Posted by Al Ross on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:18 | #

All Whites should stay away from China’s 5th largest export destination, and largest employer of (and retail destination of) non-Whites, ie, Wal-Mart.

Posted by mens rea genocide on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 06:47 | #

The (in)famous Judicial Biz on the Waltons. Is Sam a Jew? (Looks Jewish to me…) And the Robsons? Hmm…

http://judicial-inc.biz/wal_mart__waltons.htm

Posted by James Bowery on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:24 | #

I disagree with your ethics, Al, for the simple reason that it is not good to handicap those of us who are conscious and struggling with subsistence when there is no social support network.  If we could really establish alternate economic networks then your ethics make sense, just as restrictions on international trade make sense when NATions are NATural reflections of NATivity.

Posted by Al Ross on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 09:53 | #

It is true that supporting locally-run, owner-managed businesses has become difficult as these independent entities have been sqeezed out by the likes of Wal-Mart. Even old-established White firms like Sears have fallen into Jewish control (Edward Lampert).

However the personal ethics involved in supporting a company (Wal-Mart) which created the post of Chief Diversity Officer and tasked him with freezing White promotions in order to ‘achieve racial balance’ in senior management by appointing Blacks and Mestizos, are hardly impeccable.

Posted by James Bowery on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:48 | #

So, Al, you want the Euro children to go hungry, be turned into sex slaves or be removed from their parents rather than their parents buy goods from companies that are engaged in business practices complying with the EEOC?

I’m just trying to get a straight story from you here, Mr. Impeccable.

Posted by Al Ross on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:07 | #

Carry on with your mud pies, there’s a good chap.

Posted by jp straley on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:10 | #

The algal biomass for aquaculture is a decent idea, and it has a remarkable twist.  Some algae are 30% or so (dry weight) a fatty oil, which can easily be made into biodiesel fuel.  Google it, there is a good amount of info.  Of course, it’s an industrial scale process rather than subsidence fuel.

Posted by James Bowery on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:18 | #

The omega-3 oils can indeed be used as biodiesel but the economics only work out when the covering structures are combined with aquaculture for food.

Posted by DWe on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:45 | #

Spotted Tilapia’s invasion of the Everglades:

http://eco.confex.com/eco/2007/techprogram/P5738.HTM

Analogous to the Cuban invasion of S. Florida.

Posted by cladrastis on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:46 | #

Just out of curiosity, does this kind of open-air aquaculture create a mosquito problem?  If so, how do you control it? 

This is an issue in the South, where we have both Asian tiger mosquitos and West Nile Virus.

Posted by torgrim on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:37 | #

“does this open-air aquaculture create a mosquito problem?”

From experience any standing water will create a breeding area for mosquitos.
However, there are a couple of natural ways of dealing with mosquitos.
Many counties will provide “mosquito fish” for little or no fee.
Another excellent way to control mosquitos, are our friends the flying mammals. Bats, can be encouraged too, with areas for habitat, which in urban areas have been extremely altered.

Posted by a Finn on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:47 | #

Good experiment. Is there any knowledge how to prevent toxic algae, like blue algae, from contaminating the growth?

Al Ross have a point too. I presume at least the most of European Americans still have the ability to choose better alternatives than Wal-Mart. But our own networks providing living/food/houses/education for our people are a necessity.

Posted by Maguire on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:06 | #

To JP Straley,

“Some algae are 30% or so (dry weight) a fatty oil, which can easily be made into biodiesel fuel.  Google it, there is a good amount of info.  Of course, it’s an industrial scale process rather than subsidence fuel.”

From the late 1970s to early 1990s the U.S. Department of Energy was funding basic research into using power plant cooling water retention ponds for rapid algae culture to make bio-diesel. 

Prior to project termination over 3,000 species of algae had been collected and evaluated for suitability.  The final mid-90s program report - which I have in PDF and have read - stated this algae collection had been turned over to the University of Hawaii in the hopes of preservation. 

This program was terminated by oil industry lawyer Hazel O’Leary when she was Secretary of (no)Energy in the mid 1990s.  She also terminated virtually all other renewable fuels projects except for food crops to ethanol and food crops to biodiesel.  She also retained the future mirage of ‘cellulosic’ ethanol and the Star Trek caliber ‘science’ of Hydrogen, Solar and Wind.  These technologies were once popular with science illiterate policy wonks, and are still popular with anti-white racial haters like Hillary Hosta trying to implement the Morgenthau Plan.

