[Biofuel] [ARTICLE] 100% Renewable Energy Possible, Practical, & Cheaper

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[Biofuel] Unique Hazards of Tar Sands Oil Spills Confirmed by National Academies of Sciences

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Re: [Biofuel] A Biofuel Debate: Will Cutting Trees Cut Carbon? - NYTimes.com

Studies have shown that cutting forests for timber results in large releases of carbon from oxidation of non-timber wood (including downed and decaying trees), tree roots and soil organic matter. I'm sorry that I can't quote the reference but there was one in Science on work in the U.S.

Re: [Biofuel] Cheaper wind turbines.

It's hard for me to take this article seriously. The article says that the new design would be 1,000 times more efficient than conventional wind turbines. This is nonsense. Conventional wind turbines are around 30-50% efficient at extracting the energy in the wind intercepted by the rotor

Re: [Biofuel] The Future of the Biofuels mailing list, your input needed.

I don't contribute these days, but I read the posts and I often repost. I find it useful. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 04:25:27 -0800 (PST), Chip Mefford c...@well.com wrote: Good day all; As of this morning, there are 456 subscribers to this list. The

[Biofuel] [ARTICLE] Engineered microbe could ease switchgrass ethanol

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Re: [Biofuel] The Village Against the World

To be more specific, from page 12: Astonishingly, in 1991 they prevailed. The government, exhausted by their defiance, gave them 1,200 hectares [~3,000 acres] of land belonging to the Duke of Infantado, head of one of Spain's oldest and wealthiest aristocratic families. Note that the

Re: [Biofuel] US Air Force Veteran, Finally Allowed to Fly Into US, is Now banned from Flying Back Home

On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:09:24 +0200, Keith Addison ke...@journeytoforever.org wrote: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33899.htm US Air Force Veteran, Finally Allowed to Fly Into US, is Now banned from Flying Back Home Secret, unaccountable no-fly lists are one of many weapons the

[Biofuel] Secret No-Fly Zones in ?US/ law-enforcement lunacy

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[Biofuel] [ARTICLES] Roundup and GMO toxicity

First, the cheap journalism: http://keephopealive.org/j2012v10n3.html It's too bad these websites can't get their references straight; however the scientific article has pretty much the same information: http://research.sustainablefoodtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Final-Paper.pdf An

Re: [Biofuel] Dear all...

Keith, how much do you need to keep it going? Do you plan to continue the archives/database? (is this also threaatened?) Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:26:41 +0200, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's October, the list is going to run out

[Biofuel] Catherine Austin Fitts/solari/place based economics

James Quaid jfquaid(at)earthlink.net wrote Keith, You may want to check out http://solari.com . This was Catherine Austin Fitt's brain child. Where she discusses the concept of a Solari. Briefly, its a 100k coop that agrees to do business exclusively internally (where goods and services

Re: [Biofuel] Vitriol Over Climate Change

Much of North America, including the Niagara Peninsula where I live, has been having an extremely mild and low-snow winter, although there are some predictions that our weather will soon become colder. What seems to be happening over much of the world is instability and change in weather

Re: [Biofuel] Amateurs are trying genetic engineering at home

The more powerful technology becomes, the less we can tolerate its misuse by a few. The possibility of its misuse by a few can never be excluded, especially in a complex society with an atomised society, and much alienation and anomie. In such a society, powerful technology requires large and

Re: [Biofuel] 747 on biofuel

It seems to me that the unusual thing for 2007 is the automatic pressure-operated inlet valves. They were common pre World War I although operated by suction without a supercharger. I am surprised by the high power claimed since automatic valves reputedly tended to be slow operating and gave low

Re: [Biofuel] Plastic bag revolt spreads across Britain

My memory from the 50's says that waxed paper was much used, also a special kind of strong, not too absorbent paper. Newspaper was often used as an outer wrapping. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada Keith Addison wrote: can't remember how the meat got packed but the butcher cut it

Re: [Biofuel] 'What the World Eats'!

