[Biofuel] Proper intgration of Biofuels for small farms

2007-08-11 Thread Tom Irwin
Hi Keith, I was hoping by asking a generic question with regard to farm size there might be the chance of an answer that I could use for my circumstance. Let me lay out the whole story instead. My land ( I wouldn´t call it a farm yet) is about 4 hectares. There is a tiny stream that in dry years

Re: [Biofuel] International Biodiesel Day

2007-08-11 Thread Mike Weaver
You just can't count on anyone these days - but was it from an African fire-starting procedure that he got the idea? Keith Addison wrote: Hello Mike On this day in 1893 Rudolf Dieselís engine ran for the first time, and it ran on peanut oil. So today we celebrate ìInternational Biodiesel

Re: [Biofuel] Proper intgration of Biofuels for small farms

2007-08-11 Thread Kirk McLoren
I would sell the olive oil and buy something cheaper like canola. Dont forget solar thermal for energy. Properly done it works well. http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/05/08/new-efforts-may-harness-sun-light/ http://www.radford.edu/~wkovarik/envhist/RenHist/3.solar2.html Meanwhile

Re: [Biofuel] Proper intgration of Biofuels for small farms

2007-08-11 Thread Tom Irwin
Hi Kirk, That might be worthwhile if I lived in a more developed country. I´d prefer to keep things as close to my homestead as possible. Transporting one oil to work with another does not make sense in my case.There might bea neighbor closeby to make a trade. I´ll look inyo it when the time

[Biofuel] Fwd: Re: How biofuels could starve the poor

2007-08-11 Thread Keith Addison
Good comment on ethanol from Jim Worstell at SANET, in response to this piece: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070501faessay86305/c-ford-runge-benjam in-senauer/how-biofuels-could-starve-the-poor.html?mode=print Foreign Affairs - How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor - C. Ford Runge and Benjamin

Re: [Biofuel] Proper intgration of Biofuels for small farms

2007-08-11 Thread Keith Addison
Hello Tom I was hoping by asking a generic question with regard to farm size there might be the chance of an answer that I could use for my circumstance. I didn't see it as a question about farm size, you said a small diverse farm, which could mean just about anything, as I said, and that's

[Biofuel] Fwd: Carbon calculators for ag enterprises

2007-08-11 Thread Keith Addison
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:56:23 -0700 From: Misha Gale-Sinex [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Carbon calculators for ag enterprises To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Howdy, all-- Or maybe you'd like carbon calculators for your ag enterprise. :^) Two farmers in Scotland built this tool:

[Biofuel] Fwd: Carbon emissions calculators

2007-08-11 Thread Keith Addison
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:55:57 -0700 From: Misha Gale-Sinex [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Carbon emissions calculators To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Howdy, all-- I was unable to access a carbon footprint calculator at the link Carl shared:

Re: [Biofuel] Proper intgration of Biofuels for small farms

2007-08-11 Thread Tom Irwin
Hello Keith, Your answer was good, I appreciate it.That's a first - I was aware that the Odum links I posted were atDieoff, but I hadn't considered Journey to Forever to be in the samebracket as the odious Jay Hanson, nor shall I. It's quite theopposite, in quite a lot of ways. Other than his