Re: [Biofuel] The Secret, a movie, online for free
That's ok, Joe. Scientology not my interest. I'm more concerned with Chip's conclusion, especially how he might have arrived at it. Mike DuPree - Original Message - From: Joe Street To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 12:54 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] The Secret, a movie, online for free I could tell you a bunch of stuff about scientology, but not here. You don't want to get on their blacklist believe me. Joe MK DuPree wrote: Chip, I've heard about Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard (isn't he the founder?), but never read any of the stuff. So I'm not sure what you're comparing the video to. However, I have watched the video The Secret and have no problem with it in that it basically speaks to me what I already know about myself, that what I see is what I get. In other words, I recognize how many of my actions and much of what I have in my life are preceded by my thoughts...or more specifically, my pictures based upon my deeply held beliefs and desires. My personal guide to evaluating any expression of what is supposed to be the truth is whether I can verify it as reality in my own life or trust I can verify it as the truth in my own life. I'm not sure I worded that accurately or completely enough, but there you go. Anyway, will you be more specific? What is it about The Secret that you compare to Scientology? I'm specifically curious if you have taken something and compared it not to the whole body of work but to an aspect of the total body of work but summed up the comparison to the whole body of work. If such is the case, I want to caution you and all of us, especially myself, against doing so, not just here, but in all areas of your life, our lives. It is that kind of lazy (or worse, prejudiced) thinking that blinds us from the truth wherever it may present itself. It is that kind of lazy (or worse, prejudiced) thinking that is the basis for racism and any other ism that fails to recognize the uniqueness of the individual and the development of that uniqueness in the expression of the truth. Thanks. Mike DuPree PS YOUR LIBERTY--USE IT OR LOSE IT--REJECT REAL ID (My new motto until we get this damn thing off the books or die trying. Write to me if you need more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Original Message - From: Chip Mefford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:18 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] The Secret, a movie, online for free D. Mindock wrote: OK, by now most of you will have heard about the movie, The Secret Those of you who have not yet seen it, or want to see it again, can watch it here: http://www.renegadelemming.com/secretvideo/ Reminds me of Scientology ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Obfuscating Confuscating
Yeah...dat's what I'm talkin about...CONFISCATE any vehicle failing to switch to cleaner fuel. LOL Not in America...in America they want to confiscate YOU! YOUR LIBERTY--USE IT OR LOSE IT--REJECT REAL ID. Mike DuPree http://www.ameinfo.com/108665 Green diesel on the way United Arab Emirates: Thursday, January 25 - 2007 at 07:42 Abu Dhabi will gradually phase out the production of diesel with high sulphur content and replace it with a less polluting green fuel. Under the plan, cars that fail to switch to the cleaner fuel will be confiscated, according to Gulf News. High sulphur diesel engines are considered to be among the world's top air polluters. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Convert your Microwave oven to make Colloidal Silver
Build Your Own High-Volume Colloidal Silver Maker You want a plague-ready machine that'll make about 40 quarts of strong Colloidal Silver an hour, that you can easily build in an hour for about $38?? I've built many now for people and I'll tell you how to make yours. This is about the simplest colloidal silver maker you could build. The unit makes 1 liter of roughly 40 PPM CS in 1.5 minutes or less using reverse osmosis water; with this kind of power, continuous production is possible with a spaghetti tube adding and removing water at a trickle. The primarily ionic silver it produces has saved lives, write-offs sent home by the hospital to die. As the old Chinese saying goes, Those who say it can't be done should not interrupt the one who is doing it. I have re-wired a microwave oven because it gives more than adequate power - about 3600 volts pulsed DC current - to make batches very quickly. I use a fine, 1 oz silver wafer rolled-out to 5.25 inches long and 1.25 wide for the electrode. This size for the high current allows reduced power DENSITY. The electrodes are spaced parallel for a wide-mouth jar, about 2.25 inches apart, the water giving ample RESISTANCE to the current. There is no current-limiting needed and all the microwave's safeties still work. It won't operate with the door open. There are 2 insulated wires going to the magnetron. When you disconnect the magnetron (impeller) you'll only be using the heavier (main) wire from the capacitor; the silver electrode in the jar of CS you'e brewing usually goes to chassis ground and the wire electrode, which can be copper or even iron, goes to the main capacitor wire. If you're not running 120 volts the wiring inside may be a bit different. I'm not an electrician but I found bypassing the magnetron remarkably easy to do. Get someone a bit adept at the job and make sure (s)he bleeds the capacitor, which contains LETHAL VOLTAGE. Space the electrodes parallel by making holes in a plastic yogurt lid for the top and plastic paddle with holes the same distance apart at the bottom; at that voltage you have to ensure the electrodes never touch. Using an awl or a nail, bash a hole through the light perforations in the box cavity and thread the wire through from the CS maker in the oven cavity to the feed circuit. Make sure the wire is short enough to make it impossible for some goof to operate the unit with the electrodes outside the box! (Hint: the smaller microwave ovens can be put on their side so you can get a decent sized jar inside) The first CS maker done this way will take perhaps an hour, the rest, 20 minutes, and makes the old (free?) microwave into a much more noble device than it was even when it was new. The safeties and timer still work and again, it only operates when the door is shut. Total cost, a bit of high-voltage wire and the one-ounce rolled-out silver ingot, is under about $40 CDN, and I used expensive copper-core spark plug wires for the high-voltage part. The CS remains clear (not yellow, not cloudy) for many months unless it's somehow tainted. If I make it any stronger it can trigger easily if you stick a finger in for example, and it WILL plate the inside of the jar with silver at the concentration I make it at. Keep it clean ;) DISCLAIMER: Don't ask for a diagram. If you need a diagram for this you shouldn't be in there. Get a knowledgeable friend to do it. Keep in mind that the dangerous part is in the construction, not the use of the beast, and be stupid at your own risk. That being said, copyright waived; go ahead and circulate this note. Top of Form Bottom of Form Duncan Crow HOME ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Ritalin heart attacks warning urged after 51 deaths in US
