Chip,
Hello from India. This is cool stuff. Please keep me in the loop.
All best.
Chandan
On Thursday 16 March 2017 09:03 PM, Chip Mefford wrote:
Good day all of you who are left,
I really want to thank everyone who has sent their
thoughts on taking the list down. There have been
some,
Dear Midori,
This is shattering news. Keith was a most remarkable man in many ways.
May his soul rest in peace.
In deepest sorrow.
Chandan
On Wednesday 05 November 2014 07:05 PM, Keith Addison wrote:
Dear biofuel friends,
Keith, who contributed so much to the handmade biofuel movement
This part of a mailing list's life story never fails to be hilarious.
Why is it that there are so many people hanging around the Internet who
find it really easy to sign up for a list by themselves, but suddenly
become incapable of finding out how to unsubscribe themselves from it
when they
Hear you loud and clear. In India.
On Tuesday 30 October 2012 06:24 PM, Chip Mefford wrote:
I'd actually appreciate a few echos from you all. My logs show all the
email except a small handfull being delivered promptly.
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Views @
http://www.livemint.com/2012/03/15171536/Views--Time-to-consider-India.html?h=A1
Views | Time to consider India’s green GDP as well
Economic growth sometimes comes at the cost of the environment. These
costs should be counted
The Economic Survey for 2011-12 tabled in Parliament on
*Holy cow! Small is beautiful*
*Kerala 'masters' struggle to keep alive rare cattle breeds.*
When Kerala Agriculture Minister K.P. Mohanan paid Chandran ‘Master'
Rs.15,000 for a Vechur calf last September, he was rewarding a conscious
law-breaker. Yet, the Minister, on behalf of the Livestock
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6847227/Questions-over-business-deals-of-UN-climate-change-guru-Dr-Rajendra-Pachauri.html
Questions over business deals of UN climate change guru Dr Rajendra
Pachauri
The head of the UN's climate change panel - Dr Rajendra Pachauri -
is accused of
Original Message
Subject:May be of interest : Dr Johan Rockstroem on ''planetary
boundaries'' (blog)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:07:35 -0800
From: nirmal ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: nirmal ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Humans a
Fantastic, Dawie! The Eye of Apollo - first published in The
Innocence of Father Brown (apparently in 1910). Available online at
http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/books/innocence/apollo.html and also
in a variety of formats including audio books for free at
Fritz,
I fully agree with you. But it's one thing to let one's skin bask in
the early morning sun and quite another to stare at the sun (if that's
what sun gazing means) even when it's not too high in the sky.
BTW, I should clarify that Kovoor was not specifically dealing with sun
gazing,
Source: Zee News, http://www.zeenews.com/news554697.html
45% of country's land degraded: Environment report
Updated on Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 00:22 IST Tags:India
environment, Degraded land, Glacier
New Delhi: At least 45 per cent of the country's land is degraded, air
pollution is on the
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-4796140,prtpage-1.cms
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Just like we are always trying to green the wastelands :-).
Chandan
Dawie Coetzee wrote:
Hi Chip.
I've yet to observe /anything/ 'natural' that was a true artifact, waste
product in nature. We live pretty much in a solar powered sealed-up system.
Very little is actual waste, esp energy.
If you are in a mood to explore this topic more academically,
Douglas Hofstadter's The Mind's I is a classic compilation
of landmark writings on the subject including philosophical
essays, literary pieces, and views of computer science and
AI legends with annotations by Hofstadter and Daniel
This is pretty much what I meant by
energy packaged for relatively non-local distribution and
consumption by humans
which, it might be argued, is a market commodity, not a right
(such as air and water) given by nature to any living being.
Negative EROEI is definitely acceptable (specially to
converting crude to something else with some loss...but
actually gaining energy (from solar photosynthetic input, for example). At
least, that's how I think about it to make those numbers make sense.
Z
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Chandan Haldar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there something
Is there something funny about Table 3 (in that pdf) or do I
somehow miss the whole point?
Why are they adding up all the fractions together?!
I'd imagine one would add up Domestic Crude Production, Domestic
Crude Transport, Crude Oil Refining, and Diesel Fuel Transport
to get total cost of
There has been many mentions of rising consumption in India
(and China) recently. If any of you are curious about the
actual numbers on the ground, this very flashy presentation
might interest you:
http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/publications/india_consumer_market/images/India_Interactive1.swf
Looks like there is a lot of considered views in the archives
that wind turbines killing bird life is a red herring and any
discussion about it is trolling. I haven't had the time to
browse all the 165 matches Keith pointed at, but I did browse
the first 30 or so. The scholastic level does not
Kirk,
A google search on wind power problem will bring up many links.
Specifically, large scale wind energy farms in Ireland and parts
of UK have apparently created massive problems for bird life.
Also the noise in high wind conditions is apparently unbearable
for the neighborhood.
This article
to mandate water treatment in silcon factories - maybe
this is the solution?
We have a problem.
Kirk
Chandan Haldar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kirk,
A google search on wind power problem will bring up many links.
Specifically, large scale wind energy farms in Ireland and parts
of UK have
Loud and clear.
