Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: US Gasoline Prices Hit All Time Historical Highest Level - Adjusted For Inflation

2007-05-23 Thread John Beale
Speaking of disposable cars: My ex-girlfriend's parents purchased a new Mercedes-Benz E-class and when Mercedes shipped the car, the in-dash navigation systems (which her parents ordered) were not available yet, so they provided them with another E-class without the navigation system

Re: [Biofuel] bee followup

2007-04-24 Thread John Beale
What about the 'certified third-party organic' products? What's that organization called, QAI? John On Apr 24, 2007, at 2:53 PM, Mike Weaver wrote: Ahhh...I should have qualified that - the *USDA Organic* label doesn't mean anything, though of course there are people who are using it and

Re: [Biofuel] Chevy diesels

2007-04-23 Thread John Beale
How long ago did he switch to biodiesel and is he running on 100% BD or a mix? John On Apr 23, 2007, at 7:09 AM, Jan Warnqvist wrote: Hello everybody in the New World and others. I have an aquintance who is running his Chevy 6,2 litre truck on biodiesel, and he experiences mysterious

Re: [Biofuel] Chevy diesels

2007-04-23 Thread John Beale
- From: John Beale To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 1:55 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Chevy diesels How long ago did he switch to biodiesel and is he running on 100% BD or a mix? John On Apr 23, 2007, at 7:09 AM, Jan Warnqvist wrote: Hello everybody in the New World

Re: [Biofuel] Chevy diesels

2007-04-23 Thread John Beale
Ask him if he's replaced his fuel filter since switching to Biodiesel. On Apr 23, 2007, at 8:58 AM, Jan Warnqvist wrote: He has consumed approx. 600 ltrs and encountered problems from the very beginning. - Original Message - From: John Beale To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent

Re: [Biofuel] Marijuana Called Top U.S. Cash Crop

2007-02-14 Thread John Beale
Zeke said: Hmmm, wonder what that would do to the beef and chicken? My guess is that the legalization of marijuana would make the prices of beef and chicken increase because the supply would remain the same, but the demand would go through the roof -- I mean, there is the munchies factor

Re: [Biofuel] DISTILLERY DEMAND FOR GRAIN TO FUEL CARSVASTLY UNDERSTATED

2007-01-19 Thread John Beale
Oh, Monsanto: how we adore thee. On Jan 19, 2007, at 11:24 AM, Marylynn Schmidt wrote: Yes, but does Monsanto own the patient on sugar beets??? Mary Lynn Mary Lynn Schmidt, distributor Psionic Energy Software http://miracle6bizland.com/softwaresolutions/ Rev. Mary Lynn Schmidt,

Re: [Biofuel] Stolen Grease

2006-09-08 Thread John Beale
I second that LoJack idea. -John On Sep 8, 2006, at 2:49 PM, Randall wrote: *Clearly* label the drum and install a Lojack. :-) - Original Message - From: bob allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 2:42 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [Biofuel] Your Beliefs

2006-07-21 Thread John Beale
Well, I guess my question is: If nuclear weapons have to exist, then would you trust yourself with them more than someone else? -John On Jul 20, 2006, at 2:21 PM, Hakan Falk wrote: John, I do not know, probably not, if I knew the consequences. Many of the scientists that were drafted

Re: [Biofuel] breakthrough - store CH4 at 500psi instead of 3600

2006-07-20 Thread John Beale
Water and air filters. Many respirators for working in environments with fumes, etc, have activated carbon in them. And, yes, they have been around for decades, Doug. -John On Jul 20, 2006, at 9:09 AM, bob allen wrote: I did a little hyway driving last weekend in my (really my wife's)

Re: [Biofuel] Your Beliefs

2006-07-20 Thread John Beale
Not to defend the US government's actions, but if you had the opportunity to be the only one holding the nuclear weapons, wouldn't you want to be? -John On Jul 20, 2006, at 12:50 PM, Fritz Friesinger wrote: Not to mention the unecessary use of two atomic bombs on the Japanese. Americans are

Re: [Biofuel] breakthrough - store CH4 at 500psi instead of 3600

2006-07-19 Thread John Beale
You can get it made out of all kinds of things: wood, coal, coconut shells, etc etc. ...and if you look on the University of Missouri website, you find this abstract: Synthesis and analysis of activated carbon briquettes as an adsorbent for natural gas x-tad-biggerby Demetrius Taylor

