[Biofuel] Price Of Oil to How Will Microfinance Improve Our Odds?
nbsp; Chris, Would a microfinance administered sort of revolvingnbsp;loan pool be the kind of thing to accomplish amp; organize?nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Let's not go to sleep again about painful oil prices. nbsp; From a thousand blossoms of your good ideas we could have a 'Marshall plan' which would eventually be generating jobs and volume discounts.nbsp; I just wonder what would happen, for instance,nbsp;if the Central Committee in China would be inspired to set production goals on solar/alt energy devices amp; wind generator componentsnbsp;which could lead the path to GLOBAL ENERGY INDEPENDENCE.nbsp; It's not too great a stretch, really!nbsp; Look at the pre-G8 efforts pulling in this direction: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2008-06/11/content_6752123.htm The Group of Eight developed member nations and China, India, South Korea agreed on June 8 to step up efforts for energy efficiency so as to lower global market demands and cut greenhouse gas emissions. nbsp; nbsp; nbsp;If those who donate in a large way to MICROFINANCE efforts like Ted Turner amp; Bamp;M Gates - could be persuaded to parlay their continued relationship and influence with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Yunusnbsp;AND http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aga_Khan_Agency_for_Microfinance to arrange to financially underwrite the energy independence purchases of the billions of us on this rock who get by on less than $1USD per day. nbsp; What do you suppose the mandated $billion spent by California alone will be doing over the next 7 - 10 years to stimulate skills development and to reduce costs of installed capacity? nbsp; For decades - over and over again the petro price has fluctuated downward just as people started to capitalize alt. energy development.nbsp; The frog almost got ready to jump out of the pot - and then it went back to slow simmer. How do we protect ourselves and insure production in spite of our governments inability?nbsp; Consider that a Justice Department indictment before the next elections would bring the oil price down 20 or 40% innbsp;several days.nbsp; How do we bypass our governments?nbsp; nbsp; Considernbsp;SOLAR markets GLOBALLY such as recharge the cell phones, pump the water, make make the bicycle batteries get across town.nbsp; Peoples drive to improve their ownnbsp;situation could well begin to make it safe for us all.nbsp; Let's start asking how to expand the solar franchise here on this rock and let's see all ships rise with the tide.nbsp; How can we help billions of people get their needs met sustainably with solar? Pick your country amp; compare the amount of disposable income compared to our 1st world levels.nbsp;nbsp; Findingnbsp;the ways to defeat the barriers of poverty to market entry could be our healthiest adaptation. http://www.cgap.org/p/site/c/template.rc/1.26.2301 nbsp;Don't underestimate the desire of species to make a safe place for their progeny. nbsp; Janine Benyus is connected w thinking about biomimicry.nbsp; There's this great 23 min presentation she does. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/18 nbsp; Pray for peace, and pass the potatoes. nbsp;- old Irish saying --- On Tue, 6/17/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Price Of Oil Will Double To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2008, 2:26 AM nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; For a quarter of 250.00 a barrel, current solar technology will fill the needs of the planet. 7-10 year implementation if, the people on this rock, kicked their respective governments in the ass to make it happen. nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Bill Gates has enough personal fortune to make it happen on his own dime. Pretty pathetic to think one man has the capacity financially, yet asnbsp; collective, the species is incapable of marshaling their collective resourcesnbsp; to eliminate a centralized energy infrastructure. Chris -Original Message- From: Keith Addison lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 6:35 am Subject: [Biofuel] Price Of Oil Will Double http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20080.htm Price Of Oil Will Double An ominous warning that the rapid rise in oil prices has only just begun By Danny Fortson, Business Correspondent 12/06/08 The Independent - -- The chief executive of the world's largest energy company has issued the most dire warning yet about the soaring the price of oil, predicting that it will hit $250 per barrel in the foreseeable future.nbsp; http://www.cgap.org/p/site/c/template.rc/1.26.2301 Pray for peace, and pass the potatoes. nbsp;- old Irish saying nbsp; nbsp; -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20080617/5d7c6577/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org
Re: [Biofuel] C-SPAN to co-ops
