RE: [Biofuel] Brazilian Ethanol Plane: Ipanema, greener and cheaper to fly

2004-10-26 Thread Vern_Hendershott
Hi Tim, The Continental 0-200 has been STC'ed on a Cessna 150 to run on Ethanol. There are several diesel engines available for homebuilt aircraft. Regards, Vern Tim Ferguson

Re: [biofuel] Re: more coverage of Iraq

2003-04-03 Thread vern_hendershott
Hi Keith, It's well known that CNN and Fox news will give you a slanted, incomplete and unbalanced picture, very much toeing the (war)party line. Yes we both agree that CNN and FOX are not the best source of information and that one always has to check, as best they can, information

Re: [biofuel] Re: more coverage of Iraq

2003-04-03 Thread vern_hendershott
Hi Andrew, You make a very good point. It is sad that we all around the world can not get fair and balanced reporting of the news so that the individual can think and form their own thoughts on any given issue. I have found to their credit that BBC does seem to do a better job on issues

Re: [biofuel] Re: more coverage of Iraq

2003-04-02 Thread vern_hendershott
Hi Keith, Just to use the material you provided as an example of what I see it indicates that hundreds of thousands of people are demonstrating. For this I will except that but I have not seen that on CNN or Fox news the only USA news services we get here in Riyadh. So hundreds of thousands

Re: [biofuel] Re: more coverage of Iraq

2003-04-01 Thread vern_hendershott
Hakan, I do agree with your position but we see lots of press about the people who are killed by the military action and a lot less about the ones who are being killed by their own government in Iraq. They also count and being killed for no reason by your own government would seem to be a

Re: [biofuel] Re: more coverage of Iraq

2003-04-01 Thread vern_hendershott
Andrew, I made no slur on the so called 'usual suspects' of 'Lefties', 'pinkos', 'Arab-lovers', 'pro-Castro'. I only sent along for the group to review an article that had some interesting information in it. If the opposition is as wide and deep as you indicate that it is then we would see

Re: [biofuel] EU: Boycott of American Goods Over Iraq War Gains Momentum

2003-03-31 Thread vern_hendershott
Let it be said and let it be done!!! I think this Don Lancaster has a moronic streak. He has a bunch of information and cans it in PDF files. If anything deserves boycotting its PDF files. PDF is antiquated, slow, and totally unsuitable for large volume publication use. I had to

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2003-03-30 Thread vern_hendershott
The following is from the New York Times, it is interesting that they see the need for both diesel hybrid and fuel cells. It has been my experience that when the military gets interested in throwing money at technology that large gains are often made and they filter back to commercial or

RE: [biofuel] Re: Arrogance of Power and a bunch of otherwar-related threads

2003-03-23 Thread vern_hendershott
Hi Kirk, What part of I must say that in this case I agree that you have acted correctly did you not understand? If you would read what I said you may see that I was only pointing out to Keith that he has been carrying water on both shoulders, I assume that as he has not responded he did

Re: [biofuel] Re: Arrogance of Power and a bunch of other war-related threads

2003-03-22 Thread vern_hendershott
Respond to the above by tomorrow. Defiance would be ill-advised. Your posting privileges have been withdrawn until you settle this satisfactorily. Keith Addison List owner Lets see you are now the List owner not just the good shepherd you have us believe when you wrote: No, it is not

Re: [biofuel] PENTAGON THREATENS TO KILL INDEPENDANT REPORTERS INIRAQ-innocent lives will be lost!

2003-03-19 Thread vern_hendershott
Dear Hakan, I agree with what you have said completely. But there is one area where see the same thing from a different perspective or in a different way. I see the current resumption of increased hostilities (war) as an extension of the war that started over 12 years ago and has been going

Re: [biofuel] PENTAGON THREATENS TO KILL INDEPENDANT REPORTERS INIRAQ-innocent lives will be lost!