Re: [Biofuel] shedding fat for oil

2006-07-12 Thread John Beale
55.925 mph? -John On Jul 12, 2006, at 11:27 AM, Joe Street wrote: I looked VERY closely into it and I find I get my best fuel economy while traveling at 250 angstroms per nanosecond. Joe Mike Weaver wrote: I've done extensive tests, involving titration, iteration, recursions,

Re: [Biofuel] shedding fat for oil

2006-07-11 Thread John Beale
it might be added that losing the 10-25 lbs that the essay describes would likely require a combination of eating less and exercising more -- that is, there would be less weight in the car on the way home from the grocery store, less being shipped to restaurants and supermarkets (assuming that 78%

Re: [Biofuel] More diesel bikes

2006-07-11 Thread John Beale
Have a look at these: http://urlsnip.com/238427 http://www.dieselmotorcycle.co.uk/ http://urlsnip.com/829953 -John On Jul 11, 2006, at 10:38 AM, Joe Street wrote: Check out these... http://www.m1030.com/models.htm Joe ___ Biofuel

Re: [Biofuel] was..was..smart car coming to US in 2008

2006-07-06 Thread John Beale
A couple of weeks ago, some family friends from the Midwest visited for the night on their way to visit their extended family in Maine. At one point, one of them informed me that if we all use Ethanol in our cars, we'll get at least twice the fuel economy and our cars will handle better in

Re: [Biofuel] was..smart car coming to US in 2008

2006-07-02 Thread John Beale
I actually saw one of these SMART cars on the road with Massachusetts plates. I recall checking them out about 6-8 weeks ago and seeing that they were available for special order through a dealer in New Hampshire. That being said, the 50bhp fortwo model gets 60 mpg (4.7 L/100km) average.

Re: [Biofuel] was..smart car coming to US in 2008

2006-07-02 Thread John Beale
Insert: I googled Smart hybrid and found that they have a concept hybrid (diesel-electric, as Mike pointed out) that achieves 81 mpg (2.9 L/100km). Nice. -John On Jul 2, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Mike Weaver wrote: Hallo Hakan, No offense intended, but I've been all over Europe and there

Re: [Biofuel] 90 litre reactor details published.

2006-06-15 Thread John Beale
Wow. Good job, Joe. This looks fantastic. -John On Jun 15, 2006, at 2:34 PM, Mike Weaver wrote: No, but I think you can make a buy it now price of a penny. Joe Street wrote: I don't know anything about ebay or how it works. Could I auction it to the lowest bidder? ;) Joe Mike

Re: [Biofuel] No New Refineries

2006-06-12 Thread John Beale
In case you didn't hear, it passed. -John From: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/08/washington/08energy.html House Passes Bill to Help Spur New Oil Refinery Construction By MICHAEL JANOFSKY Published: June 8, 2006 WASHINGTON, June 7 — The House passed a bill on Wednesday that its Republican

Re: [Biofuel] Herbicides in your corn?

2006-06-10 Thread John Beale
Oh boy. I guess GMO corn ought to have been one of those products that people should have avoided its first few years on the market until they were able to work all the bugs out of it. I find it ironic that we think we're so smart and clever in coming up with these new technological advances, yet

Re: [Biofuel] Back to the future

2006-06-08 Thread John Beale
Silly Diesel and Ford. Everyone knows cars can't run on ethanol. That's why we, as humans, travel thousands of miles and invest billions of dollars in drilling rigs, pipelines, refineries, supertankers, and oil wars. What were they thinking? Fuel from plants? That's preposterous! What

Re: [Biofuel] New Dr. Seuss-style political poem

2006-06-08 Thread John Beale
excellent. On Jun 8, 2006, at 10:22 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm the Decider by Roddy McCorley I'm the decider. I pick and I choose. I pick among whats and I choose among whos. And as I decide each particular day, The things I decide on all turn out that way. I decided on Freedom

Re: [Biofuel] PLEASE HELP

2006-06-01 Thread John Beale
Oh, that is just tragic. I'm not only going to withdraw my life savings, I'm also going to go take a cash advance on my credit cards so that I can make the most generous donation I am capable of asap -- hell, it's only 23% interest for cash advances. While I'm at it, I should also donate my

Re: [Biofuel] more goofy questions

2006-06-01 Thread John Beale
I'd like to try some heat-assisted catalytic reformation of Keith -- if for no other reason than the irony of a biofuels list owner being made into biodiesel. -John On Jun 1, 2006, at 4:47 PM, Zeke Yewdall wrote: Yeah, I mean, the guys still alive. Lets not biodegrade him yet. On

