Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: Biofuel Industry Turns Violent and Bloody in Colombia

2007-06-09 Thread Guag Meister
Hi Kirk ; http://www.freeenergynews.com/Directory/Biofuel/index.html Yes this is quite unfortunate. In third world counties money makes the laws. In the Cambodian town of Poipet, trouble started when the casinos moved in. The nearby land became much more valuable and all kinds of trouble

Re: [Biofuel] Fruit Trees *#

2007-06-09 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Bruno It's difficult to say how long compost takes. Certainly it can be finished in three weeks, or three months. It can be finished in 10 days too. I've read warnings from professional composters that it shouldn't take less than seven days because some of the important types of

[Biofuel] Philippines Prepares for $1.3 Billion Jatropha-Based Biofuels Project

2007-06-09 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.industrialinfo.com/showNews.jsp?newsitemID=114152 Philippines Prepares for $1.3 Billion Jatropha-Based Biofuels Project JOHANNESBURG--June 7, 2007--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). The Philippine state-owned company PNOC-Alternative Fuels Corp (Manila)

[Biofuel] Biofuels no threat to Opec, says IEA

2007-06-09 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/a4cd7272-151a-11dc-b48a-000b5df10621.html FT.com / In depth - Biofuels no threat to Opec, says IEA By Ed Crooks and Javier Blas in London Published: June 7 2007 20:17 | Last updated: June 7 2007 20:17 Biofuels will provide only a small proportion of the world's demand

Re: [Biofuel] Best before date

2007-06-09 Thread Keith Addison
Hello Sven With a lot of frustration I just read an article about using biodiesel in marine engines. They (the engine manufacturers) Was that engine manufacturers in general, or did it name them? claim that the diesel will get old an clogg the pipes and the tank, like it would get sour - like

[Biofuel] Drive on biofuels risks oil price surge

2007-06-09 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/aeb9a650-136e-11dc-9866-000b5df10621.html Drive on biofuels risks oil price surge By Javier Blas and Ed Crooks in London Published: June 5 2007 Opec on Tuesday warned western countries that their efforts to develop biofuels as an alternative energy source to combat

Re: [Biofuel] Terra Preta - Magic Soil of the Lost Amazon

2007-06-09 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.acresusa.com/toolbox/reprints/Feb07_TerraPreta.pdf This is a load of sloppy nonsense, typical of the very large load of sloppy nonsense that's been mouthed off about Terra Preta soil in the last few years. Terra Preta - Magic Soil of the Lost Amazon by Allan Balliett, Acres USA,

Re: [Biofuel] Acres USA

2007-06-09 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.acresusa.com/toolbox/articles.htm Acres has always been a mixed bag. Some good stuff (eg William Albrecht, Elaine Ingham, Sally Fallon, Greg Palast, Devinder Sharma, Percy Schmeiser), but I'd pay no heed to Arden Andersen, Neal Kinsey et al, nor to this: Breaking the 'Royal

[Biofuel] Meanwhile, back in the US of A: A price to pay for alternative fuels

2007-06-09 Thread Mike Weaver
THOSE WHO MAKE THEIR OWN ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY GAS CAN AVOID PAIN AT THE PUMP BUT NOT THE TAXES. A price to pay for alternative fuels Some N.C. officials seek relief from obscure laws BRUCE HENDERSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bob Teixeira decided it was time to take a stand against U.S. dependence on

[Biofuel] biodiesel pH

2007-06-09 Thread wilma407
hello, Yes, you are right Andres and Keith. I realise there is no need to measure pH of fresh oil, and to do a titration on the used oils instead, I was not specific enough. So when the wash water has a pH of 7, the biodiesel should also, as the ions should be equal in both solutions. is

Re: [Biofuel] biodiesel pH

2007-06-09 Thread Keith Addison
Hello Josh hello, Yes, you are right Andres and Keith. I realise there is no need to measure pH of fresh oil, and to do a titration on the used oils instead, I was not specific enough. So when the wash water has a pH of 7, the biodiesel should also, as the ions should be equal in both solutions.

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: Biofuel Industry Turns Violent and Bloody in Colombia

2007-06-09 Thread Kirk McLoren
Men have to evolve in their hearts. If one loves money more than his fellow beings then problems follow as night follows day. One would think it self evident greed doesnt work. -Kirk Guag Meister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kirk ; Yes this is quite unfortunate. In third world

Re: [Biofuel] Terra Preta - Magic Soil of the Lost Amazon

2007-06-09 Thread Kirk McLoren
I think it was the Discovery Channel that had videos of these fertile mounds created by the Amazon Indians. They said the charcoal adsorbed nutrients and kept them from being washed away. The mounds were certainly more fertile than the surrounding land. Unfortunately the builders died from

[Biofuel] How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles With Your Future

2007-06-09 Thread Kirk McLoren
Bernays is more pivotal to the creation of modern society than Edison yet few know who he was or what he did Kirk http://www.mercola.com/2001/sep/15/manipulation.htm How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles With Your Future Book Review by Sibylle Hechtel It's

Re: [Biofuel] Best before date

2007-06-09 Thread Svenne Larsson
Hi Keith, and thank you for a very in depth answer. First of all I believe the background is the fact that all fuel companies in Sweden (in the whole Scandinavia I think) decided to start mixing biofuel in all types fuel to get an environmental response immediately. That is, the diesel we buy

[Biofuel] The Plan to Disappear Canada

2007-06-09 Thread dwoodard
I suspect this is part of a plan going back a quarter-century, also that energy is uppermost in the planners' minds . Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario -- http://thetyee.ca/Views/2007/06/08/DeepIntegrate/ [see original