Re: [Biofuel] Kerry preferred around World - Poll
Not only is there a lacking in undersanding of the world but also considering the so-called christian support for the illigitimate US government, one needs to only read what the Bible teaches and one would see that It also is overtly socialistic and most definetly NOT materialistic or in favour of hegemony upon the poor, so it's two strikes all the way around. Actually, the only form of government that sees capitalism and government meld is fascism; couple that with misrepresented and obliquely interpreted religious belief and you have the mess the US is in right now. It is neither Christian nor democratic as their actions have more than clearly proven. When actually faced with the democratic process in a general vote at the UN prior to the invasion of sovereign Iraq, when it became clear that the democratic vote process would not favour the warmongers they left off all semblance of their hypocrisy and invaded anyway, throwing off the democratic process proving once and for all that democracy only interests them in word only and that only when it serves their selfish purpose. A complete re-think of the hubris that engulfs this situation is not only needed but necessary if we are not to see perpetual war foisted upon the innnocent in a never ending lust for control of world oil reserves. Luc - Original Message - From: Hakan Falk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 10:08 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Kerry preferred around World - Poll Wayne, You have to work on your understanding of the world and systems. Socialism as system and idea is quite more democratic and respectful to human rights than the traditional US republican ideal. I hope that Bush is not necessarily representative for US way of life, it is at least not my experiences and it would be quite frightening if he was. Looking at numbers, he cannot claim to represent even half of the US population. So your opinion is not representative for US nor the majority of the US population and we should be very grateful for that. Hakan At 12:01 AM 9/15/2004, you wrote: Since most of the world is more socialist than democratic and does not like the US way of life in the first place, of course they would want the candidate that would be most destructive to the US. Just my opinion! Wayne --- MH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most countries want Kerry in White House Sep 9, 2004 http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_9-9-2004_pg4_2 WASHINGTON: A majority of people in 30 of 35 countries want Democratic party flagbearer John Kerry in the White House, according to a survey released Wednesday showing US President George W Bush rebuffed by all of America's traditional allies. On average, Senator Kerry was favored by more than a two-to-one margin - 46 percent to 20 percent, the survey by GlobeScan Inc, a global research firm, and the local University of Maryland, showed. Only one in five want to see Bush reelected, said Steven Kull, the university's program on international policy attitudes. Though he is not as well known, Kerry would win handily if the people of the world were to elect the US president. The only countries where Bush was preferred in the poll covering a total of 34,330 people and conducted in July and August were the Philippines, Nigeria and Poland. India and Thailand were divided. The margin of error in the survey covering all regions of the world ranged from plus or minus 2.3 to five percent. Kerry was strongly preferred among all of America's traditional allies, including Norway (74 percent compared with Bush's seven percent), Germany (74 percent to 10 percent), France (64 percent to five percent), the Netherlands (63 percent to six percent), Italy (58 percent to 14 percent) and Spain (45 percent to seven percent). Even in Britain, where Prime Minister Tony Blair is Bush's closest ally in the war on terror, Kerry trounced the incumbent 47 percent to 16 percent. Kerry was also greatly favored among Canadians by 61 percent to Bush's 16 percent and among the Japanese by 43 percent to 23 percent. Even among countries that have contributed troops to Iraq, most favored Kerry, and said that their view of US foreign policy has gotten worse under Bush. They included Britain, the Czech Republic, Italy, the Netherlands, the Dominican Republic, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Japan, Norway and Spain. Asked how President Bush's foreign policy had affected their feelings towards the United States, a majority of those polled in 31 countries said it made them feel worse about America, while those in only three countries said it had made them feel better. Perhaps most sobering for Americans is the strength of the
[Biofuel] Amory Lovins' Leaner, Greener World