Maguire

Posted by Maguire on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:21 | #

“All Whites should stay away from China’s 5th largest export destination”

It’s become impossible to source many items locally that AREN’T made in China.  Take Schedule 40 steel pipe fittings, for an obscure example.  It doesn’t matter whether you go to Home Depot, Lowe’s, Ace or Tru-Value.  It’s all Made In China.  You have to go online-UPS to source USA made Schedule 40 fittings.  And the prices will be significantly higher even before UPS charges.

If you want some direct price comparisons between “Made In China” and “Made In USA”, order catalogs from “Enco” and “MSC Direct”.  These are industrial supply companies and they typically provide sourcing choices since some of their customers have mandates to use “Made In USA”.  And there are often quality issues.  Still, the price differentials between nominally identical items should be shockingly educational. 

“However the personal ethics involved in supporting a company (Wal-Mart) which created the post of Chief Diversity Officer”

Sears, Home Depot, Lowes and the rest all have identical programs.  Wally is just trying to garner some non-white public goodwill by publicizing it more actively.  It might even be as insubstantial as their p.r. about their employee medical benefits.

The real question is price & quality point, and here Wally World is on thinner ice for many product lines.  For me milk, eggs and vegetables are lower cost three blocks away from Wally at the vegetable market.  The surviving local grocery chains are also now competitive on price and superior on service. 

Wally’s “Murphy Oil” gas stations tend to be cheapest on fuel (by design, it’s a loss leader), and motor oil and brake fluid is a buy inside.  The only cost-effective tools I’ve found at Wally’s are jig saw blades and 7” abrasive metal cutting blades for my circular saw.

The rest of Wally’s tools recall the English proverb; “I’m too poor to buy cheap goods.”  Wally (and also the Chinese Army front called “Harbor Freight”) sell tools in the certain expectation 99% will only be used 2-3 times before the 90-180-365 day warranty period is up.  Manufacturing
specifications and costs are adjusted downwards accordingly, with exchange available for the rare bird who uses a tool 15 times during the warranty period and thus breaks it.

Wally sells almost nothing with a life expectancy of more than 2 years.  Consumer electronics might be a ‘buy’ compared to other places, but whites in general need to be kicking the JewsMedia addiction.

There are excellent reasons to avoid “Made In China” for all tools, no matter who sells them.  Buy quality US made tools at estate sales, going out of business sales, at pawn shops or used through the classifieds or eBay.  You’ll get far better tools at vastly cheaper prices.

Clothing and textiles.  Here’s an interesting moral question.  Is it better to pay non-whites in a non-white country (China) or to subsidize non-whites in these same industries inside the USA?  Some new “Made In USA” clothing companies have appeared, nearly all located in the southwest.  No points for guessing whether these firms employ illegals.

Posted by Al Ross on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:49 | #

Recently there was a recall of Chinese-made tyres. The bargain-hunting consumers purchased these fatally-flawed cheapos and the US agent is too small to provide financial compensation. 

We will see more of this as larger parts of America become Mexico in its penurious microcosm.

Posted by James Bowery on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:12 | #

Spotted Tilapia’s invasion of the Everglades

It’s interesting that when I talked to the forest service’s river ecologist about tilapia here in the Pacific Northwest, it was apparent that even the blue tilapia would not last a single winter due to the temperature limits of the species.  Of course, in order to grow tilapia in cold climates you would need to obtain access to warm water wells (“profit” is defined differently in an egress desperation and it may be reasonable to rely biomass stoves).  If they escape, they may live some months but they will not survive winter.

The same cannot be said for tropical adapted homo sapiens who occupy technologically tamed environments.

Posted by James Bowery on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:15 | #

does this kind of open-air aquaculture create a mosquito problem

While the water was sitting still waiting for the city chlorine to dissipate it did acquire some mosquito larvae.  However, as soon as I turned on the pump with the filter, they were sucked into the filter and emptied onto the lawn.  With the pump running periodically they don’t get a foot hold.

I did, last year, run a stagnant pool and ran into larvae problems which I solved with something called “mosquito dunks” which consist of parasitic bacteria that eat some of the organs of the larvae.

