[biofuels-biz] 30 gallons of methanol for sale $75.00
I have 30 gallons of Methanol that I need to get rid of. My landlord got wind of its presence and its gotta go. I have been using it to make biodiesel. It is located in San Mateo. Please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] if interested. - Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Free shipping on all inkjet cartridge refill kit orders to US Canada. We have your brand: HP, Epson, Lexmark, Canon more. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5510 http://us.click.yahoo.com/kP..SB/49VGAA/ySSFAA/9bTolB/TM -~- Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [biofuels-biz] The Hydrogen hype, the scam artists at work.
Murdoch, There have been several ideas put forward over the years to indicate that if space is composed of anything, it is rarefied hydrogen and maybe helium. Deep space is basically, (I am told), made up of hydrogen atoms at a variable density but typically individual molecules at about 100 mm (4) apart. There was a proposal to make a deep-space vehicle propelled on the ram-jet principle to scoop these up, heat them in a fusion reactor and chuck them out the back. I'm pretty sure NASA published details of the proposal some 20 years ago. It also seems generally agreed that the sun, like other stars, keeps going by fission of hydrogen to helium (and higher elements too). Because of its large gravity, hydrogen from the space around the sun would be attracted to the sun. As it happens, both hydrogen and helium have thermal molecular velocities above the escape velocity of Earth but not (I am told) of Jupiter, Saturn and perhaps Neptune. Perhaps there are puddles of the stuff out there at the bottom of a very serious gravity-well. But I do know from personal experience that keeping hydrogen confined on Planet Earth is bloody difficult and quite dangerous! Incidentally, re your 1 in 10, has any professional scientist or engineer at any of the US space agencies ever gone on record to say hydrogen *does not* leave our atmosphere in the general direction of up? Regards Michael Allen Thailand Interesting responses, thx. On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 15:19:53 +0700, you wrote: Sorry Murdoch, Didn't realise you had some questions in here. I forget what the escape velocity is for Planet Earth. But I know that normal hydrogen molecules exceed it. That is why free hydrogen does not exist in our planet's atmosphere. Like free water on the moon, it just keeps going. But you have a point: I would imagine that some hydrogen reacts with oxygen and ozone along the way. And perhaps with nitrogen too if the circumstances are right. I can't give you details because upper atmospheric chemistry and physics is above and beyond me :-. Actually, over the years, I have been on the side of trying to claim that some significant amounts of Hydrogen may escape Earth's atmosphere when chemically liberated, but I have usually been met with skepticism at best, shouting- down by professional scientists at worst. Your agreeing with the overall idea of this is maybe a 1 in 5 or 10 type of response. -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for Your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at Myinks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/sOykFB/k9VGAA/ySSFAA/9bTolB/TM -~- Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [biofuels-biz] Coconut Crazy
Hi Ed, I think Keith has put the paper which describes this work on journeytoforever (reference not to hand) Engines were started and run on petrodiesel for ten minutes to bring up the temperature of the SVO. Then the fuel supply was switched over for the continuous 3000 hour run. SVO temperatures varied due to heat losses from the tank at night but the maximum achieved was 80C. The fuel tank was painted red and was not positioned in the sun-light. The same equipment was used for the tests with crude palm oil (CPO) and similar temperatures were achieved. The fuel filter and water separation unit showed that the temperature at which the fuel was delivered to the injectors was much lower however: After a cool night, the contents would be cloudy. Night time temperatures around here are about 25C. As I explained before, this was not my work and I was really only a spectator (and editor of the paper!). More specific details are available in the paper and you can contact the author directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Refining involves removal of the FFA as soap with NaOH, treatment with phosphoric acid to phosphorylate the gums, the addition of bentonite (Fuller's earth) and filtration to produce a food-grade palm-oil. Regards Michael Allen Thailand On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 22:21:42 -0700, Neoteric Biofuels Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael: In regard to: Incidentally, there is no great secret in the Neoterics claim: You can run diesel engines directly on refined coconut oil just as you can on refined palm-oil: You just have to melt and pre-heat the oil! We have done this by passing the exhaust pipe up through the fuel tank but, being in the tropics, we do have a head-start: the air temperature is about 32C so our oils are liquid. The challenge has been to use unrefined palm-oil which is about one tenth the price of the refined stuff. The research of my colleagues here shows that while refined oil will run over 3000 hours in this system, unrefined oil cooks the engine within 500 hours. I keep asking them to write this up but I think there is a reluctance to publish negative results! I think you sent info on this in the past to myself and others, and as I recall, this was done as a single-tank test? Also do you know how hot the oil was at the injection pump? Two-tank, and adequate heating (70C+) might have helped with the unrefined oil test results. BTW, what was involved in refining in this test? Thanks, and best regards, Edward Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Natural Vitamins for Good Prostate Male Health. $28.97 http://www.challengerone.com/t/l.asp?cid=2865lp=prosta2.html http://us.click.yahoo.com/qJIe0D/89VGAA/ySSFAA/9bTolB/TM -~- Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [biofuels-biz] Coconut Crazy