AUGUST 23, 2004 VOICES OF THE INNOVATORS Amory Lovins' Leaner, Greener World Energy efficiency shouldn't mean sacrificing the comforts of a high-wattage lifestyle, says the Rocky Mountain Institute physicist http://www.businessweekasia.com/bwdaily/dnflash/aug2004/nf20040823_9499_db_81.htm Amory Lovins has a simple message: Saving energy is easier than finding more. It's a point that certainly resonates with environmentalists. And businesses increasingly are drawn to his mantra, since conserving energy saves money and improves competitiveness. Trained as a physicist at Harvard and Oxford, the 54-year-old head of the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) in Old Snowmass, Colo., is helping to spread the word that, with energy conservation, less truly can be more. And he believes that innovation in a range of energy and transportation technologies will help achieve these gains. He recently spoke with BusinessWeek's Industries editor Adam Aston. Here are edited excerpts: Q: As the U.S. economy becomes less industrial, it's also becoming more energy-efficient. Each dollar of gross domestic product requires less energy than in the past. How much farther can this go? A: The U.S. now uses 43% less energy and 50% less oil per dollar of real GDP than in 1975, mostly because of better technical efficiency rather than changes in the composition of GDP. Yet this efficiency revolution has only just begun. We can profitably save over half our oil and gas, and nearly three-quarters of our electricity -- far cheaper than buying it, and often cheaper than just its short-run marginal supply cost. This efficiency revolution will be at the core of competitive advantage, and laggards will suffer. Q: How seriously are executives and policymakers taking the need to move away from fossil fuels? A: It has been taken very seriously by many state, but few federal, policymakers and in much of the private sector, including smart financiers. Even some leading coal companies are quietly begging for a climate policy because they can't stand the uncertainty. Leaders in the transition beyond fossil carbon are earning startling returns. Such firms as DuPont (DD ), IBM (IBM ), and STMicroelectronics (STM ) are routinely cutting their energy intensity 6% a year, with retrofit paybacks of typically two or three years. Since saving fuel is clearly cheaper than buying fuel, why continue to assert that protecting the climate is costly? The issue is sharing not pain but profits. Q: Natural gas and petroleum prices are historically high. How much can the effect of this be mitigated through efficiency? A: Straightforward electricity- and gas-demand response could return natural gas to healthier supply-demand balance and $3 to $4 per million Btus [British thermal units] in just a few years, down from its current price of $5 to $6. Electric-load management is the key, particularly during periods of peak demand. Almost all peak power is produced in extremely inefficient gas-fired combustion turbines. So during peak demand, reining in consumption in even a small percentage of users can lead to disproportionate savings in energy and costs. Saving 5% of U.S. electricity, including peak periods, would save nearly 10% of total U.S. gas consumption, dropping the price by about $2 and saving the economy over $50 billion a year. Ultimately, smarter uses of natural gas could cut 2025 U.S. gas use by half. Today's best technologies, if fully applied, can also save half the oil at less than half the cost of buying it. This may well decrease oil prices, too -- though not enough to undercut efficiency's cost-effectiveness. Q: Does your latest book go into more detail on how savings like this could be won? A: On Sept. 20, RMI will publish Winning the Oil Endgame. This is a detailed, business-led roadmap for getting the U.S. completely off oil over the next few decades, and at a profit. To do this, we propose innovative business models and public policies that steer markets without taxing fuel, and speed innovation without issuing mandates. Plus, they should reduce federal deficits and probably won't even need federal legislation. Q: What innovations are available to help to achieve these sorts of dramatic savings? A: Most important are new technologies for radically improving the efficiency of our energy usage in nearly all applications. Using known technologies, it's possible to improve the efficiency of cars and light trucks by up to five times, with no compromise of safety, size, or performance. This means an ultralight, ultrasafe, superefficient vehicle, such as a 70-miles per gallon midsize hybrid SUV. The technology is already being commercialized to automate mass-production processes to make ultralight carbon-composite automotive structures at a competitive cost. That's just a beginning. For heavy trucks, we could double their
Re: [Biofuel] Creating a cool room storage in a hot climate - solar.
