Re: [Biofuel] Major advance in artificial photosynthesis could turn carbon emissions into desirable chemicals

2015-04-17 Thread Chris Burck
Here's an alternative listing: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150416132638.htm -- ¡Ay, Pachamamita! ¡Eres la cosa más bonita! ___ Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org

Re: [Biofuel] Microbeads - Anybody got a source?

2015-04-06 Thread Chris Burck
Hmm, no. You might start with websites that cater to DIY beauty hobbyists. You know, making your own soap and beauty creams and that sort of thing. Just thinking out loud, here. Sorry I can't be if more help. -- ¡Ay, Pachamamita! ¡Eres la cosa más bonita!

Re: [Biofuel] Anybody wants the biofuel gear of Journey to Forever?

2015-02-23 Thread Chris Burck
Midori, Donating the library to Soil and Health was a great idea. They are a wonderful resource. There is a part of me that wants to take some or all of the processors, if only for posterity's sake. But this is unrealistic. It's a near certainty that I will not make use of them anytime soon.

Re: [Biofuel] Yale Environment 360: Solar Shingles Made from Common Metals Offer Cheaper Energy Option

2015-02-15 Thread Chris Burck
P.S. -- Sorry folks, I didn't see what auto correct was doing. That's supposed to be *shingles*, not singles. . . . -- ¡Ay, Pachamamita! ¡Eres la cosa más bonita! ___ Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list

Re: [Biofuel] Yale Environment 360: Solar Shingles Made from Common Metals Offer Cheaper Energy Option

2015-02-15 Thread Chris Burck
Yes, I realize solar singles have been around for a while. Almost a decade now. But until only pretty recently, they were quite expensive in comparison to conventional PV panels. Using coal as a cost benchmark is capricious and arbitrary. When paying our coal-generated electricity bill, is the

Re: [Biofuel] Yale Environment 360: Solar Shingles Made from Common Metals Offer Cheaper Energy Option

2015-02-14 Thread Chris Burck
All well and good. Of course, we need them now, and would have them by now if this ridiculous benchmark of being competitive with coal weren't causing artificial inertia. -- ¡Ay, Pachamamita! ¡Eres la cosa más bonita! ___ Sustainablelorgbiofuel

Re: [Biofuel] Low-Cost Solar Panel Captures Four Times More Energy Producing Solar Electricity Hot Water

2015-02-08 Thread Chris Burck
I've wondered about these issues you mention. What is the threshold temperature, that you'd want to keep your PV below? On Sunday, February 8, 2015, Zeke Yewdall zyewd...@gmail.com wrote: It all depends on the temperatures of the thermal energy and whether you have a use for it. This is

Re: [Biofuel] Anybody wants the biofuel gear of Journey to Forever?

2014-12-16 Thread Chris Burck
, --Chris On Tuesday, December 16, 2014, Thomas Irwin tom...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, Depending on the shipping cost, I would be willing to take the small and the ethanol still. If you are getting rid of the library, I would be happy to add it to mine as a future reference for the group. I

Re: [Biofuel] I think this is important. Is Putin right? What do we do?

2014-11-22 Thread Chris Burck
What Darryl said. -- ¡Ay, Pachamamita! ¡Eres la cosa más bonita! ___ Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org http://lists.eruditium.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel

Re: [Biofuel] The Future of the Biofuels mailing list, your input needed.

2014-11-20 Thread Chris Burck
Yay! On Nov 20, 2014 5:50 PM, Chip Mefford c...@well.com wrote: Well, I gotta admit, I've gotten a huge response to my query, and honestly I wasn't expecting it. Aside from the responses you've all perhaps read, I've received many off-list as well. Okay, we'll leave it up.

Re: [Biofuel] The Future of the Biofuels mailing list, your input needed.