Thanks Samai . . . . I think! :-/ I haven't read the paper to which you refer. Perhaps I should read a copy before I venture an opinion. Regards Michael On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:26:31 +0100 (BST), Sam Jai-In [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Group Members, A ferry fleet operator has used coconut oil instead of diesel for the past three years on Samui Island. This is another example of successful SVO story. I read a paper on the emissions bebefits of biodiesel published by EPA, they showed a result that if we use saturated fatty acid feedstocks eg. animal fats, we will get higher reduction of PM. Coconut-based biodiesel would probably give similar advantages, Micheal : Please comment on this. Samai --- Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Michael, Bruce Dear Bruce, We can take this correspondence off-line if you prefer. All you have to do is reply to my personal e-mail address. (I'm not sure how interesting coconut oil is to those folk wrestling with the US bureaucracy anyway!) Please don't take it off-line, there's widespread interest in coconut oil and the more information is available and publicly shared the better - such discussions do much more good in the archives and accessible to all than hidden away on a couple of people's hard disks. Incidentally, there is no great secret in the Neoterics claim: You can run diesel engines directly on refined coconut oil just as you can on refined palm-oil: You just have to melt and pre-heat the oil! We have done this by passing the exhaust pipe up through the fuel tank but, being in the tropics, we do have a head-start: the air temperature is about 32C so our oils are liquid. The challenge has been to use unrefined palm-oil which is about one tenth the price of the refined stuff. The research of my colleagues here shows that while refined oil will run over 3000 hours in this system, unrefined oil cooks the engine within 500 hours. I keep asking them to write this up but I think there is a reluctance to publish negative results! My recollection of the medicinal properties of coconut milk is that quenching your thirst on it leads to the world falling out of your bottom . . . . . I have, however, been told that is high in potassium and can actually settle the guts after a bad attack of Tropical Squits . . . I have worked on using coconut shells and coir to fuel. The problem is that a simple steam turbine running on the Rankine cycle can only muster about 40% conversion of the fuel into useful work, the rest is discarded to the environment. Co-generation is possible if you have a use for lots of tepid water. But generally in the tropics, there is an abundance of this stuff! Why it even falls out of the sky! I did design a coconut-shell fuelled heater for drying bananas in Tonga many years ago. This was to help a health food company which had effectively been attacked by a Peace Corp worker! He had insisted that they use solar energy to dry the bananas in an inflatable building! Sadly the air flow over the bananas was negligible and the intermittant electricity supply caused the building to collapse onto the mouldy bananas anyway. This was my initiation into inappropriate technology foisted onto developing countries by poorly-educated westerners who carry absolutely no responsibility for the outcome! Even a cursory glance at the met data would have shown that Nuku'alofa is frequently overcast and that it can be cool enough that pullovers are worn. And anyone in the street could have told him about the frequent electrical black-outs. But hey! that was a lot of years ago . . . Things have changed . . . . have'nt they ? :-) Nope, they haven't changed. But, now as then, there are people who do excellent work, many of them (like you do Michael). But then there are the others... Hard to know what to do about them - they're full of good intentions which all too often end up paving the road to hell, as it is written, but other people's hells, not theirs, and by the time that happens they're long gone and seldom learn of it. Of course I can help, I've got a Western education! Uh-huh... How to sustain the goodwill and good intent but channel it towards a more constructive outcome? http://journeytoforever.org/rural.html Rural development - If it's not broken, don't fix it - Fixing what's broken http://journeytoforever.org/community.html Community development http://journeytoforever.org/community2.html Community development - poverty and hunger Someone on another list just wrote this: IMO, and many others, an essential component in technology transfer is PARTICIPATION (Yes, in capitals) And participate is to be part of, to share. Only equals participate, non-equals only help or adhere or accept. Yea, verily... but it's difficult for Westerners not to be patronizing. Difficult but not impossible. regards Keith Let me know, on-line
Re: [biofuels-biz] The Hydrogen hype, the scam artists at work.
Incidentally, re your 1 in 10, has any professional scientist or engineer at any of the US space agencies ever gone on record to say hydrogen *does not* leave our atmosphere in the general direction of up? Regards Michael Allen Thailand Not that I can think of. I haven't spoken with them directly (to my knowledge sometimes they are around but don't id themselves) though I did call a UCSD researcher once, just to try to give myself some better background on H2 in general. He was answering my questions from out of the blue and kept emphasizing the danger of H2 handling. He felt that, in and of itself, this reason probably precluded an H2 economy. He was not responsive to my concerns about atmospheric hydrogen depletion, nor is anyone else usually. But that was just one researcher (Chemistry I think, but with some aspect of Earth Science) answering questions from out of the blue. There was one knowledgeable person on the biofuel discussion board who was not outright dismissive once I explained what I was getting at. More often than not, folks assume that since they conceive of H2 as reacting with anything at all times, that no H2 could possible leave the atmosphere because it will react with something before it leaves. Sometimes this view is mitigated. My own concern is that, if we liberate globally massive amounts of Hydrogen in processes that were heretofore not going on, then we might see net Earth-System-Mass-depletion and H2 depletion. While this seems like an offbeat concern, I've just been keeping my eye open to see if there's any validity to it. I first heard the question raised on an NPR show about H2, a couple of years ago. The person who raised it turns out to have been right on the money as to Hydrogen escaping its confinement, regularly, and I wonder if they were right in their depletion concerns. It's hard to ask about when it's usually dismissed out of hand without decent reasoning. Also, they often say that H2 is added to the Earth every day so what's the big deal? or something like that. But no, I haven't taken anything to NASA. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy 1, Get 1 FREE Control Cravings Hunger EZ! Fast Acting Natural Oral Spray - $19.97 http://www.challengerone.com/t/l.asp?cid=2866lp=ezappetite3.html http://us.click.yahoo.com/rJIe0D/99VGAA/ySSFAA/9bTolB/TM -~- Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [biofuels-biz] Power plant uses coal, grass
There was a pilot project several years back that was in a midwestern state with good emission reductions. There also is a company that makes switchgrsss pellets for pellet stoves, just can't find it now. James Slayden On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, murdoch wrote: http://www.augustachronicle.com/stories/070603/met_energy3.shtml Interesting comments about switchgrass, project results. Also, the comments of the International Paper person were interesting to me. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT click here Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for Your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at Myinks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/sOykFB/k9VGAA/ySSFAA/9bTolB/TM -~- Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[biofuels-biz] some perspective on natural gas pricing
