitor the withdrawal of the
Syrian troops, but I have no such mandate as of
today, Annan said, adding that he was not involved in
any discussions about a UN or international force for
Lebanon. 

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Re: [Biofuel] wvo won't react

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 --- JD2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
 Hi,
 
 I just read this more thoroughly. I think if
 you've got a particuarly
 sticky batch of wvo you might try passing a current
 through it.   This would
 alter the orp of any mollecules in there and therby
 the PH of the whole
 thing.   As a catalyst, I think you'll find that
 this is the very fastest.
 All you need is PP9 cell and at least one platinum
 electrode.
 
 JD2005
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  G'day JD:
  Have you read through the material at the JtF site
 ?
  http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_make.html
  Those questions snd more are all answered there.
  Luc
 hi
biodiesel is methyl or ethylesters (an organic
molecule)
isn't it that you are carrying out electrolysis for
which you need an ionic electrolyte?
fox

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Re: [Biofuel] [off topic] Shooting of Palestinian girl threatens fragile ceasefire

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Source:  The Independent
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=606537


Shooting of Palestinian girl threatens fragile
ceasefire


By Eric Silver in Jerusalem
01 February 2005

The de facto ceasefire in the Gaza Strip was shattered
yesterday when a 
10-year-old Palestinian girl was shot dead in the
playground of a 
primary 
school in the Rafah refugee camp.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA),
which runs Rafah 
Elementary School B, said Norhan Deeb was hit by a
rifle bullet 
apparently 
fired from an Israeli army observation post 800 metres
away. She 
suddenly 
screamed and fell bleeding, a witness said. The
children scattered in 
all 
directions.

Palestinian doctors said Norhan was shot in the head
and was dead on 
arrival at hospital. Another girl, Aysha el-Khatib,
aged seven, was 
wounded 
in the hand. Bullets also broke school windows. Yousef
Ibrahim, a local 
human rights activist, said the shooting was
unprovoked.

Plainly embarrassed Israeli military sources said they
knew of no 
shooting 
in the area at the time. They said they were
conducting a thorough 
investigation in co-operation with the Palestinian
security services, 
which 
were deployed in the Strip last week to prevent
attacks on Jewish 
settlements. But Johan Eriksson, a spokesman for
UNRWA, said: The only 
firing at that time in the Rafah area was from the
observation post. It 
continued for some time. The children were in the yard
for afternoon 
assembly. Teachers tried to get them into the
building, but they were 
too 
late.

Peter Hansen, UNRWA's commissioner general, said:
Despite the hopeful 
signs of improvement in the situation, we have again
been reminded of 
the 
continuing danger to which innocent children are
exposed by the 
realities 
of the occupation and the irresponsible use of arms.
The school has 
2,500 
pupils, aged seven to 11. Because of the overcrowded
conditions, they 
study 
on a two-shift system. The shooting happened during a
change of shifts.

The school has been hit many times over the past four
years, but 
yesterday's shooting was the first death there. UN
officials said it 
was 
the fifth incident in two years in which children had
been killed at 
Gaza 
schools.

The Israelis were anxious to avoid an escalation a few
hours before 
security chiefs from both sides were to meet in Tel
Aviv and cement the 
ceasefire, but Hamas retaliated by launching five
mortar rounds at 
nearby 
settlements. Two hit Neveh Dekalim, the regional
centre, causing damage 
to 
one home.

On Sunday night, soldiers shot and killed a
65-year-old man who entered 
an 
Israeli no-go area near the Egyptian border. Elsewhere
in Gaza, Israeli 
troops found and defused a roadside bomb. The Israeli
military said it 
checked the claims and found two cases in which
soldiers opened fire, 
but 
neither was in the area where the girl was shot.
According to our 
examination, the girl apparently was not shot by
Israeli army gunfire, 
the 
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Re: [Biofuel] U.S., Islam, and Religion

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 --- Legal Eagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
 G'day Ken;
 It's a can of worms.
 The despise part is easiest to answer without
 opening the can too big. The 
 short of it ? Israel.
 Luc
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 From: Ken Provost [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 9:24 PM
 Subject: [Biofuel] U.S., Islam, and Religion
 
 
  I'm gonna ask a stupid question, cuz I really
 don't know
  the answer -- why do the traditional conservative
  fundamentalists in the US LOVE the US, while the
 traditional
  conservative fundamentalists in the Arab world
 (mostly Sunni's,
  correct me if I'm wrong) tend more toward
 DESPISING the US?
 