The Navaho made ice but the holes they opened to the night sky were entered by ladder. They were deep as I remember, more than 20 feet. I believe this solved the air warmth problem. Guag Meister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hi Joe and All ; Yes this is exactly right. Thank you. I did some searching. There are some web pages on this which I found. The problem with getting significant cooling using a normal solar panel is that normally a solar panel is designed to absorb the energy of the solar spectrum (lots of visible and UV, some IR). Then it must also be designed to prevent re-radiation of the IR due to black body. This is mostly accomplished by putting a piece of glass over the absorber. Glass traps the black body IR inside the panel (it also lowers conduction losses significantly). The absorber by itself is a good radiator, but a properly designed solar panel will trap the black body radiation being radiated from the absorber. So a good solar panel is generally a poor radiator. Kind of like a hot car in the summer sun with the windows closed. The web page I found said the guy had to remove the glass from a simple box collector to make ice. This then exposes the forming ice to the atmospere (and heat). The mans's conclusion was that you could make ice but only on a very cold (a few degrees above freezing)clear night and in still air . This makes sense. Ice formed inside the box collector even when water ouside did not freeze. So apparently there was some cooling going on. Possible that further research could provide materials which can pass IR and at the same time be a good insulator. In Kim's case using a parabolic reflector, the forming ice is in contact with the air. Objects at temperatures around freezing are not radiating much black body radiation. The cooling effect would be swamped by the conduction heat gain from the air. This arrangement could only support a few degrees temperature difference. Some more experiments with temperature tracking inside and outside the reflector, humidity, cloud cover, wind speed, would certainly be worthwhile. Best Regards, Peter G. Thailand __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ - Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
[Biofuel] Fossil fuels fuel the politics
Hi James, In fact I did. I also graduated from a top university and then did postgraduate work at another. Then switched careers to the world of journalism and eventually publishing. But what has that got to do with the price of eggs, or indeed with the opinions expressed by William Rivers Pitt? Please enlighten me. Bob. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 9:41 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Fossil fuels fuel the politics you are so pathetically ignorant, it borders on the suspicion of having matriculated from a public school. - Original Message - From: bmolloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 7:48 PM Subject: [Biofuel] Fossil fuels fuel the politics Hi all, A new thread for consideration: fossil fuel use is fuelling our politics. Up until now we've been eating the rabbits. But what happens when the rabbits get a gun? Pitt takes a look at the question. Bob. When the Rabbits Get a Gun By William Rivers Pitt From: http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/091504A.shtml t r u t h o u t | Perspective Wednesday 15 September 2004 *** This is the comforting fiction: Osama bin Laden is a monster who sprang whole from the fetid mire. He had no childhood, no influences, no education, no experiences to form his view of the world. He did not exist, and then he did, a vessel into which the universe poured the essence of evil. It is a simple, straightforward story of a man who hates freedom and kills for the pure joy of feeling innocent blood drip from his fingers. This is the fairy tale by which children are put to bed at night. As frightening and terrifying as bin Laden may be, it is a comfort to imagine him as having been chiseled from the dust. The fiction of his existence, absent of detail, makes him unique, a singular entity not to be replicated. Osama bin Laden becomes truly scary only when the actual context of his life is made clear, where he is from, what he has seen, and why those things motivated him to do what he does. Osama bin Laden becomes truly scary when the realization comes that he is not unique, not singular, not an invention of the universe. He becomes truly scary when the realization comes that there are millions of people who have seen what he has seen, who feel what he feels, and why. He becomes truly scary when the realization comes that he is a creation of the last fifty years of American foreign and economic policy, and that he has an army behind him created by the same influences. Simply, Osama bin Laden becomes truly scary when the realization comes that he can be, and has been, and continues to be, replicated. Osama bin Laden, after being educated at Oxford University, learned how to kill effectively while working as an agent of American Cold War policy in Afghanistan. He was a helpful American ally throughout the 1980s as a ruthless and wealthy warrior against the Soviet Union. It was the desire of the American government to deliver to the Soviets their own Vietnam, to