Re: [Biofuel] Major Problems Of Surviving Peak Oil

Thompson, Mark L. (PNB RD) wrote: What is all this Peak Oil end of the world garbage. Oil is a finite resource. All that remains to debate is when we will run out (and what the definition of that is). I think things get ugly once core demand exceeds production on a world scale. Personally, I

[Biofuel] A heavy blow for wind power - Calgary Herald - 2006.10.16

http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/calgarybusiness/story.html?id=8 e468c7b-94c7-4ce2-8ede-5806b1ab1b60k=69214 A heavy blow for wind power Cap on generation 'stalls the business' Geoffrey Scotton Calgary Herald Wednesday, October 18, 2006 As much as $6 billion in Alberta wind power

[Biofuel] recent study of bio fuel energetics; abstract

Forwarding from another list. Darryl == From the Cover BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES / SOCIAL SCIENCES / ECOLOGY / SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE-SS Environmental, economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels Jason Hill* Erik Nelson, David

[Biofuel] Canada running out of fresh water: - Times Colonist (Victoria) - Mon 16 Oct 2006

Canada running out of fresh water: Clean water should be as important a priority as clean air Byline: Oliver M. Brandes Communities need to embark on water conservation efforts that look beyond the typical dam it, pump it and pipe it solution, a writer says. While federal Environment Minister

[Biofuel] Climate shift blamed for mass die-off - The Vancouver Sun - 2006.10.16

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=d2934362-9c7b-4023 -943e-acc351e0c276k=52559 Climate shift blamed for mass die-off The auklets are so sensitive to climate changes they are considered to be sentinels or canaries in the coalmine Margaret Munro Scientists report thousands of

[Biofuel] Oilsands could ease greenhouse effect, study says: Role seen for carbon - National Post - 2006.10.13

I am extremely sceptical of the proposals to sequester carbon dioxide in geologic formations as a means of addressing greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. However, I believe there are enormous opportunities for increases in efficiency and the use of renewable fuels and other innovative

Re: [Biofuel] farming irrigation systems--diesel to NH3

Juan Boveda wrote: Hello. I like good new ideas but I think the old style wind mill, horizontal axis with a direct driven well pump is a much better irrigation system or even a cheap 2 - 3 drums cut in half and assembled one over the other to form a vertical axis wind mill might be cheaper

Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis as Anesthesia WasTestimonials as Evidence)

I don't think conventional western medicine has all the answers, anymore than I think the alternatives do. Like Bob, I like to see unbiased evidence of efficacy before putting my faith into things that will affect my health directly. I am very suspicious of the western medical-industrial

Re: [Biofuel] Closing the Garden - Ottawa version

Jesse Frayne wrote: Darryl, I'm grateful for your response, today and for the last few years. But I must jump in: clearly, I hid my point. Not so much how to get people to stop stealing my garden food, but rather, are we about to have a world where people steal garden food? Jesse, I think we

Re: [Biofuel] Closing the Garden - Ottawa version

Jesse, I feel for you. I have not done guerilla gardening, intentionally anyway. Here's a story for you. When I first started breaking sod at our house, I put in some flower garden close to the street. My plan was to put some posies on the dining room table for my wife once in a while. Some

[Biofuel] The Weather Makers

The Weather Makers is a book by Tim Flannery. It's about climate change. If you want a concise, readable book about a dense and confusing subject, here you go. If you are tired of debating the subject with those that wilfully remain ignorant and oblivious, I recommend you buy this book, read

Re: [Biofuel] No need for a Kyoto debate: It's over - Globe Mail - 2006.10.06

Jesse Frayne wrote: How did you feel about this one, Darryl? First reaction was something about journalism. Big Headline, then three columns of stuff about how we are all going to lose our shirts. Finally, somebody says Hey, she's just scaring people!!! Hello? How about reducing use? And

[Biofuel] Clash with gassy culprits inevitable - National Post - 2006.10.12

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=cfb66e2e-849e-4488-a61b-cf87bb017616k=75859 Clash with gassy culprits inevitable Tory-blue Alberta is No. 1 emitter Don Martin National Post Thursday, October 12, 2006 Critics of the Tories' Clean Air Act say it fails to set industry

[Biofuel] Closing the Garden - Ottawa version

Appropriately, I spent a few hours on Thanksgiving day clearing most of the plant matter from the garden and putting it on the compost pile. Robert, your recent posts have been an inspiration. Thank you. Our garden did not fare as well this year as in past years. Mostly due to lack of

[Biofuel] Power paradox: energy-rich northern Ontario can't afford cost of electricity - CP Wire - 2006.10.06

Byline: BY ANGELA PACIENZA TERRACE BAY, Ont. (CP) _ When crews were constructing a hydro station in this community along the Aguasabon River Gorge in the 1940s, few thought power would ever be a source of trouble for the water-rich region. Eager to take advantage of the abundance of cheap

[Biofuel] Study: Water quality hit and miss in Canada - Ottawa Citizen - 2006.10.06