  It can't really be about religion
 
  -K
 
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dear friend
religion is hard wired to homo sapiens brain. this
connection is strongly switched on when people are
subjected to injustices and oppression. I think this
has something to do with survival. If the people of
Iraq did not have faith, the whole population will
become suicidal.
In some cases the chemical reactions in the brain go
offbeat and bring about fundamentalism. This
fundamentalism exists in ALL religions. Because of
9/11, an average man singles out Muslims. If you ask a
man in an Arab street, why they hate USA, their reply
would be we do not hate the American people, we hate
the US government's policy towards the Arab world.
Especially, when it comes to Isreal and her treatment
of the palestinian civilians and the killing of
palestinian children on an almost daily bases. This
blatent double standard is to balme for the hatered of
the USA in the Arab world. To spray fuel on this
hatered is not in the interest of the USA, as the
quarter of the world population is Muslim.
I hope this has opened your mind.
fox
  
 
 
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Re: [Biofuel] wvo won't react

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 --- anibal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
 heloo!!! again!!!
 i have another type of wvo.. this is liquid at room
 temperature.. it is
 black... very heavily used..
 i tried a mini batch of 500 ml..100 ml methanol..
 and from 5 to 10 grams of
 lye.. and it wont react... the more lye.. the more
 it seemed to want to
 react but.. nothing happened overnight,,,
  any thoughts? on what might be the problem?
 maybe the oil is stale? maybe it has too much
 water?
 my methanol. is about 98% percent it has been going
 well in other
 reactions..
 should i add more lye?
 thanks for the info!!
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do you heat the oil to 54C before adding sodium
methoxide.
you only need 3.25g of NaOH for 500ml of wvo.
At 54C mix for 20 min.

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RE: [Biofuel] water wash emulsification

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 --- malcolm maclure [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote: 
 Fox, 
 
 What rate of salt do you use?  how many washes
 containing salt do you use
 per batch.
 
 I only ask because I can get WVO / animal fats
 mixed, by the barrel but
 shyed away from it because of soaps  gelling probs
 in winter. 
 
 Malcolm
 
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 Subject: Re: [Biofuel] water wash emulsification
 
  --- anibal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
  hello!
   thanks again for the wonderful support.!
  i just did a batch of Bio from a thick paste
 and
  solid fats from fast
  food restaurant..
  the reaction came out well , with a little layer
 of
  soap on the top
  is this because the oil has water? or was it a bit
  too much catalyst?
  
  anywyays i scooped the soap on top , and proceeded
  to water wash the bio
  when i add water the once clear biodiesel becomes 
  like an
  emulsification...an d you can't se through it..
  
   how can solve this ?
   would boiling the biodiesel solve anything?
  has anybody thrown some not very clear biodiesel
 in
  an engine..?
  what do ou recommend i do with my 10 liter batch
 of
  not clear biodiesel...?
   best
  and thank you very much!!!
  anibal
   hi anibal
 emulsification occurs because of soap- formation.
 especially if you have a lot of animal fat. 
 add salt to the water i. e. wash with salty water.
 this should form scum with the soap and deposit.
 
 fox
 
 
 
Dear malcome
soluble metal salt will do. sodium chloride is
available easily. calcium hydrogen carbonate would be
the best one as this would make the water hard. Hard
water stops emulsification. also, add 10% phosphoric
acid (10 drops per litre of oil) to neutralize
alkalinity.
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Re: [Biofuel] water wash emulsification

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 --- anibal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
 hello!
  thanks again for the wonderful support.!
 i just did a batch of Bio from a thick paste and
 solid fats from fast
 food restaurant..
 the reaction came out well , with a little layer of
 soap on the top
 is this because the oil has water? or was it a bit
 too much catalyst?
 
 anywyays i scooped the soap on top , and proceeded
 to water wash the bio
 when i add water the once clear biodiesel becomes 
 like an
 emulsification...an d you can't se through it..
 
  how can solve this ?
  would boiling the biodiesel solve anything?
 has anybody thrown some not very clear biodiesel in
 an engine..?
 what do ou recommend i do with my 10 liter batch of
 not clear biodiesel...?
  best
 and thank you very much!!!
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  hi anibal
emulsification occurs because of soap- formation.
especially if you have a lot of animal fat. 
add salt to the water i. e. wash with salty water.
this should form scum with the soap and deposit.

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Re: [Biofuel] [off topic]'Land grab' fears for Jerusalem

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Source: BBC News
Last Updated: Monday, 24 January, 2005, 12:39 GMT 

'Land grab' fears for Jerusalem

Israel has reportedly begun seizing tracts of east
Jerusalem land owned 
by Palestinians in the West Bank under a law not used
for decades.

  The government is enforcing a law on absentee
landowners passed in 
1950, the Israeli daily Haaretz says.

  Israeli lawyers acting for owners described the
policy as a land 
grab.

  Thousands of Palestinians who possess land in East
Jerusalem could 
lose ownership of their property.

  Some in Bethlehem and Beit Jalla lost rights to
their land in August 
after it was cut off by the West Bank barrier.

  The move seems likely to fuel tensions over East
Jerusalem.

