[Biofuel] Economic Armageddon Is Coming
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17587.htm Economic Armageddon Is Coming By Joel S. Hirschhorn 04/24/07 ICH --- -- Stop being a compliant consumer. Face the ugly truth. Don't get fooled by the stock market. Accept the need for the mistreated middle class to become the revolutionary class. The British military establishment's most prestigious think tank sees what too few over-consuming Americans are willing to anticipate. Unjustified and mounting economic inequality is planting the seeds for global economic conflict. Here is what the new report from the UK Defense Ministry's Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre warned might happen by 2035. The middle classes could become a revolutionary class. The growing gap between themselves and a small number of highly visible super-rich individuals might fuel disillusion with meritocracy, while the growing urban under-classes are likely to pose an increasing threat...Faced by these twin challenges, the world's middle-classes might unite, using access to knowledge, resources and skills to shape transnational processes in their own class interest. Consider the wisdom of economist John Maynard Keynes: The rich are tolerable only so long as their gains appear to bear some relation to roughly what they have contributed to society. Think of it as proportional and justified economic success. This can be tolerated by poor and middle class people if they believe the economic system is fair and properly rewards those who work harder or have better capabilities. But truly obscene economic rewards angers people. When most prosperity and wealth is unfairly channeled to relatively few Upper Class people, it is only a matter of time until fuming, resentful people in the Lower Class decide enough is enough and revolt. Perhaps violently, if the political system remains controlled by the Upper Class. A ton of data demonstrate how crazy our economic system has become where a relatively few receive astronomical gains that no rational person could see as justified. One study tracked down home ownership data for 488 CEOs in the SP 500 Index set of companies. The typical home of the CEOs has 12 rooms, sits on 5.37 acres, and carries a $3.1 million price-tag. Companies big enough to rate SP 500 status hiked their median CEO pay by 23.78 percent in 2006 to $14.8 million. In comparison, U.S. worker weekly wages rose just 3.5 percent in 2006. Despite what you hear about the sagging housing market and the many people facing foreclosure, business at the top end of the U.S. housing market is booming. Sales of homes in the $5 million-and-up price range rose 11 percent last year, reports the Dallas-based Institute for Luxury Home Marketing. Ten residential properties sold for over $28 million in 2006. The most expensive in New Jersey sold for $58 million; it went to Richard Kurtz, the CEO of Advanced Photonix, a telecom supplier. In the ultra-luxury market a set of suites in New York's fabled Plaza Hotel was converted last year into one-bedroom condos that start at $6.9 million. From another study we learn that pay for American college presidents over the past decade has jumped seven times faster than pay for college faculty. In 1996, only one college president took home over $500,000. In 2006, 112 college presidents hit that mark. Meanwhile, after inflation, compensation for college professors increased just 5 percent since 1996. And college students have faced rapidly mounting tuition far higher than inflation rates. CEOs are getting away with economic murder. Bob Nardelli, the CEO who departed Home Depot early this year, had an exit package worth $210 million. IBM CEO Sam Palmisano took home $18.8 million in 2006 and will receive $34.9 million in deferred pay and $33.1 million in retirement benefits when he leaves IBM. Even more extreme is the case of Occidental Petroleum CEO Ray Irani. The interest income alone on the $124 million that ended the year in Irani's deferred-pay account totaled $679,396. The Los Angeles Times estimated Irani's total payoff for 2006 at $460 million. Leslie Blodgett, the top exec at cosmetics giant Bare Escentuals, collected $118.9 million in 2006, with most of that coming from the $117.7 million she cleared cashing out stock options. She received 4 million additional stock options before 2006 ended. Economists Emmanuel Saez of the University of California at Berkeley and Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics found that the richest 10 percent of the U.S. population received 44 percent of the pretax income in 2005. This was the highest since the 1920s and 1930s (average: 44 percent) and much higher than from 1945 to 1980 (average: 32 percent). With more than 140 million U.S. workers, that top 10 percent equals 14 million workers. The bottom half of that top 10 percent had incomes of about $110,000. That may not seem all that high,
[Biofuel] Blaming the lobby
Is the pro-Israel lobby extremely powerful in the United States? As someone who has been facing the full brunt of their power for the last three years through their formidable influence on my own university and their attempts to get me fired, I answer with a resounding yes. Are they primarily responsible for US policies towards the Palestinians and the Arab world? Absolutely not. -- http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/787/op35.htm Blaming the lobby As someone who has been facing the full brunt of the might of the pro-Israel lobby in the US, Joseph Massad* explains the deceit behind blaming the lobby for US policies towards the Palestinians and the Arab world In the last 25 years, many Palestinians and other Arabs, in the United States and in the Arab world, have been so awed by the power of the US pro-Israel lobby that any study, book, or journalistic article that exposes the inner workings, the substantial influence, and the financial and political power of this lobby have been greeted with ecstatic sighs of relief that Americans finally can see the truth and the error of their ways. The underlying argument has been simple and has been told time and again by Washington's regime allies in the Arab world, pro-US liberal and Arab intellectuals, conservative and liberal US intellectuals and former politicians, and even leftist Arab and American activists who support Palestinian rights, namely, that absent the pro-Israel lobby, America would at worst no longer contribute to the oppression of Arabs and Palestinians and at best it would be the Arabs' and the Palestinians' best ally and friend. What makes this argument persuasive and effective to Arabs? Indeed, why are its claims constantly brandished by Washington's Arab friends to Arab and American audiences as a persuasive argument? I contend that the attraction of this argument is that it exonerates the United States' government from all the responsibility and guilt that it deserves for its policies in the Arab world and gives false hope to many Arabs and Palestinians who wish America would be on their side instead of on the side of their enemies. Let me start with the premise of the argument, namely its effect of shifting the blame for US policies from the United States onto Israel and its US lobby. According to this logic, it is not the United States that should be held directly responsible for all its imperial policies in the Arab world and the Middle East at large since World War II, rather it is Israel and its lobby who have pushed it to launch policies that are detrimental to its own national interest and are only beneficial to Israel. Establishing and supporting Arab and other Middle East dictatorships, arming and training their militaries, setting up their secret police apparatuses and training them in effective torture methods and counter-insurgency to be used against their own citizens should be blamed, according to the logic of these studies, on Israel and its US lobby. Blocking all international and UN support for Palestinian rights, arming and financing Israel in its war against a civilian population, protecting Israel from the wrath of the international community should also be blamed not on the United States, the studies insist, but on Israel and its lobby. Additionally, and in line with this logic, controlling Arab economies and finances, dominating key investments in the Middle East, and imposing structural adjustment policies by the IMF and the World Bank which impoverish the Arab peoples should also be blamed on Israel, and not the United States. Finally, starving and then invading Iraq, threatening to invade Syria, raiding and then sanctioning Libya and Iran, besieging the Palestinians and their leaders must also be blamed on the Israeli lobby and not the US government. Indeed, over the years, many pro-US Arab dictators let it leak officially and unofficially that their US diplomat friends have told them time and again how much they and America support the Arab world and the Palestinians were it not for the influence of the pro-Israel lobby (sometimes identified by the American diplomats in more explicit ethnic terms). While many of the studies of the pro-Israel lobby are sound and full of awe-inspiring well-documented details about the formidable power commanded by groups like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and its allies, the problem with most of them is what remains unarticulated. For example, when and in what context has the United States government ever supported national liberation in the Third World? The record of the United States is one of being the implacable enemy of all Third World national liberation groups, including European ones, from Greece to Latin America to Africa and Asia, except in the celebrated cases of the Afghan fundamentalists' war against the
Re: [Biofuel] Flying F Bio-Fuels
6800 for a 40 gallon batch is well . . . As high as a giraffes tail? :-) Same as this, said about the FuelMeister two or three years back: You could make an excellent processor plus more than 8,000 gallons of high-quality biodiesel for that price. Anyone can make a good processor, except, it seems, people who sell them. AFAIK there still isn't a commercially available small-scale processor that's worth having. www.ffbiofuels.com says this: You'll be making fuel the day it arrives! Pagandai recently said this: Understanding of the process is vital to operate the plant. - Prof. P.V. Pannir Selvam, Technology Center, Department of Chemical Engineering, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil, Biofuel mailing list, 15 Apr 2007 I completely agree with Pagandai, seen it so often! Dave, nice small-scale processor designs here that the head of maintenance might consider: http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_processor.html Joe Street's processor http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_processor.html#joestreet Best Keith Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone heard about this company? They make a reactor and are selling it. I was approached by the head of maintenance. He said they are considering purchasing a unit. I'm inclined to think its way over priced. www.ffbiofuels.com -dave ___ 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] Fw: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel
Hello Mike Google prior art patent I don't think there is much to worry about That the patent offices themselves don't seem to be much interested in checking for prior art is cause for concern. But I agree, this Ben Gurion University patent is not something I'd worry about, as we all seem to agree. Thanks! Best Keith Keith Addison wrote: I'd appreciate some opinions on this, if anyone would like to comment. Just to stir it up a bit, a somewhat ridiculous small company in Japan called Someya Shoten which feels it leads the world in matters biodiesel took out a patent on transesterification some years ago. So is Ben Gurion University infringing on Someya Shoten's patent? Or is the whole thing preposterous, since transesterification was invented/discovered about 150 years ago and is thoroughly in the public domain no matter who decides to patent it, and no matter which dumb patent office that doesn't check anything decides to grant the patent? Would the best advice to the Sahel group be to ignore it and just get on with it? Has anybody patented the human nose yet, or failing that, the air noses breathe? All best Keith I had this email from a group working with biodiesel in the Sahel. If it's true, it seems ridiculous to me. See: http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/ia.jsp?IA=IL2006000622REF=RSS (WO/2006/126206) PRODUCTION OF BIODIESEL FROM BALANITES AEGYPTIACA Best Keith Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:20:52 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fw: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 11:16 AM Subject: patent for transesterification of oil to Biodiesel Dear Sirs, We are supporting NGO 's and cooperatives in Afrika, there is a big need to produce oil from all possible plants, nuts , seeds of any other vegetable origine , for human consumption or for producing energie. One of the NGO ' s in the Sahel-region helps the local population to organise the collecting of the fruits and nuts to improve their oil production from the nuts of the Balanites tree. The Balanites tree is very popular by the population , the fruits are sweet amere but the juice is used as a drink and sold to the town , the nuts are very hard and inside, the kernel contains 40 to 48% of oil. Sometimes the used as lamp-oil. The whole tree is very interesting for public health , on internet is a lot of information about that. The NGO will make the use as lamp-oil better by transesterification to obtain biodiesel that the should burn in small diesel cookingoven ,so that they don't have to use the wood , which is one of the biggest problem in this region. Further the don't have electricity , the have diesel generator , but the irrigularity in delivery and the high prices of gasoil makes it to difficult in using them all the time. The problem : There is a pattent on the invention to make biodiesel from BALANITES OIL .(WO/2006/126206) dated november 2006 by the BEN GORION UNIVERSITY Please can you inform us, Is it possible to take a patent on the transesterification process of oil to produce Biodiesel? Is this ALL Patent possible? Is this NEW and what is new on this invention? Is this not in contradiction with statements of many Organisations - World Wide - for the devellopment of POOR COUNTRIES , Thanks for your attention we remain with kind regards marc van de velde Leningstraat 19 2140 ANTWERP Belgium production and office in POLAND mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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] Monsanto's Soybean Monopoly Challenged in Munich
http://www.etcgroup.org/en/materials/publications.html?pub_id=616 ETC Group - Publications - Monsanto's Soybean Monopoly Challenged in Munich News Release ETC Group April 30, 2007 www.etcgroup.org Monsanto's Soybean Monopoly Challenged in Munich European Patent Office Will Decide Fate of Species-Wide Soybean Patent on 3 May 2007 On 3 May 2007 ETC Group (a Canadian-based international civil society organization - formerly known as RAFI) together with No Patents on Life! and Greenpeace will continue a 13-year legal battle against one of biotech's most notorious patents. At an appeal hearing at the European Patent Office in Munich, civil society organizations will argue that Monsanto's patent (European Patent No. 301-749) on all genetically engineered soybeans - unprecedented in its broad scope - must be revoked. No patent symbolizes the brokenness of the patent system better than Monsanto's species-wide patent on genetically engineered soybeans, said Hope Shand of ETC Group. Monsanto's patent is both technically flawed and morally unacceptable, said Shand. Critics refer to EP 301-749 as a species-wide patent because its claims extend to all biotech soybean seeds -- irrespective of the genes used or the genetic engineering technique employed. The patent, initially awarded to US-based biotech company Agracetus in 1994, was acquired by Monsanto when it purchased Agracetus in 1996. According to industry sources, Monsanto's biotech seeds and traits accounted for almost 90% of the worldwide area planted to genetically modified soybean seeds in 2005. What's more, genetically engineered soybeans reportedly account for almost 60% of the global soybean area - an increasingly dominant share of one of the world's most important food and commodity crops. The statistics speak for themselves, said Greenpeace's patent expert Dr. Christoph Then. A single company has been awarded sweeping monopoly control over one of the world's most important food crops. ETC Group's Shand asserts, Monsanto's patent is undermining the economic security of farming communities and jeopardizing access to seeds - the first link in the food chain. Whoever controls the seeds controls the food supply. According to a ranking of the world's largest seed companies released today by ETC Group, Monsanto is the world's largest seed company, with over 20% of the global proprietary seed market. ETC Group's new ranking of the top 10 seed companies is available here: http://www.etcgroup.org/en/materials/publications.html?pub_id=615 The livelihoods of Argentina's soybean farmers are directly affected by Monsanto's species-wide patent because the company is using its exclusive monopoly to deny Argentine soybeans from entering European markets. Monsanto alleges that Argentine farmers aren't paying royalties to Monsanto for using the company's patented soybean seeds. Critics point out that Monsanto's defense of its patent is not surprising, but it is hugely hypocritical. Before Monsanto acquired the patent in 1996, the company vigorously opposed the patent - which was then owned by Agracetus. In 1994 Monsanto submitted an exhaustive, 292-page opposition statement to the EPO that shredded the technical merits of Agracetus's soybean patent. Monsanto's lawyers wrote that the soybean patent should be revoked in its entirety, is not...novel, lacks an inventive step, and sufficient disclosure [of scientific method] is woefully lacking. But after Monsanto acquired Agracetus in April 1996, Monsanto withdrew its challenge, reversed its position and announced that it would defend its newly acquired patent! In 2003 - more than nine years after the patent was first awarded and legally challenged - an EPO patent tribunal heard legal arguments against the notorious patent. Opponents were shocked when EPO upheld Monsanto's monopoly in 2003. Today, nearly two-thirds of the patent's 20-year term has expired. On 3 May 2007 EPO's appeal tribunal will have one last chance to revoke Monsanto's unjust monopoly on one of the world's major food crops. If EPO fails to revoke the patent after 13 years of bureaucratic delays it will simply confirm that corporations can use unjust patents to monopolize markets, destroy competition and jeopardize worldwide struggles for food sovereignty, said Hope Shand of ETC Group. Case-by-case legal battles against immoral and unjust patents is an unworkable strategy - Europe needs new patent legislation that expressly prohibits patents on life, said Ruth Tippe of No patents on Life! For more information contact: Hope Shand or Kathy Jo Wetter, ETC Group Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +1 919 960-5223 Jim Thomas, ETC Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +1 514 516-5759 Dr. Ruth Tippe, No patents on Life, Germany Tel: 0049 1728963858 http://www.keinpatent.de/ Dr. Christoph Then, Greenpeace, Germany Tel: 0049 1718780832 http://www.greenpeace.de ETC Group's 2006 ranking of
Re: [Biofuel] Patented GMO jatropha
Since that plant is not native to this continent will I have to get a permit from anyone to import the seeds? What is the procedure with that? Joe James Quaid wrote: I'd like to give you a recommendation. But, the last batch of seeds I purchased aren't sprouting too well. This may be due to the ground temps being below 70F. Jat likes 75 - 80F soil temps. Contact me in 3 weeks and I'll give you a status report. Has anyone else sprouted Jat successfully in the US? I'm at it's most nothern range 33 deg N lat. Regards, JQ Mike Cappiello wrote: please tell me how you aquired the seeds. thanks, Mike cappiello --- James Quaid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith, I'm doing a Jatropha cultivation experiment in AZ. It survived the 115F. But the 24F killed a 1/3 of my test planting. It is very sensitive to a hard freeze. And according to what I've read, standard breeds will produce 300 gal/ acre 600 gal/acre if it blooms twice. Jatropha originally from Central America. I'd be very interested to see what the GMO stuff does especially in cold climes. I'm having a heckuva time sprouting seedlings. The current batch of seeds I have is from Suriname. We will be doing an acre test planting on a farm with saline wells. Jatropha can allegedly handle salt pretty well. Here's what the Germans are doing with it: http://www.d1plc.com Regards, JQ Keith Addison wrote: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-biodiesel1707apr17,0,4223949.story? track=mostemailedlink 'Farming our fuel' Officials from a local company will tout the jatropha plant today in Tallahassee. We're doing things right here in Orlando that are going to change America. Rich Mckay | Sentinel Staff Writer Posted April 17, 2007 ABOUT BIODIESEL What is it? Biodiesel is a fuel made from rendered vegetable oils or animal fats refined through a chemical reaction with an alcohol. What can be used to make it? Soybean oil is used to make most of the biodiesel in the U.S. Restaurant grease or any vegetable oil such as corn, canola, cottonseed, mustard oil also can be used. Jatropha oil is widely used in India and Asia. Other companies are developing ways to make biodiesel out of algae, restaurant scraps and even animal carcasses. Why bother? Biodiesel is considered an alternative to petroleum diesel because it can be grown, rather than pumped from a well. It