First let me say that I believe that violence is almost never justified
and that terrorism has never(?) served the political purposes it was
intended for. I believe that terrorism is a crime, not an act of war. A
heinous premeditated crime, but different only in scale from e.g. armed
robbery
Hi Mike,
Can you (or others) expand on this please? How much of a fortune? I've
been searching for info on the tax and regulatory issues of producing
and selling BD on a small scale. I wouldn't mind joining or starting a
co-op, but cooperatively-minded folk are thin on the ground in South
Isn't jelly solid ethanol Sterno fuel? Or is Sterno made with
methanol?
It's hard to imagine that there's any energy advantage to jellied fuels
over woody plants for cooking purposes, I know that many third world
areas have extreme shortages of cooking fuels or firewood, but it seems
like
I certainly agree that the FDA's efforts to label supplements as drugs
is misguided. On the other hand, congressman Paul, by saying...
The intent of that act was to allow the manufacturers of foods and
dietary supplements to provide consumers with accurate and specific
information regarding
On Aug 23, 2005, at 3:17 PM, Brian Ramsay wrote:
Think about it. If the price of oil keeps climbing, the more oil Iran
can sell means more $$ for them. If they are using their oil to run
their own country, they are missing out on some big money. Also, it
is good to diversify in
Amen Robert!
While not a christian, I've read many of the major scriptures of the
world. While reading the Robertson thread, I was thinking how badly we
needed to hear the Who would Jesus hate? Who would Jesus kill?
message.
Your message is so on target. The most important teaching we
It's impossible to say Communism would've collapsed even w/o our
help, since every state that has attempted communism, with few
exceptions, has been destroyed by the U.S.A. and its allies using some
combination of economic warfare, bribery and corruption, economic and
military support of
of
70%.
Chuck
From: TarynToo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org
To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Pat Robertson's business affiliation with Hugo
Chavez
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:42:00 -0400
It's impossible to say Communism would've collapsed even w
There are any number of people who are calling for Bush to be tried
for treason and war crimes. We certainly don't want him to be
assassinated! God forbid, we don't need any NeoCon martyrs here.
We do expect that he and most of his cabinet will be hung or imprisoned
after the trials
, the only problems with medicare are
those being caused by the new drug bill recently passed by the
republican congress, which was a huge corporate welfare gift to drug
manufacturers, at the expense of consumers and taxpayers.
Taryn
ornae.com
-Mike
TarynToo wrote:
It's impossible to say
As quoted here, what I find interesting about the sedition act is the
very specific phrasing: ..utter...abusive language about the form of
government of the United States, or the Constitution of the United
States...
In its first few lines the 1918 act forbids lying about the government
and
Hello Pannirselvam,
Forgive me for taking exception to some things you said to Doug. I've
assumed (perhaps wrongly) that you're looking at the works of the
Catholic church in Brazil, from a Hindu perspective. It has been years
since I last studied the Bhagavada Gita, but I continue to practice
Hi Keith, et alii.
On Aug 30, 2005, at 3:35 AM, Keith Addison wrote:
Hello Taryn, Pannirselvam
Did you read this?
http://sustainablelists.org/pipermail/biofuel_sustainablelists.org/200
5-August/003230.html
Or:
http://snipurl.com/hb3u
[Biofuel] Robertson et al VS. followers
Who Would
On Aug 30, 2005, at 8:19 AM, Mike Weaver wrote:
I totally agree. My only complaint w/ Linux is that after I install a
Linux/Samba server, I never see the client again! I have servers
running over 600 days.
I make my living on (ick!) Windows machines. They blow up all the
time.
ROFL
Thank you Bob, this is too funny,
Also have a look at these disclaimer stickers.
http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/textbookdisclaimers/
Taryn
ornae.com
On Aug 30, 2005, at 8:32 AM, bob allen wrote:
no, no Mike, the real truth about origins can be found in the
following:
I live in South Florida, on high(ish) ground. Katrina came past and
gave my neighborhood a teeny slap, on her way out to the gulf. Now 1.5
million people are homeless, jobless, and in shock, just from New
Orleans alone.
Entrepreneurs and businesses have always gone where the resources are.
I live in South Florida, on high(ish) ground. Katrina came past and
gave my neighborhood a little slap, on her way out to the warm gulf
waters, where she organized into a cat 5 hurricane. Now 1.5 million
people are homeless, jobless, and in shock, just from New Orleans
alone. There's no
Sorry, the earlier posting (20:35:45) is incomplete, I had no idea it
went out until I noticed the double post on the archives.