Ritalin heart attacks warning urged after 51 deaths in US Move to highlight risks of drug prescribed to hyperactive children Sarah Boseley, health editor Saturday February 11, 2006 The Guardian Ritalin, extensively prescribed to calm hyperactive children in the UK, should carry the highest-level warning that it may increase the risk of death from heart attacks, US experts recommended yesterday. There have been 51 deaths among children and adults taking drugs for ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) in the US since 1999. Yesterday the UK licensing authority, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), said nine children had died in this country among a smaller population on medication. They declined to reveal the children's ages because of the possibility of identification. Article continues In the US, doctors write 2m prescriptions for ADHD drugs for children every month and 1m for adults. In the UK, nobody knows how many people are on the drugs, which are licensed for children as young as six - although there are reports of them being given to children as young as three. A total of 361,832 prescriptions were written last year for Ritalin and other drugs of the methylphenidate class, which averages 30,153 a month. The cause of death for two of the nine children who died in the UK was specifically heart-related: one had a heart attack and a second an enlarged heart. One was recorded as a sudden death. One died of a haemorrhage in the brain and another of a swelling in the brain, two committed suicide and the last died of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome - presumably the mother was on the drugs. The recommendation by an advisory panel of the Food and Drug Administration to put a black box warning - the most serious possible - on all ADHD drugs in the US is likely to be accepted. Pressure will mount now on the British authorities to warn publicly of the risk. There is growing concern about the rising numbers of children being put on drugs. This class of drugs, known as methylphenidates, are amphetamine-based and it is thought they could cause heart problems in some children and adults because they raise blood pressure. There is already a warning on the drug most widely used in the US, Adderall, which is not licensed in the UK. The FDA advisers said it was not certain the drugs contributed to the 51 deaths. The data is only suggestive at this point, but because of the gravity of the side-effect, namely sudden death, physicians need to be made clearly aware of that concern, said Dr Peter Gross, the panel chairman and head of internal medicine at Hackensack University Medical Centre in New Jersey. One member of the panel was clear that he hoped the warning might slow down the soaring rate of prescription of the drugs to children who are inattentive or badly behaved at school. I want to get people's hands to tremble a little bit before they write that [prescription], said Steven Nissen, a panel member and cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic. Dave Woodhouse, psychologist and director of the Cactus Clinic, attached to Teesside University, which offers parents an alternative to drugs in the form of nutritional guidance and counselling, said: One of the main issues is that fact that in the case of a lot of kids given Ritalin you don't know if they have a heart condition or not. There are three methylphenidate drugs licensed in the UK - the bestselling Ritalin, Concerta and Equasym. The MHRA said there had been 521 reports of suspected adverse drug reactions, most of them in the past five years as more children have been put on them. It added that methylphenidate is recognised to cause cardiovascular adverse effects, such as a racing or abnormal heartbeat and palpitations and increased blood pressure. arrow9x7.gif Description: GIF image ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] US plans to 'fight the net' revealed
Are you joking? The military has no need of the web for thier com needs. They have all manner of wireless networks of their own. Most of it is spread spectrum stuff. The also have ELF for communicating with subs clandestinely (which is slow) or can use a blue green laser from a satelite to get a message in quickly when they are not concerned about revealing the sub's location. If the s*** hits the fan the entire EM spectrum will be filled with jamming signals but spread spectrum and coherent techniques are somewhat robust against these tactics. Satelites are surprisingly difficult albeit vulnerable targets although not impossible it takes a great deal of money and commitment to take one out. Uplinks are a different story tho... Joe Jason Katie wrote: so... if they eliminate the entire network that means they would only have satellite communications, and i doubt satellites are that terribly difficult to disrupt either so hackers could play games with the fed directly and cause some serious damage. hummm why does this not make any sense to me? which is worse: having people speak against you with impunity, or having those same people really pissed off and screwing with your only means of communication? just wondering... jason - Original Message - From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 12:45 PM Subject: [Biofuel] US plans to 'fight the net' revealed ... Meanwhile... Rumsfeld is still running the War Department Sunday, 28 January 2007 http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/175/1/ - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm Friday, 27 January 2006, 18:05 GMT US plans to 'fight the net' revealed By Adam Brookes BBC Pentagon correspondent A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military's plans for information operations - from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks. Report: Information Operations Roadmap:[PDF File] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/27_01_06_psyops.pdf Bloggers beware. As the world turns networked, the Pentagon is calculating the military opportunities that computer networks, wireless technologies and the modern media offer. From influencing public opinion through new media to designing computer network attack weapons, the US military is learning to fight an electronic war. The declassified document is called Information Operations Roadmap. It was obtained by the National Security Archive at George Washington University using the Freedom of Information Act. Officials in the Pentagon wrote it in 2003. The Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, signed it. The roadmap calls for a far-reaching overhaul of the military's ability to conduct information operations and electronic warfare. And, in some detail, it makes recommendations for how the US armed forces should think about this new, virtual warfare. The document says that information is critical to military success. Computer and telecommunications networks are of vital operational importance. Propaganda The operations described in the document include a surprising range of military activities: public affairs officers who brief journalists, psychological operations troops who try to manipulate the thoughts and beliefs of an enemy, computer network attack specialists who seek to destroy enemy networks. All these are engaged in information operations. Perhaps the most startling aspect of the roadmap is its acknowledgement that information put out as part of the military's psychological operations, or Psyops, is finding its way onto the computer and television screens of ordinary Americans. Information intended for foreign audiences, including public diplomacy and Psyops, is increasingly consumed by our domestic audience, it reads. Psyops messages will often be replayed by the news media for much larger audiences, including the American public, it goes on. The document's authors acknowledge that American news media should not unwittingly broadcast military propaganda. Specific boundaries should be established, they write. But they don't seem to explain how. In this day and age it is impossible to prevent stories that are fed abroad as part of psychological operations propaganda from blowing back into the United States - even though they were directed abroad, says Kristin Adair of the National Security Archive. Credibility problem Public awareness of the US military's information operations is low, but it's growing - thanks to some operational clumsiness. Late last year, it emerged that the Pentagon had paid a private company, the Lincoln Group, to plant hundreds of stories in Iraqi newspapers. The stories - all supportive of US policy - were written by military personnel and then placed in Iraqi publications. And websites that appeared to be information sites on the politics of Africa and the Balkans were found to be run by the Pentagon. But the