  Israel has annexed all of the city and sees it as
its exclusive 
domain. Palestinians hope East Jerusalem will be the
capital of their 
future state. Under international law East Jerusalem
is seen as 
occupied territory.

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Re: [Biofuel] next step...washing

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 --- Gregory Petit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
 Hi,
 
 now I'm trying to wash my biodiesel. I'll mention
 the steps, because I think I 
 did something wrong :)
 Ok, the pH of the unwashed biodiesel was 12,12. I
 took 99ml of water and I 
 added 1ml of 96% pure H2SO4. I added this to the
 biodiesel + another 77ml of 
 water. That makes 177ml of added water, which is 1/3
 of the amount of 
 biodiesel.
 
 After adding that, I got white flakes at the
 bottom and (hopefully) 
 biodiesel on top. After taking away the bottom
 layer, I added again 177ml of 
 water (without acid) and the result can be found on:
 

http://users.pandora.be/thunderbirdIII/bio/wash2_na20min.jpg
 
 That's the result after setteling for 20 min. Now
 I'm getting a little bit 
 worried. Why do I have again those white flakes
 above the water layer? Is 
 this soap? If so, why do I have it again during the
 2nd wash? As far as I 
 know, does this means that there's still
 Na-methylate left which reacts with 
 the water.
 Does everybody gets this, or do I have to add more
 water during my 1st wash?
 
 Another thing: I took the pH of those white flakes
 from my 1st wash and that 
 seems to be 1,03. It seems that my 1st washing water
 was too acid, but should 
 this affect the washing? AFAIK the extra H+ and
 (SO4)2- will be drained of 
 with the washing water. Am I correct?
 
 Thanks for answering my lot of questions :-)
 
 Kind regards,
 
 Gregory
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hi Gregory
if you add acid to alkali, this happpens
  acid + alkali = salt + water
salt makes the water hard. saop with hard water makes
scum rather than lather. your white flakes may be
scum.

  





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[Biofuel] RE[off topic biiodiesel}Israel plans big Jerusalem land grab

[fox mulder]

Israel plans big Jerusalem land grab

By Laila El-Haddad in Gaza  

Thursday 20 January 2005, 17:17 Makka Time, 14:17 GMT 
  

The Sharon government intends to strip thousands of
West Bank 
Palestinians
of their property in occupied East Jerusalem,
according to the Israeli 
press
quoting newly released government documents.

At stake are thousands of donoms of land belonging to
Palestinians who 
live
in the West Bank and are now unable to access their
land due to 
Israel's
separation barrier.

The decision, reached by the Ministerial Committee for
Jerusalem 
Affairs in
June of 2004, and approved by Prime Minister Sharon
and his 
attorney-general
a month later, has not been publicised until now.

By some estimates, the total land to be expropriated
could add up to 
half of
all East Jerusalem property.

The move is based on the Israeli Absentee Property Law
of 1950, which 
holds
that assets of Jerusalemite Palestinians who were in
the West Bank and 
Gaza
Strip at the time of the 1948 War would be
expropriated by the state of
Israel, without the absentee being eligible for
compensation.


Political considerations

The law, which applied to millions of Palestinian
refugees who were 
unable
to return to their homes after the 1948 war, has not
been applied to 
West
Bank residents with property in East Jerusalem until
now.

The decision is the latest in a series of measures by
the Israeli 
government
apparently aimed at eliminating Palestinian claims to
Jerusalem and
ultimately predetermining the future status of holy
city.

According to the Israeli Human Rights group B'tselem,
the development 
of
East Jerusalem, since its illegal annexation in 1967,
has been based on
political considerations designed to strengthen
Israeli control over 
the
city, by creating a decisive majority of Jews.


Pressure tactics

By all accounts, the Israeli ministry of interior is
using land
expropriations, identity-card seizure, exorbitant
taxes and
difficult-to-obtain building, family-reunion and
residency permits to 
slowly
force Palestinian residents out of the city.

A law passed by former prime minister Benjamin
Netanyahu's government 
in the
late 1990s, declared that any Palestinian who has not
lived in the city 
for
seven continuous years loses his residency rights, for
example.

The Netanyahu law, whose time limit has since been
changed to three 
years,
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Re: [Biofuel] [off topic]Palestinian fighter buried alive

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Source: Aljazeera
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4AA60F34-87ED-4D9E-BD87-7A1FDB153AB6.
htm 

Palestinian fighter buried alive

Saturday 25 December 2004, 19:11 Makka Time, 16:11 GMT
 

Israeli occupation troops have killed a Palestinian
resistance leader 
by
burying him alive during a raid on the West Bank town
of Jenin.

According to Aljazeera's correspondent in the area,
troops in more than 
20
military vehicles entered the town in the early hours
of Saturday, 
imposing
a curfew and storming some Palestinian homes.