Keith,
It's hardly important, but I wondered if there is a simple way to toss
duplicates and accidents from the archives?
Taryn
ornae.com
Hi Jerome,
I don't know about the energy conversion efficiencies of a
wind-electric-H2/O2-hPEM-electric-load, but at first blush it
seems to have too many stages to achieve reasonable efficiency.
according to Amory Lovins, apparently an H2 advocate,
Hi, Juan and Greg
On Aug 31, 2005, at 10:18 AM, Juan Gutierrez wrote:
People, were there first and form there own local governments before
the feds showed up.
besides aren't people ultimately responsible for themselves or do you
want the feds or corporate bigwigs telling you where you
The storage of energy by lifting water has a long and successful
history. I think it's common for hydropower companies to use excess or
off-peak power to push water up into the reservoir, increasing head
pressure for peak demands. Hmmm... kinda stinks of perpetual motion eh?
Windmills have
Why Bob! What are you saying? Everybody knows that magnets are an
almost infinite source of free energy!*
Here's a simple experiment you can do yourself:
Find a bar magnet, stronger is better.
wrap about 50 feet of very thin varnished copper wire around your
finger loosely, so
Hi Marylynn,
The perspective you add for Louisiana's early history brings it
strikingly close to the Netherlands, in a single overwhelming facet:
They built where they did because there was nowhere else to build.
Where do you build if your whole territory is tidal basin, swamp and
river
: TarynToo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 11:12
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Katrina slams New Orleans. Is There Blame?
SNIP
I'm sorry if you thought I was speaking only of the feds. When I said
governments did this or that, I was speaking of all
If you're running a huge fixed flywheel for hours or days at a time,
doesn't precession become an issue? Even with vacuum containment etc,
don't the bearing get creamed by the lateral forces?
taryn
http://ornae.com/
On Aug 31, 2005, at 11:37 PM, Tony DeCarmine wrote:
Evening, all -
Jerry
Hi, Kim
I think that both HO and chlorine act as oxidizers, providing similar
sanitizing effects, but I'm awfully rusty. Oh! Accidental pun, my
favorite kind!
And here in florida they use copper compounds to reduce algae growth in
slow moving waters. As I seem to recall people tossing a
Wow, nice catch Bede, Fits right in with is there blame?
I just love to blame stuff on Bush and his cronies. Except...I'm not
sure that all the kings men could have put Orleans together again.
Certainly, having pissed away the country's emergency resources, Bush
is responsible for many of
In captions on news photos of Orleans:
White people who were carrying boxes were 'scavenging'.
Black people who were carrying boxes were 'looting'.
Both the white scavengers and the black looters were collecting stuff
that was certain to be a complete write-off for whomever owned
Hi all,
I wandered the web for a bit and found these as well many others:
http://www.ueet.nasa.gov/Overview.html
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/mar99/922773845.Eg.r.html
http://www.google.com/search?
q=commercial+aircraft+fuel+efficiency++turboprop
While these don't give specific answers,
Hi Andy, I don't think we're close, we're there already.
Not much doubt that neocons and fanatics have wrested the government
from the people. What is horrifying to me is how easily it was done.
Not only did almost half the voters in this country go along like sheep
to the slaughter, but our
Thank you Alan,
I'm one of those people who focused on Orleans. You're absolutely
right, I was missing the larger picture.
So many of us have been outraged about one city, whether over the
foolishness of living underwater, or the incredible incompetence of
abatement and rescue efforts at
Hi Chris,
I'm surprised to see you take these positions, you've often disparaged
corporate and government abuse of power, and spoken up for the
underdogs.
On Sep 6, 2005, at 1:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps that accounts for the difference between the way the
government
Hi all,
Ok, I think I've finally caught up here.
Chris, in your first post of this thread you were quoting those
americans (excluding yourself?) who believe that the blacks of New
Orleans are enemies of the state, morally equivalent to the 9-11
bombers? Then in your next post you said that
Hi JJJN,
On Sep 10, 2005, at 9:47 PM, JJJN wrote:
...
Ok one last question about wind farms. I told someone that wind farms
have the _potential_ of changing the weather if there is enough energy
extracted. I was laughed at and got that look _Now I did say
potentia_l. The laws of
On Sep 11, 2005, at 3:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
Really? Genuine scam? I read about it in Wired or Pop Sci, figured it
was just a master's thesis, or some defense proposal.