2014-11-19 Thread Chris Burck
I think I echo pretty much everybody else's responses thus far. My time is super limited right now, so I have little to contribute. I do see the updates that get posted, though, and read them. Please let us know what you decide. ___

Re: [Biofuel] Keith Addison passed away

2014-11-05 Thread Chris Burck
accomplishment. Keeping it available online, is a fitting tribute. --Chris On Wednesday, November 5, 2014, Keith Addison ke...@journeytoforever.org wrote: Dear biofuel friends, Keith, who contributed so much to the handmade biofuel movement and related appropriate technology and organic movements

Re: [Biofuel] CO2 concentration in atmosphere now 42% higher than before industrial age: World Meteorological Organization

2014-09-10 Thread Chris Burck
We're going to be at 500ppm in the blink of an eye. On Sep 10, 2014 7:29 AM, Darryl McMahon dar...@econogics.com wrote: http://www.canadianunderwriter.ca/news/co2-concentration-in- atmosphere-now-42-higher-than-before-industrial-age-world- meteorological/1003244978/30sslyW42vwv682rM2vx/?ref=

Re: [Biofuel] WV chemical company fined $11, 000 for poisoning 300, 000 people's drinking water

2014-07-11 Thread Chris Burck
So freaking lame. Corporate welfare knows no bounds. On Jul 9, 2014 4:18 PM, Darryl McMahon dar...@econogics.com wrote: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/08/wv-chemical-company-fined-11000-for- poisoning-30-peoples-drinking-water/ [Perhaps I have too high an opinion of myself, but I

Re: [Biofuel] Do-it-yourself biodiesel : Don't try this at home

2014-06-25 Thread Chris Burck
This sounds like a shill piece. On Jun 24, 2014 3:31 PM, Darryl McMahon dar...@econogics.com wrote: http://www.therecord.com/news-story/4595225-do-it-yourself- biodiesel-don-t-try-this-at-home/ [FUD. Why is there an implicit assumption that motivated people of average intelligence can't

Re: [Biofuel] Performance, emissions, and heat losses of palm and jatropha biodiesel blends in a diesel engine

2014-05-28 Thread Chris Burck
This seems to imply a large loss of combustion efficiency, with a lot of (noncombusted) fuel going out the tailpipe. Is the engine running for sinistral vs. biodiesel really so different? On May 28, 2014 11:26 AM, Darryl McMahon dar...@econogics.com wrote:

Re: [Biofuel] Continuous Process Transforms Algae to Biogas

2014-02-25 Thread Chris Burck
Hmm. Could this work? So far, all the algae energy hype has been just that, hype. Algae can give you a great biofuel, but just doesn't scale up. It's a small is 'beautifuel' thing. On Feb 25, 2014 11:22 AM, Darryl McMahon dar...@econogics.com wrote:

[Biofuel] David Suzuki's Fukushima Warning Is Dire And Scary

2014-01-11 Thread Chris Burck
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/11/04/david-suzuki-fukushima-warning_n_4213061.html David Suzuki has issued a scary warning about Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, saying that if it falls in a future earthquake, it's bye bye Japan and the entire west coast of North America should be evacuated.

Re: [Biofuel] Climate Change 2013: Where We Are Now - Not What You Think

2013-12-30 Thread Chris Burck
Goods article, in terms of presenting the data and critiquing the climate denial movement. But almost depressingly disappointing in the way it nosedived into a sales pitch at the very end, with fuzzy math and false equivalencies. There's no doubt a strong argument to be made for air capture (in

Re: [Biofuel] With BMW’s i3, a major automaker shifts the EV market with composites

2013-11-07 Thread Chris Burck
Precisely, Dawie. On Nov 7, 2013 1:53 PM, Dawie Coetzee dawie_coet...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I've been noticing Big Oil pushing plastics feedstocks instead of fuels ...-D From: Jake Kruger kruger.j...@gmail.com To:

Re: [Biofuel] Are Utility Companies Out to Destroy Solar's 'Rooftop Revolution'?

2013-10-13 Thread Chris Burck
Ha ha. Yup On Oct 13, 2013 4:33 PM, Chip Mefford c...@well.com wrote: In a word? Yu Becha! ___ Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org

Re: [Biofuel] Battery Breakthrough?

2013-04-20 Thread Chris Burck
I'm somewhat less skeptical. There have indeed been quite a few breakthrough battery concepts over the past decade or so, which have never materialized commercially. But this one has something. Or things, I should say. First, the chemistry is pretty much pre-lithium-sounding; almost a hybrid

Re: [Biofuel] What Could the Massacre of 40, 000 Elephants Possibly Teach Us?

