Re: [Biofuel] Re: homey
i know. i just thought the reference sounded like something the shows character might say. perhaps the original poster could enlighten us. (OT - very) rbury - Original Message - From: Kirk McLoren [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 5:05 PM Subject: [Biofuel] Re: homey Homey is from Home boy or someone from your class in school. Ie Home room boy my homey. The clown was not the originator of the expression. Kirk --- B. Nostrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: actually, i'm guessing, but i thought the reference was to 'homey' the clown from the t.v. series 'in living color' and played by one of the wayan's brothers. to quote homey don't like that! rbury - Original Message - From: DHAJOGLO [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 5:14 PM Subject: Re: Re[4]: [Biofuel] Our Godless Constitution - [OT] = very yes Todd et. al... Danger, high sacharsim content: And as a noun? homey - noun - 1) _; 2); 3 Apples to apples please. According to your usage of the word Homey, and presuming we follow the rules of English grammar, as opposed to the rules of chess or synchronized swiming, the definitions would be as follows: Homey - Proper Noun - 1) Marge Simpson's pet name for Homer Simpson. 2) Any other given name of an individual - pronoun - 3) A synonym for he, she, or it. I think the point is that we are always changing the definitions of words to fit a style (or the lack of it), an agenda, or lyrics to songs writen by Snoop Dog, the esteemed rap artist. However, I would intrepret Homey as you refering to yourself in a jovial manner (ding ding ding... he gets a prize). And while its grammitaclly incorrect perhaps it fits your style. Perhaps Allen was using religion to fit an agenda. Perhaps, That jive turkey de prez is all up in our bidness 'bout his peps 'n dier problem wif de crack rock! Piece out Homey! ___ 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/ __ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page - Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.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/ ___ 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] WVO in central heating burners
Thank you. Met vriendelijke groet, Pieter Koole - Original Message - From: Simon Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 11:26 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] WVO in central heating burners Your draaibank is nearly the same in German. Near enough to understand anyway. Just for the record, we call it a Drehbank, or lathe in English. Simon Message: 4 Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 15:28:39 +0100 From: Pieter Koole [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Biofuel] WVO in central heating burners To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Yes, I did the same. Use stainless steel and your problems will be gone forever. You can maybe make them by yourself on what we call a draaibank ( I really don't know the English or German word). Stainless steel lasts forever. Met vriendelijke groet, Pieter Koole - Original Message - From: Andreas W Ohnsorge [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 12:38 PM Subject: [Biofuel] WVO in central heating burners Currently I am running my central heating on WVO in a modified Mannesman (blue) burner. Modified because the material used in the nozzle, the filter and in the pre-heater (sintered bronze, brass) oxidizes over time and cloggs the nozzle. Because of these problems I have been speaking to several experts from the nozzle / pump / burner producers and they told me that I should get rid of all devices that contain copper in any form (means: housings of filters, valves, pipes,...) which I am currently doing. In addition their comment was that in some of their long term experiments even iron seemed to corrode under the influence of the organic acids of vegetable oil. Does anyone out there has any knowledge where to get the proper equipment that is suitable for such an operation (means heat resitant up to 120 - 150 degrees Celsius, resistant against organic acids, works with pressures of about 20 - 30 bar - and: is not too expensive)? I would really appreciate a discussion about experiences in this area... Regards Andreas P.S: I am living in Germany Abraham-Lincoln-Park 1 65189 Wiesbaden Germany Phone: +49.611.142.22608 Fax: +49.611.142.980028 Mobile: +49 172 - 8 43 30 32 e-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: ___ 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] affordable methanol in uk
Hi; Is there anybody on this list who knows where to purchase methanol for a reasonable price in the uk, england? JD2005 ___ 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/ I used a company called 'Almetron' in Wrexham. They charged about £14 per 25litre drum plus vat. ___ 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] GHG do warm oceans
on the planet get ugly, and I am sure that things will get ugly rather sooner than later. I live in Hawaii and I've been suspecting all along that these folks that rip off the planet's (and our ) resources think that they'll be so filthy rich they can always set themselves apart from the poor suckers who are going to get cold and hungry. And let me tell you, Hawaii is experiencing a real esatate boom (no, its a landgrab) like never before, folks from all over pay fortunes to own a piece of land here. The locals get paid peanuts working the gas stations and walmarts and are increasingly taxed out of their ancestral homes and landsso, global warming, or rather, the fear of it, is already causing turmoil in areas where the immediate associations are not that obvious. I believe that there is a real fin de ciecle type of doom feeling creeping up, slowly, but just look how, with resources getting more scant now, the raw horsepower in cars is clearly the only thing that sells them besides being the size of tanks - and who cares about mpg any more. To restate it, the only thing in the last election that was shocking to me was the sheer number of fellow citizens who are too stupid, too noncaring to stand up and put their foot down. Keith Addison wrote: Hi Hoagy Thanks for these. The confirmations are flowing thick and fast these days, eh? Leaving fewer and fewer holes for the paid sceptics and their dupes to try to jump through. Today's news, every day, just about. I wonder if the Bush gang's continued denialisms aren't fuelling it, through sheer exasperation. Many (or most?) of the new studies and reports do come from the US, or with US participation - Americans, that is, not Washington. Well, even Washington. As with all the usual suspects when they're trying to avoid precaution and anything resembling sense and responsibility so they can go on dumping their poisons and pollution on the rest of us for free, Bush calls for more research. I guess he's getting more than he bargained for. Actually there's no doubt that US recalcitrance is fuelling more intensive research efforts. It'll fuel more intensive action too, on this and other fronts. Waddya gonna do about that, eh, George? Nuke the scientists? Empire, hah! http://www.nationalcenter.org/PRGW602.html Press Release: Bush Endorsement of Global Warming Theory Wrongly Reported - June 2002 Nah - he didn't say it's dark, he just said there wasn't any light. As for our current crop of American denialists here (not that they're the first or only, nor the last), any bets that they'll take any notice? They've been skilfully blind-eyeing it for 20 years now, they're not about to change. Continental drift, LOL! Uh, John, you don't think that needs a little further research, do you? Try Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas maybe: http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~step/people/FORUM.pdf On Past Temperatures and Anomalous Late-20th Century Warmth, Eos, Volume 84, No. 27, 8 July 2003, page 256. ... The Soon-Baliunas study [partly funded by the American Petroleum Institute] continues to be cited by opponents of government action to address the global warming issue. The White House edited a draft Environmental Protection Agency State of the Environment report to remove statements that the Earth is growing warmer and replace them with material from the two papers. The final version of the report leaves out both references to global warming. Chuckle... Only it's not funny. Not at all funny. Oh well. Always did savour a little black humour, even gallows humour, which this probably is. I just hope we get the right folks on the gallows, only we won't, it'll be all the wrong folks. Hence the need for gallows humour. Best Keith Efforts to explain the ocean changes through naturally occurring variations in the climate or external forces- such as solar or volcanic factors--did not come close to reproducing the observed warming. --- Greenhouse gases 'do warm oceans' By Paul Rincon BBC News science reporter, in Washington DC 17 Feb 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4275729.stm snip Feb 17, 2005 http://scrippsnews.ucsd.edu/article_detail.cfm?article_num=666 Scripps Researchers Find Clear Evidence of Human-Produced Warming in World's Oceans Climate warming likely to impact water resources in regions around the globe 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 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):
[Biofuel] Re: homey
Homey is from Home boy or someone from your class in school. Ie Home room boy my homey. The clown was not the originator of the expression. Kirk --- B. Nostrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: actually, i'm guessing, but i thought the reference was to 'homey' the clown from the t.v. series 'in living color' and played by one of the wayan's brothers. to quote homey don't like that! rbury - Original Message - From: DHAJOGLO [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 5:14 PM Subject: Re: Re[4]: [Biofuel] Our Godless Constitution - [OT] = very yes Todd et. al... Danger, high sacharsim content: And as a noun? homey - noun - 1) _; 2); 3 Apples to apples please. According to your usage of the word Homey, and presuming we follow the rules of English grammar, as opposed to the rules of chess or synchronized swiming, the definitions would be as follows: Homey - Proper Noun - 1) Marge Simpson's pet name for Homer Simpson. 2) Any other given name of an individual - pronoun - 3) A synonym for he, she, or it. I think the point is that we are always changing the definitions of words to fit a style (or the lack of it), an agenda, or lyrics to songs writen by Snoop Dog, the esteemed rap artist. However, I would intrepret Homey as you refering to yourself in a jovial manner (ding ding ding... he gets a prize). And while its grammitaclly incorrect perhaps it fits your style. Perhaps Allen was using religion to fit an agenda. Perhaps, That jive turkey de prez is all up in our bidness 'bout his peps 'n dier problem wif de crack rock! Piece out Homey! ___ 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/ __ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.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/
[Biofuel] Re: ethanol stove and barbeque
My question to you is why ethanol? What drove you to select ethanol as the replacement fuel source for this application Hi Anti Fossil, . Several reasons. First there is the danger of propane. Propane is a gas that under pressure is a liquid. I admit I am too careless with propane. I would like to get rid of it for safety reasons if nothing else. You should wear safety equipment when filling, transporting and attaching the propane cylinder to the BBQ. The liquid propane boils to a gas when the pressure is released. If when attaching the tank to the BBQ or upon filling or at anytime you get a liquid propane leak and get it in your eye, your eye ball will be instantly frozen. Ethanol on the other hand is so non toxic that government requires that you make it toxic before you are allowed to use it. Now doesn't that make sense to a Bureaucrat. Propane is considered a clean fuel but it is a fossil fuel. Ethanol is a renewable fuel, it is much cleaner than propane and it is free! and I like free! There is the labour in converting the organic potato and apple waste by fermentation from a restaurant and then a small energy charge in the distilling process. There is danger involved in the tank and BBQ conversion so I do not recommend that anyone actually try it without professional help of which I am not. I plan to wait until warm weather to use the sun to help purge the tank so it will be a while before I attempt the conversion. Yours truly John Wilson Goldens *** Wilsonia Farm Kennel Preserve Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/goldens/c68.htm In Nova Scotia smoking permitted in designated areas only until 9:00 PM . After 9:00 it is okey to kill everyone. ^^^ ___ 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] Re: homey
