Martin
There is a small Co-operative called Catalyst that specialise in small
Co-operative creation. Their fees were very reasonable when I was
looking into things (this was some years ago). I think they are based
in Brighton now. They are connected to the Radical Routes secondary
EMS Update - Dec. 17, 2002
http://www.ems.org/
AAA Accused of Hiding Political Agenda
The same AAA auto club that provides roadside assistance has a hidden
political agenda that includes lobbying against public transportation
and the Clean Air Act. Critics of AAA are promoting a new auto club
http://www.planetark.org/envpicstory.cfm/newsid/19100
s:
Brazil's new agriculture minister backs ethanol program
BRAZIL: December 17, 2002
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Brazil's new agriculture minister Roberto
Rodrigues on Monday expressed strong support for a relaunch of the
national sugar
http://www.yesmagazine.org/23livingeconomy/resourceseconomies.html
Resource Guide for Living Economies
Living Economies ~ Fall 2002
Resources for Living Economies
by Victor Bremson Erin Cusick
support community
Eco-Trust of Portland, Oregon, supports sustainable economic
development in
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=14771
The Never-Ending Oil Spill
By Maria Tomchick, AlterNet
December 16, 2002
Western Europe's worst environmental disaster is unfolding at this
very moment, but it's receiving little coverage here in the U.S -
even though a similar disaster could
http://www.planetark.org/envpicstory.cfm/newsid/19118
Australia puts off imposing cap on ethanol in fuel
AUSTRALIA: December 18, 2002
CANBERRA - The Australian government said on Tuesday that evidence
about mixing ethanol in petrol was inconclusive, putting aside any
decision on whether to
Please, when replying to messages, clip the tail off. It takes many extra
minutes to scroll through the same message 5-6 times to read one sentence
replies.
Chuck
Biofuels at Journey to Forever
http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html
Biofuel at WebConX
The conclusion came out this week:
http://www.evworld.com/databases/storybuilder.cfm?storyid=466
With evworld.com the trick is if you want the whole installment and
not the continue button and don't mind the small print, then hit the
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Fuel alcohol has returned to favor following a record cane crop,
sharp rise in oil prices this year
and development of new engine technologies to use ethanol.
I wonder what this last comment is in reference to? Has there been
real progress in efficiency or power levels in using ethanol
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 03:33:38 +0900, you wrote:
http://www.planetark.org/envpicstory.cfm/newsid/19118
Australia puts off imposing cap on ethanol in fuel
AUSTRALIA: December 18, 2002
CANBERRA - The Australian government said on Tuesday that evidence
about mixing ethanol in petrol was
WOW!! That's news to me. Where does BD cost around
$1.50? I pay $2.65/gallon (and believe me, that
hurts).
I know you're going to tell me to start brewing my
own--and you're right. But I am curious if you have
info on regional pricing for biodiesel.
Even if one brews one's own, one should
Both time and money are commodities. One is almost always in
shorter supply than the other.
- Original Message -
From: murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com
Cc: biofuels-biz@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 5:42 PM
Subject: [biofuels-biz] Re: [biofuel]
Hi All,
I think the Minister is referring to the Flexible Fuel
Vehicles, capable of sensing ethanol content in the
fuel tank and adjust the spark timing accordingly.
Brazil and Germany also entered into CDM agreement to
promote the use of fuel ethanol.
Samai
--- murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(cross-posted with the Biodiesel list)
Has anyone taken a comprehensive look at why mainstream environmental groups
are lukewarm at best on BD, and written it up? If so, could you please
provide a link? Thanks!
The main concerns that I've heard recently from that community are:
1) potential
First we have to establish the quite astonishing difference between
US and EU. If you go to the EU commission sites you will find a
strong support for BD and BD blends.
At 06:50 PM 12/18/2002 -0500, you wrote:
(cross-posted with the Biodiesel list)
Has anyone taken a comprehensive look at why
Just thought I'd update the list. I've been working with with the
sustainable development person in the planning department in Oakland,
Carol Misseldine. Oakland is starting to understand what biodiesel is
and is turning the beauracracy around to support it. No date for the
meeting yet,
Hi MM
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 03:33:38 +0900, you wrote:
http://www.planetark.org/envpicstory.cfm/newsid/19118
Australia puts off imposing cap on ethanol in fuel
AUSTRALIA: December 18, 2002
CANBERRA - The Australian government said on Tuesday that evidence
about mixing ethanol in petrol
Hi MM
Fuel alcohol has returned to favor following a record cane crop,
sharp rise in oil prices this year
Complicated, I wish I knew more about it - complex stuff about
subsidies and whether they were a good thing or not (not that the
petro companies ever get subsidies of course!), big
This turned up on EREN News:
New Biodiesel Facility Begins Operation in Iowa
A new facility with the capacity to produce 12 million gallons of
Biodiesel per year started operating in Ralston, Iowa, in early
December. The West Central Soy plant is owned and operated by a
farmers' cooperative and
Oh...I would say that they have warmed up to the notion of
biodiesel considerably since last year - about the difference
between a deep freeze then and a meat locker now.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/message/6257
You might also want to do a retake on some the premises that have
been
Discussed quite a lot at the Biofuel list. Try an archive search for
+biodiesel +sierra
http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel
Try this one, and others in that thread:
http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?view=6257list=BIOFUEL
Sierra Club's Dismal Daniel Becker
In contrast, try
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Hi All,
I think the Minister is referring to the Flexible Fuel
Vehicles, capable of sensing ethanol content in the
fuel tank and adjust the spark timing accordingly.