Taryn
http://ornae.com/
On Sep 11, 2005, at 5:57 PM, Mike Weaver wrote:
*Yeah, I invested in that. Ponzi scheme.
TarynToo wrote:
...
I remember some blue sky stuff
Weaver wrote:
No, I was being silly! I prefer to blow my money building things like
BD reactors or heat transfer devices for wood stoves!
TarynToo wrote:
Really? Genuine scam? I read about it in Wired or Pop Sci, figured it
was just a master's thesis, or some defense proposal.
Taryn
On Sep 12, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Leon Hulett wrote:
I did a tiny proposal to Cal Edison in California back in the 80s on
Wind
Energy Systems in the Jet Stream to see if they were interested. I had
visited their Solar One Site and thought they might like to do
something
with wind.
What
Hi all,
Notwithstanding this list's rule that says 'nothing is off topic', it
seems to me that there are already a huge number of websites and mail
threads involved in the NT/XP/BSD/Linux/Macintosh religious wars. Would
bringing such a thread to the BD group increase content levels, or just
Hi Keith,
On Sep 13, 2005, at 4:00 AM, Keith Addison wrote:
On Sep 12, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Leon Hulett wrote:
I did a tiny proposal to Cal Edison in California back in the 80s on
Wind
Energy Systems in the Jet Stream to see if they were interested. I
had
visited their Solar One Site and
Hi Joe, that was nicely done, thanks. I've played it for my family and
will share more.
So who did the non-bush part? And who is JAFO?
Taryn
http://ornae.com/
On Sep 13, 2005, at 1:37 PM, Joe Street wrote:
As long as we are Bush Bashing...here is a link to a song I
composed for
this scheme been tried at the small
scale?
Taryn
http://ornae.com/
On Sep 13, 2005, at 2:43 PM, Leon Hulett wrote:
TarynToo,
Sorry, I can't help you with any vision of the Victorian or Scholastic
scope of knowledge...
But I might add a few things on the wind and my idea.
I got a package
On Sep 14, 2005, at 8:38 AM, Joe Street wrote:
Hi Taryn;
Thanks for the kind words. The non bush part is Mr. George Galloway
a scottish member of parliament who gave a blistering redress to the
US senate sub comittee earlier this year who accused him of complicity
in the oil for food
Hi Zeke,
On Sep 15, 2005, at 5:59 PM, Zeke Yewdall wrote:
...
Even the new hybrids get lousy gas mileage,
because the hybrid design is optimized for adding power, not
increasing mileage like the insight and prius were. ...
Oh man, this just burns my a*s. I was so excited a few years ago
Hi Alex,
On Sep 16, 2005, at 5:36 AM, alex burton wrote:
I May well be wrong and i hope so
...
I am not anti german in anyway. I am more asking the question if
the lepard tanks that had such deverstating power were run on a fuel
that may have been human fat.
This hole concept sickens
On Sep 17, 2005, at 10:05 PM, Darryl McMahon wrote:
TarynToo wrote:
(
http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg55383.html
)
snip
The only way to get a diesel electric hybrid in this country is to
build it
yourself. I swear, before, I'm dead, I'm going to build
A few weeks ago, before the systematic failure of rescue and recovery
efforts became evident, I was puzzling over human foolishness in the
face of the incredible forces of nature.
http://ornae.com/35/katrina-slams-new-orleans-is-there-blame Shortly
thereafter, the Katrina story became
On Sep 26, 2005, at 4:01 PM, Tom Irwin wrote:
Hi Zeke and all,
Wow, it's been years since I saw that movie. That was Edward G.
Robinson's last flick. Lot's of things are applicable to today's peak
oil problem. Since it had a great storyline I have to think it was a
book at some time
I'm sure the Jinke readers have a great (or at least large) display,
but they're too big, too single purpose, and too proprietary.
I've been using Palm devices to read etexts for years. Right now my
Palm contains a few of Mark Twain's books, a Terry Pratchett novel,
both volumes of Democracy
Darryl,
Just wanted to commend you on your excellent and well organized proposals.
Act locally about energy is your overarching theme, and I absolutely agree.
Grand schemes always seem to lead to grand corruption.
Local closed resource loops usually make the most sense, whether for food,
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