http://futures.tradingcharts.com/chart/NG/M I wonder if the farms of America and the world, and others who handle bio-goods, could start to produce natural-gas-like commodities for sale into this rising price problem, if the problem does materialize as is being predicted by such as Greeenspan. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for Your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at Myinks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/sOykFB/k9VGAA/ySSFAA/9bTolB/TM -~- Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[biofuels-biz] Hydrogen and Asia's richest businessman Li Ka-shing
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/030711/autos_hongkong_hydrogen_1.html I was perusing headlines for HHO.TO (on yahoo, hho at tse.com, srnyf nasdaq pinksheet equivalent?... these equivalents are a pain for Toronto and foreign stocks, but it's all-you-get if you want to buy, usually) in which 12.5% is apparently controlled by a rich Asian Businessman. HHO.TO has some established expertise in making and storing hydrogen. This story calls Li Ka-shing Asia's richest businessman. That's pretty rich, although I don't know the veracity. It is two or three years ago that I noticed this stake he took in hho.to, and, for better or worse, he seems determined to push ahead with his view of Hydrogen having a big future. I called HHO.TO a year or two ago and just chatted with them for awhile. They seemed convinced that they had high efficiency and well-put-together technology, and they seemed to want to say that they'd been doing the Hydrogen thing longer than the Johnny-come-latelies. I think they said they were a private (family?) business for many decades, but that they were only now bringing their expertise out as a publicly traded company (why the change in business structure, I'm not sure). I haven't looked further into refining my impressions of them. At the time I don't think they were part of ch2bc.org, but now I think they are. At the time, I do think I suggested this to them. CH2BC.org does seem to be sort of a big deal in the Hydrogen movement. MM Reuters CORRECTED - CORRECTED-Cheung Kong to launch hydrogen-powered bus Friday July 11, 7:15 am ET A corrected story follows: HONG KONG, July 11 (Reuters) - Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Ltd (HKSE:1038.HK - News), controlled by Asia's richest businessman Li Ka-shing, will launch an experimental hydrogen-powered bus in Hong Kong by the end of the year, the company said on Friday. Hoping to capitalise on the power-hungry Chinese market, Cheung Kong (CKI) will spend HK$15 million (US$1.9 million) on the one-year experiment and said Hong Kong could become the base for much wider use of hydrogen as a primary energy source. Hydrogen is the second industrial revolution, said Barrie Cook, executive director of Cheung Kong Infrastructure and a member of Hong Kong's sustainability committee. The 41-seat Ford bus will store hydrogen in a rooftop tank. CKI will conduct the experiment with Toronto based Stuart Energy Systems (Toronto:HHO.TO - News), in which it owns a 12.5 percent stake. But while analysts say hydrogen has some future potential, it remains very much a niche source of power. Everyone talks about the hydrogen future but it's at least a decade away, said Mark Hutchinson, an energy consultant with Cambridge Associates in Thailand. Cost, he said, is the major factor limiting widespread use of alternative energy. Japanese carmakers Honda Motor Co (Tokyo:7267.T - News) and Toyota Motor Corp (Tokyo:7203.T - News), for example, have developed hydrogen powered cars, but they cost at least $1 million each. Cheung Kong's Cook, however, says the experiment could lead to the commercial launch of hydrogen projects in Hong Kong by the end of 2004. He expects that costs will drop dramatically. Shares in Cheung Kong Infrastructure closed 1.88 percent lower on Friday at HK$15.65. The stock has rallied 23.5 percent in the past year. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Free shipping on all inkjet cartridge refill kit orders to US Canada. We have your brand: HP, Epson, Lexmark, Canon more. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5510 http://us.click.yahoo.com/kP..SB/49VGAA/ySSFAA/9bTolB/TM -~- Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[biofuels-biz] More Deals to Solidy U.S. dependence on Middle-East Non-Renewables
Heck, it's not as though there are any domestically available alternatives, like making methane here in the states in any manner of ways including but not limited to bioproduction, also as primary sources we have solar (wouldn't want to besmirch the beauty of those millions of waste desert acres in the American Southwest), wind, wave, geothermal, we have biofuel and electric vehicles to use those primary sources, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. Nah, we can't have any of that. Best to focus only on importing more fossil fuels and whining that we need to drill for more of them here and develop nuclear energy, and to ignore any other alternatives, as though history will forgive us for this act of ignoring the alternatives. The greatest weapon of our opponents, and the shame they will find to be most lingering and historic, is the silence they bring to the topics we need to hear discussed. http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/030711/energy_conocco_lng_1.html Reuters Qatar, ConocoPhillips confirm U.S. LNG deal Friday July 11, 4:55 pm ET SAN FRANCISCO, July 11 (Reuters) - Qatar and U.S. oil company ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP - News) on Friday confirmed, as expected, an agreement that will send liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Gulf nation to the United States by the end of the decade. ADVERTISEMENT Under a memorandum of understanding announced in Washington, Qatar and ConocoPhillips will examine a long-term deal under which the Gulf nation will supply 7.5 million tonnes of LNG a year starting around 2008-2009, ConocoPhillips said in a statement. According to the plans, reported Thursday by Reuters, an LNG terminal built in the Gulf nation by Qatar and ConocoPhillips would supply the U.S. market over 25 years with about 1 billion 1.2 cubic cubic feet of gas a day. Several projects have been announced recently to boost LNG deliveries to the United States, where dwindling domestic gas supplies and steep demand from power plants have triggered warnings by federal officials of the need to boost gas imports to tame gas prices that are nearly twice their year-ago levels. ConocoPhillips will buy the LNG and be responsible for regasifying and marketing the fuel in the United States. On Thursday, Faisal al-Suwaidi, vice-chairman of Qatar Liquefied Gas Co. Ltd., told Reuters LNG would be delivered to the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, home to one existing LNG terminal and where several onshore and offshore terminals have been proposed. Qatar is already one of the biggest LNG suppliers to the United States and is a major exporter to Asia. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for Your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at Myinks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/sOykFB/k9VGAA/ySSFAA/9bTolB/TM -~- Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[biofuels-biz] Extreme Threat To Class Action Lawsuits
