[Biofuel] negative ions
December 30, 1990 NEGION.ASC This article is from raum zeit (Space Time), Vol. 1, No. 5, 1989/90, page 85. Subscriptions are available for $59.00 per year in the continental United States. raum zeit Telephone : 714-240-3775 P.O. Box 3370 FAX : 714-493-9759 San Clemente, California Managing Editor : Chrystyne Jackson 92672 U.S.A. Why are Negative Ions So Healthy? Lenard (1915) found that when water is atomized (e.g. on impact of a water droplet), negative and positive charges are SEPARATED. Molecules which are torn from the surface of the water bear a NEGATIVE charge (small negative ions) whereas large drops or the entire mass of water are POSITIVE. This provided an unexpected explanation for the refreshing, invigorating effect of residences close to a waterfall or spring, or even after rain. Some of these reactions which IMPROVE WELL-BEING and physical and mental capacity have since become known. 1) Negative ions ACCELERATE the OXIDATIVE DEGRADATION of serotonin whereas POSITIVE ions have the opposite action and INACTIVATE the ENZYMES which BREAK DOWN SEROTONIN. 2) An INCREASE in the serotonin level (5-hydroxytryptamine) PRODUCES a) tachycardia, b) a rise in blood pressure, c) bronchospasm going as far as ASTHMA ATTACK, d) increased INTESTINAL PERISTALSIS (contractions and dilations of the intestines to move the contents onwards), e) increased SENSITIVITY to pain, f) increased AGGRESSION. 3) A DECREASE in the serotonin level is CALMING and INCREASES DEFENSES AGAINST INFECTION (as proven with influenza 'the flu'). 4) Negative ions produce an INCREASE in hemoglobin/oxygen affinity so that the partial oxygen pressure in the blood rises but the partial carbon dioxide pressure DECREASES. This results in REDUCED RESPIRATORY RATE and ENHANCES the METABOLISM of water-soluble vitamins. In addition, negative ions produce an INCREASE in PH and, in particular, an INCREASE in the SECRETORY performance of the MUCOSA with an INCREASE in CILIARY MOVEMENT in the airways. According to the studies of Fleischer and Pantlitschko, negative ions probably also IMPROVE BLOOD FLOW by increasing the release of proteolytic enzymes with fibrinolytic activity. Wordens studied the adrenals of golden hamsters kept under the same experimental conditions. The adrenals of animals treated with POSITIVE ions weighed 33% LESS than the adrenals of animals treated with normal respiratory air. On the other hand, the weight of the adrenals from golden hamsters treated with NEGATIVE ions was 29% HIGHER. Olivereau found a 30% ENLARGEMENT of adrenals in rats after 20 days of treatment with NEGATIVE ions. This finding suggests that the ability of the adrenals to produce glucocorticoids is REDUCED by POSITIVE ions and INCREASED by NEGATIVE ions. Considerable INCREASE in VITAL CAPACITY were observed by M.A. Vytchikova and A. Minkh in 1959, with the maintenance of blood sugar and blood oxygen levels. Thus, in a group of 9 sports students, Minkh found that ergometer endurance was INCREASED by 260% in 32 days compared with a normal control group following the INHALATION for 15 minutes DAILY of air enriched with 1.5 million NEGATIVE small ions per centimeter. Even before the 1976 Olympics, air ionization in the sleeping quarters of team members was used to improve performance in sports centres in the USSR and the GDR [M. Jokl, Prague]. Studies by Altmann in 1975 clearly show that the performance of school children can, for example, be CONSIDERABLY INCREASED by changing the electrical conditions of the rooms. Comparable effects have also been achieved by the use of IONIZED AIR. According to the latest information in the fields of medicine, biology and meteorology, it can be definitively established that atmospheric ions have a biological effect. Atmospheric electrical factors are a component of our environment and we humans are clearly affected by ELECTRO-IONIC MICROCLIMATES to a far greater extent than previously imagined. This finding acquires particular significance since, as a result of artificial air conditioning (e.g. atmospheric pollution, buildings, air-conditioning units, heating, electrical installations, plastics), civilized man spends 50-100% of his time in an UNNATURALLY CHARGED ELECTROCLIMATE. In cities, in closed rooms and in cars, etc., the proportion of small negative ions in the atmosphere is markedly reduced compared with undisturbed nature. An atmosphere with an EXCESS of NEGATIVE ions, such as frequently arise under open sky, usually INDUCES a complete VEGETATIVE TURN- AROUND within twenty days. In the curative phase of this total turn-around, the vegetative nervous system is normally RESTORED and the course of infectious diseases is essentially ATTENUATED (weakened) and (healing is) ACCELERATED.
