In a message dated 3/26/2004 12:01:30 PM Central Standard Time,
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IF you don't mind, and even if you do, we can do without this toxic
Wise Use BS.
Thank you for your flame. I had not realized that the group was to be
censored for political correctness or that ad
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Power to the People?
By Paul Driessen Published 03/25/2004
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On January 22, Citigroup directors and executives fell all over each other,
rushing to claim their Ethical Oscar from the radical activist group,
Rainforest Action Network.
Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division - dihydrogen monoxide info
Every concerned environmentalist should visit this site.
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SCIENCE NEWS, vol. 165, reports, :A team of environmental engineers at
Pennsylvania State Universitycreated a fuel cell that breaks down organic
matter in
wastewater and, in the process, generates small amounts of electricity.
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I don't really want to get into this debate but I think we do get
something out of that 50%, unlike slaves. We have roads, social services,
all variety of things we depend on.
The slaves of the old South got something for their 50%: clothes, housing,
health care, roads, all variety of
Researchers at the University of Minnesota, Twin cities, have come up with
an efficient method of converting ethanol, the alcohol produced by the
fermentation of corn, into hydrogen fuelThe scientists calculate that their
hydrogen-generating system could capture more than 50 percent of the
In a message dated 3/15/2004 10:45:59 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
. Then we could ask
what the point is, and under what circumstances we might want to make
use of this process, and under what circumstances leave the ethanol
alone.
The objective was to make hydrogen for
In a message dated 2/22/2004 10:50:48 AM Central Standard Time,
Slavery was a real thing. It was well documented.
It is alive and well in more parts of the world than I care to know.
Lets see, now. A slave is a worker who is not allowed to keep the product
(or wages) of his labor. In the
One gets the impression that Connecticut legislators are control freaks who
can be bought by special interests, just like 99 per cent of American
politicians. I am constantly amazed by the number of people who believe, I'm
from the
government, and I'm here to help you.
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Yes, but how many bags of groceries will it carry? Where does the license
plate go? Will the landlord let you park it in hallway or in the bicycle rack?
Wouldn't a bicycle be cheaper, healthier, more useful?
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Biofuel at Journey to
In a message dated 3/9/2004 6:40:38 PM Central Standard Time
If Battery EVs continue to be conspicuously and unfairly excluded from
consideration, based on disingenuous and partly-false claims about
lack of demand and lack of performance of advanced batteries and
what-not,
OK, suppose we
If ADM sells less as high carb. food, because people are on the Atkins diet,
they will sell more chicken feed, so they win either way.
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In a message dated 2/24/2004 4:00:56 AM Central Standard Time,
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. At
this point any of the alternative party candidates are merely
spoilers, and votes for any of them are effectively votes for Bush.
If your only goal it to defeat Mr. Bush, you vote for the lesser of
not
appreciate that, while he sent it, he did not write it. The credit for the
erroneous statement belongs to Duncan Maxwell Anderson. I have experienced the
same
sort of problem. For example, I posted an article from the Washington Post,
and got a reply, esbuck=MORON, though I had
In a message dated 2/23/2004 12:07:36 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Perhaps. But don't forget that the particulates in question are soot,
which tends to absorb heat rather than reflecting it.
That's the point. The soot absorbs heat that would otherwise reach the
ground
In a message dated 2/23/2004 11:54:12 AM Central Standard Time
, or the forthcoming ice age, or global warming...
grants, endowments, and tenure mean they're going to find whatever
they're paid to find, and now that's global warming.
no, quite the contrary. Scientists in industry may be paid
In a message dated 2/23/2004 7:30:44 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
such as Union Carbide's metamorphosis into Dow
Chemicals after its corporate terrorism in Bhopal (1984).
As I understood it, there was terrorism, but not by Union Carbide. Someone
sabotaged the plant.
It is my understanding that most of the foods we eat are genetically
modified, but the mods. were made millenia ago. Corn (maise) cannot reproduce
without
human help, since the kernels, seeds, stick to the cob. Obviously, corn is
genetically different than wild maise. similarly with wheat.
In a message dated 2/21/2004 2:01:57 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Surprise? No way. They knew for months that it was coming, it was just a
matter of when.
You know you are going to die; it's just a matter of when. So, if you are
mortally wounded by a burglar at 3 am,
Yes, we all know that lead and some asbestos is harmful to children if they
are sufficiently exposed to it. The point, however, is: is it worth $ millons
to reduce a very small risk to zero when those millions could be better
applied? How about spending the money on vaccinations (to reduce
Much simpler. Readjust the aircraft fuel controls to make a smokier exhaust.
It will only cost 1-2% in additional fuel, and the particles wil be very
small, practically invisible. The result, however, will be reflected sunlight
and increased emission of IR radiation, thus cooling the earth,
Those who feel the pre-emptive surpise attack on Iraq, killing thousands of
civilians, was morally justified cite the following beliefs. If they were
sincerely held, even if not supported by facts, then the war was justified.
1. Saddam Hussein was a nasty man.
2. Iraq might be giving aid and
Just one more bit of data: My brother drove coast to coast and back, 10,000
km, using 100% raw cottonseed oil in a Continental diesel. When he checked the
injectors, etc. there was no detectable damage. The only problem he had was
having to warm the fuel when going over the Sierras (freezing
Let's see. The Northern hemisphere was warmer a thousand years ago than it
is now. Was Exxon involved? Was there a secret Kyoto-style treaty to cut
back on the use of fuel to heat castles, which caused the little ice age? It
has
been warming for the last 600 years or so. Does that
In a message dated 2/4/2004 1:08:50 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
. It was a fact known to everyone
including the highly educated that the earth was flat.
