The Ergosphere

Diesel water injection papers

Engineer-Poet — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:29:13 +0000

The papers sent to me by azmio (on Green Car Congress) related to this thread are attached.

2009-01-2808

Corn stover collection project

Engineer-Poet — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:13:58 +0000

This paper on the Corn stover collection project is no longer available on-line. I am making it available as a public service.

Can I get any more disgusted with Google?

Engineer-Poet — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:50:57 +0000

Once again, I’m blocked from using my Blogger account on Blogger (notwithstanding the “or sign in with your Blogger account” prompt). I cannot even sign in to comment there.

Worse, I’m completely blocked from commenting on Blogger blogs even when anonymous/pseudonymous comments are allowed. I fill in the Captcha, but the comments neither preview nor post. I can post pseudonymously from work, but not from home with my own IP address.

It looks like Google is trying to strongarm me into using one of their Google accounts. Well, dammit, I won’t. Their data-retention policies are anathema, and they’ve long since forgotten what evil means.

I am going to take out a Google account, and use it exactly once. I am going to close comments on ergosphere.blogspot.com, switch the timestamps to a convertible format and post a headline diverting everyone here. Google can either respect people’s desire not to be tracked, catalogued and surveilled everywhere they go, or I’ll null-route all their servers.

Presentations on thermal conversion

Engineer-Poet — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:12:46 +0000

The following 3 documents relating to thermal conversion processing were sent to Robert Rapier, who forwarded them to me. As they appear not to be widely available at the moment, I’m posting them here.
CWT_GenConfLasVegas3_3_04.pdf
CWT_NaturalGasTechConf2_11_04.pdf
TDP_0405SE05adams.pdf