It may be that poorer countries eat better quality food of a given type, but poorer households within North America do not. My experience is that they eat more processed and worse quality food. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario In these reports that Kirk posted, it seems that wealthier

[Biofuel] The Plan to Disappear Canada

I suspect this is part of a plan going back a quarter-century, also that energy is uppermost in the planners' minds . Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario -- http://thetyee.ca/Views/2007/06/08/DeepIntegrate/ [see original

Re: [Biofuel] Fruit Trees and Compost

Robert, is this really supposed to be an insecticide or is it an anti-fungal agent? By the way, I think the word you're looking for is surfactant. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario On Wed, 2 May 2007, robert and benita rabello wrote: Mr. Lunan told me to mix a concoction of baking soda

Re: [Biofuel] Build your own wind turbine.

Hugh Piggott has a website at http://www.scoraigwind.co.uk see his books Another good site without the DIY aspect is Paul Gipe's http://www.wind-works.org Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, D. Mindock wrote: This site has the magnets and wire too...

Re: [Biofuel] Dr Strangelove Saves The Earth

The geoengineering approach appears to ignore the problem of the seas becoming more acid due to more dissolved CO2. I don't see an engineering approach to that one at any bearable cost. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Keith Addison wrote: From: The

Re: [Biofuel] What's In Your Milk?

Which taste do you prefer, John? Doug Woodard St. Catharines, ontario On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, John Mullan wrote: I'm not sure what's in U.S. milk, or Canadian milk for that matter. But I live right on the border and often we get groceries in the U.S. for significant savings. But I have to

Re: [Biofuel] Pendulum

A heat pump is a *pump*. It moves heat from one place to another, at an energy cost. It does not create heat. It is not an over-unity device. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Wes Moore wrote: This is not more astounding than the heat pump that heats my home.

Re: [Biofuel] Drivers face road charge by satellite in UK *#

Fuel taxes hit everyone, people living in sparsely populated rural areas as well as people living in densely populated cities. If road use is the problem (and especially if it is a problem only at certain times) then tax road use. That will be the most economically efficient solution. Doug

Re: [Biofuel] FDA announces cloned meat safe to eat

In 1948 Henry C. Simons published a book called Economic Policy for a Free Society. Simons was a conservative who made the point that if one wanted small government it was necesary to intervene in the market with anti-trust legislation to keep individual businesses small enough so that no one firm

Re: [Biofuel] Drivers face road charge by satellite in UK

In the late 1980's I read a study by Pollution Probe of Toronto which calculated that if all costs incured by cars and their drivers were paid by a fuel tax, gasoline would cost $5 or $6 Canadian per Imperial gallon. Today it would be double that price. I recall that medical costs of accidents and

Re: [Biofuel] Top scientists say man may need to dirty skies to shield against warming - CP Wire - 2006.11.16

There has been some experimentation with white roofs in the American south and they make a useful contribution to reducing the need for air conditioning. I found several internet sites which discussed this from a search a couple of years ago. Black asphalt roads are useful in clearing the ice

Re: [Biofuel] Water Powered Engine / Electrolysis

Hydrogen does indeed have an excellent heat value for its weight/mass, but not for its volume, and it is a gas down close to absolute zero. Hydrogen storage is a considerable problem. To my mind it remains to be seen whether hydrogen will ever be economic for the sole fuel of a vehicle. I think

Re: [Biofuel] Water Powered Engine / Electrolysis

What this amounts to is a really lousy, incompetent attempt at a perpetual motion machine. You have to put in the energy to separate the hydrogen from the oxygen, then you get back the same energy when they recombine. There would be no surplus to run the vehicle even if every stage was perfectly

Re: [Biofuel] Composting human manure

Some extra information from Tom Habasco. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada * the state is Michigan,Charlevoix county,Melrose twp. Michigan has legislation , Act 421-PA 1986 which allows for composting humanure.The local health dept. does not

[Biofuel] Switchgrass, was Re: Pellet fuel options

I have read that switchgrass needs to be reseeded about every five years. See http://www.reap-canada.com Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Joe Street wrote: Have a look about switchgrass. It only requires labour for the first planting and then each

Re: [Biofuel] A heat Engine for the house.