2013-03-30 Thread Chris Burck
Yes, I saw this a few weeks back. Kept meaning to post it here. Fortunately there are others on the list more on the ball than me. Thanks, Keith. There were a one or two things that bothered me about the talk, though. Firstly, from my recollection he makes no mention of CAFOs. None. He also

Re: [Biofuel] Amazing Wikipedia comment on Biogas

2013-03-26 Thread Chris Burck
Wikipedia has sanitized that entry, but it's still in the Google search engine cache. Too funny. ___ Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org

[Biofuel] To Darryl, Robert, Sandbh and. . . .

2013-03-17 Thread Chris Burck
I'd like to say thanks for your efforts with the daily postings. It is really appreciated. Respect. Was there a volunteer to handle Truthout? I thought at one point I saw someone say they'd step up but haven't really been able to stay on top of it. One thing I noticed, though, is that on the

Re: [Biofuel] To Darryl, Robert, Sandbh and. . . .

2013-03-17 Thread Chris Burck
: On 3/17/2013 9:30 AM, Chris Burck wrote: I'd like to say thanks for your efforts with the daily postings. It is really appreciated. Respect. Was there a volunteer to handle Truthout? I thought at one point I saw someone say they'd step up but haven't really been able to stay on top

Re: [Biofuel] To Darryl, Robert, Sandbh and. . . .

2013-03-17 Thread Chris Burck
BTW I shared that one on Facebook, about Israeli ethnic cleansing (I assume that's the one you're referring to). Immediately got pounced on. Textbook example of someone who refuses to confront their own irrationality. The best I could get out of him was there've been mistakes on both sides.

Re: [Biofuel] IDF Sends Helicopter to Save the Life of PA Arab Rioter

2013-02-26 Thread Chris Burck
So all of those missiles and bombs and bullets that rain down on Gaza and the West Bank; the roadblocks, checkpoints and blockade; the total Israeli control of infrastructure, etc., etc., etc. . .is all really just part of a vast, pro-Palestinian humanitarian program on the part of the Israelis?

Re: [Biofuel] Let's Give Up on the Constitution

2013-01-10 Thread Chris Burck
If I may interject briefly, I saw a very timely political cartoon the other day: A bunch of founding father-looking dudes are gathered round a writing desk, where another is seated with quill in hand. One of the fellows on his feet asks, Are you sure everyone will know we're being ironic? On Jan

Re: [Biofuel] Climate Change Is Happening Now - A Carbon Price Must Follow

2012-12-04 Thread Chris Burck
And more. They just keep getting hammered: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/03-5 On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Keith Addison ke...@journeytoforever.orgwrote: Climate Experts To World: Act Boldly Now, or Pay Severely Later There is still time to avert worst impacts of climate

Re: [Biofuel] Anti-nuclear madness doesn't jibe with concern about global warming

2012-12-03 Thread Chris Burck
Actually, Porritt seems to see the need for a greater emphasis on local-scale power, though to what extent I can't tell (Perhaps this, in addition to nuclear's absolutely atrocious record in terms of safety and compliance and cost, is a factor in his opposition to nuclear.). Whereas Monbiot makes

Re: [Biofuel] Anti-nuclear madness doesn't jibe with concern about global warming

2012-12-03 Thread Chris Burck
Do you have a link for the PASA conference presentation/keynote? On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Chip Mefford c...@well.com wrote: Ooops, Wrong presentation, But it's still directly germane. - Original Message - From: Chip Mefford c...@well.com To:

Re: [Biofuel] Retail Madness

2012-12-01 Thread Chris Burck
Robert, Nice essay. Buy more stuff. Confuse everyone. That had me in stitches. Just Wonderful. Your post came on the heels of a interview program the other day. This guy had written a book critiquing holiday consumerism. He was pretty good. So somewhere he brings up iron lady thatcher,

Re: [Biofuel] Retail Madness

2012-12-01 Thread Chris Burck
Oops, that's hilarious: I can't read Chinese or Japanese, so all the neon buy-buy-buy signs were just a kind of rather pretty abstract art to me. -- ¡Ay, Pachamamita! ¡Eres la cosa más bonita! ___ Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list

Re: [Biofuel] Anti-nuclear madness doesn't jibe with concern about global warming

