At 01:33 PM 8/9/2005, you wrote:
Thanks for the info. I really want to do turkeys but the idea of wild
birds on free range seems like a lot of work. It there not a tweener
turkey breed that is not real stupid but would stay withing mobile fences
without escaping?
We use India runner
Besides, it violates the Constitution, Article VI - The Supreme Law of the
Land
The only problem is that the Constitution ceased being the Supreme
Law of the Land back in 1861. Now even little children swear allegiance,
not to the Constitution, but to the flag (the traditional
in disagreement with him, they need to go back and check their
records to figure out where they went wrong.
Walt Patrick of Windward posted some interesting information some time ago
and said his organisation would be working on it, but we've heard nothing
since. You can check it in the archives if you
Jesse,
I hadn't even heard of it. I'm so glad you brought it up.
I'm hoping that it was recorded by someone at some time. As you know,
there were and are some efforts to record native traditions and
languages before they are all lost. These efforts are not nearly as
timely or vigorous as I
Walt,
I am confused, are you suggesting that documents could not be
written before 1200 to 1500 and are you suggesting that manual
production of documents (books) were not done?
That's the generally accepted understanding, that the only groups
capable of making a written record
Has anyone else ever seen a copy of the Six Nations Constitution?
It's hard to imagine that any such document could exist. The
agreement was formulated sometime between 1200 and 1500, long before the
Six Nations had a way to write such an agreement down. Any document
prepared in
Hi Keith, Kim,
Family of origin, place of origin, it's deep, was what I meant. Somewhere
out of our thinking brain. It's an issue, someway or another, as your
thoughtful replies imply. Some people search around until they find their
real home, and whew! That's satisfaction.
I'm a
Having said that I did not feel that way about the land of my birth, I
added this: Do you think I must necessarily be deprived in some or many
ways because of this? I certainly don't think so. Nor would I say that
people who have not gained what I've gained because I did not have their
I am finding this rather interesting. I went back to Canada last year and
both hubby and I felt like visitors. We don't live there anymore. Maybe
because there are two of us, both from similar culture and transplanted
together, that our new home really feels like home. I would say home is
Do not worry, I do not think that China (or any other country) see US as a
major source of food for humans. It is almost unconceivable that they
would go to such efforts to secure corn supply for their own poultry
production. LOL
I live in an agricultural county in the Pacific
Can someone please explain why it is that approx. 70 to 80% (I think I am
being a little too conservative with these percentages) of the items for
sale, at any given department store in America today, are made in
China? This question has bothered me for years.
There are those who
Most Americans like Walt Patrick are victims of USA media reporting,
which unfortunately twist their facts depending on which lobby pays them in
Washington.
Here's an example of the twisty reporting that raises concerns.
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26539
Japan murdered
millions of innocent people in the 2nd World War, more than the Nazis, yet
they have more nuclear power stations (2nd to France) than USA. For them to
convert to nuclear bombs and embarked on their military is like waiting for
history to repeat itself.
That's part of
Walt Patrick wrote:
That's part of what makes the half trillion dollars held in
China's hands so problematic since Japan holds about the same amount of
US paper. If China dumps the dollar, that move will likely crash the
Japanese economy as well.
In short, from the Chinese
Indeed! If we hadn't mortgaged the future of our children on
warfare, what kind of goodwill could we be spreading in South Asia right
now? I can imagine C 130s laden with food and water. I can envision the
Army Corps of Engineers helping to restore infrastructure. I believe the
Walt you out there? If so, would you care to chime in and add any new
information?
Haven't blown myself up yet :-)
Don't know that there's anything I'd call new but it's more along the
lines of the saying that the only thing new is the history you don't
know. There have been so
Short story :
A journalist went in Afghanistan when the talibans ruled the country.
She was shocked to see the women respectuously walking 10 meters behind
theirs husbands or brothers along the road.
She flied back last year and has been glad to see that things have
changed, and now the women
Walt, If I charge an EV from my solar panels, I can go twice as far than If
I used that electric to electrolyze hydrogen, compress it, and burn it in
a fuel cell. Not to mention the costs involved with the electrolyzer, the
compressor, and the fuel cell far outweigh the cost of an EV. Now why
Did you consider how many kWh it would have taken for that 30 miles on
hydrogen, then compared how many miles that amount of kWh would have taken
you on a pure EV? More than 60 miles ..