[Biofuel] Reject Real ID--A Story
I get an email from someone telling me I have a problem because someone wants to sing the National Anthem in Spanish. The email spews on how this is my country and blah blah blah and if I don't forward the email I'm part of the problem. So I write back: COMING SOON...REAL ID...May 11, 2008. Give me a break, (name withheld to protect the guilty). We've got much bigger problems coming down on us with Real ID than singing the National Anthem in Spanish. SO (I throw back at the guilty one the following words that were in his email trying to make me feel guilty if I don't try to make someone else feel guilty by not forwarding their idiot email), Think about this: If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone--YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM! And I continue, YOUR LIBERTY--USE IT OR LOSE IT--REJECT REAL ID. Mike PS (normally when I go into these tirades, this individual tells me to simmer, so I write back--) No simmer, (guilty one)..get fighting goddamn ANGRY we have to even deal with this...but deal with it WE must or IT WILL deal with us. See this website for complete info: http://www.epic.org/privacy/id_cards/ Read the Act for youself...pay special attention to these words in Section 201(3)...any other purposes that the Secretary shall determine. And I include this: I just called the Governor's office, a phone line to Government Affairs. When I asked the little girl on the other end if she knew if Kansas had anything in the works to Reject Real ID, she said, I don't think Kansas has any jurisdiction for doing that. This is the Governor's office for Government Affairs! 785-368-8500 I told her Maine has rejected it and other States have bills in the works to do same. Call the number yourself and ask Jessica if that's what she said to Mike DuPree. Then ask her how much it's going to cost Kansas to implement Real ID. Then, here's the website for emailing the Governor to let her know you want Kansas to Reject Real ID: http://www.governor.ks.gov/contact.htm After this I continue my tirade to the guilty one: Ok, you want to get real with real problems facing us, (guilty one), REJECT REAL ID...and forward this email to everyone on any list you have. Or, Think about this: If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone--YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM! For those of you living in other states, if you need help finding out who you're Governor is and how to email them, email me. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Exxon Cutting Ties to Global Warming Skeptics
No pain no gain right? Jason Katie wrote: i have an idea for these cap/trade agreements. why dont they do the same thing to the companies reserve credits what the companies do to their employee's reserve vacation? my father gets six weeks of vacation every year, and if he does not use all of it, he can only carry one full week of paid leave into the next year. i say let them have their credits, but at the end of the year revoke all but 10% or 1 credit whichever is more. that would mean that no matter how much or how fast a company could sell them, someone would be left holding the bag. then to add insult to injury, revoke a full 10% of the total issued credits every year, regardless of whether or not they have been filled. painful? yeah i know, but who really cares about any company's pain? ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Air-freighted food may lose organic label
Shipping food around is dumb. Local production and local consumption is the way of the future to my way of thinking. Jason Katie wrote: why should organic food need to be shipped? why not bike transport? the whole idea behind organic is the process-wide health benefits. technically speaking organic food should not be shipped at all. - Original Message - From: Alan Petrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 2:55 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Air-freighted food may lose organic label Keith Addison wrote: http://environment.guardian.co.uk/food/story/0,,1999460,00.html | Food | Guardian Unlimited Environment Air-freighted food may lose organic label Mark Oliver and agencies Friday January 26, 2007 Guardian Unlimited [snip] Oh great! MORE politics involved in the Organic label. This is a bad idea. While I agree that the lower the transportation miles on the food the better, basing the organic label on that factor is taking the politics of it to a ridiculous degree. Whether or not the food is organic should be based on HOW IT IS GROWN, not how it is shipped! Now, as a disclaimer, I will say I am not a disinterested party in this, because I work for an airline that gets a large bit of its revenue from shipping freight, including organic food. But even if I take a step back from my position as an airline employee I still think basing the organic label on the shipping method is more politics than science. AP ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.431 / Virus Database: 268.17.16/660 - Release Date: 1/30/2007 5:04 PM ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Convert your Microwave oven to make Colloidal Silver
OMG please don't do this! The capacitor in a microwave oven contains several joules of energy! This is sufficient to kill you and has done to more than one unsuspecting soul who has decided to tinker around inside the microwave oven. The article below even goes to the extent of warning you to discharge the cap before doing any assembly work but then it goes on at the end in bold red saying the danger is not in operating the beast but in its construction. It doesn't say anythingabout how you are supposed to discharge the cap before you try to remove the electrode from the jar! Trust me colloidal siver can be easily made using voltage as low as 20 volts and with current limiting. It will take a little longer (15 minutes) to make a batch ( I do half a litre at a time) but current limiting is important because it keeps particle size down in the low nanometer range where it needs to be in order to make a good colloid. I use a little wall wart type transformer for this. Half a litre IS high volume. Considering that the most effective way to use the stuff is to put it in a nasal sprayer and use it directly on ther mucous linings at THE FIRST SIGN of a sore throat ( not effective at later stages) and you are using perhaps 1ml at a time, half a litre will last your entire family a year or more. DON'T drink the stuff unless you want to kill off beneficial bacteria in your GI tract. Pink eye is easily and quickly cured with repeated misting of the open eye, but again it is working on contact. There are many other uses for the stuff which I won't get into but it is basically a powerful anit-bacterial which works on contact against single celled organisms. The internals of microwave ovens are extremely unforgiving and even for the initiated there is no room for error or absent mindedness. Joe D. Mindock wrote: Build Your Own High-Volume Colloidal Silver Maker You want a plague-ready machine that'll make about 40 quarts of strong Colloidal Silver an hour, that you can easily build in an hour for about $38?? I've built many now for people and I'll tell you how to make yours. This is about the simplest colloidal silver maker you could build. The unit makes 1 liter of roughly 40 PPM CS in 1.5 minutes or less using reverse osmosis water; with this kind of power, continuous production is possible with a spaghetti tube adding and removing water at a trickle. The primarily ionic silver it produces has saved lives, write-offs sent home by the hospital to die. As the old Chinese saying goes, Those who say it can't