[Biofuel] Cities Can Make You Skinny
This off Yahoo's home page today: LiveScience Staff LiveScience.com Tue Feb 20, 5:31 PM ET People who live in the densest, pedestrian-friendly parts of New York City have a significantly lower body mass index (BMI) compared to other New Yorkers, a new study finds. Lower BMI indicates less body fat. The researchers say placing shops, restaurants and public transit near residences may promote walking and independence from private automobiles. There are relatively strong associations between built environment and BMI, even in population-dense New York City, said the study's lead author Andrew Rundle of the Mailman School of Public Health. The study appears in the March/April issue of the American Journal of Health Promotion. Conversely, other research has shown that suburban sprawl and all the driving that comes with it leads to health woes. In the new study, Rundle and colleagues looked at data from 13,102 adults from New York Citys five boroughs. Matching information on education, income, height, weight and home address with census data and geographic records, they determined access to public transit, proximity to commercial goods and services and BMI, a measure of weight in relation to height. City dwellers living in areas evenly balanced between residences and commercial use had significantly lower BMIs compared to New Yorkers who lived in mostly residential or commercial areas. A mixture of commercial and residential land uses puts commercial facilities that you need for everyday living within walking distance, Rundle said. Youre not going to get off the couch to walk to the corner store if theres no corner store to walk to. A few related links: http://www.prevention.com/article/0,5778,s1-2-171-749-6707-1,00.html http://walking.about.com/cs/tours/a/walkcities2003.htm http://members.aol.com/rayzwocker/worldclass/walkable.htm http://www.cooltownstudios.com/mt/archives/000257.html http://www.pedestrianfriendly.com/ www.walkablestreets.com/walkingred.htm http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/06/us_cities_make.php -Dawie ___ The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address from your Internet provider. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] was...Global Warming: It's All About Energy (Keith
So John, You weren't kidding were you? You know better than 6,000 reputable scientists that c02 contributes to global warming? Human activity by burning fossil fuels is indeed a significant factor. Do you work for an oil company? Or perhaps one of the many exxon front co's dedicated to spreading misinformation and confusion about this dire situation that we've all created. I agree with Joe, I doubt you will get much sympathy here for your chicken little book I would repectfully suggest that you stick to the kennel business and leave climatology and climate change science to the experts because it seems to be clear that you don't know what you are talking about, regards tallex ---Original Message--- From: John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Global Warming: It's All About Energy (Keith Sent: 22 Feb '07 02:51 I don't think you are going to find much agreement around here. I'd be willing to bet that a lot of the members of this list might not only disagree but find your comments somewhat offensive. I know I do. Joe Sorry if the truth offends Joe! But I don't believe in living a lie! Yours truly John Wilson *** Get your daily alternative energy news Alternate Energy Resource Network 1000+ news sources-resources updated daily http://www.alternate-energy.net Next_Generation_Grid http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/next_generation_grid/ Alternative_Energy_Politics http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Alternative_Energy_Politics Tomorrow-energy http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tomorrow-energy Earth_Rescue_International http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Earth_Rescue_International ___ Biofuel mailing list [LINK: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Biofuel@sustainablelists.org [LINK: http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org] http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: [LINK: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html] http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): [LINK: http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/] http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Winnipeg group wins national award for environmentally friendly house - CP Wire - 2007.02.17
Around my part of Canada a duplex is almost any two-family dwelling. Usually a large house divided into two seperate living quarters. A pair of semi-detached homes are each referred to as a semi. A townhouse is a townhouse is a townhouse, if 1, 2 or 3 storey. Cheers, John Quoting Dawie Coetzee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'd like to see what it looks like. The problem with most of these projects is that they are in the wrong place, i.e. normal motor-vehicle-based, low-density, single-land-use, dormitory suburbs. What does 'duplex' mean in Canada? It's one of those terms that mean different things in different places In the northern parts of South Africa it means a double-storey townhouse in a townhouse complex. From the context I suspect it refers to a pair of semi-detached houses in Canada: is that correct? I have yet to see an environmentally-friendly house prototype in a walkable, mixed-use neighbourhood. I might have to build it - and the neighbourhood around it! I'd also like to see a bit more cobbled technology. I'm not entirely convinced of the overall implications of the high-tech, sealed-environment approach that has been gaining ground. There's more to it than electricity bills. -Dawie - Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Thursday, 22 February, 2007 7:35:47 AM Subject: Biofuel Digest, Vol 22, Issue 75 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Darryl McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:53:50 -0500 Reply-To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Subject: [Biofuel] Winnipeg group wins national award for environmentally friendly house - CP Wire - 2007.02.17 Message: 3 Winnipeg group wins national award for environmentally friendly house WINNIPEG (CP) _ A Winnipeg group has won a national award for designing a house that will generate as much electricity over the course of a year as it consumes. T he project was principally designed by a team from Prairie Architects Inc., along with partners Centennial Neighbourhood Association and Winnipeg Housing Rehabilitation Corp. Architect Dudley Thompson said the design incorporates leading-edge technology and common sense to make it the most energy-efficient house in the country. ``There have been advances in house construction over the past 20 years and this design takes home construction to the next level,'' Thompson said. ``This will ensure that houses don't consume any more energy than they can produce.'' The house _ a duplex _ was designed in response to a national competition launched last May by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. The corporation received 72 entries from across the country. Winnipeg's entry was among 20 designs chosen for review and, ultimately, one of 12 recognized as winners. Thompson said the house is super-insulated, using extremely efficient heating and cooling technology, combined with a series of roof-top photo voltaic panels that gather the energy of the sun to power all household appliances. When the rooftop panels generate more electricity than the house needs, the power is ``sold'' to Manitoba Hydro. On cloudy days, the house ``buys'' the power it needs from Manitoba Hydro. The ``sold'' power is credited to the house's utility bill. Over the course of a year, the house's electricity bill is projected to be zero. ``We have a lot of sunny days, so it will work really well,'' Thompson said. A