Extreme Threat To Class Action Lawsuits Rachel's Environment Health News #768 July 10, 2003: Sometime during July, right-wing extremists in Congress expect to achieve another major milestone in their radical revamping of the U.S. court system. If they attain their goal, successful environmental class-action lawsuits will become as rare as Dodo birds. Class action lawsuits are the only effective remedy when large numbers of people are harmed but each person sustains relatively small damages, making individual lawsuits inefficient or impossible. An example would be the current lawsuit being pursued by 6000 residents of Louisiana who say that a Mobil Oil refinery discharged 3.4 million gallons of untreated industrial wastes that contaminated their drinking water. No individual plaintiff could take on Mobil alone, but the total damage may be large, so a class action is the right vehicle for pursuing a remedy. Class action suits are an essential component of a balanced legal system that is supposed to provide a check on the misdeeds of the powerful, such as oil corporations, by raising the threat of substantial financial penalties. With large numbers of right-wing extremists now sitting in Congress, corporations see an opportunity to derail class actions. So the elected representatives of the insurance, medical, chemical, oil, and automobile corporations are pushing a new law intended to stifle class actions. The proposed Class Action Fairness Act has already passed the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R. 2115) and is expected to come up for a U.S. Senate vote (S. 274) during July. If the proposed law passes, it will severely restrict, if not totally derail, class-action lawsuits on behalf of the environment, workers, consumers, and civil rights plaintiffs such as people of color, people with disabilities, and women. Few in the environmental community have been paying attention as this bill has made its way through the legislative process. Corporations, on the other hand, know exactly what's at stake and they have poured money and resources into this fight. At last count, corporations had 475 paid lobbyists working to push this bill through the Senate -- nearly five corporate lobbyists for each U.S. senator. The insurance industry alone has 139 lobbyists promoting the bill. Health maintenance organizations have 59 lobbyists pressing their case; banks and consumer credit corporations have 39; automobile corporations have 32; the chemical industry has 20 and the oil corporations have another 19. If this proposed law didn't matter, would corporations field such an army? To inform yourself about this proposed law, you can check with Public Citizen at http://www.citizen.org/congress/civjus/class_action/articles.cf m?ID=9320. For details, you can read their 95-page report, Unfairness Incorporated: The Corporate Campaign Against Consumer Class Actions (June, 2003), available at http://www.citizen.org/congress/civjus/class_action/articles.cf m?ID=9846 . You can also learn about the proposed law from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce at http://www.uschamber.com/Search/SearchResults.asp?ct=USCCq1=cl ass+action+fairness+act . If you decided you wanted to weigh in on this issue, you could call both of your U.S. senators and give them an earful. (To find your senators and their phone numbers, go to http://www.senate.gov/ .) Proponents of the bill reportedly have at least 55 senate votes in the bag already, so the only way to stop this juggernaut would be a filibuster. (Extremists in Congress are working to revise the filibuster rule, too.) Essentially the proposed law moves all class action lawsuits out of state courts and into federal courts, which are already clogged and fraught with delays, and where the rules and most of the the judges are biased against environmental, labor, consumer and civil rights plaintiffs such as women, people of color and people with disabilities. Much of the federal court system is now grossly pro-corporate, often to an extreme degree. This is no accident. Making the courts friendly to corporations has been high on the agenda of the right wing for 30 years. The reason is simple: there are only about 900 federal judges. They are appointed by the President, not elected. The Senate must approve their appointment but by gentleman's agreement it is rare for the Senate to veto a judicial appointment. Federal judges serve for life, so once they are appointed they become unstoppable. They also have almost complete freedom to make any legal interpretation that suits their ideology. The only real check on their rulings is the threat of reversal (an embarrassment, nothing more) by one of the nation's 13 federal circuit courts of appeal. But judges on the appeals courts are often chosen from the ranks of the more extreme federal judges, so they are all pretty much cut from the same ideological cloth. It's a closed system with
Re: [biofuel] Biogas question
Humanure is great for fertilizer, I have been using it for almost 2 years. The key to using carnivorous manure is thermolitic composting techniques. I am sure Keith can give a better answer, and he has lots of information on journeytoforever.org about this kind of composting. Bright Blessings, Kim At 05:08 AM 7/11/2003 +0200, you wrote: I also like to know about the septic tank and if we would get biogas. Fertilizer is an other thing and I was always told by farmers that human excrements did not produce good fertilizer, because it was produced by meat eaters, it had to be mixed with cow dung or similar. The best fertilizer would come from grass eaters, like cows, horses, etc. At that time I was not thinking about it. I have an old 3 chamber septic, with the overflow going to the sewer treatment. It is always an airing pipe to them, so if I put a plastic bag on it, would I collect biogas? I think that this is the question Caroline wanted answer on. I never tested it, so I do not know the answer. Huge amount of water is there. Hakan At 01:13 PM 7/10/2003 -0700, you wrote: Helo caroline Eventhough the methane bacteria works well to produce biogas, the huge amount of water as well as the the need to mix and dispose of the effluents , and the need to feed and dispose of quality effluent make the project much complex and the project not very simple.Here in Brasil, for rural area , good research are done by EMBRAPA to use 3 smalll tanks filled with cow dung manure to make biofertilizer from septic tank efluents of good quality. I feel yet there is need for group such as our biofuel as well as the information flow so that we can really make it as simple as you think. Surely it is possible to make the complex problem to be as simple as you think , but yet few working good model are simple and economical one. sd P.V.Pannirselvam Grahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In doing some research for my 4-H solar class, I came across a simple biogas experiment. http://www.re-energy.ca/t-i_biomassbuild-1.shtml If biogas production basically involves just mixing poop and water, and letting it sit for a while, why is there not some attachment or something made to install on top of everyday septic tanks that would collect the gas? Caroline Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for Your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at Myinks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/sOykFB/k9VGAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [biofuel] Biogas question