2012-11-30 Thread Chris Burck
Hi Keith, True enough. Admittedly, my initial rection was unduly harsh. I don't think any of us thought dear old George is in anybody's pocket though. So IMHO we can't (yet) convict Mr Dyer on any evidence that's beyond reasonable doubt. However, i remember the monbiot piece (the one

Re: [Biofuel] Anti-nuclear madness doesn't jibe with concern about global warming

2012-11-30 Thread Chris Burck
Yes, I wholeheartedly agree. Monbiot can't be criticized for pointing out the complicated mess we're in. These are sticky issues indeed. Until we recognize, collectively, that a fundamental restructuring lies at the heart of it, we will forever find ourselves choosing whatever seems the least

Re: [Biofuel] AP Believes It Found Evidence of Iran's Work on Nuclear Weapons

2012-11-30 Thread Chris Burck
AP were way off the mark on this one. Clearly that graph demonstrates that Iran is not merely researching 'da bomb', but possess knowledge which only comes from having secretly built and detonated many, many bombs. In fact it appears they are poised to leapfrog the u.s. in nuclear weapons

Re: [Biofuel] Anti-nuclear madness doesn't jibe with concern about global warming

2012-11-29 Thread Chris Burck
Hi, Keith. Thanks much, all. I didn't post this piece because I thought it was a great article. I, for one, certainly did not think that was why you posted it (and I doubt anyone else did, either). Apologies if it seemed that way. As Daryl says, one can usually expect better of Dyer. .

Re: [Biofuel] Anti-nuclear madness doesn't jibe with concern about global warming

2012-11-28 Thread Chris Burck
Dyer was **so*obviously** hacking for the nuke industry on this one. the piece is so riddled with industry distortions and and falsehoods, either he (or the nuke PR guy who wrote it for him) must have been making progressive commission on a per-deviation-from-the-truth basis. Seriously,

Re: [Biofuel] The GM tree plantations bred to satisfy the world's energy needs

2012-11-27 Thread Chris Burck
Hmm, so 'rogue cattle farmers' seeking a quick profit, and aided by death squads to silence opposition, basically carry out the Brazillian incarnation of Enclosure Movement 2.0. In so doing, they contribute mightily to pushing the ecosystem and climate to the breaking point. And now, instead

Re: [Biofuel] Anonymous, Karl Rove and 2012 Election Fix?

2012-11-22 Thread Chris Burck
ha, i was about to post this one. an investigation into the '04 ohio election results was opened, but stalled and was then dropped (i'm not clear on why). it was then picked up by some attorneys (again, somewhat murky: what was their competence? haven't had a chance yet to try and dig for

Re: [Biofuel] Anonymous, Karl Rove and 2012 Election Fix?

2012-11-22 Thread Chris Burck
a part of his radio slot once or twice a week. oh, well, it is what it is. . . . On Nov 22, 2012 4:48 PM, Keith Addison ke...@journeytoforever.org wrote: Hi Chris ha, i was about to post this one. Please don't let that discourage you! Follow-up below. All best Keith an investigation

Re: [Biofuel] Is GDP's Reign as the Only Measure of Wealth Coming to an End?

2012-10-26 Thread Chris Burck
and 3 months. later he was assassinated (or executed). . . .coincidence? On Oct 24, 2012 2:31 PM, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/22-9 Published on Monday, October 22, 2012 by The Guardian Is GDP's Reign as the Only Measure of Wealth Coming to

Re: [Biofuel] Dear all...

2012-10-12 Thread Chris Burck
chip that would be amazing. keith, au contraire, it is you who should *take* a bow. you have done a great service. truly. the first time i ran across jtf, i don't know how long the list had been around (and come to think of it, i still don't lol), but it seemed very well established and my

Re: [Biofuel] Turning tobacco into fuel

2012-05-17 Thread Chris Burck
funded by altria, a family company. . . . On May 16, 2012 5:30 PM, Juan Boveda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list members. This technique shown in the video from the UC Berkeley is by no means something a backyarder can do in a short time. It shows in YouTube how they are using a lot of

Re: [Biofuel] From Keith at Journey to Forever

2012-05-15 Thread Chris Burck
lol, maybe i should try that with my mortgage! On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Anyway, the list host remains unpaid. But it emerges that since payment wasn't made on time, the list couldn't be closed down on time either. So I get another year by