I recall reading that Fiat experimented with a natural gas fueled cogeneration Total energy system based on a car engine, back in the 1970's. I think it was intended for apartment buildings etc. I don't know whether it was sold commercially to any extent. I understand that Denmark uses biomass

Re: [Biofuel] Word Play

Detonation (knocking) and preignition are different, although preignition promotes detonation. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada From: Jason Katie [EMAIL PROTECTED] actually it stops predetonation(going off too early) in high compression gasoline engines which can damage the

Re: [Biofuel] Tiny Inhaled Particles Take Easy Route From Nose ToBrain

Uranium burns very readily and the combustion product disperses as many tiny particles. That's what makes it so useful to the military in penetrating projectiles; its high density makes it a good penetrator in high-speed impacts, and it is also a good incendiary once it penetrates, normally

Re: [Biofuel] WHAT REALLY HAPPENED ON SEPT 11

Well maybe, but I don't think that the stupidity lies where you seem to imply. We know that years before the event PNAC wrote longingly of a new Pearl Harbor. We know that for a long time Al Quaeda wanted to destroy the World Trade Centre as the ultimate symbolic blow to its own Evil Empire.

Re: [Biofuel] amazing himalayan salt

There's nothing wrong with profit, but what the market thinks is profit is not always the whole story. Markets need the help of a disciplined social framework, otherwise they will lie. The discipline can be imposed through suitable taxes. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada On Tue,

Re: [Biofuel] amazing himalayan salt

People learning science need to be introduced to non-linear and complex systems as a part of their basic education. Come to think of it, so do philosophers, sociologists, political scientists, economists...and journalists...just about everyone who deals with abstractions at all. Doug Woodard

Re: [Biofuel] Disney

It may be that Osama knows too much, and that some people would find it inconvenient to have him testify in a court. Regarding Osama has won - Immediately after 9/11, the UK-based Canadian commentator Gwyn Dyer remarked that the event was likely part of a strategic plan, and that we should

Re: [Biofuel] Blair feels let down by Bush [welcome to the club!]

Strange, isn't it? One possible explanation might be that the people in the Bush administration don't care about the thoughts of their allies, about the Palestinian problem, or about human suffering in any other area, or about the interests of the American people. Perhaps they are only

Re: [Biofuel] worth reading -an insight into politics and corporations - 4% of population is psychopathic

While I haven't read the books, I would be inclined to suspect that the population is not divided into a small minority who are 100% sociopathic plus a majority who are not at all sociopathic, but that there is something like a continuum with the pure sociopaths at one end. I suspect further

Re: [Biofuel] Window on Iran

H. J. Eysenck reported in his book The Psychology of Politics (London: Routledge Kegan Paul, about 1954-1956) that he had found British Nazis to be generally overtly aggressive, and British Communists to be covertly aggressive. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada On Sat, 5 Aug 2006,

Re: [Biofuel] Vanadium battery

The technology looks interesting, but the article takes a tone of uncritical boosting. There is nothing about cost cycle efficiency amount of vanadium resource in proportion to possible applications how it works relation to other technologies (this is one of a family of flow batteries) energy

Re: [Biofuel] {Disarmed} Telegraph - US could be going bankrupt

Part of the cure might be to eliminate all social-welfare spending. I suspect that this has been part of the right-wing fanatics' plan for the last quarter century. Then, inflation has long been a cure for debt. It takes from the middle class who are wont to hold paper assets, and gives to the

Re: [Biofuel] shedding fat for oil

Some 30 or so years ago I read from several source that the best mileage was obtained from North American cars around 35-40 mph. I understand the the cars in the transcontinental mileage contests that used to be held were specially modified with gear rations and transmissions to accelerate from

Re: [Biofuel] sustainable biodiesel from Casto : Big is not beautiful, small is more sustainable

I understand that lubricity has to do with the ability of the oil to maintain a lubricating film under pressure. Viscosity has to do with how readily the oil flows. They are not related. An early detailed study of the properties of lubricants was done by Ricardo Engineering for the British Air