Posted by James Bowery on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:19 | #

Is there any knowledge how to prevent toxic algae, like blue algae, from contaminating the growth

Part of the purpose of the experiment this year was to find out whether the wild algae that survive high (>9.0) pH are toxic.  The higher the pH the fewer species can survive.  I’m attempting to obtain some tilapia fingerlings to see if they can eat the wild high pH algae resulting from this experiment.  Another reason to run high pH is that alkaline media is CO2 absorbing, since its important to find economic carbon feedstocks.

Posted by James Bowery on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:24 | #

I presume at least the most of European Americans still have the ability to choose better alternatives than Wal-Mart.

When people aren’t in a desperate situation it makes sense to identify materials and equipment that one can fabricate/manufacture ones self out of local materials and skills.

The situation I’m addressing is one in which people are desperately seeking egress—short of time, money and options.

Posted by William on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:37 | #

Speaking of growing wonderful algae:

http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070625/full/070625-13.html

Posted by James Bowery on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:20 | #

Yes William, recycling human and other waste through closed-ecosystem via algae is a potential that is worth investigating.  The problem, of course, is that if you go that closed-cycle you very quickly discover that you must go completely closed cycle so you can’tget any contaminants building up such as heavy metals or viruses.  Its an admirable goal for many reasons but very difficult so far.

Human waste may not be a practical feedstock for that reason.

Posted by GT on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:01 | #

JB writes: “I’m not going to say more here about this except to show you something that vividly illustrates ...”

Can you say how many kilowatt hours per month per pound is required to filter and aerate these tanks?

Posted by James Bowery on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:11 | #

Zero.  Last year I ran without any aeration or filtration and managed to get substantial algae growth, which really isn’t surprising.

The real test of economy comes when the system produces food over an extended period of time and I don’t have numbers on that.

The main point of this illustration is to point out that there is an extrema in algae that people need to take into account when thinking about the potential solutions to dire situations such as those that will face the people who stayed in the cities too long, whether out of stupidity, ignorance or necessity.

Posted by Maguire on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:46 | #

“find economic carbon feedstocks.”

Something I’m doing hardware work in.  Will near -0- cash cost solid carbon work for your purposes?  Such as activated carbon?  Or does it need to be a gas in CO2 form?

“to grow tilapia in cold climates you would need to obtain access to warm water wells”

Or heat it with a Combined Heat & Power (CHP) system.  Engineer Steve Chastain describes such a system here:  http://stephenchastain.com/book6.htm  He uses one built from an old Ford Pinto engine to power his house and also heat his swimming pool.

Posted by jp straley on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:12 | #

To Maguire (and others)

Here is a link to a fairly recent review article (Dr. M. Briggs, U of NH) on the state of the art for making biodiesel from algae.  Quite readable. 

As I understand from further reading, Dr. Briggs glosses over some of the scale-up problems for this tech.  Hopefully the promise of algal biodiesel is so strong that the objections merely define the engineering problems. 

http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html

Posted by second class citizen on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:14 | #

An alternative to buying Chinese consumer goods is to buy continental European, esp. German, Swiss etc. At least then you can have confidence that you are buying something that is probably 80%+ German made, unlike in most of the (former) Anglosphere. Even if they don’t have free speech.

The Germans seem to be having a resurgence buoyed by internet research (in spite of astroturfing). They have long had a well justified reputation for making very high quality goods in all aspects - power efficiency, longevity, efficacy etc. The engineers at my first work experience were using 50+ year old German machines, still working great. And now people are willing to pay more for such things when they can analyze feedback statistics and reviews.

I suspect that it’s more than happenstance that such traits are part of the German psyche. Germany and Switzerland are (with the exception of coal) relatively resource poor, so a “throwaway society” would be rather antithetical to them since at least the bronze age. I know that at least in my family there is a genetic urge going back at least 4 generations on the German side to economize and make a little go a long way, even when you’d make more money by not doing so.

Posted by James Bowery on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:59 | #

Will near -0- cash cost solid carbon work for your purposes?

