What About SOYBEAN BASED Ethanol Fuel? If We Can't Sell Soybeans to China Because of Trump's Crazy Trade War, Maybe we can create BioWillie Fuel Instead.

http://www.biowillieusa.com/

BioWillie is a brand name for the biofuel that is produced by the famous American singer and songwriter Willie Nelson‘s company Willie Nelson Biodiesel. Nelson started  the company back in 2004 when he first got interested in biofuels (due to his wife owning a diesel car that she fueled with biodiesel).

https://schatzcenter.org/

Schatz Energy Research Center
1 Harpst Street; Arcata, CA 95521
(707) 826-4345 | info@schatzcenter.org

Mr Smiley Face Goes to Mars - original Psychedelic Art by Gregory Vanderlaan

Biomass Power Plant Mushroom Cloud
(Vapor in a Windless Day)
In Fairhaven near Eureka, CA 

BIODIESEL Roadshow Bus to Umpqua Hot Springs Newspaper Article for HSU Lumberjack

this is an article I wrote for the HSU school newspaper. This particular event has passed but the Redwood Peace and Justice center has a list of what is happening now.

BIODIESEL Roadshow Bus to Umpqua Hotsprings

by Greg Vanderlaan
Mergemedia staff
03.06.03

Take a trip on the biobus March 20th to 24th. They will be visiting the Umpqua hotsprings to celebrate the spring equinox. The bus will be leaving the Redwood Peace Center 1040 10th Street, Arcata on thursday morning.
When Rudolf Diesel invented his engine, he ran it on peanut oil. A return to using biodiesel would reduce our need to import oil from foreign countries. Biodiesel is a fuel that can be used in any standard diesel engine without modification. It is made from renewable plants like soybeans, hemp, canola oil, cottonseed, sunflower seeds or animal fats. Hemp, a source of biofuel, is currently illegal in the United States. The technology required to manufacture biodiesel is a simple, time tested procedure. A chemical process called transesterification separates glycerin from the fat or vegetable oil. This produces two products -- methyl esters (biodiesel) and glycerin (used in soap).

Biodiesel contains no petroleum based products. There is a limited quantity of fossil fuel on the planet. According to Dr. Michael Moore, chief economist of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory says that finding oil will become increasingly difficult after the year 2020. Four countries control the majority of oil today. (Saudi Arabia-26%, Iraq-11%, Kuait-10% and Iran-9%). The United States controls 2% of the world's oil reserves. In the future, the need for renewable energy sources will become extreme. We will no longer have the option of drilling for more oil. Soybeans, on the other hand, can be grown forever. American farmers would benefit from the increased business. Since this fuel is made locally, transportation of the fuel to the consumer is easier than fossil fuel. Recently, there was a large oil spill off the coast of Spain. A world-wide switch to biodiesel would prevent ecological disasters like this. No oil tankers are needed at all for distribution of biodiesel fuel.
At the Campus Center for Appropriate Technology here at Humboldt State University they have a working biodiesel production system. They use vegetable oil from local restaurants as their raw material. The students convert this waste into a usable fuel for their Mercedes Benz. The fellow at the center says that fuel can be made for as little as 50 cents a gallon. Commercial production of fuel is more expensive. Biodiesel costs about $1.33 to $1.70 cents a gallon depending on many factors including the price of soybeans, labor costs and transportation. Private organizations and individuals are free to manufacture their own fuel for their own use. The CCAT website has step by step instruction for making your own.
Biodiesel is just one of many solutions to our energy needs. While talking to Adrian Nichols of the Redwood Peace Center he brought up some concerns that I had not considered before. "Are the soybeans grown organically?" Could a crop cause more damage thru the use of pesticides than it is worth? "If we use the land for growing fuel, will that interfere with using the land for growing food or not using the land at all?" A deeper solution to our problems would be to use mass transit, ride bicycles or walk to get where we are going. He also felt that we should put more effort into getting power from solar and wind sources.