But a vehicle with a range of 60 miles is of less utility to me than one
which can do 30 miles on
Why do you not use ethanol instead or biodiesel if the truck is a diesel?
Our primary interest is in converting wood waste into methanol. That
involves generating H2 and CO, and being able to sweeten the mix in order
to increase yield, hence our interest in ancillary ways to generate and use
Walt isn't being upfront about the system costs of a renewable system that
can generate 30 miles per day of hydrogen. It's more than you will pay in
fuel taxes in your lifetime.
You're probably right, but so what?
Everyone's situation is different, and therefore their options will
upon a time we had a Chevy Nova that we considered operating on hydrogen.
Assuming that we stored the H2 in a series of small scuba-like tanks, we
figured we could get about thirty miles before the H2 ran out.
Initially, that was disappointing, but then we got to figuring that so
long as
The four-cylinder engine is tuned to run on
hydrogen, which is produced by a hand-built electrolysis
system mounted in the bed.
For me, the most interesting part of the experiment involved the mobile
electrolysis unit.
Anyone have a handle on what the state-of-the-art is for mobile
I just encountered two articles at my library that strengthens my
belief that we are beginning to see the end of cheap oil NOW from how
we've always known it.
Good article with some interesting points, but I feel the need to quibble
a bit.
The problem is that oil _is_ cheap, even at $50 a
One of the most interesting new developments to come down the pike in
the
past decade involves the use of ceramic membranes to separate out gases
such as hydrogen and oxygen from gas streams.
This process, called Pressure Swing Adsorption, allows oxygen to be
separated from
At 02:42 PM 5/20/04 +0100, you wrote:
Walt
Have you looked at polyethene to ethanol
reactors?
Mark
Nope. Tell us more :-)
Walt
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At 09:41 AM 5/19/04 +0100, you wrote:
Walt
Does you have any reference files I could look at
please?
Nothing that's not available on the net through google.
with best wishes,
Walt
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At 11:10 AM 5/18/04 -0400, Martin wrote:
Walt,
are there any legal problems in doing this since it is going to be
patented? I think it's great though, please keep us updated on how it goes.
The research was done using a Department of Energy grant, so my
understanding is that there's
At 06:46 PM 5/15/04 -0600, Greg wrote:
Is that number correct?
I get No patents have matched your query for 20030158270.
Sorry that I wasn't more clear. That's the patent application number; you
have to search under Published Applications, not Issued Patents.
Walt
Long-term readers will recall that Windward's biofuel work is
focused on converting waste wood into methanol. One of the critical steps
on that journey involves the need to convert forest cullings into a
standardized feedstock.
Late last fall we purchased a PTO mounted
At 11:40 AM 5/15/04 +, you wrote:
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hi walt. what do you want for the steam engine?? we want to run one
as an adjunct to our 25hp boiler which runs our biodiesel plant and
distillery.we would love to use an old timey steam motor to run a
generator..we want a cogeneration segment as
At 04:17 PM 3/14/04 +0900, Keith wrote:
Anyway, a lot of more recent work has been going into new enzymes and
new processes, with promising results so far. Walt Patrick gave us a
run-down on this in previous messages.
For what it's worth, our commitment to methanol comes from (1) our
At 08:07 AM 3/2/04 -0500, Alan wrote:
Walt Patrick wrote:
I think you're falling into your own trap of seeing things according
to a partisan agenda, but in a different, much broader, and much more
important sense, that goes much further than the national concerns of
some among
At 12:36 AM 2/24/04 +, you wrote:
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Walt Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Someone lacking the stones to even sign his post.
Please don't swagger around like some testosterone saturated teenager
looking for trouble. Look at the email address if you
At 02:33 AM 2/24/04 -0500, Allan wrote:
I believe you mis-spelled Southerners. Or perhaps Confederates.
Nope. Southron was and remains the term for a person who supported the
Confederate States of America, as opposed to someone who just happened to
live in the southeast.