is also considered a neutral gas. It doesn't put back into the atmosphere anything it didn't absorb when it was part of the environment. Is it as powerful as diesel? It is considered to have the same power as petroleum diesel. What engines can use it? It can be mixed with petroleum diesel and used in unmodified diesel engines. Engines can be modified to run 100 percent on biodiesel. What does biodiesel smell like? That depends its source. Some say it smells like french fries. Biodiesel made from jatropha doesn't have a strong odor. SOURCE: Sentinel research America, meet your next tank of gas -- made from superpowered seeds. A couple of Orlando entrepreneurs say that a Malaysian variety newly approved for U.S. import could help solve America's energy woes and boost Central Florida's economy with a new cash crop. State Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson, along with executives from the Orlando-based Xenerga Inc., are scheduled to introduce a patented version of the jatropha plant today in Tallahassee. We're doing things right here in Orlando that are going to change America, said Dave Jarrett, a company spokesman. Just wait and see. The oil pressed from the jatropha nut can be used to make biodiesel, producing six to eight times the amount of energy extracted from soybeans -- the most common crop used for biodiesel in the U.S. Xenerga president Jason Sayers and his business partner Victor Clewes have the exclusive patent on the high-octane version of the plant with seeds that grow inside bunches of fat green pods the size of peach pits. It can produce 1,600 gallons of biodiesel per acre, compared with soy's 200 gallons, Sayers said. A Lake Wales farmer is ready to grow 5,000 acres of the genetically enhanced jatropha, Jarrett said. And unlike soy, which takes lots of tending, fertilizer and water, the jatropha plant can grow happily in arid soil, with little water and almost no tending. Think of it as farming our fuel, Sayers said. President Bush mandated that refineries should have renewable fuels blended into 7.5 billion gallons of the nation's
Re: [Biofuel] Food boom brings unpalatable truths
It seems the widespread US angst following the toxic pet food debacle is being put to good use in posing food safety and food security as a mere matter of controlling foreign imports, with the underlying assumption that all is well and good with the domestic portion of the US food supply. What a joke (if you like sick jokes). The industrial food system, in whatever nation, is not characterised by anything that could sanely be termed food safety or food security. IMHO. Best Keith Food boom brings unpalatable truths http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/food-boom-brings-unpalatable-truths/ 2007/04/28/1177459990913.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2 Disaster â*¦ a woman cries after thousands of fish died of unknown pollution at her aquaculture farm in Hangzhou a day before World Environment Day last year. Photo: Reuters/China Dai April 28, 2007 China's huge food export market could be making the world sick, write Ariana Eunjung Cha in Shanghai and Kelly Burke. SOMETHING was wrong with the babies. The villagers noticed their heads were growing abnormally large while the rest of their bodies were skin and bones. By the time Chinese authorities discovered the culprit - severe malnutrition from fake milk powder - 13 had died. The scandal unfolded three years ago after hundreds of infants fell ill in eastern China and became the symbol of a broad problem in China's economy. Quality control and product-safety regulation are so poor in this country that people cannot trust the goods on store shelves. Until now, the problem has received scant attention outside China. In recent weeks, however, consumers everywhere have been learning about China's safety crisis. Tainted ingredients that originated there made their way into pet food that has sickened and killed animals around the world, with nearly 4000 deaths reported in the US. Although no animal deaths have been reported in Australia, high-end pet food products imported from the US have also been pulled from Australian shelves. With China playing an ever-larger role in supplying food, medicine and animal feed to other countries, recognition of the hazards has not kept up. By value, China is the world's No.1 exporter of fruits and vegetables, and a major exporter of other food products ranging from apple juice to garlic and sausage casings. Its agricultural exports to the US surged to $US2.26 billion last year - nearly 20 times the $US133 million of 1980. China's food exports to Australia were worth $450 million in 2006, up from $345 million the previous year, and dominated by prawns, cereal, fruit juice and vegetables. China has been especially poor at meeting international standards. The US subjects only a small fraction of its food imports to close inspection, but each month rejects about 200 shipments from China, mostly due to concerns about pesticides, antibiotics and misleading labelling. In February, border inspectors for the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) blocked peas tainted by pesticides, dried plums containing banned additives, pepper contaminated with salmonella and frozen crayfish that were filthy. The Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service samples 5 per cent of food imports and a spokesman said although the overall number of rejections were small, the major cause of rejections of imports from China are heavy metals and pesticides. Since 2000, some countries have temporarily banned whole categories of Chinese imports. The European Union stopped prawn shipments because of banned antibiotics. Japan blocked tea and spinach, citing excessive antibiotic residue. And South Korea banned fermented cabbage after finding parasites. As globalisation of the food supply progresses, the food gets more anonymous and gradually you get into a situation where you don't know where exactly it came from and you get more vulnerable to poor quality, said Michiel Keyzer, director of the Centre for World Food Studies at Vrije University in Amsterdam. Chinese authorities, while conceding that the country has many safety problems, say other countries' assessments of products are sometimes not accurate. They have implied that the bans may be politically motivated, aimed at protecting companies that compete with Chinese businesses. China's State Food and Drug Administration, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Agriculture, which along with other government agencies are responsible for monitoring food and drug safety, this week declined to answer written questions. But reflecting anxiety over food safety issues and increasing international pressure, President Hu Jintao on Wednesday urged the farming sector to improve food safety and develop the organic sector, state media reported. Hu promised stricter rules on growing and processing, the People's Daily reported. Without agricultural standardisation, there can be no agricultural modernisation and no assurance of food safety, he said. More than 100 brands of pet food have been recalled in the
Re: [Biofuel] Flying F Bio-Fuels
Righto. This is what I thought. Here will be an interesting case. About 3 years ago I approached the Maintenance department about making a reactor and they throughly laughed at me. Now, given the diesel prices, they are looking at these options. It will be interesting to see if I can persuade them to actually learn what is behind this mysterious biodiesel process. Further to that, it will be a miracle if I can convince them that this reactor is not only over priced, but merely a high priced water heater with a pump and a few hoses. I'll keep you informed. On Tuesday, May 01, 2007 2:37 AM, Keith Addison wrote: 6800 for a 40 gallon batch is well . . . As high as a giraffes tail? Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 16:37:11 +0900 From: Keith Addison To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Flying F Bio-Fuels :-) Same as this, said about the FuelMeister two or three years back: You could make an excellent processor plus more than 8,000 gallons of high-quality biodiesel for that price. Anyone can make a good processor, except, it seems, people who sell them. AFAIK there still isn't a commercially available small-scale processor that's worth having. www.ffbiofuels.com says this: You'll be making fuel the day it arrives! Pagandai recently said this: Understanding of the process is vital to operate the plant. - Prof. P.V. Pannir Selvam, Technology Center, Department of Chemical Engineering, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil, Biofuel mailing list, 15 Apr 2007 I completely agree with Pagandai, seen it so often! Dave, nice small-scale processor designs here that the head of maintenance might consider: http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_processor.html Joe Street's processor http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_processor.html#joestreet Best Keith Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone heard about this company? They make a reactor and are selling it. I was approached by the head of maintenance. He said they are considering purchasing a unit. I'm inclined to think its way over priced. www.ffbiofuels.com -dave ___ 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] video - plant propagation
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[Biofuel] Rooting without commercial rooting hormone
