Re: [Biofuel] Climate Change 'Will Cause Civilisation to Collapse'

2009-07-20 Thread Keith Addison
Right. Healthier meat without the need to grow animals - what a crock of baloney. :-) I suppose it's swayed by the report that said livestock farming emits more GG emissions than traffic, or whatever. I'll accept that CAFOs do, and worse than that, but livestock raised on pasture don't, or

Re: [Biofuel] Hillary's agenda in India

2009-07-20 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Chandan, thanks. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-4796140,prtpage-1.cms ... the need to address the 'root' of the problem of world hunger: crop productivity, ho-hum. It is imperative that we invest in science that increases crop yield. Never mind if it kills a few

[Biofuel] okay, question that is almost topic-relevant. Safe vegetable oils?

2009-07-20 Thread Chip Mefford
In short, I have a small chainsaw powered sawmill. Now, I'll not try to defend the chainsaw as environmentally sensitive, nor sustainable. I'll leave that be for now. But the bit that I'm stuck on right now, is that running this sawmill generates a lot of sawdust. Some folks will argue that

Re: [Biofuel] okay, question that is almost topic-relevant. Safe vegetable oils?

2009-07-20 Thread Fritz
Chip Mefford wrote: In short, I have a small chainsaw powered sawmill. Now, I'll not try to defend the chainsaw as environmentally sensitive, nor sustainable. I'll leave that be for now. But the bit that I'm stuck on right now, is that running this sawmill generates a lot of sawdust. Some

Re: [Biofuel] okay, question that is almost topic-relevant. Safe vegetable oils?

2009-07-20 Thread Chris Burck
chip, i can't offer an expert opinion, but i'm happy to offer my perspective. even with the heat and pressure that will occur when making a cut, i really have serious doubts that such conditions are extreme or prolonged enough to alter the oil either (a) much (if at all) beyond what has already