Re: [Biofuel] Bring loaded firearms aboard

2006-09-18 Thread Ian
At 13:48 16/09/2006, D. Mindock said:

Garrison makes some good points. Peace, D. Mindock



The jihadists we're afraid of are, so far as we know, 
young Muslim men from the Middle East, not old grandmas named Evelyn and 
Gladys married to soybean farmers, and not even old white guys like me, 
but nonetheless they pat us down for plastic explosives under our 
Sansabelts and have us raise our stockinged feet to be wanded for possible 
toe bombs.

But the only person actually arrested for trying to bomb a plane in flight was 
not a young Muslim from the middle east, but a British citizen called Richard 
Reid who was arrested after he tried to detonate explosive that was concealed 
in his shoe on American Airlines Flight 63 on 22 December 2001.


Ian

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Re: [Biofuel] Bring loaded firearms aboard

2006-09-18 Thread Chip Mefford
D. Mindock wrote:
 Garrison makes some good points. Peace, D. Mindock

--interesting read snipped.

Once upon a time, not so very long ago,

I recall some blogger or loudmouth going on and on about his
idea for an air line.

This would be an international airline.

The deal was,

1)You can bring your own sidearm, you just have to use
our ammo**
2) You can drink on our airline.
3) you can smoke cigars,cigarettes,pipe in our smoking
lounge.
4) Once over international air-space, you can smoke pot/hash
on board our airline. (in our smoking lounge)
5)you can handcarry your baggage.

**ammo would be standard stuff with a turned nylon
slug, which is lethal at close range, but has very
very poor penetration.

Now, as to how you get legal pot/hash aboard in the first
place, I have no idea.
But I thought it was interesting.

His point was, you could charge whatever you wanted for fares,
and would probably solid-book every flight, and in fact,
have huge waiting lists.

I know I'd fly this airline.


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Re: [Biofuel] Bring loaded firearms aboard

2006-09-18 Thread bob allen
guns and liquor, now there is a winning combination.
I'll pass on that flight.

Chip Mefford wrote:
 D. Mindock wrote:
 Garrison makes some good points. Peace, D. Mindock
 
 --interesting read snipped.
 
 Once upon a time, not so very long ago,
 
 I recall some blogger or loudmouth going on and on about his
 idea for an air line.
 
 This would be an international airline.
 
 The deal was,
 
 1)You can bring your own sidearm, you just have to use
 our ammo**
 2) You can drink on our airline.
 3) you can smoke cigars,cigarettes,pipe in our smoking
 lounge.
 4) Once over international air-space, you can smoke pot/hash
 on board our airline. (in our smoking lounge)
 5)you can handcarry your baggage.
 
 **ammo would be standard stuff with a turned nylon
 slug, which is lethal at close range, but has very
 very poor penetration.
 
 Now, as to how you get legal pot/hash aboard in the first
 place, I have no idea.
 But I thought it was interesting.
 
 His point was, you could charge whatever you wanted for fares,
 and would probably solid-book every flight, and in fact,
 have huge waiting lists.
 
 I know I'd fly this airline.
 
 
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[Biofuel] Princeton researchers hack the vote

2006-09-18 Thread D. Mindock



http://reviews.cnet.com/4531-10921_7-6638094.html?tag=blogtag=nl.e501 


 
September 14, 2006, 2:59 PM 
PDTPrinceton researchers hack the 
vote Posted by: Robert Vamosi 
Researchers at Princeton intentionally 
injected malicious software into a Diebold Accu-vote-TS voting machine for the 
purposes of security research. In an online 
video the researchers, Ariel J. Feldman, J. Alex 
Halderman, and Edward W. Felten, conducted a pretend presidential election in 
which George Washington receives four votes to Benedict Arnold's one. Yet, when 
the voting machine is queried at the end of the day, its paper printout states 
that Arnold received three votes to Washington's two. Even the memory card, 
designed as a backup, reports the same fraudulent result. There is no way for an 
observer after the fact to disprove that voters did not give Arnold three votes 
to Washington's two--except that we saw in the video that the voters did in fact 
vote differently. The researchers at Princeton exploited well-known software 
flaws with the Diebold Accu-vote-TS voting to construct their malicious code and 
cited lax security procedures at the polling sites, such the ability to pick the 
lock on the memory card, as a means of spreading the malicious code. Full 
details are available in this PDF 
report. See also this story on News.com. 


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[Biofuel] Seeds of Hope, Monsanto and Mercatus Center

2006-09-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi All,

Monsanto recently launched a product called 'Seeds of Hope' - promoted
locally (in South Africa) by the worst forms of marketing cynicism.  We’re
also being told how marvelous this product is by a research outfit called
Enterprise Africa! and the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.  (I
don’t like promoting them but for reference purposes
http://www.freemarketfoundation.com.)  Enterprise Africa! appears to have
links with the Free Market Foundation of which Monsanto is a ‘Senior
Corporate Member’ – having paid between R100 00-00 and R10 000-00 (+- $14
000-00 to $1 400-00) for this title.

My questions to the group are two: does anyone know of any Monsanto funding
of the Mercatus Centre?  I’m also looking for honest research on this
‘Seeds of Hope’ product?