arrange a hopeless military situation which would demoralize the Soviet military and bleed that nation dry. Osama bin Laden played the part of the Viet Cong, and he was good at it. With the help of the American government, he was able to create an army of true believers in Afghanistan. Our government believed that if one bin Laden was good, a hundred would be better, and a thousand better again, in the fight against the Soviets. So strong was this group America helped to create that it became known as 'The Base.' Translated into the local dialect, 'The Base' is known as al Qaeda. Osama bin Laden learned something else besides the art of killing while he was working as an ally of the United States. He learned that given enough time, enough money, enough violence, enough perseverance, and enough fellow warriors, a superpower can be brought to its knees and erased from the book of history. Bin Laden was at the center of one of the most important events of the 20th century: The fall of the Soviet Union. Political pundits like to credit Reagan and the senior Bush for the collapse of that regime, but out in front of them, in the mountains of Afghanistan, was Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, the sharp end of our sword, who did their job very well. Today, the United States faces this group and its leader, armed with their well-learned and America-taught lessons: How to kill massively and how to annihilate a superpower. Osama bin Laden learned a few other things before he became the monster under our collective bed. When Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein began to make his move against Kuwait, bin Laden was outraged. Hussein was a despised name on the lips of bin Laden and his followers; here was an unbelieving heretic who spoke the words of Allah, a self-styled Socialist who pretended piety, a ruthless dictator who killed
[Biofuel] Lovins, Biofuels and Hydrogen
Liveing On Earth May 14, 2004 Hydrogen at Home Host Steve Curwood talks with Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute in Colorado about the challenges of implementing a hydrogen economy in the United States. (16.5 minutes) Listen with Real Player -or- MP3 -or- read the interview http://www.loe.org/ETS/organizations.php3?action=printContentItemorgid=33typeID=18itemID=204User_Session=e2594704ba9d46bc43be8b7fb625d119 An excerpt below: CURWOOD: Now, some people who work in the energy field donât think that future cars will all run off hydrogen. They say, look, what about getting fuel from biomass, agricultural byproducts, or even crops specifically grown to produce fuel. LOVINS: Mm-hmm. CURWOOD: How do you see that fitting into our future energy needs? LOVINS: These are all competitors. And in fact, in our study ãWinning the Oil Endgameä, weâre looking at how they all interplay, and which ones have how much of the market in the long run. And I think the answer is going to be that theyâll all be active. We are already seeing a lot of biodiesel and other bio-fuels emerging in the market. Those processes are getting steadily better. What they will tend to do, just like what hydrogen will tend to do, is squeeze out oil. Because these alternatives -- whether in saving oil or substituting for it -- tend to have rising reserves and falling costs, whereas oil tends to have falling reserves and rising costs. And the curves are starting to cross. [more] ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [biofuel] Question - efficiency of sunlight conversion
atmosphere listed as 20% Oxygen, 80% Nitrogen and 1% Other gases, which means that all of the greenhouse gasses that people are concerned about are so insignificant that together they total less than one percent of the atmosphere. Ask any meteroligist what has more effect on the weather co2 levels or water vapor levels, water will win every time. I did not give thought to what was said about water being a by product in either process and i that is a good point that was made, I am just concerned that everyone considers water a harmless by product but there is a balance to everything, and nothing is harmless. Although personally i do also beleive that the climate follows a pettern that is larger than we have the data to see, and although it may be getting warmer, i believe that there is nothing we can do about it, it is part of a cycle which will inevitably lead to an ice age and round and round the cycle goes, gt;From: quot;Appal Energyquot; lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; gt;Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gt;To: lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; gt;Subject: Re: [biofuel] Question - efficiency of sunlight conversion gt;Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 07:08:50 -0500 gt; gt;Bob, gt; gt; gt; I haven't done the gt; gt; calculations but it would not be difficult to determine the total water gt; gt; released from combustion of all fossil fuels. I doubt if it is a gt; gt; significant issue. gt; gt;Water vapor is a contributor to the greenhouse effect. A fossil-fueled gt;hydrogen economy could contribute a double punch to this problem, CO2 during gt;and post stripping phase and water vapor at the end use stage. That's rather gt;quot;significant.quot; gt; gt;As well, the entire concept of