Manitoba Hydro spokesman said there are a couple of farm operations using wind turbines that tap into the electrical grid, but the Winnipeg home will be first of its kind in a Manitoba residential neighbourhood that will transfer energy to the grid. Menno Peters, general manager of Winnipeg Housing, said the duplex will be built in the Centennial neighbourhood on William Avenue, a couple of blocks east of the Health Sciences Centre complex. Peters said to prove the viability of the project, only one side of the duplex will employ the rooftop photo voltaic panels and transfer electricity to Manitoba Hydro. Both sides of the duplex will employ all the other energy-saving and efficient designs. Thompson said the costs of building the duplex start out like any other comparable structure but that the energy-efficient designs will add about $50 per square foot to the construction cost. He said that installing the photo voltaic panels and associated equipment will also add to the cost ``It will be more expensive to build than what's on the market now, but as energy prices continue to increase the viability of the design will prove itself,'' Thompson said. (Winnipeg Free Press) Copyright (c) 2007 The Canadian Press -- Darryl McMahon It's your planet. If you won't look after it, who
Re: [Biofuel] Global Warming: It's All About Energy (Keith
John, (Since you are not joking) Would you please explain, in simple terms, or in mathematical/physical terms what you mean when you say: 1. The co2 theory defies the laws of physic. If Co2 is intercepting radiant enery from the sun and stopping that energy from reaching the surface of the earth, . I don't know of anyone who says that CO2 blocks radiant energy from the sun. I believe the issue involves terrestrial re-radiation. Please explain what, to me at least, seems to be a misunderstanding of the role of GREENHOUSE gases such as CO2 in global temperature change. One of my teachers had a poster up that read: Be careful of your opinions. He said opinions can get in the way of learning. Always willing to learn I look forward to your explanantion. Tom - Original Message - From: John Wilson To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 10:05 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Global Warming: It's All About Energy (Keith John, I apologize John. In a previous post (Chicken Little Strikes Again! 2/5/07) you wrote: Doing an article to rebut this CO2 nonsense. It is so easy to refute. Anyone ever tell you people who are for this chicken little theory that C02 causes global warming that heat rises. The co2 theory defies the laws of physic. If Co2 is intercepting radiant enery from the sun and stopping that energy from reaching the surface of the earth, ice fields and oceans and then carrying that energy to the atmosphere, then CO2 is not contributing to global warming it is slowing the process of global warming ie it is cooling. Elimating or limiting C02 in the atmosphiere will actually increase global warming not the reverse. I thought you were joking. My reply to this included humor I wouldn't have used had I thought you were serious. I would, however, suggest that you learn something about the laws of physics before you write an article or a book in which you use them to support your premise. It is my opinion that when you have sufficiently studied the topic, with understanding of the actual laws of physics, you will decide to write about something else. While I wholeheartedly disagree with what you said, it is never my intention to offend. Tom No apology necessary Tom! No offence taken! Tom I built and designed greenhouses, designed pumps, agitation systems, worked as a marine biologist worked in the greenhouse industry. Ran a weather station, an experimental station under the quidance of the National Research Council. Seven years university training in Science. I have done enough study in math calcius and physics. Tom. I do appreciate your reply in fact I have made the whole book a reply to your email. It is working out quite well. Thanks again. Yours truly John Wilson *** Wilsonia Farm Kennel Preserve Goldens Ph-Fax (902)665-2386) Web: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/goldens/new.htm Pups: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/goldens/pup.htm Politics: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/goldens/elect.htm In Nova Scotia smoking permitted in designated areas only until 9:00 PM . After 9:00 it is okey to kill everyone. Not anymore! Smoke freedom day 6 th December 2006 ^ -- ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Meanwhile - Biodiesel start-up hauls in $214 million
Gotta love the name, Imperium Keith Addison wrote: How much of the biodiesel that Imperium Renewables makes with this scale of operation will be renewable? Industrial monocrops don't qualify as renewable, it's not renewable if the production system isn't sustainable, and theirs isn't. Or even clean-burning - at the tailpipe maybe, but the crops are grown with heavy dependence on fossil fuels, about half as dyno-diesel, which isn't clean-burning, and the other half in the form of fertiliser. Making and transporting one kilogram of nitrogen fertilizer releases 3.7 kg of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere (that's before they use the stuff). Is the resulting biodiesel even carbon-neutral? The same applies to the transport costs involved in trucking the crop/oil long distances, as such a centralised operation will have to do, and trucking the fuel all the way back again to the market. The only benefit I can see is that it might help free America from it's dependence on terrorist, er, Arab, sorry, Middle Eastern, I mean foreign oil, which is a delusion anyway. Soy and palm oil indeed. I see Graham Noyes, Vice President of Sales at World Energy, has just become Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Imperium Renewables instead. We had a famous tussle with Graham here a few years ago when he said homebrewers would destroy the market with the poor-quality fuel they make, it had already caused widespread problems, and he cited instances. Industry's famous Peril of the Homebrew myth. Graham quickly found himself trying to find the back-pedal gear, but it seemed it wasn't something he used often, and then he went quiet for awhile. But we kept on hassling him about it, and eventually he posted a retraction, admitting that he knew of no case of homebrew biodiesel causing any problems. He'd confidently passed on the accepted industry wisdom without checking it. He also said he'd been impressed by what he'd learnt here about homebrew quality control and quality concerns, and promised to inform industry of the error of its ways when they badmouthed homebrewers. In fact he started a small producers section at the NBB as a result, though I'm not sure what it achieved. Anyway good on Graham, his retraction earned him a lot of respect. Not long after that World Energy had to recall a consignment of bad-quality industry biodiesel that was causing widespread problems on the US west coast (cars damaged), but it was left to the homebrewer community there to clean up the mess at the consumer level. Just the opposite story! This happened a couple of times there, the other case not involving World Energy. Strange thing about that consignment was that Graham said it had been tested first as usual like all the biodiesel World Energy markets and the lab okayed it. So then World Energy had it tested at another lab, which didn't okay it at all, it was crap. We wanted to know more about that, how did crap biodiesel get an okay from the first lab? But Graham didn't volunteer any further info. It sure smacked of the many cases in many industries where tests are okayed by a lab by prior arrangement, it just gets a rubber stamp. If the sample that's tested even comes from the production run rather than the company laboratory. At the NBB confab later that year the NBB laid on a guided tour of the biodiesel factory responsible for the worse of the two recalled consignments. It wasn't just one bad consignment, they kept on producing the stuff. But apparently the NBB didn't even know about it, or didn't care. When small-scalers at the conference asked about it they were told not to rock the boat and risk damaging the prospects of a promising emerging industry. Maybe the NBB doesn't have to bother about it, you can hide a lot of poor quality in B20, and who cares about the marginal whackoes who use B100 anyway, you get the best subsidies and breaks package with B20, that's what matters. I wonder whether anything much has changed, other than the scale of the production plant obesity problem. Best Keith Biodiesel start-up hauls in $214 million By Caroline McCarthy, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CNET News.com Published on ZDNet News: http://news.zdnet.com/2001-1_22.html February 21, 2007, 12:30 PM PT *Seattle-based biodiesel maker Imperium Renewables announced on Wednesday that its Series B financing round has roped in a total of $214 million, a possible record for the American biodiesel industry.