Regards,
Duncan



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Re: [Biofuel] Foolproof Method

2006-09-18 Thread Joe Street
Hey Mike;

Ok I don't get this.  I've seen this kind of comment a few times before 
and I don't see the logic in it.  It takes me all of what 5 maybe 10 
minutes to do a titration.  Isn't it more fuss and work to do bracket 
test batches than just to run a titration? 

Joe


Mike Weaver wrote:

snip


I'm just lazy and go with what is easy - I don't even titrate - just run 
a few bracket batches.  So far so good...

  



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Re: [Biofuel] Foolproof Method

2006-09-18 Thread Mike Weaver
Nah, the oil's always the same - it never changes - there's very litle 
range.  When I get it I usually let it settle,
then do a quick 3 batches with 1 liter shakes in a mason jar ( I know- I 
release the pressure).  The batches are probably pointless also.

If I didn't have such steady oil I'd titrate more - I even have a Hanna 
PH meter.

I'm not recommending it - it's just what I've wound up with.

Just find I don't need to titrate for now...

Joe Street wrote:

Hey Mike;

Ok I don't get this.  I've seen this kind of comment a few times before 
and I don't see the logic in it.  It takes me all of what 5 maybe 10 
minutes to do a titration.  Isn't it more fuss and work to do bracket 
test batches than just to run a titration? 

Joe


Mike Weaver wrote:

snip

  

I'm just lazy and go with what is easy - I don't even titrate - just run 
a few bracket batches.  So far so good...

 





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[Biofuel] Bartering w. BD

2006-09-18 Thread Thomas Kelly



Hello All,
 My brother-in-law is a 
diesel mechanic and has done work on my Mercedes. I pay for parts, but he 
steadfastly refuses money, gift certificates or any other form of payment for 
his labor. If I'm lucky I can buy him lunch.
 He has always been 
fascinated w. the BD I make. He is willing to accept some of my homebrew to use 
in his oil-fired heating system.
A friend delivered a 
couple of drums of methanol to my house and refused to even accept $ for fuel 
(diesel). He did accept some of my homebrewed BD.
 A couple of times a year a 
neighbor delivers a beautiful pile of horse manure tothe back of my 
garden.As a "Thank You" I have been dropping a bottle of wine off at his 
house along with some tomatoes from the garden. Last time he expressed interest 
in my homebrewed BD. Next time ... a bottle of wine, some tomatoes 
and a cubie full of fresh BD?
 I like bartering this way. 
I don't mind erring on the side of generosity, butwould appreciate some 
guidance.
 What do you suppose the going 
rate (BD/hour, gallons/job) for
1. Mechanic working on car. My bro-in-law is going 
to install a block heater in my car in the next week or two. 
2. Excavation work
3. Electrical work
4. Carpentry
5. Medical/Dental work

Feel free to add others
 
Tom




 

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Re: [Biofuel] amazing himalayan salt

2006-09-18 Thread Joe Street




Hi Mike;

There is a part of me ( the part I like to think is wise) that tends to
trust what comes out of mother nature's laboratory much more than the
industrial product. This is why I use butter not margarine. This is why
I prefer herbs over medicines and organic foods over factory. This
voice is always whispering that the more raw something is, the closer
it is to it's natural state, the better. This voice tells that the
converse, the more refined anything is, the more goodness has been
stripped away and the more unhealthy in terms of preservatives and
traces of processing steps are left behind in the product. I, like
some others, confound myself at times with doublethink on this front
however. For example water purified by reverse osmosis definitely is
free of VOC's and chlorine, flourine etc but so are the minerals
removed and drinking highly purified water can leach minerals from the
body. So I stuggle to understand where the correct balance is at
times. Bottled spring water can contain higher than the municipal
level of heavy metals. I have wondered about natural salt deposits in
this regard although I admit I have been lazy about doing my homework
and looking for an assay on alternative salt products. I was told that
iodine was added to salt because there were many more cases of thyroid
problems in the population before this was done (unless this is
disinformation and I am to learn that it aint so and it was just a way
to unload iodine from some excess industrial process on an unsuspecting
population vis the flouride scene with toothpaste and city water) It
is often hard to know who or what to believe unless it is right in your
area of knowledge. All I can hope to do is fight laziness and keep
looking for information. This list is a goldmine in this regard and I
can never give enough thanks for all I have learned from all the
contibuting members here.
BTW the sea salt I use doesn't pour well. I regard this as
encouraging. What have 'they' done to regular table salt to make it
run so easily hmmm? I wonder.