The troops then surrounded a four-storey residential
building in which 
Thair
Abu al-Kamil, reported to be a deputy leader of
al-Aqsa Martyrs 
Brigades,
was holed up, reports Ali al-Sumudi.

An exchange of gunfire was heard between al-Kamil and
the troops before
bulldozers arrived and demolished the building.

Al-Kamil was trapped inside and buried alive. It took
more than an hour 
for
his body to be retrieved.

The resistance leader has been on Israel's most wanted
list for more 
than
two years.

Israeli troops withdrew from Jenin shortly after the
operation.

Residents of the town have staged a demonstration in
protest against 
the
incident. In a similar manner, Israeli troops had
killed al-Kamil's 
brother
and demolished his home of a month ago in the Jenin
refugee camp.






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Re: [Biofuel] Newbie Question: TDI and homemade fuel

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 --- DB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
 I have a 02 golt and have been making bio for two
 years (1800 gal so far). I 
 wanted to test it for ASME specs but they wanted
 over $1000 to do the test. 
 I am confident that if you do the reaction , water
 wash the results  and 
 properly filter  the bio you will be meeting asme
 standards
 ---.DB-- Original Message - 
 From: Marna [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 7:48 PM
 Subject: [Biofuel] Newbie Question: TDI and homemade
 fuel
 
 
 I have been told that its best to use ASME
 certified biodiesel for the 
 newer
  cars because of the centrifuge used in processing
 to eliminate something,
  and that using homebrew made from WVO is
 dangerous.
 
  I just bought a TDI and am running my first tank
 of ASME certified 
  biodiesel
  through the car, but would really like to use WVO
 and do homebrew.
 
  Opinions?  Facts?
 
  Thanks,
  Marna (Washington State, USA)
 
 
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  dear marna,
if you are using wvo, you need to make sure that it of
a good quality. biodiesel is hygroscopic. it absorbs
water and water make the biodiesel cloudy. some times
wax is formed which can block the filter. you need to
make sure water is eliminated as much  as possible.
best of luck
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Re: [Biofuel] thank you admin for following my query and thank you Myke

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thank you admin for following my query and thank you
Myke for letting me know where to buy methanol.

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Re: [Biofuel] Looking for methanol

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Hi All,

I am looking methanol in the UK. Does anyone know
where i can purchase methanol in the UK.

Many thanks



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Re: [Biofuel] [off topic]Pro-Israel US lobbyists subpoenaed

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Pro-Israel US lobbyists subpoenaed

Thursday 02 December 2004

US sources say a spy infiltrated Rumsfeld's office

Four members of a pro-Israel lobbying group have been
served with 
subpoenas 
to appear before a grand jury as the FBI investigates
whether Israel 
spied 
on the Pentagon.

The American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
said on Wednesday 
that 
the FBI visited its offices to request files related
to two employees 
and 
served four others with subpoenas.

The influential lobbying group said it was cooperating
with the 
investigation.

We believe any court of law or grand jury will
conclude that AIPAC 
employees have always acted legally, properly and
appropriately, it 
said.

The FBI, which was not immediately available to
comment, has been 
investigating whether a Pentagon analyst passed secret
papers to Israel 
about Iran.

US government sources say the analyst in question is
in Defence 
Secretary 
Donald Rumsfeld's office and passed the papers through
AIPAC.

The FBI first raided AIPAC's offices in August,
seizing computer files 
related to two employees.

Israeli officials have denied spying on the United
States.


Agencies




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Re: [Biofuel] Gardening and Compost (new technique)

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Source: BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4040543.stm


US 'alienating' world's Muslims

25-11-04

America's Muslims have come under pressure since the
9/11 attacks
The US is losing the war of ideas in the Islamic
world, a Pentagon 
advisory panel has warned.
A report by the Defence Science Board says official US
talk of bringing 
democracy to Muslim nations is seen as self-serving
hypocrisy.

It says if the US wants Muslims to move towards its
understanding of 
tolerance, it must reassure them this does not mean
submitting to the 
American way.

The report urges Washington to change its approach
urgently.

However, it says that improving public relations is
not enough.

Muslims do not hate our freedom, but rather they hate
our policies, 
the 
report says.

The overwhelming majority voice their objections to
what they see as 
one-sided support in favour of Israel and against
Palestinian rights, 
and 
the long-standing, even increasing, support for what
Muslims 
collectively 
see as tyrannies, most notably Egypt, Saudi Arabia,
Jordan, Pakistan 
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Re: [Biofuel] US 'alienating' world's Muslims

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Source: BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4040543.stm


US 'alienating' world's Muslims

25-11-04

America's Muslims have come under pressure since the
9/11 attacks
The US is losing the war of ideas in the Islamic
world, a Pentagon 
advisory panel has warned.
A report by the Defence Science Board says official US
talk of bringing 
democracy to Muslim nations is seen as self-serving
hypocrisy.