Brazil and Germany also entered into CDM agreement to
promote the use of fuel ethanol.
Samai
You've got it - thanks Samai.
Hi all. I'm getting ready to do a conversion on my '85 Golf and am wondering
how to go about getting raw veggie oil in bulk. Down the road I'd like to use
WVO, but I've heard about people having more problems with it than the
newly pressed variety.
I'm juust wondering what sort of places
What they are saying is that basically GM took the 350 and with a few minor
modifications made it into a 5.7 diesel. Now converting that engien to gas
should be fairly simple. However I think I would go for dished pistons
instead of more then one head gasket because that is just asking for
Well yeah of course they play a role, unless they are all burned out. LOL I
have seen that before too.. Darn engine wont start, only one cylinder seems
to be trying to run.. where all that white smoke coming from? Pretty soon
they start firing one by one. but to do it your cranking with your foot
I been to and through Minnesota a few times during winter and that is cold..
Bites right through your clothes. hell of a vacation.. You should try and
light one of those propane campstoves in that weather.. But the late spring
the year before was worse, couldn't light the stove for the flock of
No waste. Local. Sane. And it works well. ... one of the first steps
toward being a socially responsible business is to have ties to the
locality.
Keith
http://www.yesmagazine.org/23livingeconomy/dressel.htm
breaking down buildings, building up a neighborhood
by Holly Dressel
When Shane
http://www.yesmagazine.org/23livingeconomy/flaccavento.htm
from the earth, up
by Anthony Flaccavento
Before any course of action, we should first ask:
Photo by Ann Hawthorne
What is already here?
What does nature allow us to do here?
What does nature help us to do here?
Wendell
http://www.planetark.org/envpicstory.cfm/newsid/19100
s:
Brazil's new agriculture minister backs ethanol program
BRAZIL: December 17, 2002
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Brazil's new agriculture minister Roberto
Rodrigues on Monday expressed strong support for a relaunch of the
national sugar
http://www.yesmagazine.org/23livingeconomy/resourceseconomies.html
Resource Guide for Living Economies
Living Economies ~ Fall 2002
Resources for Living Economies
by Victor Bremson Erin Cusick
support community
Eco-Trust of Portland, Oregon, supports sustainable economic
development in
What they are doing is something that I can subscribe
to and if you seen what Motie said, he will too. But the
problem discussed from the start was that the environmentalists
hindered this in Motie's forest. In Motie's forest they did not
do clear cutting, they want to do selective harvesting and
The only fuel cells that have a future on the mass market are those
that use liquid fuels - since storage is impractical for gaseous fuels
like hydrogen methane. The only company that I know of that is
developing Direct Liquid Fuel Cells is Medis Technologies in New York
Are there prescribed burns in your park? I know that they do them
frequently in Sequoia, and that there was a disastrous one in Bandelier,
which probably really set back the movement for prescribed burns. Have
you had any experiences with them?
On a more abstract note, I think the root of
The community ecosystem trust
One vehicle for doing this is the community ecosystem trust. In
such a trust, those with a claim to land create a legal instrument
to ensure that whoever uses and manages the land does so in a way
aimed at ecological and economic health - in perpetuity. The
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=14771
The Never-Ending Oil Spill
By Maria Tomchick, AlterNet
December 16, 2002
Western Europe's worst environmental disaster is unfolding at this
very moment, but it's receiving little coverage here in the U.S -
even though a similar disaster could
You find no disagreement with me. I think it is
enough of mud to go around.
Hakan
At 12:33 AM 12/19/2002 +0900, you wrote:
I understand fully Motie's predicament and would go crazy
if I was in his situation. If he would have been in private forest
as the link describes, it would have been
Bruce, where are you located? If in the US you might want to get a hold
of ADM as they sell both Soy and Corn oil, most likely in bulk. Check
around online for some smaller producers that don't use GMO
feedstock. Search engines are a wonderful tools . ;-)
BTW, I was at Costco this weekend
Same old thing - small is beautiful (maybe because it's usually local).
... Meanwhile, the grass-roots environmental groups are starved of
the hundreds of millions of dollars that are raised every year by
these massive bureaucracies. Over the past two decades, they've
turned the environmental
http://www.planetark.org/envpicstory.cfm/newsid/19118
Australia puts off imposing cap on ethanol in fuel
AUSTRALIA: December 18, 2002
CANBERRA - The Australian government said on Tuesday that evidence
about mixing ethanol in petrol was inconclusive, putting aside any
decision on whether to
And you wonder why we are skeptical when one of the environmental groups
jumps up and down, and wildly pointâs a finger. Without any proof, or even
any secret email or two. They condemn a big business, and with the same
breath ask for money. Only they can save you from that nasty big
Keith,
You wrote:
Current petro-diesel price in the US is about $1,50
(commercial biodiesel isn't much more, or about the
same).
WOW!! That's news to me. Where does BD cost around
$1.50? I pay $2.65/gallon (and believe me, that
hurts).
I know you're going to tell me to start brewing my
The conclusion came out this week:
http://www.evworld.com/databases/storybuilder.cfm?storyid=466
With evworld.com the trick is if you want the whole installment and
not the continue button and don't mind the small print, then hit the
printer friendly version
Skeeters are the state bird of Alaska.
Saw some big as robins.
Later was told thems the small ones.
Natives carry a shotgun for the bigger ones.
-Original Message-
From: Bryan Fullerton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 1:34 AM
To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com
http://www.polar-solar.com/efficiency.html
Lumeloid is theoretically capable of converting over 80% of sunlight
directly into usable electric energy. This high efficiency is made possible
by the use of polarization, which causes absolutely no loss in the available
light energy, yet organizes
Fuel alcohol has returned to favor following a record cane crop,
sharp rise in oil prices this year
and development of new engine technologies to use ethanol.
I wonder what this last comment is in reference to? Has there been
real progress in efficiency or power levels in using ethanol
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 03:33:38 +0900, you wrote:
http://www.planetark.org/envpicstory.cfm/newsid/19118
Australia puts off imposing cap on ethanol in fuel
AUSTRALIA: December 18, 2002
CANBERRA - The Australian government said on Tuesday that evidence
about mixing ethanol in petrol was
WOW!! That's news to me. Where does BD cost around
$1.50? I pay $2.65/gallon (and believe me, that
hurts).
I know you're going to tell me to start brewing my
own--and you're right. But I am curious if you have
info on regional pricing for biodiesel.
Even if one brews one's own, one should
Hi Thor and MM
WOW!! That's news to me. Where does BD cost around
$1.50? I pay $2.65/gallon (and believe me, that
hurts).
Sorry Thor, I see that was an industry figure I checked, not a pump
figure. But I think somebody has said they're buying commercial brew
for $2. Somebody else quoted
Harley wrote:
And you wonder why we are skeptical
You mean me? Seems you missed the first line, and much besides.
Anyway, if you mean me, I've often criticized the big enviro groups
here, as I just did in posting this message. But I don't dismiss them
out of hand like you're doing - while
hello i dont know how to convert the motor , but if you find out I would love
to know .
I have a samurai i would like to covert
thanks ken r.
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Biofuel at Journey to
Hi MM
Fuel alcohol has returned to favor following a record cane crop,
sharp rise in oil prices this year
Complicated, I wish I knew more about it - complex stuff about
subsidies and whether they were a good thing or not (not that the
petro companies ever get subsidies of course!), big
Hi MM
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 03:33:38 +0900, you wrote:
http://www.planetark.org/envpicstory.cfm/newsid/19118
Australia puts off imposing cap on ethanol in fuel
AUSTRALIA: December 18, 2002
CANBERRA - The Australian government said on Tuesday that evidence
about mixing ethanol in petrol
Prices I know of are in 1,000 gallon tanks- 1.86 per gallon that way for
offroad, and 2.35/gallon with the road taxes on the same fuel. Unless the
1.86 price is outdated (prices on new soy biodiesel went up recently around
here) this is coming from the WVO-derived biodiesel from the plant in
=
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Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network (EREN).
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Featuring:
To: biofuels-biz@yahoogroups.com
From: Sam Jai-In [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 23:33:23 + (GMT)
Subject: Re: [biofuels-biz] Re: [biofuel] Brazil's new agriculture
minister backs ethanol program
Hi All,
I think the Minister is referring to the Flexible Fuel
Vehicles, capable of
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