johnhking1

Cornell ecologist's study finds that producing ethanol and biodiesel from corn and other crops is not worth the energy. corn requires 29 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced; switch grass requires 45 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced; and wood biomass requires 57 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced. In terms of energy output compared with the energy input for biodiesel production, the study found that: soybean plants requires 27 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced, and sunflower plants requires 118 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced. In addition, your car will get nearly the same MPG with 9 gallons of gas without ethanol as 10 gallons of gas with 10% ethanol. the only advantage of ethanol is that it is an octane booster but I don't think the trade off is worth it. https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2005/07/ethanol-biodiesel-corn-and-other-crops-not-worth-energy

Sam Kinneston solves the hunger problem. https://www.google.com/search?q=sam+kinneston+on+hunger&rlz=1C1PRFI_enUS786US788&oq=sam+kinneston+on+hunger&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIJCAEQLhgNGIAEMgoIAhAAGAgYDRgeMg0IAxAAGIYDGIAEGIoFMgoIBBAAGIAEGKIE0gEJMTE1NTBqMGo3qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:afba1ee4,vid:K44DriPrLUk,st:0

I think Mickey Mouse can get a pair of hip waders on Amazon.

Does that include all the corn that is used to make ethanol.

Mine was a 1962 VW Beetle, paid $175.00. I bought this car and my airport from the same guy.

With the cost of day care, driving the kids to day care or school, after school babysitting, paying for cleaning service, lawn mowing or landscaping, buying fast food or prepared food for dinner can eat up most of a second salary. Also, missing soccer games and other after school activities because you are still at work, being too tired to help with homework or spend time with your kids.

Don't you mean the next 2 years of their life.

The Catholic Church is loosing members, they need to bump up the members and the $$$.

There were 6 siblings in my moms family, they had a total of 7 children. On my dads side there were also 6 siblings with 9 children born, 5 adoptions and one sibling died during WWII and had none.

It is a wonder that there are any more people living in Cabot Cove with people being killed every week.

At one of the past Symposium banquets, I was sitting at the same table as John and Nancy. I told John a couple of skydiving related jokes and and he was laughing pretty hard. He was a good guy and will be missed. If there is a memorial, someone please post the date.

A friend of mine used to say, "it's ok to lie for the government but not lie to them".

I also heard the same thing, always wear clean underware incase you get by a car. Hawkeye Pierce from "MASH" said " I always wear clean underware incase I get run over by a tank"

Many of us on this forum are at an age that before things get really bad, we will be gone. It appears that society is on a downward slope and it is logarithmic not linear.

My old underwear is a little shredded, does that count as lace?

You say that like it is a bad thing. Fewer people, less energy use, less CO2 in the atmosphere, global warming slowing down, less traffic on Interstate 4 between Orlando and Disney World.

Now all we need is a world wide electric grid so the part of the day time part of the earth can supply the night time place.

That would be the Amish? The local Amish Use propane.

No moving parts but still moving at 650,000 miles per hour.

Skydiving first started at the Ovid Airport, D82, in August 1967. The original Parachute Jumping Center License from the New York State Department of Commerce Bureau of Aviation is hanging on the wall at manifest. The DZ moved to Seneca Falls, N.Y. in April 1972. I opened Finger Lakes Skydivers DZ in Ovid in May 1982 and operated until November 2015. The business was sold and new operators began in April 2016 under the name Skydive Finger Lakes. The business was sold again and the next operators took over in April 2018 and operated through October 2021. They sold their aircraft and moved out of the area. There was no skydiving business operation during the 2022 and 2023 skydiving season. There was occasional skydiving by invitation only for experienced jumpers during those summers. A completely new skydiving operation, Skydive Seneca Lake, skydivesenecalake.com, will begin on April 25, 2024 with a Cessna TU-206 and a C-182. They are in no way associated with any of the past operations. I purchased the Ovid Airport in 1989, it has a 2800 X 40 paved runway and 2200 X 60 turf runway, 20+ acres of landing area, heated and air conditioned clubhouse with kitchen, lounge, restrooms with showers, and indoor packing area. It is locate in the center of the Finger Lakes Region of New York State. You can see 7 of the finger lakes from jump altitude plus Lake Ontario and on a clear day you can see Canada. John King

Must be Levi's.

Does that let Jerry Lee Lewis off the hook.

Ithaca NY, Tompkins County is buying 12 new diesel busses. They have 8 electric busses that keep breaking down, hard to service, cant get parts and the company that built them is out of business. They plan to buy electric busses from a different company when the time comes to replace their new diesel ones.

We were in the path of the total eclipse but it was overcast. We did get a peak of the sun through thin clouds when it was about 25% covered. It was cool as things got dark to the west. When it got dark, we saw out door lights on some houses come on and a cell tower red light came on. It got dark as night for a little over 4 minutes, really cool. I could see a tower to the east with a white strobe. As darkness passed to the east, I could see that tower light change to red. Looking west, it looked like sunrise and east sunset. As the shadow completely passed east, I could see that tower light change back from red to white. Even though we couldn't see the sun, it was a pretty cool experience.

I better stock up on hammers and steak knives before a back ground check is required.