[biofuels-biz] Friends' Ambulance Unit, China, 1939, SVO, rapeseed oil

2003-12-25 Thread Neoteric Biofuels Inc
"Friend's Ambulance Unit The Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU) was originally set up in World War I to provide a channel of service for Conscientious Objectors (C.O.), mainly Quakers. It was resurrected in 1939 for the same purpose; to provide opportunities for COs to take part in the relief of s

[biofuels-biz] Re: What's wrong with corporations?

2003-12-25 Thread daveron
www.thecorporation.com > -Original Message- > From: Keith Addison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003, 1:43 AM > To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com > Cc: biofuels-biz@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [biofuels-biz] What's wrong with corporations? > > http://www.corporatewatc

[biofuels-biz] Ecuador: More Conflict Over Oil, Indigenous Rights

2003-12-25 Thread Keith Addison
See also: http://www.amazonwatch.org/amazon/EC/toxico/index.php?page_number=99 Amazon Watch - In the Amazon - Ecuador The Chevron-Texaco Toxic Legacy http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/75273/1/ OneWorld US - Ecuador: More Conflict Over Oil, Indigenous Rights Amazon Watch On the eve of an his

[biofuels-biz] Scientists Say Human Impact on Climate Change Certain

2003-12-25 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.ndol.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=131&subid=192&contentid=252267 NDOL: DLC | New Dem Daily | December 17, 2003 Scientists Say Human Impact on Climate Change Certain The American Geophysical Union, the world's largest organization of earth, ocean, and climate scientists, has always been extre

[biofuels-biz] Soybeans: the new threat to Brazilian rainforest

2003-12-25 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-18/s_11441.asp Soybeans: the new threat to Brazilian rainforest Thursday, December 18, 2003 By Michael Astor, Associated Press QUERENCIA, Brazil - The paved highway peters out more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) back, but roadside billboards still sprout acros

[biofuels-biz] EPA goes soft on heavy metal power plant emissions

2003-12-25 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-16/s_11330.asp EPA goes soft on heavy metal power plant emissions Tuesday, December 16, 2003 By John Heilprin, Associated Press WASHINGTON - Days after a scientific panel urged the government to strongly warn pregnant women and children about mercury levels in

[biofuels-biz] City Council Approves Bill To Curb Diesel Emissions

2003-12-25 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.environmentaldefense.org/pressrelease.cfm?ContentID=3456 Environmental Defense NEWS RELEASE 12/15/2003 City Council Approves Bill To Curb Diesel Emissions Law Makes New York National Leader In Fight Against Environmental Triggers Of Asthma (15 December 2003 -- New York) Environmen

[biofuels-biz] Air Pollution Even Worse for Heart Than Lungs

2003-12-25 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/23143/story.htm Air Pollution Even Worse for Heart Than Lungs USA: December 17, 2003 NEW YORK - Long-term exposure to fine particles - so-called particulate matter - in polluted air is more likely to cause death from cardiovascular disease th

[biofuel] Friends' Ambulance Unit, China, 1939, SVO, rapeseed oil

2003-12-25 Thread Neoteric Biofuels Inc
"Friend's Ambulance Unit The Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU) was originally set up in World War I to provide a channel of service for Conscientious Objectors (C.O.), mainly Quakers. It was resurrected in 1939 for the same purpose; to provide opportunities for COs to take part in the relief of s

Re: [biofuel] opinions on alaska forest situation?

2003-12-25 Thread Greg Jahnke
First off, I generally consider myself an environmentalist. I am also a realist (which a lot of environmentalists don't tend to be). We need oil. There is oil in alaska. We should drill the oil. You are talking about an incrdibly small section of land when you look at the whole picture.

[biofuel] Tenant Farmer or Researcher wanted for growing Biodiesel in California

2003-12-25 Thread Mark Zaller. Grenoble, France
Hello, I am looking for someone to live at my house in the Sierra Foothills of California to grow oil producing crops for Biodiesel. I have 12+acres which was operated as Hillside Organic Farm supplying produce to local markets and restaurants, but now my wife and I will be living in Euro

Re: [biofuel] opinions on alaska forest situation?

2003-12-25 Thread Appal Energy
Greg, You should really listen to yourself. If you don't happen to up-chuck right off the bat at your classic disassociation tactics and sweeping generalizations, you'll quickly see them for what they are (or actually aren't). Yes. An "environmental realist" - as you describe yourself - understa

Re: [biofuel] opinions on alaska forest situation?

2003-12-25 Thread Greg Jahnke
Well, let me introduce you to the realities of the world. The economy of the entire inustrialised world is based on oil. We use it to produce goods, transport goods, power our homes and vehicles. Without oil, there is no economy. Without an economy, 53% of you are DEAD (FEMA). Clintons idi

[biofuel] updates for beckett burners

2003-12-25 Thread shawn
Hello all, talked to a hvac guy this morning and asked him if he could get the viton seals for a beckett as everything I've read says the seals will eventually get eaten by the biodiesel and leak he called them up and was told that in 2004 they will have an upgraded pump for becketts to handle

Re: [biofuel] opinions on alaska forest situation?