2003-03-19 Thread vern_hendershott
Dear Hakan, You wrote -- It cannot be a continuation of the war 12 years ago, since that was a liberation of Kuweit by UN and the mandate only covered this. That is why it stopped when the mandate was achieved. It was supported by a world opinion and was a response on an attack by Iraq. It

Re: [biofuel] PENTAGON THREATENS TO KILL INDEPENDANT REPORTERS INIRAQ-innocent lives will be lost!

2003-03-18 Thread vern_hendershott
You would be wrong. i would bet to say our group is 100% anti war (or so i hope) Ê - Original Message - Ê From: John Hayes Ê To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Ê Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 7:55 AM Ê Subject: Re: [biofuel] PENTAGON THREATENS TO KILL INDEPENDANT REPORTERS

Re: [biofuel] PENTAGON THREATENS TO KILL INDEPENDANT REPORTERS INIRAQ-innocent lives will be lost!

2003-03-18 Thread vern_hendershott
and who do you the courtesy of treating you with personal respect even when we may not think you are correct. It is a simple and courteous thing to do. Best regards, Vern Vern_Hendershott wrote: You would be wrong. And so would you be Vern, as you have been all along. You've been closing your

Re: [biofuel] PENTAGON THREATENS TO KILL INDEPENDANT REPORTERS IN IRAQ

2003-03-15 Thread vern_hendershott
I think the point is that anyone who is in a war zone and feels the need to emit radio frequency radiation should expect to be soon visited by incoming rounds or bombs. The military is not going to have the time to sort it out or take the risk of letting it continue. It is just asking to get

Re: [biofuel] PENTAGON THREATENS TO KILL INDEPENDANT REPORTERS IN IRAQ

2003-03-15 Thread vern_hendershott
I did not say anything about the role or importance of the Press, I will leave that for others with more direct knowledge to sort out. To put my statement in simpler terms if a reporter is with the troops and he finds himself in the middle of a live fire fight and he decides to stand up to

Re: [biofuel] PENTAGON THREATENS TO KILL INDEPENDANT REPORTERS IN IRAQ

2003-03-15 Thread vern_hendershott
I can only assume that it has not yet crossed your mind that the incoming may just be from the other side! I can assure you that they will not care who is at the end of the line. Even if someone near the front lines were to hear an open transmission and be able to understand it the rules

RE: [biofuel] PENTAGON THREATENS TO KILL INDEPENDANT REPORTERS INIRAQ

2003-03-15 Thread vern_hendershott
I did not say that radios automatically get blasted. I said that they could be. We have encoding in the radios used by our forces that permits them to be determined as friendly to prevent them being fired upon. Perhaps if you knew a bit more about combat you might not have to resort to

Re: [biofuel] Cheney is Still Paid by Pentagon Contractor

2003-03-13 Thread vern_hendershott
First you would have to have these fine qualities in the bulk of the people so that leaders can come forward with them in place from having been taught them as they grew up and went through school. This sadly does not seem to be the case today. Regards, Vern What's sad is that we, as

Re: [biofuel] Re: OT: sustainable plumbing

2003-03-09 Thread vern_hendershott
Many dogs can be taught to do their business in the prescribed place much like cats that have been taught to use the human facilities. The problem that I have not seen solved is one of a flushing system that works in a facility that would resemble a shower stall to accommodate both gender of

Re: [biofuel] protest

2003-03-08 Thread vern_hendershott
Yes and these trained people would not make mistakes like the one under discussion. All to many are McDonald's rejects like the ones we suffered at airports for years. Vern

RE: [biofuel] Shock and Yawn

2003-03-01 Thread vern_hendershott
Burnett, Liz wrote: As a british citizen, I am amazed that our respective governments have got even this far in their quest for blood shed.Ê A hail of bombs is not going to solve the problems in the middle east - and there will always be another Saddam or Bin Laden. OK so if I