Joe

MK DuPree wrote:

  
  
  
  Hi Bob and
List...I don't know. But I wish I could know all the time what is
right and what is wrong,what is on one side and what is on another,
whether or not there really is one side or another, but I don't know,
the lines between this and that oftentimes become obscure. Maybe we
should vaccinate, maybe we shouldn't. Maybe hell is freezing over,
maybe it isn't. I don't know. 
   I do
know this, however, I have no one to blame but myself. I'm not sure I
can say the same for anyone else, because it's really none of my
business, but this is true for me--I have no one to blame but
myself.And it is this that I seek for everyone, that they are able to
one day and forever thereafter accept and say the same thing for
him/her self. Why?I can't answer that for you. So it's for me to
know and you to find out...for yourself. I can see you are trying,
just like others are trying too. And this is where I hope we of this
List can all findpeace with each other, that each of us istryingin
his or herown way to take responsibility for oneself,to have no one
to blame but ourself.
   Maybe
we should be trying to understand each other better. And when we don't
agree, rather than throw ridicule at each other, stop and ask a
question. I don't know. Maybe the path of ridicule, conjecture, leads
to personal responsibility. Maybe. 
   Anyway,
there's so much that goes on here that is worthy of being labeled of
real WORTH. Maybe it's the freedom to ridicule too. Ok. 
   Ah
well...it's a beautiful day here today...perfect temperature, sunshine
and a breeze--for breakfast outside with the flys.
   Mike
DuPree 
  
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  From: "bob allen" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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  Sent: Saturday, September
16, 2006 10:23 AM
  Subject: [Biofuel] amazing
himalayan salt
  
  
  
   http://www.mercola.com/forms/salt.htm
   
 and what a deal, only 7.95 usd (plus shipping and handling) for 4
ounces.
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: [Biofuel] Bartering w. BD

2006-09-18 Thread Joe Street




Hi Tom;

Why not figure it on a per miles basis. What I mean is the value of
the fuel in terms of the mileage it gives. What would it be worth to
someone to travel 1000 km? If you want to be generous you can figure
this back to dollars based on your cost and then factor in something
for your time, or you could just figure it in terms of the going rate
for diesel at the pump. Depends on how generous you want to be. Same
goes for using BD as a heating fuel.

Joe

Thomas Kelly wrote:

  
  
  
  Hello All,
   My brother-in-law is a diesel
mechanic and has done work on my Mercedes. I pay for parts, but he
steadfastly refuses money, gift certificates or any other form of
payment for his labor. If I'm lucky I can buy him lunch.
   He has always been fascinated
w. the BD I make. He is willing to accept some of my homebrew to use in
his oil-fired heating system.
  A friend delivered a couple of
drums of methanol to my house and refused to even accept $ for fuel
(diesel). He did accept some of my homebrewed BD.
   A couple of times a year a
neighbor delivers a beautiful pile of horse manure tothe back of my
garden.As a "Thank You" I have been dropping a bottle of wine off at
his house along with some tomatoes from the garden. Last time he
expressed interest in my homebrewed BD. Next time ... a bottle of
wine, some tomatoes and a cubie full of fresh BD?
   I like bartering this way. I
don't mind erring on the side of generosity, butwould appreciate some
guidance.
   What do you suppose the going
rate (BD/hour, gallons/job) for
  1. Mechanic working on car. My
bro-in-law is going to install a block heater in my car in the next
week or two. 
  2. Excavation work
  3. Electrical work
  4. Carpentry
  5. Medical/Dental work
  
  Feel free to add others
  
Tom
  
  
  
  
   
  

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Re: [Biofuel] Titration (was Foolproof Method)

2006-09-18 Thread Thomas Kelly
Mike,
 What moved me to look at the Foolproof Method was the fact that the WVO 
I collect from the same places that consistently titrated (when blended) at 
1.8 to 2.2g NaOH /L had suddenly jumped to  3.2 - 3.5 this past summer. It 
hit 3.7 one week. Apparently due to increased summer business.
  Two weeks ago I titrated each of the 10 cubies of WVO I had collected. 
It took about 45 minutes.
  I collect from a Chinese Restaurant. They change their fryer twice a 
week, like clockwork. Their WVO titrated between 1.6 and 1.8 for 9 months. 
Their summer oil titrated at 2.8. The only place that didn't change is a 
restaurant that doesn't have a fryer. Their oil is consistent summer or 
winter (.8  - 1.0 !!!).

My points are:
1. Titration only takes a few minutes.
2. WVO from the same source can vary significantly in
FFA. If the titration increases just 0.5 g NaOH/L and I run my normal 
80L batch, I will be short by 40 grams of lye, and suspect that I'd get an 
incomplete reaction.

I hesitate to ask   Images of The Wizard of Oz
Are you suggesting that my apples are not what they should be?
Do you do quality tests on your BD?

 Tom
- Original Message - 
From: Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Foolproof Method


 Nah, the oil's always the same - it never changes - there's very litle
 range.  When I get it I usually let it settle,
 then do a quick 3 batches with 1 liter shakes in a mason jar ( I know- I
 release the pressure).  The batches are probably pointless also.

 If I didn't have such steady oil I'd titrate more - I even have a Hanna
 PH meter.

 I'm not recommending it - it's just what I've wound up with.

 Just find I don't need to titrate for now...

 Joe Street wrote:

Hey Mike;

Ok I don't get this.  I've seen this kind of comment a few times before
and I don't see the logic in it.  It takes me all of what 5 maybe 10
minutes to do a titration.  Isn't it more fuss and work to do bracket
test batches than just to run a titration?

Joe


Mike Weaver wrote:

snip



I'm just lazy and go with what is easy - I don't even titrate - just run
a few bracket batches.  So far so good...







