Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: [MCS-Canada] Fluoride can kill...................
http://www.alternet.org/environment/52526/ Rural Communities Exploited by Nestlé for Your Bottled Water By Tara Lohan, AlterNet Posted on May 30, 2007, Printed on June 3, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/story/52526/ Across the country, multinational corporations are targeting hundreds of rural communities to gain control of their most precious resource. By strong-arming small towns with limited economic means, these corporations are part of a growing trend to privatize public water supplies for economic gain in the ballooning bottled water industry. With sales of over $35 billion worldwide in the bottled water market, corporations are doing whatever it takes to buy up pristine springs in some of our country's most beautiful places. While the companies reap the profits, the local communities and the environment are paying the price. One of the biggest and most voracious of the water gobblers is Nestlé, which controls one-third of the U.S. market and sells 70 different brand names -- such as Arrowhead, Calistoga, Deer Park, Perrier, Poland Spring and Ice Mountain -- which it draws from 75 springs located all over the country. Nestlé's latest target is McCloud, located in the shadow of Northern California's snow-capped Mt. Shasta. The town of McCloud has worked hard to try to reinvent itself in recent years. McCloud is a former timber town that is learning how to stand on its own feet again after the lumber companies bottomed out and took off. The town has less than 1,400 people and a high school of four students. But one thing McCloud does have is an abundance of water -- pristine spring water that comes from Shasta's glaciers and feeds some of the world's best fly-fishing rivers. The water hasn't just brought outdoors people to the area; it's also brought a new industry that seems strikingly similar to the timber barons who came before -- taking resources, reaping profits and moving on. Four years ago, residents learned that Nestlé, the world's largest food and beverage company, intended to build a 1 million-square-foot water-bottling facility in McCloud. Without any public input or environmental impact assessment, the multinational was given a 100-year contract to pump 1,600 acre-feet of spring water a year and a seemingly unlimited amount of groundwater. Although residents were caught off guard by the company's interest, they have been organizing and litigating and educating. As a result, the majority of residents in McCloud are concerned with Nestlé's project. A survey done in 2005 showed that 77 percent of people were against the contract, and public opinion has shifted even more since then as people have learned the details of the plan. There is concern about traffic, air pollution, what is going to happen to our water, said Debra Anderson, head of the McCloud Watershed Council, a citizen group that organized in the wake of the announcement. What if there is a drought? They have the right to continue to pump. What happens to the town of McCloud, the people in it? An Unfair Contract For Nestlé, the deal seems too good to be true. The Ashland Free Press broke down some of the details of the contract: * A 50-year term, renewable for another 50 years * The right to take 1,250 gallons per minute of spring water * The right to take qualified water on an interim basis from district's springs for bulk delivery to other bottling facilities located in Northern California * The right to construct pipelines and a loading facility * Use of an unknown quantity of well water for production purposes * Exclusive rights to one of the town's three springs * One hundred years of exclusivity, during which time no other beverage business of any type may exist in McCloud * Use of an undisclosed, perhaps unlimited amount of ground water * The right to require the McCloud Community Service District to dispose of process wastewater * The right to require the McCloud Community Service District to design, construct and install one or more ground water production wells on the bottling facility site for Nestlé's use as a supply for nonspring water purposes. As if all that weren't enough, under the terms of the contract, Nestlé will make out handsomely. The McCloud Watershed Council has reported that Nestlé will pay .87 cents per gallon for the water it takes from McCloud's springs. Its website explains: In other words, that's only 8.7 cents for 100,000 gallons. Meanwhile, the rest of us who use a fraction of what Nestlé will, pay almost 20 bucks each month, just for water. On the other hand, Nestlé can sell a 16-ounce bottle of the same water for around $1.29, or $10.32 per gallon. It's no wonder that Nestlé wanted to rush the current contract through and is fighting so hard to keep it intact. It's a sweetheart deal for Nestlé, but not for McCloud. At a shelf price of $10.32 per gallon, 1,600 acre-feet would gross $5,380,451,712. If Nestlé nets one-fifth of
[Biofuel] Well, at least he's not a war criminal
To comment on this article or to see a large set of embedded links, go to http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/editorsblog/ WELL, AT LEAST HE'S NOT A WAR CRIMINAL* Robert Weissman May 30, 2007 Well, at least he's not a war criminal. George Bush's new selection to head the World Bank, Robert Zoellick has that over his predecessor, Paul Wolfowitz. But can't the world demand a slightly higher standard? The selection process for chief of the World Bank, which claims to be the world's preeminent anti-poverty institution, is preposterous. By tradition, the post goes to a U.S. citizen, to be selected by the U.S. President. There is no pretense of democracy at this international institution. Nor is there any pretense of demanding relevant development experience. None of the past presidents of the Bank, including Wolfowitz and Zoellick, has had any meaningful experience in development policy. There have been longstanding calls by people who actually care about development, and do have relevant expertise, to reform the Bank's archaic government structure. But more important than the Bank's governing process are its policies. The World Bank's great failings over the last decades are rooted in its commitment to the market fundamentalism known as the Washington consensus. This is a set of maniacal market-oriented policies including: deregulation of the economy, opening countries up to capital inflows and outflows, removing all trade barriers and orienting economies to support exports, massive privatization (including even of such traditional government functions as customs collection), eliminating subsidies for basic necessities, rolling back legally guaranteed labor rights, cutting back on government services and restricting government spending. The Bank has also maintained a penchant for environmentally and socially destructive mega-development projects: big dams, oil and gas projects, road-building. The result has been a literal human disaster: the developing countries that have most closely hued to policies imposed by the World Bank (and its sister institution, the International Monetary Fund) have found themselves much poorer, less healthy and less educated than countries that have resisted Bank recommendations. In one notable example, the Bank's historic support for user fees for education and healthcare has denied millions of children the right to schooling, and deprived millions of people access to healthcare. The Wolfowitz controversy obscured the bigger issues at the Bank, and the questions now facing Zoellick: - Will Zoellick oppose user fees for healthcare? - Will he support robust public health systems that rely on public providers -- not wishful thinking about HMO-style schemes delivering health care in developing countries? - Will he abandon support for water privatization? - Will he end the Bank's heinous opposition to labor rights in its influential Doing Business report? - Will he insist that countries be able to expand healthcare and education budgets, despite pressure from the International Monetary Fund? - Will he support the recommendations of Bank-supported expert investigations, and end support for mega-development projects? As the U.S. Trade Representative, Robert Zoellick pushed market extremist policies akin to those of the Bank, in World Trade Organization negotiations, and especially in bilateral and regional trade agreement negotiations. His very aggressive agenda as USTR included advocating for increased monopoly rights for drug companies, eliminating precautionary health measures, removing protections for small farmers and eliminating industrial tariffs in developing countries (a key element of the misnamed Doha Development Round of World Trade Organization talks that Zoellick helped kick off). To be fair to Zoellick, every recent person in his post, Republican or Democrat, has pushed the same Big Business agenda that he did. And on pharmaceutical and patent issues -- some of the key considerations at USTR -- he did not do everything Big Pharma wanted, and sometimes really pushed against the industry's interests (until overridden by the White House.) On the other hand, the fact that other former U.S. Trade Representatives pushed a broad Big Business agenda is hardly an argument for why Zoellick should be rewarded with the World Bank post. It is a better argument for why no former USTRs should be given the job. And even though Zoellick had major conflicts with Big Pharma, he did at the end of the day deliver on almost everything the companies wanted. As my colleague Asia Russell of the AIDS activist organization Health GAP says, It's very difficult to imagine the same Bob Zoellick who carried water for Big Pharma being the kind of advocate ministers of health need in order to expand their investments in salaries for doctors and nurses to address 6,000 preventable AIDS deaths each day in Africa alone. The same
[Biofuel] Chomsky on India-Pakistan Relations