be done should not interrupt the one who is doing it. I have re-wired a microwave oven because it gives more than adequate power - about 3600 volts pulsed DC current - to make batches very quickly. I use a fine, 1 oz silver wafer rolled-out to 5.25 inches long and 1.25 wide for the electrode. This size for the high current allows reduced power DENSITY. The electrodes are spaced parallel for a wide-mouth jar, about 2.25 inches apart, the water giving ample RESISTANCE to the current. There is no current-limiting needed and all the microwave's safeties still work. It won't operate with the door open. There are 2 insulated wires going to the magnetron. When you disconnect the magnetron (impeller) you'll only be using the heavier (main) wire from the capacitor; the silver electrode in the jar of CS you'e brewing usually goes to chassis ground and the wire electrode, which can be copper or even iron, goes to the main capacitor wire. If you're not running 120 volts the wiring inside may be a bit different. I'm not an electrician but I found bypassing the magnetron remarkably easy to do. Get someone a bit adept at the job and make sure (s)he bleeds the capacitor, which contains LETHAL VOLTAGE. Space the electrodes parallel by making holes in a plastic yogurt lid for the top and plastic paddle with holes the same distance apart at the bottom; at that voltage you have to ensure the electrodes never touch. Using an awl or a nail, bash a hole through the light perforations in the box cavity and thread the wire through from the CS maker in the oven cavity to the feed circuit. Make sure the wire is short enough to make it impossible for some goof to operate the unit with the electrodes outside the box! (Hint: the smaller microwave ovens can be put on their side so you can get a decent sized jar inside) The first CS maker done this way will take perhaps an hour, the rest, 20 minutes, and makes the old (free?) microwave into a much more noble device than it was even when it was new. The safeties and timer still work and again, it only operates when the door is shut. Total cost, a bit of high-voltage wire and the one-ounce rolled-out silver ingot, is under about $40 CDN, and I used expensive copper-core spark plug wires for the high-voltage part. The CS remains clear (not yellow, not cloudy) for many months unless it's somehow
[Biofuel] Compost, Tree Buds and Rose Hips
The muscles in my back, shoulders and forearms ache in a satisfying way. I've been shoveling barn litter and spreading compost from last year into my raised garden beds. It's a little cold outside with the arctic outflow winds sweeping down from the Cascades in the east, but it feels good to work and I can see that my earthworm allies have been VERY busy in the compost pile over the winter. The noisome equine manure I picked up from the beautiful, elderly woman in Yarrow has transformed into dark, crumbly material that almost looks like soil. I dug two wheelbarrow loads of this into the northernmost (and least productive) of my garden beds. Most of my effort in the past couple of weeks has centered upon loading my truck with barn litter at the nearby cattle auction house. It's been cold enough for ice to form and prevent me from getting the Ranger near enough to shovel the composted litter directly into its cargo box, so I've taken my wheelbarrow and loaded it, so I can park my truck in a place that allows me to get out without getting stuck. (I've been stuck there TWICE this month . . . ) Despite the cold, once I dig into the pile it steams vigorously, and the material I'm collecting is very dark and aromatic. Thus far, I have taken five loads home. Our trees are covered in many buds already. I'm hoping that the weather will stay cold so that they don't blossom early and suffer if we get a late frost. This will be year number 4 of compost remediation, so I'm optimistic that the trees will have settled in and I won't have the pest infestation / fruit dropping that has plagued my fruit tree experience thus far. This morning I noticed that several of the rose plants we picked up from someone's discard pile (these were left at the side of the road with a sign that said: Free Plants) have bright red / orange fruit on them right now. I THINK these are rose hips, but I'm not certain because I've never seen them before. If they are, they should be full of vitamin C. Does anyone know how to prepare rose hips for human consumption? Thanks! robert luis rabello The Edge of Justice The Long Journey New Adventure for Your Mind http://www.newadventure.ca Ranger Supercharger Project Page http://www.members.shaw.ca/rabello/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] She's Dead, Jim
I was riding in the passenger seat as my son was driving my 1990 Chev Cheyenne on Tuesday morning. It has the GM 6.2 litre diesel engine. It was a cold day (-22 C), but the truck started easily (block heater had been used). We were about 4 km out when I heard a new top end racket as he accelerated out of a curve. The check gauges light came on, and the oil pressure was reading zero. I had him pull over and shut down, hoping we were quick enough to avoid damage. Yesterday, I got the preliminary report from the mechanic. The oil pump failed, so the engine was not being lubricated. It is not seized (the engine never got up to temperature on the trip), but there are a lot of ugly noises, even at idle. I trust this shop, and have for years. They figure a bottom-end rebuild is in order, but question the value of proceeding on an 18-year-old truck. The rebuild estimate is approximately what I paid for the truck a year and a half ago. Ironically, this occurred while I was on my way to a funeral. (I made it, but I was late. The tow truck driver dropped us off at the church on the way to the garage. We're on a first name basis. My son thinks that's funny.) I have been running B20 for the past year. I don't think that has anything to do with the oil pump going. Just posting this as a warning to others that this is something to watch out for in the GM engines of this vintage. The truck doesn't get a lot of use, as a rule, but I figure it paid for itself in the time I had it. It carried and pulled a lot in the times it was used. I have started looking for a replacement, but there isn't much to choose from in the low end of the market in terms of diesels. There are some large cube vans available at the top end of my price range (up to Cdn$4500), but they would present an issue in terms of parking. I need something that can pull up to 3500 pounds (Class 2), and carry ugly cargo (compost, scrap metal, used construction material). Pretty doesn't matter - in fact ugly has proven advantageous in terms or reducing requests to borrow the last vehicle. Robust and reliable does matter, as others drive the vehicle more often than I do. I'm thinking either pickup truck or full-size van. Any other thoughts? It took me more than a year to find a diesel the last time, and I don't have the luxury of that much time now. Suggestions? -- Darryl McMahon It's your planet. If you won't look after it, who will? ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] She's Dead, Jim