In Iowa, a hybrid electricity generator is being run. It is a windmill with a biodiesel backup generator for use on days when there is no wind. One of the problems with wind power is reliability. Consumers of electricity demand a constant source of current. It is not practical to depend on wind power alone to satisfy our requirements for electricity. Computers can actually be damaged by fluctuation of the power source. With the hybrid wind/biodiesel system, the diesel generator would kick in when the wind power fell below an acceptable level.
The Union of Concerned Scientists is sponsoring a petition drive to clean up the air pollution from school busses. They are concerned about the health problems due to breathing the smoke from the tailpipe. "From school buses in our neighborhoods to eighteen-wheelers on the highway, diesel rigs are a serious cancer and clean air threat." -Jason Mark, Union of Concerned Scientists.
Research conducted at the University of California-Davis has shown that the cancer-causing potential of biodiesel particulate matter is 80% less than that of petroleum diesel. Biodiesel also significantly reduces most EPA targeted emissions, such as carbon monoxide, unburned hydrocarbons and particulate matter. Biodiesel is the only alternative fuel in the US to complete EPA Tier I Health Effects Testing under section 211(b) of the Clean Air Act. A copy of their petition can be found at www.ucsusa.org
In Canada, the use of biodiesel is gaining speed with the launch of the Montreal Biodiesel project in the spring of 2002, the largest municipal biodiesel project in North America.   More than 140 buses, running on different blends of biodiesel derived from animal rendering and U.S. soybeans will be studied over the next year. The project is expected to consume more than 500,000 liters of biodiesel this year.
Sources of Information:
Call Andy at 826-9783 for reservations for the Biodiesel Roadshow Bus trip or visit the Redwood Peace and Justice Center.
The World Energy corporation sells biodiesel nationwide using existing gas stations to distribute their fuel.
US Department of Energy
Biopower and Biofuels Programs
www.eren.doe.gov

www.biodiesel.org

http://www.globalhemp.com

Read More using the handy LABELS below... Click at Will.

"We Need More Air Pollution!" says Trump... as the EPA Legalizes Release of Methane by Oil Companies. "Corporate Profits are More Important Than Breathing." [Not Actual Quotes - Just The Real Meaning of His Actions]

 - and in other news - Trump Approves Logging in Tongas Forest, Alaska... "Trees? We Don't Need Them, Clearcut The Planet!" - and in other news - Trump takes Money Away from FEMA Right before a Hurricane Hits Florida. Hey, Floridians, Remember Who Did Evil to You in the 2020 Election... Trump switches the Money to the Imaginary "Crisis" at the Border with Mexico. - and in other news - Trump's EPA Removes Requirement for 31 Oil Companies to Blend Corn Ethanol in their Gasoline... Harming American Farmers... Again... and Again... and Again...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/farmers-loyalty-to-trump-tested-over-administrations-new-corn-ethanol-rules/

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RIP Frances Crowe: A Peace Activist that was in the Movie "Power Struggle" about the successful shutting down of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. A Great Movie about Good Triumphing Over Evil.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Crowe

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Addiction Free Living thru Christianity... Might Work for Someone? One time I became addicted to Crack Cocaine and then I went to a Baptist Church. I told the Preacher Man that I Had a Problem and he said: "Why Not Give Your Addiction to Jesus?" and so, One Man talked into my ear in tongues and the other said a Prayer in English and then... I never used Cocaine again... Later that evening I went to the Pink Floyd "Welcome to the Machine" Concert. A Show at George Mason University Basketball Arena where they Played recordings of a Concert while the Laser Lightshow filled the Arena with Light... Exactly like a Rock Concert except the Actual People were missing... but from way back in the audience, so what? That show kept my mind occupied while I suffered thru the withdrawal Symptoms (I Guess)... 

SO, If You Want to Become a Former Addict, Why Not Give Your Addiction to Jesus? What is Kinda Odd About My Story is... I'm Not A Christian... I'm More into GAIA... BUT, I Did "Go Forward" Once at A Baptist Church and They Say If You Truly Accept Jesus, You Are Part of the Flock Forever... Even After Death... Might Be True... NO ONE KNOWS! And If They Say They Do, They are Lying to Themselves and You. 

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Everyone should cut Joe Biden some slack... So What! If He Can't Tell Heroic War Stories Accurately... Forgive Him... He is Really, Really, Really OLD and His Brain Just Doesn't Work that Great Anymore. What is more troubling to me is his LIFETIME OF BEING WRONG ABOUT EVERY ISSUE EVERY TIME. Hopefully, if he becomes President, He Hires Elizabeth Warren to Do His Thinking FOR HIM. 

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TRUMP OWES AN APOLOGY TO JAMES COMEY.

DOJ Decides to NOT Charge FBI Director James Comey With Any Crime. Do They Owe Comey an Apology? Sorry, You Got Fired for No Reason... OOPS... 