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4249 Foreign Policy In Focus | Chomsky on India-Pakistan Relations Michael Shank | May 22, 2007 Editor: John Feffer Foreign Policy In Focus www.fpif.org Noam Chomsky is a noted linguist, author, and foreign policy expert. On April 26, Michael Shank interviewed him about relations between India and Pakistan. This is the second part of a two-part interview. The first part, on the Iraq War, the World Bank, and debt, can be found here. Michael Shank: Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri cites a sea change in India-Pakistan relations, agreements have been forged requiring a pre-notification of missile testing, and both countries will soon engage in a fourth round of composite dialogues. What else needs to happen to provide a positive tipping point in Indo-Pak relations? Noam Chomsky: There are a couple of major problems that need to be dealt with. One of them, of course, is Kashmir. The question is, can they figure out a joint solution to the Kashmir conflict? There are other questions: about energy integration, for example, pipelines going from Iran to India. India and Pakistan are now joint observers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which, if it works, will tend to bring about closer integration of the Asian countries altogether. So is Iran, and the Central Asian states, China of course, and Russia too. So it's basically the whole region except for South Korea has joined. And Japan probably won't join. It's an emerging structure of relationships. Meanwhile India-China relations are certainly improving. They're better than they were 20 or 30 years ago. There are now some joint energy projects. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization was China-initiated but there's also an India-initiated program by the former [Petroleum and Natural Gas] minister Mani Shankar Aiyar. He had been initiating similar plans for Asian integration; he had arranged conferences in India, joint projects with China and so on. And China and Pakistan have pretty close relations so through that connection India and Pakistan may overcome some of their conflicts. In general the conflicts in the region, the internal conflicts, most of them have been softened, so they're less sharp than they were in the recent past. This is partly because of economic integration, partly because of the danger of confrontation, partly because of outside enemies. All of them want to become integrated with the west Asian energy producing system. That brings them together as well through joint projects. So I don't know if there's an actual tipping point. But I think there is a gradual improvement of relations and a willingness to put aside what could be major tensions, like a terrorist operation in Mumbai or something attributed to Pakistanis. There are attempts at reconciliation, which is a healthy development. Now Kashmir is going to be a difficult one. Shank: Do you think Kashmir is a territorial issue or an issue related to secular or religious identity? Pakistan sees Kashmir as their Muslim brotherhood up north. For India, it's emblematic of their secular identity. Is it an identity issue or a territorial boundary issue? Chomsky: Yes, obliviously that's a factor in it. The Muslim population and the Hindu population do separate on those lines. Does that mean they have to be broken up? Not necessarily. There are 160 million Muslims living in India. There has been tension and some serious atrocities but it has been over the centuries a reasonably integrated society. There are real dangers. The Hindu nationalist danger is certainly serious. Shank: Should the UN step in to do for Kashmir what they're now doing for Kosovo? Chomsky: I think what's needed is some kind of federal arrangement. Kosovo could have been a model. As it's now developing Kosovo will just be independent. The counterpart would be for Kashmir to be independent. And that doesn't seem to be in the cards. India and Pakistan both have interests. But some sort of federal arrangement, keeping the line of control, with semi-autonomous regions loosely federated with each other and with a broader South Asian federation, could be a direction in which things could move. Shank: Do you think the Pakistan and Indian diaspora in the United States or the UK are doing anything to escalate tensions? Chomsky: For some reason, which I don't entirely understand, that's a very general fact about diaspora communities. In fact, almost every one I know of. For example the Jewish community in the US, its organized part, is much more rabid and extreme than Israel. The Irish community in south Boston was much more extreme than Northern Ireland. Take, say, the Armenian genocide. All Armenians want to have it recognized but the pressure for having national declarations is mostly coming from the diaspora. Within Armenia itself, people have other concerns. For example they would like friendly
Re: [Biofuel] non-fossil oil
Three whole years away, hm, that's just around a bigger corner than usual for the claims made for biodiesel from algae. I posted some sensible articles about algae in April: http://snipurl.com/1in4c Re: [Biofuel] An in-depth look at biofuels from algae 5 Apr 2007 http://snipurl.com/1in4d [Biofuel] An in-depth look at biofuels from algae - 1 http://snipurl.com/1in4e [Biofuel] An in-depth look at biofuels from algae - 2 Which ended with this: The main reason why we wrote the piece is to temper some of the unfounded and unsubstantiated enthusiasm surrounding algae. ... We have decided no longer to mimick the uncritical press releases on algae and no longer to report on developments in this sector, as long as no basic lifecycle assessments are made available. Breath of fresh air, IMHO. Best Keith * Non-Fossil Oil http://www.peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Non-Fossil_Oil>http://www.peswiki. com/index. php/Directory: Non-Fossil_ Oil> > Algae Oil http://www.peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Biodiesel_from_Algae_Oil>http://www.peswiki. com/index. php/Directory: Biodiesel_ from_Algae_ Oil> > LiveFuels biocrude by 2010 http://www.insidegreentech.com/node/1247>http://www.insidegr eentech.com/ node/1247> - LiveFuels http://www.livefuels.com/>http://www.livefuel s.com/> plans to cost-effectively produce large amounts of biocrude oil derived from algae by 2010. The company plans to then sell the oil to others, or as last resort, to refine it itself. Avoiding costly bioreactors and genetically modified algae, the company plans to grow vast amounts of biomass very cheaply in open ponds. (Inside Greentech; May 31, 2007) (Thanks John Q. Public http://www.peswiki.com/index.php/User:John_Q._Public>http://www.peswiki. com/index. php/User: John_Q._Public> ) ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Might is right?
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/29/1498/ Published on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 by CommonDreams.org Calling All Warriors for Peace by Olga Bonfiglio When I first heard someone use the word, warrior, I was surprised, repulsed-but fascinated. An Annapolis-educated, former Navy fighter pilot told me he was a warrior. I had associated warriors with Native Americans and the Japanese Samurai, not the modern U.S. military. The second time I heard someone use the word, warrior, was in a talk by Ed Tick, a Jungian psychoanalyst who has been working with Vietnam veterans with PTSD since 1978 and is now treating Iraq and Afghanistan War vets. He said one way we can help our veterans heal from their war wounds is to treat them as warriors. The audience, comprised mostly of peace activists gasped. Tick acknowledged the audience's dismay and apologized, but he insisted on using the term, warrior, because its meaning makes sense to the vets. My subsequent reading of his book, War and the Soul, changed my understanding of the warrior to the point that I am now advocating its use as an approach for peacemaking. According to Jungian psychology, the warrior is an archetype, which is an idealized role or identity embedded in our cultural narratives that guides our minds and actions. Archetypes have a mythic quality that bid us to act out a particular role for certain situations automatically. The warrior archetype typically stirs men in their adolescence while it comes to women during middle age-as it did for Cindy Sheehan. The key to Cindy's power is her warrior instinct to protect her loved ones-which with the loss of her son she extends to all soldiers. She calls herself a Mother Bear in her book, Not One More Mother's Child, and eventually would be referred to as Peace Mom. Her warrior instincts, combined with her own sense of allegiance to the nation's democratic ideals, serve as the motivation behind her actions-including her acts of civil disobedience. Peace activists who rekindle the warrior's innate desire to protect and cherish life in our nation and our world are key to fighting back the fascist-like directions this administration is taking us. However, to get there, we need a new vision of the warrior. Internationally-known inspirational speaker and Franciscan priest Richard Rohr describes this warrior as one who: see[s] through and stand[s] against mass illusions of our time, and [is] willing to pay the price of disobedience. It takes warrior energy to see through the soft rhetoric of 'support our troops' which cleverly diverts us from the objective evil of war. It takes warrior energy to march to a different drum, disbelieve the patriotic trivia, and re-believe in the tradition of non-violence, civil resistance, and martyrdom. Many people besides Cindy Sheehan have adopted such a vision of the warrior including Lt. Ehren Watada, the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, the Iraq Veterans Against War, Move-On.org, A.N.S.W.E.R. and United for Peace Justice. Active duty soldiers in the Appeal for Redress are calling for a withdrawal of troops with some courageously testifying before Congress to do so. Generals are retiring their commissions in order to speak out. Gold Star Families for Peace, which Cindy founded, seeks not only to support families who have lost loved ones but to be a positive force in our world to bring our country's sons and daughters home from Iraq, to minimize the human cost of this war, and to prevent other families from the pain [they] are feeling as the result of our losses. The Veterans for Peace, Military Families Speak Out Against the War, and Mothers Against the Draft are working to end the war and bring the troops home. Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) is trying to establish a cabinet-level Department of Peace in order to reduce domestic and international violence. And many local peace groups continue to stand out on public street corners-in all kinds of weather, all year long-demonstrating their objections to the war and the Bush policies. Fighting wars based on deception and lies or without a just cause is not new. In 472 B.C.E. Aeschylus lost a brother in the war between the Persians and Athenians and wrote The Persians to illustrate how a war of choice mounted by the Persian king as payment for [his] pride and godless arrogance resulted in the terrible slaughter of common soldiers on both the Athenian and Persian sides. Leaders today, especially leaders of democracies, need to be called to task for any decision to go to war. In this age where weapons of mass destruction are becoming more and more accessible, where pre-emptive strike is justified and where torture and perpetual war are deemed a legitimate government policy, it's no longer a matter of just giving peace a chance, as the John Lennon song suggests, but for us human beings to find imaginative and practical ways of dealing with our
Re: [Biofuel] Big Brother extends his reach