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Re: [Biofuel] 2005 Chevy Diesel 6.6 liter duramax

2006-09-18 Thread Morgan, Ronnie
I am new to this list and the making of biodiesel.  However being a diesel
owner and seeing the new stickers on all the diesel pumps I became concerned
not fully understanding what exactly the sticker means.  So about two weeks
ago while filling up my company truck I saw a state fuel guy checking pumps
and gas tanks.  So I asked him what the deal was.  He says that they are
putting in place new diesel.  A 2006 and older vehicle will burn either fuel
the old diesel or new lower sulfur diesel.  2007 vehicles must burn the new
diesel or it MAY cause damage to the vehicle.  I live in central Oklahoma and
he said he thought that the new diesel had to be in place by October, 2006
and the place I was filling up at and surrounding towns already had the new
diesel.  I know it doesn't answer about BD but my understanding is BD has no
sulfur in it anyway so its even better to burn than the new diesel being sold
at pumps. Go figure.

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I think it's that high-sulpher diesel should not be used in 2007 or 
later diesels, but I'd double-check.

chris davidson wrote:

 Hello All,

 I was talking to a friend that just bought a 2005 Chevy Duramax 2500 
 6.6 liter turbo Diesel. He was wondering if using biodiesel with that 
 year-model would be okay. He mentioned that the 2007 models have some 
 sort of warning stating that biodiesel should not be used. Any 
 knowledge or personal experience using biodiesel with these model 
 trucks would be greatly appreciated.

 Thanks,
 Chris Davidson



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[Biofuel] A Year Ago Today

2006-09-18 Thread Thomas Kelly



 A year ago today I poured 
homebrewed BD into my "new" '82 Mercedes 300SD for the first time. I had 
traveled to the southern part of the US (Florida) in order to get a car 
that had not been exposed to road salt, potholes, and the transmission wear from 
trying to get out of snow drifts. 
 I remember the 
doubtsas I poured 2 gallons of the fuel into the tank... what if 
this is just a hoax? A week's time, 2500 
miles,andmoney spent only to havea very nice car come gliding 
to a halt as the homemade fuel destroys the engine.The fact is that 
several friends/acquaintances thought I was a nut for trying to make my own 
diesel fuel. I can't tell you how many times I heard some version of: "If it was 
possible to make diesel fuel in your backyard don't you think everyone would be 
doing it?" or "Tom's doing what?"
A year spent researching, doing test batches, 
locating sources for WVO and for chemicals, scaling up, and it all came down to 
these next few minutes. 
 I drove the car up and 
downmy road a few times and then decided to take a drive to town. I 
brought the cell phone just in case.
 One year and almost 14000 
miles later the car runs fine.
I had to put a couple of tankfuls of petro in it on 
a recent trip, but other than that it's been B100 when temps are above 35F and 
B70 in the colder months. I haven't had any engine problems. I never had filter 
clogging, but still carry spare filters + the 
tools to change them.

 Thanks to all of you ... it's 
been a most interesting year.

 
Tom
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[Biofuel] socialism, taxes, economics, comments please.

2006-09-18 Thread Chip Mefford
Spent a lot of hours behind the wheel these last few weeks.
Driving from the 'services' economy of the greater mid-atlantic
Washington DC USA region, through rural WV, and Pa, up through
industrialized and agricultural southern Canada, down through
agricultural and tourist economy of northern Michigan/UP...

A model came to mind.

A Very Simple Economic Model.
-

Albert, the blacksmith.
Earns the equiv of $24,000 US a year
plying his trade.

Beverly, the mortgage banker.
Earns the equiv of $240,000 US a year,
plying her trade.

Charles, the surgeon,
Earns the equiv of $2.400,000 US a year
plying his trade

Emily, the CEO,
Earns the equiv of $24,000,000 US a year
plying her trade.

In this community, folks work 8 hours a day
to fulfill their trade obligations, no more,
no less.

In this community, folks work 5 days a week
to fulfill their trade obligations, no more,
no less.

In this community, folks work 48 weeks a year
to fulfill their trade obligations, no more,
no less.

In this community where Albert, Beverly,
Charles and Emily live, it takes 1 hour
to go the communal well, and draw the
water needed for the day, and haul it
back to their respective domiciles.

---

Q1.
What is an hours labour worth in this community?

Q2.
Should the community consider bringing in cheap labour
to haul their water?

Q3,
Should the community levee a tax and use the tax to
pay the cheap labour to haul the water?
Q3.1
  If so, at what rate should Albert, Beverly, Charles
and Emily be taxed?

Discussion.

What is this hour devoted to drawing water worth?
Since there are 24 hours in the day, and all the
hours are spoken for, doing the regular stuff,
like raising kids, cleaning house, working,
fiddling about, and occasionally watching NFL
or world cup rallye, the only reason to do offload
the hauling of water duty would be to gain an extra
hour of free time.

So, to Albert, an hour of free time is essentially
worth $1000 over a year. To Beverly, $10,000, to
Charles $100,000 and to Emily $1,000,000.



Discussion
How does the Nash Equilibrium bear on this
scenario?

-

Somewhere, I'm sure this Very Simple Model is
already addressed. If someone could point me to
a paper, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Comments please.

thanks.