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=4c5f8fb3-c8ec-493 6-878a-b4a27a377ff6k=39291 Group calls for national standards Dennis Bueckert Canadian Press Health Canada has estimated that unsafe drinking water causes 90,000 illnesses and 90 deaths every year. OTTAWA - Six years

[Biofuel] No need for a Kyoto debate: It's over - Globe Mail - 2006.10.06

JEFFREY SIMPSON Environment Minister Rona Ambrose was correct: Canada will not, and cannot, meet its Kyoto greenhouse-gas reduction target. Opposition MPs were outraged at her assertion yesterday, as they often are when truth smacks them in the face. Any politician who argues that Canada can

[Biofuel] Solar and wind are 'fringe' power sources to Tories - The Vancouver Sun - Tue 03 Oct 2006

Federal ministers champion coal, nuclear power and biofuels to cut emissions Byline: Don Martin Dateline: VICTORIA VICTORIA -- Gary Lunn waves off the offer of coffee from the breakfast server at the historic Empress Hotel. Never drink the stuff. Don't want it to stunt my growth, he grins. To

[Biofuel] Canada feels its climate change - The Vancouver Sun - Tue 03 Oct 2006

Scientists aren't the only ones sounding alarm Byline: Margaret Munro Drought in British Columbia's rainforest. Prairie rivers running dry. Storms leaving trails of multi-million-dollar damage in eastern Canada. The climate has changed. The insurance industry knows it. So do savvy municipal

[Biofuel] Trash talk: the green versus the ugly - Ottawa Citizen - 2006.10.06

While Toronto irritates Canada-U.S. relations by shipping garbage south, Edmonton makes waste a successful 'green' business, writes Don Martin. Byline: Don Martin Starve a throwaway society of landfill space and the desperation to dump triggers extreme measures. Take Toronto. With most of its

[Biofuel] New study shows Arctic ice coverage lowest-ever, decline accelerating -CP Wire - 2006.10.03

Byline: BY BOB WEBER The ocean area covered by Arctic sea ice last summer was as low as it's ever been, according to a newly released study. And the rate of melting gets faster every year, suggesting that a self-perpetuating warming cycle predicted by climate change models is already at work,

[Biofuel] 'Sleeping giant' awakens in North: One nightmare scenario sees runaway - Vancouver Sun - 2006.10.04

Byline: Margaret Munro Dateline: MACKENZIE RIVER DELTA, N.W.T. Series: Feeling the Heat: How The Climate Is Changing Our World MACKENZIE RIVER DELTA, N.W.T. -- The sun is beating down on an icy bluff, sending chunks of ancient permafrost crashing to the ground. Rivers of mud stream off the

[Biofuel] Tories fail to block Kyoto legislation: Liberal MP says party ignoring - Ottawa Citizen - 2006.10.04

Byline: Mike De Souza The minority Conservative government suffered a significant defeat at the hands of the opposition yesterday over legislation calling for the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. Although Conservative MPs gave Environment Minister Rona Ambrose a warm round

[Biofuel] Global Meltdown Feared - Vancouver Sun - 2006.09.25

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/features/energy/story.html?id=62464470-b75f-4b26-8360-f17b9a8e5249 Scott Simpson Vancouver Sun Monday, September 25, 2006 CREDIT: Nathan VanderKlippe, CanWest News Service Warm weather came nearly a month early in many parts of the Arctic, melting sea ice

[Biofuel] Environment audit urges crackdown on energy producers - Edmonton Journal - 2006.09.29

Environment audit urges crackdown on energy producers: Government leadership, planning and performance inadequate: report Byline: Mike De Souza OTTAWA -- Federal environment commissioner Johanne Gelinas has used an embarrassing audit of the former Liberal government's failure to adequately

[Biofuel] Getting Heavy - Vancouver Courier - 2006.09.27

Getting heavy: The UBC scientist who developed the landmark notion of 'ecological footprinting' warns humanity must cut down its wasteful consumption of resources soon-- or face the consequences Byline: Robert Alstead As a boy working on his grandparents' farm in eastern Ontario, William Rees

[Biofuel] Waste-to-energy idea smells like success in Gold River - Victoria Times Colonist - 2006.09.19

The possibility of Gold River opening its arms to Vancouver's trash doesn't faze the up-Island village's mayor, not after running the idea through a sniff test. What Green Island Energy proposes to burn in its planned Gold River power plant is not raw garbage, but combustible waste that has been

[Biofuel] Personal Reflections on 9/11

On September 11, 2001, I was at home, sick. I was working too many hours on a major systems development project, for which I was the IT project manager, technical architect, supervisor for a team of seven, and part-time business analyst. It had taken its toll, and my body was demanding the

[Biofuel] Ontario lags on climate change - Toronto Star - 2006.09.05

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/A rticle_Type1c=Articlecid=1157104868030call_pageid=968256290204col=96 8350116795 PETER TABUNS When Stephen Harper made clear his intention to drop the ball on Kyoto, provinces started looking at one another to see who would

Re: [Biofuel] Kind of... interesting?