Hello Kim, Caroline and beloved biofuel group members It is possible to collect the gas from septic tanks, from garbage , from lagoons where septic tanks effluents are disposed.Thus we can make our planet clean , not leading the methane gas heating of the world and getting useful biofuel from waste Biogas and fertilizer production in china using simple technology is very successful one in community level , in a small scale house hold level , where women work for lean technology is well respected for feeding the tanks and the careful disposal effluents using aquatic plants as well outlined by Keith.Thus ,we need to integrate the biogas technology integrated with the thermolitic composting as well as postreatments of effluents. This integrated projects can be more successful one Blessing green future from biomass sd P.V.Pannirselvam Kim Garth Travis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Humanure is great for fertilizer, I have been using it for almost 2 years. The key to using carnivorous manure is thermolitic composting techniques. I am sure Keith can give a better answer, and he has lots of information on journeytoforever.org about this kind of composting. Bright Blessings, Kim At 05:08 AM 7/11/2003 +0200, you wrote: I also like to know about the septic tank and if we would get biogas. Fertilizer is an other thing and I was always told by farmers that human excrements did not produce good fertilizer, because it was produced by meat eaters, it had to be mixed with cow dung or similar. The best fertilizer would come from grass eaters, like cows, horses, etc. At that time I was not thinking about it. I have an old 3 chamber septic, with the overflow going to the sewer treatment. It is always an airing pipe to them, so if I put a plastic bag on it, would I collect biogas? I think that this is the question Caroline wanted answer on. I never tested it, so I do not know the answer. Huge amount of water is there. Hakan At 01:13 PM 7/10/2003 -0700, you wrote: Helo caroline Eventhough the methane bacteria works well to produce biogas, the huge amount of water as well as the the need to mix and dispose of the effluents , and the need to feed and dispose of quality effluent make the project much complex and the project not very simple.Here in Brasil, for rural area , good research are done by EMBRAPA to use 3 smalll tanks filled with cow dung manure to make biofertilizer from septic tank efluents of good quality. I feel yet there is need for group such as our biofuel as well as the information flow so that we can really make it as simple as you think. Surely it is possible to make the complex problem to be as simple as you think , but yet few working good model are simple and economical one. sd P.V.Pannirselvam Grahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In doing some research for my 4-H solar class, I came across a simple biogas experiment. http://www.re-energy.ca/t-i_biomassbuild-1.shtml If biogas production basically involves just mixing poop and water, and letting it sit for a while, why is there not some attachment or something made to install on top of everyday septic tanks that would collect the gas? Caroline Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Yahoo! Groups SponsorADVERTISEMENT Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. - Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Free shipping on all inkjet cartridge refill kit orders to US Canada. We have your brand: HP, Epson, Lexmark, Canon more. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5510 http://us.click.yahoo.com/kP..SB/49VGAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[biofuel] Re: [biofuels-biz] Power plant uses coal, grass
There was a pilot project several years back that was in a midwestern state with good emission reductions. There also is a company that makes switchgrsss pellets for pellet stoves, just can't find it now. James Slayden On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, murdoch wrote: http://www.augustachronicle.com/stories/070603/met_energy3.shtml Interesting comments about switchgrass, project results. Also, the comments of the International Paper person were interesting to me. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT click here Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for Your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at Myinks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/sOykFB/k9VGAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[biofuel] Status of AB 2076 Report on Petroleum Dependence
The Final Draft of the AB 2076 report, Reducing California's Petroleum Dependence, is now available for public review. Adoption of this joint agency draft report will be considered at the Energy Commission's regularly scheduled business meeting on July 23, 2003, and has been added to the agenda of the Air Resources Board's July 24-25,2003, Board meeting. Public comments on the Final Draft Report are requested at both the Commission and Board hearings. Questions on the Draft Final Report should be directed to Dan Fong at 916-654-4638. http://www.energy.ca.gov/fuels/petroleum_dependence/documents/ Further information regarding the July 23 Energy Commission business meeting is available at www.energy.ca.gov/business_meetings/ and further information regarding the July 24-25 Air Resources Board board meeting is available at www.arb.ca.gov. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Lj3uPC/Me7FAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[biofuel] some perspective on natural gas pricing
http://futures.tradingcharts.com/chart/NG/M I wonder if the farms of America and the world, and others who handle bio-goods, could start to produce natural-gas-like commodities for sale into this rising price problem, if the problem does materialize as is being predicted by such as Greeenspan. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Naturally Painless Spray Away Backaches Joint Pain. $19.97 http://www.challengerone.com/t/l.asp?cid=2867lp=m331.html http://us.click.yahoo.com/tJIe0D/79VGAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[biofuel] Re: Biogas question