RE: [biofuel]OT: Columbia Space Shuttle Lost

2003-02-06 Thread vern_hendershott
Hi David, You are correct that they do not have extra fuel beyond the plan for the mission (they do carry some % of extra just as airlines do for a small contingency reserve) but in this case if they had known that the shuttle was not safe to return to earth they would still have the Retro Burn

Re: [biofuel] Re: OT: Columbia Space Shuttle Lost

2003-02-04 Thread vern_hendershott
If they had determined in space that the Shuttle was not safe to return to earth the move would have been to send them to the Intl. Space Station where they could have docked and just sat it out until we could send a different shuttle to get most of them and if there were still two left up there

Re: [biofuel] Re: Intro and question

2003-02-02 Thread vern_hendershott
I think one of the previous posts correctly pointed out that people may be willing to travel some distance to get a good buy on diesel cars and many others would benefit from the price information to use as value points in their local market where a dealer may not have a clear idea of the true

Re: [biofuel] Doing it once is already hard Was: doo doo

2003-01-12 Thread vern_hendershott
I think you will find that any very tall building can be brought down just as these two were when you have a very intense petrochemical fire (Jet Fuel) burning for some time at least one third of the way down the building. It lets one or two floors collapse at the same time and the above floors

Re: [biofuel] There's gotta be a better way Was: BP now Direct Democracy

2002-11-09 Thread vern_hendershott
For Hakan to be right about the UN the states that are members would have to, at least the majority, be democracies and as that is not the case in the vast majority of members it causes the concept to not work and is one of the main causes of the ongoing failures of the UN to get much done. When

Re: [biofuel] There's gotta be a better way Was: BP now Direct Democracy

2002-11-09 Thread vern_hendershott
Hi Keith, I do not find any mention or defense of the US in my text and I agree with much of what you said. I do still maintain that there are many more countries represented at the UN that do not meet the Hakan test of a democracy and If we were to look at it from a one person one vote it

Re: [biofuel] O2xygen --wasNuremberg Inventor's Fair

2002-11-07 Thread vern_hendershott
Hi Kirk, I agree with your concern about the balance of gases in our air but I think the concern about small changes in O2 levels is a little strong. Land animals, including man, have the ability to adapt to great variation in O2 levels. We can with only a short indoctrination adapt to an O2

Re: [biofuel] Pure freedom?? Was: BP chief fears US will carve up Iraqi oil riches

2002-11-03 Thread vern_hendershott
Hi Curtis, Harmon has the right and freedom to move on if he wants that is one of the USA freedoms that is great. I think the money deal is more that he knows that as much as he may not like the USA he has it better there than he will anywhere else and he plans to stay for his benefit. But if

Re: [biofuel] Re: BP chief fears US will carve up Iraqi oil riches

2002-11-03 Thread vern_hendershott
At least we agree on good music. You know, I have never found it necessary to put myself in a position where a member of our law enforcement team has felt it compelling to beat me. I have found that working through the system has achieved most of what I have needed to get done. It is not always

Re: [biofuel] Re: BP chief fears US will carve up Iraqi oil riches

2002-11-02 Thread vern_hendershott
No Harmon, I will not be taking up a collection for you so that you can leave. Money is not something that stands between a man and his freedom. Many people have migrated with only the cloths on their backs when they felt that it was the right thing to do. Many in Europe were killed by

Re: [biofuel] Re: BP chief fears US will carve up Iraqi oil riches

2002-11-01 Thread vern_hendershott
Hi Harmon, Given that this is the way you feel about being an American why don't you move to some other country that you would feel more comfortable in. I do not think that there is anyone who would try to stop you and I am sure that you will be welcome where you wish to go. Best regards, Vern

Re: [biofuel] cold weather

2002-09-30 Thread vern_hendershott
i live in canada and with cold weather apporoaching i am worried about being able to run a diesel vehicle. have any of you had experience with this problem??? how cold can you run the vehicle??? any tips on easy winter startup??? or helping the motor from freezing??? I had a P 504 diesel in