Re: [Biofuel] Major Global Warming Report Puts Value on Human Life

2008-02-27 Thread Thomas Irwin
By George Monbiot, Monbiot.com. Posted February 21, 2008. And the richer you are, the more yours is worth. Greetings all, This strikes me as being the business as usual model for governments and corporations to do anything they want whenever they want. It seems that everyone will pay

Re: [Biofuel] What's Wrong With a Hockey Stick?

2008-09-20 Thread Thomas Irwin
Hi Folks, I believe it is a way politicians belittle real data. They do not want to acknowledge exponential growth so any data that is inconvenient gets labeled a hockey stick graph as if it really has no significance. That seems to be the view I see in MSM stories. Tom Irwin On Sat, Sep 20,

Re: [Biofuel] Trees not cure for global warming

2011-06-23 Thread Thomas Irwin
I would also think that is the ground is covered in reflective snow would not the trees also be covered. That would be with evergreen treees. Deciduous trees would have no leaves so the snow effect would be the same. Also the initial absorbtion of sunlight on leaf surfaces would occur 30 meters in

Re: [Biofuel] Bonus credits for CCS weaken Alberta’s greenhouse gas regulations

2011-06-27 Thread Thomas Irwin
Is there one of these CCS units that does not leak? I was reading about another unit in Canada that was near full scale but leaked like crazy. If there are no non-leakers this is one of those big engineering money pits. Come on everyone, lets build one and let the taxpayers and ratepayers give us

Re: [Biofuel] Petroleum alternatives, yes; How about Nuclear?

2011-06-27 Thread Thomas Irwin
Nuclear with onsite disposal (dispersal) of spent fuel is not really an option. There is also the cost of building and that none have ever come in on budget. Natural gas is still a non-renewable resource and a greenhouse gas addition. SVO wll run into land, phosphorus and nitrogen limitations

Re: [Biofuel] SVO and titration

2011-06-27 Thread Thomas Irwin
How do you filter WVO to 1 um? Multiple filtering steps with vacuum? Do you separate emulsions and animal fat first? What would 5 or 10 um filtering leave in that would be problematic? On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Oskar Bartenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: A question for SVO users - do you

Re: [Biofuel] SVO and titration

2011-06-28 Thread Thomas Irwin
and does not cost any more work or money. On 6/28/2011, Thomas Irwin wrote: How do you filter WVO to 1 um? Multiple filtering steps with vacuum? Do you separate emulsions and animal fat first? What would 5 or 10 um filtering leave in that would be problematic

Re: [Biofuel] Bonus credits for CCS weaken Alberta’s greenhouse gas regulations

2011-06-28 Thread Thomas Irwin
ecojustice is closer to the truth with their stance on the matter. Darryl McMahon On 27/06/2011 7:17 PM, Thomas Irwin wrote: Is there one of these CCS units that does not leak? I was reading about another unit in Canada that was near full scale but leaked like crazy. If there are no non

Re: [Biofuel] The Market Is Lying: Why We Must Tax Carbon, Not Subsidize It

2011-07-14 Thread Thomas Irwin
Why not cap and trade and tax carbon. Taxing carbon can give you the immediate benefit that the climate desperately needs. Taxing is something countries can do as individuals that benefits their economic balance sheets upon implementation. Cap and trade has many holes and needs to be ratified by

Re: [Biofuel] Berries and Climate Change

2012-07-08 Thread Thomas Irwin
Hi Darryl, Well it is an election year. No sense talking about real issues like climate change. People might vote based on that issue. The big energy companies wouldn't want that. If I recall the only issues permitted by the MSM during an election year are gay rights/anti gay marriage,

Re: [Biofuel] Latin American Herald Tribune - Uruguayan Firm Launches Project to Convert Used Cooking Oil into Biodiesel

2014-11-08 Thread Thomas Irwin
Greetings, Let me add to the information already provided. I have lived in Montevideo, Uruguay since 1998. Official population statistics indicate that Montevideo has a population of 1.5 million people with the country having a bit over 3.2 million people. ALUR is also manufacturing ethanol

Re: [Biofuel] The Problem of Stupid in Economics

2014-11-18 Thread Thomas Irwin
Considering how little economists actually know and how little they can predict from their soft science, it is laughable for them to call someone else stupid. Tom Irwin On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Darryl McMahon dar...@econogics.com wrote: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/27482-the-

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

2014-11-19 Thread Thomas Irwin
Ok, How about Putin's speech at the Valdai conference in Sochi. here is the link at Club Orlov http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/10/putin-to-western-elites-play-time-is.html#more On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 9:50 PM, deborah howard dhowar...@cox.net wrote: I've been happily reading many comments

[Biofuel] I think this is important. Is Putin right? What do we do?

2014-11-22 Thread Thomas Irwin
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/10/putin-to-western-elites-play-time-is.html ___ Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org http://lists.eruditium.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel

Re: [Biofuel] I think this is important. Is Putin right? What do we do?

2014-11-22 Thread Thomas Irwin
. == Assuming destabilization of a Russian-allied state (Ukraine) was the desired outcome by the west, I would call it mission accomplished. On 22/11/2014 11:57 AM, Thomas Irwin wrote: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/10/putin-to-western- elites-play-time-is.html

Re: [Biofuel] Cheaper wind turbines.

2014-11-29 Thread Thomas Irwin
It could be but how soon can it get to market. There really isn't a lot of time left. The main material Magnesium dibromide is not so easy to manufacture and economies of scale have not been developed. It is very variable in superconductivity properties depending on its manufacture. This is still

Re: [Biofuel] It's a Plastic World

2014-12-05 Thread Thomas Irwin
The problem with plastic recycling still remain the same. Plastic has such a low bulk density that harvesting plastic to recycle eats up a lot of fuel. Are they burning biomass, biodiesel, or alcohol to pick up and transport the plastic? If not you are just creating more unnecessary carbon dioxide

Re: [Biofuel] Anybody wants the biofuel gear of Journey to Forever?

2014-12-16 Thread Thomas Irwin
Greetings, Depending on the shipping cost, I would be willing to take the small and the ethanol still. If you are getting rid of the library, I would be happy to add it to mine as a future reference for the group. I live in Montevideo, Uruguay. Let me know the shipping costs. I can probably pay

Re: [Biofuel] 2016

2016-01-01 Thread Thomas Irwin
Dear Darryl (who notes that one advantage which comes with age is the ability to see the parallels in the cycles of human time) I have found this to be true but this as well. Nobody listens or employs old people yet that is where all the experience is. Tom On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 12:24 PM,

Re: [Biofuel] Okay, This time I really am going to take down the list, , , , but first, please read

2017-03-17 Thread Thomas Irwin
Hi, This list has been so great over the years that I would hate to see it go. However, if you do not have the time then it will have to. Thanks for your additional attention to the list. Sincerely, Tom Irwin On 3/16/17, Chip Mefford wrote: > > > Good day all of you who are