If you get rotted horse manure next year (rotted being a word that
covers a host of sins) use it to make compost.
We used to have a nice local farmer who used straw to bed the horses down in
and he just piled the old bedding up in one long 25 ton heap so the old end
was about 5 years old.
Forget about fertilisers (like bloodmeal,
bonemeal etc), whether organic or not, as Robert says it's just
replacing chemical fertilizers with non chemical fertilizers. Use
sifted compost and compost tea.
Some compost has virtually no ability to fertilise anything, I got caught
out this year
Save the animals and stop wasting
water by using itfor irrigation, legalize murder and encourage
cannibalism. Problem solved, how's that for radical? Chris.
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But for the contamination: they are fed on genetically modified protein:
would you trust it??)
No, I do my best never to eat any GM products but it's not easy with the US
pushing GM products and out stupid PM acting as Bushes puppet. Luckily there
is a large proportion of the population
Question for anyone who knows:
Is it too cold for him to grow Jerusalem artichokes? I've heard they take no
irrigation and are very good for making ethanol.
I do not know about their temperature range but don't they require good
fertile soil? Chris.
I suspect with the projected prices and profits that they will not
need new refineries. When fuel hits $5 as I suspect it will most of us wont take
motor vacations etc. Carpooling will be back in vogue and SUVs will be hybrids.
I'm already paying nearlly 8 dollars a UK gallon
for diesel,
I also understand that we are not permitted to store more than
20 litres of 'fuel' on domestic property here, is this true? and if so
what is the workaround ;-)
Hi Matt, you used to be able to get a license from the local fire brigade to
store fuel in your workshop. Chris.
So what happens when the left rear geodex valve explodes, scattering
nanoparticles into the warp engines??
Scotty has to fix it. Chris
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That is the problems with engineers, they do not read the whole
thing! I had many engineers working with me and it is amazing how
little they read, before starting to do things. It was my most used
instruction, please read the manual
There was an exam paper set in Sussex Uni. in the 80s for
I find I can only tolerate organic coffee.
I did not realise the organic labelmeant it
had to be hand picked, I just thought it was grown without
chemicals. Chris
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A lot of small brass and alloy foundries that
use small furnacesuse Diesel or Kerosene as the source of heat.
and high pressure air/oxy, no way can the temps needed to
melt steel be reached by wind blown air. Chris
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Is there something in the water in Utah? Didn't Jones
collaborate with Fleischmann and Pons in the cold fusion fiasco?
If Cold Fusion is such a fiasco why has £400
million been spent on buying up C.P. patents.
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I'm behind Creekstone all the way, if they want to test, then they should
be
allowed to test. the USDA is being ridiculous. its good business to ensure
quality and safety, and it will probably boost their reputation as well.
The problem is that Japan has refused at least 2 container ship
The Agriculture Department threatened criminal
prosecution if Creekstonedid the tests, according to the company's lawsuit
filed in U.S. DistrictCourt in Washington.
That is scary, it looks like they don't want
independent testing. I wonder what they are hiding.
Chris.
So what do you do with people who shut themselves off from reality like
that?
Well us Brits and the Americans seem to make them our leaders. Chris
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I always assumed carotene comes from carrots - am I wrong here?
Natural carotene does but that's not what gets put in food these days,
nearly all the additives are synthetic or GM. Chris
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Hi Bob, I know you can buy real and artificial here in the UK, around 20
years ago so much funny BC was going into sweets kids were getting high on
it. I can't find the paper I wanted but the links below show it is being
produce in strange ways. Chris
After all, we did add lead to gasoline for knock until the
treehuggers made us stop. ;)
No we added lead because it cut the cost of producing fuel that did not
knock. There is no need to add lead (Russia stopped in 1956) it just made
more profit for the petrol companies. Chris
Muslims do not believe that Jesus existed,
Yes they do, only they say he was just another Christian prophet. Chris.
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We're looking at buying a place in Spain with 3000 sq m of groves, so I'm
trying to work out the affordability.