There is an excellent book available in the US called a Chinese Biogas Manual which is a translation of training literature used in Chinese communes by crews who built village-scale digesters. I forget who published it, but I believe I bought it through RealGoods or something like that. mark --- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, pan ruti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Kim, Caroline and beloved biofuel group members It is possible to collect the gas from septic tanks, from garbage , from lagoons where septic tanks effluents are disposed.Thus we can make our planet clean , not leading the methane gas heating of the world and getting useful biofuel from waste Biogas and fertilizer production in china using simple technology is very successful one in community level , in a small scale house hold level , where women work for lean technology is well respected for feeding the tanks and the careful disposal effluents using aquatic plants as well outlined by Keith.Thus ,we need to integrate the biogas technology integrated with the thermolitic composting as well as postreatments of effluents. This integrated projects can be more successful one Blessing green future from biomass sd P.V.Pannirselvam Kim Garth Travis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Free shipping on all inkjet cartridge refill kit orders to US Canada. We have your brand: HP, Epson, Lexmark, Canon more. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5510 http://us.click.yahoo.com/kP..SB/49VGAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[biofuel] FW: Subject: Genetic (GM) Food
- Original Message - From: mom To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 10:32 AM Subject: Subject: Genetic (GM) Food Subject: Genetic (GM) Food GM WATCH daily: http://www.gmwatch.org/archive.asp --- THE SINISTER SACKING OF THE WORLD'S LEADING GM EXPERT - AND THE TRAIL THAT LEADS TO TONY BLAIR AND THE WHITE HOUSE by Andrew Rowell - The Daily Mail - July 7, 2003 EARLY one fine summer morning, a taxi pulled up outside a neat suburban terrace house in Aberdeen and took a 68-year-old scientist to a TV studio. Shortly afterwards Dr Arpad Pustzai found himself propelled from a life of grateful obscurity into the centre of an astonishing political maelstrom that would cost him his job, his reputation and his health. His crime was to question the safety of genetically modified food. His interview on ITV's World In Action lasted just 150 seconds, but that was long enough to reveal his ground-breaking research suggesting rats fed genetically modified potatoes suffered stunted growth and damage to their immune systems. It triggered a controversy that put him on a collision course with the Government, the biotech industry and the scientific establishment. The diminutive Hungarian-born scientist, who had escaped the terrors of Stalinism to enjoy a brilliant 35-year academic career, became a reviled figure: ostracised by colleagues, villified, and gagged. Now, five years on, there are disturbing claims that this distinguished scientist was the victim of behind-the-scenes manoeuvring at the highest political level. Some of the allegations are truly explosive. They raise profound questions about the extraordinary network of relationships between senior Labour figures and the biotech companies. They also throw new light on why the multi-billion-pound GM industry continues to press ahead in the face of huge public opposition. The World In Action documentary was broadcast on Monday, August 10, 1998. It was a little over a year since Tony Blair had swept into Downing Street. His government was in thrall to the biotech industry, convinced it could become a driving force of the British economy. What Dr Pusztai was saying threatened to derail those ambitions. He was based at the Rowett Institute in Aberdeen, which conducts research into animal nutrition. He had published more than 270 scientific studies and three books on lectins, plant proteins that are central to the GM controversy. He was the world's leading expert on the subject. In the TV interview, he said he believed GM food could be made safe, but added: 'If I had the choice I would certainly not eat it. He demanded tighter rules over GM foods, and warned: 'I find it's very unfair to use our fellow citizens as guinea pigs. We have to find guinea pigs in the laboratory.' On the evening the programme went out, the Rowett Institute's director Professor Philip James congratulated Dr Pusztai on his appearance, commenting how well he had handled the questions. The following morning a press release from the Institute gave him further support, stressing that a 'range of carefully controlled studies underlie the basis of Dr Pusztai's concerns'. Yet within 48 hours, everything had changed. Dr Pusztai had been suspended by the Institute and ordered to hand over all his data. His research team was dispersed and he was threatened with legal action if he spoke to anyone. His phone calls and e-mails were diverted; his personal assistant was banned from speaking to him. He read in a press release issued by the Institute that his contract would not be renewed. What triggered such an extraordinary about-face? How did a respected scientist become a pariah overnight? The results he claimed to have found were certainly worrying. Dr Pusztai maintained that when rats were fed a certain kind of GM potato -adapted to produce natural insecticide - their livers, hearts and other organs got smaller. He also found that the size of their brains was affected, but did not dare publicise this fact because he was thought to be alarmist. Clearly, such findings were deeply threatening for the GM industry. In Orwellian fashion, the Rowett Institute gave a number of conflicting reasons for suddenly disowning them. First, it claimed Dr Pusztai had simply got confused, muddling up the results for two different batches of potatoes. According to this explanation, the worrying results came from a 'control' sample of potatoes containing a substance known to be poisonous. This was an utterly astonishing claim - a basic error worthy of a bumbling schoolboy. Newspapers rightly described it as one of the most embarrassing blunders ever admitted by a major scientific institution. The trouble was, it wasn't true. Whatever the merits of his results, Dr Pusztai hadn't mixed them up, as a subsequent audit of his work confirmed. One of his colleagues, leading pathologist Stanley Ewen said: 'Arpad has always had a clear vision. He is certainly never muddled. He was on top of
Re: [biofuel] some perspective on natural gas pricing
It is and have been done in Denmark for years. Look at one of many www. :http://www.hoejme-teknik.dk/gb_index.htm murdoch wrote: http://futures.tradingcharts.com/chart/NG/M I wonder if the farms of America and the world, and others who handle bio-goods, could start to produce natural-gas-like commodities for sale into this rising price problem, if the problem does materialize as is being predicted by such as Greeenspan. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT click here http://rd.yahoo.com/M=194081.3551198.4824677.1261774/D=egroupweb/S=1705083269:HM/A=1663535/R=0/SIG=11ps6rfef/*http://www.ediets.com/start.cfm?code=30504media=atkins Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for Your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at Myinks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/sOykFB/k9VGAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[biofuel] Hydrogen and Asia's richest businessman Li Ka-shing