quot;insignificantquot; is a matter of subjectivity gt;and trivializes all things to a point of irrelevance - all too often the gt;intent - no matter how invaluable something's contribution may be.. Those gt;who could care less or couldn't be bothered to care all too off-handedly gt;dismiss anything as insignificant, no matter the end result being gt;catastrophic or incremental towards a productive goal. gt; gt;Nothing is quot;insignificantquot; and those who bandy the term about should be kept gt;under close scrutiny. gt; gt;Todd Swearingen gt; gt;- Original Message - gt;From: quot;bob allenquot; lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; gt;To: lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; gt;Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 4:54 PM gt;Subject: Re: [biofuel] Question - efficiency of sunlight conversion gt; gt; gt; gt; Robert, the hydrogen in oil will end up as water regardless. gt; gt; Combustion of hydrocarbons produces CO2 and H2O. So whether you strip gt; gt; the hydrogen out of the fossil fuel and burn it or burn it while it is gt; gt; still part of the fossil fuel makes no difference. I haven't done the gt; gt; calculations but it would not be difficult to determine the total water gt; gt; released from combustion of all fossil fuels. I doubt if it is a gt; gt; significant issue. gt; gt; ; ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Italian tuneup - was RE: [Biofuel] Putting O2 to the air input
Italian tuneups are an occasional full throttle run. Not always needed or desirable for fastest acceleration. If black smoke on less that full throttle, and lots of it, check air filter, injectors, etc. then adjust driving habits to minimize. So, high rpm, not necessarily flat-out acceleration or floorboading it. Best Keith How about what Ed Beggs calls an Italian tune-up? (Pardon me Ed.) What's the general opinion of Italian tune-ups anyway? By the way, all, how many have heard of the Italian tuneup? You see it mentioned a lot on the Merc discussion groups, as at the terrific resource at www.mbz.org It is really indispensable on all these diesels - basically it's take the thing out and floor it - often. Some say once a day full power acceleration (floorboarding it) on a Merc is the best thing for it. (Of course, on the old 240's and 300's this is how you drive them anyway, just to get them moving!) We have seen it at least twice now, where injectors were plugged up from long term babying and urban driving of the diesel, and the car in one case was acquired for $500 - and promptly turned into a $1500 car after a 10 minute tuneup of this nature. It is of value particularly for SVO users to know that diesels are meant to be worked, not driven around easy at low rpm all the time! (In the second case, the engine knocked and ran so poorly that even our local best, most honest and reliable VW shop owner was convinced it needed an engine overhaul. A floorboarded trip a long hill solved the problem and it ran wonderfully). Just be careful of not blowing old coolant hoses, overheating, etc. Just a minute or two. And take long highway trips, and don't run in overdrive around town.keep those rpm's up. How does that square with what Todd says about giving it more fuel than it can burn? You can get good acceleration without being leadfooted, just keep the throttle ahead of the revs, no need to floorboard it. What's required for this effect, acceleration or high rpm or both? Still no need to pump too much fuel in, you can maintain high rpm short of full throttle too, on much less than with fast acceleration. Best Keith snip ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] Slogan
Biodiesel is for Life Nice! Short and sweet, works on many levels. It's the converse of that other really good one, fossil fuels are extinct. andres ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] Solar Hydrogen
At $10 / GGE equivalent, I just bet buyers will be lining up to get their fill ... - Original Message - From: MH [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 1:01 AM Subject: [Biofuel] Solar Hydrogen Solar hydrogen - energy of the future 26 August 2004 http://www.unsw.edu.au/news/adv/articles/2004/aug/Solar_hydrogen.html A team of Australian scientists predicts that a revolutionary new way to harness the power of the sun to extract clean and almost unlimited energy supplies from water will be a reality within seven years. Solar hydrogen, Professor Sorrell argues, is not incompatible with coal. It can be used to produce solar methanol, which produces less carbon dioxide than conventional methods. As a mid-term energy carrier it has a lot to say for it, he says New Process Could Help Make Hydrogen Fuel Affordable Stephanie Peatling in Sydney for National Geographic News August 27, 2004 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/08/0827_040827_hydrogen_energy.html Scientists in Australia say they have have made a breakthrough in the efficiency of using sunlight to generate hydrogen from water. It may be a step toward an affordable source of clean energy. A renewable source of energy to replace the world's declining fossil fuel reserves is perhaps the scientific community's holy grail. Hydrogen is all around us. It is seen by many as the cleanest and most efficient