It says if the US wants Muslims to move towards its
understanding of 
tolerance, it must reassure them this does not mean
submitting to the 
American way.

The report urges Washington to change its approach
urgently.

However, it says that improving public relations is
not enough.

Muslims do not hate our freedom, but rather they hate
our policies, 
the 
report says.

The overwhelming majority voice their objections to
what they see as 
one-sided support in favour of Israel and against
Palestinian rights, 
and 
the long-standing, even increasing, support for what
Muslims 
collectively 
see as tyrannies, most notably Egypt, Saudi Arabia,
Jordan, Pakistan 
and the 
Gulf states.



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Re: [Biofuel] Israel probes body abuse claims

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Source: BBC News
Full article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4026859.stm

Israel probes body abuse claims

The commander of the Israeli army has ordered an
investigation into 
claims
his troops abused Palestinian corpses.

Moshe Yaalon said he intended to reach the truth
following the 
allegations
published in the mass-selling Israeli Yediot Ahronot
newspaper.

One soldier reportedly told how the head of a suicide
bomber was 
positioned
on a concrete barrier with a cigarette in its mouth,
and then 
photographed.

Such acts were forbidden in an army valuing human
rights, Gen Yaalon 
said.

I ordered the military police to open an
investigation and I intend to 
shed
 





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Re: [Biofuel] washing

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Hi all,

I have made biodiesel from wvo. The product appears
clearer without washing. When I washed it the
biodiesel became murky. After several washes it
remained murky. can someone tell me what the problem
is?

fox



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Re: [Biofuel] Using used veg. oil

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Dear Keith,

I used 1L of new rapseed oil and followed the
procedure.As soon as I added sodium methoxide to the
heated oil at 58C the glycerine separated immediately
and I started mixing it using a blender. I noticed
froth at the top.I mixed it for about half an hour.
The reaction seemed complete.
The froth was still there the next day.The test showed
it was very strong alkali layer.It could be a soap
layer?
I did the quality test on the liquid layer. It passed.
Then I repeated the same with a used vegetable oil.
The reaction seemed similar but there was a difference
in colour. The colour of the methyl ester was not
light yellow but brown; not different from the
original colour of the oil. Rapseed oil was light
yellow and the used oil was dark brown.
I did the quality test on the product of the used oil
by mixing 150ml water and 150 ml biodiesel and
standing the mixture. It did not separate into 2
layers clearly like the new rapseed oil biodiesel
did.It did separate into 2 layers but the top layer
was creamy with a froth on it. Does it mean the used
oil does not make a good biodiesel?

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Re: [Biofuel]Palestinian children in Israeli crosshairs

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Palestinian children in Israeli crosshairs
By Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank

Saturday 30 October 2004, 18:19 Makka Time, 15:19 GMT 


Since 1 October the number of children killed has
climbed to 33

The Palestinian Authority has accused Israel of making
the killing of
Palestinian school children by the occupation army a
daily occurrence 
while
calling on the world to put an end to the practice.

Every day they murder one or two Palestinian children
on their way to
school, Palestinian Deputy Foreign Minister Abd Allah
Abd Allah said.

It is becoming a gruesome daily routine and Israel,
as you see, is
interested more in concocting and inventing lies to
justify the murder 
than
in stopping it.

He told Aljazeera.net that the Palestinian Authority
(PA) and the
Palestinian people were increasingly frustrated by the
international
community's failure to force Israel to stop the
killing of Palestinian
children.

Abd Allah said: I am afraid that much of the
international community 
has
reached the nadir of its morality. What else explains
this deadly 
silence
and indifference in the face of the daily killings of
our children?

I wonder how many of our children will have to be
riddled by Israeli
bullets before there is an awakening of the world's
conscience.

Unequal contest

Abd Allah's remarks coincided with the killing by
Israel of another
Palestinian child in the northern West Bank town of
Jenin.

Palestinian sources and witnesses said Israeli
soldiers manning armed
personnel carriers opened fire on a group of school
children who 
reportedly
had hurled stones at Israeli tanks.

An Israeli army spokesman said soldiers opened fire
after somebody 
fired
from the direction of the children.

A witness contested the Israeli account. I was there,
I saw no firing, 
I
heard no firing. The only people who were firing were
the Israeli 
occupation
soldiers, Fadi Nazzal, a Palestinian from the nearby
town of Kabatya, 
told
Aljazeera.net.

He said the Israeli soldiers opened fire on children
whose stone 
throwing
had in no way put Israeli troops at risk.

Nazzal added: The children were hurling stones from a
long distance. 
The
stones didn't hit the armoured vehicles. But even if
stones were hurled 
at
these huge tanks, would that justify executing
children in this 
manner?