[Biofuel] Gregory Bateson, was Re: New EPA Rules

Gregory Bateson was an anthropologist who was at one time married to Margaret Mead; he worked in Bali. He was also involved in cybernetics in its early days, and in research on schizophrenia (the double bind hypthesis). He also did some work with dolphins. One smart man. His father William was a

Re: [Biofuel] New EPA Rules

As Gregory Bateson put it in Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972), a business corporation is not a group of people, but a group of parts of people; i.e. Economic Man #1, Economic Man #2, Economic Man #3, etc. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Keith Addison wrote:

[Biofuel] Rotproofing wood, was Re: acids

I think it was in 1979 that I read in Gleanings in Bee Culture about a beekeeper who soaked his hive bottom boards in a mixture of paraffin wax and resin (50/50 as I recall) and said they lasted well against the ground. I imagine the stuff would burn pretty well though. Enough better than the

Re: [Biofuel] SPAM[Level 5.7]: Build Your Own Dragons

It sounds to me as if the Economist has rejuvenated the New Scientist's Ariadne of old. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Kirk McLoren wrote: There is GM and then there is GM Kirk Build Your Own Dragons Here be dragons Mar 30th 2006 | SAN MELITO

Re: [Biofuel] Fw: The Indigo Evolution

Why do you say this? Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Mika Feldmann wrote: Albert Einstein is considered to be one of the most important thinkers of our time. He was a genius in his own way. But to have a personal conversation with him, one would

Re: [Biofuel] water, ethanol and gasoline

Some comments by Sir Harry Ricardo about his early work with fuels just after World War I may be of interest. This is from his book Memories and Machines (London: Constable, 1968): (Those intersted in the workings of piston engines should read The High-Speed Internal Combustion Engine by Ricardo

Re: [Biofuel] Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Not at all. About 1948 or 9 my mother used to put my middle sister out in her baby carriage (with the hood up) in view of the kitchen window to get fresh air. She found that the neighbours' cat liked to get into the carriage and lie on my sister's face. If I recall rightly this was in cool

[Biofuel] What's wrong with U.S. government, was Re: Bin Laden citing US polls about withdrawing from Iraq

Reforming the voting system would help; a partial cure would be instant runoff voting or what the Australians call the alternative vote which is the single-seat form of the single transferable vote. San Franciso is supposed to use it for their next election of a mayor. Proportional representation

[Biofuel] Negative voting, was Re: Bin Laden citing US polls about withdrawing from Iraq

The problem with negative voting is that you can be left without a legislator from a given constituency, or without an executive - maybe without a functioning legitimate government. From there one could easily end up with an illegitimate government. As the comic-strip Calvin once remarked, The

Re: [Biofuel] Negative voting, was Re: Bin Laden citing US polls about withdrawing from Iraq

No offense taken, Keith. I don't by any means wish to say that things are not bad (in fact some of my friends seem to regard me as the local Sarcophagus McAbre), I just think that negative voting has some potential for making them worse. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada On Sat, 21

Re: [Biofuel] Ashes from Glycerin sawdust logs

Pure glycerin or glycerol (same chemical) contains only carbon, hydrogen and oxygen: C3H8O3. All the combustion products are gaseous (unless there is a little coking) so it should not produce any ash. The ash will come from the sawdust. High school chemistry *is* good for something. Doug Woodard

Re: [Biofuel] Alternative way of producing bd (using electric)

From reading some patents I have the impression that the descriptions are designed to distinguish the invention from others, and that in practice the U.S. Patent Office doesn't place any significant weight on ensuring that a reasonably intelligent reader can understand how the invention is

Re: [Biofuel] Alternative way of producing bd (using electric)

As far as I know, patent offices do not check whether inventions work or not or have merit. They are solely interested in whether the invention embodies a new, non-trivial (obvious to one skilled in the art in question) idea or concept. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada On Tue, 20

Re: [Biofuel] Steam hybrid from BMW to enter market with 'Turbosteamer'

For kilowatts, multiply horsepower by 0.746. (from memory, may not be dead accurate but will be pretty close) Such a combined cycle diesel should be especially useful for diesel vehicles and given the weight of the battery and the lack of need for extra transmission the additional weight should