fuel for powering everything from vehicles to furnaces and air-conditioning-if only we can find an affordable way to harness it. Now two researchers in Australia say they have made substantial progress. Scientists have known for a long time how to split water into its two elements, oxygen and hydrogen. But the problem is that the process requires electricity-typically derived from fossil fuels-which makes the process counterproductive and expensive. Janusz Nowotny and Charles Sorrell are researchers from the Centre for Materials Research in Energy Conversion at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. They have been looking for an economical way to use titanium dioxide to act as a catalyst to split water into oxygen and hydrogen-using solar energy. The Stuff of Toothpaste Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is widely used as a white pigment in paint, paper, cosmetics, sunscreens, and toothpastes. It is found in its purest form in rutile, a beach sand but is also extracted from certain ores. Rio Tinto, a mining company that produces titanium oxide, helps fund Nowotny's and Sorrell's research. Nowotny and Sorrell announced their breakthrough today at the International Conference on Materials for Hydrogen Energy, hosted by the University of New South Wales in Sydney. They believe they have found a way to considerably improve the productivity of the solar hydrogen process (using sunlight to extract hydrogen from water) using a device made out of titanium dioxide. This is potentially huge, with a market the size of all the existing markets for coal, oil, and gas combined,'' Nowotny said in a news statement released ahead of the conference. Based on our research results, we know we are on the right track. Although Australia's sunny climate makes it an ideal place to generate solar energy, Sorrell said the technology could be used anywhere in the world. It's been the dream of many people for a long time to develop it, and it's exciting to know it's within such close reach, Sorrell said. Honda-Fujishima Effect The Australians' research has not been tested yet by other scientists, although the findings were applauded by the pioneers of the solar hydrogen process, Akira Fujishima and Kenichi Honda. In 1967 the Japanese scientists discovered that titanium dioxide could be used to extract hydrogen from water in a process that has become known as the Honda-Fujishima effect. The finding was reported in the journal Nature and led to numerous awards, including the 2004 Japan Prize in the category Chemical Technology for the Environment. Hydrogen is very simple but very efficient,'' said Fujishima, who is also in Sydney for today's conference. We must keep working hard on it.'' Since the 1967 discovery much research has focused on the materials that might be used to split water with sunlight. Fujishima, chairman of the Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology, says using titanium dioxide as a catalyst means energy production will result in cleaner air, cleaner water, and a cleaner atmosphere. Many Years to Hydrogen Power The world is still a long way off from large-scale conversion from fossil fuels to hydrogen for its energy needs. For one thing, the Honda-Fujishima effect, even if it is greatly enhanced by the research breakthrough announced today, still has to be adapted into devices that can be used on a commercially viable scale. Engineers will have to design fuel cells that collect sunlight from
[Biofuel] The VeggieGen is running Veggie!
The VeggieGen is running Veggie! Sorta Tonight we fired up on 50/50 Kerosene and Waste Vegetable Oil. The Detroit Diesel is loving the mix and is purring like a kitten! Smells sweet. The details of our oil filtration system are coming shortly. Tomorrow the heat exchanger gets installed in the Veggie tank for V100 (100% Veggie). We also hope to get the muffler installed . See the full article at http://www.green-trust.org/wiki/index.php?title=Green-Trust_Heat_% 26_Power_System http://tinyurl.com/52a4v www.green-trust.org ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: Was Re: [Biofuel] Changing Government/Now ethanol
Environmental problems for kerosene (paraffin to you, we think paraffin is something you can jellies with) are the same as gasoline and diesel. It's a finite fossil fuel that produces pollution and green house gases. Why not do yourself a favor, and run ethanol in that petrol engine, or get a diesel and run biodiesel or veggie oil. - Original Message - From: Phil Rendell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 5:10 AM Subject: RE: Was Re: [Biofuel] Changing Government/Now ethanol Hello all! Is there anyone out there who has tried running a petrol motor on paraffin? I know the timing needs retarding and that performance is terrible, but here in Africa, the fuel is very, very cheap. What are the environmental implications of burning the stuff and implications for engine life? Phil Rendel English Department Kingswood College, Burton Street, Grahamstown tel. 046 603 6600 fax. 046 622 3084 cell: 084 448 1052 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Keith Addison Sent: 20 September 2004 08:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Was Re: [Biofuel] Changing Government/Now ethanol Ken. Please take a