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Re: [Biofuel] socialism, taxes, economics, comments please.

2006-09-18 Thread Joe Street
Hey Chip yer off by a factor of three there aren't you?

Joe

PS Emily makes too much! I think she's a witch.  BURN HER!

Chip Mefford wrote: 

snip


Albert, the blacksmith.
Earns the equiv of $24,000 US a year
plying his trade.


In this community, folks work 8 hours a day
to fulfill their trade obligations, no more,
no less.

In this community, folks work 5 days a week
to fulfill their trade obligations, no more,
no less.

In this community, folks work 48 weeks a year
to fulfill their trade obligations, no more,
no less.

In this community where Albert, Beverly,
Charles and Emily live, it takes 1 hour
to go the communal well, and draw the
water needed for the day, and haul it
back to their respective domiciles.

  

snip snip

  


So, to Albert, an hour of free time is essentially
worth $1000 over a year. To Beverly, $10,000, to
Charles $100,000 and to Emily $1,000,000.

  

snip snip snip

Comments please.

thanks.
  



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Re: [Biofuel] socialism, taxes, economics, comments please.

2006-09-18 Thread Chip Mefford
Joe Street wrote:
 Hey Chip yer off by a factor of three there aren't you?

Nope.

All 24 hours are spoken for.
Can't peel an hour from anywhere, and it's work
time that is at issue.

So, if Albert (the likely candidate, being lowest
on the payscale) were to trade an hour of his labour
for an extra hour of hauling water for Beverly,
he'd be trading $1000 of his time over a year,
saving Beverly one hour, or $10,000.

 
 Joe
 
 PS Emily makes too much! I think she's a witch.  BURN HER!

Need to check and see if she weighs the same as
a duck first, but assuming so, yeah, go for it!


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Re: [Biofuel] A Year Ago Today

2006-09-18 Thread MK DuPree



Tom...Congratulations! Mike 
DuPree

- Original Message - 

  From: 
  Thomas 
  Kelly 
  To: biofuel 
  Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 1:16 
  PM
  Subject: [Biofuel] A Year Ago Today
  
   A year ago today I 
  poured homebrewed BD into my "new" '82 Mercedes 300SD for the first time. I 
  had traveled to the southern part of the US (Florida) in order to get a 
  car that had not been exposed to road salt, potholes, and the transmission 
  wear from trying to get out of snow drifts. 
   I remember the 
  doubtsas I poured 2 gallons of the fuel into the tank... what if 
  this is just a hoax? A week's time, 2500 
  miles,andmoney spent only to havea very nice car come 
  gliding to a halt as the homemade fuel destroys the engine.The fact is 
  that several friends/acquaintances thought I was a nut for trying to make my 
  own diesel fuel. I can't tell you how many times I heard some version of: "If 
  it was possible to make diesel fuel in your backyard don't you think everyone 
  would be doing it?" or "Tom's doing what?"
  A year spent researching, doing test batches, 
  locating sources for WVO and for chemicals, scaling up, and it all came down 
  to these next few minutes. 
   I drove the car up and 
  downmy road a few times and then decided to take a drive to town. I 
  brought the cell phone just in case.
   One year and almost 
  14000 miles later the car runs fine.
  I had to put a couple of tankfuls of petro in it 
  on a recent trip, but other than that it's been B100 when temps are above 35F 
  and B70 in the colder months. I haven't had any engine problems. I never had 
  filter clogging, but still carry spare filters + the tools to change them.
  
   Thanks to all of you ... it's 
  been a most interesting year.
  
   
  Tom
  
  

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Re: [Biofuel] socialism, taxes, economics, comments please.

2006-09-18 Thread Joe Street




u well, 1 hr at $12.50/hr times 5 days a week times 48 weeks comes
to $3000.00 unless my calulator is busted...it is a microsoft thingie
after all. Assuming he dehydrates over the weekend and Christmas of
course.

Joe

Chip Mefford wrote:

  Joe Street wrote:
  
  
Hey Chip yer off by a factor of three there aren't you?

  
  
Nope.

All 24 hours are spoken for.
Can't peel an hour from anywhere, and it's work
time that is at issue.

So, if Albert (the likely candidate, being lowest
on the payscale) were to trade an hour of his labour
for an extra hour of hauling water for Beverly,
he'd be trading $1000 of his time over a year,
saving Beverly one hour, or $10,000.

  
  
Joe

PS Emily makes too much! I think she's a witch.  BURN HER!

  
  
Need to check and see if she weighs the same as
a duck first, but assuming so, yeah, go for it!


