Happy Fishnet Friday! Ridgid Tools Edition

FETISH EXERSIZE by *bigradart

The economy may be going down the toilet, but we can still celebrate Fishnet Friday!


Pinups: George Petty's Ridgid Tools Calendars

Funny comment over at 6 Degrees of Casey Serin:
Anonymous said...
Ok doeas anyone know of jellyfish in the sky being a common thing? I ask cuz I actually saw jellyfish in the sky and there were alot of them and they were really big and transparent. So I googled sky jellyfish and found abunch of stuff about it. Mushrooms open your perception to other dimensions or dimensional beings.
July 11, 2008 10:29 AM

Hat tip to Wagga for these finds:
Angry White Guy (Rob Dawg or Lou Minatti?)Dittoheads to pretend to think for themselves

Food for oil

Gallons of biodiesel per fattie...

BTW why is David Brooks such an idiot?
Thoughts on teeth and Angelina Jolie's caesarean preference:

Termite Biofuel

Termite by ~cocor

Now this is intriguing...

Termites... these ground-dwelling insect pests cause millions of dollars worth of damage each year to wooden structures by eating them. Now scientists are closer to understanding how termites convert wood into energy - and how we humans might do the same; cleanly, "greenly" and economically.

Excerpted from Biofuel From A Termite's Butt?

Scary Corn

Scary Corn by ~bushijutsu

Hat tip to Wagga for this find:

Jon Markman at MSN Money doesn't hold back when he says "Corn-based ethanol production is sure to go down as one of the greatest mistakes ever in U.S. energy policy." It's even more provoking when he writes "replacing fossil fuels with corn-based ethanol would double greenhouse gas emissions over the next three decades. The studies show that switchgrass, an alternative to ethanol that's more weed than plant, would boost emissions by 50%."The problem isn't with the cars, the problem is with what it takes to grow the biofuel in the first place. Clearing the land, harvesting, and refining the crops, plus the loss of forest and wild lands and habitats, amounts to creating a carbon footprint worse than fossil fuels. According to the Science article which, admittedly, posits an extreme scenario, it would take 423 years to even out the carbon debt if Indonesia's peat lands were converted to palm oil fields.
More from Science magazine declares ethanol worse for the Earth than fossil fuels

Algae-based ethanol seems to be a far more sensible solution.

Ethanol from Garbage!

garbage by ~miss-vomit
What a great idea!

DETROIT — General Motors (GM) says it is investing in a fledgling company that claims its secret process could be able to make ethanol from waste in large quantity as soon as 2010 for $1 a gallon or less, half the cost of making gasoline.
Bill Roe, CEO of 18-month-old ethanol maker Coskata, says the company's process uses bacteria developed at the University of Oklahoma and existing gasification technology to generate 99.7% pure ethanol, plus water. He says the method should leapfrog cellulosic production, which has been seen as the next step from today's ethanol production using corn.

GM won't disclose its investment, but Roe says it's enough to make Coskata "a speed-to-market play. I don't think most people saw this coming," he says. "Most talk about cellulosic ethanol is futuristic."

Coskata's process can use garbage, old tires and other waste, but Roe says wood waste probably will be used at first because it's available, cheap and easy to handle.

More from General Motors finances ethanol maker Coskata

Hat tip to Wagga for this find.

In other news, January 13 through 19 is Slow Down Week.

It's the End of the World As We Know it

Sweet Biofuel Options!

“I thought it was a plant for old ladies to make soap,” he said.

But now that a plant called jatropha is being hailed by scientists and policy makers as a potentially ideal source of biofuel, a plant that can grow in marginal soil or beside food crops, that does not require a lot of fertilizer and yields many times as much biofuel per acre planted as corn and many other potential biofuels. By planting a row of jatropha for every seven rows of regular crops, Mr. Banani could double his income on the field in the first year and lose none of his usual yield from his field.

BTW, this is my favorite Velvet Underground song....