Re: [Biofuel] who killed the electric car? hint: it was gassed

2006-05-29 Thread John Beale
See, now I was taught that it was the Stonecutters who held back the electric car. What about that? -John On May 28, 2006, at 9:30 AM, Kirk McLoren wrote: Something even bigger than automobiles (solar thermal) was also killed. Mike MacCormack the senator from the state of Washington and

Re: [Biofuel] CEI runs PRO CARBON DIOXIDE ADS

2006-05-26 Thread John Beale
Jason Katie, Let's see if this works: Adolf Hitler. Now all I have to do is wait a couple minutes and see if I can read it when I get the email from the list. By the way, Dhajoglo, that's AH. -John On May 25, 2006, at 8:23 PM, Jason Katie wrote: most mail scanners won't write out his

Re: [Biofuel] CEI runs PRO CARBON DIOXIDE ADS

2006-05-24 Thread John Beale
Addison wrote: John Beale wrote: snip I was thinking of getting one of their T-shirts and wearing it around, except that they aren't at all subtle. You can get a great T-shirt at Rx's website www.thepartyparty.com It has a pic of Dick Cheney and says Dick is a killernot so subtle

Re: [Biofuel] Late Night in US

2006-05-24 Thread John Beale
Oh, yeah I heard that ditch water thing the other day from a friend of mine! It looks really promising! I'm going gather my life savings, sell my mutual funds, and get a tuition refund and invest everything in ditch water and magnets! After years of disappointment with get rich quick schemes, I

Re: [Biofuel] CEI runs PRO CARBON DIOXIDE ADS

2006-05-23 Thread John Beale
Hear hear, It is settled! The gazelles must be exterminated! Let us drive the least fuel efficient vehicles we can get our hands on into the wilderness and napalm them and their whole cursed ecosystem! After all, according to the CEI website, they are advancing liberty -- from the economy

Re: [Biofuel] CEI runs PRO CARBON DIOXIDE ADS

2006-05-23 Thread John Beale
Here's a good example of what I said about mentioning a hint of Chem and how it causes people to cower and accept anything you say: http://www.dhmo.org/environment.html ^If you folks haven't seen this yet. It was on the overhead just prior to one of my general chem lectures back in the day.

Re: [Biofuel] Late Night in US

2006-05-23 Thread John Beale
Could someone please remind me, because I forget... How the hell did Bush get re-elected?? Question for all of you who do not live in the United States: Do people in your area think that the US people support President Bush? Do those people realize that President Bush has an approval rating of

Re: [Biofuel] CEI runs PRO CARBON DIOXIDE ADS

2006-05-23 Thread John Beale
, DHAJOGLO wrote: Is this site supposed to be a joke then? I hope not because I want to join the Anti-Dihydrogen Monoxide Coalition. hahaha On Tuesday, May 23, 2006 12:05 AM, John Beale wrote: Here's a good example of what I said about mentioning a hint of Chem and how it causes people

Re: [Biofuel] CEI runs PRO CARBON DIOXIDE ADS

2006-05-23 Thread John Beale
. In addition, only a handful of people would get the joke -- and of those, only a handful wouldn't roll their eyes. On May 23, 2006, at 7:20 PM, John Beale wrote: Yeah the DHMO site is a joke. I think it's a pretty good joke. But then again I like chemistry jokes. I saw a car with a bumper sticker

Re: [Biofuel] Fw: Car runs on water

2006-05-14 Thread John Beale
Oh, and another thing: There was an episode of Chip 'N Dale Rescue Rangers that I remember from my childhood where the villain, an evil genius (of course), plots to take over the city using a device that is powered by static electricity that he derives from cats' fur. He captured the cats

Re: [Biofuel] Fw: Car runs on water

2006-05-14 Thread John Beale
I want to put in my two cents before this topic is lost forever... Okay, first of all, I think this car is bunk. Completely bunk. It obviously violates the laws of thermodynamics. The first issue here is that people will believe that water can be dumped into an engine and run a car because

Re: [Biofuel] New Biodiesel Catalyst

2006-05-07 Thread John Beale
Looking in Prof Lin's publications, you can see a few references that appear to be about the catalyst. If you are like me and were wondering about the chemistry behind it, then perhaps check out this one: http://snipurl.com/q4no from Journal of Catalysis, 2003. (If you don't have a

Re: [Biofuel] New Biodiesel Catalyst

2006-05-07 Thread John Beale
Searching the Des Moines Register website, I found this article: http://snipurl.com/q4m4 Searching the Iowa State University website, I found this article: http://snipurl.com/q4mj It says on the second article that the catalyst is made of calcium and sand, not sugar and sulfuric acid. -John