How about that sunken barge which is holding up New Orleans shipping of grain? I understand that corn is filling up all the elevators and available barges and soybeans are coming in soon. If the repairs can be delayed long enough the low prices might collapse several more coops. This is opportunity for dubya buddies to get rewarded. Who is it that stands to be kicked upstairs here like Mike at FEMA? I wonder who has been awarded the contract to fix this? -- Zeke Yewdall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: [Biofuel] C-SPAN To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Why is this source so ignored when it produces over 3 gallons for every one expended? I suspect that a analysis of whether more soybean or corn farms are owned by small family operations, or by large mega-farms might shed some like on this. I seem to remember some report that suggested that alot of the opposition to biofuels (presumably biodiesel) was not just because they were an affront to oil companies, but because the majority of production was owned by co-ops rather than industrial farms. The establishment sees the co-op owner ship as being even more of a danger than the alternative fuel. I wish I could remember the details. -- === message truncated === __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ 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] Fwd: Grants under the Biomass Research and Development Initiative
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:58:49 -0800 (PST) From: Rob Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Grants under the Biomass Research and Development Initiative To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Certainly someone in this group will bite on this. How about grants from $200,000 to $2M directed toward innovation. This years' focus is on development and demonstration projects that lead to greater commercialization. Excerpts below - read full announcements at website: http://fedgrants.gov/Applicants/USDA/NRCS/2890/67-3A75-5-22/Attachments.html#upload4211 --- The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) jointly announce the availability of fiscal year 2005 (FY05) funds and solicit applications for financial assistance addressing research, development, and demonstration of biomass based products, bioenergy, biofuels, biopower, and related processes. This funding opportunity, herein referred to as the âsolicitation,â is intended to promote greater innovation and development related to biomass, and to support Federal policy calling for greater use of biomass-based products, feedstock production, and processing and conversion. 2.General Information USDA and DOE are seeking applications to address four specific Technical Topic Areas as set out below. The agency supporting each Topic is indicated, and Topic Areas are discussed in greater detail in Appendix B. The Topics listed here are the only eligible topic areas under this solicitation. Each individual application must respond to only one of the four Technical Topic Areas. However, an applicant may submit multiple, unique applications and thus respond to multiple topics. The Technical Topic Areas are: Topic-1:Feedstock Development and Production Topic-2:Biobased Products Development and Environmental and Economic erformance Topic-3:Integrated Resource Management and Biomass Use Topic-4:Incentive Analysis for Commercialization 1 The primary applicant can be a private sector entity, an institution of higher education, a national laboratory, a Federal research agency, a state research agency, a non-profit organization, or a consortium of two or more of the listed entities. Consortia are encouraged in order to bring important capabilities together to best achieve the desired innovation on biomass projects. Institutions of higher education include colleges and universities beyond the secondary education level. Private sector entities include companies, corporations, farms, ranches, cooperatives, and others that compete in the marketplace. Pre-applications must be received no later than 6:00 p.m., eastern standard time, on February 15, 2005. All applicants are requested to use an express mail service (e.g., Fed-Ex, USPS, UPS, or other) to submit their pre-applications. No hand-delivered, e-mail, or Fax pre-applications will be accepted. - Also, From the Biomass Research and Development Initiative website: Successful Deployment of Biomass Technologies, Jan. 5th, 2005 article: http://www.bioproducts-bioenergy.gov/news/DisplayRecentArticle.asp?idarticle=164 __ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] A metalworking question - a rose by any other form