Firstly unless you have exceptional olive trees you would be lucky to get 30
euros per tree from what I've seen on Discovery. Buying in Spain can be a
nightmare so use an English
I must have missed a thread here, just why is Iran due to be nuked?. I hope
it is not for its enriching program which is quiet legal under international
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The last thing that the U.S. wants is countries trading oil in euros
instead of U.S. dollars
It must see the writing is already on the wall, I believe Europe pays Russia
in euros for its gas and oil. What if Canada gets paid in euros for its oil
by China, does it get lined up for a good
How many 50 watt panels do you need...
It just stated the production and installation of
each 50 watt unit costs were recouped in 2 years( used in South Africa ),
leaving another 15 to 18 years of useful life before degrading became to great.
I think this was the link Ifound.
My attitude is a little more forgiving. If all they have to offer is
what you mentioned earlier, then I could not have repeated your sentiments any
better. But first, I want to see the numbers.
I looked up the cells with Google and one site said
the cost of a 50 watt panel was recouped in
I am so sorry to say that nothing you can eat will
stop the heavy metals contamination if they are in your food or water.
I do not know about food or water but our railway painters
were given free milk to drink because of the lead based paints they had to
use. Chris
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It seems that one of the compounds in garlic acts as a chelating agent
for heavy metals.
Just remember that to be effective garlic has to be
eaten fresh and raw, garlic capsules don't work. Chris
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"We have an attitude that no one will connect all those dots. But
these programs are about connecting those dots -analyzing and aggregating them -
in a way that we haven't thought about.
What bothers me is what they call suspicious
activity. I was stopped and grilled about what I was
What I was told is that there is one consistent factor in all Sudden Infant
Death and that is each and every one was delivered at birth by a medical
doctor using forceps.
Sorry but I am afraid to say that is not true, a good friend lost one of her
babies to cot death about 3 months after a
Is al-Qaida an organisation with a command structure and a mastermind who
gives
orders that are obeyed? Or is it more like a movement, and Bin Laden its
inspiration?
A lot of experts think it's more a movement or people following an idea. Bin
had his own army, weren't they called Taliban.
Can they be sealed against contamination for 40 years?
I recon 4 years would be plenty long enough, I have
not met anyonewith acomputer that's has not been worked on in the
first 4 years of its life. Chris.
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Public schools were run by the Catholic Church in
Newfoundland and Labrador for many years, and the world did not end.
The Catholic Church still run lots of schools in the UK and
most are a lot better than our stateschools.The Protestant schools
were mostly taken over by the state after
How may examples does history have to providefor some
people to understand the utter failureof religion in government to
maintain equality among its citizens?
Just look at British history to see how bad it
could get for the populationwhen a new head of state had a different
religion than
At least with wind turbines, should we ever discover the means to harness
cold fusion or similar clean source, all the turbines could be dismantled
recycled, returning the land back to what it was - relatively unscathed. Not
the same story with nuclear.
We have decommissioned and cleared are
I'm sure that at least part of his training helped develop a brilliant
military mind.
I'm not sure many people in the UK who remember WW2
will agree with his having a "brilliant military mind". Chasing tribesmen on
horseback was about his mark. The original French landings were a fiasco
I see the idiots have woken up again.
Chris.
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The only thing Ihad on ebaywasmy
invention"device for pushing cooked spaghetti up a wild cat's ass and
method.
May I ask the reason for this device and can it be
modified to work on ferrets. Chris.
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I quite agree with you regarding the comments about
the military adventure the only super power the
USA and Bush's pooodle Tony Blair in Iraq.
Hi Fox, please get things right. The Poodle was Margaret Thatcher
belonging to President Raygun. Tony Blier The Hand Puppet as called by us
here in
In the US, there is a requirement for the invention to be
useful.
The US the patent office appears to by run with a
monkey with a computer, If he cannot find it with Google its gets a patent. I
remember the row about inline skates as the Frenchman who made them in the 1860s
apparently did
Personally, I think keeping the list fairly open and having this happen
once in a while is a reasonable tradeoff.
If you run an open list things always get through, if its bulk spam we just
ignore it but if it looks like someone trying to get a result by upsetting
people we take the piss
The simple solution is to tax it to the hilt like they do in Europe.
But even the 5 dollars tax a gallon has not stopped the increase in car
ownership, we do have a good average mileage from cars now at about 35+
miles to the gallon. The average car here does less than 8000 miles a year
now
If you are talking about hybrids that use electricity the government
gets the fuel side tax but would have a rough time implementing a zap
tax for charging the vehicle but its not out of the question they may try.