migration of African Americans from the South to the industrialized north, creating transplanted populations. On another scale, I heard it in Chapel Hill in the late 70's when an African American student would refer to another student from his home town. Chris Kueny - Original Message - From: Kirk McLoren [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 8:05 PM Subject: [Biofuel] Re: homey Homey is from Home boy or someone from your class in school. Ie Home room boy my homey. The clown was not the originator of the expression. Kirk --- B. Nostrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: actually, i'm guessing, but i thought the reference was to 'homey' the clown from the t.v. series 'in living color' and played by one of the wayan's brothers. to quote homey don't like that! rbury - Original Message - From: DHAJOGLO [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 5:14 PM Subject: Re: Re[4]: [Biofuel] Our Godless Constitution - [OT] = very yes Todd et. al... Danger, high sacharsim content: And as a noun? homey - noun - 1) _; 2); 3 Apples to apples please. According to your usage of the word Homey, and presuming we follow the rules of English grammar, as opposed to the rules of chess or synchronized swiming, the definitions would be as follows: Homey - Proper Noun - 1) Marge Simpson's pet name for Homer Simpson. 2) Any other given name of an individual - pronoun - 3) A synonym for he, she, or it. I think the point is that we are always changing the definitions of words to fit a style (or the lack of it), an agenda, or lyrics to songs writen by Snoop Dog, the esteemed rap artist. However, I would intrepret Homey as you refering to yourself in a jovial manner (ding ding ding... he gets a prize). And while its grammitaclly incorrect perhaps it fits your style. Perhaps Allen was using religion to fit an agenda. Perhaps, That jive turkey de prez is all up in our bidness 'bout his peps 'n dier problem wif de crack rock! Piece out Homey! ___ 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/ __ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page - Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.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/ ___ 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] Re: homey
I heard it in LA early 70's when Chicano's would refer to their Homey. I asked and was told it was a tight friend, someone in your home room. Since there was aggression between schools in the same town it seems from the same town didn't apply in this case. Later I heard the term applied to anyone in the same neighborhood or clique. At that time I heard blacks used the term blood to denote belonging. Time changes everything it seems. Kirk --- Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Home town or state, not home room. The term is a product of the mass migration of African Americans from the South to the industrialized north, creating transplanted populations. On another scale, I heard it in Chapel Hill in the late 70's when an African American student would refer to another student from his home town. Chris Kueny - Original Message - From: Kirk McLoren [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 8:05 PM Subject: [Biofuel] Re: homey Homey is from Home boy or someone from your class in school. Ie Home room boy my homey. The clown was not the originator of the expression. Kirk __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ___ 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] Re: homey
suggesting that the phrase Homey don't buy that was a variant on Homey's signature line. Sorry if my prior post was unclear. jh - Original Message - From: Kirk McLoren [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 5:05 PM Subject: [Biofuel] Re: homey Homey is from Home boy or someone from your class in school. Ie Home room boy my homey. The clown was not the originator of the expression. Kirk --- B. Nostrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: actually, i'm guessing, but i thought the reference was to 'homey' the clown from the t.v. series 'in living color' and played by one of the wayan's brothers. to quote homey don't like that! rbury - Original Message - From: DHAJOGLO [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 5:14 PM Subject: Re: Re[4]: [Biofuel] Our Godless Constitution - [OT] = very yes Todd et. al... Danger, high sacharsim content: And as a noun? homey - noun - 1) _; 2); 3 Apples to apples please. According to your usage of the word Homey, and presuming we follow the rules of English grammar, as opposed to the rules of chess or synchronized swiming, the definitions would be as follows: Homey - Proper Noun - 1) Marge Simpson's pet name for Homer Simpson. 2) Any other given name of an individual - pronoun - 3) A synonym for he, she, or it. I think the point is that we are always changing the definitions of words to fit a style (or the lack of it), an agenda, or lyrics to songs writen by Snoop Dog, the esteemed rap artist. However, I would intrepret Homey as you refering to yourself in a jovial manner (ding ding ding... he gets a prize). And while its grammitaclly incorrect perhaps it fits your style. Perhaps Allen was using religion to fit an agenda. Perhaps, That jive turkey de prez is all up in our bidness 'bout his peps 'n dier problem wif de crack rock! Piece out Homey! ___ 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] Soap aerated concrete
http://wwia.org/pipermail/biofuel/Week-of-Mon-20050214/005984.html [Biofuel] Soap aerated concrete Met dank en vriendelijke groet, Pieter Koole Netherlands - Original Message - From: Martin K [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 11:46 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Soap aerated concrete Keith Addison wrote: Hi Martin Hi Keith et al, I used Perlite mixed with refractory cement in my aluminum casting furnace. The walls saw temperatures surpassing 2000F, it was working well. The mixture was 50/50, and the perlite is very light-weight, reducing the overall mass of the structure. -- Martin K Perlite gives very similar results to rice husk ash. Michael Allen and I discussed Perlite in this context when I made that page on rice husk ash. You used the same ratio of cement as I do with RHA, after trying it 20 different ways in tests. Regards Keith I wouldn't mind using RHA for such a thing, but I don't think I'm within 1000 miles of a rice field. -- Martin K http://wwia.org/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] SVI/B100 BLENDS
I hear from more and more people who are mixing SVO into their B100 up to 50% and saying they have no problems with it. One place in Greensboro, NC, is actually selling filtered SVO to truckers in 18-wheelers and assuring them they can cut the cost of diesel fuel (regular petro-diesel) by mixing the SVO up to 50%. Does anyone have any data or experience on this so far as injectors, viscosity problems, etc? I'm sure in the short tem it might work just fine, but I'm wondering whether there's a back end to it that'll bite you in the butt. Bo ___ 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] Re: ethanol stove and barbeque
Hello John, Thanks for the explanation. Now it all makes much more sense to me. I look forward to reading about your results, as conditions permit. Best of luck. AntiFossil Mike Krafka USA - Original Message - From: John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 8:50 PM Subject: [Biofuel] Re: ethanol stove and barbeque My question to you is why ethanol? What drove you to select ethanol as the replacement fuel source for this application Hi Anti Fossil, . Several reasons. First there is the danger of propane. Propane is a gas that under pressure is a liquid. I admit I am too careless with propane. I would like to get rid of it for safety reasons if nothing else. You should wear safety equipment when filling, transporting and attaching the propane cylinder to the BBQ. The liquid propane boils to a gas when the pressure is released. If when attaching the tank to the BBQ or upon filling or at anytime you get a liquid propane leak and get it in your eye, your eye ball will be instantly frozen. Ethanol on the other hand is so non toxic that government requires that you make it toxic before you are allowed to use it. Now doesn't that make sense to a Bureaucrat. Propane is considered a clean fuel but it is a fossil fuel. Ethanol is a renewable fuel, it is much cleaner than propane and it is free! and I like free! There is the labour in converting the organic potato and apple waste by fermentation from a restaurant and then a small energy charge in the distilling process. There is danger involved in the tank and BBQ conversion so I do not recommend that anyone actually try it without professional help of which I am not. I plan to wait until warm weather to use the sun to help purge the tank so it will be a while before I attempt the conversion. Yours truly John Wilson Goldens *** Wilsonia Farm Kennel Preserve Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/goldens/c68.htm In Nova Scotia smoking permitted in designated areas only until 9:00 PM . After 9:00 it is okey to kill everyone. ^^^ ___ 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] Soap aerated concrete
Keith, Perlite is a generic term for naturally occurring siliceous rock. I am most familiar with the expanded form which I use as packing to hold my dormant, tropical plants during winter storage. Check out http:wwwmperlite.net Regards, Pat Keith wrote: What is perlite? Sent via BlackBerry from EarthLink Wireless.___ 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] Soap aerated concrete
Keith, Perlite is a generic term for naturally occurring siliceous rock. I am most familiar with the expanded form which I use as packing to hold my dormant, tropical plants during winter storage. Check out http:wwwmperlite.net Regards, Pat Well, thanks anyway Pat, but, um... Keith wrote: No I didn't, Pieter Koole did. On the contrary, I provided one of the explanations the first time someone asked, and this time round I provided the archives link to that explanation - THAT is what I wrote. See: http://wwia.org/pipermail/biofuel/Week-of-Mon-20050221/006170.html [Biofuel] Soap aerated concrete This is always happening, here and on other lists. Members forward news reports and, though their reason for forwarding them might be strong disagreement rather than endorsement, they get accused of having written them because other members' non-smart emailers are defaulted to quote the previous message by starting with the sender's name followed by wrote. Someone's going to get sued over this one of these days. PLEASE, if your emailer does this, reset it! Thankyou! Keith What is perlite? Sent via BlackBerry from EarthLink Wireless. ___ 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] Analysis: Mideast oil will be more important