the metal rose sprinkler head making can be rather fun with a lathe a.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqQdQYOPSzk Metal Spinning Lathe where a metal disk is forced against a preformed pattern ( they did this in the bronze age ) wanna tutorial? http://www.stanford.edu/group/prl/documents/pdf/spinning.pdf b.) Or - introducing the English roller: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=153635page=2 http://www.jamesriser.com/Machinery/EnglishWheel/Finally.html but the anvil rollers cost $119USD/6 here from cheap HF http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/anyone-build-their-own-english-wheel-110614.html scroll about 1/2 way down to 03-05-2007, 06:28PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] made my own English wheel from a few scrounged parts c.) couldn't a jack be set so that it would press that sheet metal up against the heavy weight of the barn, for instance? and to have it conform to a rounded hardwood form? or a tow ball? d.) or, take off that auto tire and/or the disk brake and use the round hole to hold receive your piece of sheetmetal while you pound it out with a ball peen hammer? e.) chisel or grinder out a small enough rose/bowl shape into a treestump into which you can hammer the shape. Michael Fleetwood had a good suggestion about using a can Just now I'm gonna find that old tow ball somewhere, set it in the vise, and wake everybody up making that fruit juice can dome hammer up nice... From: Dawie Coetzee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Sat, November 6, 2010 2:58:56 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] A metalworking question Keith For some reason I woke up this morning thinking about this problem. The alternative to manual metalworking is pressing. In heavy industry such roses would be formed by pressing in expensive steel dies, but for short runs it's an ideal candidate for the sort of pneumatic pressing where a rubber cushion is inflated against a male die. Fortunately you have a number of air-filled rubber cushions handy: the tyres on your vehicles. How's this? Carve a domed shape in a hard timber. Attach to the middle of about half a metre square of 21mm shutter ply, and place that on hard ground. Place sheetmetal over dome and locate in some way (nail down the corners?) Roll a vehicle over the sheetmetal. Hopefully the tyre will deform just enough to form the dome in the sheetmetal. If not you can try reducing the tyre pressure. Regards -Dawie -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20101106/8875df71/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] greenhouse farming
Hi Dan, Here's an observation about a neighborhood greenhouse here in Phila which had a rather small, 8ft by 20 ft southern sloping poly roof of recycled 2x4's and only a BERM of woodchips around the entire perimeter ( except for where the northern entry double door foyer/airlock ). NO HEAT! Without any supplemental heating system, except for an occasional 5 gal bucket of hot water on the coldest nights, the insulating 4 or 5 foot high woodchip pile sloped out about only 6 ft or so at the perimeter base and kept the interior warm enough to allow squash and other delicate plants to survive January and February! I'd like to see Ivan's photos and see the woven straw mats that were used in China. Maybe river reeds and woven bullrushes would work for this purpose here. Recycled blankets and carpets get too heavy when wet and collapse the poly with their weight. Check out the AGS stuff about using the ground heat. Annualized Geo-Solar Design is useful for your greenhouse. http://www.greenershelter.org/index.php?pg=3 http://www.greenershelter.org/index.php?pg=2 It may be that a Rocket Stove Mass Heater would assist in your South Dakota exposure. greenhouse construction + rocket mass heater how to tutorial http://www.wottha.com/2010/08/greenhouse-construction-rocket-mass-heater-how-to-tutorial/ http://www.richsoil.com/rocket-stove-mass-heater.jsp Topic: rocket stove mass heater for a greenhouse? http://donkey32.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=displayboard=discussthread=82page=1#738 http://www.wottha.com/2010/08/greenhouse-construction-rocket-mass-heater-how-to-tutorial/ Official Earth Sheltered Solar Greenhouse - pit construction http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hV8Teiskfofeature=channel http://technoprimitive3.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/youtube-rocket-stove-mass-heater-workshop-summary/ rocket mass heater uses less wood than a wood stove http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jfag47dRCsfeature=channel Minimizing fossil fuels might work best if you had free woodchips available - like this famous French agroforester Jean Pain - English - Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHRvwNJRNag Jean Pain - English - Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGCj7NA0OIs 500 showers heated from one small compost pile how to tutorial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jm-c9B2_ewfeature=channel There's a resilient greenhouse fabric which will work well where you are for a few seasons with a few design considerations incl. adequate slope and some wind protection. Northern Greenhouse Sales has woven poly strong