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/rosesorg/msg0720433521555.html Posted by EireannE Dublin (My Page) on Wed, Mar 23, 05 at 21:08 Sorry about the long post, but perhaps I can shed some light on the topic. All plants contain the necessary hormones (IAA, NAA, and IBS) to root, otherwise how would they root in the first place? The only reason some cuttings are hard to root, or won't root at all on their own is because of the plants natural process of damage control, i.e. wound response. Abscisic Acid is a stress hormone that plants use to automatically dieback injured areas in response to wounding or disease such as occurs at the severed end of a cutting. Adding additional hormone to a cut stem to induce rooting is one method of counteracting this response, but essentially all you are doing is disinfecting the area while providing enough additional hormone to maybe (maybe not) develop more mass than the abscisic acid released during the wound response can cope with. Eventually, if you're successful, it's because you reach a point where the wounded area is either partially closed, and/or the root material has eclipsed it, and abscisic acid stops being produced. Why explain all this? Because there is another method (already mentioned) that works just as well without stressing the plant by forcing it to grow both more mass as well as fight the effects of abscisic acid, willow water. Someone already mentioned aspirin being the same thing, well it is and it isn't. Aspirin, which as we all know comes from the bark of the willow tree, does contain one of what appears to be two necessary/active ingredients in willow water for successful root incubation. This is Salicylic Acid. Salicylic acid is an abscisic acid inhibitor. That's to say, not only will it stop the affect of already present abscisic acid on wounds, but it stops the wound response and production of abscisic acid all together. On top of this it acts as an anti-coagulant keeping the fresh cut open and allowing the cutting to wick much needed water and nutrients during this vital stage. The second vital ingredient, a substance that you won't get from aspirin, is rhizocaline. A mysterious yet naturally occurring compound of what is thought to be vitamins B, H, boron, sugar and/or other nitrogenous minerals that act in conjunction with IAA, and IBS. Research has found that this is the key catalyst to promoting root formation. All plants contain and use it, but willow has such an abundance as to make it king of rhizocaline. If extracted and used properly, willow water can be the most effective way to produce rooted cuttings. There are many recipes for making it; leaving willow branches in water for 4 weeks to root; steeping 6 inch willow cuttings in cool water for 72 hours; or 1 inch cuttings for 24 hours; boiling the cuttings; mashing and splitting the cuttings and brewing them in bot recently boiled water. There are loads, and some of these may be more (or less) effective than others. But to get the real expert's advice, go to Dr. Makota Kawase who in the mid 1960's discovered rhizocaline by experimenting with willow and has been developing the process ever since. Dr. Kawase's advice: cut current year's growth from any Salix species. Then, remove the leaves and cut into one inch pieces. Place these right side up (Eireann: direction is important since rhizocaline and IAA move polarly down the stem of any cutting) in a glass, add 1/2 of hot water, cover with a plastic bag and let sit 24 hours. Steep your cuttings in this for and additional 24 hours, and then place in the rooting medium with or without rooting hormone, as needed (Eireann: My suggestion is without). The willow water may be stored in the refrigerator and covered to prevent contamination, but is best used up within three days. Additionally Dr. Kawase encourages the use of etoilation in promoting rooting. Total darkness, he found, increased rooting sharply up to four days, which is three days faster than anything I ever did with store bought rooting hormone. The basal tips MUST be in darkness for rooting to occur. - Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.___ 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] Bayer Corporation gets Rachel Carson honors
Unbelievable! Well, almost... Bayer's press releases below. Excerpt: Bayer employees are proud that we as a company take action that supports the public interest and demonstrates corporate citizenship that benefits humankind, said Dr. Attila Molnar, President and CEO, Bayer Corporation. In meeting our responsibilities to society, Bayer relies on its core values of improving quality of life while harmonizing commercial efficiency, ecology and social commitment. A little sanity here: Coalition Against Bayer Dangers http://www.cbgnetwork.de/4.html Also here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]q=Bayer Bayer And here: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enie=ISO-8859-1q=corporate+criminals+bayer corporate criminals bayer - Google Search Bayer to be Honored by Rachel Carson Homestead Association 2007-04-19 17:19:21 - PITTSBURGH, April 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bayer Corporation will be honored tomorrow, Friday, April 20, by the Rachel Carson Homestead Association at a reception that kicks off a yearlong series of special events commemorating the centennial of the birth of author and ecologist Rachel Carson. One of the Homestead Association's key events, the Rachel Carson Legacy Challenge reception hosted by Teresa Heinz Kerry at the Senator John Heinz History Center, will recognize Bayer and 15 other companies and organizations. Specifically, Bayer is being honored for its continued support and implementation of its various local, national and global environmental initiatives, some begun more than a decade ago, that are designed to foster a healthier planet. Throughout the centennial year, Bayer is also helping to sponsor a number of special environmental education programs organized by the Homestead Association. Bayer employees are proud that we as a company take action that supports the public interest and demonstrates corporate citizenship that benefits humankind, said Dr. Attila Molnar, President and CEO, Bayer Corporation. In meeting our responsibilities to society, Bayer relies on its core values of improving quality of life while harmonizing commercial efficiency, ecology and social commitment. The objective of the event is to highlight how commitment to environmentally sustainable practices can make a tangible difference in the health, quality of life, environment and economic viability of local, regional and global communities. We applaud Bayer Corporation for continuing to take 'green steps to a sustainable future,' by making permanent, measurable changes in behavior and policies that promote Rachel Carson's environmental ethic, said Patricia M. DeMarco, executive director, Rachel Carson Homestead Association. As a forward-thinking company, Bayer clearly understands that by committing to this challenge, it will help build conditions for a more sustainable, healthy world. Bayer's Sustainability Progress Bayer works to develop technologies that increase energy efficiency and protect drinking water; helps to eradicate pandemic diseases in the developing world; strengthens science education in the United States; introduces sustainable business practices to today's students; and reduces its own footprint globally. Bayer was one of the first chemical companies to join the Responsible Care(R) initiative and publish an environmental report in 1993. Several years later, it would become one of 45 founding members of the United Nation's Global Compact and join the Global Reporting Initiative. More than a decade ago, Bayer set an ambitious goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from more than 400 facilities worldwide in absolute numbers by 50 percent from 1990 to 2012, while simultaneously increasing manufacturing output. Since 1990, Bayer has bettered the greenhouse gas emission targets specified in the Kyoto Protocol and cut direct greenhouse gas emissions worldwide by more than 70 percent. Through technical improvements and structural changes, Bayer also has cut its worldwide energy use by 26 percent between 2000 and 2005. The Carbon Disclosure Project, a coalition of more than 200 worldwide institutional investors, lists Bayer as Best in Class in worldwide climate protection. Bayer was one of the first members of the Chicago Climate Exchange -- the world's first and America's only voluntary, legally binding greenhouse gas reduction and trading system for emission sources in North America and Brazil. Bayer's climate strategy includes developing products that conserve natural resources. These include refrigerator insulation, lightweight automotive materials and thermal insulation for buildings, all of which increase energy efficiency, lower fuel consumption and reduce emissions. Fueling the green building revolution are Bayer's innovative coatings, adhesives and polycarbonate materials. Currently under development are nanomaterials. This technology will make films and coatings with enhanced electric conductivity
Re: [Biofuel] Bayer Corporation gets Rachel Carson honors
That's nothing. Big Pharma is trying to ban vitamins and carrot juice in the US. Keith Addison wrote: Unbelievable! Well, almost... Bayer's press releases below. Excerpt: Bayer employees are proud that we as a company take action that supports the public interest and demonstrates corporate citizenship that benefits humankind, said Dr. Attila Molnar, President and CEO, Bayer Corporation. In meeting our responsibilities to society, Bayer relies on its core values of improving quality of life while harmonizing commercial efficiency, ecology and social commitment. A little sanity here: Coalition Against Bayer Dangers http://www.cbgnetwork.de/4.html Also here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]q=Bayer Bayer And here: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enie=ISO-8859-1q=corporate+criminals+bayer corporate criminals bayer - Google Search Bayer to be Honored by Rachel Carson Homestead Association 2007-04-19 17:19:21 - PITTSBURGH, April 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bayer Corporation will be honored tomorrow, Friday, April 20, by the Rachel Carson Homestead Association at a reception that kicks off a yearlong series of special events commemorating the centennial of the birth of author and ecologist Rachel Carson. One of the Homestead Association's key events, the Rachel Carson Legacy Challenge reception hosted by Teresa Heinz Kerry at the Senator John Heinz History Center, will recognize Bayer and 15 other companies and organizations. Specifically, Bayer is being honored for its continued support and implementation of its various local, national and global environmental initiatives, some begun more than a decade ago, that are designed to foster a healthier planet. Throughout the centennial year, Bayer is also helping to sponsor a number of special environmental education programs organized by the Homestead Association. Bayer employees are proud that we as a company take action that supports the public interest and demonstrates corporate citizenship that benefits humankind, said Dr. Attila Molnar, President and CEO, Bayer Corporation. In meeting our responsibilities to society, Bayer relies on its core values of improving quality of life while harmonizing commercial efficiency, ecology and social commitment. The objective of the event is to highlight how commitment to environmentally sustainable practices can make a tangible difference in the health, quality of life, environment and economic viability of local, regional and global communities. We applaud Bayer Corporation for continuing to take 'green steps to a sustainable future,' by making permanent, measurable changes in behavior and policies that promote Rachel Carson's environmental ethic, said Patricia M. DeMarco, executive director, Rachel Carson Homestead Association. As a forward-thinking company, Bayer clearly understands that by committing to this challenge, it will help build conditions for a more sustainable, healthy world. Bayer's Sustainability Progress Bayer works to develop technologies that increase energy efficiency and protect drinking water; helps to eradicate pandemic diseases in the developing world; strengthens science education in the United States; introduces sustainable business practices to today's students; and reduces its own footprint globally. Bayer was one of the first chemical companies to join the Responsible Care(R) initiative and publish an environmental report in 1993. Several years later, it would become one of 45 founding members of the United Nation's Global Compact and join the Global Reporting Initiative. More than a decade ago, Bayer set an ambitious goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from more than 400 facilities worldwide in absolute numbers by 50 percent from 1990 to 2012, while simultaneously increasing manufacturing output. Since 1990, Bayer has bettered the greenhouse gas emission targets specified in the Kyoto Protocol and cut direct greenhouse gas emissions worldwide by more than 70 percent. Through technical improvements and structural changes, Bayer also has cut its worldwide energy use by 26 percent between 2000 and 2005. The Carbon Disclosure Project, a coalition of more than 200 worldwide institutional investors, lists Bayer as Best in Class in worldwide climate protection. Bayer was one of the first members of the Chicago Climate Exchange -- the world's first and America's only voluntary, legally binding greenhouse gas reduction and trading system for emission sources in North America and Brazil. Bayer's climate strategy includes developing products that conserve natural resources. These include refrigerator insulation, lightweight automotive materials and thermal insulation for buildings, all of which increase energy efficiency, lower fuel consumption and reduce emissions. Fueling the green building revolution are Bayer's innovative coatings, adhesives and polycarbonate materials. Currently