James Comey

@Comey

DOJ IG "found no evidence that Comey or his attorneys released any of the classified information contained in any of the memos to members of the media." I don’t need a public apology from those who defamed me, but a quick message with a “sorry we lied about you” would be nice.

James Comey

@Comey

·

6h

And to all those who’ve spent two years talking about me “going to jail” or being a “liar and a leaker”—ask yourselves why you still trust people who gave you bad info for so long, including the president.

E85 Ethanol fuel-an alternative to war with Iraq by Greg Vanderlaan Grown in America by Americans... READ MORE: A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE i WROTE FOR THE LUMBERJACK AT HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY...

E85 Ethanol fuel-an alternative to war with Iraq
by Greg Vanderlaan
Grown in America by Americans, E85 reduces our dependence on foreign oil. It's designed to be a fuel for automobiles and trucks. E85 is 85% Ethanol and 15% gasoline and is made from corn but it can be made from rice, potatoes, wheat, sugar cane or even prunes. It's currently sold in the midwestern United States at prices equivalent to those for mid-grade unleaded gasoline. 
Automobiles using E85 fuel are available from Ford, Chrysler, Gm and many foreign car makers. Called flexible fuel vehicles, they can run on any mixture of ethanol/gasoline. They cost the same as gasoline only vehicles. E85 is not yet available in California but it will be soon. The National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition. www.e85fuel.com announced on Feb 13, 2003 that it has issued a grant award of $46,300 to the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) and InterState Oil Company to develop an E85 fueling facility in the Sacramento, California area.  The fueling facility, owned and operated by InterState, will be used to fuel 113 CDFA fleet vehicles capable of using this alternative fuel.
Here in Eureka and Arcata the stations sell gasohol which is a mixture of 10% ethanol and 90% gasoline. Standard automobiles may be modified to run on E85. The main modification is to the computer system that runs the car. No modifications to the actual engine are needed. 
E85 is nontoxic. In the event of a traffic accident during the transport of the fuel from the refinery to the gas station, no elaborate cleanup is needed. Since the fuel is grown here in the continental United States, the transportation requirements are minimal. There would be no need to use oil tankers like the EXXON-VALDEZ. Boats would be eliminated entirely from the delivery system. The www.iowacorn.org website has maps showing exactly where to go to get a tankfull. Most of the stations are in Minnesota (60). There are 150 stations nationwide. The closest one is in Provo, Utah. 
Auto manufacturers have been making ethanol using vehicles for a very long time. In the 1880s, Henry Ford built the quadricycle which ran on ethanol. Model Ts had a carburetor adjustment to switch between Gasoline and Ethanol. Air pollution would be reduced by switching to ethanol. Emissions of hydrocarbons and benzene are less than gasoline. Carbon dioxide is released to the atmosphere but is reabsorbed by the plants that grow the fuel. One of the reasons ethanol is so popular in the midwest is its use in farm machinery. The machines that are used to make the fuel use the fuel. A byproduct of fuel manufacturing is distillers dried grain which is used for hog and cattle feed.
The country of Brazil has more than 4 million ethanol vehicles on the road. The Brazilians make their fuel from sugar cane. The government of Brazil put a lot of effort into converting their cars because they could not afford to have a lot of money leaving their country.
The US Army has been studying the use of alternate fuel vehicles and has concluded that the main problem is lack of availability of the fuel. The Vehicles themselves are available from the GSA at no extra cost, but there are very few stations that pump E85 near Army bases. The performance in Army vehicles is good. Soldiers need no extra training to use the fuel. Storage and cleanup costs are better than gasoline. The U.S. Postal service has been running its vehicles on ethanol since 1998 in Illinois.
Iraq's economy is based on the oil business. 95% of the money they get from other countries is from the sale of oil. They are having difficulty paying for the wars they had with Iran and the USA during the 1990s. Using ethanol would keep the money we spend for fuel in America. Iraq would simply not have money to spend on weapons if we stopped buying oil.
Not everyone feels that E85 is a viable solution to our fuel problems. During a speech at Humboldt State University, Dr. Michael Moore expressed the opinion that there is simply not enough corn to fuel all of our cars. It would take cutting down half of the Amazon rainforest to have enough biomass to solve our need for energy. He is a former California government official working in energy policy and currently the chief economist of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. He also said that of all the alternative energy sources, biomass is the most attractive. Biomass is a term that refers to all energy sources that come from growing plants. Burning wood in a fireplace, biodiesel fuel from hemp, methanol from wasted sawdust and fermenting grain are all examples of biomass energy. A film of his speech is available at Instructional Media Services.