Mexico to boost tapping of phones and e-mail with U.S. aid It just keeps creeping in. Always for a good cause This one maybe? http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4254 Foreign Policy In Focus | NAFTA: Kicked Up a Notch Laura Carlsen | May 23, 2007 Editor: John Feffer Foreign Policy In Focus www.fpif.org The North American Free Trade Agreement is the world's most advanced example of the U.S.-led free trade model. It's not just about economics any more. The expansion of NAFTA into the Security and Prosperity Partnership reveals the road ahead for other nations entering into free trade agreements. It is not a road most nations -- or the U.S. public -- would take if they knew where it led. The first problem is that very few people know about this next step of deep integration. In March 2005, Presidents George Bush, Vicente Fox and Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Texas launched the Security and Prosperity Partnership with a splash. Although it had few visible results, the Waco meeting of the Three Amigos set into motion an underground process that spawned its own working groups, rules, recommendations, and agreements - all below the radar of the legislatures and the public in the three nations. These rules and trinational programs have profound effect on the environment, the daily lives of citizens, and the future of all three countries. The SPP not only further greases the wheels of corporate cooperation and potentially increases U.S. access to Mexican oil. Its security component represents a new and ominous form of integration, all in the name of counter-terrorism. The SPP's Real Objectives From its origins in Waco, the SPP has developed through several formal meetings, including a March 31, 2006 meeting of heads of state in Cancun and a ministerial meeting in Canada in February 2007. Canadian civil society watchdogs also outed a secret meeting of high-level government, military and business people in Banff in September of 2006. The official U.S. web page describes the SPP as a White House-led initiative among the United States and the two nations it borders - Canada and Mexico - to increase security and to enhance prosperity among the three countries through greater cooperation. White House-led is a key element. When the heads of state met in Waco and in subsequent meetings to follow up on NAFTA, both Canada and Mexico had some very serious concerns. Canada was embroiled in trade conflicts with the United States (soft lumber, beef) that it wanted to see resolved through NAFTA mechanisms. Mexico's right-wing government, meanwhile, has found increasingly untenable the stark contradiction between open borders for merchandise and the criminalization of immigrants. On the one hand, it had a commitment to greater integration under the free trade model; on the other it was under tremendous political pressure to defend Mexicans migrating to the United States. None of these issues made it into the SPP. U.S. security concerns, and corporate demands for fewer obstacles to border-hopping production and sales, hijacked the trinational agenda. Instead, the SPP has three fundamental objectives. The Bush administration wants to create more advantageous conditions for transnational corporations and remove remaining barriers to the flow of capital and crossborder production within the framework of NAFTA. It wants to secure access to natural resources in the other two countries, especially oil. And it wants to create a regional security plan based on pushing its borders out into a security perimeter that includes Mexico and Canada. On the liberalization side, the SPP has focused on simplifying procedures for doing business and creating more unified norms and standards. The SPP seeks to make it easier for U.S. companies to ship production offshore, eliminate specific Canadian and Mexican labor and environmental standards in the interest of harmonization, and assure that harsher security measures don't interfere with crossborder business. For Mexico, the harmonization process -- like NAFTA before it -- does not take into account its less-developed status or the pressing social needs of its people that could mandate special protections or safeguards. Many of the priorities of the SPP benefit only a small handful of powerful actors, such as greater patent protection (Mexico holds very few patents) and joint anti-piracy campaigns (piracy is a major employer in Mexico and benefits low-income consumers). In negotiations between equal partners concerned with public well-being, very different issues would be on the table. The discourse of three great nations united in a common cause falls apart when compared to the actual content of the agreements and shows instead two great nations subordinated to the powerful interests of the United States. Equal partners would operate in the global market as a bloc with common interests. But the three countries don't act as
[Biofuel] Japan Infiltrates the Middle East
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4256 Foreign Policy In Focus | Japan Infiltrates the Middle East Shirzad Azad | May 24, 2007 Editor: John Feffer Foreign Policy In Focus www.fpif.org Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's recent Middle East tour was the second trip to the region by a Japanese prime minister in less than 16 months. By visiting five Arab nations in a single trip and pursuing a wide range of economic, political and strategic objectives for his country, Abe opened a new chapter in Japan's Middle East policy. Tokyo's desire for a stable supply of energy has run up against its other foreign policy objectives. While Tokyo was a big supporter of the Bush administration's invasion of Iraq, it is uncomfortable with Washington's hard-line approach toward Iran. After all, Iran is Japan's third-largest supplier of crude oil. As it angles to become a more moderating influence in Middle East politics, Japan may find itself butting heads more often with the United States. Thirsty Japan Topping Abe's agenda on his recent trip was seeking new ways of securing energy supplies for Japan. Tokyo has long been dependant on the Middle East for most of its oil imports, and Japan's increased demand for natural gas is likely to deepen its dependence on that turbulent and volatile region. Japan is the world's largest importer of natural gas, and roughly 90% of its oil needs come from the Middle East. Japan is worried that the emergence of newly energy-hungry economies of Asia, especially China and India, may challenge its long-term access to crude oil and natural gas in the countries surrounding the Persian Gulf area. Japan has many good reasons to worry about the supply of its economy's lifeblood. It may face serious consequences from the new energy rush and the prospect of reaching peak global oil production, particularly in the face of rising competitors in Asia. For example, China alongside India and Iran form the triangle of Asian ancient civilization. China has a long history of trading with the Middle East that goes back many centuries to the Silk Road era. Many Chinese citizens are now working in oil-producing Arab countries. And China's rising political power, stemming from its economic growth, has tempted autocratic rulers of Middle East countries to develop their relationship with Beijing, hoping to balance the West's long-term interference in the region. Japanese companies have lost part of their Middle East markets to Chinese goods. For instance, according to current trends, China will likely replace both the United States and Japan as Saudi Arabia's top trading partner by the end of this decade. Other countries in the region may also follow the suit, in the same way that Iran replaced Japan with China as the biggest importer of its oil. Like China, India has a considerable labor force working in the Middle East, and the influence of its cultural affinity and soft power in the region outweighs other East Asian countries. After all, the symbol of India, the Taj Mahal built in 1631 in memory of Iranian princess Mumtaz Mahal, is but one example of the historical connections between the Indians and Middle East nations. Such concerns have forced Japan to reconsider its Middle East strategy and broaden its involvement in the region to include non-oil investments. Abe went to the region, for instance, with a large delegation of 175 businessmen led by Fujio Mitarai, head of the Japan Business Federation. This symbolic gesture indicated just how eager Japan is to forge multi-layered ties with the region that go far beyond energy deals and economic necessities. Trade officials in Tokyo have also voiced support for a free trade agreement (FTA) with six oil-producing countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in the Middle East, starting in 2008 with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Japan's Asian arch-rivals, China and India, have already started negotiations on FTAs with the GCC countries, while the Japanese only launched such negotiations in September 2006 with a focus on agriculture and goods. Japan has developed other tactics. For instance, Abe's visit to Saudi Arabia, followed by Trade Minister Akira Amari two days after, included an offer to King Abdullah that Saudi Arabia's state-run oil company use part of Japan's oil-stockpiling facility in Okinawa prefecture as a base for export to other Asian countries. Due to the rapid growth in its mostly oil-based national income, Saudi Arabia is likely to be excluded from receiving Japan's official development assistance (ODA) in 2008. So Japan is scrambling to find other ways to sweeten economic deals with the world's number one oil exporter. Burnishing a Tarnished Image Prime Minister Abe's trip to five Muslim countries of the Middle East was driven, at least in part, by a desire to improve Japan's tarnished image in the region. Japan's staunch support for what has
[Biofuel] pH meters
Hello, Im making some biodiesel and I'm having some difficulty finding a reasonably priced electronic pH meter to purchase so I can test the virgin oil and the resulting biodiesel. it would be appreciated if anyone with an answer or some knowledge in this area could steer me in the right direction. Joshua ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Scientists create new crop of genetically modified crops
