{"id":838,"date":"2004-05-12T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-12T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=838"},"modified":"2004-05-12T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-12T21:04:00","slug":"biodiesel-berg-books-and-bruises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=838","title":{"rendered":"biodiesel, berg, books, and bruises"},"content":{"rendered":"

This afternoon on the shareandenjoy<\/a> instance, someone pointed out this wired article<\/a>, saying hybrids ain’t as fuel efficient as we think. In the ensuing conversation, biodiesel was brought up, and it occurred to me that I knew less about this than a variety of other energy alternatives, so I started looking into it. <\/p>\n

Looks like the basic technology takes oil, as in vegetable oil or animal fat, and processes it with ethanol or methanol to produce something that has about 80-98% of the oomph of regular diesel. There are a number of obvious and inobvious advantages. When one area doesn’t have enough fuel, it can devote more of its land to farming the bio-diesel crops. Less with the international shipping of crude or refined oil. In the steady state, it recycles the CO2 that the engines produce back into more fuel. Bio-diesel releases far less polution than fossil diesel. The current infrastructure for diesel can be used for bio-diesel. Bio-diesel is already being mixed with diesel in some places, and working fine.<\/p>\n

Diesel cars, like the the VW Golf, already exist. pointed out that currently, VW voids the warranty for using biodiesel. But, they’re working on that<\/a>. It seems like a good way to go, and is far from incompatible with the pursuit of fuel cells, but that’s another story.<\/p>\n

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I saw the uncensored nick berg video. Drives the event home rather clearly. I don’t think I’ll be watching it again. It makes me rather sad. I mean, granted, he was an idiot to be wandering around a warzone anti-american terrorist haven looking for work. But your life is a rather high penalty for idiocy. And he’s not the only one who’s been paying that price, sometimes with even less cause. <\/p>\n

On the guardian website<\/a>, I’ve run across the sort of thing I haven’t seen at all in my browsing of american websites, a review of Arab reaction to the killings<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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I have an assload of books to sell. Many of them fantasy books. I went down to “The Other Change of Hobbit”<\/a>, and chatted briefly with the proprietor. Turns out he reads this (Hi! =) journal. And that The Other Change of Hobbit (fantasy\/scifi bookstore, some of the stock used, much of it new) may not be with us for much longer. Which is kinda sad, I rather like the spot. But I haven’t purchased much there. Cursed tight budget. =\/ He also suggested a few bookstores in Minneapolis to check out. <\/p>\n

And a few local used bookstores to try hawking my wares to. I’ll do that, also considering ebay\/craigslist options. And for my rpg book collection, the endgame, if the proprietor would be interested. Almost all the books I intend to keep are packed into boxes. Going through and pitching stuff and selecting clothing to donate should be another big agenda item. <\/p>\n

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Finally, I managed to bruise myself on a trampoline. They look like tiny hickeys in a tight grid on my back. I have
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This afternoon on the shareandenjoy instance, someone pointed out this wired article, saying hybrids ain’t as fuel efficient as we think. In the ensuing conversation, biodiesel was brought up, and it occurred to me that I knew less about this than a variety of other energy alternatives, so I started looking into it. Looks like … Continue reading “biodiesel, berg, books, and bruises”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}