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BIODIESEL Roadshow Bus to Umpqua Hotsprings

by Greg Vanderlaan
Mergemedia staff
03.06.03

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Take a trip on the biobus March 20th to 24th. They will be visiting the Umpqua hotsprings to celebrate the spring equinox. The bus will be leaving the Redwood Peace Center 1040 10th Street, Arcata on thursday morning.

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When Rudolf Diesel invented his engine, he ran it on peanut oil. A return to using biodiesel would reduce our need to import oil from foreign countries. Biodiesel is a fuel that can be used in any standard diesel engine without modification. It is made from renewable plants like soybeans, hemp, canola oil, cottonseed, sunflower seeds or animal fats. Hemp, a source of biofuel, is currently illegal in the United States. The technology required to manufacture biodiesel is a simple, time tested procedure. A chemical process called transesterification separates glycerin from the fat or vegetable oil. This produces two products -- methyl esters (biodiesel) and glycerin (used in soap).
Biodiesel contains no petroleum based products. There is a limited quantity of fossil fuel on the planet. According to Dr. Michael Moore, chief economist of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory says that finding oil will become increasingly difficult after the year 2020. Four countries control the majority of oil today. (Saudi Arabia-26%, Iraq-11%, Kuait-10% and Iran-9%). The United States controls 2% of the world's oil reserves. In the future, the need for renewable energy sources will become extreme. We will no longer have the option of drilling for more oil. Soybeans, on the other hand, can be grown forever. American farmers would benefit from the increased business. Since this fuel is made locally, transportation of the fuel to the consumer is easier than fossil fuel. Recently, there was a large oil spill off the coast of Spain. A world-wide switch to biodiesel would prevent ecological disasters like this. No oil tankers are needed at all for distribution of biodiesel fuel.
At the Campus Center for Appropriate Technology here at Humboldt State University they have a working biodiesel production system. They use vegetable oil from local restaurants as their raw material. The students convert this waste into a usable fuel for their Mercedes Benz. The fellow at the center says that fuel can be made for as little as 50 cents a gallon. Commercial production of fuel is more expensive. Biodiesel costs about $1.33 to $1.70 cents a gallon depending on many factors including the price of soybeans, labor costs and transportation. Private organizations and individuals are free to manufacture their own fuel for their own use. The CCAT website has step by step instruction for making your own.
Biodiesel is just one of many solutions to our energy needs. While talking to Adrian Nichols of the Redwood Peace Center he brought up some concerns that I had not considered before. "Are the soybeans grown organically?" Could a crop cause more damage thru the use of pesticides than it is worth? "If we use the land for growing fuel, will that interfere with using the land for growing food or not using the land at all?" A deeper solution to our problems would be to use mass transit, ride bicycles or walk to get where we are going. He also felt that we should put more effort into getting power from solar and wind sources.
In Iowa, a hybrid electricity generator is being run. It is a windmill with a biodiesel backup generator for use on days when there is no wind. One of the problems with wind power is reliability. Consumers of electricity demand a constant source of current. It is not practical to depend on wind power alone to satisfy our requirements for electricity. Computers can actually be damaged by fluctuation of the power source. With the hybrid wind/biodiesel system, the diesel generator would kick in when the wind power fell below an acceptable level.
The Union of Concerned Scientists is sponsoring a petition drive to clean up the air pollution from school busses. They are concerned about the health problems due to breathing the smoke from the tailpipe. "From school buses in our neighborhoods to eighteen-wheelers on the highway, diesel rigs are a serious cancer and clean air threat." -Jason Mark, Union of Concerned Scientists.
Research conducted at the University of California-Davis has shown that the cancer-causing potential of biodiesel particulate matter is 80% less than that of petroleum diesel. Biodiesel also significantly reduces most EPA targeted emissions, such as carbon monoxide, unburned hydrocarbons and particulate matter. Biodiesel is the only alternative fuel in the US to complete EPA Tier I Health Effects Testing under section 211(b) of the Clean Air Act. A copy of their petition can be found at www.ucsusa.org
In Canada, the use of biodiesel is gaining speed with the launch of the Montreal Biodiesel project in the spring of 2002, the largest municipal biodiesel project in North America.   More than 140 buses, running on different blends of biodiesel derived from animal rendering and U.S. soybeans will be studied over the next year. The project is expected to consume more than 500,000 liters of biodiesel this year.