This failed strategy has been going on at least since the so-called Green Revolution, not just since the advent of RR soy. But it doesn't work? Of course it doesn't work, but look at the profits! And the market-sector. It works. - K --- Scientists create new crop of genetically modified crops Maywa Montenegro Grist Magazine, 31 May 2007 http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/5/31/105543/484 If you've ever colored Easter eggs -- I mean the old-fashioned way, with food-coloring, not with those plastic wraparounds -- then you know that when you mess up, you have two options: rinse them off with some white vinegar and start over, or forge ahead, layer even more color on top, and hope that something presentable emerges. Okay, so that metaphor's a bit of a stretch, but that's what came to mind when I read, earlier this week, that scientists at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, have engineered a new category of transgenic crops. The new plants -- which include broad-leafed greens such as soybeans, tomatoes, and tobacco -- harbor a bacterial gene that makes them resistant to an herbicide called dicamba. But we have Roundup! you cry. Why do we need anything else? Well, because Roundup (active ingredient: a chemical called glyphosate) isn't working as flawlessly as it used to. According to the story in Science (sorry, subscription only), 24 percent of farmers in the northern Midwest and 29 percent in the South say they have glycophate-resistant (GR) weeds. Crop scientists in Argentina, Brazil, and Australia report GR grasses popping up too. Which is hardly a surprise when you consider the loads of the chemical we've dumped on our fields in the past few decades. In 1995, U.S. farmers used 4.5 million kilograms of glyphosate; today they use 10 times that amount. And glyphosate-resistant crops (better known as Roundup Ready), first engineered by Monsanto in 1986, now dominate the market. Today, more than 90 percent of soybeans and 60 percent of the corn are glyphosate resistant. With many farmers using glyphosate as their sole herbicide, we've essentially ensured that mavericks would eventually sprout. The selective pressure for weeds to develop resistance has been huge, Stephen Duke, a plant physiologist at the USDA's Agricultural Research Service told Science. Now plant researchers are hoping to alleviate some of that pressure by introducing dicamba into the mix. If farmers can rotate between dicamba-resistant (DR) and glyphosate-resistant crop varieties, they say the likelihood of weeds gaining a foothold will fall. The new plants also feature an interesting safety mechanism that should help stave off weeds: the dicamba resistance gene (taken from a bacterium) lives only in the plants' chloroplasts. Because chloroplast DNA is only inherited through the maternal side, this means that the GM gene can't be spread through the male pollen. It's a reproductive stopgap of sorts. But the researchers themselves don't seem so confident that Mother Nature won't soon outsmart even this clever maneuver. Monsanto, which has licensed the dicamba technology, is hard at work on gene stacking -- combining genes for multiple herbicide resistance into one plant. We have the technology today to develop herbicide resistance to anything we want to, Jerry Green, a weed scientist with DuPont Crop Protection told Science. Yes, we have the technology. That's not the point. How and whether we should use that technology seems to me to be the more relevant issue. Our love affair with glyphosate is showing the first signs of an ugly breakup, and instead of changing (or reversing) course, we're simply forging ahead with more chemical solutions, more layers of genetic dye. Perhaps the most disturbing part of it all, though, is that when the first dicamba-resistant soya goes into production -- in three to seven years, according to Monsanto -- no one will probably notice. Without a cogent system of labeling standards, consumers will have no idea that this has gone to market, and the mainstream press (sorry, Science and Nature) certainly won't cover it. It's not so much that I'm fearful of a hazard to human health by ingesting these foods (a Twinkie probably has more ingredients to worry about); it's the damage these GM crops do to the greater environment that's so troubling. These mighty duos of herbicide and herbicide-resistant crops create a vicious loop that we've been happy to run in because there's profit to be had. The fallout, though, is biodiversity itself. The widespread planting of these GM marvels to the exclusion of all else wreaks havoc on ecosystems, on levels we can see and on those we don't yet understand. It would be nice, at least, if as voters and consumers, we could have a say in the matter ... Because while this egg may look pretty on the surface, I have a feeling it's already rotten inside. ___
[Biofuel] The corporate takeover of U.S. intelligence
From Global Issues: http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/WarOnTerror/corporate_us_intel.php Salon.com looks at how how US intelligence is increasingly being outsourced to private companies, secretly, raising fears about less oversight and accountability. You can see the original article at http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/06/01/intel_contractors/. The corporate takeover of U.S. intelligence The U.S. government now outsources a vast portion of its spying operations to private firms-with zero public accountability. By Tim Shorrock Salon.com June 1, 2007 More than five years into the global war on terror, spying has become one of the fastest-growing private industries in the United States. The federal government relies more than ever on outsourcing for some of its most sensitive work, though it has kept details about its use of private contractors a closely guarded secret. Intelligence experts, and even the government itself, have warned of a critical lack of oversight for the booming intelligence business. On May 14, at an industry conference in Colorado sponsored by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the U.S. government revealed for the first time how much of its classified intelligence budget is spent on private contracts: a whopping 70 percent. Based on this year's estimated budget of at least $48 billion, that would come to at least $34 billion in contracts. The figure was disclosed by Terri Everett, a senior procurement executive in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the agency established by Congress in 2004 to oversee the 16 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence infrastructure. A copy of Everett's unclassified PowerPoint slide presentation, titled Procuring the Future and dated May 25, was obtained by Salon. (It has since become available on the DIA's Web site.) We can't spy If we can't buy! one of the slides proclaims, underscoring the enormous dependence of U.S. intelligence agencies on private sector contracts. The DNI figures show that the aggregate number of private contracts awarded by intelligence agencies rose by about 38 percent from the mid-1990s to 2005. But the surge in outsourcing has been far more dramatic measured in dollars: Over the same period of time, the total value of intelligence contracts more than doubled, from about $18 billion in 1995 to about $42 billion in 2005. Those numbers are startling, said Steven Aftergood, the director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists and an expert on the U.S. intelligence budget. They represent a transformation of the Cold War intelligence bureaucracy into something new and different that is literally dominated by contractor interests. Because of the cloak of secrecy thrown over the intelligence budgets, there is no way for the American public, or even much of Congress, to know how those contractors are getting the money, what they are doing with it, or how effectively they are using it. The explosion in outsourcing has taken place against a backdrop of intelligence failures for which the Bush administration has been hammered by critics, from Saddam Hussein's fictional weapons of mass destruction to abusive interrogations that have involved employees of private contractors operating in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Aftergood and other experts also warn that the lack of transparency creates conditions ripe for corruption. Trey Brown, a DNI press officer, told Salon that the 70 percent figure disclosed by Everett refers to everything that U.S. intelligence agencies buy, from pencils to buildings to whatever devices we use to collect intelligence. Asked how much of the money doled out goes toward big-ticket items like military spy satellites, he replied, We can't really talk about those kinds of things. The media has reported on some contracting figures for individual agencies, but never before for the entire U.S. intelligence enterprise. In 2006, the Washington Post reported that a significant majority of the employees at two key agencies, the National Counterterrrorism Center and the Pentagon's Counter-Intelligence Field Activity office, were contractors (at CIFA, the number was more than 70 percent). More recently, former officers with the Central Intelligence Agency have said the CIA's workforce is about 60 percent contractors. But the statistics alone don't even show the degree to which outsourcing has penetrated U.S. intelligence-many tasks and services once reserved exclusively for government employees are being handled by civilians. For example, private contractors analyze much of the intelligence collected by satellites and low-flying unmanned aerial vehicles, and they write reports that are passed up to the line to high-ranking government officials. They supply and maintain software programs that can manipulate and depict data used to track terrorist suspects, both at home
[Biofuel] The statistical invisibility of Islamist 'terrorism' in Europe
Nobody seems to be asking, but nonetheless it's becoming very noticeable that there hasn't been another Islamist attack on the US since Sept 11 2001, though the alleged causes or reasons for the attack are much more serious now than they were then. - K -- http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/WarOnTerror/europe_islamic_ter rorism.php Global Issues SpinWatch notes how small (statistically) Islamist terrorism is in Europe, despite prevailing views otherwise. You can see the original article at http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/4236/29/. The statistical invisibility of Islamist 'terrorism' in Europe By David Miller SpinWatch May 23, 2007 New figures from Europol, the European police agency, reveal that Islamist terror attacks in Europe constituted 0.2% or all 'terrorism' throughout the continent in 2006.* Unsurprisingly, there has been little in the media about this interesting figure in the month since it was published. In their first report of this nature-European Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2007-Europol reports that across the EU there were 498 terrorist attacks in 2006. These include: * 424 ethno-nationalist and separatist (mostly in France and Spain) * 55 left-wing and anarchist (mainly Greece , Italy, Spain and Germany) * 1 failed Islamist terrorist attack (in Germany, plus two more attempts allegedly foiled in Denmark and the UK) * 1 right-wing terrorist attack (in Poland) The figures appear to over report left and anarchist terror by categorising some political demonstrations which result in damage to property as terrorism. On Germany it reports that the G8 Summit 2007 that still has to be held has already been the target of left-wing and anarchist terrorists. The report also appears to under report right wing and neo-fascist violence since this is as the report states: mainly investigated as right-wing extremism and not as right-wing terrorism. The report only includes rightwing and animal rights political violence as terrorism if reported as such by member states. The report does also note that the 0.2% of attacks undertaken by Islamists resulted in fully half the 706 arrests in the EU being of Muslims. The UK itself has seen hundreds of arrests on trumped up charges which are later shown to be false and often propagandist. Indeed one of the two alleged 'foiled' attacks in the figures is the much heralded transatlantic bomb plot in the UK which has certainly adversely affected millions of air passengers. However, it does appear that this plot existed much more in the minds of the security establishment than in reality. I wondered how well the pattern of media reporting conformed to the pattern of offences or the pattern of arrests. In 2006 the National press in the UK carried 26, 577 reports which mentioned the word terrorist or terrorism.