DHAJOGLO wrote: So I get this cyptic email from a collegue stating the Armada he had been waiting for has finally arived. So he proceeds to describe how he went to the Armada down at the river and had a tour of the raft, brought them some cookies, chocolate, and rope and was impressed.

[Biofuel] Canada gets low marks on environment - Montreal Gazette - 2006.08.14

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=27cb71ea-f6ea-4 42b-b65a-2edee2064fffk=50456 Mike Blanchfield CanWest News Service; Ottawa Citizen Monday, August 14, 2006 OTTAWA -- Canada is ranked as one of the least environmentally friendly countries, placing 17th in a new survey of

[Biofuel] Growing wheat for ethanol - Regina Leader-Post - 2006.08.14

http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/business_agriculture/story.h tml?id=232798fa-36a6-4b76-8f32-e24adb2de6b9 Michelle MacAfee Canadian Press Monday, August 14, 2006 WINNIPEG -- Husky Energy Inc. is just weeks away from opening its second ethanol production plant, a major step in the

[Biofuel] Farmer in France arrested for driving vegetable-powered truck

Forwarding from another source. You may need a subscription to see the full article via the URL. Darryl === http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article1214520.ece Friday, August 4th, 2006 John Lichfield in Paris A French farmer faces prosecution for driving on

Re: [Biofuel] EV is not dead

Nuts, got bounced again. Mike Redler wrote: Darryll, you wrote: ?Personally, I like the Advanced DC motors. But then I think regen is over-rated. If you learn to drive so that you use the brakes as little as possible, then regen offers little advantage, for there is little braking energy

Re: [Biofuel] EV is not dead

Michael Redler wrote: Hi Darryl, That was quite a read. You've done more research than I have on the subject. I've been relying more on my own analytical/theoretical skills rather than my own experience or the experience of others. I have been driving these machines for about 30 years now.

Re: [Biofuel] Future car: What will you be driving?

Mike Weaver wrote: But it would add a huge degree of efficiency, If the funds were there I'd enhance the battery back and include capacitors. My noodling was with an old Isuzu Trooper - lots of room up top for panels, and a lot of sre room to tinker. Here's one person's expiriment:

[Biofuel] Waterbeds ( was...GeoExchange, on the cheap)

I slept on one for many years. I gave it up about 18 years ago; it was the bed or my wife. I never had a back problem in the time I had the waterbed. Back pain (muscular and arthritic) is a regular, if intermittent, feature of life without the waterbed. I miss it pretty much every day. Darryl

Re: [Biofuel] Future car: What will you be driving?

Ron Peacetree wrote: Back on the actual subject listed as the topic of this thread... A little digging has convinced me that a diesel-electric hybrid w/ photovoltaic cells on the the hood/roof/trunk could easily be the basis for vehicles that could completely replace the traditional

Re: [Biofuel] Future car: What will you be driving?

There are a number of uses for carbon, there is a world market for it. Tires. Today some companies burn natural gas incompletely to produce carbon for tires. Road surface. Carbon can be mixed with other materials to make road surface materials, including chipped up tires, which are also a

[Biofuel] Seed money meant to kick-start biofuels projects - New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal - 2006.07.19

Seed money meant to kick-start biofuels projects; New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal Wed 19 Jul 2006 Canada's fledgling biofuels industry received $11 million in seed money Monday aimed at ensuring farmers and rural communities can get in on groundfloor opportunities in the growing renewable-fuels

Re: [Biofuel] Have You Hugged Your Hummer Today?

robert and benita rabello wrote: Simon Fowler MADUR-SALES wrote: I beg to differ. There is nothing to stop you switching the engine off when standing still. We have signs requesting you to do so at some level crossings as well. I do this at certain traffic lights in both my (bio)diesel

Re: [Biofuel] EV is not dead

Tony Marzolino wrote: Hey Guys - These are great, but once again..NO prices and NO availability? Are there any REAL options available for US consumers? Thanks, Tony Marzolino Make your own. Just back from a quick jaunt in the e-914 conversion. Starting to track some energy

[Biofuel] Bounced Messages (was FYI - I'm back from Nova Scotia. What a great time!)

Jason Katie wrote: one of the mail clients/servers might be asking for a verification reply. look into your client options and see if the option for read reciepts (or equivalent) is selected. Jason ICQ#: 154998177 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Both the account which used to work fine and now

Re: [Biofuel] FYI - I'm back from Nova Scotia. What a great time!

Mike, glad to hear you enjoyed Cape Breton. I hope you got to the Bell Museum while in Baddeck. Fascinating stuff. I am still catching up with e-mail and other things that accumulated while on vacation with my wife and son. In retrospect, 2 weeks without computers was refreshing and pleasant.

Re: [Biofuel] Energy monitor

This is a great device. I prefer it to the Kill-A-Watt. The unit at Canadian Tire includes a battery, so it does not lose its memory in the event of a power glitch. It also takes note of the amount of time that the monitored device is actually running instead of elapsed time - very handy