enough for Neche, ND 58265 http://www.northerngreenhouse.com/index.htm From: Ivan Menchero [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wed, December 1, 2010 5:58:00 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] greenhouse farming Hi Dan, Here is a thought Something I never seen in the Western Countries, I have only seen it in China. Many of their green house construction is of mud/straw with a slope roof from the top of one end to about 1m to the other side, with a wooden rafter going the length every 4m. On top of the plastic they have a roll (several rolls depending of the width of the structure) of woven straw that they roll up in the morning (over the rafter), so the sun goes thru and roll down at night to keep the heat in and If I am correct they are oriented to the south (I though t it was ingenious, I was like DA, like a blind!). I have seen this in places peaking at -15C with most of the winter at around 0C. If you are interested I might even have some pictures I can dig them up. Good luck, Ivan -Original Message- From: Dan Beukelman Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 12:43 PM To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: [Biofuel] greenhouse farming Hello All, I have read your posts for several years, but have not ever posted - lurking in the shadows I guess. I am wondering if anyone out there has any thoughts/experience with production agriculture from a greenhouse/hothouse structure. I live in South Dakota and have been thinking that with energy efficient glass and the right setup that growing fresh vegetables likes tomatoes year around might be possible (I say this with a wind chill today near 0 fahrenheit). I have read that many of the US tomato supply is grown in Canada, which is colder than us, our area is dominated by grain farming - but I think that local foods stores would go nuts over a locally grown garden type tomato in the Wintertime. The construction costs of a very efficient greenhouse should be able to be covered by the profit from selling a well growing tomato crop, but the profits go out the window if you have the heat much. All of the greenhouses I know of around here use plastic coverings and that is only useful for extending the growing season a little bit on both ends. I am thinking of keeping growth all year or nearly all year. Any thoughts? Dan -- next part
Re: [Biofuel] More Petroleum alternatives, yes
Hey Zeke and Chip, et. al., Have you seen the Tamera solar heated oil approach? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIg9Sp_GFqQfeature=watch_response It's been around for a while and it's pretty clever and seems pretty non-toxic too. I wish the evaluations from those on this list could help find some new and better promotion ( or adaptation ) of this technique. I'd like to consider hosting a display of this at this years August NOFA summer conference, if it proves feasible. There's much interest in producing sustainable energy for food producing hoop-houses and this might really help. It's tempting to go to Portugal to actually see it in operation. Or to have my local CSA, or others, put up another example of it's competent operations. http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=641L=0 ...the system also produces electricity in a sixty square meter greenhouse covered with a special UV permeable foil. Concentrators for sun radiation are mounted which automatically follow the direction from which the sun shines. Fresnel lenses direct the sunlight on a focal line in plant oil flow-through tubes. The focused sunlight heats the oil up to 200 degrees. Stored in a special storage reservoir, the oil drives a solar kitchen as well as the “Sunpulse Hotoil,” a machine with a big flywheel. The low temperature Stirling transforms the differences of hot oil and cold water into electrical energy. A workshop saw shows its possible economic use. Testfield SolarVillage: The Testfield which was opened in October 2009 continues to be an attractor for interested people from Portugal and other countries. Solar cooking was practiced from March to November in the community kitchen whenever possible. During harvest times a solar processing kitchen was operated. The Scheffler mirror and the SK14-cooker worked trouble-free, often outperforming corresponding gas and electric cookers, not only economically but also regarding energy output when used in the right way. The Energy Power Greenhouse – developed according to an invention by Jürgen Kleinwächter combined with the SunPulse Electric – was working, we were able to gather data and discover weak points of the system. It needs revision; the SolarVillage Team is looking forward to professional help in thinking, as well as financial support. The SunPulse Water, in part, was in continuous operation. It was possible to show that the solar water pump can go into series production, and that it is a decentralized and very sustainable solution for one of the