Re: [Biofuel] BioButanol replaces gasoline

I'm just speculating, but the purity requirements for butanol as a solvent may be higher than for fuel, requiring extra processing for solvent use. Considering the comparison with ethanol, I wouldn't be surprised if typical butanol production processes from say corn also produce small amounts of

Re: [Biofuel] Biofuel for model Aircraft

Back in the 50's I had an .049 cu. in diesel for model planes that used a special fuel. Ether was a main ingredient. Don't assume that a diesel for models has similar fuel requirements to a big engine. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Jeffrey Kumjian wrote: Can you

Re: [Biofuel] exclusive: Bush Plot To Bomb His Arab Ally

The Marshall Plan was developed well after World War II was over, in the absence of any other sensible plan for dealing with the situation in Germany and Europe. One major reason for its development and ready acceptance was that there was then a hostile great power (the USSR) which was benefiting

Re: [Biofuel] US Guvmint to tax alternate fuel vehicles?

There are major costs besides road maintenance and building, such as health costs of pollution medical (National Health Service) and other costs related to accidents, costs of policing. Back in the late 80's Pollution Probe in Toronto published a study The Costs of the Car which estimted that

Re: [Biofuel] Lye - Metric to Imperial Unit Conversions

Remember that water weighs 1 kilogram per litre, by the original definition of the litre. If Joe's specific gravity for the oil of 0.92 is exact, then the oil weighs 920 grams per litre. Is the 1.0% supposed to be the amount of lye *solution* per litre of oil (which would raise the question of

Re: [Biofuel] Peugeot 505 four cylinder turbo charged diesel vehicle!?

I have a dim memory from decades ago of reading a comment on the Peugeot 403/404 engines, which said that they were excellent and would have been good racing engines for their size class - if they hadn't had rubber seals (o-rings?) between the wet liners and the block (head?). Consider the

Re: [Biofuel] New question on oil seed crops and ley farming

Andres, it might be a good idea to inspect the livers of the rabbits you slaughter. Comfrey is supposed to contain pyrolizidine (spelling?) alkaloids which are said to be toxic to human livers. I don't know whether the alkaloids are broken down or whether it would be possible to ingest them from

[Biofuel] Natural gas in diesel engines, was Re: Tadgerdevice

Typically they injected a small amount of the usual liquid diesel fuel, say 5% of the total, which functioned as an igniter to start the natural gas burning, much like a spark plug. The natural gas was mixed with the intake air. They were called dual-fuel or oil-field engines, because they could

Re: [Biofuel] Ch 7 10PM News out of Boise

I've known Bruce McBurney, the fellow who runs himacresearch, for about 14 years now. He lives in Niagara Falls, Ontario, about 12-15 miles from me. I regard him as a total flake. I suspect that the others whose exploits he talks about, and whose literature he sells, are much the same. Bruce told

[Biofuel] [ARTICLE] Organic vs. conventional farming: yields, external costs

In response to one of Rexis Tree's questions. Biofuel may have a problem with competition for land with food and wildlife, but I don't think that we need fear lower yields with organic farming. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario -- Forwarded message -- The Institute of

Re: [Biofuel] Debatable statement?

One major way acceleration hurts is that engines are set to richen the mixture during hard acceleration in order to prevent detonation (knocking, pinging) at high cylinder pressures. Also, carburated engines richen the mixture to compensate for fuel vapour condensing on the intake manifold walls

Re: [Biofuel] Debatable statement?

Charles Lindberg did some of this training for P-38 pilots in the Pacific. For gasoline engines, high BMEP is good as long as you stay below the range where you have to richen the mixture to avoid detonation. Operation at lean mixtures is good as long as combustion is fast enough so that you can

Re: [Biofuel] Debatable statement?

No, diesels are not susceptible to detonation which is a non-applicable concept in its pure form. You want a diesel to burn the fuel wherever the fuel is, as soon as it is injected. The problem is to get it to burn fast enough. Diesels do generate smoke from incomplete combustion as the air

Re: [Biofuel] Ethanol in the Philippines - just put it in and go?