look at http://www.eesi.org/programs/agriculture/Energy%20Balance%20update.htm on Biofuels: energy balance. Hans Very nice too Hans, thanks. There's also this: http://www.mda.state.mn.us/Ethanol/balance.html Energy Balance/Life Cycle Inventory for Ethanol, Biodiesel and Petroleum Fuels And a whole lot more here: http://journeytoforever.org/ethanol_energy.html Is ethanol energy-efficient? Best Keith - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 12:01 AM Subject: Was Re: [Biofuel] Changing Government/Now ethanol The reason the government is promoting ethanol production is because of the farm lobby. In general the production of ethanol is an energy loss. The fossil fuels used to plow, fertilize, ferment and distill ethanol require the input of more energy than is obtained from the ethanol produced. Ken == Sorry Ken, but your data is about 24 years behind the times. I believe it was a 1980 paper from Cornell U. or something similiar, that mentioned that ethanol was energy negative. Some things never want to die. I remember stopping in Madison Wisconsin to gas up on my way to Chicago a few years ago. I pulled into a gas station and the gas station attendant noticed my Minnesota lic. plates (read: 10% ethanol). He proudly proclaimed that his gas had none of that worthless ethanol in it. I asked him what his feelings were about ethanol and he said it ruins engines. I said, Reeeally, I have over 200,000 miles on my truck and never had a problem with the engine. He then asked me for the money owed for the gas and that was the end of that. 8~) Maybe ethanol isn't going to reduce oil dependency, but it will replace the use of Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE). I believe 3.3 billion gallons yearly of ethanol are being produced now. To replace all the nasty MTBE put in gas in the USA, they'll need another 11-12 billion gallons of ethanol for a 10% mix. When people live in California where MTBE is manufactured and they have to quit using it and ship in tank cars of ethanolthey will complain. What's surprising is that California politicians that scream about taking care of the environment also don't want to ban the nasty MTBE and resort to importing ethanol. Let them eat cake. Ron B. ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] 2004 VW Jetta TDI
While not directly on point, you should be aware that VW has made a very substantial investment in the research and development of biodiesel. Perry Jones - Original Message - From: John Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:19 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] 2004 VW Jetta TDI m gildow wrote: Thanks for clearing that up. The other info that I got was probably refering to SVO, but wasn't clear. The info put out was refering to the different pressure in the newer PD fuel injection pump, but even that information wasn't particularly clear. Differences in what the actual pressure is and if it has even changed in the last few years. Hi Mel. The page Keith refered you to probably needs to be updated. As Keith said, in an 2003 TDI or earlier, biodiesel is absolutely fine. However, with regard to the new Pumpe Duse (PD) injection found in the 2004 TDIs, the jury is still out on whether BD is a good idea. It may be fine, but at this point, it simply does not have the track record of the earlier engines. You will find a lot of heated debate on this topic from both sides over at tdiclub.com. ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
RE: Was Re: [Biofuel] Changing Government/Now ethanol
Ordinary petrol motors need fuel which is both volatile and resistant to detonation or knocking. Kerosene is neither. Its use is disastrous for engine life and I surmise for pollutant emissions. Kerosene can be used in specially designed, usually rather expensive piston internal combustion engines, for example the multi-fuel engines which were used in military vehicles for some time by both NATO countries and the Warsaw Pact. These used injection pumps which would imply a need for clean fuel free from abrasives. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Phil Rendell wrote: Hello all! Is there anyone out there who has tried running a petrol motor on paraffin? I know the timing needs retarding and that performance is terrible, but here in Africa, the fuel is very, very cheap. What are the environmental implications of burning the stuff and implications for engine life? Phil Rendel English Department Kingswood College, Burton Street, Grahamstown tel. 046 603 6600 fax. 046 622 3084 cell: 084 448 1052 ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
RE: Was Re: [Biofuel] Changing Government/Now ethanol
Hello all! Is there anyone out there who has tried running a petrol motor on paraffin? I know the timing needs retarding and that performance is terrible, but here in Africa, the fuel is very, very cheap. I'm told it's done in Sri Lanka, probably in other countries. Maybe they start up on petrol (gasoline) (in America they haven't spoken it for years), but anyway they run a paraffin (kerosene) fuel line round the exhaust manifold to heat it up first. I think that means hot, not just warm. I guess they know just how to do it, and how not to do it too - probably not something to chuck guesses at. No, you certainly didn't ever hear such a thing from me, definitely not, no. What are the environmental implications of burning the stuff and implications for engine life? Dire, probably, on both counts. Best wishes Keith Phil Rendel English Department Kingswood College, Burton Street, Grahamstown tel. 046 603 6600 fax. 046 622 3084 cell: 084 448 1052 snip ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