Analysis: Mideast oil will be more important By Martin Sieff, UPI Senior News Analyst Dublin, Ireland (UPI) Feb 17, 2005 The industrial world's ravenous thirst for Middle East oil will grow even worse over the next quarter century, making the volatile and unstable region an even more dangerous magnet for conflicting great power rivalries. That was the grim, inescapable conclusion Suleiman Jasir al-Herbish, the soft-spoken director-general of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' Fund for International Development, presented to the 41st Munich Conference on Security Policy this past weekend. NATO defense ministers and security experts sat quietly as al-Herbish quietly racked up the ominous figures that they all already knew: Oil and gas are expected to account for two-thirds of global energy consumption by 2020, al-Herbish said. Oil demand increased by more than 75 percent, from 47 million barrels per day, or bpd, in 19 70 to 83 million bpd this year. Demand is forecast to rise further, by around 30 percent or 1.5 percent annually for the next two decades, and to reach 111 million bpd by 2025. The development in natural gas deposits around the world will not ease global requirements for oil, al-Herbish said. Demand is projected to rise remorselessly in that sector as well, he said. The OPEC fund chief projected the global demand for gas would grow by 2.9 percent annually, to 30 percent of global energy consumption by 2025. About 80 percent of the incremental increase in oil demand would be in the developing countries, which together would account for 46 percent of world oil consumption by 2025, he said. Al-Herbish's cold figures defined the enormous dilemma facing global leaders in the first decades of the 21st century. Economic development in the poor, or developing, nations is absolutely essential to break the harsh cycles of pover ty amid soaring populations that have trapped them for so long. But that same industrial development, by boosting overall demand for scarce non-renewable resources in the global marketplace, may threaten the prosperity and even the stability of the established industrialized nations themselves. Al-Herbish also made clear that rising demand and prices were structural in nature. The enormous industrial development of China alone meant that one nation, the most populous in the world, would account for 25 percent of world oil consumption by 2025, he said. Furthermore, there would be no alternative to the Middle East to provide the largest, highest quality and most easily accessible oil, al-Herbish said. As a seat for almost 70 percent of the world's proven oil reserves and 40 percent of total proven world gas reserves, the Middle East, home to the majority of OPEC member countries, will have to meet alm ost two-thirds of the projected increase in world demand, he told the Munich conference. Of a projected world oil trade of 67 million bpd by 2025, the Middle East will account for about half. This region's importance is also expected to increase, as far as the natural gas trade is concerned. Keeping those reserves flowing will certainly need massive international investment, al-Herbish admitted. Iran's aging oil fields are expected by many international experts to require large amounts of gas to be pumped into many of them keep extraction flowing smoothly. And Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's personally picked analysts disastrously underestimated the huge investment in infrastructure that the Iraqi oil industry would need following the 2003 toppling of President Saddam Hussein. A cumulative total of some 500 billion will be needed over the next 25 years to maintain and increase the oil supply capacities of the Middle East -- an ar ea of low-cost production, the OPEC fund director-general told the security conference. However, he continued, This amount is not substantial, when compared with expected Middle East oil revenues, and thus not considered as particularly demanding, provided that oil prices are not so low that they deprive the industry of the financial resources required for adequate investment. Al-Herbish also pointedly noted that the major Middle East oil-producing nations would not be able to generate much of that half a trillion dollars to keep their oil flowing by themselves. It would be in their interests, he indicated, not to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs and to seek to destabilize or threaten the economic prospects of the industrial nations -- the markets for their oil. Although national oil companies are making the necessary investments to bring production levels up to standard, part of the financing will have t o come in the form of foreign direct investment which, in turn, requires a peaceful and stable enabling environment in FDI home countries, he said. Al-Herbish acknowledged the record levels that global oil prices had reached in 2004
[Biofuel] Russian firms turn Kyoto pioneers
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 17 February, 2005, 09:39 GMT Russian firms turn Kyoto pioneers By Sarah Rainsford BBC News, Archangel, northern Russia Archangel Pulp and Paper mill has set its own targets For some businesses in the Russian town of Archangel, the Kyoto protocol is an opportunity to modernise, make money and help the environment. An icy wind drives gusts of snow across the frozen river Dvina in Archangel. It is only around -15C on the thermometer but out in the open the wind is piercing. In a climate as harsh as this it is hardly surprising that locals like Nikolai welcome any sign of global warming. The winters are definitely getting warmer these days, he smiles. That's much better for my garden - and it costs less to heat my house. Nikolai confesses he has little clue about the Kyoto protocol, but the factories in this far northern town have cottoned on early to its potential. At Archangel Pulp and Paper mill, they call themselves Russia's pioneers of the protocol. Economic ideals Russia is under no obligation yet to cut its greenhouse gases. The collapse of industry in the 1990s means levels remain relatively low. But this factory has already set its own voluntary targets. We've calculated that we can cut our greenhouse gas emissions by 12% in the first Kyoto period even whilst we're increasing production, explains mill director Vladimir Beloglazov. It's no secret that we see Kyoto as cheap money to help us modernise Vadim Eremeev We want to sell that 'clean air.' It could make us up to $25m (£13.2m), and that's money we could re-invest to cut emissions further. Mr Beloglazov freely admits his priorities are economic, not environmental. But like an increasing number of businessmen in his town, he sees Kyoto as a way of combining the two. In the paper mill's latest ''green'' project, they're installing a new boiler designed to burn the wood-chips they used to throw away. It will be cheaper, more efficient and cleaner than coal - just one of many proposed improvements. But ideas mean little without funds and back in Moscow progress on implementing Kyoto is slow. As the world's number three polluter, Russia's signature was crucial to bring the protocol into force. The debate was heated, but Moscow eventually traded ratification for support for its efforts to join the WTO. Three months on, there is still little consensus on the new legislation required and little sign of the obligatory inventory of emissions. So some fear Russia is still not 100% committed to Kyoto. It is a suggestion officials here hotly deny. The time of compliance is 2007. We hope that in 2006 the Russian Federation will be completely in compliance with all requirements of the protocol, says Vsevolod Gavrilov from Russia's Ministry of Economic Development. We plan to construct a competitive economy and we can't do that without modernisation. Kyoto is one of the stimuli to increase efficiency.'' Sticky pipes Back in Archangel, they are itching to put those financial arguments into practice. Vadim Eremeev points to clouds of black smoke billowing from two crumbling brick chimneys at a city heating plant. We have more than 1,500 boiler houses like this here and almost all of them need urgent repair, Vadim explains, an official from Archangel's Energy Efficiency Fund. Hundreds of boiler houses in Archangel are in need of repair Inside, a web of ageing pipes is caked in sticky black fuel-oil. Under Kyoto, more developed countries could invest directly in places like this, cleaning-up Russian industry in return for clean-air credits. Vadim argues even modest investment here would produce significant improvement. It's no secret that we see Kyoto as cheap money to help us modernise, he confesses, shouting through the hiss of the giant boilers. There's huge scope for that across Russia. But if we relied on Moscow alone for funds, it would take decades. Archangel is keen to lead the way on Kyoto, certain the opportunities are enormous. They are impatient to see the basic rules of the game drawn-up in Moscow. But until then, even the finest plans are hot air. ___ 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] The People's Business
Corporations aren't bad per se. But when corporations reach the size that they have reached today, they begin to overwhelm the political institutions that can keep them in check. Reckless capitalism undermines democracy. Nowhere is this more clear than in George W. Bush's administration. To push government to assume its rightful role as regulator, people need to engage as citizens-not just consumers or investors. http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1971/ February 18, 2005 The People's Business Controlling corporations and restoring democracy By Lee Drutman and Charlie Cray One does not have to look far in Washington these days to find evidence that government policy is being crafted with America's biggest corporations in mind. For example, the Bush administration's 2006 budget cuts the enforcement budgets of almost all the major regulatory agencies. If the gutting of the ergonomics rule, power plant emissions standards and drug safety programs was not already enough evidence that OSHA, EPA and FDA are deeply compromised, the slashing of their enforcement budgets presents the possibility-indeed, probability-that these public agencies will become captives of the private corporations they are supposed to regulate. This should come as no surprise to anybody familiar with the streams of corporate money that flowed into Bush campaign coffers (as well as the Kerry campaign and all races for the House and Senate) in the 2004 election. The old follow the money adage leads us to a democracy in thrall to giant corporations-a democracy that is a far cry from the government of the people, by the people, and for the people that Lincoln hailed at Gettysburg. At a time when our democracy appears to be so thoroughly under the sway of large corporations, it is tempting to give up on politics. We must resist this temptation. Democracy offers the best solution to challenging corporate power. We must engage as citizens, not just as consumers or investors angling for a share of President Bush's ownership society. The problem of corporate power Unfortunately, the destructive power of large corporations today is not limited to the political sphere. The increasing domination of corporations over virtually every dimension of our lives-economic, political, cultural, even spiritual-poses a fundamental threat to the well-being of our society. Corporations have fostered a polarization of wealth that has undermined our faith in a shared sense of prosperity. A corporate-driven consumer culture has led millions of Americans into personal debt, and alienated millions more by convincing them that the only path to happiness is through the purchase and consumption of ever-increasing quantities of material goods. The damage to the earth's life-supporting systems caused by the accelerating extraction of natural resources and the continued production, use, and disposal of life-threatening chemicals and greenhouse gases is huge and, in some respects, irreversible. Today's giant corporations spend billions of dollars a year to project a positive, friendly and caring image, promoting themselves as responsible citizens and good neighbors. They have large marketing budgets and public relations experts skilled at neutralizing their critics and diverting attention from any controversy. By 2004, corporate advertising expenditures were expected to top $250 billion, enough to bring the average American more than 2,000 commercial messages a day. The problem of the corporation is at root one of design. Corporations are not structured to be benevolent institutions; they are structured to make money. In the pursuit of this one goal, they will freely cast aside concerns about the societies and ecological systems in which they operate. When corporations reach the size that they have reached today, they begin to overwhelm the political institutions that can keep them in check, eroding key limitations on their destructive capacities. Internationally, of the 100 largest economies in the world, 51 are corporations and 49 are nations. How Big Business got to be so big Corporations in the United States began as quasi-government institutions, business organizations created by deliberate acts of state governments for distinct public purposes such as building canals or turnpikes. These corporations were limited in size and had only those rights and privileges directly written into their charters. As corporations grew bigger and more independent, their legal status changed them from creatures of the state to independent entities, from mere business organizations to persons with constitutional rights. The last three decades have represented the most sustained pro-business period in U.S. history. The corporate sector's game plan for fortifying its power in America was outlined in a memo written in August 1971 by soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr.