Firing through fog

On Thursday 28 October, Israeli soldiers manning a
watchtower opposite 
the
Khan Yunus refugee camp, south of Gaza City, opened
fire at school 
children,
killing eight-year-old Ranya Iyad Aram.

Hospital sources said a stray bullet hit Aram in the
neck, killing her 
on
the spot.

The Israeli army admitted that soldiers were firing
through heavy fog
towards Palestinian neighbourhoods to forestall
possible firing of 
mortar
shells by Palestinian resistance fighters.

The army said: The IDF opened machine-gun fire
towards the Palestinian
areas from which Palestinian regularly fire mortar
fire. Apparently, 
one of
the bullets hit the child. We are sorry about it.

'State terror'

PA minister Abd Allah Abd Allah says an army that
fires heavy 
machine-gun
fire through fog in civilian areas actually intends to
kill civilians.

This is Israel's state terror. When troops open fire
randomly on 
crowded
streets and  schools just because somebody had fired a
mortar shell 
from
these areas many days ago, it is murder, it is
terror.

However, Israeli army spokesman Eitan Arusi rejected
Abd Allah's view.

We are the most moral army in the world. Look at what
the Russians are
doing in Chechnya, it is a huge carnage there. The
Israeli Defence 
Forces
are trying as much as humanly possible to avoid
harming civilians, he 
said.

Don't blame the soldiers, blame the terrorists who
operate in the 
midst of
Palestinian population centres.

People brutalised

Hamas spokesman in Gaza, Mushir al-Masri, dismissed
what he called 
Arusi's
corrupt reasoning.

The Palestinian resistance fighters happen to be in
their own homes, 
towns,
streets, he said.

They are defending their children and women from this
Nazi-like 
military
occupation which is brutalising and savaging an entire
people in ways
unprecedented since the second world war.

Earlier this month, the Israeli army killed two school
girls, one in 
Rafah
in southern Gaza and the other in central Gaza.

Since the beginning of October, as many as 33
Palestinian children and
minors under 17 have been killed by the Israeli army.
All in all, 
nearly 158
Palestinians, the bulk of them civilians, were killed
in October.

During the same period, the Israeli army lost three
soldiers.

The frequency of killing Palestinian children and
civilians by the 
Israeli
army has aroused suspicions within Israeli judicial
circles over the
credibility of the army's accounts and investigations
into the deaths.

Distraction

Last week an Israeli officer who in October shot a
12-year-old 
Palestinian
child in Rafah in southern Gaza 20 times to ascertain
that she was 
dead, was
arrested briefly on suspicion that he lied about 

RE: [Biofuel] Israel warned it may become pariah

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Israel warned it may become pariah

15 October 2004

The UN says Israel's actions have led to rising
Palestinian hunger

An Israeli government report has warned that the
country could face 
sanctions and become a pariah state if its conflict
with the 
Palestinians is 
not resolved.


In a confidential 10-year forecast, foreign ministry
analysts warned 
that 
Israel could end up on a collision course with the
European Union and 
become 
increasingly isolated in the world over its policy
towards 
Palestinians.

The report said if the 25-nation block could set aside
internal 
differences 
and forge a unified foreign policy, it could cut into
the clout wielded 
by 
the United States - Israel's chief ally - and harm
Israeli interests.

The report pointed out that a strengthened European
body was expected 
to 
demand Israel reach a settlement with the Palestinians
or face damaging 
economic sanctions.

This could put Israel on a collision course with the
European Union, 
it 
said. Such a collision course holds the risk of
Israel losing 
international 
legitimacy and could lead to its isolation in the
manner of South 
Africa.


Strained relations

Israel's relations with the EU have long been strained
over what it 
says is 
favouritism towards the Palestinians. It has
deteriorated further in 
the 
face of European criticism of Israel's crackdown in
occupied 
Palestinian 
towns.

Israel prefers to deal almost exclusively with
Washington on Middle 
East 
diplomacy. But Palestinians have always insisted on a
European role, 
seeing 
them as more sympathetic to their cause than
Washington.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon threatened in July
to freeze the EU 
out 
of peacemaking after EU states backed a UN General
Assembly resolution 
demanding that Israel tear down a barrier it is
building largely inside 
the 
occupied West Bank.

Palestinians have condemned the barrier as a racist
apartheid wall.

Christina Gallach, spokeswoman for EU foreign policy
chief Javier 
Solana, 
acknowledged big disagreements with Israel on
peacekeeping but said 
Europe 
had the right to play a major role.

Israel wants to limit EU ties to trade and
technology, she said. But 
we 
must have a part in the Middle East peace process.

In Geneva, a UN human rights investigator said on
Thursday the EU 
should 
consider suspending a free trade deal with Israel
because of its 
policies in 
the occupied territories.

