[biofuels-biz] High Payments to Halliburton for Fuel in Iraq

2003-12-12 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/12/international/middleeast/12PENT.html ?hp=pagewanted=allposition= U.S. Sees Evidence of Overcharging in Iraq Contract By DOUGLAS JEHL Published: December 12, 2003 WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 - A Pentagon investigation has found evidence that a subsidiary of the

[biofuels-biz] OPEC statement to COP9 climate-change talks

2003-12-12 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.opec.org/NewsInfo/Speeches/sp2003/cop9.htm OPEC High-level Segment 9th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Statement by Dr Alvaro Silva-Calder—n, Secretary General, OPEC 1-12 December 2003 Milan, Italy Ladies and gentlemen, Certain realities

[biofuels-biz] Greenhouse gas 'plan B' gaining support

2003-12-12 Thread Keith Addison
Contraction Convergence - you read it here first, folks, three years ago: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/BIOFUEL/1539/ Subject: climate change, 10 Dec 2000 http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/BIOFUEL/27393/ Subject: Contraction and Convergence, 23 Aug 2003 Check out Aubrey Meyer's Global Commons

[biofuels-biz] Fwd: RE: [solar-ac] State of the art

2003-12-12 Thread Hakan Falk
Hi David, What I first want to see is experts and engineers who design cooling for people instead of air thermometers. So why not try to sell AC to people instead of to thermometers, there is your new market and it would give spectacular energy savings at the same time. Then we might be able

[biofuels-biz] Fwd: RE: [solar-ac] AC dimensioning, was: State of the art

2003-12-12 Thread Hakan Falk
David, The last 20 years I bought an AC unit per year on average here in Spain, always reversible to heat pump. I am a little bit lazy and found a very good dimensioning method. Instead of calculating, I have used the known margin of error in existing methods. I ask the sales person what he

RE: [biofuels-biz] Fwd: RE: [solar-ac] AC dimensioning, was: State of the art

2003-12-12 Thread Bill Althouse
We need to come together at the neighborhood level through integrated systems engineering. Rather than trying to have a home size unit for everybody (issues- reliability, cost,availability), a neighborhood owned district heating cooling system would allow a subdivision or apartment complex to

[biofuel] High Payments to Halliburton for Fuel in Iraq

2003-12-12 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/12/international/middleeast/12PENT.html ?hp=pagewanted=allposition= U.S. Sees Evidence of Overcharging in Iraq Contract By DOUGLAS JEHL Published: December 12, 2003 WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 - A Pentagon investigation has found evidence that a subsidiary of the

[biofuel] OPEC statement to COP9 climate-change talks

2003-12-12 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.opec.org/NewsInfo/Speeches/sp2003/cop9.htm OPEC High-level Segment 9th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Statement by Dr Alvaro Silva-Calder—n, Secretary General, OPEC 1-12 December 2003 Milan, Italy Ladies and gentlemen, Certain realities

Re: [biofuel] What's the true story on ethanol?

2003-12-12 Thread Keith Addison
Hi MM acceptable result of free-market forces at work? Or would it be a case for regulation, perhaps with the judicious use of suibsidies in some aspects of the picture? Funny how those health-care cost figures are so similar to the energy-use comparisons - the US uses twice as much as

Re: [biofuel] Commercial production

2003-12-12 Thread Jack Kenworthy
Hi Keith, et. al. I am glad that this conversation is happening, because I think that it is perhaps one of the most important discussions out there today. That is, how do we seek to redefine our economies in such a way that localized development for subsistence and self-autonomy can

Re: [biofuel] Commercial production

2003-12-12 Thread Hakan Falk
Tanks Jack, This needed to be said and it cannot be too long. Hakan At 17:53 12/12/2003, you wrote: Hi Keith, et. al. I am glad that this conversation is happening, because I think that it is perhaps one of the most important discussions out there today. That is, how do we seek to

Re: [biofuel]single driver

2003-12-12 Thread alex
Folks - a this point I'm trying to solve my own energy problem. It seems to me that the easiest way to get on the road is with dual-fuel setup - worm-up with diesel and continue driving on vegy oil. ( I can get it cheap from Menonites). Will get small diesel pick-up for this and mount fuel tank

Re: [biofuel] A Tale of Two Countries

2003-12-12 Thread Alan Petrillo
Keith Addison wrote: http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17333 A Tale of Two Countries By David Morris, AlterNet December 8, 2003 This brings to mind an old saying about the difference between American and Japanese car companies. When a new standard is imposed American car

Re: [biofuel] The Warm Flat Earth Society

2003-12-12 Thread Alan Petrillo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 12/10/2003 11:23:50 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Major global climate change, triggered by rapidly increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, is an established fact. Human activity as the major cause of it is an

[biofuel] Fw: News Flash

2003-12-12 Thread Greg and April
- Original Message - Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 10:21 Subject: [Tactical-Rifle] News Flash News Flash** In breaking news from the Capital, The United States Supreme Court in a unanimous ruling today declared that Nativity Scenes are no longer allowed in

RE: [biofuel] Commercial production

2003-12-12 Thread Keith Addison
Since when has it been immoral to make a profit in this country from a legitimate enterprise? There are a lot of people that would prefer to run Bio but would not or will not make there own ever. I would suggest you look into our wonderful government regulations before you get to far in.