[Biofuel] Tort 'Reform' Triumphs
February 18, 2005 President Bush will sign legislation this morning to rewrite the rules for class-action lawsuits. The Nation's Zegart charts the history of the bill-telling how a group of legal extremists crafted a message, brought almost every Fortune 500 corporation on board and then pumped money into organizing and seeding the culture with that message. http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050307s=zegart The Nation | Comment February 17, 2005 Tort 'Reform' Triumphs by Dan Zegart Click here to read Zegart's October 25, 2004 Nation piece to read more on the right wing's drive for tort reform. http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20041025s=zegart Nothing could better illustrate the pending extinction of civil action as a tool for fighting corporate criminality than a measure that will effectively do away with many types of class-action lawsuits. With passage all but assured in the House following a lopsided 72-to-26 vote in the Senate on February 10, the Class Action Fairness Act was expected to be quickly signed by George W. Bush, who campaigned for it ardently. The bill is the first significant Congressional tort reform victory for the radical right and a catastrophe for workers and consumers. The GOP is hoping the almost total collapse of the Democrats on the Senate bill--eight Democrats co-sponsored it--means improved chances of passing a bill curbing asbestos suits and a reworked medical malpractice measure that caps damages for pain and suffering and drastically limits suits over dangerous drugs like Vioxx. Not satisfied with nibbling away at the welfare state, already the thinnest in the industrialized West, conservatives have spent more than twenty years demonizing lawyers and ridiculing victims in order to eliminate a uniquely American right, rooted in the Seventh Amendment, that allows juries to assess damages in civil courts for corporate misbehavior. In Europe and Japan, governments compensate victims; in this country, it is often done, haphazardly, by entrepreneur-lawyers. The same lawyers are more successful in another, quite accidental way: regulating and punishing companies that pollute, maim or cheat--a critical function at a time when government does less and less to force them to act responsibly. Fifteen state attorneys general recognized this when they called on the Senate to dump or amend the class-action bill. ADVERTISEMENT The bill, like the other anticipated tort reforms, was produced by the same right-wing think tanks that gave us the proposed Social Security overhaul and Medicare privatization and was marketed by the US Chamber of Commerce, which along with a coalition of businesses has spent tens of millions of dollars on the effort. Much of that money has gone to support like-minded elected officials. In the 2004 election, for example, the Chamber helped spend millions in seven battleground states to pay for ads urging voters to support lawsuit restrictions endorsed by Bush and opposed by John Kerry [see Zegart, The Right Wing's Drive for 'Tort Reform,' October 25, 2004]. Such efforts are part of a strategy embraced by Bush guru Karl Rove to drain cash from tort lawyers, who overwhelmingly support Democrats. The class-action bill is premised on the need to end supposedly rampant litigation abuses in state courts, where, it is claimed, plaintiff-friendly juries and corrupt judges team up to award damage jackpots that drive up consumer prices. But numerous studies have shown no spike in tort filings, including class actions; reports by the American Tort Reform Association, tort reform's flagship group, could find data for only two judicial jurisdictions out of 3,141 nationwide where abuses allegedly take place. On its face, the class-action bill is mere procedural tinkering, transferring from state to federal court actions involving more than $5 million where any plaintiff is from a different state from the defendant company. But federal courts are much more hostile to class actions than their state counterparts; such cases tend to be rooted in the finer points of state law, in which federal judges are reluctant to dabble. And even if federal judges do take on these suits, with only 678 of them on the bench (compared with 9,200 state judges), already overburdened dockets will grow. Thus, the bill will make class actions--most of which involve discrimination, consumer fraud and wage-and-hour violations--all but impossible. One example: After forty lawsuits were filed against Wal-Mart for allegedly forcing employees to work off the clock, four state courts certified these suits as class actions. Not a single federal court did so, although the practice probably involves hundreds of thousands of employees nationwide. In one such case in Washington State, attorney Toby Marshall is representing 40,000 workers, each of whom stands to gain, on average, a couple of hundred dollars in unpaid
[Biofuel] As Kyoto goes live, U.S. green groups offer tepid response
If the environmental movement wants to convince us it's not dead, looking lifeless is not the way to do it. Amanda Griscom-Little notes the lack of any major organized effort to capitalize on the birth of the Kyoto era. With the exception of some isolated events in the northeast, America's greens and their climate-change brethren blew it. http://grist.org/news/muck/2005/02/16/little-kyoto/ Operation Squander As Kyoto goes live, U.S. green groups offer tepid response By Amanda Griscom Little 16 Feb 2005 It's an action-packed week on the climate front: The Kyoto Protocol finally goes into effect today throughout the vast majority of the industrialized world (the U.S. conspicuously not included), and Capitol Hill is awash in climate-related assaults and initiatives. Congress is facing a double whammy of President Bush's most environmentally controversial proposals: The back-from-the-dead omnibus energy bill -- a feast for purveyors of planet-warming fossil fuels -- will get a hearing in a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee today. Meanwhile, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will vote on the Clear Skies Act, in the face of widespread criticism of its failure to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide. On the brighter side, or at least the greener side, is the trio of bills introduced yesterday by Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) to spur the development of the technologies necessary to manage the climate crisis, and the reintroduction last Thursday of the Climate Stewardship Act by Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.), which would cap CO2 emissions. It's remarkable that this many climate-related initiatives are taking the public stage at one time, said Casey Aden-Wansbury, Lieberman's press secretary. Strangely, despite this swarm of policy activity, there are no grand stirrings within the Beltway environmental community. At a time when you might expect green leaders to launch a unified, large-scale campaign on climate change -- a march on Washington, say, or a nationwide media blitz denouncing Bush's withdrawal from Kyoto, or a forward-looking climate strategy endorsed by all -- the responses from Capitol Hill activists are surprisingly scattered and narrow in scope. It's pathetic, said one D.C.-based environmental leader who spoke on condition of anonymity. It's intensely frustrating. There was a meeting in December among the leaders of the major [environmental] groups to say, what are we going to do about [Kyoto]? How can we use it to generate energy, to raise awareness? The idea of a march came up, of far-reaching demonstrations, but not much came out of it. Basically, we dropped the ball on organizing. To be fair, some national environmental groups are making timely efforts: On Tuesday, National Environmental Trust hosted an event in Boston to release the findings of an EPA-funded study showing how global warming could affect a major U.S. coastal city. Scientists from several East Coast universities presented an animation demonstrating how rising seas could devastate the Boston area. The U.S. Public Interest Research Group, for its part, is releasing a new report today that documents the economic benefits and job-creation opportunities of moving toward a clean-energy economy. http://newenergyfuture.com/newenergy.asp?id2=15905id3=energy; In a less wonky vein, Greenpeace USA rallied 50-some students at San Jose State University today to pass out slushies made with solar-powered equipment in Greenpeace's Rolling Sunlight truck and to call on the Cal State chancellor to implement a clean-energy policy for the statewide university system. In The Same Vein Hollywood Golightly An interview with Hollywood eco-crusader Laurie David And in a more far-reaching effort, some 300 miles south, in Los Angeles, a group of Hollywood activists led by Laurie David, a former comedy producer and now a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council, tonight will be hosting a speech by Al Gore on climate change, expected to be attended by more than 700 people -- most of them, says David, Los Angeles opinion leaders (read: entertainment bigwigs). David published an op-ed on the Los Angeles Times on Friday entitled Snubbing Kyoto: Our Monumental Shame. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-david11feb11,0,39 54320.story Attendees of the Gore speech will be asked to sign a letter to the CEOs of the big automobile companies that are collaborating in a joint lawsuit against the state of California for implementing the first automotive standard in the nation for CO2 emissions. The letter calls on them to innovate, not litigate. Major green organizations including NRDC and Environmental Defense will also be asking their members to sign on to the letter. The recently formed Climate Crisis Coalition is collecting signatures as well, hoping to get millions of Americans to join its campaign for a People's
[Biofuel] Redirecting America's Energy: The Economic and Consumer Benefits of Clean Energy Policies