Re: [Biofuel] Capitalism vs. the Climate - Naomi Klein

2011-12-16 Thread Chris Burck
the grip is, indeed, not so deep. but it's a grip of iron, nonetheless. basically, i find people buy into the belief system(s) of the power structure. not because they've been brainwashed or 'implanted' as it were. but because they know it's what's expected. they know it's convenient. this

Re: [Biofuel] Algae Biofuel business develops a new production facility on the Eyre Peninsula

2011-12-09 Thread Chris Burck
what's got me scratching my head is this: oloid pond mixing nanotechnology wha. . .?!? On Dec 7, 2011 9:26 AM, Darryl McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.environmental-expert.com/news/algarythm-australia-270152 5 December 2011 -- Algarythm Pty Ltd is the operating company of the

Re: [Biofuel] Time for U.S. to say yes to Canadian oil sands

2011-09-02 Thread Chris Burck
woof. On Sep 1, 2011 1:31 PM, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really? http://search.japantimes.co.jp:80/mail/eo20110831rs.html Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011 Time for U.S. to say yes to Canadian oil sands By ROBERT J. SAMUELSON The Washington Post WASHINGTON - When it comes to

Re: [Biofuel] Daylight Robbery, Meet Nighttime Robbery

2011-08-19 Thread Chris Burck
in the good old usa, the irs defines the highest income bracket as: $50 million and up. it's a tax bracket consisting of 74 individuals. these 74 individuals control fully one half the wealth of the u.s. On Aug 18, 2011 6:48 AM, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- next part

Re: [Biofuel] ALEC Exposed: Protecting Factory Farms and Sewage Sludge?

2011-08-12 Thread Chris Burck
a public radio program out of philadelphia recently did this story: http://www.npr.org/2011/07/21/138537515/how-alec-shapes-state-politics-behind-the-scenes and this: http://www.npr.org/2011/07/21/138575665/national-chairman-of-alec-responds-to-report that ssecond item is i think a result of

Re: [Biofuel] Fukushima media cover-up - PR success, public health disaster

2011-06-14 Thread Chris Burck
atoms for peace. . . . On Jun 14, 2011 5:53 PM, Midori Hiraga (JTF) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I think he is describing the situation here quite well. Midori from ENE News:

Re: [Biofuel] Japanese are eating food contaminated by radioactivity

2011-06-03 Thread Chris Burck
funny how the memory works. this reminded me of another detail that was in that radio program i had mentioned in the other thread. apparently, it was normal in japan for fresh goods to be labeled as to their placecountry of origin. that practice seems to have come to an abrupt halt. On Jun 1,

Re: [Biofuel] Fukushima and Chernobyl

2011-05-31 Thread Chris Burck
zeke, those are radioactive *emissions*. there's an overlap in nomenclature. my fault for not clarifying. i was referring to radioactive particles in the sense of contaminated or dirty particles, which will generally be fairly large and don't enter very easily through the skin. On May 31, 2011

Re: [Biofuel] Fukushima and Chernobyl

2011-05-30 Thread Chris Burck
keith, the radio program i mentioned is one i've listened to for many years. the guy does his research and doesn't just bring on random people off the street. the woman's name was hitomi kamanaka; a filmmaker and anti-nuclear activist. the interview (3-way, there was also an american academic)

Re: [Biofuel] Fukushima and Chernobyl

2011-05-29 Thread Chris Burck
a local radio program had a japanese guest this past week, to discuss fukushima. I was only able to catch a small bit of it. one thing that stuck in my mind, was she said many people in tokyo are ignoring recommendations to wear surgical masks. the interviewer asked is this really effective our

Re: [Biofuel] Human Intelligence and the Environment

2011-05-21 Thread Chris Burck
beautifully said, dawie. On May 19, 2011 12:13 AM, Dawie Coetzee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20110521/85636839/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list

Re: [Biofuel] Human Intelligence and the Environment

2011-05-21 Thread Chris Burck
i think dawie was referring more to the placement of the eyes. at least that was how i understood his meaning. mammals = both eyes in front VS. birds (or fish, reptiles, whatever) = one eye either side of head. so with a dog we're more sort of automatically aware they're looking at us. oh, and