[Biofuel] Greenfield MA Recorder article on Biodiesel
Biodiesel plant plan sizzling By RICHIE DAVIS Recorder Staff Plans are under way for a factory to convert recycled vegetable oil to biodiesel fuel in the Greenfield area next year, Co-opPlus of Western Massachusetts announced Friday. The 1,200-member energy cooperative announced formation of Northeast Biodiesel LLC to build the $1.5 million biodiesel plant. The effort received $300,000 in a National Renewable Energy grant secured with help from Rep. John W. Olver, D-Amherst. The new venture is the outgrowth of a two-year Pioneer Valley Biodiesel Cooperative. Plans for the new plant are scheduled to be announced at an Oct. 1 press conference, but principals are negotiating for an existing building a stone's throw from Greenfield, said Technical Director Thomas Leue, who represents one-third of the corporation formed Friday. It's a good thing all-around, said Leue, who for the past seven years has been collecting waste oil from restaurants and converting it to biodiesel, a vegetable-based alternative to petroleum that burns with the smell of french fries. The plant will employ 12 people initially, he said, and have an initial capacity of 500,000 gallons per year for fueling diesel trucks, cars and tractors, as well as for home heating. More than 400 truck fleets use biodiesel, including the University of Massachusetts, Amherst College, the U.S. military, NASA, national parks, along with some state departments of transportation and school buses. Nationally, more than 250 filling stations offer biodiesel, and many fuel distributors make biodiesel available in bulk, according to a press release from the Greenfield-based Cooperative Development Institute. CDI helped funnel a $32,000 grant to the six-member biodiesel cooperative last year from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study the feasibility of how the venture could be set up. Some residents in the region have been buying biodiesel in bulk over the past several years, while others have been using a blend of biodiesel heating oil. Because it reduces sulfur content and improves clean combustion, Holyoke-based Alliance Energy has announced that all of its home heating oil will be a 3 percent blend of biodiesel beginning Oct. 1, increasing to 5 percent after this heating season. Alliance, which also has a biodiesel pump for vehicles operating in Holyoke, now has to buy its product from Iowa. According to Leue, Northeast will be the only producer of biodiesel in a 600-mile radius, and 90 percent of its product will be sold wholesale to fuel dealers. It will also be sold retail at one or more filling stations in Franklin County and beyond. With biodiesel, everybody wins, whether you use it or not. It's going to increase good-paying employment around the valley, it's going to pick up recycled waste and reuse it, it's going to be reducing our money leaving the county and going overseas, it's going to reduce the cost for restaurants for their disposal fees, and the environment's going to be cleaner. Forming the new corporation helps Leue, whose Ashfield backyard biodiesel production plant was curtailed by the federal Environmental Protection Agency because he was required to buy the rights to a federally approved National Biodiesel Board safety test at an annual cost of $5,000. The scale of his operation would have added $1 per gallon to his price, rather than a penny, he said. This is a significant step toward finding local and renewable energy sources so we can reduce our dependence on foreign oil that is polluting our world, said Leue. He said the price structure of the new plant should make it the lowest-price biodiesel in the United States. With the closest production facilities now in Florida, Southern Ohio and Kentucky, he said, I think we'll do it very well, thank you very much. There is already a growing number of customers for biodiesel in Vermont, New Hampshire and around western Massachusetts, so he said, I don't think we'll have any problem selling it. Biodiesel, which has been shown to greatly reduce most of the pollutants that standard petroleum fuel produces, has no appreciable sulfur emissions, cuts soot and fumes by over half, reduces carcinogens by more than 90 percent and almost eliminates greenhouse gasses associated with global warming, according to proponents. Biodiesel also is said to reduce wear in standard engines and makes them operate more quietly. It is easily biodegradable and essentially non-toxic. It's thrilling to see this project get off the ground, said Co-opPlus Interim Manager Lynn Benander. Co-opPlus is a tool that people in western Massachusetts are using to take control of their energy future. This plant will help us do that. You can reach Richie Davis at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (413) 772-0261 Ext.269 - Homestead Inc. www.yellowbiodiesel.com ___ Biofuel