Jean Ziegler, who investigates the right to food, said
Israeli military 
action is directly responsible for rising hunger and
health problems 
among 
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Re: [Biofuel]EXPERTS SLAM US IRAQ POLICY

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Source:  Al Jazeera
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/0F250A9C-4A55-4E10-8FAC-

49830C4B7047.htm


Foreign policy experts slam US on Iraq

The Iraq war is the most misguided since Vietnam,
benefits terrorists  
and is justified by false claims, more than 650
foreign-policy experts  
have said.

In an open letter condemning the Bush administration's
foreign policy,  
the international group of experts called for a change
of course.

The letter from the non-partisan Security Scholars for
a Sensible  
Foreign Policy comprising mostlyÊscholars from
universities in  
countries such asÊBritain, Sweden, the Netherlands,
Canada,  
ArgentinaÊand the USÊ- including formerÊPentagon
andÊUS department of  
state staff - was released on Tuesday.

It pointed to what it described as a series of
blunders in Iraq,  
Afghanistan and elsewhere.

We judge that the current American policy centred
around the war in  
Iraq is the most misguided one since the Vietnam
period, one which  
harms the cause of the struggle against extreme
Islamic terrorists,  
the letter said.

Distorted debate

It said the war had distorted public debate on
foreign and national  
security policy with an emphasis on speculation
instead of facts, on  
mythology instead of calculation and on misplaced
moralising over  
considerations of national interest.


We're advising the administration, which is already
in a deep hole, to  
stop digging

Professor Richard Samuels, MIT
The results of this policy have been overwhelmingly
negative for US  
interests, it added.

We're advising the administration, which is already
in a deep hole, to  
stop digging, said Professor Richard Samuels of the
Massachusetts  
Institute of Technology.

The man who first thought to write the letter, Dr
StuartÊ  
Kaufman,Êpolitical science professor at the University
of Delaware,  
said the group wanted to influence the public debate,
not endorse one  
presidential candidate over the other for the November
US elections.

Overwhelming consensus

The part of it that's news is that the overwhelming
consensus among  
national security experts is that the current policy
is not working,  
he said. And the people who signed this are usually
people who don't  
agree on anything.

Among other things, the scholars said:
The US did not send enough troops to Afghanistan to
fight al-Qaida, and  
the focus on Iraq diverted much needed resources from
Afghanistan.
Some of the reasons cited by the Bush administration
to go to war  
against Iraq were later proven wrong, including by
government agencies.  
They include the claim that Iraq had weapons of mass
destruction.
The administration did not commit enough troops to
Iraq, created a  
security vacuum by disbanding the Iraqi army, and
embarked on a poorly  
planned reconstruction effort.
American actions in Iraq have increased the popularity
of al-Qaida in  
some countries and attracted recruits.

The group added: Even on moral grounds, the case for
war was dubious:  
The war itself has killed over a thousand Americans
and unknown  
thousands of Iraqis. And if the threat of civil war
becomes reality,  
ordinary Iraqis could be even worse off than they were
under Saddam  
Hussein.





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Re: [Biofuel]Israeli commander empties his magazine on a teenage girl

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Source: Independent.co.uk
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=571222


Army chief 'emptied his magazine' at girl in Gaza


Two separate official investigations are under way
into the fatal 
shooting of a 13-year-old girl in Gaza by the Israeli
army after 
soldiers testified that their company commander
emptied his magazine 
at her after she had been shot and was presumed dead.

The army has already admitted that the killing of Iman
al-Hams in the 
town of Rafah a week ago was a mistake and that her
bag, which it says 
soldiers thought carried explosives, contained school
books.

Soldiers have come forward to explain that her body
was riddled with 20 
bullets because their immediate commander confirmed
the killing by 
shooting two bullets at her already prone body before
withdrawing a 
short distance and then firing a burst of automatic
gunfire at the 
corpse.

The Judge Advocate General, Brigadier General Avi
Mandelblit, has 
instructed the military police to launch a criminal
investigation 
against the commander in the Givati Brigade's crack
Shaked Battalion as 
a result of the claim. Unusually, the investigation
was ordered even 
though the army inquiry is incomplete.

The move follows interviews with soldiers serving in
the company 
published in the Israeli newspaper Yedhiot Ahronot .
It quoted them as 
saying the commander should have been stood down
immediately after the 
incident. One soldier told the newspaper: The company
CO who sprayed 
the girl with bullets turned us all into vicious
animals and besmirched 
us all ... If he is not dismissed, we will not agree
to serve under 
him. Another said the commander had desecrated the
body.

According to figures produced by 11 UN agencies, 24
Palestinians under 
the age of 17 have been killed since 28 September when
the army entered 
northern Gaza in response to the firing by Palestinian
militants of two 
Qassam rockets which killed two Israeli children in
Sderot. A 
nine-year-old girl was among 11 Palestinians killed in
the Gaza Strip 
over the weekend.