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Re: [Biofuel] amazing himalayan salt

2006-09-18 Thread bob allen
Howdy Joe, Mike, et al

Joe Street wrote:
 Hi Mike;
 
 There is a part of me ( the part I like to think is wise) that tends to 
 trust what comes out of mother nature's laboratory much more than the 
 industrial product. This is why I use butter not margarine. 

better the devil you know than the devil you don't know? (butter, 
saturated fat and cholesterol vs margarine, trans fats)

This is why
 I prefer herbs over medicines

most medicines are herbs, or modeled after them and are purer and more 
predictable, with known side effects, at least after time to 
accumulate statistically relevant data.   The problems with herbs as I 
see it is two fold- frequently there is a lack of proven efficacy and 
secondly, dosage is unclear.  Amounts of efficacious agents varies 
from species to species and even plant to plant depending on where/how 
it is grown.



  and organic foods over factory.

agreed, with the exception of factory Organic  ala recent spinach issue

This voice
 is always whispering that the more raw something is, the closer it is to 
 it's natural state, the better.  This voice tells that the converse, the 
 more refined anything is, the more goodness has been stripped away and 
 the more unhealthy in terms of preservatives and traces of processing 
 steps are left behind in the product.

processing is relative.  Cassava is dangerously poisonous without 
processing


  I, like some others, confound
 myself at times with doublethink on this front however.  For example 
 water purified by reverse osmosis  definitely is free of VOC's and 
 chlorine, flourine etc but so are the minerals removed and drinking 
 highly purified water can leach minerals from the body.  So I stuggle to 
 understand where the correct balance is at times. 

  we all struggle- nobody said life was easy

  Bottled spring water
 can contain higher than the municipal level of heavy metals.  I have 
 wondered about natural salt deposits in this regard although I admit I 
 have been lazy about doing my homework and looking for an assay on 
 alternative salt products. 

as far as I am aware there is no such thing as unnatural salt.


  I was told that iodine was added to salt
 because there were many more cases of thyroid problems in the population 
 before this was done 

iodination of salt began in earnest in the great lakes regions where 
the available salt had particularly low levels of iodine.  See info on 
the goiter belt

http://www3.uakron.edu/mmlab/dose/dose1_10.htm



(unless this is disinformation and I am to learn
 that it aint so and it was just a way to unload iodine from some excess 
 industrial process on an unsuspecting population vis the flouride scene 
 with toothpaste and city water)  It is often hard to know who or what to 
 believe unless it is right in your area of knowledge. All I can hope to 
 do is fight laziness and keep looking for information.  This list is a 
 goldmine in this regard and I can never give enough thanks for all I 
 have learned from all the contibuting members here.
 BTW the sea salt I use doesn't pour well. 

pure salt, as well as salt without a desiccant clumps up in humid 
climates (it is hygroscopic)  Hence Sodium alumino silicate or a 
similar desiccant is added.  Mortons has advertised this property for 
years-when it rains it pours.


  I regard this as
 encouraging.  What have 'they' done to regular table salt to make it run 
 so easily hmmm? I wonder.
 
 Joe
 
 MK DuPree wrote:
 Hi Bob and List...I don't know.  But I wish I could know all the time 
 what is right and what is wrong, what is on one side and what is on 
 another, whether or not there really is one side or another, but I 
 don't know, the lines between this and that oftentimes become 
 obscure.  Maybe we should vaccinate, maybe we shouldn't.  Maybe hell 
 is freezing over, maybe it isn't.  I don't know. 
  I do know this, however, I have no one to blame but myself.  I'm 
 not sure I can say the same for anyone else, because it's really none 
 of my business, but this is true for me--I have no one to blame but 
 myself.  And it is this that I seek for everyone, that they are able 
 to one day and forever thereafter accept and say the same thing for 
 him/her self.  Why?  I can't answer that for you.  So it's for me to 
 know and you to find out...for yourself.  I can see you are trying, 
 just like others are trying too.  And this is where I hope we of this 
 List can all find peace with each other, that each of us is trying in 
 his or her own way to take responsibility for oneself, to have no one 
 to blame but ourself.
  Maybe we should be trying to understand each other better.  And 
 when we don't agree, rather than throw ridicule at each other, stop 
 and ask a question.  I don't know.  Maybe the path of ridicule, 
 conjecture, leads to personal responsibility.  Maybe. 
  Anyway, there's so much that goes on here that is worthy of being 
 labeled of real WORTH.  Maybe it's the freedom to ridicule 

[Biofuel] Cheney-Specter bill, S. 2453.

2006-09-18 Thread DHAJOGLO
Time to pardon the president for illegal spying, override the constitutional 
separation of powers, and continue down the path of fascism.

http://blog.aclu.org/index.php?/archives/67-A-Terrible-Bill,-A-Temporary-Sigh-of-Relief.html
http://www.oregonlive.com/editorials/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/editorial/1154112920105090.xmlcoll=7


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[Biofuel] FDA in Third World Drug Trial Scandals

2006-09-18 Thread D. Mindock



This is outrageous but typical behavior for our 
government which hasbecome one with
the corporate 
world.There used to be a thin line that demarcated the two but with 
BushCo
Inc in power, it has 
dissolved. There is no discernable difference today between 
our
government and Big Biz. 
Unfortunately, bothare corrupt. Peace, D. Mindock
FDA in Third World Drug Trial 
Scandals


  
  
See also:FDA Under Fire for Corporate Links that Compromise 
  Science and other articles in the Science and 
  Ethics 
section
Experimental tests are conducted in developing 
countries on sick and vulnerable children under the guise of free and 
ethical treatments sanctioned by the FDA and complicit medical institutions. 
Sam 
Burcher and Dr. Mae-Wan 
Ho
A fully referenced version of this 
report is posted on ISIS members’ website. Details 
here 
Unapproved GM rice serum tested on sick infants 