A fact is something which can be objectively observed. Any competent
observer had plenty of facts that the earth
The Department of Defense is wassting money worrying about climate change.
That's not their mission. We have a new Department of Homeland Security to
second-guess God.
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Biofuel at Journey to Forever:
It's pure witchcraft. If it really could save fuel, it would be standard
equipment, to help meet CAFE standards. Logically, is there anything you can
do
to the fuel in a pipe, not changing its chemical makeup or temperature in any
way, which would increase the energy content by 25 %? If
In a message dated 12/29/2003 9:55:00 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just imagine if the building codes in this country were changed so
that every new building had to be whole wall rated at R45... how much
coal burning could be eliminated by making such a small change. So
In a message dated 12/29/2003 12:48:08 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sometimes I get so exasperated with those who are in charge of
regulating what we do on a personal basis.
And who gave them the authority to regulate what you do? Do they work for
you, as public
Yes, pressure toilets are fine. I have one. Unfortunately, it's not made
for a man of my caliber; the output pipe is too small in diameter. If it
doesn't do the job in five or six flushes, I get out the snake. By the way,
the
solution to wasting water on fluids is to urinate in the sink
In a message dated 12/27/2003 11:34:53 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What they found was that most people would undergo a
sacrifice, even a monetary sacrifice, in order to demonstrate their
natural generosity so that someone they didn't know, hadn't met and
never
I enjoy reading the opinions expressed in this group, but I sometimes have a
sense of unease, not about energy sources but about the people.
They seem to say: I know better than you do what is best for you, and that
justifies using force and theft (eg. taxes) to make you do what is good for
Several years ago, I set out to build a diesel engine to a specification of
50 hp. from a 50 lb. mechanism. (7 lb/hp is more typical) It was about the
size of a roll of paper twoels and perfectly balanced, weighed 53 lb. minus the
fuel pump. While it was designed for unmanned aircraft, it
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 established fact.
No, it's not a
In a message dated 12/5/2003 2:22:43 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
is there any other way to minimise NOx
during combustion of bio diesel?
Just a reminder: One man's pollution is another's plant food. Whatever EPA
says, NOx is essential for the growth of plants.
In a message dated 12/3/2003 9:00:10 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How hard would it be to filter CO2 from the air here on Earth,
provide methane for fuel and release O2 to curb or reduce global
warming?
The CO2 in the Earth's atmoshere is a small fraction of one percent,
The Sterling engine was invented about 150 years ago, and they have been
around for a long time. However, it's not easy to build a good one. NASA
spent a
lot of money, more or less fruitlessly. There are simpler hot air engines (I
have a patent on one) which will work on any heat source,
In a message dated 12/3/2003 2:28:58 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sounds like he's been reading Pimento's stuff.
The question is: is he right? The fact that he's a chemical engineer does
not, in itself, suggest that he's wrong, does it?
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Continental used to make a smallish diesel engine they called their
litre-enegine, because it was metric. It went out of production years ago
for lack
of demand, but the tooling may still exist. By the way, it ran very well on
raw cottonseed oil.
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Go to a store which caters to farmers. They will have all sorts of metal and
plastic containers, plus pumps, mixers, etc., which farmers use for mixing
fertilizer, pesticides, etc.
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In a message dated 9/15/2003 7:46:31 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(though I'm generally of the working view that
there seems to be enough evidence of man-induced change to warrant
action immediately)
What is the evidence? There are computer simulations that model an
In a message dated 9/16/2003 12:25:09 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The thermal component of the equation affects efficiency a great deal. Thus
the time of storage has to be quite short if you are not to lose a lot of
efficiency.
Kirk
Response: The thermal component is
Congressman Davy Crockett (the guy at the alamo) opposed a subsidy with a
very well expressed argument. Basically, it is theft (you know, like Robin
Hood)
to take money (taxes) from his constituents to give to someone else, even in
a good cause. In one such case, he offered to donate a
In a message dated 9/13/2003 12:32:12 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But I do know that there are some willing buyers and leasors who want
highway capable EVs,
and that Toyota has firmly participated in the unanimous major-manufacturer
industry-wide
wall to not make
In a message dated 9/12/2003 1:23:38 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If your aim is more subversive, like energy being
dispersed and homegrown rather than centralized for the
profit of corporations, any cool thing like biodiesel is always
at risk of being taken out of your
In a message dated 9/12/2003 1:26:57 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My question though is this I understand that there can be
problems of coking when using SVO or WVO that has not been converted
to bio-d. Well, I am very limited for space in my garage (full of all
my
In a message dated 9/9/2003 5:01:00 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
BTW, my mechanic asked if its possible to use wasted engine oil for this -
would be great!
You could burn it as fuel, but it's probably not adviseable to mix it with
vegetable oil, and the EPA or others
In a message dated 9/1/2003 4:42:49 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
raise CAFE standards for all passenger
vehicles, including SUVs, to 40 mpg, to be phased in by 2015;
Right! And to save fuel on aircraft, each passenger plus luggage would be
restricted to a total of
The problem is that, if global warming occurs, how can we say it's our fault
and not an act of God.? What if, as seemes likely, the global warming,
which has occured before, most recently about 1000 years ago, is the result of
the sun getting brighter? What evidence is there that it's
I'm new to the group, but I have had a long-time interest in biofuels. May
years ago (about 20?), my brother and two friends drove a diesel van
(Continental Litre-engine) from coat to coast and back, 10,000 km., non-stop,
non-refueled, on non-petroleum fuel. He was in the Guiness Book of
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