Here in the UK we buy a licence to use our vehicles on public roads, I pay
about
The simple solution is to tax it to the hilt like they do in Europe. I
propose a $1.50 per gallon. Any comments?
Make it 5 dollars a gallon tax like I have to pay in England. Chris.
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First discussed on the list in 2001, with scepticism. Strange that
five years later it's still not exactly a household name and not to
be found on every other motor. Or maybe that's not so strange.
That is not really surprising when you read that the total cost of
installing it on a truck was
I'm not off grid but use modified sine wave.
What do you mean by modified sine wave? Chris.
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Cheap junky inverter vs. good inverter, not to put too fine a point on
it...
I remember something I bought years ago that only gave out a half wave, it
messed up my stereo. Chris,
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However, the effectiveness of supplemental hydrogen injection has been
researched and documented by researchers who have no financial interest in
a particular product.
It was tested a few years back in some our local buses here in the UK,
mainly as a way of reducing emissions on start-up
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can be easily manipulated via levers and
switches to burn propane, methane, heating oil, ethanol, kerosene, petrol,
diesel, and a handful of other fuels i can't think of right now. would one of
those be handy to have around in a fuel crunch?
Any older type diesel will run on just about
Either way, I'm not a candidate for the Atkins diet simply because of
my cholesterol level..
No problem, there was a scientific study done on
the Atkins diet in the UK early this year, weight, blood pressure and
cholesterol tested every day and food consumption monitored. It seems people
And no, there is no intention in this post to troll for a debate on
evolution vs. intelligent design.
If evolution and intelligent design work how come they produced Homo
Sapiens. Chris
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On the soy vs rapeseed, why is the US so fixated on soy? Smacks of a
powerful soybean lobby to me.
I believe we can't even grow soy (or baked beans) here in the UK due to not
having enough sunny days. Chris
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but they say they put out 28 tons of co2 in the same distance?
Hi Ray J, do you think they should have said 28 tons in 8000 miles, does
that seem more realistic. Chris.
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Just seen this on our BBC TV channel every 800 miles travelled by a jumbo
jet dumps 28 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. Chris
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I have no problem with turbodiesels, just wondering why that design won
out over supercharging.
A supercharger can use up to 20bhp of an engines output and turbos are
cheaper to make. Chris.
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Looking at a Boeing 777-200LR the fuel consumption is:
Fuel consumption in 800 miles is about 24,000lb of fuel
300Lb/Fuel/Seat/3000 Miles. (Boeing spec)
That is 10 miles/pound/seat of fuel
Or 68 mile/gallon/seat.
Compare that to your average car you don't even get close.
About 5% of
As far as the grey layer of crud that's built up in the atmosphere, there
have been airplanes whose sole
apparent purpose has been to lay that grey layer down in the atmosphere.
Research done here in the UK estimates that 85% of high level air pollution
is due to planes not cars or industry.
Does anyone know if hemp has a good potential as a source for bio-fuels?
It does not produce much oil compared to OSR when grown in the UK. Chris.
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but a "cheater's method" involves chilling the bottles to near
freezing before final bottling.
Some bottlers actually freeze the bottle necks,
remove the hollow plastic cork (which has the dead yeast in) and re-cork after
adding sugar water. I try to judge the fermentation so I can bottle
chris l., i assure you i was not mistaken. wiring down the cork is no
guarantee. even if it holds the cork, the bottle itself might explode.
They sure do go off with a bang, I've lost gallons over the last 30 years
due to getting the fermentation wrong when making sparkling Perry. Chris.
hey! i just remembered, homebrew champagne makers are cautioned to make
sure
that all yeast has been killed before finla bottling, lest continued
fermentation generate so much pressure that it pops the cork.
That cannot be right as to do so would leave you with flat champagne, you
need the
The magnets are "swiched off" using a lever. No power or external
device required. How did you move the lever then??
It is not that there is no force used to move the
lever, it takes very little force to move the lever and without moving itI
cannot move the tool holder. The force used to
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You mean a little force over a long distance like?Chris
lloyd wrote:
The magnets are "swiched off" using a lever. No power or external
device required. How did you move the lever then??
It is not that there is no
I have seen something similar
used in England, after adding and shaking the mixture has to
stand for about a week. Chris.