Re: [Biofuel] Patented GMO jatropha
Keith Addison wrote: No problem if you compost the cake. (It's not yellow, is it, the cake?) (And is your compost Bin Laden with nice organic compostibles?) LMAO where do you get your material? Too funny. You put me in such a good mood I think I need to listen to some music. Maybe I'll go buy some Anthrax cd's Trouble with castor oil for biodiesel is the high viscosity, exceeds all standards specs. Pannir said the problem could be solved but didn't say how. Maybe by using ethanol as an additive? But I think that wouldn't fit the standards specs either. Well I have been injecting recovered methanol into my engine's air intake just recently and it seems quite happy to run on it. This turns out to be easier than reusing it in the biodiesel process. Water in the methanol lowers combustion temperature and thereby reducues oxides of nitrogen.:) sweet. I don't know yet whether ethanol shares methanol's lack of detonation under high compression but if it does I think that would be the answer as it would be ok to have in the fuel system, unlike methanol. Would probably help the winter issues somewhat as well. Still no best crop though, it depends in the circumstances. And yield might not be the only consideration. Best Keith What. You mean like you might consider something else like whether there might be another side to unleashing non native speicies into the great outdoors or something like that? What? J ___ 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] Flying F Bio-Fuels
Righto. This is what I thought. Here will be an interesting case. About 3 years ago I approached the Maintenance department about making a reactor and they throughly laughed at me. Now, given the diesel prices, they are looking at these options. It will be interesting to see if I can persuade them to actually learn what is behind this mysterious biodiesel process. Further to that, it will be a miracle if I can convince them that this reactor is not only over priced, but merely a high priced water heater with a pump and a few hoses. I'll keep you informed. Please do Dave, and best of good luck! Keith On Tuesday, May 01, 2007 2:37 AM, Keith Addison wrote: 6800 for a 40 gallon batch is well . . . As high as a giraffes tail? Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 16:37:11 +0900 From: Keith Addison To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Flying F Bio-Fuels :-) Same as this, said about the FuelMeister two or three years back: You could make an excellent processor plus more than 8,000 gallons of high-quality biodiesel for that price. Anyone can make a good processor, except, it seems, people who sell them. AFAIK there still isn't a commercially available small-scale processor that's worth having. www.ffbiofuels.com says this: You'll be making fuel the day it arrives! Pagandai recently said this: Understanding of the process is vital to operate the plant. - Prof. P.V. Pannir Selvam, Technology Center, Department of Chemical Engineering, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil, Biofuel mailing list, 15 Apr 2007 I completely agree with Pagandai, seen it so often! Dave, nice small-scale processor designs here that the head of maintenance might consider: http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_processor.html Joe Street's processor http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_processor.html#joestreet Best Keith Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone heard about this company? They make a reactor and are selling it. I was approached by the head of maintenance. He said they are considering purchasing a unit. I'm inclined to think its way over priced. www.ffbiofuels.com -dave ___ 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] Flying F Bio-Fuels
What's the 'F' stand for in 'Flying F Biofuel' ?? J;^ Kirk McLoren wrote: 6800 for a 40 gallon batch is well . . . As high as a giraffes tail? Kirk */[EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote: Has anyone heard about this company? They make a reactor and are selling it. I was approached by the head of maintenance. He said they are considering purchasing a unit. I'm inclined to think its way over priced. www.ffbiofuels.com -dave ___ 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/ Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check out new cars at Yahoo! Autos. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48245/*http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html;_ylc=X3oDMTE1YW1jcXJ2BF9TAzk3MTA3MDc2BHNlYwNtYWlsdGFncwRzbGsDbmV3LWNhcnM- ___ 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] Rooting without commercial rooting hormone
Hi Kirk and all, I suppose weeping willow will work. It´s a Salix. Is one better than another? Tom Irwin From:Kirk McLoren [EMAIL PROTECTED]Reply-To:biofuel@sustainablelists.orgTo:biofuel Biofuel@sustainablelists.orgSubject:[Biofuel] Rooting without commercial rooting hormoneDate:Tue, 1 May 2007 08:34:24 -0700 (PDT) http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/rosesorg/msg0720433521555.html Posted by EireannE Dublin (My Page) on Wed, Mar 23, 05 at 21:08 Sorry about the long post, but perhaps I can shed some light on the topic. All plants contain the necessary hormones (IAA, NAA, and IBS) to root, otherwise how would they root in the first place? The only reason some cuttings are hard to root, or won't root at all on their own is because of the plants natural process of damage control, i.e. wound response. Abscisic Acid is a stress hormone that plants use to automatically dieback injured areas in response to wounding or disease such as occurs at the severed end of a cutting. Adding additional hormone to a cut stem to induce rooting is one method of counteracting this response, but essentially all you are doing is disinfecting the area while providing enough additional hormone to maybe (maybe not) develop more mass than the abscisic acid released during the wound response can cope with. Eventually, if you're successful, it's because you reach a point where the wounded area is either partially closed, and/or the root material has eclipsed it, and abscisic acid stops being produced. Why explain all this? Because there is another method (already mentioned) that works just as well without stressing the plant by forcing it to grow both more mass as well as fight the effects of abscisic acid, willow water. Someone already mentioned aspirin being the same thing, well it is and it isn't. Aspirin, which as we all know comes from the bark of the willow tree, does contain one of what appears to be two necessary/active ingredients in willow water for successful root incubation. This is Salicylic Acid. Salicylic acid is an abscisic acid inhibitor. That's to say, not only will it stop the affect of already present abscisic acid on wounds, but it stops the wound response and production of abscisic acid all together. On top of this it acts as an anti-coagulant keeping the fresh cut open and allowing the cutting to wick much needed water and nutrients during this vital stage. The second vital ingredient, a substance that you won't get from aspirin, is rhizocaline. A mysterious yet naturally occurring compound of what is thought to be vitamins B, H, boron, sugar and/or other nitrogenous minerals that act in conjunction with IAA, and IBS. Research has found that this is the key catalyst to promoting root formation. All plants contain and use it, but willow has such an abundance as to make it king of rhizocaline. If extracted and used properly, willow water can be the most effective way to produce rooted cuttings. There are many recipes for making it; leaving willow branches in water for 4 weeks to root; steeping 6 inch willow cuttings in cool water for 72 hours; or 1 inch cuttings for 24 hours; boiling the cuttings; mashing and splitting the cuttings and brewing them in bot recently boiled water. There are loads, and some of these may be more (or less) effective than others. But to get the real expert's advice, go to Dr. Makota Kawase who in the mid 1960's discovered rhizocaline by experimenting with willow and has been developing the process ever since. Dr. Kawase's advice: "cut current year's growth from any Salix species. Then, remove the leaves and cut into one inch pieces. Place these right side up (Eireann: direction is important since rhizocaline and IAA move polarly down the stem of any cutting) in a glass, add 1/2" of hot water, cover with a plastic bag and let sit 24 hours. Steep your cuttings in this for and additional 24 hours, and then place in the rooting medium with or without rooting hormone, as needed (Eireann: My suggestion is without). The willow water may be stored in the refrigerator and covered to prevent contamination, but is best used up within three days." Additionally Dr. Kawase encourages the use of etoilation in promoting rooting. Total darkness, he found, increased rooting "sharply" up to four days, which is three days faster than anything I ever did with store bought rooting hormone. The basal tips MUST be in darkness for rooting to occur. Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell?Check out new cars at Yahoo! Autos. ___Biofuel mailing listBiofuel@sustainablelists.orghttp://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.orgBiofuel at Journey to Forever:http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.htmlSearch the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages):http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! MSN Messenger Download today it's FREE!