And don't
At 04:50 AM 2/25/04 +0900, Keith wrote:
Politicians, right and left, lie. That's hardly news, and
hardly likely to
change unless conditions render them irrelevant. That's why I'm here on
this list, to glean information which might help further that goal. It's
becoming quite evident that
At 06:37 PM 2/22/04 -0600, you wrote:
Walt,
The problem that I have with you analogies is that they do not include the
UN. They had involvement. They were dealing with the situation.
I have no doubt that the UN would have taken decisive action, just as
soon
as they got around to
At 12:53 PM 2/23/04 +, someone lacking the stones to even sign his post
wrote:
I can see poker playin' Walt turning over command to his co-pilot,
puttin' on his Stetson, stridin' past the bombadier to the hatch
area, climbin' aboard the nuke and gettin' ready for judgement day.
International diplomacy is a game of high stakes poker played with
billion
dollar chips and stacks of human lives.
Saddam really enjoyed the prestige that came with playing in the high
stakes game, and did everything he could to make the world think that he
still had WMD, in
At 12:24 PM 2/22/04 -0600, fred wrote:
Hey Walt,
Your analogy was only partially correct. He held a fake gun and the judge
said that the cop would shoot unless he proved it was a fake gun. He began
to show that he had no bullets and the cop shot him anyway.
Not true. The cop knew
At 09:05 AM 1/21/04 -0700, you wrote:
Hey Walt,
If you don't mind, I have a question.
In an earlier post ( see below ), you talked about using electricity, in an
organic solution, to generate H2 and CO.
In the post you mention that you used sugar solution, have you tried it with
At 09:22 AM 1/19/04 -0800, Jeff wrote:
I have been looking on how to make methanol out of wood. I have seen a
couple of articles on how to make ethanol out of wood, but not methanol.
If anybody could share some information on what would be involved and what
it would take, please let me
At 09:46 AM 12/28/03 -0500, Caroline wrote:
Perhaps a better way would be to raise the low flush
requirement/design to 2 gallons or even better offer a grey water option
(that used more water, thus flushed the first time) to homeowners.
Just a note on our experience with installing a
At 06:24 PM 12/1/03 +0900, Keith wrote:
Main reason for us is that you can make
ethanol yourself, but not methanol, or not easily anyway - not
something a 3rd World villager can do.
Just a quick note to say that we're committed to working on that part
of
the puzzle.
Over
At 10:14 AM 11/18/03 -0700, you wrote:
Ethylene Oxide? Isn't that the stuff they used in fuel air bombs, because
it has a tendency to spontaneously ignite when it reached the proper
fuel/air ratio for combustion?
Greg H.
Sort of.
As I recall, it's not that an air/EO mix
At 09:39 PM 11/17/03 +, Mike wrote:
The acid/base catalysis used for biofuel production looks like 1940's
chemistry - 55 gallon drums, KOH, etc. The polymer industry,
specifically polymer polyols to make urethanes used this type of
chemistry. I know this because I worked at one of the
At 09:39 PM 10/27/03 -0500, you wrote:
Glycerine that is. And I am not really sure what to do with it.
Have you looked into using it to make soap?
Glycerine based soaps are translucent and are easy enough to make that
stores carry kits so that kids can make their own soap at home.
Walt
At 01:10 PM 10/7/03 -0400, Martin wrote:
It's just another way of creating hydrogen from water, while burning some
carbon in the process creating CO2
What's the big deal?
Doesn't have to be a big deal in order to serve as a handy alternative
in
some cases.
Our focus here is
At 05:01 AM 10/8/03 +0900, Keith wrote:
Hello Walt
All fair enough, just want to comment on this bit:
Please do :-)
For my part, I'm sceptical about these claims, but I'm not really
negative about it, though many are, free energy is almost a
blasphemy to some.
With just cause. It's a
At 04:28 PM 10/7/03 -0400, you wrote:
Hi Walt
I appreciate your friendly response :)
My pleasure. I'm enjoying following along.
An electrolysis cell can compress the effluent as well, but it requires
more energy.
Agreed.
I think you'll find that this cell requires more energy if
you're
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