Re: [Biofuel] Human Intelligence and the Environment

2011-05-20 Thread Chris Burck
On May 18, 2011 8:46 PM, bmolloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all, Re whales choosing to return to the sea. wow, i'm surprised a little by the reaction that proposition is getting. The statement seems to turn natural selection on its head. i don't think so. My

Re: [Biofuel] Human Intelligence and the Environment

2011-05-15 Thread Chris Burck
quite true keith. you've touched on some points i've been meaning to bring to bring to bear on this discussion. hopefully i'll find some time to contribute more. robert, i was trying to draw you into the discussion as a thought exercise (the thing about the whales). this very question was put

Re: [Biofuel] Human Intelligence and the Environment

2011-05-13 Thread Chris Burck
some define intelligence as the ability to comprehend; or to compute. to grok. others like to define it as the ability to think adaptively, i.e. to learn from experience. those are probably the two most common uses of the word. people don't usually think of intelligence in terms of morality.

Re: [Biofuel] Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power (George Monbiot)

2011-04-22 Thread Chris Burck
yes, that's a good link, darryl. I read it when you posted. and as usual, keith, you've followed up with a ton of good material more. thanks. the reports coming out of fukushima, about the ridiculous iodine levels being nothing to worry about, for example. or the links you posted, keith,

Re: [Biofuel] NEWS - Clean transportation alternative

2011-04-22 Thread Chris Burck
yes, well, I agree with your point about the question really being about walking, and that bicycling will naturally flow from that. wrt car culture, this is a notion that i have always considered to be corporate in origin. big auto, big oil, big development/real estate. big brother. the whole

Re: [Biofuel] NEWS - Clean transportation alternative

2011-04-21 Thread Chris Burck
dawie, as usual you have lifted the veil and voiced what lies at the core of the discussion. however, you aren't actually suggesting that car culture rhetoric is original to the carfree crowd? On Apr 20, 2011 5:14 PM, Dawie Coetzee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The thing to understand is that

Re: [Biofuel] The Planet Strikes Back

2011-04-20 Thread Chris Burck
asimov, he was a sinister one. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20110420/982ed1a6/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org

Re: [Biofuel] The Planet Strikes Back

2011-04-16 Thread Chris Burck
rather amateurish, imho. esp. for an academic. maybe he's writing down to a mass audience? On Apr 16, 2011 8:36 AM, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Human rapaciousness, Gaia the avenger? Mr Clare thinks it's humans that are doing this? We? Us? Our? Maybe Gaia won't make the

Re: [Biofuel] Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power (George Monbiot)

2011-03-31 Thread Chris Burck
starting to sermonize which is one of the worst forms of human interaction. i think it was chip who said that one of the best forms of communication is to *do*. couldn't agree more. anyway, hoping everyone is well, -chris -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL

Re: [Biofuel] Legality of WVO in commercial application

2010-06-30 Thread Chris Burck
can the guy explain a little about why he draws this conclusion about taxes? not that i doubt the notion. in fact, he could well be right. but it would help to know what information he's working with. ___ Biofuel mailing list

Re: [Biofuel] The Other Oil Giants? Just as Unready as BP

2010-06-25 Thread Chris Burck
there's something that seems to have gone completely under the radar of the media (or they're willfully avoiding the question) in their coverage of the gulf catastrofe. they report from time to time that bp has brought, or is bringing, this or that asset to the gulf to add a certain capability in

Re: [Biofuel] Whales hunting ban - final vote

2010-06-18 Thread Chris Burck
i know! i was tempted to sneak several yet agains in there. re the whale story, i heard it on the radio, and just googled whale and feces and iron, which gave a lot of hits. the first link was an article in mother jones from a couple days ago (which mentioned the australians' findings were

Re: [Biofuel] Whales hunting ban - final vote

2010-06-17 Thread Chris Burck
talk about synchronicity. i heard two tidbits today. first (note that i didn't have time to cross-check this one), the latest data indicates that the oceans are even warmer, and warming at a faster rate, than had been thought until now. which means that global warming is farther along than