Daryl, I say fix it. If you are willing to pay the amount to fix it to get another truck just like it...why not fix the one you have? You already HAVE it and you already know its quirks. Availability of diesel vehicles is below demand. Unless there is more that is wrong with it? On 2/1/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was riding in the passenger seat as my son was driving my 1990 Chev Cheyenne on Tuesday morning. It has the GM 6.2 litre diesel engine. It was a cold day (-22 C), but the truck started easily (block heater had been used). We were about 4 km out when I heard a new top end racket as he accelerated out of a curve. The check gauges light came on, and the oil pressure was reading zero. I had him pull over and shut down, hoping we were quick enough to avoid damage. Yesterday, I got the preliminary report from the mechanic. The oil pump failed, so the engine was not being lubricated. It is not seized (the engine never got up to temperature on the trip), but there are a lot of ugly noises, even at idle. I trust this shop, and have for years. They figure a bottom-end rebuild is in order, but question the value of proceeding on an 18-year-old truck. The rebuild estimate is approximately what I paid for the truck a year and a half ago. Ironically, this occurred while I was on my way to a funeral. (I made it, but I was late. The tow truck driver dropped us off at the church on the way to the garage. We're on a first name basis. My son thinks that's funny.) I have been running B20 for the past year. I don't think that has anything to do with the oil pump going. Just posting this as a warning to others that this is something to watch out for in the GM engines of this vintage. The truck doesn't get a lot of use, as a rule, but I figure it paid for itself in the time I had it. It carried and pulled a lot in the times it was used. I have started looking for a replacement, but there isn't much to choose from in the low end of the market in terms of diesels. There are some large cube vans available at the top end of my price range (up to Cdn$4500), but they would present an issue in terms of parking. I need something that can pull up to 3500 pounds (Class 2), and carry ugly cargo (compost, scrap metal, used construction material). Pretty doesn't matter - in fact ugly has proven advantageous in terms or reducing requests to borrow the last vehicle. Robust and reliable does matter, as others drive the vehicle more often than I do. I'm thinking either pickup truck or full-size van. Any other thoughts? It took me more than a year to find a diesel the last time, and I don't have the luxury of that much time now. Suggestions? -- Darryl McMahon It's your planet. If you won't look after it, who will? ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- Thanks, PC He's the kind of a guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. - Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962) ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] She's Dead, Jim
I'm with Paul here. GM 6.2 diesels are pretty common beasts in the diesel market, so parts are easy to find, available, yadda yadda... heck, you can probably get a fresh rebuilt 6.2 engine for the truck for what you'd be looking at in your price range for a truck. Or maybe even a 6.5, just make sure you don't get the one with the rudimentary computer... -Kurt Paul S Cantrell wrote: Daryl, I say fix it. If you are willing to pay the amount to fix it to get another truck just like it...why not fix the one you have? You already HAVE it and you already know its quirks. Availability of diesel vehicles is below demand. Unless there is more that is wrong with it? On 2/1/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was riding in the passenger seat as my son was driving my 1990 Chev Cheyenne on Tuesday morning. It has the GM 6.2 litre diesel engine. It was a cold day (-22 C), but the truck started easily (block heater had been used). We were about 4 km out when I heard a new top end racket as he accelerated out of a curve. The check gauges light came on, and the oil pressure was reading zero. I had him pull over and shut down, hoping we were quick enough to avoid damage. Yesterday, I got the preliminary report from the mechanic. The oil pump failed, so the engine was not being lubricated. It is not seized (the engine never got up to temperature on the trip), but there are a lot of ugly noises, even at idle. I trust this shop, and have for years. They figure a bottom-end rebuild is in order, but question the value of proceeding on an 18-year-old truck. The rebuild estimate is approximately what I paid for the truck a year and a half ago. Ironically, this occurred while I was on my way to a funeral. (I made it, but I was late. The tow truck driver dropped us off at the church on the way to the garage. We're on a first name basis. My son thinks that's funny.) I have been running B20 for the past year. I don't think that has anything to do with the oil pump going. Just posting this as a warning to others that this is something to watch out for in the GM engines of this vintage. The truck doesn't get a lot of use, as a rule, but I figure it paid for itself in the time I had it. It carried and pulled a lot in the times it was used. I have started looking for a replacement, but there isn't much to choose from in the low end of the market in terms of diesels. There are some large cube vans available at the top end of my price range (up to Cdn$4500), but they would present an issue in terms of parking. I need something that can pull up to 3500 pounds (Class 2), and carry ugly cargo (compost, scrap metal, used construction material). Pretty doesn't matter - in fact ugly has proven advantageous in terms or reducing requests to borrow the last vehicle. Robust and reliable does matter, as others drive the vehicle more often than I do. I'm thinking either pickup truck or full-size van. Any other thoughts? It took me more than a year to find a diesel the last time, and I don't have the luxury of that much time now. Suggestions? -- Darryl McMahon It's your planet. If you won't look after it, who will? ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org mailto:Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- Thanks, PC He's the kind of a guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. - Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962) ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages):
Re: [Biofuel] Compost, Tree Buds and Rose Hips
Not knowing the pesticide history of said rose hips - maybe no? Kirk robert and benita rabello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The muscles in my back, shoulders and forearms ache in a satisfying way. I've been shoveling barn litter and spreading compost from last year into my raised garden beds. It's a little cold outside with the arctic outflow winds sweeping down from the Cascades in the east, but it feels good to work and I can see that my earthworm allies have been VERY busy in the compost pile over the winter. The noisome equine manure I picked up from the beautiful, elderly woman in Yarrow has transformed into dark, crumbly material that almost looks like soil. I dug two wheelbarrow loads of this into the northernmost (and least productive) of my garden beds. Most of my effort in the past couple of weeks has centered upon loading my truck with barn litter at the nearby cattle auction house. It's been cold enough for ice to form and prevent me from getting the Ranger near enough to shovel the composted litter directly into its cargo box, so I've taken my wheelbarrow and loaded it, so I can park my truck in a place that allows me to get out without getting stuck. (I've been stuck there TWICE this month . . . ) Despite the cold, once I dig into the pile it steams vigorously, and the material I'm collecting is very dark and aromatic. Thus far, I have taken five loads home. Our trees are covered in many buds already. I'm hoping that the weather will stay cold so that they don't blossom early and suffer if we get a late frost. This will be year number 4 of compost remediation, so I'm optimistic that the trees will have settled in and I won't have the pest infestation / fruit dropping that has plagued my fruit tree experience thus far. This morning I noticed that several of the rose plants we picked up from someone's discard pile (these were left at the side of the road with a sign that said: Free Plants) have bright red / orange fruit on them right now. I THINK these are rose hips, but I'm not certain because I've never seen them before. If they are, they should be full of vitamin C. Does anyone know how to prepare rose hips for human consumption? Thanks! robert luis rabello The Edge of Justice The Long Journey New Adventure for Your Mind http://www.newadventure.caRanger Supercharger Project Page http://www.members.shaw.ca/rabello/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ - Any questions? Get answers on any topic at Yahoo! Answers. Try it now. - Access over 1 million songs - Yahoo! Music Unlimited.