* The investment comes from two sources: $113 million of private equity and $101 million from a senior secured credit facility that will be arranged by Societe Generale http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sgcib.comsiteId=22 oId=2100-9595-6161091ontId=9595lop=nl.ex. According to a statement from Imperium, the funding is believed to be the United States' largest-ever private-equity investment in a biodiesel company. Imperium
Re: [Biofuel] Global Warming: It's All About Energy (Keith
Hi John; I read your website and it's a good thing you came to this forum, because you have been misinformed. It's not your fault you have been a victim of disinformation just like so many others. Read the archives and you will find the answers to all your questions and confusion. You'll find the archives very informative, and the list membership here very pleasant and happy to set you straight. Being offended by someone coming from a position of ignorance shows a sort of lack of development, which was my bad, so sorry I reacted that way. Happy learning. Joe John Wilson wrote: I don't think you are going to find much agreement around here. I'd be willing to bet that a lot of the members of this list might not only disagree but find your comments somewhat offensive. I know I do. Joe Sorry if the truth offends Joe! But I don't believe in living a lie! Yours truly John Wilson *** Wilsonia Farm Kennel Preserve Goldens Ph-Fax (902)665-2386) Web: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/goldens/new.htm Pups: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/goldens/pup.htm In Nova Scotia smoking permitted in designated areas only until 9:00 PM . After 9:00 it is okey to kill everyone. Not anymore! Smoke freedom day 6 th December 2006 ^ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Fwd: Herbal Garden Sprays
On Feb 22, 2007, at 7:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom At the top of the Digest it says: When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Biofuel digest... Nobody will read a message with the Subject Re: Biofuel Digest, Vol 22, Issue 74 and it will foul up archives searches forever. It should have read Re: Herbal Garden Sprays. Please change it and resend. Thankyou. Biofuel list administration From: Tom Thiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Biofuel Digest, Vol 22, Issue 74 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:26:00 -0500 To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org 7. Re: Herbal Garden Sprays (Thomas Kelly) -- Keith quoted a USA Today article: WASHINGTON - It may be cold comfort during a frigid February, but last month was by far the hottest January ever for the planet. Here in New York State (US) we had temps in the 60s (F) and even reached 73F during Dec and January. I had built a small ice skating rink for my kids back in early November and had just about given up hope of teaching them to skate this year. The first measurable snowfall in New York City occurred on the14th or 15th of January. The previous record for late snow had been January 10th (1878). It has turned cold. The kids are skating and I am frantically trying to keep up with my oil-fired boiler's hunger for BD. I have a tool that was handed down from my grandfather died in 1958 to my father . died in 1976 to me. It has a heavy, broad blade with an oval hole through which the long handle fits. Like a hoe or like a shovel? It's like a hoe... I've seen grub hoes that are similar, but the blade on this one is about 9 - 10 inches across. It has a long, thick, curved handle. I can appreciate that Tom, I love using old tools that are made right and built to last and come to you with a heritage of other hands that used them before you, maybe they help to guide your hand in a way. I have quite a few of them, and we sort of inherited a whole bunch of well-used old tools when we came here, used by the old people in older times when things were different, not very long ago. This is comforting to hear. While I don't object to rototillers, shredders, and other machines that make work easier, I don't own them and, so far, don't need them. Something happens, occasionally, when I work with this particular hand tool that has been handed down from previous generations. Doing the same job, in the same manner, with the same tool . maybe the effects of fatigue?? but for a brief instant it is as if you have stepped into their shoes, or they into yours. It's a good feeling. Thanks for the compost tea recipe. I'll give it a try. It will give use to the aquarium pump and bubble stones I bought when I first started making BD. The seeds arrived today .. spring is just around the corner. Tom That tool might be a forest adz. Adzes generally are made of tool steel which is able to be sharpened enough to cut through tree roots, etc. when clearing new ground and to pry things from the ground when clearing. Handle holes are often square or rectangular without being firmly fixed. Handles of adzes are bigger at the work end than below the head like an axe.The head can be easily removed for sharpening by tapping the end of the handle on a rock allowing the head to slide down the handle. Tom Thiel ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Meanwhile - Biodiesel start-up hauls in $214 million
Hello Dawie Why am I getting the impression that Industry is bending over backwards to discredit the whole biofuel idea by applying it in the worst possible way? Are they preparing the ground for getting it banned? Hm. It's probably instinctive for big-time suits to favour the stamping out of small, local, independent outfits, then they can consolidate the market too, as they put it. Especially when they can't out-compete the small guys (if they even try). They misquote Adam Smith and emit noble flatulences about the magic of the marketplace but what they like is total control, not healthy competition. Prohibition sure had a lot to do with that. Your seeds example is a good one and it's already QED, even without terminator. CP, the Charoen Pokphand Group, East Asia's Tysons, having themselves virtually caused the bird flu epidemic and spread it far and wide, then used it as an opportunity to wipe out the remaining small-scale poultry operators in countries like Thailand and Vietnam by claiming against all the evidence that the small outdoor flocks were the cause of the disease and were spreading it. The governments kow-towed, as usual, and CP's market share went up from 60% to 80% or whatever. Well, hey, that's progress. Never mind a few million more destroyed livelihoods and about a billion murdered chickens, as long as it makes a nice omelette for CP. There's not exactly a shortage of such examples. I'm sure Big Biofuels would like to ban homebrewers and the local operators, Graham Noyes or not, but I doubt they're out to get biodiesel itself banned, they'd rather take it