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/030711/autos_hongkong_hydrogen_1.html I was perusing headlines for HHO.TO (on yahoo, hho at tse.com, srnyf nasdaq pinksheet equivalent?... these equivalents are a pain for Toronto and foreign stocks, but it's all-you-get if you want to buy, usually) in which 12.5% is apparently controlled by a rich Asian Businessman. HHO.TO has some established expertise in making and storing hydrogen. This story calls Li Ka-shing Asia's richest businessman. That's pretty rich, although I don't know the veracity. It is two or three years ago that I noticed this stake he took in hho.to, and, for better or worse, he seems determined to push ahead with his view of Hydrogen having a big future. I called HHO.TO a year or two ago and just chatted with them for awhile. They seemed convinced that they had high efficiency and well-put-together technology, and they seemed to want to say that they'd been doing the Hydrogen thing longer than the Johnny-come-latelies. I think they said they were a private (family?) business for many decades, but that they were only now bringing their expertise out as a publicly traded company (why the change in business structure, I'm not sure). I haven't looked further into refining my impressions of them. At the time I don't think they were part of ch2bc.org, but now I think they are. At the time, I do think I suggested this to them. CH2BC.org does seem to be sort of a big deal in the Hydrogen movement. MM Reuters CORRECTED - CORRECTED-Cheung Kong to launch hydrogen-powered bus Friday July 11, 7:15 am ET A corrected story follows: HONG KONG, July 11 (Reuters) - Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Ltd (HKSE:1038.HK - News), controlled by Asia's richest businessman Li Ka-shing, will launch an experimental hydrogen-powered bus in Hong Kong by the end of the year, the company said on Friday. Hoping to capitalise on the power-hungry Chinese market, Cheung Kong (CKI) will spend HK$15 million (US$1.9 million) on the one-year experiment and said Hong Kong could become the base for much wider use of hydrogen as a primary energy source. Hydrogen is the second industrial revolution, said Barrie Cook, executive director of Cheung Kong Infrastructure and a member of Hong Kong's sustainability committee. The 41-seat Ford bus will store hydrogen in a rooftop tank. CKI will conduct the experiment with Toronto based Stuart Energy Systems (Toronto:HHO.TO - News), in which it owns a 12.5 percent stake. But while analysts say hydrogen has some future potential, it remains very much a niche source of power. Everyone talks about the hydrogen future but it's at least a decade away, said Mark Hutchinson, an energy consultant with Cambridge Associates in Thailand. Cost, he said, is the major factor limiting widespread use of alternative energy. Japanese carmakers Honda Motor Co (Tokyo:7267.T - News) and Toyota Motor Corp (Tokyo:7203.T - News), for example, have developed hydrogen powered cars, but they cost at least $1 million each. Cheung Kong's Cook, however, says the experiment could lead to the commercial launch of hydrogen projects in Hong Kong by the end of 2004. He expects that costs will drop dramatically. Shares in Cheung Kong Infrastructure closed 1.88 percent lower on Friday at HK$15.65. The stock has rallied 23.5 percent in the past year. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Free shipping on all inkjet cartridge refill kit orders to US Canada. We have your brand: HP, Epson, Lexmark, Canon more. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5510 http://us.click.yahoo.com/kP..SB/49VGAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[biofuel] water issues coverage
Someone sent me an article by Sandra Postel in the May issue of Natural History magazine. http://www.naturalhistory.com/naturalhistory/0503/0503_selections.html Other articles which reference her views: http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/national/article/0,1406,KNS_350_2100908,00.html http://www.emagazine.com/september-october_1998/0998conversations.html http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/04/18/mideast.water/ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for Your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at Myinks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/sOykFB/k9VGAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[biofuel] Re: Biogas question - A Chinese Biogas Manual
There is an excellent book available in the US called a Chinese Biogas Manual which is a translation of training literature used in Chinese communes by crews who built village-scale digesters. I forget who published it, but I believe I bought it through RealGoods or something like that. mark Your description motivated a google search and, thanks to you, below is listed a few references -- A Chinese Biogas Manual: Popularizing Technology in the Countryside by Ariane Van Buren (Editor), Leo Pyle (Editor), Michael Crook (Translator) Paperback: 136 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.50 x 8.25 x 5.50 inches Publisher: Intermediate Technology; (May 1981) ISBN: 0903031655 http://www.amazon.com/books - A Chinese Biogas Manual -- China has over seven million biogas pits in operation. They act as a combination waste disposal, recycling center, and fertilizer production while providing a high quality fuel for cooking, lighting, and power. One cu. meter of biogas will light a 60-100 watt bulb for 6 hours, cook 3 meals for a family of 6, generate 1.25 kW of electricity, run a 3-ton truck for 2.8 km, or a 1 HP motor for 2 hours. Complete details for making a bio-gas system in a variety of situations and soil types. 135 pages http://www.thesustainablevillage.com/servlet/display/product/detail/15097 - A CHINESE BIOGAS MANUAL Translated from Chinese by Michael Crook Edited by Ariane van Buren Biogas, a fuel obtained from inexhaustible biological resources ö human, animal and plant wastes ö has brought about a radical change in the use of fuel in rural China. With the advent of an efficient digester for processing, biogas is now available as a high quality fuel for heating and lighting. This manual shows how its success in China can be replicated elsewhere. Photos, diagrams and instructions are all included. 