___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] She's Dead, Jim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was riding in the passenger seat as my son was driving my 1990 Chev Cheyenne on Tuesday morning. It has the GM 6.2 litre diesel engine. It was a cold day (-22 C), but the truck started easily (block heater had been used). We were about 4 km out when I heard a new top end racket as he accelerated out of a curve. The check gauges light came on, and the oil pressure was reading zero. I had him pull over and shut down, hoping we were quick enough to avoid damage. Yesterday, I got the preliminary report from the mechanic. The oil pump failed, so the engine was not being lubricated. It is not seized (the engine never got up to temperature on the trip), but there are a lot of ugly noises, even at idle. I trust this shop, and have for years. They figure a bottom-end rebuild is in order, but question the value of proceeding on an 18-year-old truck. The rebuild estimate is approximately what I paid for the truck a year and a half ago. I would rebuild it and turbocharge it if I were you. As long as the engine didn't overheat (it sounds like it didn't), you'll probably just be dealing with cylinder bore and bearing issues. Put in some lower compression pistons (like 18:1 or so) and a turbocharger when you do the rebuild. Financially, you're better off doing that than in buying something new, and if you get another used truck who can say whether or not the same thing will happen down the road. The really expensive stuff on a diesel involves the fuel pump. (Although I kinda like the Roosa Master fuel pump, it's not an ideal pump for biodiesel.) I'm confident you can do the rebuild for less money than you'd spend replacing the truck outright, Darryl. I'm still driving my 1993 Ranger . . . I don't think I'm going to buy another truck until Toyota comes out with a hybrid . . . robert luis rabello The Edge of Justice The Long Journey New Adventure for Your Mind http://www.newadventure.ca Ranger Supercharger Project Page http://www.members.shaw.ca/rabello/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] On Meth
So I've collected most of the bits to try adding methanol injection to my Golf TDi. I've bored a hole in the manifold and added an injection nozzle. First I've got to insttal a boost gauge to keep an eye on boost pressure, but the nozzle I got has two ports so one of them will serve for a boost gauge. I also picked up a GM fuel pump which I plan to drop into the windshield washer tank which will be my methanol/water reservoir. I still have a few parts to pick up. Some kind of small inline filter. A check valve needs to go in the delivery line to stop the boost air from bubbling back through the tank when the pump is not running, and I need an adjustable pressure switch to sense boost pressure at the point I wish for the methanol to come on. This switch will be series connected with a floor mounted push switch which will sit under the accelerator pedal and an arming switch on the dash to disable the whole system when desired, like when the washer tank runs low. Sweet that the car has a low level indication light for washer fluid. I am even considering having a second pressure switch set for a higher boost pressure which could short out some diodes in the circuit that normally would lower the voltage applied to the pump motor. Then when the higher boost level is reached the pump would speed up and deliver a suitably higher methanol flow to the intake manifold. I have a needle valve for the delivery line and I plan to adjust it and the pump voltage(s) by trial and error. Normally the methanol will not come on, and the car will be just as always, but when I need to pass or accelerate quickly it will be available if I push the pedal all the way. This way also methanol can not come on when I don't want it in between shifts for example or when RPM's are too low and there is insufficient boost to warrant more fuel. I'm not sure how the ECU is going to react to all this. For sure the intake air is going to be very cold after vaporizing a bunch of methanol and this is all downstream of the air flow sensor so the ECU doesn't know about it, but then on the other hand if the air densifies then the compressor should unload and just make up the slack so the airflow sensor should still sense more flow right? Right? I hope to get rolling with it in the next few days so I'll keep you posted on what I learn.(pun) Sure will be sweet to be using some of the waste stream from the BD process finally! :) Joe ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] She's Dead, Jim
Hi Darryl; A friend of mine just imported a mitsubishi delica. Looks like an interesting vehicle and can be had for a good price. Lots of used ones coming out of Japan. Right hand drive of course but that adds to the essential coolness factor of the vehicle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Delica Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was riding in the passenger seat as my son was driving my 1990 Chev Cheyenne on Tuesday morning. It has the GM 6.2 litre diesel engine. It was a cold day (-22 C), but the truck started easily (block heater had been used). We were about 4 km out when I heard a new top end racket as he accelerated out of a curve. The check gauges light came on, and the oil pressure was reading zero. I had him pull over and shut down, hoping we were quick enough to avoid damage. Yesterday, I got the preliminary report from the mechanic. The oil pump failed, so the engine was not being lubricated. It is not seized (the engine never got up to temperature on the trip), but there are a lot of ugly noises, even at idle. I trust this shop, and have for years. They figure a bottom-end rebuild is in order, but question the value of proceeding on an 18-year-old truck. The rebuild estimate is approximately what I paid for the truck a year and a half ago. Ironically, this occurred while I was on my way to a funeral. (I made it, but I was late. The tow truck driver dropped us off at the church on the way to the garage. We're on a first name basis. My son thinks that's funny.) I have been running B20 for the past year. I don't think that has anything to do with the oil pump going. Just posting this as a warning to others that this is something to watch out for in the GM engines of this vintage. The truck doesn't get a lot of use, as a rule, but I figure it paid for itself in the time I had it. It carried and pulled a lot in the times it was used. I have started looking for a replacement, but there isn't much to choose from in the low end of the market in terms of diesels. There are some large cube vans available at the top end of my price range (up to Cdn$4500), but they would present an issue in terms of parking. I need something that can pull up to 3500 pounds (Class 2), and carry ugly cargo (compost, scrap metal, used construction material). Pretty doesn't matter - in fact ugly has proven advantageous in terms or reducing requests to borrow the last vehicle. Robust and reliable does matter, as others drive the vehicle more often than I do. I'm thinking either pickup truck or full-size van. Any other thoughts? It took me more than a year to find a diesel the last time, and I don't have the luxury of that much time now. Suggestions? -- Darryl McMahon It's your planet. If you won't look after it, who will? ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] She's Dead, Jim