over. People have been saying that here for a long time, that there's not much difference between Big Biofuels and Big Oil, they'll shove us out of the picture and take it over. World Energy is backed by Gulf Oil, they've got a deal with Dow over big-time biodiesel production and so on, almost all the big guys are involved now. But I don't think they're about to shove us little guys out of the picture, it's too late for that, we're suitably out of control, IMHO. It's hard for them to see that the big central top-down model they're so accustomed to just won't work with biofuels, or not for long anyway, for instance not once you have to start paying the carbon costs of transporting the stuff all that way, feedstock in, biofuel out. Not sustainable, no more so than the big central industrialised monocrop production that's their oilwell. Not sustainable means it doesn't have a future, no matter how many millions of dollars you chuck at it. By comparison, a US Army report says the US Army won't be able to fight future wars to secure oil supplies without diversifying the military's energy supplies, especially into renewables. The [U.S.] military needs to take major steps to increase energy efficiency, make a 'massive expansion' in renewable energy purchases, and move toward a vast increase in renewable distributed generation, including photovoltaic, solar thermal, microturbines, and biomass energy sources, the report said. Renewables tend to be a more local or regional commodity and except for a few instances, not necessarily a global resource that is traded between nations, it said. (Full report http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA440265) I'm sure they're right, that's more or less what we've been saying. But it hasn't sunk in a lot down Wall Street way. Probably not at the Pentagon either. Same issue as food, and food miles. http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html#foodmiles Enter Slow Food, exit, eventually, Tysons. I wonder if there's a faster growing market sector than the local food market, worldwide. I wonder why nobody notices (not). Well, not quite nobody. One of the groups we work with here in Japan, basically an organics group, started calling biodiesel Slow Fuel, and I think it spread. In Japanese it lacks the inference that it makes your car go slow, unfortunate because otherwise it's a good metaphor. But I wouldn't expect the long-lunches brigade at places like World Energy or Imperium Renewables or the NBB to see it that way until they're forced. It is how they've operated before. Just look at catalytic converters and platinum interests. Uh-huh? Do tell. Now there's apparently a thin film of platinum over the entire globe, as well as palladium and rhodium, the other metals used in catalytic converters. Anyway the sources of these metals are running out aren't they? Russia's palladium is running out, or did already. The GMO thing is just about ripe. Industry wants to sell terminator genes: that's all the whole thing is about. If they simply introduce terminator seeds they will generate a lot of resentment. Everyone will be trying any alternative, and that might just kill the whole commercial seed industry. So, Industry makes it a health and safety issue, not a small-farming human rights issue. They get people so scared about their GMOs going invasive -
Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: Herbal Garden Sprays
Tom, It sounds like you are familiar with the tool I mentioned a forest adz. I have heard of adzes, but thought they were used by woodworkers. The hole in the blade of this one is round/oval. The handle is, like you said thicker at the far end and it is easy to slide the blade off of it. The handle has been difficult to replace. I replaced it about 20 - 25 ago, but when I went to look for another one the summer before last I couldn't find one. I didn't know the name of the tool. I brought the handle to a local hardware store where the owner promised he could find one to match it in one of his catalogs. He eventually gave up. I ended up carving a different handle . thick and of similar length .. to fit. This handle I'll take better care of. It will last as long as I do. Thanks for the info, Tom K - Original Message - From: Tom Thiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 8:25 AM Subject: [Biofuel] Fwd: Herbal Garden Sprays 7. Re: Herbal Garden Sprays (Thomas Kelly) -- Keith quoted a USA Today article: WASHINGTON - It may be cold comfort during a frigid February, but last month was by far the hottest January ever for the planet. Here in New York State (US) we had temps in the 60s (F) and even reached 73F during Dec and January. I had built a small ice skating rink for my kids back in early November and had just about given up hope of teaching them to skate this year. The first measurable snowfall in New York City occurred on the14th or 15th of January. The previous record for late snow had been January 10th (1878). It has turned cold. The kids are skating and I am frantically trying to keep up with my oil-fired boiler's hunger for BD. I have a tool that was handed down from my grandfather died in 1958 to my father . died in 1976 to me. It has a heavy, broad blade with an oval hole through which the long handle fits. Like a hoe or like a shovel? It's like a hoe... I've seen grub hoes that are similar, but the blade on this one is about 9 - 10 inches across. It has a long, thick, curved handle. I can appreciate that Tom, I love using old tools that are made right and built to last and come to you with a heritage of other hands that used them before you, maybe they help to guide your hand in a way. I have quite a few of them, and we sort of inherited a whole bunch of well-used old tools when we came here, used by the old people in older times when things were different, not very long ago. This is comforting to hear. While I don't object to rototillers, shredders, and other machines that make work easier, I don't own them and, so far, don't need them. Something happens, occasionally, when I work with this particular hand tool that has been handed down from previous generations. Doing the same job, in the same manner, with the same tool . maybe the effects of fatigue?? but for a brief instant it is as if you have stepped into their shoes, or they into yours. It's a good feeling. Thanks for the compost tea recipe. I'll give it a try. It will give use to the aquarium pump and bubble stones I bought when I first started making BD. The seeds arrived today .. spring is just around the corner. Tom That tool might be a forest adz. Adzes generally are made of tool steel which is able to be sharpened enough to cut through tree roots, etc. when clearing new ground and to pry things from the ground when clearing. Handle holes are often square or rectangular without being firmly fixed. Handles of adzes are bigger at the work end than below the head like an axe.The head can be easily removed for sharpening by tapping the end of the handle on a rock allowing the head to slide down the handle. Tom Thiel ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] negative ions
Ok could you explain again how the pulverization of water results in ionization (of a molecule?) I don't follow. Joe Kirk McLoren wrote: December 30, 1990 NEGION.ASC This article is from raum zeit (Space Time), Vol. 1, No. 5, 1989/90, page 85. Subscriptions are available for $59.00 per year in the continental United States. raum zeit Telephone : 714-240-3775 P.O. Box 3370 FAX : 714-493-9759 San Clemente, California Managing Editor : Chrystyne Jackson 92672 U.S.A. Why are Negative Ions So Healthy? Lenard (1915) found that when water is atomized (e.g. on impact of a water droplet), negative and positive charges are SEPARATED. Molecules which are torn from the surface of the water bear a NEGATIVE charge (small negative ions) whereas large drops or the entire mass of water are POSITIVE. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Cities Can Make You Skinny