136pp http://www.permaculture.co.uk/erc/erc21.html - A Chinese Biogas Manual, MF 24-572, book, 160 pages, by the Office of the Leading Group for the Propagation of Marshgas, Szechuan Province, English translation published 1979, £8.95 from ITDG; also from VITA and TOOL. This construction manual has been used widely since its original Chinese language publication in 1974. It shows how to plan, build, and care for low-cost, pit-type digesters. Drawings and text explain the comparative design advantages and construction details of circular pits, rectangular pits and domed covers. Different combinations of stone, lime bricks, traditional cements and mortars, and commercial concrete are also discussed. Simple instructions include notes on why certain designs are suited to certain conditions: A circular pit made from soft triple concrete with a large volume and a small opening is easy to seal and suitable for the areas where the earth is firm, the underground water level is low, and there is no water seepage. (It is) also quite suitable for plateau regions. The manual also emphasizes the importance of careful prevention of leaks when the finished pit is filled and pressurized. A chapter on using biogas shows how to make burners for cooking and lighting out of renewable and recycled materials such as bamboo, iron tubing, and discarded showerheads. An appendix gives an example of how this book has been used by the Shachio Commune of Guangdong Province to spread biogas technology. A good technical reference, this construction manual is also an example of a tool for sharing skills and experience among rural communities. [There are ADDITIONAL REFERENCES ON BIOGAS from this website] http://villageearth.org/atnetwork/atsourcebook/chapters/biogas.htm - A Chinese Biogas Manual INTRODUCTION The masses have boundless creativity. They can organise, and advance on all fronts and in all spheres where they can exert their power; they can expand and intensify production, and create for themselves daily increasing welfare enterprises. -- Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung) This manual has been translated virtually verbatim from the Chinese. It conveys not just the substance but the tone of Chinese technical education for rural areas. A decisive feature of China's technical education is that it encourages people to assimilate and modulate technology to their own needs -- the result is that people develop themselves. One of China's recent achievements has been the production of biogas from agricultural wastes. This practice is based upon an age-old Chinese tradition of composting human, animal and plant wastes to produce an organic fertilizer of high quality. However, by fermenting the materials in an airtight, watertight container, methane gas can be produced and collected for use as fuel for motors, cooking and lighting; and the liquid slurry can be returned to the land as fertilizer. Furthermore, digesting the wastes in a closed container-kills many of the
[biofuel] Extreme Threat To Class Action Lawsuits
Extreme Threat To Class Action Lawsuits Rachel's Environment Health News #768 July 10, 2003: Sometime during July, right-wing extremists in Congress expect to achieve another major milestone in their radical revamping of the U.S. court system. If they attain their goal, successful environmental class-action lawsuits will become as rare as Dodo birds. Class action lawsuits are the only effective remedy when large numbers of people are harmed but each person sustains relatively small damages, making individual lawsuits inefficient or impossible. An example would be the current lawsuit being pursued by 6000 residents of Louisiana who say that a Mobil Oil refinery discharged 3.4 million gallons of untreated industrial wastes that contaminated their drinking water. No individual plaintiff could take on Mobil alone, but the total damage may be large, so a class action is the right vehicle for pursuing a remedy. Class action suits are an essential component of a balanced legal system that is supposed to provide a check on the misdeeds of the powerful, such as oil corporations, by raising the threat of substantial financial penalties. With large numbers of right-wing extremists now sitting in Congress, corporations see an opportunity to derail class actions. So the elected representatives of the insurance, medical, chemical, oil, and automobile corporations are pushing a new law intended to stifle class actions. The proposed Class Action Fairness Act has already passed the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R. 2115) and is expected to come up for a U.S. Senate vote (S. 274) during July. If the proposed law passes, it will severely restrict, if not totally derail, class-action lawsuits on behalf of the environment, workers, consumers, and civil rights plaintiffs such as people of color, people with disabilities, and women. Few in the environmental community have been paying attention as this bill has made its way through the legislative process. Corporations, on the other hand, know exactly what's at stake and they have poured money and resources into this fight. At last count, corporations had 475 paid lobbyists working to push this bill through the Senate -- nearly five corporate lobbyists for each U.S. senator. The insurance industry alone has 139 lobbyists promoting the bill. Health maintenance organizations have 59 lobbyists pressing their case; banks and consumer credit corporations have 39; automobile corporations have 32; the chemical industry has 20 and the oil corporations have another 19. If this proposed law didn't matter, would corporations field such an army? To inform yourself about this proposed law, you can check with Public Citizen at http://www.citizen.org/congress/civjus/class_action/articles.cf m?ID=9320. For details, you can read their 95-page report, Unfairness Incorporated: The Corporate Campaign Against Consumer Class Actions (June, 2003), available at http://www.citizen.org/congress/civjus/class_action/articles.cf m?ID=9846 . You can also learn about the proposed law from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce at http://www.uschamber.com/Search/SearchResults.asp?ct=USCCq1=cl ass+action+fairness+act . If you decided you wanted to weigh in on this issue, you could call both of your U.S. senators and give them an earful. (To find your senators and their phone numbers, go to http://www.senate.gov/ .) Proponents of the bill reportedly have at least 55 senate votes in the bag already, so the only way to stop this juggernaut would be a filibuster. (Extremists in Congress are working to revise the filibuster rule, too.) Essentially the proposed law moves all class action lawsuits out of state courts and into federal courts, which are already clogged and fraught with delays, and where the rules and most of the the judges are biased against environmental, labor, consumer and civil rights plaintiffs such as women, people of color and people with disabilities. Much of the federal court system is now grossly pro-corporate, often to an extreme degree. This is no accident. Making the courts friendly to corporations has been high on the agenda of the right wing for 30 years. The reason is simple: there are only about 900 federal judges. They are appointed by the President, not elected. The Senate must approve their appointment but by gentleman's agreement it is rare for the Senate to veto a judicial appointment. Federal judges serve for life, so once they are appointed they become unstoppable. They also have almost complete freedom to make any legal interpretation that suits their ideology. The only real check on their rulings is the threat of reversal (an embarrassment, nothing more) by one of the nation's 13 federal circuit courts of appeal. But judges on the appeals courts are often chosen from the ranks of the more extreme federal judges, so they are all pretty much cut from the same ideological cloth. It's a closed system with