^ Of these 7,620 also referred to Islam, Islamist or Muslim. In other words the media reported Islamist violence out of all proportion to the number of attacks. This is hardly helpful to those trying the resist the wave of islamophobia emanating from sections of the police and from the intelligence agencies and politicians. Nor does it give much hope for muslims under attack throughout the UK. Notes *Thanks to Eric Herring for drawing these figures to my attention. ^Figures from searches conducted on Lexis-nexis press database. Europol, 'First Terrorism Situation and Trend Report of Europol released' News Release, The Hague, 10 April 2007. http://www.europol.eu.int/index.asp?page=newsnews=pr070410.htm European Terrorism Situation and trend Report 2007 http://www.europol.eu.int/publications/TESAT/TESAT2007.pdf ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] greener by miles
Greener by miles http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/03/nrgreen03.xml This sort of approach can be expected to produce such contradictory results, that food imported from afar may have lower CO2 emissions than local food. Analysis of the industry reveals that for many foods, imported products are responsible for lower carbon dioxide emissions than the same foodstuffs produced in Britain. Even products shipped from the other side of the world emit fewer greenhouse gases than British equivalents. Comparing one segment of the food industry with another segment of the food industry like this on the basis of a single parameter, food miles travelled, probably makes about as much sense as butter-exporting countries importing megatons of butter, as they do, and so on and on and on. The article tut-tuts over simplistic carbon-footprinting, but it'd be a little hard to be more simplistic about it than this national-vs-imported approach. The article only talks about supermarkets, not local farmer's markets or CSAs, nor organic food stores (lots of those in London), let alone allotment gardeners and home gardeners (lots of those in London too). What if industrial food produced wherever was compared with what you get at a local farmer's market? Methinks that's perhaps what Richard Gray might be trying to deflect attention from, among other things. But I think a lot of people have figured it out already, sorry about that Mr Gray. Best Keith ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] For a Shake-Up In Sweeteners
Coke and Cargill just discovered stevia, LOL! The FDA has refused to approve Stevia as a sweetener but now that Coca Cola wants it they will approve it, pronto, Ken Hargesheimer told the [COMFOOD] list. How could he even think such a thing of the FDA. http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron32.htm China has a solution for the FDA's problem By Byron J. Richards, CCN May 30, 2007 (And thoroughly ban the natural version, probably.) Stevia's widely used by the food industry in Japan, that's been the case for some time now, no problem, nobody died yet. Wonder if the same will apply to Coke and Cargill's multi-patented version. Probably we'll get just the same sort of assurances we got with aspartame and sucralose, and HFCS too, so I'm sure everything'll be just fine. Best Keith -- For a Shake-Up In Sweeteners Calorie-Free Rebiana Is Touted as Natural; A Controversial Herb By LAUREN ETTER and BETSY MCKAY May 31, 2007; Page A1 Wall Street Journal Coca-Cola Co. and Cargill Inc. have teamed up to market a new calorie-free natural sweetener they hope will appeal to health-conscious consumers and shake up the global sweeteners market, but they face serious regulatory and production challenges. The two companies' ambitious push to develop the new product, tentatively named rebiana, is the latest step in the soft-drink industry's decades-long quest for the holy grail of sweeteners -- one that sweetens products naturally, without adding calories, but also tastes good. Sucralose, the most recent breakthrough, was introduced in the U.S. in 2000 under the brand name Splenda. SOMETHING TO CHEW ON http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2Sect2=HITOFFu= %2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htmlr=0p=1f=Sl=50Query=an%2Fcoca-c ola+and+steviad=PG01 1 Coca-Cola quietly filed 24 patent applications last week covering use of rebiana in products ranging from vitamins to cereal. Below, an excerpt from its plan to use it in chewing gum: The present invention also relates to chewing gum compositions and methods that can improve the tastes of non-caloric or low-caloric natural and/or synthetic, high-potency sweeteners by imparting a more sugar-like taste or characteristic. In particular, the chewing gum composition and methods provide a more sugar-like temporal profile, including sweetness onset and sweetness linger, and/or a more sugar-like flavor profile. http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2Sect2=HITOFFu= %2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htmlr=0p=1f=Sl=50Query=an%2Fcoca-c ola+and+steviad=PG01See the full set of Coke's patent applications for rebiana2. Today, the multibillion-dollar global sweetener market is dominated by sugar, high-fructose corn syrup and synthetic sweeteners such as aspartame and sucralose. But with consumers increasingly eager for healthy foods and beverages of natural origin, Coke and Cargill may have found a sweet spot for rebiana, which is derived from a South American herb called stevia. Coke, the Atlanta beverage giant, has quietly filed 24 patent applications that were published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last week and says it will have exclusive rights to develop and sell rebiana in beverages. Closely held Cargill, the big Minneapolis food and agriculture company, plans to market the sweetener for use in products such as yogurt, cereals, ice cream and candy, and hasn't ruled out selling it for tabletop use. Neither Coke nor Cargill would say specifically how much they had spent on developing rebiana so far, but a Cargill spokeswoman described it as a significant amount of money. Serious challenges lie ahead for the product, whose source -- the stevia plant -- has a controversial past. Stevia isn't approved in the U.S. or European Union for use as a food additive. One 1985 peer-reviewed study on rats published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concluded the herb could cause mutations in the liver. Some European food-safety officials have cited concerns about a lack of data on the herb's safety, amid indications it could lead to fertility problems in men. A report published last year by the World Health Organization found no major toxicity risks, but it said more data are needed on the herb's effect on hypertension and blood-sugar levels. Coke and Cargill dispute the 1985 study's methods and findings. The companies say they will market rebiana in the 12 countries where stevia is approved as an additive, including Japan, Brazil and China, while seeking regulatory approval in the U.S. and the EU. Limited supplies mean rebiana isn't likely to be used widely for more than a year or two in any case. Stevia has never been produced in amounts close to those needed for global distribution. Cargill says it has spent the past three years developing a tightly controlled growing, breeding and production system with partners in China, Paraguay and Argentina to ensure that production
Re: [Biofuel] pH meters
Why a pH meter Joshua?. Acidity does not makes sense in an oil phase. The right thing is to make a titration pH has no sense nor numeric sense in a non aqueous systems - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 6:35 AM Subject: [Biofuel] pH meters Hello, Im making some biodiesel and I'm having some difficulty finding a reasonably priced electronic pH meter to purchase so I can test the virgin oil and the resulting biodiesel. it would be appreciated if anyone with an answer or some knowledge in this area could steer me in the right direction. Joshua ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ __ Visita http://www.tutopia.com y comienza a navegar más rápido en Internet. Tutopia es Internet para todos. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] pH meters
Joshua, I would suggest a Oakton ultra basic PH tester. If you visit you local hydroponics shop I am sure they will have one for you. I suggest staying away from a Hanna meter. Aidan 1990 VW Jetta on WVO four years + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Im making some biodiesel and I'm having some difficulty finding a reasonably priced electronic pH meter to purchase so I can test the virgin oil and the resulting biodiesel. it would be appreciated if anyone with an answer or some knowledge in this area could steer me in the right direction. Joshua ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] pH meters
Yes, Andres Secco is right. If you want to determine the free acidity of the virgin oil, you should use titration. But if you want to determine the pH value of the finished biodiesel (which should be close to 7) a pH meter is handy. But the pH has to be measured in a water phase, e.g. 10% biodiesel in distilled water, Just make sure that you first let the biodiesel and water to mix properly and then separate compleatly after that. With best regards AGERATEC AB Jan Warnqvist - Original Message - From: Andres Secco [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 5:47 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] pH meters Why a pH meter Joshua?. Acidity does not makes sense in an oil phase. The right thing is to make a titration pH has no sense nor numeric sense in a non aqueous systems - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 6:35 AM Subject: [Biofuel] pH meters Hello, Im making some biodiesel and I'm having some difficulty finding a reasonably priced electronic pH meter to purchase so I can test the virgin oil and the resulting biodiesel. it would be appreciated if anyone with an answer or some knowledge in this area could steer me in the right direction. Joshua ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ __ Visita http://www.tutopia.com y comienza a navegar más rápido en Internet. Tutopia es Internet para todos. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] pH meters