Re: [Biofuel] To answer your questions

2010-06-16 Thread Chris Burck
jim, i posed some questions early on, which i'm glad to see you answered (in part) when responding to jason. it would still help to know what sort of funds you have to work with. whether it be your economic development budget, or other funding streams which might be under the control of other

Re: [Biofuel] 12% renewable energy in electrical production by 2025

2010-06-13 Thread Chris Burck
jim, it might be helpful if we understood better, under what sort of policy constraints you are working. what are your funding streams (i.e. ballpark dollar amounts) and what kind of mandates/conditions come attached to them? i could go on. basically, what i'm trying to get at, how much

Re: [Biofuel] 12% renewable energie in electrical production by 2025

2010-06-13 Thread Chris Burck
hi, keith. sorry if my last post had a negative nelly tone. didn't mean for it to sound that way, but didn't have the time to consider composition. well, not now either. not even in bed yet and i have to start all over again in 4 and a half hrs! anyway, i hope you're right about ppl being

Re: [Biofuel] More mad dogs

2010-06-10 Thread Chris Burck
your oil and israel post is an incredible piece of writing, keith. you so obviously went into the right profession. tried checking out the arundhati roy link, but seems lannan has revamped their website in the intervening years, and the transcript is no longer offered in html. will have to make

Re: [Biofuel] More mad dogs

2010-06-09 Thread Chris Burck
wow, somehow i never expected to see the u.s.s liberty come up on this list. the story is well documented (as secret non-incidents go) and is slowly penetrating the american pryche. i first heard of it many years ago when the local npr station interviewed a former cia guy who had just published

Re: [Biofuel] X Prize for 100 mpg car

2010-06-02 Thread Chris Burck
thanks for that, hoagy. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and

Re: [Biofuel] X Prize for 100 mpg car

2010-06-02 Thread Chris Burck
thanks for that, hoagy. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and

Re: [Biofuel] Scum of the earth

2010-05-27 Thread Chris Burck
hi, keith. thanks for the links. no time to check them out in depth right now. i heard a little a really horrifying little factoid yesterday, which is that apparently the ocean floor in that region is. . .highly porous, for lack for a better word. so concievably many of the contaminants in the

Re: [Biofuel] An electrifying twist on the energy from algae story

2010-04-26 Thread Chris Burck
the best biofuels idea i've heard is kelp farming. extremely practical, easily managed both from a production and an environmental standpoint. algea has astounding potential on paper, but you start throwing genetic engineering, bioreactors, venting waste gases, etc., etc., you're just

Re: [Biofuel] Acid-base chemistry

2010-04-21 Thread Chris Burck
lol, yeah, moles for sure are kind of tricky. precisely because of the things you mention. (i dropped chem in college. there was no way i was going to pass if i stuck it out.) thanks for sharing your impression of the youtube guy. sorry if it was waste of your time.

Re: [Biofuel] Judge: Gene Patents Are Invalid

2010-04-21 Thread Chris Burck
not exactly, ken. at least, as i understand it, GMOs do not contain manufactured genes. they are merely transplanting already existing genetic material into organisms which heretofore did not contain said genes in their genome (and thus the attributes of the transplanted genes could not be

Re: [Biofuel] Not exactly biodiesel they way we usually think of it, but still interesting

2010-04-21 Thread Chris Burck
cool stuff. On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Darryl McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Binding biomass (lignin) with conventional diesel to reduce soot. http://w3.tue.nl/en/news/news_article/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=9245tx_ttnews[backPid]=361cHash=519bda9553 Darryl -- Darryl McMahon The

Re: [Biofuel] Acid-base chemistry

2010-04-19 Thread Chris Burck
meaning to check some of this guy's stuff out myself (really need to revisit a lot of high school math), but haven't gotten around to it yet. -chris On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I have difficulty with moles. I do know how to figure it out, in theory

Re: [Biofuel] pv biz

2010-03-10 Thread Chris Burck
i don't know the particulars of the power industry in the u.k. (such as whether the 'traditional' generators are subsidized), but while monbiot makes some valid points his conclusion seems flawed. it's less a question of whether to suasidize or not to subsidize, than one of how to structure the

Re: [Biofuel] Aftermath of Copenhagen

2010-01-06 Thread Chris Burck
On 1/6/10, MH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like your idea Darryl and I'll see if I can join in and do that. My apartment managers just added more insulation to the ceiling and around the foundation. They also replaced all the bulbs with compact fluorescent lights that I didn't get around to.

