Re: [Biofuel] Is the Deadly Crash of Our Civilization

2007-02-19 Thread Fred Oliff
www.theonion.com, a satirical look at the news. sometimes we need some humour in our lives. I know I could use a laugh right about now, just before the precipice. From: "John Wilson" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Reply-To: biofuel@sustainablelists.orgTo: biofuel@sustainablelists.orgSubject: Re: [Biofuel] Is

Re: [Biofuel] USDA Tells Ranchers Non-Corn Ethanol a Priority

2007-02-19 Thread Thomas Kelly
Michael, I'm a bit confused. You wrote: Whether from wood chips or corn stalks or switchgrass, you need something to heat up the fermented mash to distill out the alcohol. That is why sugar cane is one solution. Whether you make ethanol from cellulose or from more easily digested

Re: [Biofuel] Is the Deadly Crash of Our Civilization

2007-02-19 Thread John Wilson
I seem to remember something about a burning bush. Perhaps it was related to the talking onion. :) Maybe Zeke! but you have to watch that burning bush. It can scorch your ass! The onion can only bring tears to your eyes. Yours truly John Wilson

Re: [Biofuel] Over unity? Shock waves and steam heat

2007-02-19 Thread Kirk McLoren
Lets hope there is more improvement. Using the electricity in a common commercial heatpump could net you 350% of the hot water resistance heating would get you. Kirk D. Mindock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.alternativescience.com/over-unity.htm Shock waves and steam

[Biofuel] U.S. Military Is The Largest Consumer Of Oil On Earth

2007-02-19 Thread Keith Addison
U.S. Military Is The Largest Consumer Of Oil On Earth The US military is completely addicted to oil. Unsurprisingly, its oil consumption for aircraft, ships, ground vehicles and facilities makes the Pentagon the single largest oil consumer in the world. By the way, according to the 2006 CIA

[Biofuel] Local leaders undaunted by tough greenhouse goals

2007-02-19 Thread Keith Addison
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20070219a3.html | The Japan Times Online Monday, Feb. 19, 2007 Local leaders undaunted by tough greenhouse goals By ERIC JOHNSTON Staff writer KYOTO -- Think globally and act locally may be a cliche. But as the ambitious goals set by participants of the

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. Military Is The Largest Consumer Of Oil On Earth

2007-02-19 Thread Frank Navarrete
And thus a push for escalation. . . . On 2/19/07, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: U.S. Military Is The Largest Consumer Of Oil On Earth The US military is completely addicted to oil. Unsurprisingly, its oil consumption for aircraft, ships, ground vehicles and facilities makes the

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. Military Is The Largest Consumer Of Oil On Earth

2007-02-19 Thread Fred Oliff
so it makes complete sense to only attack those countries that have oil, not those that might actually pose a real threat? From:"Frank Navarrete" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Reply-To:biofuel@sustainablelists.orgTo:biofuel@sustainablelists.orgSubject:Re: [Biofuel] U.S. Military Is The Largest Consumer Of

Re: [Biofuel] Over unity? Shock waves and steam heat *#

2007-02-19 Thread yankeetrader
Dear D.M., I suppose for now, this machine is one of life's mysteries. A somewhat larger mystery, however, is why someone would buy a machine with a coefficient of performance of 1.6 at best when water source heat pumps are available with a COP of 5.0. Putting this aside for a

Re: [Biofuel] Distance between the richest and poorest

2007-02-19 Thread Keith Addison
The distance between the richest and poorest countries was: 44 to 1 in 1973 72 to 1 in 1992 Anyone have a more recent stat on this one? Best James Hi James I think you might find that information at Anup Shah's excellent site: http://www.globalissues.org/ regards Keith

[Biofuel] Virgin, the Dynamo, and the Prize

2007-02-19 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021407J.shtml Virgin, the Dynamo, and the Prize By Kelpie Wilson t r u t h o u t | Environmental Editor Wednesday 14 February 2007 Like most American kids in the 1960s, I was an avid Star Trek fan and I rooted for every new development in the

Re: [Biofuel] USDA Tells Ranchers Non-Corn Ethanol a Priority

2007-02-19 Thread Jason Katie
i see...slash as you call it, i know as tops there is my confusion. tops make for very good firewood from a very small diameter up to splitting wood. my father follows along behind the local loggers and collects everything down to about 4 diameter to sell as firewood. it's free to him, because

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. Military Is The Largest Consumer Of Oil On Earth

2007-02-19 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Fred, Frank and all There's also this: http://snipurl.com/syl8 [Biofuel] Oil shortage threatens military The military needs to take major steps to increase energy efficiency, make a 'massive expansion' in renewable energy purchases, and move toward a vast increase in renewable distributed

Re: [Biofuel] Virgin, the Dynamo, and the Prize

2007-02-19 Thread Fred Oliff
Thanks Keith, some very good stuff to read there. Must get to it right away. Branson is perhaps taking the approach that no matter how big the problem, throw enough money at it and it will get solved. How myopic. From:Keith Addison [EMAIL

[Biofuel] Warnings Over Privacy of US Health Network...and Real ID

2007-02-19 Thread MK DuPree
Connect the dots..once Real ID is implemented, we will have lost our legal basis for control over our medical records and ultimately our medical treatment. Chip implantation, here we come, Bush's personal electronic medical record, for which we have Hillary Clinton to thank too!!! From the

[Biofuel] Fwd: Re: [12VDC_Power] Propane and low speed alternator

2007-02-19 Thread Kirk McLoren
thought this might be of interest Kirk kd4e [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: kd4e [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:55:54 -0500 Subject: Re: [12VDC_Power] Propane and low speed alternator Then i read about DME

Re: [Biofuel] Over unity? Shock waves and steam heat *#

2007-02-19 Thread Zeke Yewdall
Do a search on thermoacoustic. This isn't all that mysterious, and if you want to get in to computational fluid dynamics computations, it can all be explained according to the laws of physics. It's essentially the same as a heat pump, only instead of a mechanical compressor to create pressure