In very round numbers, gasoline has about 20,000 BTU per pound, ethanol 12,000, methanol 10,000. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Zeke Yewdall wrote: My understanding is that ethanol will run fine in existing gasoline engines. The difference is in

Re: [Biofuel] wind and current power

I suspect that large arrays of wind farms would have an effect similar to forests. We've chopped down a lot of forests over tha last few hundred years, so this doesn't worry me. Tidal power would slow the earth's rotation a little faster than it is slowing anyway from friction - probably not a

Re: [Biofuel] New Catalyst Produces Hydrogen from Water

Organosilane fuels? When carbon is oxidised we get a gas; when silicon is oxidised we get sand. External combustion engines perhaps. Not as efficient. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm. you'd think there's one obvious way the stuff

Re: [Biofuel] Methanol in Engines was Materials, Venturis and Biodiesel

Ray, it's been well known for many years that high concentrations of methanol have a bad effect on light metals and their alloys, and on many organic compounds used in engine intake systems. It's been so well known for so long that the racers who use methanol fuel mostly all know about and take

[Biofuel] Grass for fuel

Presumably they could be used for celulose to alcohol processes. I wonder about the invasiveness of miscanthus. Thanks to Lawrence F. London on the permaculture list. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada -- Forwarded message --

Re: [Biofuel] Iran's Nuclear Program

Would you be willing to be shot or hanged first? Given the typical methods of authoritarian governments, that's the crucial question. In 1812 coercion was not necessary; propaganda alone sufficed. The American immigrants who made up most of the population of the Niagara peninsula found it hard to

Re: [Biofuel] Cross Posted: Fwd: [DIYGasTurbines] Re: I'd like to try something...but first, your opinions (please).

I'm pretty sure the V-1 pulse-jet flying bomb used a rocket to launch and get up to flying speed. I don't recall whether it was a solid fuel rocket like the contemporary American JATO, catalyzed hydrogen peroxide monopropellant. or a liquid rocket with hydrogen peroxide oxidiser. If I had to guess

Re: [Biofuel] Cross Posted: Fwd: [DIYGasTurbines] Re: I'd like to try something...but first, your opinions (please).

I seem to recall that the minimum airspeed for halfway reasonable efficiency with a ramjet is about 400 mph. Hiller once experimented with a small helicopter powered by ramjets on the rotor tips. I don't recall any mention of starting problems but I doubt it was easy. I believe that a fuel

Re: [Biofuel] Solar panals or wind

A lot depends on the seasonal variations in sun and wind in your area. Here in southern Ontario, Canada, the good winds are in the period October-May peaking in January. July and August are poor. Correspondingly we have little sunshine in winter. So wind and solar go well together. It seems that

Re: [Biofuel] Solar panals or wind

Supposing that incoming solar radiation were mostly converted to electrical power, the electricity would be converted to heat in the process of use. This heat would be re-emitted from the earth's surface. The heat would also drive the weather, but the pattern of re-emission and presumably of the

Re: [Biofuel] BP loses money?? Yeah, right.

It's all part of the standard multinational corporation planning to move the profits to the jurisdiction in which they are taxed least (preferably not at all). Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Jerry Eyers wrote: Funny tidbit. BP says they loose money on

Re: [Biofuel] Iran's Nuclear Program

Unfortunately we are no longer part of the most powerful empire on earth. We will have to do something smarter than fight a war. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Joe Street wrote: I admit I don't know the exact number of aircraft in readiness status, who

Re: [Biofuel] Large crops, less nutrients

Organically grown crops tend to have their nitrogen in complete proteins. Plants grown with large amounts of nitrogen fertilizer tend to have a certain content of free amino acids (the building blocks of proteins) in the plant sap which the plant-eating (juice sucking) insects find very

Re: [Biofuel] Iran's Nuclear Program

Iran has a relatively large population in proportion to its oil supplies. Going back well into the Shah's time it professed to be worried about eventually running out of oil, and was interested in using its oil resources to build up a permanent energy supply through nuclear power. Probably some