Re: [Biofuel] Bayer Corporation gets Rachel Carson honors
A kinder greener world astroturf Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's nothing. Big Pharma is trying to ban vitamins and carrot juice in the US. Keith Addison wrote: Unbelievable! Well, almost... Bayer's press releases below. Excerpt: Bayer employees are proud that we as a company take action that supports the public interest and demonstrates corporate citizenship that benefits humankind, said Dr. Attila Molnar, President and CEO, Bayer Corporation. In meeting our responsibilities to society, Bayer relies on its core values of improving quality of life while harmonizing commercial efficiency, ecology and social commitment. A little sanity here: Coalition Against Bayer Dangers http://www.cbgnetwork.de/4.html Also here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]q=Bayer Bayer And here: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enie=ISO-8859-1q=corporate+criminals+bayer corporate criminals bayer - Google Search Bayer to be Honored by Rachel Carson Homestead Association 2007-04-19 17:19:21 - PITTSBURGH, April 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bayer Corporation will be honored tomorrow, Friday, April 20, by the Rachel Carson Homestead Association at a reception that kicks off a yearlong series of special events commemorating the centennial of the birth of author and ecologist Rachel Carson. One of the Homestead Association's key events, the Rachel Carson Legacy Challenge reception hosted by Teresa Heinz Kerry at the Senator John Heinz History Center, will recognize Bayer and 15 other companies and organizations. Specifically, Bayer is being honored for its continued support and implementation of its various local, national and global environmental initiatives, some begun more than a decade ago, that are designed to foster a healthier planet. Throughout the centennial year, Bayer is also helping to sponsor a number of special environmental education programs organized by the Homestead Association. Bayer employees are proud that we as a company take action that supports the public interest and demonstrates corporate citizenship that benefits humankind, said Dr. Attila Molnar, President and CEO, Bayer Corporation. In meeting our responsibilities to society, Bayer relies on its core values of improving quality of life while harmonizing commercial efficiency, ecology and social commitment. The objective of the event is to highlight how commitment to environmentally sustainable practices can make a tangible difference in the health, quality of life, environment and economic viability of local, regional and global communities. We applaud Bayer Corporation for continuing to take 'green steps to a sustainable future,' by making permanent, measurable changes in behavior and policies that promote Rachel Carson's environmental ethic, said Patricia M. DeMarco, executive director, Rachel Carson Homestead Association. As a forward-thinking company, Bayer clearly understands that by committing to this challenge, it will help build conditions for a more sustainable, healthy world. Bayer's Sustainability Progress Bayer works to develop technologies that increase energy efficiency and protect drinking water; helps to eradicate pandemic diseases in the developing world; strengthens science education in the United States; introduces sustainable business practices to today's students; and reduces its own footprint globally. Bayer was one of the first chemical companies to join the Responsible Care(R) initiative and publish an environmental report in 1993. Several years later, it would become one of 45 founding members of the United Nation's Global Compact and join the Global Reporting Initiative. More than a decade ago, Bayer set an ambitious goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from more than 400 facilities worldwide in absolute numbers by 50 percent from 1990 to 2012, while simultaneously increasing manufacturing output. Since 1990, Bayer has bettered the greenhouse gas emission targets specified in the Kyoto Protocol and cut direct greenhouse gas emissions worldwide by more than 70 percent. Through technical improvements and structural changes, Bayer also has cut its worldwide energy use by 26 percent between 2000 and 2005. The Carbon Disclosure Project, a coalition of more than 200 worldwide institutional investors, lists Bayer as Best in Class in worldwide climate protection. Bayer was one of the first members of the Chicago Climate Exchange -- the world's first and America's only voluntary, legally binding greenhouse gas reduction and trading system for emission sources in North America and Brazil. Bayer's climate strategy includes developing products that conserve natural resources. These include refrigerator insulation, lightweight automotive materials and thermal insulation for buildings, all of which increase energy efficiency, lower fuel consumption and reduce emissions. Fueling the green building revolution are Bayer's
Re: [Biofuel] Bayer Corporation gets Rachel Carson honors
That's nothing. Big Pharma is trying to ban vitamins and carrot juice in the US. Not just the US, everywhere. But at least Greenpeace and the ETC Group aren't giving them prizes for it. Best Keith Keith Addison wrote: Unbelievable! Well, almost... Bayer's press releases below. Excerpt: Bayer employees are proud that we as a company take action that supports the public interest and demonstrates corporate citizenship that benefits humankind, said Dr. Attila Molnar, President and CEO, Bayer Corporation. In meeting our responsibilities to society, Bayer relies on its core values of improving quality of life while harmonizing commercial efficiency, ecology and social commitment. A little sanity here: Coalition Against Bayer Dangers http://www.cbgnetwork.de/4.html Also here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]q=Bayer Bayer And here: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enie=ISO-8859-1q=corporate+criminals+bayer corporate criminals bayer - Google Search Bayer to be Honored by Rachel Carson Homestead Association 2007-04-19 17:19:21 - PITTSBURGH, April 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bayer Corporation will be honored tomorrow, Friday, April 20, by the Rachel Carson Homestead Association at a reception that kicks off a yearlong series of special events commemorating the centennial of the birth of author and ecologist Rachel Carson. One of the Homestead Association's key events, the Rachel Carson Legacy Challenge reception hosted by Teresa Heinz Kerry at the Senator John Heinz History Center, will recognize Bayer and 15 other companies and organizations. Specifically, Bayer is being honored for its continued support and implementation of its various local, national and global environmental initiatives, some begun more than a decade ago, that are designed to foster a healthier planet. Throughout the centennial year, Bayer is also helping to sponsor a number of special environmental education programs organized by the Homestead Association. Bayer employees are proud that we as a company take action that supports the public interest and demonstrates corporate citizenship that benefits humankind, said Dr. Attila Molnar, President and CEO, Bayer Corporation. In meeting our responsibilities to society, Bayer relies on its core values of improving quality of life while harmonizing commercial efficiency, ecology and social commitment. The objective of the event is to highlight how commitment to environmentally sustainable practices can make a tangible difference in the health, quality of life, environment and economic viability of local, regional and global communities. We applaud Bayer Corporation for continuing to take 'green steps to a sustainable future,' by making permanent, measurable changes in behavior and policies that promote Rachel Carson's environmental ethic, said Patricia M. DeMarco, executive director, Rachel Carson Homestead Association. As a forward-thinking company, Bayer clearly understands that by committing to this challenge, it will help build conditions for a more sustainable, healthy world. Bayer's Sustainability Progress Bayer works to develop technologies that increase energy efficiency and protect drinking water; helps to eradicate pandemic diseases in the developing world; strengthens science education in the United States; introduces sustainable business practices to today's students; and reduces its own footprint globally. Bayer was one of the first chemical companies to join the Responsible Care(R) initiative and publish an environmental report in 1993. Several years later, it would become one of 45 founding members of the United Nation's Global Compact and join the Global Reporting Initiative. More than a decade ago, Bayer set an ambitious goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from more than 400 facilities worldwide in absolute numbers by 50 percent from 1990 to 2012, while simultaneously increasing manufacturing output. Since 1990, Bayer has bettered the greenhouse gas emission targets specified in the Kyoto Protocol and cut direct greenhouse gas emissions worldwide by more than 70 percent. Through technical improvements and structural changes, Bayer also has cut its worldwide energy use by 26 percent between 2000 and 2005. The Carbon Disclosure Project, a coalition of more than 200 worldwide institutional investors, lists Bayer as Best in Class in worldwide climate protection. Bayer was one of the first members of the Chicago Climate Exchange -- the world's first and America's only voluntary, legally binding greenhouse gas reduction and trading system for emission sources in North America and Brazil. Bayer's climate strategy includes developing products that conserve natural resources. These include refrigerator insulation, lightweight automotive materials and thermal insulation for buildings, all of which increase energy efficiency, lower
[Biofuel] FDA posting on melamine
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[Biofuel] [Fwd: The great green hope (ethanol) - Calgary Herald - 2007.04.29 (long)]