2003-12-25 Thread Appal Energy
Reality Greg, is that the entire industrialized world has a great deal of thanks to offer for the invention of fossil fuels, but that it's time to move on and stop paying homage to the carbon gods. And of equal reality Greg, is that most of the world hardly needs a neophytic primer on what makes

[biofuel] Just say no to "Old Whistle Ass."

2003-12-25 Thread Appal Energy
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[biofuel] Re: Military diesel motorcycles and other cool stuff...

2003-12-25 Thread jeremynlana
I had heard that there was someone doing conversions in Germany, I wonder if that isn't the case referenced? At any rate it's quite easy, if you can handle the power issue, to put the factory identical Lombardini engine into an Enfield or any light bike. As a matter of fact a distrubutor picke

[biofuel] Just looking of some advice.

2003-12-25 Thread Larry Little
BlankI am some what new to the group. I have just been watching the email and enjoying the various comments. I am a farmer at heart. I have learned that I am pretty organic in my production methods. We use no pesticides, fertilizer and very few if any chemicals in general. (I have honey b

[biofuel] Re: opinions on alaska forest situation?

2003-12-25 Thread ccarterkk
The biggest problem is not roads, is not caribou, is not the cost, but the fact that the atmosphere cannot hold more carbon dioxide without still more climate disruption. We sure are dependent on oil, and we had better start learning to get along without it. We in the US may have to learn to l

Re: [biofuel] opinions on alaska forest situation?

2003-12-25 Thread Greg Jahnke
The 53% came from a fema report a couple years ago about likely casualties in the wake of a widespread disater (they were specifically talking plauge) should basic services (such as electricty and water) be disrupted for any significant time (2 weeks). It is not about "top or bottom" 53%. The

Re: [biofuel] Just looking of some advice.

2003-12-25 Thread Appal Energy
Larry, > Do I need to learn to process vegetable oil before I start on the rapeseed oil? Yes and no. Your three options lay in 1) buying your own extruder/expeller system (or just expeller press if you want to leave a high oil fraction in the meal, 2) Co-op with a group of oilseed growers and sp

[biofuel] mad cow ;mad profit mongers

2003-12-25 Thread MALONEKR
Years ago i was talking with the manager of a huge animal waste processing center and he was proudly showing about a dozen or more products salvaged from these dead creatures [many died in feedlots days before processing]He laughed and said that i would be suprised how many of them went one way

[biofuel] Ecuador: More Conflict Over Oil, Indigenous Rights

2003-12-25 Thread Keith Addison
See also: http://www.amazonwatch.org/amazon/EC/toxico/index.php?page_number=99 Amazon Watch - In the Amazon - Ecuador The Chevron-Texaco Toxic Legacy http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/75273/1/ OneWorld US - Ecuador: More Conflict Over Oil, Indigenous Rights Amazon Watch On the eve of an his

[biofuel] Scientists Say Human Impact on Climate Change Certain

2003-12-25 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.ndol.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=131&subid=192&contentid=252267 NDOL: DLC | New Dem Daily | December 17, 2003 Scientists Say Human Impact on Climate Change Certain The American Geophysical Union, the world's largest organization of earth, ocean, and climate scientists, has always been extre

[biofuel] Soybeans: the new threat to Brazilian rainforest

2003-12-25 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-18/s_11441.asp Soybeans: the new threat to Brazilian rainforest Thursday, December 18, 2003 By Michael Astor, Associated Press QUERENCIA, Brazil - The paved highway peters out more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) back, but roadside billboards still sprout acros

[biofuel] EPA goes soft on heavy metal power plant emissions

2003-12-25 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-16/s_11330.asp EPA goes soft on heavy metal power plant emissions Tuesday, December 16, 2003 By John Heilprin, Associated Press WASHINGTON - Days after a scientific panel urged the government to strongly warn pregnant women and children about mercury levels in

[biofuel] City Council Approves Bill To Curb Diesel Emissions

2003-12-25 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.environmentaldefense.org/pressrelease.cfm?ContentID=3456 Environmental Defense NEWS RELEASE 12/15/2003 City Council Approves Bill To Curb Diesel Emissions Law Makes New York National Leader In Fight Against Environmental Triggers Of Asthma (15 December 2003 -- New York) Environmen

[biofuel] Air Pollution Even Worse for Heart Than Lungs

2003-12-25 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/23143/story.htm Air Pollution Even Worse for Heart Than Lungs USA: December 17, 2003 NEW YORK - Long-term exposure to fine particles - so-called particulate matter - in polluted air is more likely to cause death from cardiovascular disease th