I agree Jan you are right with the pH meter in this way for the biodiesel. - Original Message - From: Jan Warnqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 12:00 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] pH meters Yes, Andres Secco is right. If you want to determine the free acidity of the virgin oil, you should use titration. But if you want to determine the pH value of the finished biodiesel (which should be close to 7) a pH meter is handy. But the pH has to be measured in a water phase, e.g. 10% biodiesel in distilled water, Just make sure that you first let the biodiesel and water to mix properly and then separate compleatly after that. With best regards AGERATEC AB Jan Warnqvist - Original Message - From: Andres Secco [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 5:47 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] pH meters Why a pH meter Joshua?. Acidity does not makes sense in an oil phase. The right thing is to make a titration pH has no sense nor numeric sense in a non aqueous systems - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 6:35 AM Subject: [Biofuel] pH meters Hello, Im making some biodiesel and I'm having some difficulty finding a reasonably priced electronic pH meter to purchase so I can test the virgin oil and the resulting biodiesel. it would be appreciated if anyone with an answer or some knowledge in this area could steer me in the right direction. Joshua ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ __ Visita http://www.tutopia.com y comienza a navegar más rápido en Internet. Tutopia es Internet para todos. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ __ Visita http://www.tutopia.com y comienza a navegar más rápido en Internet. Tutopia es Internet para todos. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] pH meters
Greetings Joshua Hello, Im making some biodiesel and I'm having some difficulty finding a reasonably priced electronic pH meter to purchase so I can test the virgin oil and the resulting biodiesel. it would be appreciated if anyone with an answer or some knowledge in this area could steer me in the right direction. Joshua Lots of information here: pH testing http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_supply.html#pH Also here: pH meters http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_make2.html#pHmeters And more in the list archives. (You're required to use the list resources, by the way.) I'm not quite sure why you'd want to test the pH of virgin oil, nor how - some meters work better than others at testing oils, and there are those who'll tell you pH meters don't work at all for testing oils (not so). If you're talking about titration, you only need to do titration with used oils, not with virgin oil (or rather fresh or new oil, virgin oil is something different). Testing the pH of the resulting biodiesel is usually only done to check that the washing process is complete, and it's the wash-water you'll check, not the biodiesel. Maybe you need to do a bit more reading. Start here: Where do I start? http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_make.html#start Follow the instructions, step by step. Study everything on that page and the next page and at the links in the text. It tells you everything you need to know. Best Keith ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Today, over 27,000 children died around the world
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Poverty/death/ - Global Issues by Anup Shah Sunday, May 06, 2007 Around the world, 27-30,000 children die every day. That is equivalent to: * 1 child dying every 3 seconds * 20 children dying every minute * A 2004 Asian Tsunami occurring almost every week * An Iraq-scale death toll every 15-35 days * 10-11 million children dying every year * Over 50 million children dying between 2000 and 2005 The silent killers are poverty, hunger, easily preventable diseases and illnesses, and other related causes. In spite of the scale of this daily/ongoing catastrophe, it rarely manages to achieve, much less sustain, prime-time, headline coverage. Tableofcontentsforthispage This web page has the following sub-sections: * Why is this tragedy not in the headlines? * Recent headlines in context * Notes and Sources * Sources for child deaths * Sources for Asia Tsunami comparison * Sources for Iraq comparison * Related Information Why is this tragedy not in the headlines? UNICEF's 2000 Progress of Nations report tried to put these numbers into some perspective: The continuation of this suffering and loss of life contravenes the natural human instinct to help in times of disaster. Imagine the horror of the world if a major earthquake were to occur and people stood by and watched without assisting the survivors! Yet every day, the equivalent of a major earthquake killing over 30,000 young children occurs to a disturbingly muted response. They die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death. - A spotty scorecard, UNICEF, Progress of Nations 2000 http://www.unicef.org/pon00/immu1.htm Unfortunately, it seems that the world still does not notice. It might be reasonable to expect that death and tragedy on this scale should be prime time headlines news. Yet, these issues only surface when there are global meetings or concerts (such as the various G8 summits, the Make Poverty History campaign in 2005, etc). Furthermore, year after year, we witness that when those campaigns end and the meetings conclude, so does the mainstream media coverage. It feels as though even when there is some media attention, the ones who suffer are not the ones that compel the mainstream to report, but instead it is the movement of the celebrities and leaders of the wealthy countries that makes this issue newsworthy. Even rarer in the mainstream media is any thought that wealthy countries may be part of the problem too. The effects of international policies, the current form of globalization, and the influence the wealthy countries have on these processes is rarely looked at. Instead, promises and pledges from the wealthy, powerful countries, and the corruption of the poorer ones-who receive apparently abundent goodwill-make the headlines; the repeated broken promises, the low quality and quantity of aid, and conditions with unfair strings attached do not. Accountability of the recipient countries is often mentioned when these issues touch the mainstream. Accountability of the roles that international institutions such as the World Bank and IMF, and their funders (the wealthy/powerful countries), rarely does. The risk is that citizens of these countries get a false sense of hope creating the misleading impression that appropriate action is taken in their names. It may be harsh to say the mainstream media is one of the many causes of poverty, as such, but the point here is that their influence is enormous. Slience, as well as noise, can both have an effect. Recent headlines in context When initially writing this, the BBC's top story on prime time television was about a British child kidnapped in Portugal. This is definitely a tragic story that needs reporting, but why, for the BBC and other British media outlets that pride themselves in outstanding international media coverage, is the plight of millions of children not daily headlines? Another recent tragedy that sustained days of headline and prime time media coverage was the Virginia Tech massacre's in the US. When media critics at Media Lens asked for the BBC's rationale for such sustained coverage compared to more people dying each day in Iraq and receiving just a few minutes in comparison, the BBC responded that it happens every day in Iraq. See Putting Virginia Tech in Perspective for the follow up from Media Lens. http://www.medialens.org/alerts/07/070502_putting_virginia_tech.php Some people fear there will be fatigue at hearing those depressing stories all the time, or the advertisers will pressure the media companies to put a bit more entertainment or good news on so that buying moods are not affected. However, news of tragedies in Iraq are also depressing, but nevertheless do received regular headline coverage. Also there is
Re: [Biofuel] Meth test (was Off topic)
Greetings Jan Sorry for the late reply. Just to add my vote of thanks - the methanol test is simple and useful, it's helped a lot of people. I'd like to add this development to the quality testing section at Journey to Forever, would you agree? All best Keith Dear all. I am very flattered that my methanol method had so much attention. Here is a development of the method: Equipment needed for the analysis 1. One 250 ml separatory funnel 2. One 400 ml beaker (Figure 2) 3. One magnetic stirrer 4. Balancer with 0,05g acc. 5. One 50 ml narrowed neck E-flask Chemicals for the analysis 1. Water free methanol, min 225 g 2. FAME with water content less than 500 ppm, clear, bright and without visible impurities, min 25 g Take the clean beaker and put exactly 225 g of methanol in it. Then add exactly 25g of the biodiesel. Stir the fluids on the stirrer for 2 minutes. Take the beaker off the stirrer ans pour the content into the separation funnel.Take the clean e-flask to the balancer and tarate with the flask. Let any oil phase separate out from the biodiesel/methanol phase and put it in the e-flask. Weigh the content and calculate the result: 1 - m1/m2 = m3 where m1 is the mass of the biodiesel m2 is the amount of methanol m3 is how much of the biodiesel put in that is consisting from methyl esters. The method will show huch much of the material by mass that is soluble in methanol. This includes mostl mono- and diglycerides. The residue consists therefore mostly from unreacted oil. With best Jan Warnqvist ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] The statistical invisibility of Islamist 'terrorism' in Europe
Keith Addison wrote: Nobody seems to be asking, but nonetheless it's becoming very noticeable that there hasn't been another Islamist attack on the US since Sept 11 2001, though the alleged causes or reasons for the attack are much more serious now than they were then. - K That's just another reason for the NeoCons to trumpet their war mongering, Keith. Every once in awhile they've got to drag some whacko conspiracy out into the limelight in order to keep us from becoming complacent. The recent arrest of conspirators who allegedly intended to blow up fuel lines at JFK International Airport--though they had acquired no materials with which to perform the nefarious deed, nor did they have the money to obtain them--serves as an example. Remember the group in Florida a year or so ago? As the article rightly points out, our British allies occasionally feel the need to do the same thing! You can't win with these people, Keith. The entire system has to be dismantled and replaced in order for REAL change to occur. robert luis rabello The Edge of Justice The Long Journey New Adventure for Your Mind http://www.newadventure.ca Ranger Supercharger Project Page http://www.members.shaw.ca/rabello/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] pH meters