all the more reason to build up rather than out. i dont like the idea of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on what would amount to a shack were it free standing, though... - Original Message - From: Dawie Coetzee To: Biofuels Mailing List Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 5:36 AM Subject: [Biofuel] Cities Can Make You Skinny This off Yahoo's home page today: LiveScience Staff LiveScience.com Tue Feb 20, 5:31 PM ET People who live in the densest, pedestrian-friendly parts of New York City have a significantly lower body mass index (BMI) compared to other New Yorkers, a new study finds. Lower BMI indicates less body fat. The researchers say placing shops, restaurants and public transit near residences may promote walking and independence from private automobiles. There are relatively strong associations between built environment and BMI, even in population-dense New York City, said the study's lead author Andrew Rundle of the Mailman School of Public Health. The study appears in the March/April issue of the American Journal of Health Promotion. Conversely, other research has shown that suburban sprawl and all the driving that comes with it leads to health woes. In the new study, Rundle and colleagues looked at data from 13,102 adults from New York City's five boroughs. Matching information on education, income, height, weight and home address with census data and geographic records, they determined access to public transit, proximity to commercial goods and services and BMI, a measure of weight in relation to height. City dwellers living in areas evenly balanced between residences and commercial use had significantly lower BMIs compared to New Yorkers who lived in mostly residential or commercial areas. A mixture of commercial and residential land uses puts commercial facilities that you need for everyday living within walking distance, Rundle said. You're not going to get off the couch to walk to the corner store if there's no corner store to walk to. A few related links: http://www.prevention.com/article/0,5778,s1-2-171-749-6707-1,00.html http://walking.about.com/cs/tours/a/walkcities2003.htm http://members.aol.com/rayzwocker/worldclass/walkable.htm http://www.cooltownstudios.com/mt/archives/000257.html http://www.pedestrianfriendly.com/ www.walkablestreets.com/walkingred.htm http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/06/us_cities_make.php -Dawie -- What kind of emailer are you? Find out today - get a free analysis of your email personality. Take the quiz at the Yahoo! Mail Championship. -- ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.431 / Virus Database: 268.18.3/694 - Release Date: 2/20/2007 1:44 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.431 / Virus Database: 268.18.3/697 - Release Date: 2/22/2007 11:55 AM ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Fund new technology to curb climate change: oil executive - CBC.ca - 2007.02.20
My apologies go to Darryl, who received this message separately! I wanted it to go to the list, but addressed it to him instead, and I'm feeling a little sheepish right now . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Robert, I thought the article spoke volumes about the oil sector's sense of entitlement. It's deeply ingrained from decades of practice. I got that, but there is also something else that my American upbringing has a hard time understanding. Many Canadians view their government as a partner in dealing with social issues. When a problem arises, I hear calls for government action. As an American, I have an inbred distrust of government that is very hard to explain. So when I read the article its tone sounded very Canadian to me. In addition to your points, I would also reiterate some others. 1) This is an industry responsible for despoiling nature and creating ecological disasters. In my opinion, on a scale unmatched by any other human activity on the planet. They almost never clean up after themselves, so others bear the costs while they extract the profits. And the principle here SHOULD be that extraction is heavily taxed and never subsidized. The resources are supposed to belong to the people, not corporations. 2) The industry is responible for massive political machinations on the world scale, including overthrowing governments and sponsoring invasions, when they couldn't simply buy out the powers in place. So much more, but it's not news. This week, Esso stations here in Ottawa are out of gasoline. I have advocated boycotting Esso/Exxon-Mobil in the past (and still do). I never expected that the company would implement it from their side. So, those of you that have had to find another outlet, perhaps you could continue to do so once Esso manages to re-stock. On the other hand, apparently large numbers of regular Esso customers were baffled by the fact that the pumps were not dispensing fuel when they put the nozzles into their filler spouts. After driving past the big price sign set to 0.00, and ignoring the signs at the entrance and on the pumps saying the outlet was out of fuel. As much as I don't like Esso for its rape of the planet's resources, none of the other companies are any better. I have to run Chevron 94 octane premium in my truck, though I'd FAR prefer to burn ethanol, methanol or wood gas. One day I'm going to build an EV, but it's hard for a gearhead to let go of combustion! (Use less energy) Absolutely! This is a message I preach regularly. Only after we get rational about our energy consumption (on a personal level) should we focus on how to produce the remaining energy required from sustainable sources. This approach frequently leads to cost savings. I've been talking about this for better than 30 years. People STILL shake their heads at me and think I'm crazy . . . (Windfall profits tax) I think this will be counter-productive. If we impose a tax on windfall profits, these companies will simply re-arrange the accounts so there are no such profits on the books. Instead, let's stop providing subsidies and free passes to the industry. I am also in favour of a GHG (carbon) tax. Ok, I hear you. But if we were taxing resource extraction instead of subsidizing it, that would help! (Efficiency incentives) To date, such programs in Canada have had limited take-up or noticeable success. Instead, let's stop subsidizing energy prices and let consumers make their own choices. Imbedding a GHG tax into the price will also help drive the desired shift. The problem with this approach has been that the options available to customers have been rather limited. I wanted to install a wood gasifying boiler when we built our new house, but the municipality prohibits the installation of wood burners because of pollution concerns. What's ridiculous about this is the fact that a gasifier produces virtually NO smoke, yet the municipality allows people to burn their agricultural waste in HUGE bonfires that fill the entire valley air shed with eye-stinging smoke. It's that kind of blindness that irritates me! There are incentives to upgrade furnaces, but not boilers, and the incentives are limited to natural gas appliances. Even if I wanted a heat pump, I'd have to foot the (significant) cost of the installation myself. And worse, the banks are not interested in financing ANY kind of renewable energy. Here are two examples from my own experience as a home builder: 1. I wanted to install a small heliostat for supplemental solar hot water. 2. I planned a battery bank / inverter system as a grid backup, and the foundation for renewable energy collection on my property. When I approached the Credit Union with our building budget, they deleted these two items from my list of expenditures, saying that there was no market
Re: [Biofuel] negative ions
I don't follow either. If water (or any molecule for that matter) started
deconstructing on impact we'd be in deep shit. Maybe these people know the
secret of cold fusion too - perhaps can it be carried out with an umbrella.