Trump's ethanol move delivers gift to corn country... More "Corn Squeezins" for your Car's Gas Tank... Not to be consumed by Humans!

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/08/trump-ethanol-corn-831493 Ethanol, the active ingrediant in Whiskey, beer and wine is promoted by government subsidy as an alternative to OIL Based Gasoline... Well, the BEAR Drank it and proceeded to do the Bear Dance as he was GOD'S OWN Drunk! - Jimmy Buffet.

HEADLINE: "President Donald Trump has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to expand sales of corn ethanol, a senior White House official said on Monday, delivering a gift to farm state Republicans a month before the midterm elections."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-set-lift-restrictions-ethanol-gasoline-n918011
HEADLINE: Trump set to lift restrictions on ethanol in gasoline...
President Donald Trump is expected to announce he is lifting a federal ban on summer sales of high-ethanol blends during a trip to Iowa on Tuesday.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDIrJkNE4Jk

Well, like to explain to you all before,
I ain't no drinkin' man
I tried it once and it got me highly irregular
And I swore I'd never do it again
I promised my brother in-law that I'd go up watch his still
While he went in to town to vote
It was right up on the mountain
where the map said it would be
Friends let me tell you one thing,
though it wasn't no ordinary still
It stood up on that mountainside
like a hugh golden opal

God's yeller moon shinin' on the cool clear evenin'
God's little lanterns twinklin' on and off in the heavens
Like I explain'd to you once before I ain't no drinkin' man
But temptation got the best of me
And I took a slash
That yella whiskey runnin' down my throat
like honey dew vine water

And I took another slash,
Took another'n an another'n an another'n
For you knew I'd downed one whole jug of that shit
and commenced to gettin' hot flashes
Goose pimples was runnin' up and down my body
And a feelin' came over me
like somethin' I'd never experienced before
It was like, like I was in love
In love for the first time, with anything that moved
Animate, inanimate it didn't matter
It's like there's a great neon sign flashin' on an' off
in my brain sayin' "Jimmy Buffett there's a great day a comin'"
`Cause I was drunk
I wasn't knee crawlin', slip slidin', Reggie Youngin'
Commode huggin' drunk

I was God's own drunk and a fearless man
And that's when I first saw the bear
He was a Kodiak lookin' fella `bout nineteen feet tall
He rambled up over the hill
expectin' me to do one of two things,
Flip or fly, I didn't do either one
It hung him up

He started sniffin' around my body tryin' to smell fear
But he ain't gonna smell no fear `cause
I'm God's own drunk and a fearless man
It hung him up
He looked right in my eyes, and my eyes
was a lot redder than his was
It hung him up

So I approached him, I said "Mr. Bear, I love
every hair on your twenty-seven acre body
I know you got a lot of friends over there
on the other side of the hill
There's ole' rare bear, tall bear, Freddy bear, Kelly bear
Really bear, smelly the bear, smokey the bear,
pokey the bear
I want you to go back over there tonight
And tell them I'm feelin' right
You tell them I love each and everyone of them
like a brother and a sister

But if they give me any trouble tonight
I'm gonna run every God damn one of them off the hill"
He took two steps backwards and didn't know what to think
Neither did I but bein' charitable and cautious
Well hell I approached him again
I said "Mr. Bear, You know in the eyes of the Lord
we're both beasts when it comes right down to it

So I want you to be my buddy, Buddy bear"
So I took ole' buddy bear by his island size paw
and I led him over to the still
He's a sniffin' around that thing cause
he's smellin' somethin' good
I gave him one of them jugs of honey dew vine water
He downed it up right
Looked like one of them damn bears in the circus

Sippin' sasparilly in the moonlight
I gave him another'n an another'n an another'n
For I knew it he downed eight of them
and commenced to doin' the bear dance
Two snips, a snort, a fly turn, and a grunt
It was so simple like the jitter bug
It plum evaded me

We worked ourselves into a tumultuous uproar
And I was awful tired and went over to the hillside
and I laid down and went to sleep
Slept for four hours and dreampt me some tremulous dreams
When I woke up, there was God's yeller moon
shinin' on the clear cool evenin'

God's little lanterns twinklin' on and off
in the heavens
My buddy the bear was a missin'
Want to know something else friends and neighbors
So was that still