My Hanna's been ok - it was around 40-50 USD. I'm sure you could get a better one, though. I've been pretty good about calibrating it. I haven't used an Oakton. Some people have had good luck with finding a meter at places that sell beer-brewing supplies. YMMV, Mike Joshua, I would suggest a Oakton ultra basic PH tester. If you visit you local hydroponics shop I am sure they will have one for you. I suggest staying away from a Hanna meter. Aidan 1990 VW Jetta on WVO four years + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Im making some biodiesel and I'm having some difficulty finding a reasonably priced electronic pH meter to purchase so I can test the virgin oil and the resulting biodiesel. it would be appreciated if anyone with an answer or some knowledge in this area could steer me in the right direction. Joshua ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Big Solar's day in the sun - This is not the same old pipe dream
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/06/01/100050990/ Big Solar's day in the sun - This is not the same old pipe dream. The economics -- and the technology -- of turning light into electricity have changed Get your daily alternative energy news Alternate Energy Resource Network 1000+ news sources-resources updated daily http://www.alternate-energy.net Next_Generation_Grid http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/next_generation_grid Alternative_Energy_Politics http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Alternative_Energy_Politics Tomorrow-energy http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tomorrow-energy Earth_Rescue_International http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Earth_Rescue_International ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] U.S. government fights to keep meatpackers from testing all slaughtered cattle for mad cow
the government doesnt want the extent of mad cow to be known as it is high in some areas. Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See also: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6711179.stm BBC NEWS EU urged to relax farm feed rules 1 June 2007 The European Commission has been urged to lift the ban on using animal remains in farm feed. EU scientists are looking at the safety of using animal by-products... What safety is that? Some people never learn. - K -- The EU is currently funding research on the impacts of feeding animal carcasses to other farm animals. U.S. government fights to keep meatpackers from testing all slaughtered cattle for mad cow The Associated Press Published: May 29, 2007 WASHINGTON: The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease. The Agriculture Department tests fewer than 1 percent of slaughtered cows for the disease, which can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. A beef producer in the western state of Kansas, Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, wants to test all of its cows. Larger meat companies feared that move because, if Creekstone should test its meat and advertised it as safe, they might have to perform the expensive tests on their larger herds as well. The Agriculture Department regulates the test and argued that widespread testing could lead to a false positive that would harm the meat industry. A federal judge ruled in March that such tests must be allowed. U.S. District Judge James Robertson noted that Creekstone sought to use the same test the government relies on and said the government didn't have the authority to restrict it. - A federal judge ruled in March that such tests must be allowed. The ruling was scheduled to take effect June 1, but the Agriculture Department said Tuesday it would appeal, effectively delaying the testing until the court challenge has played out. Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is linked to more than 150 human deaths worldwide, mostly in Britain. Three cases of mad cow disease have been found in the United States. The first, in December 2003 in Washington state, was in a cow that had been imported from Canada. The second, in 2005, was in a cow born in Texas. The third was confirmed last year in an Alabama cow. Found at: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/29/america/NA-GEN-US-Mad-Cow.ph p ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ - Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games.___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] U.S. government fights to keep meatpackers from testing all slaughtered cattle for mad cow
So why doesn't Creekstone just test in Canada or Mexico or anywhere the USDA doesn't have jurisdiction? Fedex. the government doesnt want the extent of mad cow to be known as it is high in some areas. Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See also: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6711179.stm BBC NEWS EU urged to relax farm feed rules 1 June 2007 The European Commission has been urged to lift the ban on using animal remains in farm feed. EU scientists are looking at the safety of using animal by-products... What safety is that? Some people never learn. - K -- The EU is currently funding research on the impacts of feeding animal carcasses to other farm animals. U.S. government fights to keep meatpackers from testing all slaughtered cattle for mad cow The Associated Press Published: May 29, 2007 WASHINGTON: The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease. The Agriculture Department tests fewer than 1 percent of slaughtered cows for the disease, which can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. A beef producer in the western state of Kansas, Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, wants to test all of its cows. Larger meat companies feared that move because, if Creekstone should test its meat and advertised it as safe, they might have to perform the expensive tests on their larger herds as well. The Agriculture Department regulates the test and argued that widespread testing could lead to a false positive that would harm the meat industry. A federal judge ruled in March that such tests must be allowed. U.S. District Judge James Robertson noted that Creekstone sought to use the same test the government relies on and said the government didn't have the authority to restrict it. - A federal judge ruled in March that such tests must be allowed. The ruling was scheduled to take effect June 1, but the Agriculture Department said Tuesday it would appeal, effectively delaying the testing until the court challenge has played out. Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is linked to more than 150 human deaths worldwide, mostly in Britain. Three cases of mad cow disease have been found in the United States. The first, in December 2003 in Washington state, was in a cow that had been imported from Canada. The second, in 2005, was in a cow born in Texas. The third was confirmed last year in an Alabama cow. Found at: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/29/america/NA-GEN-US-Mad-Cow.ph p ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ - Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games.___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] greener by miles
Thanks for the input, Keith, I thought it sounded a little skewered. regards t ---Original Message--- From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Biofuel] greener by miles Sent: 04 Jun '07 14:10 Greener by miles http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/03/nrgreen03.xml This sort of approach can be expected to produce such contradictory results, that food imported from afar may have lower CO2 emissions than local food. Analysis of the industry reveals that for many foods, imported products are responsible for lower carbon dioxide emissions than the same foodstuffs produced in Britain. Even products shipped from the other side of the world emit fewer greenhouse gases than British equivalents. Comparing one segment of the food industry with another segment of the food industry like this on the basis of a single parameter, food miles travelled, probably makes about as much sense as butter-exporting countries importing megatons of butter, as they do, and so on and on and on. The article tut-tuts over simplistic carbon-footprinting, but it'd be a little hard to be more simplistic about it than this national-vs-imported approach. The article only talks about supermarkets, not local farmer's markets or CSAs, nor organic food stores (lots of those in London), let alone allotment gardeners and home gardeners (lots of those in London too). What if industrial food produced wherever was compared with what you get at a local farmer's market? Methinks that's perhaps what Richard Gray might be trying to deflect attention from, among other things. But I think a lot of people have figured it out already, sorry about that Mr Gray. Best Keith ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ Get your daily alternative energy news Alternate Energy Resource Network 1000+ news sources-resources updated daily http://www.alternate-energy.net Next_Generation_Grid http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/next_generation_grid Alternative_Energy_Politics http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Alternative_Energy_Politics Tomorrow-energy http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tomorrow-energy Earth_Rescue_International http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Earth_Rescue_International ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] U.S. government fights to keep meatpackers from testing all slaughtered cattle for mad cow