Re: [Biofuel] Scientists Create Lab-Grown Pork; Bacon Industry Unmoved

2009-12-04 Thread Chris Burck
yawn wake me when they've done it with spam. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the

Re: [Biofuel] Scientists Create Lab-Grown Pork; Bacon Industry Unmoved

2009-12-04 Thread Chris Burck
h was thinking the same thing. no animals were harmed in this incrementation of the human suffering index. On 12/5/09, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yawn wake me when they've done it with spam. :-) Sorry, we're fresh out of spam. No spam with spam either. Soyburger perhaps? It comes

Re: [Biofuel] Documentaries

2009-12-03 Thread Chris Burck
zeitgeist is on my to see list. in fact i've bumped it to top spot thanks to jim's comments. i've seen a ton of documentaries in the past year. while i have enjoyed most all of them and applaud their efforts, few have left lasting impressions. those which i would most highly recommend are

Re: [Biofuel] Amazing pictures - pollution in China

2009-10-31 Thread Chris Burck
looking at the photos, i was reminded of the documentary _Manufactured Landscapes_. amazing stuff, just a *ton* of incredible images, and the opening sequence is unforgettable. so is the rest of the film for that matter. strongly recommended. you won't regret it.

Re: [Biofuel] A Greener Commute

2009-10-28 Thread Chris Burck
excellent links. the splc list is interesting in the preponderence of items from the clinton years: could that explain at least in part why the republicans so zealously pursued his undoing? equally noteworthy is the complete lack of awareness the american public has, either of the crimes and

Re: [Biofuel] A Greener Commute

2009-10-27 Thread Chris Burck
you're right, keith. thanks for taking the time to point that out. it's a sort of double-think process. there's no doubt in my mind that many of those who have dialed down their sense of urgency vis a vis global warming still believe it's a serious problem, but the mild temps means part of their

Re: [Biofuel] American Public More Complacent About Climate Change

2009-10-25 Thread Chris Burck
these polling changes are probably less attributable to the issues of the day (health care debate, financial crisis), than to the fact that we have had a very below normal temperature pattern for some twelve months now. while highly unusual and almost certainly due to the strange effects of

Re: [Biofuel] Fuji to enter hybrid car race

2009-10-21 Thread Chris Burck
wow, with a 660cc engine, 50 percent more fuel efficient must refer to some already very high mpg vehicles. and of course, fuji isn't in the u.s. car market. . . . ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org

Re: [Biofuel] lye electrolysis for rust removal

2009-10-20 Thread Chris Burck
oh, duh. . . .thanks for the correction. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the

Re: [Biofuel] lye electrolysis for rust removal

2009-10-19 Thread Chris Burck
hi, all, thanks for the replies. i do understand that it won't restore an item to original condition. i was just curious why some would choose to add zinc to the lye bath. seems sort of. . .i'm not sure what word i'm looking for. just seems to needlessly complicate things. keith, you linked

[Biofuel] lye electrolysis for rust removal

2009-10-18 Thread Chris Burck
out of curiosity, i did a web search for lye and rust. the search gave 650,000 hits, including some discussion right here. some people add zinc to the lye solution, the idea being, apparently, that the zinc replaces the iron in the iron oxide. anyone have any thoughts on whether there's any

Re: [Biofuel] OIL-PULLING

2009-10-14 Thread Chris Burck
We are receiving many emails about which oil to use. Our experience with thousands of people. . .says snakeoil! ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at

Re: [Biofuel] OIL-PULLING

2009-10-14 Thread Chris Burck
well, perhaps not completely snakeoil. it may work quite well as a means of oral hygiene (which is all they're talking about), even as compared to, say, rinsing with salt water. but they're grossly misrepresenting what's going on here. ___ Biofuel

Re: [Biofuel] U. S. Head of Military Intelligence Publically States 9/11 was Staged Event

2009-09-20 Thread Chris Burck
lol, i don't know. normally, i can't get anywhere at science publication websites either. it's possible, and i meant to mention this when i posted the url, that they gave it to me because there was a link for some sort of free subscription whereby you could get access to a large number of SI's

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