core issues of energy consumption – the pumping of water. Tamera wants to realize the next step of development in 2011: Above all we need a research workshop enable the active operation of Testfield I. Thinkers – Specialists – Supporters – please contact us! We have an up-to-date SolarVillageTestfield brochure which can be downloaded here: http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=51 http://www.tamera.org/index.phpid=121L=0 http://www.tamera.org/fileadmin/PDF/SV_CurrInfo_ed6_32_en_web.pdf The Solar Power Village - An invention by Jürgen Kleinwächter http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=156 Re: [Biofuel] Petroleum alternatives, yes; How about Nuclear? From: Chip Mefford [EMAIL PROTECTED]Add to Contacts To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org Hey Zeke; Zeke Yewdall wrote On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 5:02 AM, Chip Mefford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about we just turn away from hard path energy all together and embrace the soft path? Soft path energy approaches lead us off into an uncertain future. The hard path leads us to oblivion. Isn't it interesting that the majority of people seem to prefer oblivion rather than uncertainty? It is interesting. So many folks will say (And I think they say it without thinking about what they are saying) I have no desire to live through $some_coming_big_change Or What does it matter, we'll all just die anyway? and stuff like this. Some of these folks are the gentle loving good neighbor types who are a joy to know. it's like somehow they are emotionally incapable to see anything other than cornucopian utopia and certain annihilation. it is very strange. There are so very many other approaches to every challenge we face, and such unwillingness to embrace them. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20110627/8d7b60d0/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined
[Biofuel] Fw: Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War: The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation
On Sunday, October 27, 2013 4:39 PM, Keith Addison ke...@journeytoforever.org wrote: Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War: The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation Global Research, October 25, 2013 http://www.globalresearch.ca/fukushima-a-nuclear-war-without-a-war-the-unspoken-crisis-of-worldwide-nuclear-radiation Fukushima - A Global Threat That Requires a Global Response By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Global Research, October 25, 2013 http://www.globalresearch.ca/fukushima-a-global-threat-that-requires-a-global-response/5355480 Melted Nuclear Fuel Sank into the Ground under Fukushima Reactors. Irradiated Groundwater Flowing into Ocean, it's too Late to do Anything about This : Japan Journalist By Global Research News Global Research, October 24, 2013 http://www.globalresearch.ca/melted-nuclear-fuel-sank-into-the-ground-under-fukushima-reactors-irradiated-groundwater-flowing-into-ocean-its-too-late-to-do-anything-about-this-japan-journalist/5355375 How Accurate Are The Instruments in Nuclear Reactors? By Maggie Gundersen, Lucas W Hixson, and David Lochbaum Global Research, October 22, 2013 http://www.globalresearch.ca/how-accurate-are-the-instruments-in-nuclear-reactors/5355165 Fuel Removal From Fukushima's Reactor 4 Threatens 'Apocalyptic' Scenario In November, TEPCO set to begin to remove fuel rods whose radiation matches the fallout of 14,000 Hiroshima bombs Phttp://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/24-3 ublished on Thursday, October 24, 2013 by Common Dreams Tsunami Hits Fukushima Š No Reported Damage: Nuclear Reactors Worldwide Vulnerable to Earthquakes Flooding By Global Research News and Washington's Blog Global Research, October 26, 2013 http://www.globalresearch.ca/tsunami-hits-fukushima-no-reported-damage/5355594 Fukushima Fraud and Corruption: Japanese Organized Crime Involved in Recruitment of Specialized Personnel By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, October 25, 2013 http://www.globalresearch.ca/japanese-organized-crime-involved-in-recruitment-at-fukushima/5355540 Special Report: Help wanted in Fukushima: Low pay, high risks and gangsters By Antoni Slodkowski and Mari Saito October 25, 2013 http://news.yahoo.com/special-report-help-wanted-fukushima-low-pay-high-050626106--sector.html 28 Signs That The West Coast Is Being Absolutely Fried With Nuclear Radiation From Fukushima By Michael Snyder Global Research, October 23, 2013 http://www.globalresearch.ca/28-signs-that-the-west-coast-is-being-absolutely-fried-with-nuclear-radiation-from-fukushima/5355280 ___ Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org http://lists.eruditium.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel ___ Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org http://lists.eruditium.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel
