[Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report

2007-02-04 Thread Keith Addison
Always a good read is Bill Blum. -- http://members.aol.com/bblum6/aer42.htm Anti-Empire Report, February 3, 2007 The Anti-Empire Report Some things you need to know before the world ends February 3, 2007 by

[Biofuel] Corn Energy Balance

2007-02-04 Thread James Machin
Hi all I'm working on a corn article and plan to assume that with mono crop, industrial production, 1 calorie of corn requires an input of around 10 calories of fossil energy. Does that sound about right? James ___ Biofuel mailing list

Re: [Biofuel] Being Australian

2007-02-04 Thread Mike Weaver
If it's available I'd like to make an offer... leo bunyan wrote: Jesse Zeke I think it's a symptom of the developed countries Nobody seems to have the monopoly on stupidity in the western world Leo */Zeke Yewdall [EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote: Sounds like the US to me Z

[Biofuel] Fwd: [COMFOOD:] Impact of Corn Prices in Mexico

2007-02-04 Thread Keith Addison
Good letter to the NYT from Peter Rossett (prev. the head of Food First), via the COMFOOD list. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:56:01 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [COMFOOD:] Impact of Corn Prices in Mexico Dear All, In the past two weeks there has been lots of press

Re: [Biofuel] [Fwd: Re: [Strawbale] Global warming]

2007-02-04 Thread Mike Weaver
That it's so prevalent - it's like a Hydra-headed monster Keith Addison wrote: Interesting cross post from gasification. Oh come on Weaver, we've scotched this brand of BS here so many times before. what's interesting about it??? Keith Original Message Subject:

Re: [Biofuel] [Fwd: Re: [Strawbale] Global warming]

2007-02-04 Thread Keith Addison
That it's so prevalent - it's like a Hydra-headed monster True, too true. But it takes me back to a couple of things Kirk said: most of the population is hypnotized - I am not sure how you would deprogram them. Actually I don't think it's most (30 million?), but they're certainly very noisy.

Re: [Biofuel] Corn Energy Balance

2007-02-04 Thread Zeke Yewdall
Roughly. I think that Michael Pollan has some documentation some sort in his book the omnivoure's dilemma) Z On 2/4/07, James Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I'm working on a corn article and plan to assume that with mono crop, industrial production, 1 calorie of corn requires an

Re: [Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report

2007-02-04 Thread Kirk McLoren
The historian Toynbee said something similar. He said America was the only western country to decline before it reached its peak. Kirk Jason Katie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde

Re: [Biofuel] Corn Energy Balance

2007-02-04 Thread ray johnson
Hi James Have you read the article Eating Fossil Fuels--A seriously good read on the basics of food production. ( Do a Google search for it for best location) rayj St.Paul James Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hi all I'm working on a corn article and plan to assume that with

Re: [Biofuel] Corn Energy Balance

2007-02-04 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Ray, James Hi James Have you read the article Eating Fossil Fuels--A seriously good read on the basics of food production. Up to a point: This comes from an article called Eating Fossil Fuels, which has facts such as these right but fails to see the alternatives, springing up all about

[Biofuel] Humans blamed for climate change (IPCC report)

2007-02-04 Thread Keith Addison
IPCC report [2.2MB] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/02_02_07_climatereport.pdf http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6321351.stm BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 2 February 2007, 11:14 GMT Humans blamed for climate change By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News website,

[Biofuel] Exxon's 'outlandish' earnings spark furor

2007-02-04 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070202.wxexxon02/ BNStory/Business/home globeandmail.com: Exxon's 'outlandish' earnings spark furor With UN poised to blame global warming on fossil fuels, firm posts $40-billion profit SHAWN MCCARTHY From Friday's Globe and Mail OTTAWA -

Re: [Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report

2007-02-04 Thread Frank Navarrete
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde Only to be imprisoned in civilized England for being homosexual and forced to do hard labor which led to his death. Let's not fool ourselves into thinking that any Western nations have

[Biofuel] small biodiesel plant

2007-02-04 Thread Eduardo Vallarino
Can anybody help me find a small bio-diesel plant supplier ? Sort of a Plant for Dummies Also, so far the only source for Methanol is a plant in Chile. Can anybody suggest another supplier willing to cater to a small plant ? Eduardo Panama ___