The investigations opened as security sources told the
newspaper 
Haaretz that the Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, had
rejected a request 
from army commanders to withdraw from the densely
populated Jabaliya 
refugee camp in northern Gaza on the grounds that the
fortnight-old 
operation Days of Penitence was endangering troops
and that militants 
had now removed rockets to positions outside the camp.

Mr Sharon told the Knesset at the opening of what
promises to be a 
difficult winter session for the government that it
would be voting on 
25 October on his plan to withdraw some 7,500 settlers
from Gaza.

The level of difficulty was underlined last night when
the legislature 
opposed by 45 to 33 a routine motion noting Mr
Sharon's speech. 
Although it does not threaten Mr Sharon's
administration, the defeat 
emphasised the strong opposition to the plan from the
extreme right of 
Israeli politics and from the far right of his own
Likud party, seven 
of whose members abstained last night.
  





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Re: [Biofuel]Beaten Afgan bride

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Source: The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/06/opinion/06kris.html?oref=login
ÊÊÊ Beaten Afghan Brides 
By Nicholas D. Kristof 
The New York Times 

Wednesday 06 October 2004 

Kabul - I had an inspiration about where Osama bin
Laden might be hiding. But when I visited the women's
detention center in Kabul, there was no sign of him. 

I did meet Ellaha, a bold 19-year-old prisoner who
startled me by greeting me in English. (Like many
Afghans, she uses only one name.) She had been
attending college as a refugee in Iran when her family
pulled her out, alarmed that education might corrupt a
young lady's morals. 

Her family returned to Afghanistan, and she found
work in a U.S. construction company, where her bosses
were so impressed that they began arranging a
scholarship for her to go to Canada to study. 

That horrified her family because the patriarchs
had decided that she would marry her cousin. I didn't
agree to marry him, she told me through an
interpreter, because he is not educated and I don't
like his job - he is a butcher. Plus, he's three years
younger than me. 

When it was almost time for me to go to Canada,
and I was asking about flights, she added, they tied
me up and locked me in a room. It was in my uncle's
house. My father said, 'O.K., beat her.' I'd never
been beaten like that in all my life. My uncle and
cousins were all beating me They broke my head,
and I was bleeding. 

Ms. Ellaha's younger sister, who had been pledged
to another cousin, was facing the same treatment.
After a week of being tied up, the two sisters agreed
to marry their cousins. 

So we went home, Ms. Ellaha added, and
escaped. 

The two sisters moved into a cheap guesthouse as
they prepared to flee Afghanistan. But their family
learned where they were hiding, and the police came to
arrest them. 

On what charge? 

It's because their lives were in danger, said
Rana, the head of the detention center. Ms. Ellaha
agrees that her family was pretty close to killing
her. The sister is apparently back home, but I was not
allowed to interview her. 

The police subjected Ms. Ellaha to a mandatory
virginity test. Fortunately, her hymen was intact, or
she would have faced a prison sentence. 

Now she worries that she will be released into her
family's custody and then forced to marry her cousin.
If that happens, she told me, I will kill myself. 

The entire jail is a kaleidoscope of woe. It's
been two years since President Bush declared that in
Afghanistan, Today, women are free. But that's news
to the inmates. 

Nazilah, 17, had been married to an old man with
tuberculosis who beat her - she was his second wife.
She ran away and was picked up by the police. Now the
authorities are figuring out whether they can return
her to her husband's family without getting her
killed. 

Then there is Sohailla, 18, who says she was
kidnapped for three days by the family of a young man
who wanted to marry her (the police suspect that she
went to his house voluntarily). The police subjected
her to a virginity test; after she failed, she got a
three-year sentence for fornication. 

Inequality is so deeply embedded in this society
that there are no easy solutions. In a new opinion
poll in Afghanistan, 87 percent of those surveyed said
women needed to ask their husbands' permission to
vote. There was little difference in the answers of
men and women. 

The best route to change is new schools, new
clinics and more economic opportunity - and those
steps are just what the lack of security is blocking
in much of southern Afghanistan, the most traditional
part of the country. Mr. Bush urgently needs to
bolster security in rural areas in the south, so
reconstruction projects can go ahead there. The
liberation of Afghanistan from the Taliban was
crucial, but only a first step. 

If this sounds like a gloomy assessment, it was
reinforced when I located Ms. Ellaha's father, Said
Jamil, a carpenter, and spoke to him on the street in
his Kabul neighborhood. He told me that he was
arranging for his daughter to be released to him - but
he vowed that he would no longer allow her to be so
free. 

He did promise me that he would not beat Ms.
Ellaha or force her to marry her cousin. I asked him
to show mercy toward his daughter, but I have a bad
feeling about what lies ahead. 

This is how women are free in Afghanistan.





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