Two children suffered serious allergic reactions after 
being used as guinea pigs by the California-based company Ventria Bioscience in 
Lima, Peru [1]. The children were part of a clinical trial of a genetically 
modified (GM) rice serum containing two synthetic human proteins lactoferrin and 
lysozyme (normally found in human milk and other bodily fluids), not yet 
approved for testing in the US or anywhere else in the world. 
Ventria had experienced stiff opposition for growing the 
GM rice in its home country. It was driven out of California and southeast 
Missouri in 2005, but managed to grow the GM rice in North Carolina [2] 
(Molecular 
Pharming - the New Battlefront over GM Crops , 
SiS27). 
The company was hoping to sell the GM rice as a 
“nutraceutical” presumably on grounds that it provided extra nutrition. 
Nevertheless, it was unlikely to gain approval for a clinical trial in the US; 
so, like other companies, it decided to target Third World countries where 
regulations are lax. 
Continued at: http://www.i-sis.org.uk/FDAinDrugTrial.php
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[Biofuel] 300-D for sale

2006-09-18 Thread prosperityplanet
Greetings to All:
This car is located in Santa Barbara, CA. Please
follow this link for more info. If you are back east
and interested, I am happy to drive for you.
 
http://santabarbara.craigslist.org/car/209038583.html
Peace,
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Re: [Biofuel] socialism, taxes, economics, comments please.

2006-09-18 Thread Mike Weaver


A Very Simple Economic Model.
-

Albert, the blacksmith.
Earns the equiv of $24,000 US a year
plying his trade.

Beverly, the mortgage banker.
Earns the equiv of $240,000 US a year,
plying her trade.

Charles, the surgeon,
Earns the equiv of $2.400,000 US a year
plying his trade

Emily, the CEO,
Earns the equiv of $24,000,000 US a year
plying her trade.

In this community, folks work 8 hours a day
to fulfill their trade obligations, no more,
no less.

In this community, folks work 5 days a week
to fulfill their trade obligations, no more,
no less.

In this community, folks work 48 weeks a year
to fulfill their trade obligations, no more,
no less.

In this community where Albert, Beverly,
Charles and Emily live, it takes 1 hour
to go the communal well, and draw the
water needed for the day, and haul it
back to their respective domiciles.

---

Q1.
What is an hours labour worth in this community?
  

1 hour of a person's time.  You're confusing the community obligations 
with work worth
FWIW - labor to cut grass is about 15.00 hour here in Arlington VA.

Q2.
Should the community consider bringing in cheap labour
to haul their water?
  

Depends.  Does communal work bind the community together?

Q3,
Should the community levee a tax and use the tax to
pay the cheap labour to haul the water?
  

Towards what end?

Q3.1
  If so, at what rate should Albert, Beverly, Charles
and Emily be taxed?
  

By whom?

Discussion.

What is this hour devoted to drawing water worth?
Since there are 24 hours in the day, and all the
hours are spoken for, doing the regular stuff,
like raising kids, cleaning house, working,
fiddling about, and occasionally watching NFL
or world cup rallye, the only reason to do offload
the hauling of water duty would be to gain an extra
hour of free time.

So, to Albert, an hour of free time is essentially
worth $1000 over a year. To Beverly, $10,000, to
Charles $100,000 and to Emily $1,000,000.



Discussion
How does the Nash Equilibrium bear on this
scenario?

-

Somewhere, I'm sure this Very Simple Model is
already addressed. If someone could point me to
a paper, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Comments please.

thanks.






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Re: [Biofuel] Seeds of Hope, Monsanto and Mercatus Center

2006-09-18 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Duncan

I believe there's quite a lot about Mosnanto et al's previous antics 
in Africa and South Africa in the list archives, worth a look.

This might be of interest:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mercatus_Center
Mercatus Center - SourceWatch

Lots of links to further resources, as always at SourceWatch.

Also these:

http://www.gmwatch.org/profile.asp
GMWatch.org

http://members.tripod.com/~ngin/
GM WATCH / Norfolk Genetic Information Network / GMOs / genetic 
engineering / GM foods

HTH

Best

Keith


Hi All,

Monsanto recently launched a product called 'Seeds of Hope' - promoted
locally (in South Africa) by the worst forms of marketing cynicism.  We’re
also being told how marvelous this product is by a research outfit called
Enterprise Africa! and the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.  (I
don’t like promoting them but for reference purposes
http://www.freemarketfoundation.com.)  Enterprise Africa! appears to have
links with the Free Market Foundation of which Monsanto is a ‘Senior
Corporate Member’ – having paid between R100 00-00 and R10 000-00 (+- $14
000-00 to $1 400-00) for this title.

My questions to the group are two: does anyone know of any Monsanto funding
of the Mercatus Centre?  I’m also looking for honest research on this
‘Seeds of Hope’ product?