New Energy Future Redirecting America's Energy: The Economic and Consumer Benefits of Clean Energy Policies U.S. PIRG Education Fund February 2005 News Release http://www.pirg.org/alerts/route.asp?id2=15942 Download the full report. (PDF, 1 MB) http://newenergyfuture.com/reports/redirectingamericasenergy.pdf Executive Summary America's current reliance on coal, oil, gas, and nuclear power for electricity generation has left the country with a legacy of environmental and public health problems. This legacy also includes volatile price fluctuations, costing consumers dearly on electricity bills. We can help solve these problems by reducing demand through energy efficiency and diversifying our electricity mix with renewable energy sources. Fortunately, investing in clean energy policies also would generate new high-paying jobs, save consumers and businesses billions of dollars, and boost America's economy while reducing power plant pollution. Over the past 50 years, the federal government has provided more than $500 billion in subsidies to the fossil fuel and nuclear industries, investing a fraction of that in energy efficiency and renewable sources of energy such as wind, solar and geothermal. As a result, coal, nuclear power, oil and gas provide more than 91 percent of our electricity needs in the U.S. This dependence on fossil fuels carries severe public health consequences, including asthma attacks, respiratory disease, heart attacks, and premature deaths. Moreover, fossil fuels, such as coal and oil, pollute the environment from the point of extraction to combustion in the form of global warming, acid rain, oil spills and runoff pollution. At the same time, nuclear power has left us with a nuclear waste problem for which no safe solution exists. Despite the environmental and public health implications of relying on fossil fuels and nuclear power to meet our energy needs, the federal government continues to push energy policies that would offer more of the same. Last year's federal energy proposals included billions of dollars in new and extended tax breaks for oil and gas drilling, loan guarantees and federal subsidies for building new coal plants, and incentives to build the first new nuclear power plants in 30 years. In total, the 2004 federal energy proposals provided more than $35 billion in new subsidies for fossil fuels and nuclear power. These proposals offered $16 billion-half as much-to fund energy efficiency and renewable energy programs. This continued investment in fossil fuels and nuclear energy ignores recent research documenting the potential to meet more of our electricity needs with energy efficiency and renewable sources of energy. In fact, the technical potential of wind, clean biomass, and geothermal resources in the United States is four times greater than our current total electricity consumption. Additionally, conservative estimates suggest that energy efficiency programs could reduce our electricity use nationally by 28 percent. Why then does the federal government continue to subsidize fossil fuels and nuclear power and leave renewable energy sources as peripheral contributors to the country's electricity mix? Proponents of the status quo contend that investing in fossil fuels and nuclear power are essential for a healthy and vibrant economy and that diverting investment to renewables and efficiency will cost us jobs and increase costs to consumers. A growing body of literature, however, shows that investing in energy efficiency and technologies such as wind and solar power boosts local economies and creates jobs. Moreover, investing in renewables and energy efficiency helps to diversify the electricity market and reduces consumer dependence on coal and natural gas, thereby saving consumers money and shielding them from fluctuations in market prices. This brings us to the central question of this report: what would be the economic and consumer impacts of pursuing clean energy policies? How would a shift in federal policy away from fossil fuels and nuclear power and toward renewable energy and energy efficiency affect the economy, consumers, and the environment in the U.S.? Specifically, we examined the economic and consumer impacts of pursuing two policies: - Enacting a 20 percent national renewable energy standard, commonly referred to as a renewable portfolio standard or RPS, which would require the U.S. to generate 20 percent of its electricity from clean energy by the year 2020; and - Shifting the amount it would cost American taxpayers to subsidize fossil fuels and nuclear power under last year's federal energy proposals, $35 billion, toward renewable energy and energy efficiency. We found that implementing these two policies would greatly benefit the economy and consumers in the U.S. while reducing air pollution from power plants. In the U.S., investing in these clean energy policies
[Biofuel] Nobles Need Not Pay Taxes
Eat the State! Vol. 9, Issue #12 16 Feb. 05 Nobles Need Not Pay Taxes by Thom Hartmann A new aristocracy is taking over not just the United States of America but also the world. Proof of how far along it has come was in an article by Glenn R. Simpson in the January 28, 2005 edition of The Wall Street Journal. European countries have been steadily slashing corporate tax rates, wrote Simpson, adding, ...between 2000 and 2003, one nation after another has moved toward lower corporate rates with fewer loopholes. On January 31, 2005, the Journal followed up with another story (Tax Showdown Promised by EU Chief) pointing out that ...the new president of the European Commission launched a blunt attack on French and German efforts to end tax competition among European Union countries. Ironically, EU leader Jos Manuel Barroso is also quoted in the Journal as saying: Corporatist vested interests are the most important problem, be they from the left or the right. This is more than just a tax cut story. It's about a fundamental shift in power and wealth from average people and the governments they had formed to represent them, to the capture of those governments and economic enslavement of their people by corporate aristocracies. In it, Europe is simply following the lead set out by the United States, starting with the Reagan/Bush administration, when, in 1983, corporate taxes revenues were slashed to a low not seen since 1929. This isn't the first time this has happened. Marc Bloch is one of the great 20th Century scholars of the feudal history of Europe. In his book Feudal Society he points out that feudalism is a fracturing of one authoritarian hierarchical structure into another: the state disintegrates, as local power brokers take over. In almost every case, both with European feudalism and feudalism in China, South America, and Japan, feudalism coincided with a profound weakening of the State, particularly in its protective capacity. Whether the power and wealth agent that takes the place of government is a local baron, lord, king, or corporation, if it has greater power in the lives of individuals than does a representative government, the culture has dissolved into feudalism. Bluntly, Bloch states: The feudal system meant the rigorous economic subjection of a host of humble folk to a few powerful men. This doesn't mean the end of government, but, instead the subordination of government to the interests of the feudal lords. Interestingly, even in Feudal Europe, Bloch points out, The concept of the State never absolutely disappeared, and where it retained the most vitality men continued to call themselves 'free'. The transition from a governmental society to a feudal one is marked by the rapid accumulation of power and wealth in a few hands, with a corresponding reduction in the power and responsibilities of governments that represent the people. Once the rich and powerful gain control of the government, they turn it upon itself, usually first eliminating its taxation process as it applies to themselves. Says Bloch: Nobles need not pay taille [taxes]. Or, as Glenn Simpson noted in the Wall Street Journal, General Electric Co., for example, reported paying an effective tax rate of 19% last year on world-wide income, compared with 26% in 2003. Corporations are taxed because they use public services, and are therefore expected to help pay for them--the same as citizens. Corporations make use of a work force educated in public schools paid for with tax dollars. They use roads and highways paid for with tax dollars. They use water, sewer, and power and communications rights-of-way paid for with taxes. They demand the same protection from fire and police departments as everybody else, and enjoy the benefits of national sovereignty and the stability provided by the military and institutions like NATO and the United Nations, the same as all residents of democratic nations. In fact, corporations are heavier users of taxpayer-provided services and institutions than are average citizens. Taxes pay for our court systems, which are most heavily used by corporations to enforce contracts. Taxes pay for our Treasury Department and other governmental institutions which maintain a stable currency essential to corporate activity. Taxes pay for our regulation of corporate activity, from assuring safety in the workplace to a pure food and drug supply to limiting toxic emissions. Under George W. Bush, the burden of cleaning up toxic wastes produced by corporate activity has largely shifted from polluter-funded Superfund and other programs to taxpayer-funded cleanups (as he did in Texas as governor there before becoming President). Every year, millions of cases of cancer, emphysema, neurological disorders, and other conditions caused by corporate pollution are paid for in whole or in part by government funded programs from Medicare
[Biofuel] Duck and Cover Redux
Eat the State! Vol. 9, Issue #12 16 Feb. 05 Duck and Cover Redux by Jeffrey St. Clair In the fall of 2004, anti-nuclear activists won what appeared to be a stunning victory when the Republican-controlled Congress eliminated funding for a new generation of nuclear weapons, the so-called bunker busting nukes. Shortly after the final vote, Rep. Ed Markey called it the biggest victory that arms control advocates in Congress have had since 1992. In the omnibus appropriations bill passed by Congress on December 1, all funding was zeroed-out for two favored projects of the wizards of Armageddon: the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator, or nuclear bunker buster, and for the Advanced Concepts Initiative, which provided the breeding grounds for research into so-called micro nukes. Moreover, Congress also slashed funding for grooming the Nevada Test Site for future nuclear blasts from $30 million to $22.5 million. The nuclear bomb lobby has long been lobbying for a new pit production facility--pits are the plutonium cores of nuclear bombs that ignite the atomic chain reaction resulting in thermonuclear explosions. The Bush administration asked Congress for $30 million to develop a new production facility, but Congress reduced the total outlay to $7 million and included language prohibiting the Department of Energy from naming a site for the facility. All in all, these amounted to a series of devastating defeats for the nuclear-bomb making industry and its supporters in the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill. But such victories tend to have a very brief half-life. And don't look now, but the nuclear weapons clique has launched a covert counterattack using a small provision in the very same funding bill as a kind of radioactive loophole for a new generation of nuclear weapons. Buried in the mammoth omnibus appropriations bill was an obscure single item for something called the Reliable Replacement Warhead program. With an initial seeding of $10 million, this innocuous-sounding project will likely become the drawing board for the kind of redesigned nuclear warheads that Congress tried to eliminate. The project will fund the work of 100 nuclear weapons designers at three bomb-making laboratories: Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia. Proponents expect the project to start slowly, then gather budgetary momentum within the next five years. By 2015, they expect to unveil their new warhead design and inaugurate a new series of underground nuclear tests. And guess what? Instead of the small, mini-nuke feared by anti-nuke activists, these weapons designers are moving in the opposite direction. These new nukes are likely to be bigger, bulkier and many times more potent than the current generation of weapons. Once the project gets rolling, it'll be nearly impossible to turn off the flow of money. For one thing, the beneficiaries