Re: [Biofuel] Economist makes sense

For a good article on the limits of markets in anticipating resource shortages, see http://www.energycrisis.co.uk/reynolds/MineralEconomy.htm Markets will react to resource shortages, but they cannot be relied upon to anticipate them. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

Re: [Biofuel] [Fwd: Economist make sense (except for Krugman)]

The problem is not that fossil fuels are costing more money, but that they are costing more energy. As the section of the economy devoted to extracting fossil fuels consumes more of the yield of fossil fuels, there is less left for consumption, to run the rest of the economy. Now it's quite true

RE: [Biofuel] The New Blue States/Country

There may have been a misunderstanding in Baghdad. I suspect that the people in Washington knew exactly what they were doing. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Hakan Falk wrote: Iraq is the result of a misunderstanding, Saddam Hussein asked for the US permission to

Re: Re[2]: [Biofuel] The New Blue States/Country

I don't know enough to say, but my suspicion is that Saddam was encouraged to overreact to Kuwaiti drilling into disputed areas, in order to 1. turn Saddam's Iraq from a client state into an enemy. The U.S. didn't have enough enemies at the time to justify its national security apparatus, which I

Re: [Biofuel] The myths of Hiroshima

*Part* of the Japanese government was trying to find a way to surrender, before the atom bombs. Part of the U.S. Navy command held the view that no further military operations were necessary and Japan would be compelled to surrender if the Allies just waited. Most of the U.S. Army and government

RE: [Biofuel] The myths of Hiroshima

In 1920 both the U.S. and Japanese militaries considered that a war between the two countries was possible, and many thought it ultimately probable. For some time a major part of the Japanese government, establishment and armed forces had been dedicated to building an empire by force. A large

Re: [Biofuel] The myths of Hiroshima

Far from hating the United States, it appears that the Russian people were very favourably disposed toward the U.S. at the end of World War II. Allied aid, mostly from the U.S., was a crucial factor in enabling the U.S.S.R. to stay in the war and defeat the Germans. Thousands of Russian soldiers

Re: [Biofuel] Napier Deltic Engines

The Napier Deltic was based on the Junkers Jumo aircraft diesel engine developed before World War Two. The Jumo had one bank of 6 cylinders and two crankshafts, so the Deltic was much more economical of crankshafts and crankcases. Apparently Napier took out a licence from Junkers before the war

Re: [Biofuel] Electromagnetic Pulse Alert

That strikes me as too elaborate and expensive for a strictly private terrorist organization. However, it would be just the thing for a hostile state that wanted to terminate the Project for a New American Century and/or the consumer of 1/4 of the world's oil, and could figure out how to do the

Re: [Biofuel] maximum MPG

Doug, there are about 20,000 BTUs in a pound of gasoline, about 6 pounds to the U.S. gallon. A high school physics text and Marks' Handbook for Engineers (in the reference section of most larger libraries) will contain a lot of the information you might need. A text on internal combustion engines

[Biofuel] Off-topic but useful: New web-site for policy wonks

Thanks to Jack Stilwell of leftbio. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada -- Forwarded message -- Congressional Policy Briefings Available Online It's a bit like Napster -- but for policy wonks. A Washington research group has created a Web site where the public can

[Biofuel] Re: Environmentalism is dead. What's next?

It seems to me that this environmentalism is dead movement is setting up a straw man and then knocking it down. It defines environmentalism as a set of isolated responses to isolated symptoms, and then says that because the symptoms are not being cured, the response to them is futile. The

Re: [Biofuel] Re: Environmentalism is dead. What's next?

Non-American corporations are not any better than American corporations, but 1. in the past there have been more American corporations operating overseas. 2. the U.S. government has been pretty ruthless operating in the support of U.S. corporations, and to promote its Cold War objectives. The

RE: [Biofuel] Brazil's ethanol effort

Assuming that the problem in cool conditions is fuel vapourization and mixture formation, I expect that inlet injection (fairly common now) would work, and that if it didn't, direct injection would work. I don't know how ethanol and injection pumps get along, but I think that if there is a

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