On the other hand the carbon economy of importing a vehicle rather sux. Never mind. Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was riding in the passenger seat as my son was driving my 1990 Chev Cheyenne on Tuesday morning. It has the GM 6.2 litre diesel engine. It was a cold day (-22 C), but the truck started easily (block heater had been used). We were about 4 km out when I heard a new top end racket as he accelerated out of a curve. The check gauges light came on, and the oil pressure was reading zero. I had him pull over and shut down, hoping we were quick enough to avoid damage. Yesterday, I got the preliminary report from the mechanic. The oil pump failed, so the engine was not being lubricated. It is not seized (the engine never got up to temperature on the trip), but there are a lot of ugly noises, even at idle. I trust this shop, and have for years. They figure a bottom-end rebuild is in order, but question the value of proceeding on an 18-year-old truck. The rebuild estimate is approximately what I paid for the truck a year and a half ago. Ironically, this occurred while I was on my way to a funeral. (I made it, but I was late. The tow truck driver dropped us off at the church on the way to the garage. We're on a first name basis. My son thinks that's funny.) I have been running B20 for the past year. I don't think that has anything to do with the oil pump going. Just posting this as a warning to others that this is something to watch out for in the GM engines of this vintage. The truck doesn't get a lot of use, as a rule, but I figure it paid for itself in the time I had it. It carried and pulled a lot in the times it was used. I have started looking for a replacement, but there isn't much to choose from in the low end of the market in terms of diesels. There are some large cube vans available at the top end of my price range (up to Cdn$4500), but they would present an issue in terms of parking. I need something that can pull up to 3500 pounds (Class 2), and carry ugly cargo (compost, scrap metal, used construction material). Pretty doesn't matter - in fact ugly has proven advantageous in terms or reducing requests to borrow the last vehicle. Robust and reliable does matter, as others drive the vehicle more often than I do. I'm thinking either pickup truck or full-size van. Any other thoughts? It took me more than a year to find a diesel the last time, and I don't have the luxury of that much time now. Suggestions? -- Darryl McMahon It's your planet. If you won't look after it, who will? ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] She's Dead, Jim
The current truck has a number of quirks, most of which we find annoying. Additional repairs coming soon include replacing the windshield and radio, and a few of the dash controls have broken knobs or levers. I have my suspicions about at least one of the rear shock absorbers. I have just found a local listing for a 1991 GMC (sister vehicle) with a 6.2 litre diesel in it that is priced less than the rebuild estimate. (That's new since I posted my message). 300,000 km, just a bit more than what the 1990 Cheyenne had on it. Diesels are rare here. So, I'm real tempted to go look at this one, and if all goes well, strip out the good bits from the current truck to keep for spares (battteries, tires, hour meter, starter motor - new at Xmas, radiator - new last summer). Tires may be too big for the 1/2 ton. I have maintained the current truck on the basis it would be with us for a long time, so this event after a couple of recent expensive repairs is a real morale killer. Don't want to get my hopes up, but the GMC looks like what I really wanted 2-3 years ago. It's not a 3/4 ton (current one is), just the regular 1/2 ton. The lower bed might be advantageous as well - lifting patio stones the extra 3-4 inches due to the taller 3/4 ton suspension got tired fast. Paul and Kurt, thanks for the advice. The rebuild is not out of the question. Other comments or questions are welcome. I liked the 6.2 litre. I did a lot of research before buying the first truck with the 6.2 based on what I learned, and stayed away from the 6.5. Darryl Quoting Kurt Nolte [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm with Paul here. GM 6.2 diesels are pretty common beasts in the diesel market, so parts are easy to find, available, yadda yadda... heck, you can probably get a fresh rebuilt 6.2 engine for the truck for what you'd be looking at in your price range for a truck. Or maybe even a 6.5, just make sure you don't get the one with the rudimentary computer... -Kurt Paul S Cantrell wrote: Daryl, I say fix it. If you are willing to pay the amount to fix it to get another truck just like it...why not fix the one you have? You already HAVE it and you already know its quirks. Availability of diesel vehicles is below demand. Unless there is more that is wrong with it? On 2/1/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was riding in the passenger seat as my son was driving my 1990 Chev Cheyenne on Tuesday morning. It has the GM 6.2 litre diesel engine. It was a cold day (-22 C), but the truck started easily (block heater had been used). We were about 4 km out when I heard a new top end racket as he accelerated out of a curve. The check gauges light came on, and the oil pressure was reading zero. I had him pull over and shut down, hoping we were quick enough to avoid damage. Yesterday, I got the preliminary report from the mechanic. The oil pump failed, so the engine was not being lubricated. It is not seized (the engine never got up to temperature on the trip), but there are a lot of ugly noises, even at idle. I trust this shop, and have for years. They figure a bottom-end rebuild is in order, but question the value of proceeding on an 18-year-old truck. The rebuild estimate is approximately what I paid for the truck a year and a half ago. Ironically, this occurred while I was on my way to a funeral. (I made it, but I was late. The tow truck driver dropped us off at the church on the way to the garage. We're on a first name basis. My son thinks that's funny.) I have been running B20 for the past year. I don't think that has anything to do with the oil pump going. Just posting this as a warning to others that this is something to watch out for in the GM engines of this vintage. The truck doesn't get a lot of use, as a rule, but I figure it paid for itself in the time I had it. It carried and pulled a lot in the times it was used. I have started looking for a replacement, but there isn't much to choose from in the low end of the market in terms of diesels. There are some large cube vans available at the top end of my price range (up to Cdn$4500), but they would present an issue in terms of parking. I need something that can pull up to 3500 pounds (Class 2), and carry ugly cargo (compost, scrap metal, used construction material). Pretty doesn't matter - in fact ugly has proven advantageous in terms or reducing requests to borrow the last vehicle. Robust and reliable does matter, as others drive the vehicle more often than I do. I'm thinking either pickup truck or full-size van. Any other thoughts? It took me more than a year to find a diesel the last time, and I don't have the luxury of that much time
Re: [Biofuel] Compost, Tree Buds and Rose Hips
This morning I noticed that several of the rose plants we picked up from someone's discard pile (these were left at the side of the road with a sign that said: Free Plants) have bright red / orange fruit on them right now. I THINK these are rose hips, but I'm not certain because I've never seen them before. If they are, they should be full of vitamin C. Does anyone know how to prepare rose hips for human consumption? Yup, those are the rose hips. I just eat them straight (usually because I find them hiking through the woods). But they are sort of gritty and FULL of seeds. Not very easy to eat usually. I would crush them up, cook lightly, and strain through cheesecloth -- just like initial processing for any sort of seedy fruit. After that you could make jelly, tea, whatever from the liquid. Z ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] US plans to 'fight the net' revealed