Original Message The great green hope; Governments are banking on a big bang for fuels made from grains. The move essentially pits the livestock industry against the ethanol industry, and who will come out the winner remains to be seen The Calgary Herald Sun 29 Apr 2007 Page: E2 Section: Calgary Business Byline: Hanneke Brooymans Dateline: EDMONTON Source: Edmonton Journal Edition: Final Story Type: Business Length: 3187 words Illustration: Photo: Brian Gavriloff, Edmonton Journal / Bill Churchward, general manager of Alberta's only ethanol plant, Red Deer-based Permolex, holds some fuel-grade ethanol. ; Colour Photo: Brian Gavriloff, Edmonton Journal / Drew Pritchard, operations superintendent of Husky Energy's Lloydminster, Sask., ethanol plant, looks at a pile of dried distillers grain, a byproduct of ethanol. ; Graphic: How ethanol is made from grain ; EDMONTON - Alberta thinks of itself as an energy leader, but the petro-rich province has been a laggard when it comes to biofuels. The industry's undisputed pioneer is Brazil. After three decades of hard work, the South American giant last year squeezed about 17 billion litres of ethanol from sugar cane. The United States has surged ahead of the pack. Its 115 ethanol plants, fed by the massive Midwest corn belt, can churn out almost 22 billion litres annually. Another 86 plants are under construction. Plants are popping up in Canada, too, though at a more modest rate. Alberta, so far, has just one. But the province wants to change all that. The Ed Stelmach government has grand visions of a vast biofuels industry extending its tendrils into all corners of Alberta. Farmers will prosper by growing crops for biofuel production; the shaky forestry sector, besieged by pine beetles and low prices, will branch into producing ethanol from cellulose, or plant fibre. But huge questions remain, including: Who will pay to build the plants and infrastructure needed to get the fledgling industry on its feet? And is bioenergy actually of any benefit to the environment? Alberta took a big step toward a biofuels future last October when it announced a $239-million bioenergy program. It was taking a cue from the federal government, which had announced the previous May its intention to legislate the blending of ethanol into the gasoline we pump into our vehicles. Ottawa backed this up in March by budgeting $2 billion over the next seven years to promote investment in renewable fuels. Though the federal ethanol mandate isn't yet law, it's coming, and many provincial governments are acting to ensure their voters don't miss out on a guaranteed market. Provinces like Saskatchewan, with three ethanol plants, and Ontario, with 10 ethanol plants either operating or under construction, have proved that when it comes to producing fuel from crops, initiative matters. Figuring out the formula to attract these plants is becoming crucial, as federal and provincial cash pours into the industry, allowing companies to pick and choose where to locate. Alberta's program is really just the first step, said Matthew Machielse, director of biofuels for Alberta Energy. If we can attract the ethanol infrastructure here, then likely those plants will extend into green chemicals, extend into green materials, all of those other constituents that have even higher value than just ethanol. He even envisages Alberta's shoppers swinging grocery bags made from bioplastics manufactured in the province. Machielse says Alberta wants to be a player in meeting the federal government's mandate, which would require five per cent ethanol in gasoline by 2010 and two per cent biodiesel in diesel by 2012. Otherwise all we're doing is exporting our feedstocks to other jurisdictions who capture the value added. While the provincial government recently distributed the first $5 million of its bioenergy program, it still has a lot of catching up to do. Some of the major players in the industry are showing little interest in locating here. Husky Energy, a biofuels pioneer that has declared its ambition to be the largest ethanol producer in Western Canada, seems to be building plants everywhere but in Alberta. Last fall, it opened a plant in Lloydminster on the Saskatchewan side of the border. Now, it's busily erecting its clone in Manitoba. And it just might put up a third plant near Prince George, B.C. Iogen, an Ottawa-based biotech company, was considering Alberta as one of a handful of potential sites for its first commercial-scale plant that would produce ethanol from plant fibre. Since then, it has shied away from its Alberta option -- the province's labour market is too hot, the company decided. Ideally, the province would prefer that farmers themselves invest in ethanol facilities by forming co-operatives and pooling their money together. But scrounge might be a more accurate word after the financial thrashing farmers have taken from drought and mad cow disease. Alberta farmers have come out of
[Biofuel] [Fwd: Nuclear oilsands on Tory agenda - Calgary Herald - 2007.05.01]
Original Message Nuclear oilsands on Tory agenda; Party will vote on further study of energy option The Calgary Herald Tue 01 May 2007 Page: A1 / FRONT Section: News Byline: Jason Fekete Dateline: EDMONTON Source: Calgary Herald Edition: Early Story Type: News Length: 760 words Illustration: Colour Photo: Treasury Board President Lloyd Snelgrove ; The future of nuclear power in the oilsands will face a judgment day this weekend, when members of the governing Progressive Conservatives vote at their annual convention whether to further explore the controversial energy option. A resolution from the Calgary-Mountain View Tory constituency association, which will be voted on at the party convention in Edmonton, calls on the government to immediately strike a committee to study and draft recommendations for the construction of nuclear power plants for use in tar sands development. However, several hurdles remain before nuclear energy could ever come to Alberta, including winning public support for the initiative and achieving regulatory approval. The PC party's renewed interest in nuclear comes as Treasury Board President Lloyd Snelgrove -- Premier Ed Stelmach's top lieutenant -- argues nuclear power is a natural fit for the oilsands and the only way to substantially cut emissions. It makes no sense to not look at it, Snelgrove said Monday, noting he'll vote in support of creating a committee to analyze the nuclear option and initiate public consultation. If nuclear energy is our best environmentally friendly source of energy, particularly with the oilsands . . . then I think we have to look at it. While Snelgrove noted he's no expert on the issue, he said the provincial government must meet the pollution standards and expectations of the rest of the world. Giving this weekend's vote additional weight are promises from Stelmach to listen more to the grassroots and heed their wishes when drafting government policy. Energy Minister Mel Knight and other Tories were quick to note Monday that pursuing the nuclear option in the oilpatch isn't high on their to-do list right now, but may be worth analyzing in greater detail. I have to be open to all alternate energy projects, Knight said. Industry players will make the right determination when that time comes. A number of companies have indicated their interest to conduct feasibility studies on using nuclear energy, but there are currently no applications in front of the government, he added. Liberal environment critic David Swann warned, though, the government must tread cautiously on the file and should instead be investing in more sustainable energy options. I think we have to be very careful about the nuclear option, Swann said, noting costs and waste issues are major concerns. The priority should be energy efficiency and renewables -- not nuclear. Intergovernmental Relations Minister Guy Boutilier, MLA for the Fort McMurray area, said the government's priority is renewable energies, but is willing to review all options. Presently, nuclear is probably lower at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to energy resources, Boutilier said. We'll never rule it out quite simply by the perspective that it's an important energy source that the rest of the world requires. Alberta Alliance Leader Paul Hinman, who represents the riding of Cardston-Taber-Warner, said nuclear is the most economical and clean way to produce reliable electricity, and is calling for a plant to be built in southern Alberta. I'd let one go in my backyard, Hinman said. Today, enormous amounts of natural gas are used to create steam that is pumped underground to separate bitumen -- thick, tar-like crude oil -- from the sands. Nuclear plants are viewed as an option because they not only generate electricity, but would help produce steam for the oilsands process. However, they can cost billions and, with regulations, take 10 years to build. Environmental groups such as the Pembina Institute, an Alberta-based think-tank, are against going nuclear to extract bitumen, warning the dangers of disposing of the waste outweigh potential benefits such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the oilpatch. I'd hate to see the narrow focus on nuclear prevent other options, said Pembina's Dan Woynillowicz, noting geothermal and gasification processes are also available for oilsands production. In Ottawa, the idea of using nuclear energy in the oilsands is gathering steam. Federal Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn said recently nuclear power is an option worth pursuing. And Husky Energy chief executive John Lau has said his company is exploring nuclear's potential and that it is the right long-term approach for oilsands. A recent poll of 812 Albertans, which was provided to the Herald, suggested nuclear power for the oilsands is highly contentious in Alberta, with 45 per cent behind the idea and 43 per cent against. Twelve per cent were unsure. Opposition was highest in northern Alberta -- home
[Biofuel] one mans junk is..