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Do you mean John Nicholson's Biopower stuff Chris?
Hi Keith, No idea I just caught part of a news item while channel
changing. The reporter was telling about this chap who collected all the
old cooking oil in his area, mixed it with an additive (some sort of
catalyst) then left it to settle.
How do you turn off a permanent magnet electronically?
Hi Tallex, permanent magnets are laid in the track and used by the
signalling system on British Rail. (AWS) To turn off the permanent
magnet the electro magnet which lays along side the permanent is
activated and swamps the magnetic field.
Many Canadians have been wondering what will happen when the US sets
it's sights on Canadian resources.
As America already considers all of South America as in its (Sphere of
influence) you don’t stand a snowballs chance in hell if America wants
your oil it will take it. Just listen to Bushes
ah yes, magnets once again -hold on to your wallet
Funny things magnets, I did some work with them back in the 60s, they do
seem to contain far more energy than they should. Although energy is
probably not the right word. Use electro magnets to hold 100 Kg in the
air and you can see the energy
Why a war if it is only to remove the enrichment
facilities, Israel just nipped across the border and blew up Iraq’s
nuclear site. I’m sure a few missiles fire from off shore would do the
job. But that does mean they would still control their own oil. Chris.
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According to the judgment of history and of their contemporaries, the
two foremost geniuses among the founding fathers were Thomas Jefferson
and Benjamin Franklin. But even geniuses make mistakes, and Franklin
made a lulu with the stove he invented. It just plain did not work.
In one of those
Chris, please add quotes, and provide a link when copying text from a
website. Not doing so implies you wrote the material.
Sorry will do in future, It should have had the header, photo and
credits but they went when it converted to plain text Chris.
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From the 16th century Japan (and long before) the Japanese
establishment had looked on the world as a battleground of aggressive
empires,
Like Britton, France, Spain, and Portugal you mean. Chris.
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look, this whole thing about an invasion of japan costing a million
american
lives is utterly ridiculous.
What puzzles me is that America had planned the invasion of the Japanese
islands as far back as 1920. Why? What did they have that the US wanted?
That’s probably the reason they did not
is it the assertion, then, that running b100 would yield a 40% loss in
power?
I'm not sure what tractor engines were used but research in South Africa
found only a 10% drop in power when changing from diesel to 100%
sunflower oil. Chris.
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How about combining the glycerin with nitrogen to
create nitroglycerin? I know, nitrogen is
explosive but so is hydrogen.
Nitro-glycerine is a high explosive; the shock wave
expands faster than the speed of sound. Not a good idea inside an enclosed
space. Chris.
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In its quest for crude, Beijing is dangling cash and playing on
nations' discontent with the U.S. Can the two huge energy consumers
coexist?
I find it rather scary, as China has the export earnings to pay for
expensive oil. If China starts to use oil like America does there isn't
enough oil in
I wondered what an old slow reving British
Gardener 6LX diesel could do?
Just about any fuel/gas oil I would think, I used to
run my 2 ¼ Land rover diesel on anything I could beg, steal or borrow. In the UK cold weather starting was a
problem but you should not have any problems. Back
Benladin and his lot that wreaked havoc upon NYC, not Iraq, stupid.
I'm not even sure that he knew about the attack, I saw the first
video he put out after 9/11 with the corrected voice over. He never
claimed responsibility for himself or his terror groups. He did say he
thought that America
Does anybody know where to start looking for
empty 45 gallon oil drums in the UK
(west midlands)
Local scrap yards or large garage workshops, they buy
oil in bulk and may sell you the barrels. Chris.
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several clients who own dairy farms, and these people insist that
dairy cows must be fed some grain in order to produce high quality
milk. Not having any experience in this area, I have nothing to say
in response.
Most modern high yield milkers need some food/mineral supplements,
normally
Sweden have a higher living standard than US, according to statistics.
I am
not suggesting that it is a direct relationship between happiness and
living standard, as it is between happiness and dumbness. Why I say
this,
is because the first I will hear when I say this, is something about
I've read casual references to the Deltic having maintenance problems.
Yes they were a pig to work on in confined spaces and were a high
maintenance engine. Chris
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Does anyone have any
knowledge of, or first hand experience with these engines?