of these doomsday funds will soon extend beyond the weapons labs and to defense contractors, the most omnipotent lobby on the Hill. That's because the new heavier warheads will need a new generation of rockets to launch them on their path of annihilation. Here's where Lockheed and Boeing enter the picture. All of this was sold to Congress on the grounds of reliability. The nuclear priesthood at the labs and in the Pentagon complained to Congress that the current nuclear arsenal is becoming decrepit. Most of the 10,000 nuclear warheads in the US arsenal were designed to last about 15 years. The average age of a warhead is now 20 years. And some are 30 years old and older. The bombmakers gripe that the arsenal is getting so old that the reliability of the weapons to generate city-destroying thermonuclear blasts is now in doubt. In addition, the nuclear cohort chafes that the global test ban treaty, which outlaws underground detonations of nuclear weapons, makes it impossible for them to assess what they snidely refer to as the health of the US stockpile--as if regular nuclear blasts in the Nevada desert were only a kind of treadmill to evaluate the vitality of geriatric warheads. The only alternative, lament the weapons designers, is to redesign a new generation of warheads that are bigger and easier to certify as being reliable, that are ready to incinerate millions at the touch of a button. Of course, a new generation of nukes will inevitably bring the US into stark conflict with the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, long the bane of the weapons-designers and the neo-cons in the Bush administration. And once nuclear testing begins, a new arms race could follow, with Pakistan, India, China, North Korea, Israel, Russia and Iran all in the mix. And what about those mini-nukes? Don't count them out just yet. In January, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld fired-off a memo to the Department of Energy requesting that the agency quietly revive funding for a study on the design of bunker busting bombs. I think we should
Re: [Biofuel] SVI/B100 BLENDS
Bo, Here in the Nederlands is a firm that make all kind os chickenfood. The restmaterial is chickenfat and the drive the volvotruck with the fat. The only thing you must do is warming up the fat to 80¡c for good running your engine because the viscocity. Hans - Original Message - From: Bo Lozoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 5:16 PM Subject: [Biofuel] SVI/B100 BLENDS Hi folks, I hear from more and more people who are mixing SVO into their B100 up to 50% and saying they have no problems with it. One place in Greensboro, NC, is actually selling filtered SVO to truckers in 18-wheelers and assuring them they can cut the cost of diesel fuel (regular petro-diesel) by mixing the SVO up to 50%. Does anyone have any data or experience on this so far as injectors, viscosity problems, etc? I'm sure in the short tem it might work just fine, but I'm wondering whether there's a back end to it that'll bite you in the butt. Bo ___ 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] WVO- Filter ideas???
My WVO suppliers wants me to supply barrels and I want to design a filter for the barrels to make it easier to handle and to make sure the WVO is filtered before it goes into the barrel. I plan to make the top filter flat and from 1/4 hardware cloth bending it over the top of the barrel to form, a 3/4 to 1 inch lip. To protect fingers I plan to use a plastic strip around the edge of the filter. Under neath the 1/4 mesh filter, counter sunk 3-4 '', a window screen mesh filter made from metal screening. That is if I can find a souce of metal screening. Most of the darn stuff now is plastic.This screen will be bent over the top of the barrel with a half inch lip. Since screening is lighter than hardware cloth I will probably have to melt plastic around the lip to give the screen some rigidity. Any other ideas or better ideas would be appreciated. Yours truly John Wilson Goldens *** Wilsonia Farm Kennel Preserve Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/goldens/c68.htm In Nova Scotia smoking permitted in designated areas only until 9:00 PM . After 9:00 it is okey to kill everyone. ^^^ ___ 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] affordable methanol in uk
Hi Chris Bennet, Thank you for getting back to me.I'm trying to look into ways of turning wvo into biofuel but havn't been able to get started due to severe problems getting methanol.I've even applied for a license to use denatured ethanol and industrial meths in case I could get any of these to work. Utimately, I'm hoping to get off the grid and the gas. Well more off them than I am already by means of a diesel generator. I've found a company in the uk who are looking into importing low rev diesel generators (water cooled) that can run on biofuel and svo etc without adaptation. See www.utterpower.com Also, www.f1-rocketboy.com/lister.html I havn't had time to look at these properly yet. JD2005 - Original Message - From: Chris Bennett JD2005 wrote: Hi; Is there anybody on this list who knows where to purchase methanol for a reasonable price in the uk, england? JD2005 ___ 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/ I used a company called 'Almetron' in Wrexham. They charged about £14 per 25litre drum plus vat. ___ 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] Russia, Israel and Media Omissions
http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/BIOFUEL/34947/ Oil and Israel Bob Dreyfuss , The Dreyfuss Report May 25, 2004 --- http://www.counterpunch.com/weir02172005.html February 17, 2005 Do Americans Even Care? Russia, Israel and Media Omissions By ALISON WEIR As is often the case with AP's coverage of news having to do with Israel, there's a serious omission in its reporting on the Russia-Israel connection even when it involves oil and the United States. The day after the State of the Union Address, two Interpol fugitives attended the National Prayer Breakfast held in Washington DC. The day before that, these fugitives from the law were the guests of honor at an hour-long meeting of the International Relations Committee on Capitol Hill, invited by ranking Democrat Tom Lantos (Calif.) You would think it would be hot news when wanted men being hunted by European police suddenly pop up in the US particularly on Capitol Hill and at events attended by the US president. Yet, there was not a single AP story in the US on any of this. [1] Not a single national network television or radio news program even mentioned these facts. In fact, Google and LexisNexis searches four days after these events took place turned up only three newspaper articles on them anywhere in the entire country. [2] Who are these fugitives from the law, wanted by Interpol, who are meeting at the highest levels of the US government? And why didn't we learn of them? Therein lies the story. These two men, it turns out, are just the tips of a colossal iceberg. And this iceberg doesn't just have 90 percent of its mass hidden under water; this iceberg is almost entirely submerged. They are Mikhail Brudno and Vladimir Dubov, Israeli-Russian partners in the giant Russian oil company Yukos. They, along with a number of their cronies, are wanted by Interpol for allegedly bilking Russian citizens out of billions of dollars. To elude Russian prosecution, these men have taken up residence in Israel. [3] As the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz explains: In recent years Russian authorities began investigating [Yukos], its managers and major stockholders, many of whom are of Jewish origin. The probes caused several of the managers to flee to Israel, and resulted in Khodorkovski's [Yukos CEO] arrest and a Kremlin attack on Yukos. The fact is that Israel is an important factor in the ongoing, nation-shaking power struggle now going on in Russia. Yet AP virtually never reports this connection. For example, a few months ago in a typical AP story on this power struggle, Report: Russia again charges Berezovsky, [4] Moscow AP Bureau Chief Judith Ingram makes no mention anywhere that Berezovsky is an Israeli citizen, or of his many connections to Israel. Such omissions by AP and large swaths of the American media leave Americans seriously disadvantaged in deciphering what is going on in Russia, and its profound significance for the world. In order to make sense of this Russian power struggle, and to understand its importance to the rest of us, it is necessary to understand the usually omitted Israeli subtext. When this is understood, the friendship of such pro-Israel Congressional leaders as Rep. Lantos to fugitive Russian oil tycoons begins to make sense. To explore this background it is often useful to turn to the Israeli press. In July a major Israeli publication, the Jerusalem Post, carried an article headlined: Boris Berezovsky: Putin's Russia dangerous for Israel. Before describing what this contained, let us first go into a little of the background. The Oligarchs Boris Berezovsky is one of seven oligarchs, as they are known both inside and outside Russia: massively rich, powerful manipulators who through violence, theft and corruption acquired a mammoth percentage (reports range from 70 to 85 percent) of Russia's resources, from its oil to the auto industry to mass media outlets. At the same time, the group steadily gained control over much of the country's political apparatus. Using extraordinary financial resources and insider dealing, the oligarchs handpicked prime ministers and governmental leaders and barely even bothered to do this behind the scenes. In 1997 Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky, one of the group and Russia's sometimes richest man (several of the oligarchs trade the top spot back and forth) told an interviewer before he was arrested and imprisoned by Putin last year: If we rank all the fields of man's activity by profitability, politics will be the most lucrative business. When we see a critical situation in the government, we draw lots in order to pick out a person from our milieu for work in power. [5] Almost all of these oligarchs, it turns out, have significant ties to Israel. In fact, Berezovsky himself has Israeli citizenship a fact that caused a scandal of Watergate proportions in Russia in 1996 when it was exposed by a Russian newspaper. [6]
[Biofuel] Al Gore's Moral Leadership Lesson