Hi all, It is simply amazing/disgraceful how much we waste as a society and the amount of unnecessary garbage that we generate going into landfills. If all the resources of manufacturing, materials and energy wasted on making these products in the first place is calculated...then many times only to be thrown away is simply criminal. Here is a partial list from an informal study we did on what people throw out and of what was salvaged simply by evening walks with some friends and my dog over the past year on the night before trash day. Call it dumpster diving if you want except there are no dumpsters and it's all piled right by the curb. I make no apologies for picking up something I can use for free, recycles it and keeps it out of the dump. Area was a mixed resident working/middle class are of approx 10 square blocks. Nothing scientific but it sure was interesting. 8 persian style tapestry carpets all 10ftx15ft, clean, no stains, no fraying, no pet pee, and in perfect condition. 16 microwave ovens, all clean, various sizes, all perfect working condition 1 micro still scealed in factory plastic. (Who throws out a brand new microwave?) I know, I know, some people have concerns about microwave ovens but still. 8 multi disc cd sound systems varied from 20watts-200 watts all working 16 sets of speakers, perfect condition, current models, all working, cosmetically a-ok 6 large boxes of kitchen wares, non chipped or cracked.. soup bowls, dinner plates, cups saucers, glasses, table ware, cloth napkins, 3 new bath towels, 2 new sheets still in packaging. 1 large box with 24 sets of unopened boxed candles 1 LCD flat screen computer monitor, perfect working condition. 14 recently manufatured (2-3yrs old) computer printers from various makes, all working no problems, all drivers downloadable 1 all in one scanner, printer, copyer, a1 condition needs ink 1 projection tv cracked plastic but I removed bottom projection system and now have a 8ft square screen projected on a white wall, pretty cool for a free projection tv! various audio and computer cables, all working 2 microphones 20 different potted house plants from 1ft to 10ft high, all healthy 2 cordless phones, both working, 4 high end audio amplifiers/tuners, both working 35 various framed artwork prints, none broken or damaged 2 boxs of kitchen gadgets, garlic press, strainers, food processors, clean and working 1 bread machine, a-1 excellent condition, almost brand new and makes dilicious homemade bread I might add..love it 5 computer keyboards, various configurations, all working fine. 4 DVD players, all working fine 1 surround sound tv sound system and 5 compact speakers, a1 working..great sound 1 box containing a complete 14 piece high end copper coated cook set. pots and pans, including lids, clean and in perfect shape 1 ikea style cloths beuro, a1, no scratches, nice finish and a bonus. I opened up one of the drawers and found an envelope containing a 50 dollar bill!! made my day. 2 brand new quilted bed comforters still in store packaging. 1 thermoelectric 12 volt camp cooler, a1 perfect working condition. 1 thermoelectric hot/cold water dispenser, a1 working condition 3 halogen table lamps, a1 working condition 1 large tupperware container containing 14 high quality cutting knives a1 condition 3 large aquariums, including pumps, filters and clean gravel 1 weed wacker, perfect condition 1 gas lawn mower, working condition 1 hepafilter air cleaner, working condition large assortment of boxes of screws, fasteners, hinges, nails etc all in original packaging 2 8000btu air conditioners, both recent efficient models, both working a-1 1 box containing 3 recent model harddrives..all working but need to be reformatted 1 walkytalky set..working 5 oil lamps, various, decorative, working and undamaged 2 electric cloths irons..brand new, still in original packaging 1 collapsable snow shovel for car.. cool.. its in my car as well as a new high end widow scraper, squeegy, colapsable 1 box containing 6 decorative crystal flower vases 1 complete ratchet set and ratchet 2 metal ramps for car repair 2 metal traction aids for ice 2 multidriver screwdriver sets with bits 2 brand new tarps one 20ftx 30ft other one 10x15 1 folded space blanket.(metalized mylar) in original package 2 deadbolt locks, brand new, including keys countless cans of unopened or almost full latex and acrylic paint, glues, varnishes etc 1 black leather easy chair..perfect condition 1 black leather office chair.. perfect condition 2 coleman camp stoves..working a1 6 folding camp chairs.. a1 clean, working 3 four slice toasters..clean and working countless vcrs..although that's to be expected I still use 4 of them anyway..never had to buy one even 15 years ago.. always found one in working condition. countless color tvs of all sorts, many working a 1 but I don't bother with them anymore.. same as many monitors..not worth it
[Biofuel] Biodiesel compatible gravity-fed filter?
Hey all, I would like to filter our biodiesel between our drying/storage 55 gal. drum and the truck. We are using gravity to fill jugs, then use the jugs to fill the tank- we don't have a dedicated fuel pump. I am having a hard time finding an in-line 3/4 fuel filter that is biodiesel compatible but still filters to around 5-10 microns without needing pump pressure. I purchased a Goldenrod no. 495 gravity filter, but they only suggest it for B20. Bio-tek's High alcohol filter works with B100, but I was told that it needs the pressure of a pump. Any ideas, or am I chasing a mythical beast? Thanks, Matt - Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.___ 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] Patented GMO jatropha
It's from Central America. The Portuguese and Arabs spread it all over world by the end of the 16th century. It was prized for soap and perfume production. The Southern US is it's northern most range. It's used for de-desertfication and it is inter cropped with food crops. So, third world farmers, reclaim farmland, use it a nitrogen fertilizer, make biodiesel and use the fuel for electrification and water pumping. See http://www.d1plc.com/index.php for more details. I've no idea what the GMO version will do, pro or con. Regards, JQ Joe Street wrote: Since that plant is not native to this continent will I have to get a permit from anyone to import the seeds? What is the procedure with that? Joe James Quaid wrote: I'd like to give you a recommendation. But, the last batch of seeds I purchased aren't sprouting too well. This may be due to the ground temps being below 70F. Jat likes 75 - 80F soil temps. Contact me in 3 weeks and I'll give you a status report. Has anyone else sprouted Jat successfully in the US? I'm at it's most nothern range 33 deg N lat. Regards, JQ Mike Cappiello wrote: please tell me how you aquired the seeds. thanks, Mike cappiello --- James Quaid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith, I'm doing a Jatropha cultivation experiment in AZ. It survived the 115F. But the 24F killed a 1/3 of my test planting. It is very sensitive to a hard freeze. And according to what I've read, standard breeds will produce 300 gal/ acre 600 gal/acre if it blooms twice. Jatropha originally from Central America. I'd be very interested to see what the GMO stuff does especially in cold climes. I'm having a heckuva time sprouting seedlings. The current batch of seeds I have is from Suriname. We will be doing an acre test planting on a farm with saline wells. Jatropha can allegedly handle salt pretty well. Here's what the Germans are doing with it: http://www.d1plc.com Regards, JQ Keith Addison wrote: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-biodiesel1707apr17,0,4223949.story? track=mostemailedlink 'Farming our fuel' Officials from a local company will tout the jatropha plant today in Tallahassee. We're doing things right here in Orlando that are going to change America. Rich Mckay | Sentinel Staff Writer Posted April 17, 2007 ABOUT BIODIESEL What is it? Biodiesel is a fuel made from rendered vegetable oils or animal fats refined through a chemical reaction with an alcohol. What can be used to make it? Soybean oil is used to make most of the biodiesel in the U.S. Restaurant grease or any vegetable oil such as corn, canola, cottonseed, mustard oil also can be used. Jatropha oil is widely used in India and Asia. Other companies are developing ways to make biodiesel out of algae, restaurant scraps and even animal carcasses. Why bother? Biodiesel is considered an alternative to petroleum diesel because it can be grown, rather than pumped from a well. It is also considered a neutral gas. It doesn't put back into the atmosphere anything it didn't absorb when it was part of the environment. Is it as powerful as diesel? It is considered to have the same power as petroleum diesel. What engines can use it? It can be mixed with petroleum diesel and used in unmodified diesel engines. Engines can be modified to run 100 percent on biodiesel. What does biodiesel smell like? That depends its source. Some say it smells like french fries. Biodiesel made from jatropha doesn't have a strong odor. SOURCE: Sentinel research America, meet your next tank of gas -- made from superpowered seeds. A couple of Orlando entrepreneurs say that a Malaysian variety newly approved for U.S. import could help solve America's energy woes and boost Central Florida's economy with a new cash crop. State Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson, along with executives from the Orlando-based Xenerga Inc., are scheduled to introduce a patented version of the jatropha plant today in Tallahassee. We're doing things right here in Orlando that are going to change America, said Dave Jarrett, a company spokesman. Just wait and see. The oil pressed from the jatropha nut can be used to make biodiesel, producing six to eight times the amount of energy extracted from soybeans -- the most common crop used for biodiesel in the U.S. Xenerga president Jason Sayers and his business partner Victor Clewes have the exclusive patent on the high-octane version of the plant with seeds that grow inside bunches of fat green pods the size of peach pits. It can produce 1,600 gallons of
[Biofuel] Isuzu NPR
Anyone have experience running B99 in an Isuzu NPR? I have a recently purchased 1989 4 Cyl. NPR. I also have a local source (Vashon Island, WA USA) of B20 and B99 (Williams Heating). Any warnings, precautions or recommendations? I'm also looking at purchasing a new Isuzu NPR 4 cyl. Diesel as well as a new Mitsubishi FUSO 4x4 FG140 4 cyl. diesel and would be interested in running b99 in those vehicles. Is it better to start with a new vehicle? Do you thereby eliminate some of the concerns caused by dinodiesel use? I saw nothing in the archives re: NPRs, so I'm a little nervous... Thanks much, George George Page www.seabreezefarm.net Vashon Island, WA USA ___ 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] Isuzu NPR
We've been running our 2000 Isuzu NPR on B20 for about 8 months now. Seems to run a little smoother, but little harder time starting on cold mornings (40F or below). No other issues so far. It had about 120,000 miles on it when we got it. We haven't even changed the filters yet.We haven't tried B100 in it yet either -- probably do that when it warms up a little more here (still freezing at nights some times). On 5/1/07, George Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have experience running B99 in an Isuzu NPR? I have a recently purchased 1989 4 Cyl. NPR. I also have a local source (Vashon Island, WA USA) of B20 and B99 (Williams Heating). Any warnings, precautions or recommendations? I'm also looking at purchasing a new Isuzu NPR 4 cyl. Diesel as well as a new Mitsubishi FUSO 4x4 FG140 4 cyl. diesel and would be interested in running b99 in those vehicles. Is it better to start with a new vehicle? Do you thereby eliminate some of the concerns caused by dinodiesel use? I saw nothing in the archives re: NPRs, so I'm a little nervous... Thanks much, George George Page www.seabreezefarm.net Vashon Island, WA USA ___ 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/