Philip Gwinnell
Hainan Bioenergy
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:07:19 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:
biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] negative ions Ok
could you explain again how the pulverization of water results in
ionization (of a molecule?) I don't follow. Joe Kirk McLoren wrote:
December 30, 1990 NEGION.ASC
This
article is from raum zeit (Space Time), Vol. 1, No. 5, 1989/90, page
85. Subscriptions are available for $59.00 per year in the continental
United States. raum zeit Telephone : 714-240-3775 P.O. Box
3370 FAX : 714-493-9759 San Clemente, California Managing Editor :
Chrystyne Jackson 92672 U.S.A.
Why are Negative Ions So Healthy? Lenard (1915) found that when water
is atomized (e.g. on impact of a water droplet), negative and positive
charges are SEPARATED. Molecules which are torn from the surface of the
water bear a NEGATIVE charge (small negative ions) whereas large drops or
the entire mass of water are POSITIVE.
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Re: [Biofuel] Fund new technology to curb climate change: oilexecutive - CBC.ca - 2007.02.20
i will have to hold off on the other subjects due to lack of experience, but these few i have seen firsthand (submitted topic first, then comment): I got that, but there is also something else that my American upbringing has a hard time understanding. Many Canadians view their government as a partner in dealing with social issues. When a problem arises, I hear calls for government action. As an American, I have an inbred distrust of government that is very hard to explain. So when I read the article its tone sounded very Canadian to me. robert, i understand your position. if D.C. were to sink into the river tomorrow, and take the entire governing body with it, i couldnt be happier. governments lie-period. I wanted to install a wood gasifying boiler when we built our new house, but the municipality prohibits the installation of wood burners because of pollution concerns. What's ridiculous about this is the fact that a gasifier produces virtually NO smoke, yet the municipality allows people to burn their agricultural waste in HUGE bonfires that fill the entire valley air shed with eye-stinging smoke. It's that kind of blindness that irritates me! try for an exemption. city governments are odd critters, sometimes you can catch a trustee's ear and s/he will help you work out the details. it wouldnt hurt to ask, anyway. There are incentives to upgrade furnaces, but not boilers, and the incentives are limited to natural gas appliances. Even if I wanted a heat pump, I'd have to foot the (significant) cost of the installation myself. And worse, the banks are not interested in financing ANY kind of renewable energy. Here are two examples from my own experience as a home builder: 1. I wanted to install a small heliostat for supplemental solar hot water. 2. I planned a battery bank / inverter system as a grid backup, and the foundation for renewable energy collection on my property. When I approached the Credit Union with our building budget, they deleted these two items from my list of expenditures, saying that there was no market for this kind of technology and that installing these things would add no value to my house. (I could upgrade the tile, the laminate flooring and put in fancier fixtures, though!) If I wanted to install these things, I had to pay for them up front. Now, how many of us have extra money laying around when we're building a house? If I hadn't needed the financing, I wouldn't have gone to the Credit Union in the first place! (And trust me, the banks were WORSE! We eventually removed our money and investments from the Royal Bank because they treated us so badly.) heliostats and sunchasers can be made from scrap fairly easily, there are howtos and information all over the net. battery banks, although bulky and sometimes ugly, can be hidden away in a tool shed or basement. check around at heavy-lift repair shops. refurbished 36V electric hoist batteries are not exactly *cheap*-cheap, but they are not expensive either. (Using carbon as raw material to BUILD THINGS) Agreed. Apparently there is a world-wide shortage of carbon fibre now. Seems a bit surreal when we are apparently looking for ways to create carbon sinks. (IMHO, sequestering is not a sink, it is temporary storage.) My eldest son was talking to me about our hybrid Camry the other day as we were tuning my truck. He said: Shouldn't you sell this truck and buy a hybrid truck, too? This gave me the opportunity to talk to him about embodied energy. My truck was built in 1993 and has over 200 000 km on its odometer. Every kilometer that it drives down the road represents more value for the energy that went into its manufacture. my in-laws drove a 1939 chevrolet every day up until the fuel pump failed about six years ago (havent got it back together yet). i wonder how many times it paid for itself over sixty-two years on the road? Our Camry is a delightful machine, and it's REALLY spoiled me, but it's STILL made out of steel. It's as heavy as my truck, too, and while it goes significantly farther on a liter of fuel than does my Ranger, it will have to travel a LONG way before that improvement in fuel economy makes up for the additional energy that went into its manufacture. I'd like to see cars and bikes built out of carbon fiber, but in reality, the biggest single contributor to North American energy use from the consumer's point of view is the automobile. We need to move away from it, and simply substituting steel for carbon and fossil fuel for renewable fuel will not effectively address the underlying issues that have put us into this mess! SEE! SEE! i said so, too! well, not exactly, i suggested using compressed ashes for structural materials, but it follows the same line. - banning incandescents in Oz, and parroted here in Ontario yesterday as being of interest, but I already have some
Re: [Biofuel] negative ions
The normal Ion count in fresh country air is 2,000 to 4,000 negative Ions per
cubic centimeter (about the size of a sugar cube). At Yosemite Falls, you'll
experience over 100,000 negative Ions per cubic centimeter. On the other hand,
the level is far below 100 per cubic centimeter on the Los Angeles freeways
during rush hour.
http://www.negativeiongenerators.com/negativeions.html
Today all burn cases at Northeastern are immediately put in a windowless, ion
conditioned room. In ten minutes, usually, the pain has gone. Patients are left
in the room for 30 minutes. The treatment is repeated three times every 24
hours. In 85 percents of the cases no pain-deadening narcotics are needed. Says
Northeastern's Dr. Robert McGowan, Negative ions make burns dry out faster,
heal faster and with less scarring. They also reduce the need for
skin-grafting. They make the patient more optimistic. He sleeps better.