Al Gore's Moral Leadership Lesson By Kelpie Wilson, TruthOut.org. Posted February 17, 2005. When it comes to global warming, Gore says that President Bush inhabits an 'un-reality bubble,' created by his advisers in the oil and coal industries, that will soon burst. On Wednesday the Kyoto Treaty on global warming went into effect and for the first time the world united (with the exception of the U.S. and Australia) to begin to address the greatest threat humankind has ever faced. On that same day, in Los Angeles, former Vice President Al Gore outlined a plan for moral leadership to take on the climate change crisis and to re-engage the world's biggest polluter - the United States of America. He called on George W. Bush to join the coalition of the willing and make a commitment to face the problem and take action. In a preview of his remarks for the press, Gore called the Kyoto agreement historic. While agreeing with the criticism that Kyoto itself falls far short of the measures that will ultimately be needed, Gore said that the value of Kyoto is that it sends a clear market signal. The cap and trade system for CO2 emissions is already in place in Europe and the response has been robust. He called the formal beginning of Kyoto a great cause for hope, and said that it was just the beginning of a cascade of actions and policies that will quickly accelerate. Gore believes that the market will respond because Business has learned to watch out for bubbles that lead to warped decisions. Bubbles are inflated expectations based on wishful thinking - like the hope that oil will never run out or that pollution won't affect business. Gore said that President Bush inhabits an un-reality bubble, created by his advisers in the oil and coal industries, that will soon burst. In business, Gore said, those who are lulled into a false sense of security will lose out to competitors who see clearly and can adapt to new realities. Any firm that wishes to do business internationally will have to comply with Kyoto. Already, he said, companies doing business in China face more environmental restrictions than they do in the U.S. Gore called Bush's climate change denial a stunning display of moral cowardice, and said that Bush has his head in the sand. Weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and Social Security are two false crises that Bush has promoted while he abdicates any leadership on the real crisis of global warming. When asked if he would be getting back into politics to provide the leadership he is calling for, Gore said he would not be a candidate but that he would be very active in other ways. He said he would announce a campaign to get U.S. automakers to drop their lawsuit against California and a number of Northeastern states that are regulating automobile CO2 emissions. We are going to call on U.S. automakers to innovate, not litigate, to stop suing the future and start building the future, Gore said. The McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act came in for praise, as did Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, a former Kyoto detractor (he called Kyoto a kooky idea back in 1999) who now wants to introduce his own legislation to address the problem. Hagel is an example of how minds that were formerly closed could be opened to admit the problem and deal with it. Gore also mentioned the growing willingness of evangelical Christians to look at the moral issues involved. It is unconscionable to condemn future generations to accelerated climate change, he said. While emphasizing the moral dimension, Gore insists that market forces have the power to generate creative solutions for climate change problems. Many environmentalists are uneasy with a reliance on market forces. For example, UK Guardian columnist George Monbiot said in a recent column: The denial of climate change, while out of tune with the science, is consistent with, even necessary for, the outlook of almost all the world's economists. Modern economics, whether informed by Marx or Keynes or Hayek, is premised on the notion that the planet has an infinite capacity to supply us with wealth and absorb our pollution. The cure to all ills is endless growth. Yet endless growth, in a finite world, is impossible. Pull this rug from under the economic theories, and the whole system of thought collapses. But promoting market solutions may be the cleverest method of proceeding. Monbiot is correct that global warming denial is powered by the almost religious belief in a growth economy. Yet, anyone who has studied the way that human beings alter their belief systems has discovered that new beliefs are much more easily adopted if they inhabit the shell of the old. The old Pagan religions of Europe were subverted by a Christianity that built its churches and cathedrals on top of the ancient sacred sites. To speak of market (read: economic growth) solutions to a problem caused by markets (economic
[Biofuel] Slum Politics
Slum Politics By James Westcott, AlterNet. Posted February 18, 2005. The squalid mini-city states known as slums now house at least one billion people across the world, living outside normal regulations. As their ranks swell, some are saying that it's time to start thinking of them a little differently. In the last three months, the Bombay Municipal Corporation has demolished 80,000 shanties in a city where 3 million people are slum dwellers. The local government recently granted legal status to homes built before 1995, and bulldozed everything else. The devastation is tsunami-like, according to the Indian Inter Press news agency. Three hundred and fifty thousand people have been made homeless but only 50,000 new apartments have been provided. The program is part of Bombay's plan to re-model itself on the ruthlessly prosperous Shanghai, which has tried to eradicate its slums. But Shanghai's slums remain, as they do in other cities, as part of an inexorable global trend: 200,000 people a day are carrot-and-sticked from the countryside to cities that then refuse to accommodate them. In Bombay they end up in shacks by the road, on railway tracks and next to the airport - embarrassingly visible from landing planes. In Lagos, two-thirds of which is made up of slums, a shanty town has sprouted up on an enormous, slowly burning garbage dump. In Kibera, the slum surrounding Nairobi, raw sewage flows over the few water pipes, and latrines are so scarce that people simply defecate in plastic bags and then throw them as far away from their dwelling as possible - a phenomenon called flying toilets. Eighty-five percent of the developing world's urban population now lives in slums, and 40 percent of slum dwellers in Africa live in what the UN calls life-threatening poverty. Elsewhere though, squatter communities are so well developed that they can't properly be called slums. With multi-story buildings, shops, businesses and offices - even a squatter town hall - Sultanbeyli in Istanbul is now almost indistinguishable from the adjacent legal city. Despite the varying conditions, the world's squatters hold certain things in common: they live in semi-sovereign, if squalid, mini-city states, paying no taxes and leaching services like water and electricity and, occasionally, some rights, from the legit world. They operate in an illegal or informal economy, and have only the most tenuous relationship with the state. According to the UN, by 2030 a quarter of the world's population will be living like this. In the midst of the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe of slum-growth, we could be in for some major social, political and economic consequences that are only just starting to be discussed. The rock star philosopher Slavoj Zizek has called the growth of slums the crucial geopolitical event of our time, and an opportunity for a truly 'free' world. Slum dwellers, though in sore need of health care and minimal means of self-organization, are free in the double sense of the word, says Zizek, writing in the London Review of Books: 'free' from all substantial ties; dwelling in a free space, outside the regulation of the state. Zizek warns against idealizing squatters as a new revolutionary class - their freedom really is another word for nothing left to lose - but in the next breath he marvels at how beautifully squatters seem to fit into Marx's definition of a proletarian revolutionary subject. With the apparent collapse of the anti-globalization carnival and the impotence of the anti-war movement, could the left be on to something, at last, with squatters - not the anarchists in developed cities who do it as a lifestyle choice, but the billion ex-peasants, entrepreneurs and derelicts who are starting to numerically dominate every city in the world outside of the northern and western hemispheres? Two new books touch tentatively - inadvertently even - on this possibility, without endorsing it. It might seem pretty callous to speculate from the comfort of the West about political opportunity in third world slums when people don't have clean drinking water or flush toilets. Or is it utterly necessary to move beyond the standard pity and fear of slum-dwellers and start recognizing them as political agents, not just victims? This seems to be Robert Neuwirth's aim in Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World (Routledge), although he doesn't actually note or promote the development of squatters' political capital. Neuwirth, a journalist based in New York, spent two years living in some of the world's burgeoning slums. He was dazzled by squatters' resourcefulness and doggedness, but these individualistic qualities don't seem to lend themselves to the building of co-operation within or between communities. While living among relatively prosperous squatters in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro's 150,000-strong shadow city, Neuwirth says that people
[Biofuel] The Carbon Brokers
CorpWatch: The Carbon Brokers by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch February 18th, 2005 Traders are gearing up for a new futures market. These new carbon exchanges promise billions in potential profit, but will they save the planet? High up in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, the town of Aspen has been blanketed with 24 inches of snow in the past week. This has meant booming business to a 60-year-old company which sells hotel rooms and ski passes to local attractions like the Hanging Valley Headwall. The Aspen Skiing Company may not always be so blessed. In the not-too-distant future, when climate change starts to take significant effect, warmer winters and less snow could cause the business to go bust. That's why this week Pat O'Donnell, the president of the company, decided to participate in a voluntary scheme to reduce global warming. On Tuesday O'Donell announced that his company would join the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) and trade greenhouse gas reductions, in a market that offers its members the opportunity to voluntarily commit to reducing their impact on the world's weather. The way the system works is this: CCX members agree to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by four percent by 2006. This percentage comes from a baseline percentage of emmisions that occurred from 1998-2001. Members who reduce beyond the goal may sell emission allowances on the exchange. Members who do not meet their goal must buy allowances on the exchange in order to stay in compliance. The ski business has to get our own house in order, otherwise we're sunk, Auden Schendler, the company's director of environmental affairs, told CorpWatch. Any sensible business leader knows that carbon credits are the wave of the future. The company is not legally required to trade in carbon credits because the United States has not signed the Climate Change Convention, but across the Atlantic, in Europe, most major power plants and factories, have become part of a legally binding scheme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, that went into effect this week. The European Union scheme is the first multi-national emissions trade system in the world that covers all 25 member states. Canada and Japan are planning their own carbon markets soon, which will likely be linked to the European Union scheme. The first carbon trade was actually executed, before