Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Greg and April" <gregandapril@earthlink.net>]

IIRC, he used the waste heat from a liquid cooled engine that he uses to 
generate electricity, but, that could be another person I'm thinking about.

Greg H.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nancy Babbitt" <nbabbitt2003@adelphia.net>
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" 
<livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 10:48
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Wheat is the new oil


> What does he use to heat the still???
>
>
> On Jul 28, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Greg and April wrote:
>
> > I don't know, un-eaten food is crop waste ( at least to me ).
> >
> > I know of one guy that goes around to all the bars in his area
> > leaves tanks
> > with them, and the bars dump all the left over beverages into the
> > tanks.
> > He later picks the liquid up and checks for alcohol content and sugar
> > content.    If the alcohol content is high enough, he distils it,
> > for fuel.
> >
> > At least to me that is one way to utilize a type of crop waste.
> >
> > Greg H.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Harvey Ussery" <huboxwood@earthlink.net>
> > To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 6:29
> > Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Wheat is the new oil
> >
> >
> > > Thanks for passing this on, Paul.
> > >
> > > A minor quibble with the author's thesis, tho not news to most on
> > > this
> > > list:
> > >
> > > > A big question mark has to be put next to ethanol fuels, except
> > > > those
> > > > made
> > > > from crop wastes.
> > >
> > > It is *not* the case that biofuels from corn & grain are wasteful,
> > > but
> > > it's okay to produce them from "crop wastes." Going down that path
> > > means
> > > never returning "crop wastes" to agricultural soils, means the
> > > continuing loss of humus from soils, means continuing industrial
> > > agriculture as more mining operation than farming.
> > >
> > > ~Harvey
> > > --
> > > Harvey in northern Va
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