Encouraged by this success in burn therapy, Dr. Kornblueh, Dr. J. R.
Minehart, Northeastern's chief surgeon, and his associate Dr. T. A. David
boldly tried negative ions in relief of deep, postoperative pain. During an
eight month test period they exposed 138 patients to negative ions on the first
and second days after surgery. Dr. Kornblueh has just announced the results at
a London congress of bioclimatologists. In 79 cases 57 percent of the total
negative ions eliminated or drastically reduced pain. At first, says Dr.
Minehart, I thought it was voodoo. Now I'm convinced that it's real and
revolutionary.
http://amasci.com/emotor/kelvin.html
this page tells how to build a water drop high voltage generator. I get the
impression the charge on waterfall droplets results because the environment is
charged. The droplet charge is influenced by that. If the sky is positive and
the earth negative the droplets would be influenced to be negative. Repulsion
from the earth and attraction from the sky.
Whats your theory? The fact they are charged is empirical evidence.
Philip Gwinnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma }I don't follow either. If water (or any molecule for
that matter) started deconstructing on impact we'd be in deep shit. Maybe these
people know the secret of cold fusion too - perhaps can it be carried out with
an umbrella.
Philip Gwinnell
Hainan Bioenergy
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:07:19 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] negative ions
Ok could you explain again how the pulverization of water results in
ionization (of a molecule?)
I don't follow.
Joe
Kirk McLoren wrote:
December 30, 1990
NEGION.ASC
This article is from raum zeit (Space Time), Vol. 1, No. 5,
1989/90, page 85.
Subscriptions are available for $59.00 per year in the continental
United States.
raum zeit Telephone : 714-240-3775
P.O. Box 3370 FAX : 714-493-9759
San Clemente, California Managing Editor : Chrystyne Jackson 92672 U.S.A.
Why are Negative Ions So Healthy?
Lenard (1915) found that when water is atomized (e.g. on impact of a
water droplet), negative and positive charges are SEPARATED.
Molecules which are torn from the surface of the water bear a NEGATIVE
charge (small negative ions) whereas large drops or the entire mass of
water are POSITIVE.
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Re: [Biofuel] Meanwhile - Biodiesel start-up hauls in $214 million
Keith - I'm afraid I wasn't paying attention when I first encountered the allegation about catalytic converters, General Motors, Johnson-Matthey, and some then not very valuable shares in platinum mines. I think it was in the late lamented motorcycle magazine AWoL. I was half hoping you could supply some detail ... I've long understood the inappropriateness of using the term free market to describe corporate capitalism. The suits spout about the benefits of being untrammelled, and doubtless most of them believe it. What really benefits them is a rather draconian regulatory environment with which they have an exclusive ability to comply. Surely there is the odd suit that understands that? Unless we speculate that the corporate organizational structure is sufficiently complex to manifest a form of rudimentary and ruthless intelligence that does understand that - the sort of sly stupidity one associates with monsters in mythology. I'm alliterating today. Oh, now I'm assonating! But the ability to play chess is not that uncommon. If lots of people can think a few moves ahead, why not corporate strategists? And if lots of people can second-guess other people thinking a few moves ahead ... -Dawie - Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Friday, 23 February, 2007 2:48:24 AM Subject: Biofuel Digest, Vol 22, Issue 77 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:30:35 +0900 Reply-To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ; format=flowed Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Meanwhile - Biodiesel start-up hauls in $214 million Message: 2 Hello Dawie Why am I getting the impression that Industry is bending over backwards to discredit the whole biofuel idea by applying it in the worst possible way? Are they preparing the ground for getting it banned? Hm. It's probably instinctive for big-time suits to favour the stamping out of small, local, independent outfits, then they can consolidate the market too, as they put it. Especially when they can't out-compete the small guys (if they even try). They misquote Adam Smith and emit noble flatulences about the magic of the marketplace but what they like is total control, not healthy competition. Prohibition sure had a lot to do with that. Your seeds example is a good one and it's already QED, even without terminator. CP, the Charoen Pokphand Group, East Asia's Tysons, having themselves virtually caused the bird flu epidemic and spread it far and wide, then used it as an opportunity to wipe out the remaining small-scale poultry operators in countries like Thailand and Vietnam by claiming against all the evidence that the small outdoor flocks were the cause of the disease and were spreading it. The governments kow-towed, as usual, and CP's market share went up from 60% to 80% or whatever. Well, hey, that's progress. Never mind a few million more destroyed livelihoods and about a billion murdered chickens, as long as it makes a nice omelette for CP. There's not exactly a shortage of such examples. I'm sure Big Biofuels would like to ban homebrewers and the local operators, Graham Noyes or not, but I doubt they're out to get biodiesel itself banned, they'd rather take it over. People have been saying that here for a long time, that there's not much difference between Big Biofuels and Big Oil, they'll shove us out of the picture and take it over. World Energy is backed by Gulf Oil, they've got a deal with Dow over big-time biodiesel production and so on, almost all the big guys are involved now. But I don't think they're about to shove us little guys out of the picture, it's too late for that, we're suitably out of control, IMHO. It's hard for them to see that the big central top-down model they're so accustomed to just won't work with biofuels, or not for long anyway, for instance not once you have to start paying the carbon costs of transporting the stuff all that way, feedstock in, biofuel out. Not sustainable, no more so than the big central industrialised monocrop production that's their oilwell. Not sustainable means it doesn't have a future, no matter how many millions of dollars you chuck at it. By comparison, a US Army report says the US Army won't be able to fight future wars to secure oil supplies without diversifying the military's energy supplies, especially into renewables. The [U.S.] military needs to take major steps to increase energy efficiency, make a 'massive expansion' in renewable energy purchases, and move toward a vast increase in renewable distributed generation, including photovoltaic, solar thermal, microturbines, and biomass energy sources, the report said. Renewables tend to be a more local