the laws went into effect, in March 2003 between Shell, the global oil company, and Nuon, a six year old Dutch multinational that also supplies power to users in Belguim and Germany, in which Nuon bought a significant volume of allowances from Shell for 2005. Carbon trading is an umbrella term that includes the trading of greenhouse gas reduction credits that were defined in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol of the Climate Change convention, first drawn up in 1992. There are two major systems of trad that were agreed upon - Joint Implementation (JI) and Clean Development Mechanisms (CDM). JI allows emissions credits to be traded between two different countries. CDM allows companies to earn credits by paying for emissions-reducing and clean energy projects in developing countries. Countries set greenhouse gas limits for emitting companies, giving those companies what the Kyoto Protocol calls Assigned Amount Units (AAUs). If a company produces less than its limit, it can trade remaining allotments to companies that have exceeded their limit. Each country gets to decide how to divide up its carbon allocation - for example Denmark announced this week that its 235 electricity and heat producers will be allocated 65.1 million tonnes, while 120 industry and offshore producers will be allocated 27.6 million tonnes. In addition the country set aside a reserve of 0.9 million tonnes for new entrants and significant growth. The incentive to trade is based on the fact that for every tonne of CO2 that goes over their target, companies are liable to a fine of 40 euros during a three-year transitional period. From 2008 to 2012, the punishment zooms up, to 100 euros per tonne of CO2. All told, some 13,000 companies across Europe are required to take part in the scheme, such as electricity and heat generators that exceed 20 megawatts, cement, ceramics, ferrous metal, glass, pulp and paper producers, which are the largest emitters of green house gases. The biggest emitters of carbon dioxide registered under the EU scheme are respectively; the German energy groups RWE AG and E.ON, Swedish power company Vattenfall, Endesa from Spain, followed by Anglo-Dutch steel and aluminium company Corus Group, Royal Dutch Shell Group, Thyssen Krupp, Estonian power group Eesti Energia and Britain's Drax Power. The current market price of a tonne of carbon is currently 7.92 Euros (roughly $11), but it has fluctuated from 6 to 13.20 euros per tonne. There are six exchanges that help companies buy and sell carbon credits - CCX (which also owns
[Biofuel] Carbon: Under Kyoto, A Hot Commodity
CorpWatch: Carbon: Under Kyoto, A Hot Commodity by Daphne Wysham, Special to CorpWatch February 18th, 2005 As the Kyoto Protocol comes into force this month, carbon is becoming one of the hottest commodities on the international marketplace, with investors predicting that it could soon become one of the largest markets in the world. The Protocol's flexible market-based mechanisms allow corporate polluters to evade their emissions reduction obligations at home by buying up and trading carbon emission quotas and credits from other countries, projects or industries. Critics charge that carbon trading is a smokescreen. At best, it is designed to attain carbon neutrality-representing no net growth in emissions for a country or industry, but doing so cheaply. At worst, it may make the warming climate even less stable, while robbing the poor of their rights. Soumitra Ghosh, who works with forest workers in India, worries that such carbon trading will only further global inequality. It has the potential to set up a system, he says, wherein the poorest and darkest-skinned pay the highest price- with their health, their land, and, in some cases, with their lives - for continued carbon profligacy by the rich. Under the Protocol, the UN would distribute pollution rights to 38 industrialized nations. With the exception of the United States, which is boycotting the Protocol, and Australia, these governments are quietly handing out these entitlements free of charge to major corporate polluters in sectors like electricity generation, oil, steel, cement, chemicals, pulp and paper. These pollution rights are tradable, much to the joy of free market advocates and consternation of social and environmental justice critics. Under the Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), one potential way to earn carbon credits involves funding carbon dioxide saving projects in the global South. These projects are designed to keep greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere either by preventing their release or by sequestering them. Forests and tree plantations are one of the preferred forms -- and are often called carbon sinks, since trees remove carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it in their wood. Renewable energy projects are also admissible as sinks since they produce energy without burning fossil fuels. These new markets for forest carbon offsets can finance rural development investments that help to reduce poverty and conserve biodiversity, claims an advocate of these market mechanisms, the Katoomba Group. The Katoomba Group, launched in 2000, promotes carbon markets, as well as markets for a variety of ecosystems services. The Katoomba Group includes in its membership banks such as Citigroup, ABN Amro, and the World Bank, corporations such as Coca-Cola, Mitsubishi, and Newmont Mining, and NGOs like the Nature Conservancy and Forest Trends, as well as representatives from government agencies and India's coal-rich state, Orissa. Among the ecosystem services Katoomba Group is exploring creating markets for are water, forests, biodiversity, and conservation easements. The group believes that the world's poor have much to gain from participating in forest carbon projects. But not everyone agrees. Voices of dissent Even in purely economic terms, a market in credits from 'carbon-saving' projects will fail, says Jutta Kill of Sinkswatch, a British-based watchdog organization. You simply can't verify whether a power plant's emissions can be 'compensated for' by a tree plantation or other project. Ultimately investors are bound to lose confidence in the credits they buy from such projects. Others are bothered by the larger implications of carbon trading. Larry Lohman of the UK-based activist group The Cornerhouse, for instance, sees important ties to property rights. The distribution of carbon allowances constitutes one of the largest, if not the largest, projects for creation and regressive distribution of property rights in human history, says Lohman. Also proposed is the planting of genetically modified trees that will grow faster and absorb more CO2. But, says Anne Petermann, of Global Justice Ecology Project, these franken-trees will lead to the destruction of native forests, worsening global warming. The World Bank's involvement Foremost among those set to profit from carbon trading is the World Bank -- also a major financier of fossil fuel developments. Eight years ago confidential documents were leaked to the Institute for Policy Studies from within the World Bank, revealing the early internal debates around plans for the World Bank to get involved in carbon trading. That year, the U.S. government was forging Kyoto's Joint Implementation trading scheme, in which carbon emission credits were traded exclusively among industrial Northern countries. Brazil and other developing countries countered with the much more intuitive Clean
[Biofuel] U.N.: Cheaper Food, More Hunger
CBS News | U.N.: Cheaper Food, More Hunger ROME, Feb. 15, 2005 There is no silver bullet that will solve all of these problems. David Hallam, editor of the report (AP) Hundreds of millions of people in poor countries risk hunger as the price of basic commodities such as sugar and coffee falls and trade policies that favor rich nations remain in place, a U.N. agency warned Tuesday. As wealthier nations have subsidized their farmers and used their resources to diversify exports, the world's least developed countries have borne the brunt of a steady decline in commodity prices from the late 1990s through 2001, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said. As prices of commodities including sugar, coffee, cotton and bananas have fallen, poor countries - most in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean - have had less money to import food, the Rome-based agency said in its first report on agricultural commodity markets. The report noted that the same price reductions have left many developing countries paying less for their food imports, while the prices of some commodities including cereals, oil crops, dairy products, fibers and raw materials have rebounded over the last two years. But many of the world's poorest countries remain dependent on one or a just a few agricultural commodities for much of their export revenues, continue to be vulnerable to price fluctuations, and face mounting debt. These problems are exacerbated by market distortions, arising from tariffs and subsidies in developed countries, tariffs in developing countries and the market power ... of large transnational corporations, the report said. Between 2001 and 2003 developing countries had an average agricultural trade deficit of $6 billion, a figure that is expected to increase to $15 billion by 2015 and $35 billion by 2030, the agency's assistant director general, Hartwig De Haen, told a news conference. Some 43 developing countries depend on a single commodity for more than 20 percent of their revenues from merchandise exports, the report said. It called on World Trade Organization negotiations to give priority to bringing down agricultural tariffs, producer support and export subsidies in developed countries - but urged developing countries to reduce their own tariffs and take advantage of trade liberalization. The report said that commodity prices - reduced by increases in global productivity - are forced further down by high agricultural tariffs and producer subsidies in rich countries. De Haen said the agency would push for special and differential treatment for developing countries in helping to protect them against agricultural price changes. He said that the least developed countries, which lacked the resources to shift production to high value export crops, also had problems meeting quality standards and delivery deadlines of rich country supermarket chains. The report proposed measures including insurance schemes to help protect farmers against price fluctuations, and called for developing countries to diversify agricultural production to nontraditional goods. The agency said it was also involved in instructing developing countries on how to respond to price changes and how to act effectively in international trade negotiations. There is no silver bullet that will solve all of these problems, said David Hallam, editor of the report. ©MMV, The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ___ 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] Soap aerated concrete
Martin, I wouldn't mind using RHA for such a thing, but I don't think I'm within 1000 miles of a rice field. -- Martin K Are you anywhere near Minnesota? We have quite the rice industry here. After all these posts I though I might look into it this summer. ___ 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/
