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Tangled Pipelines: The Muni-Biofuel Acquisition A DiversiChem Narrative By Gerald Keep, PhD Part 2 — 6/26/2020 Chapter 8. – Finance Office – Gloria Vincenzo Archie easily found the office of the CFO, Gloria Vincenzo, which was half open. He pushed the door fully open and walked in. A largish lady sat at a huge desk … Continue reading
Tangled Pipelines: The Muni-Biofuel Acquisition A DiversiChem Narrative By Gerald Keep, PhD 4/3/2020 Disclaimers This is not an autobiography, or a minor variation on what might have been. Many of the life and work experiences of Archie Teller parallel my own only to provide an element of realism to these works, which are fiction. This … Continue reading
Start with two pieces of fabric roughly 7.5” x 11”. The white one is a high thread-count tight woven linen, which should provide the majority of filtration in this design. There are possible adaptations that could allow an insert of a disposable filter layer. Sew around the edges leaving a small gap (left, bottom edge). … Continue reading
The latest installment for my book…. Historic Appendix This list of scientific advances since 1800 is meant to give more insight into how recently in human history we developed the foundations for understanding quantum mechanics. A few historic references are thrown in for perspective. For more detail, I heartily recommend Dr. Asimov’s “Chronology of Science … Continue reading
We celebrate Earth Day as if Mother Earth was a person, sometimes called Gaia, worth recognizing. This analogy between the interconnected ecosystems of the Earth and person is actually a pretty good one. We have many internal systems in dynamic equilibrium, that is to say, held in place between a balance of forces. We get … Continue reading
This talk by Dr. Al Bartlett is both a lesson in simple consequences of growth rates, and a discussion of historic consumption of resources such as petroleum, coal, and space. It’s an hour and a quarter, but it kept me riveted. It is clear that humankind’s situation is far worse than we’ve been led to believe by … Continue reading
Here at MOI Labs, we’re trying to find better, greener alternatives to the way things are done now. One biggie is the use of very strong herbicides, some persistant and get into your garden compost, some that kill bees and other beneficial insects. There is a recipe floating around the internet, which is mostly vinegar, … Continue reading
Scientists and the media have been batting around all kinds of doomsday scenarios from global warming to asteroid strikes. Let me throw out another one that I haven’t heard people focus on. I first threw this idea out in my book “People of the Red Tide”, a middle-shool work of fiction about an environmentally concerned whale, … Continue reading
As a child I was told to take 3 squares of TP and fold them over parallel, so that they overlapped perfectly. This would be the right amount to get the job done, without breaking, and not waste excess. In the golden age of consumption, that worked well. Fast forward 50 years. Now, while I … Continue reading
This piece of literature was worked up for our Green Technology cleaning and floor care product line. ——– Cleaning Clues Here we talk about everything from soap bubbles to brighter whites. Just a start to get you thinking about what the different cleaners do. Soap and pH The earliest soaps were made by breaking up … Continue reading
This blog is inspired by an article in the May 2014 National Geographic titled “The New Food Revolution”. It’s about how we might hope to feed the 2 billion additional souls we expect the planet to support by 2050. I’ll give you the raw scores first, then the commentary. In the USA we eat about 18% … Continue reading
Found this old gem in my archives: MISSING OCTAVE INSIGHTS, INC. Newsletter 1/24/07 © 2007, All Rights Reserved http://www.MissingOctave.com An Ogre’s Guide to Quality Systems To misquote a famous green ogre, Quality Systems “are like onions. They have layers.” We’ve all seen management try to force-fit a one-size-fits-all quality system on a business or product, … Continue reading
Despite the sound of this, it is not out of that farcical fantasy game Munchkins(™). It is a genuine way to control pests. It sounds like putting the remains of executed criminals on display as a warning for others, but the way it works runs much, much deeper than that. I first heard of this … Continue reading
Dr. Ames invented a test to determine how mutagenic any given chemical was. He introduced it to a bacteria culture and looked for upsets. This is almost the same as looking for carcinogens, except that our metabolism changes one chemical into one or more others, and the bacteria don’t mimic this. But it is a … Continue reading
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