Regards,
Duncan


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Re: [Biofuel] Princeton researchers hack the vote

2006-09-18 Thread Zeke Yewdall
Very interesting In my county this year we have a choice of paper ballot or electronic machine. I think I'll stick to paper. Even if it takes two days to count the paper ballots (which happened in 2004 due to the machine tallyers jamming, wrong cardstock or something), that's still better than not getting the right count at all.
On 9/18/06, D. Mindock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:







http://reviews.cnet.com/4531-10921_7-6638094.html?tag=blogtag=nl.e501
 


 
September 14, 2006, 2:59 PM 
PDTPrinceton researchers hack the 
vote Posted by: Robert Vamosi
 
Researchers at Princeton intentionally 
injected malicious software into a Diebold Accu-vote-TS voting machine for the 
purposes of security research. In an online 
video the researchers, Ariel J. Feldman, J. Alex 
Halderman, and Edward W. Felten, conducted a pretend presidential election in 
which George Washington receives four votes to Benedict Arnold's one. Yet, when 
the voting machine is queried at the end of the day, its paper printout states 
that Arnold received three votes to Washington's two. Even the memory card, 
designed as a backup, reports the same fraudulent result. There is no way for an 
observer after the fact to disprove that voters did not give Arnold three votes 
to Washington's two--except that we saw in the video that the voters did in fact 
vote differently. The researchers at Princeton exploited well-known software 
flaws with the Diebold Accu-vote-TS voting to construct their malicious code and 
cited lax security procedures at the polling sites, such the ability to pick the 
lock on the memory card, as a means of spreading the malicious code. Full 
details are available in this PDF 
report. See also 
this story on News.com. 



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Re: [Biofuel] socialism, taxes, economics, comments please.

2006-09-18 Thread Randall
A few questions:

Are non-wage earner family members able to help haul water? (ie. children, 
spouses, etc)

Does everyone live equally far from the community well?  If so, why?

What if someone wants to get excercise by getting their own water and not 
be taxed to have someone else do it for them?

Can someone pay another person (perhaps someone from outside the community) 
to fetch their own water, do lawn maintence, etc?

What do the people in the community do for water 2 days a week during their 
working weeks, and for the other 6 weeks when they are not working?



 Q1.
 What is an hours labour worth in this community?
A1:  I guess it depends on what is being done and by whom.

 Q2.
 Should the community consider bringing in cheap labour
 to haul their water?
A2:  No.  The community has obviously been functioning reasonably well with 
the current scheme for water collection and use.

 Q3,
 Should the community levee a tax and use the tax to
 pay the cheap labour to haul the water?
A3:No.  The community doesn't have the available free-time to fill out 
tax returns.

 Q3.1
  If so, at what rate should Albert, Beverly, Charles
 and Emily be taxed?
A3.1:   It depends on what the person processing, collecting, and disbursing 
the funds collected is going to be paid and if anyone has the ability to 
opt-out and haul their own water.

- Original Message - 
From: Chip Mefford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 2:16 PM
Subject: [Biofuel] socialism, taxes, economics, comments please.


 Spent a lot of hours behind the wheel these last few weeks.
 Driving from the 'services' economy of the greater mid-atlantic
 Washington DC USA region, through rural WV, and Pa, up through
 industrialized and agricultural southern Canada, down through
 agricultural and tourist economy of northern Michigan/UP...

 A model came to mind.

 A Very Simple Economic Model.
 -

 Albert, the blacksmith.
 Earns the equiv of $24,000 US a year
 plying his trade.

 Beverly, the mortgage banker.
 Earns the equiv of $240,000 US a year,
 plying her trade.

 Charles, the surgeon,
 Earns the equiv of $2.400,000 US a year
 plying his trade

 Emily, the CEO,
 Earns the equiv of $24,000,000 US a year
 plying her trade.

 In this community, folks work 8 hours a day
 to fulfill their trade obligations, no more,
 no less.

 In this community, folks work 5 days a week
 to fulfill their trade obligations, no more,
 no less.

 In this community, folks work 48 weeks a year
 to fulfill their trade obligations, no more,
 no less.

 In this community where Albert, Beverly,
 Charles and Emily live, it takes 1 hour
 to go the communal well, and draw the
 water needed for the day, and haul it
 back to their respective domiciles.

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 Q1.
 What is an hours labour worth in this community?

 Q2.
 Should the community consider bringing in cheap labour
 to haul their water?

 Q3,
 Should the community levee a tax and use the tax to
 pay the cheap labour to haul the water?
 Q3.1
  If so, at what rate should Albert, Beverly, Charles
 and Emily be taxed?

 Discussion.

 What is this hour devoted to drawing water worth?
 Since there are 24 hours in the day, and all the
 hours are spoken for, doing the regular stuff,
 like raising kids, cleaning house, working,
 fiddling about, and occasionally watching NFL
 or world cup rallye, the only reason to do offload
 the hauling of water duty would be to gain an extra
 hour of free time.

 So, to Albert, an hour of free time is essentially
 worth $1000 over a year. To Beverly, $10,000, to
 Charles $100,000 and to Emily $1,000,000.

 

 Discussion
 How does the Nash Equilibrium bear on this
 scenario?

 -

 Somewhere, I'm sure this Very Simple Model is
 already addressed. If someone could point me to
 a paper, I'd greatly appreciate it.

 Comments please.

 thanks.






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