yes but to have a spread spectrum transmitter with the same kind of range as a standard single carrier would take either a lot more repeaters- which means more vulnerable infrastructure- or a huge honkin transmitter which means it is a) a bigger target, and b) dependent on a heavy power supply. and as far as messing with the satellites was concerned i meant hijacking an link just as you mentioned (nothing like using their own gear against them...). - Original Message - From: Joe Street To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 11:21 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] US plans to 'fight the net' revealed Are you joking? The military has no need of the web for thier com needs. They have all manner of wireless networks of their own. Most of it is spread spectrum stuff. The also have ELF for communicating with subs clandestinely (which is slow) or can use a blue green laser from a satelite to get a message in quickly when they are not concerned about revealing the sub's location. If the s*** hits the fan the entire EM spectrum will be filled with jamming signals but spread spectrum and coherent techniques are somewhat robust against these tactics. Satelites are surprisingly difficult albeit vulnerable targets although not impossible it takes a great deal of money and commitment to take one out. Uplinks are a different story tho... Joe Jason Katie wrote: so... if they eliminate the entire network that means they would only have satellite communications, and i doubt satellites are that terribly difficult to disrupt either so hackers could play games with the fed directly and cause some serious damage. hummm why does this not make any sense to me? which is worse: having people speak against you with impunity, or having those same people really pissed off and screwing with your only means of communication? just wondering... jason - Original Message - From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 12:45 PM Subject: [Biofuel] US plans to 'fight the net' revealed ... Meanwhile... Rumsfeld is still running the War Department Sunday, 28 January 2007 http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/175/1/ - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm Friday, 27 January 2006, 18:05 GMT US plans to 'fight the net' revealed By Adam Brookes BBC Pentagon correspondent A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military's plans for information operations - from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks. Report: Information Operations Roadmap:[PDF File] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/27_01_06_psyops.pdf Bloggers beware. As the world turns networked, the Pentagon is calculating the military opportunities that computer networks, wireless technologies and the modern media offer. From influencing public opinion through new media to designing computer network attack weapons, the US military is learning to fight an electronic war. The declassified document is called Information Operations Roadmap. It was obtained by the National Security Archive at George Washington University using the Freedom of Information Act. Officials in the Pentagon wrote it in 2003. The Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, signed it. The roadmap calls for a far-reaching overhaul of the military's ability to conduct information operations and electronic warfare. And, in some detail, it makes recommendations for how the US armed forces should think about this new, virtual warfare. The document says that information is critical to military success. Computer and telecommunications networks are of vital operational importance. Propaganda The operations described in the document include a surprising range of military activities: public affairs officers who brief journalists, psychological operations troops who try to manipulate the thoughts and beliefs of an enemy, computer network attack specialists who seek to destroy enemy networks. All these are engaged in information operations. Perhaps the most startling aspect of the roadmap is its acknowledgement that information put out as part of the military's psychological operations, or Psyops, is finding its way onto the computer and television screens of ordinary Americans. Information intended for foreign audiences, including public diplomacy and Psyops, is increasingly consumed by our domestic audience, it reads. Psyops messages will often be replayed by the news media for much larger audiences, including the American public, it goes on. The document's authors acknowledge that American news media should not unwittingly broadcast military propaganda. Specific boundaries should be established, they write. But they don't seem to explain how. In this day and age it is impossible to prevent stories that are fed abroad as part of psychological operations propaganda from blowing back into the
Re: [Biofuel] She's Dead, Jim
buy the box truck, and shove the box off it. replace that with a 3x12 plank deck and some side rails. voila - instant straight truck. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 2:04 PM Subject: [Biofuel] She's Dead, Jim I was riding in the passenger seat as my son was driving my 1990 Chev Cheyenne on Tuesday morning. It has the GM 6.2 litre diesel engine. It was a cold day (-22 C), but the truck started easily (block heater had been used). We were about 4 km out when I heard a new top end racket as he accelerated out of a curve. The check gauges light came on, and the oil pressure was reading zero. I had him pull over and shut down, hoping we were quick enough to avoid damage. Yesterday, I got the preliminary report from the mechanic. The oil pump failed, so the engine was not being lubricated. It is not seized (the engine never got up to temperature on the trip), but there are a lot of ugly noises, even at idle. I trust this shop, and have for years. They figure a bottom-end rebuild is in order, but question the value of proceeding on an 18-year-old truck. The rebuild estimate is approximately what I paid for the truck a year and a half ago. Ironically, this occurred while I was on my way to a funeral. (I made it, but I was late. The tow truck driver dropped us off at the church on the way to the garage. We're on a first name basis. My son thinks that's funny.) I have been running B20 for the past year. I don't think that has anything to do with the oil pump going. Just posting this as a warning to others that this is something to watch out for in the GM engines of this vintage. The truck doesn't get a lot of use, as a rule, but I figure it paid for itself in the time I had it. It carried and pulled a lot in the times it was used. I have started looking for a replacement, but there isn't much to choose from in the low end of the market in terms of diesels. There are some large cube vans available at the top end of my price range (up to Cdn$4500), but they would present an issue in terms of parking. I need something that can pull up to 3500 pounds (Class 2), and carry ugly cargo (compost, scrap metal, used construction material). Pretty doesn't matter - in fact ugly has proven advantageous in terms or reducing requests to borrow the last vehicle. Robust and reliable does matter, as others drive the vehicle more often than I do. I'm thinking either pickup truck or full-size van. Any other thoughts? It took me more than a year to find a diesel the last time, and I don't have the luxury of that much time now. Suggestions? -- Darryl McMahon It's your planet. If you won't look after it, who will? ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.431 / Virus Database: 268.17.16/660 - Release Date: 1/30/2007 5:04 PM -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.431 / Virus Database: 268.17.16/660 - Release Date: 1/30/2007 5:04 PM ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