We had
them powering trains in the 1960/70s, they were the most powerfull diesels engined
trains in the UK. They
were retired due to most of the main lines they ran on being electrofied. Good
engines that
If you want to put a frown on the face of [Saudi] Wahhabis, talk
about 100-mile-per-gallon vehicles, Woolsey said. We don't need a
Manhattan Project to do it.
It cannot be that difficult as Austin Cars in the UK used to advertise
their Model 7 as Doing 100 mph and 100 mpg (UK gallon) and
It also interesting to note that tax accounts for 69.9% of the total
cost! Can that be right!
YES it bloody well is and some places charge up to 7 dollars for a sized
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back in the day, travel was not an easy affair (relatively
speaking), given the lack of roads, lodging and transport (other than on
foot), etc., not to mention the income with which to fund such travels.
nevertheless, there wasn't anything to really stop one if one had a mind
to.
Before the
You lot want to try living in the UK with our strange rules, you don't
own anything under your own property, water or minerals. One of my
property borders is a river but I can't fish it or extract water, if the
council wants your land you have very little chance of stopping them
taking it. They
feu·dal·ism : the system of political organization prevailing in Europe from
the 9th to about the 15th centuries having as its basis the relation of lord to
vassal with all land held in fee and as chief characteristics homage, the
service of tenants under arms and in court, wardship, and
Yet, I think there is still hope. Microsoft, one of the world's
biggest
bullies, is facing its biggest battle from the community: Linux. I have
been tracking Linux for a while now, and countries around the world are
finally standing up to the Microsoft bully. It is nice to finally see
You only get an estimated sugar recovery of 10,000
pounds per acre from sugar beet in a good year. I cannot see that making 1200
gallons of alcohol. Chris
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Keep in mind that acceptable risk is not a matter of how many in one
million contract a malady,
I do not know if it is the same in the US or OZ but we have an epidemic
of thyroid problems in the UK. In the 50/60s young people with thyroid
disease was extremely rare now I find my local chemist
BUSH: One of the great sources of energy for the future is liquefied
natural gas. There's a lot of gas reserves around the world. Gas can
only be transported by ship, though, when you liquefy it, when you put
it in solid form.
Am I right in thinking this man has a university degree in
The incredible thing is not that he says these things but that we
voted for him.
I can't sat too much as I voted for Blair last time, we vote again next
week but they all seem as bad as one another. Big business is running
this country now, well them and the EU. The environment here is going
The makers of Budweiser Beer have taken the daring
step of refusing to use GMO rice or the purchase of
ANY uncertified NON-GMO grains for their use.
I think that their position is 2 fold.
The first being that they do not want to get into any
future litigation regard potential ill effects from
Since the first oil supply troubles in the 50s the US has been careful
to keep oil in reserve
This again from a program on world oil supplies shown in the UK, I seem
to remember the program was discussing the US wanting to drill in the
Artic. The program researchers thought it was a fallback
I always figured that the smarter move security wise for the USA was
to purchase our petroleum needs from others
Since the first oil supply troubles in the 50s the US has been careful
to keep oil in reserve and considering the amount of oil used by the US
it claims to have at least 3 months
Just wondering if anyone has any specs on mpg for diesel pickups when
using biodiesel? Specifically the Cummins 5.7l Turbo diesels in the
Dodge pickups. Does the mileage drastically increase over diesel? I
found mpg for regular diesel, but not too much on biodiesel.
I remember a UK TV program
Anything less - phased withdrawal, partial withdrawal, leaving the
intelligence agents in place - is a violation of the resolution, a
senior aide said in a briefing. How fair an election can Lebanon hold
if the troops are there to intimidate voters, people running for
election, or people now in
It's always seemed strange that (at least here in USA-NJ) we see signs
advertising the sale of Deer Feed .. and the accepted reason for hunting
deer, other than the sport, is for population control .. and after every
culling the deer population doubles and/or triples because all the
females
The good thing is China and Southeast Asia is the people there seem to
like and be happy with small fuel efficient cars and bikes. Chris.
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The US has for years taking Canada before the World Trade Organization
and wrongly accused Canada of subsidizing Canadian Industry. With this
new data the USA under GATT will nail Canada with counter vailing
duties.
I've noticed that with more and more rulings from the WTO going against
the
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