Keith Addison wrote:
Hello all
The list hit a glitch and went down for a while (about 36 hours I
think) but it's fixed now and back in business. If you're reading
this, that is, I hope.
Sorry about that.
Best
Keith
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Dear Pannirselvam,
Thanks for the detailed response. I gather that there is good opportunity
to add to the experimentally established results on castor based biodiesel
and the blends that might work well. I'm right now exploring a tie-up with
one of the govt research labs and an agricultural
Hi All,
As one can guess, there has been quite a deluge of coverage in the media around
here (in India) about the new Tata Nano. There seems little doubt that millions
of these cute little bugs will be on the road in the next 2-3 years (unless a
tough-to-fix major snag surfaces, which seems
Pannirselvam,
Happy New Year to you from India. Good to see your mail after
a long time, but I'm quite confused by it.
I thought Keith only reported what YOU wrote earlier on 9/25/2006
(regarding mixing ~20% BD and 5-10% ethanol into (fresh/used) VO
to reduce viscosity).
Could you please
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caveat_emptor :-)
Chris Tan wrote:
Hi Gustl and Ken,
If kerosene and GASOLINE is used, then what they may be doing is diluting
the vegetable oil to lower viscosity and lessen the likelihood of injector
snip...
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Couldn't find these links in the archives...
http://www.systemfehler.de/en/
http://www.sott.net/
Happy browsing.
Chandan
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Some of you may be interested in this article:
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Check out http://boinc.berkeley.edu/. If you are the kind whose
computer is running most of the time even if you aren't using a lot of
compute-heavy applications, you may like to join some of the projects
listed at the boinc site. They come with some great screen savers.
Cheers.
Chandan
Keith,
You might like to download the 30-day eval copy of this converter:
http://www.processtext.com/abcvisio.html
which converts visio vector graphics drawings to many image or
pdf formats.
As far as I can see, it installs and runs fine, but I couldn't find a visio
file to try it out.
Cheers.
Uh-oh... sorry, I didn't notice the mac part in your mail... this
converter is Windoz sw.
Send me the visio file and I'll have a go at it.
Chandan
Chandan Haldar wrote:
Keith,
You might like to download the 30-day eval copy of this converter:
http://www.processtext.com/abcvisio.html
Some of my friends here in India (who know more about agriculture than
I do) would have me believe that traditionally castor oilseed cakes are
allowed to decompose by soaking in a little water for a couple of weeks
and then put back into the soil as fertilizer (same as done with
mustard
Leave them in front. Left Behind, aarghh! LOL! I wouldn't say more
docile though, after all a docile populace is the ideal of our noble
leaders, uh, rulers, and captains of industry and commerce, it makes
it so much easier to manufacture our consent. Make it less aggressive
rather. Aggressive
Anyone care to share any experiences with castor oil based biodiesel
brewing using small-scale plants? I am told that castor oil dissolves
in alcohols and external heating is eliminated from the process. I'm
also hearing conjectures that castor based biodiesel will not freeze
even below -20
David,
Since you have done so much, may I request you to also put up chooped up
50MB chunks for easier downloading of this monster? It'd certainly help
those without reliable uninterrupted connectivity beyond a couple of
hours at a time.
Thanks a lot. Really appreciate your effort to get
Atul,
I appreciate your frustration. But it shouldn't be a surprise that
competing with an established utility scale monster such as fossil fuel
requires the economics of the alternative to be at least as efficient
(apart from its other non-financial merits). I'm under the impression
that
I'm looking for info on commercial biodiesel prices (B100 or blends).
Info or pointers to info from any part of the world will be relevant. I
live in India and to my knowledge there isn't any retail (or wholesale)
sales channel for biodiesel in India at the moment, although it seems
there
Exactly the whole point of the definition in the hackers dictionary.
Thanks, Jeromie.
Anyway, I can't pretend to be a hacker (however honorable the true
meaning of the term may be). Sorry to disappoint all hoping to meet a
Matrix character in real life.
Chandan
Jeromie Reeves wrote:
Do
GNU Emacs has this nice little diversion in its mail handling facility:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/Mail-Amusements.html#Mail-Amusements
Some samples of what it can automatically add to the end of a mail is at
the end of this mail. Joe, sorry to disappoint uncle S, but I
I must quickly add that I didn't mean to suggest using Emacs for email.
It was a great mail env once for text based email, but probably won't be
suitable for normal email usage today (with html, graphics, attachments,
etc).
Chandan
Chandan Haldar wrote:
GNU Emacs has this nice little
Here's the 'Hacker' entry in Eric Raymond's The Hackers Dictionary (aka
the jargon file):
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/H/hacker.html
Having been deep in that world for a while now, I see today's hacker
community as a highly heterogeneous community with a variety of views
revolving
The pulp of this fruit is also the main raw material for the Amarula
Cream liquor (www.amarula.com) which is somewhat similar in taste to
Bailey's Irish Cream (and priced about the same in retail), but with a
distinct flavor of its own.
Cheers.
Chandan
Duncan Mills wrote:
Hi,
I had an
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