THE GREAT ETHANOL BOONDOGGLE

Saw the post on prez picks. How perfect!

.....Thanx ...

.....COLOSSUS is not swayed by emotion or bias so its picks are usually pretty good ...

.....Humans are mostly subjective and emotional in their thought processes so logic does not always rule ...for instance, I beat COLOSSUS'S pick on the winner of American Idol by going with my gut feeling ...bbdoc

Your still a racist!!!!!!!!

Have a Happy Kwanzaa!!!!!!!!!!

Your comments often reflect my opinions perfectly. When I asked you where you were from, your reply makes me think that we could have been neighbors not too long ago. We lived on Lake Texoma, near Gordonville for about 2 years, before returning to our panhandle roots. Sure do miss the fishing!

I am afraid though that I have not figured out what "COLOSSUS" is. I know it is probably so simple that I am overlooking it's meaning.

See ya on the boards!
Lura

Some of that 97% of the surface of our country that you want to grow corn on is where the other eco-hippies want to plant the tens of thousands of acres of solar panels to generate electricity for their government approved 25 watt light bulbs. The inmates are truly running the asylum.

your comment yesterday. Let's get something straight:

You are a racist who would like nothing better than to see me dead.

You have a strong adversion to such things as facts or reality.

We will never agree on anything.

With all this being said, don't try and strike up a convo with me baseballdoc. It's not going to work. I don't like you. I strongly hate your guts.

This is our "breakup". Goodbye.

Don't go after AT. Josue Sierra has already been contacted about your racist comments toward several posters. Shape up old man!!!

How Ralphie thinks your a racist?

I may have to print off this one for some liberal friends. Your posts are always on the money, I hope to pop in here every once in a while. Keep it up!

COLOSSUS...I would like to think its more like a point proven meaning. like "here are the facts to prove you wrong" COLOSSUS! haha.

I did not want to post this FYI on the thread.
Bob Barr was employed by the ACLU for a long time.

The name of the radio show slips my mind right now. Mark Something. (The Great One)
I will get it if you need it. KSFO keeps archives.
I listen every night though. KSFO Hot Talk 650.

.....Thanks for the heads up on Barr ...if he were a Liberal I might be worried but Barr has a long Conservative record ...

.....The ACLU has a bad rap on many issues that Conservatives find odiou but in spite of its origins they do try to defend Constitutional Rights ...they came to the defense of Limbaugh when the State tried to get his medical records illegally .....COLOSSUS

You struck a nerve with me there, bbdoc! Their ethanol program is almost on par with the AGW hoax. There are many other options which need to be considered before we commit to any one of them... or should we use several at the same time?

I know that they've heard of ButylFuel, at http://www.butylfuel.com because they are funding development with what amounts to pocket change compared to the investment in ethanol. Butanol (Butylfuel) is an alcohol that is a one-for-one replacement for gasoline and can be brewed from many feedstocks besides corn.

Sargassum (seaweed algae) is about the best plant feedstock. Others are working on using yeast or engineered bacteria to increase the yield, so research in ongoing.

Butanol yields 110,000 BTU/gallon compared to gasoline at 115,000 and actually gets better mileage than gasoline in the same car. Follow the URL above if you're curious...
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Then there's pyrolysis, or Thermal Depolymerization. That's a heat and pressure process that has been in use for chemistry for about 70 years. Actually, it has been in use far longer than that, since it's how the crude oil we pull out of the ground was made.

Changing World Technologies (CWT) built a plant in Carthage, MO, adjacent to a Con-Agra turkey processing plant to make No. 3 idustrial heating oil from turkey waste. http://www.changingworldtech.com/

According to WikiPedia, they were processing 290 tons of animal waste to produce 500 barrels of oil per day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization

Several interesting links at the bottom of the WikiPedia article.

And then there's Fusion Power... yes, it's real for electric power generation. See http://49chevy.blogs.com/fusor/2007/01/what_is_this_si.htm l and read about Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventer of television in the 1920s. In the 1950s he invented something even more radical called a fusor, but "it was never perfected or made practical". Until now.

Then go to http://www.fusor.net/ and read about high school students who have made fusion reactors for science fair projects. Follow the link titled "Should Google go nuclear?" in the right pane about 1/4 the way down the page and meet Dr. Robert Bussard.

After that, see http://www.emc2fusion.org/ and be amazed. Dr. Bussard succumbed to cancer last October 6th at age 79. His wife and close friends and associates are continuing his research. There's an obituary at (sorry for the long link) http://www.santafenewmexican.com/SantaFeNorthernNM/Robert_ Bussard__1928_2007_Physicist_known_for_pursuits_into_fus

Good old American persistance and ingenuity, works every time.

Sometimes genius is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

Makes a nice drink, but a poor fuel. Indy cars use pure ethanol and get less than 2 mpg, Nascar uses gas and get around 5mpg.

Only a fool turns his food into fuel.
Al Gore is a fool who will get super rich from his ideas. I don't begrudge him a profit, but it should not be govenment mandated.

Compact flourescent lightbulbs? Garbage.
I actually have two in my house. They last a long time and they are in places that are difficult to access. Better than a CFL is a LED bbulb. Lots of light and NO MERCURY.

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