prob the highest incidence in North America is in the US Colrado Springs is a problem area. It spread into the local deer population. Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So why doesn't Creekstone just test in Canada or Mexico or anywhere the USDA doesn't have jurisdiction? Fedex. the government doesnt want the extent of mad cow to be known as it is high in some areas. Keith Addison wrote: See also: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6711179.stm BBC NEWS EU urged to relax farm feed rules 1 June 2007 The European Commission has been urged to lift the ban on using animal remains in farm feed. EU scientists are looking at the safety of using animal by-products... What safety is that? Some people never learn. - K -- The EU is currently funding research on the impacts of feeding animal carcasses to other farm animals. U.S. government fights to keep meatpackers from testing all slaughtered cattle for mad cow The Associated Press Published: May 29, 2007 WASHINGTON: The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease. The Agriculture Department tests fewer than 1 percent of slaughtered cows for the disease, which can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. A beef producer in the western state of Kansas, Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, wants to test all of its cows. Larger meat companies feared that move because, if Creekstone should test its meat and advertised it as safe, they might have to perform the expensive tests on their larger herds as well. The Agriculture Department regulates the test and argued that widespread testing could lead to a false positive that would harm the meat industry. A federal judge ruled in March that such tests must be allowed. U.S. District Judge James Robertson noted that Creekstone sought to use the same test the government relies on and said the government didn't have the authority to restrict it. - A federal judge ruled in March that such tests must be allowed. The ruling was scheduled to take effect June 1, but the Agriculture Department said Tuesday it would appeal, effectively delaying the testing until the court challenge has played out. Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is linked to more than 150 human deaths worldwide, mostly in Britain. Three cases of mad cow disease have been found in the United States. The first, in December 2003 in Washington state, was in a cow that had been imported from Canada. The second, in 2005, was in a cow born in Texas. The third was confirmed last year in an Alabama cow. Found at: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/29/america/NA-GEN-US-Mad-Cow.ph p ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ - Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games.___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ - Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center.___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] U.S. government fights to keep meatpackers from testing all slaughtered cattle for mad cow
Same problem in NH w/ deer. prob the highest incidence in North America is in the US Colrado Springs is a problem area. It spread into the local deer population. Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So why doesn't Creekstone just test in Canada or Mexico or anywhere the USDA doesn't have jurisdiction? Fedex. the government doesnt want the extent of mad cow to be known as it is high in some areas. Keith Addison wrote: See also: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6711179.stm BBC NEWS EU urged to relax farm feed rules 1 June 2007 The European Commission has been urged to lift the ban on using animal remains in farm feed. EU scientists are looking at the safety of using animal by-products... What safety is that? Some people never learn. - K -- The EU is currently funding research on the impacts of feeding animal carcasses to other farm animals. U.S. government fights to keep meatpackers from testing all slaughtered cattle for mad cow The Associated Press Published: May 29, 2007 WASHINGTON: The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease. The Agriculture Department tests fewer than 1 percent of slaughtered cows for the disease, which can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. A beef producer in the western state of Kansas, Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, wants to test all of its cows. Larger meat companies feared that move because, if Creekstone should test its meat and advertised it as safe, they might have to perform the expensive tests on their larger herds as well. The Agriculture Department regulates the test and argued that widespread testing could lead to a false positive that would harm the meat industry. A federal judge ruled in March that such tests must be allowed. U.S. District Judge James Robertson noted that Creekstone sought to use the same test the government relies on and said the government didn't have the authority to restrict it. - A federal judge ruled in March that such tests must be allowed. The ruling was scheduled to take effect June 1, but the Agriculture Department said Tuesday it would appeal, effectively delaying the testing until the court challenge has played out. Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is linked to more than 150 human deaths worldwide, mostly in Britain. Three cases of mad cow disease have been found in the United States. The first, in December 2003 in Washington state, was in a cow that had been imported from Canada. The second, in 2005, was in a cow born in Texas. The third was confirmed last year in an Alabama cow. Found at: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/29/america/NA-GEN-US-Mad-Cow.ph p ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ - Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games.___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ - Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center.___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages):
Re: [Biofuel] Meth test (was Off topic)
Hi Keith and Jan ; I read this with interest but I am quite confused. Please can we start by exlaining the underlying basis for this test?? Is it that unreacted oil will not dissolve in methanol? Are we trying to dissolve the FAME in methanol and measure the remaining?? If we are, then why is it so important to measure exactly 225g methanol. Why wouldn't 250g be OK for example?? I can understand exactly 25g of biodiesel is necessary, but why exactly 225g methanol? Perhaps I missed this in a previous post. Then when I try an example with your formula I again get confused. Let's say we have perfect biodiesel. So this means all of if will dissolve in the methanol, right? By your formula : m3=m1/m2 m3=25g/225g m3= 0.1 So 0.111 is how much of the FAME is methyl esters for perfect FAME? What does this mean?? Best Regards, Peter G. Thailand --- Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings Jan Sorry for the late reply. Just to add my vote of thanks - the methanol test is simple and useful, it's helped a lot of people. I'd like to add this development to the quality testing section at Journey to Forever, would you agree? All best Keith Dear all. I am very flattered that my methanol method had so much attention. Here is a development of the method: Equipment needed for the analysis 1. One 250 ml separatory funnel 2. One 400 ml beaker (Figure 2) 3. One magnetic stirrer 4. Balancer with 0,05g acc. 5. One 50 ml narrowed neck E-flask Chemicals for the analysis 1. Water free methanol, min 225 g 2. FAME with water content less than 500 ppm, clear, bright and without visible impurities, min 25 g Take the clean beaker and put exactly 225 g of methanol in it. Then add exactly 25g of the biodiesel. Stir the fluids on the stirrer for 2 minutes. Take the beaker off the stirrer ans pour the content into the separation funnel.Take the clean e-flask to the balancer and tarate with the flask. Let any oil phase separate out from the biodiesel/methanol phase and put it in the e-flask. Weigh the content and calculate the result: 1 - m1/m2 = m3 where m1 is the mass of the biodiesel m2 is the amount of methanol m3 is how much of the biodiesel put in that is consisting from methyl esters. The method will show huch much of the material by mass that is soluble in methanol. This includes mostl mono- and diglycerides. The residue consists therefore mostly from unreacted oil. With best Jan Warnqvist ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=listsid=396545433 ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] U.S. government fights to keep meatpackers from testing all slaughtered cattle for mad cow
The beef dont show wasting because they go to market as 2 year olds. But you can bet your bippy the cattle and deer are vectors for the disease. Some of these Malthusians say half the population has got to go. Maybe this is the plan. The British Queens husband, Prince Philip, said he wanted to be reincarnated as a deadly virus in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip,_Duke_of_Edinburgh Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same problem in NH w/ deer. prob the highest incidence in North America is in the US Colrado Springs is a problem area. It spread into the local deer population. Mike Weaver wrote: So why doesn't Creekstone just test in Canada or Mexico or anywhere the USDA doesn't have jurisdiction? Fedex. the government doesnt want the extent of mad cow to be known as it is high in some areas. Keith Addison wrote: See also: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6711179.stm BBC NEWS EU urged to relax farm feed rules 1 June 2007 The European Commission has been urged to lift the ban on using animal remains in farm feed. EU scientists are looking at the safety of using animal by-products... What safety is that? Some people never learn. - K -- The EU is currently funding research on the impacts of feeding animal carcasses to other farm animals. U.S. government fights to keep meatpackers from testing all slaughtered cattle for mad cow The Associated Press Published: May 29, 2007 WASHINGTON: The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease. The Agriculture Department tests fewer than 1 percent of slaughtered cows for the disease, which can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. A beef producer in the western state of Kansas, Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, wants to test all of its cows. Larger meat companies feared that move because, if Creekstone should test its meat and advertised it as safe, they might have to perform the expensive tests on their larger herds as well. The Agriculture Department regulates the test and argued that widespread testing could lead to a false positive that would harm the meat industry. A federal judge ruled in March that such tests must be allowed. U.S. District Judge James Robertson noted that Creekstone sought to use the same test the government relies on and said the government didn't have the authority to restrict it. - A federal judge ruled in March that such tests must be allowed. The ruling was scheduled to take effect June 1, but the Agriculture Department said Tuesday it would appeal, effectively delaying the testing until the court challenge has played out. Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is linked to more than 150 human deaths worldwide, mostly in Britain. Three cases of mad cow disease have been found in the United States. The first, in December 2003 in Washington state, was in a cow that had been imported from Canada. The second, in 2005, was in a cow born in Texas. The third was confirmed last year in an Alabama cow. Found at: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/29/america/NA-GEN-US-Mad-Cow.ph p ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ - Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games.___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ - Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center.___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and