I haven’t heard of algae cultivation being done with solid/activated carbon but that doesn’t mean its not doable.  I just haven’t heard of it.  I tend to think that while the bioavailabe forms of carbon are much more diverse than wiyh many other organisms, elemental carbon may not be available enough for most practical purposes.  Activated carbon might, however, be very valuable in reducing the dechlorination time of city water.  I haven’t established a lower bound on that time through just sitting and used a number of precious weeks up for my most recent experiment.

Or heat it with a Combined Heat & Power (CHP) system.

Yes.  That is what I had in mind when I mentioned “biomass stoves”—which I prefer to internal combustion engines due to the wider range of fuels and lower maintenance.  There, a heat engine produces the mechanical power.  Ideally the flue gas would be cooled by the growth medium before being injected into the growth medium so as to carbonate the medium.

Posted by James Bowery on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:08 | #

Here is a link to a fairly recent review article (Dr. M. Briggs, U of NH) on the state of the art for making biodiesel from algae.

Here is a critique of Briggs’ review:

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2541

Note that although I weighed in with my solar updraft algae biosphere proposal, my main point in talking about such huge-investment structures is to point out the bankruptcy of the current civilization.  They are the ones insisting that centralized structures are necessary for high carrying capacity and high culture—yet they can’t do the most basic kind of engineering to increase carrying capacity.

I believe this to be a structural flaw of civilizations since any economic rent is so attractive to parasites that they naturally end up controlling the distribution of economic rents to themselves and thereby gut inventors of the capital needed for carrying capacity maximization.  My oft-cited passage from W. D. Hamilton’s “Innate social aptitudes of man” describing why civilizations gradually reduce altruism and creativity of all kinds is more argument by authority since I believe the reason these externalities aren’t fed back to the creators—creators that could be compensated for their contributions by appropriate civic leadership—is that appropriate civic leadership is elbowed out of position by virulent parasites more adept at grabbing control of economic rent streams (grabbing positive externalities) than of wielding control appropriately.

Posted by second class citizen on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:37 | #

Bowery, I am certainly glad you are on our side. I find you to be one of the most interesting writers here, probably because of your similar engineering mind.

On your WD Hamilton quote:
Polybius wrote about the natural decay of civilization more than 2000 years ago.

“So then we enumerate six forms of government—the three commonly spoken of which I have just mentioned, and three more allied forms, I mean despotism, oligarchy and mob-rule. The first of these arises without artificial aid and in the natural order of events. Next to this, and produced from it by the aid of art and adjustment, comes kingship; which degenerating into the evil form allied to it, by which I mean tyranny, both are once more destroyed and aristocracy produced. Again the latter being in the course of nature perverted to oligarchy, and the people passionately avenging the unjust acts of their rulers, democracy comes into existence; which again by its violence and contempt of law becomes sheer mob-rule.”

http://www.humanistictexts.org/polybius.htm#The Importance of a Constitution

Of course, there are some changes since then. We have McDonalds, IPods, cable and video games to lull us to sleep, they had to subsist on bread and circuses. The former are far more effective though. And Polybius didn’t mention the ethnic infiltration angle. I’m not sure whether that was because he was a Greek living in Rome, or if it was because Rome forged a new constitution that would only be defeated from within, by Jewish methods. I suspect the latter though, because the Greek empire was destroyed from without and through internecine struggles.

I suspect that we are living in a time when Jewish methods will themselves run aground. The information revolution has lowered the bar required to copy them or defeat their methods significantly. And this is something that will continue with or without a free internet - the genie is out of the bottle.

I also read your posts on the Oil Drum. You do a good job of talking in code in non-movement sites. It lets you convey your meaning to those in the know while not devolving into off topic argument.

And the oil from algae idea has certainly gotten me intrigued. Thanks for posting that.

Posted by Maguire on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:11 | #

James,

“I haven’t heard of algae cultivation being done with solid/activated carbon but that doesn’t mean its not doable.”

I don’t know.  This is why I asked.  The only algae cultivation I’ve ever done is unintentional in my in-ground swimming pool.  I have followed terra preta developments to a degree.  This is to identify what grades of carbon are optimum for whatever science ultimately underlies terra preta.

I can say some of the terra preta people say activated carbon provides a ‘bug motel’ effect for bacteria that are part of soil formation.  Maybe some of this is transferable to culturing some species of algae. 

“Ideally the flue gas would be cooled by the growth medium before being injected into the growth medium so as to carbonate the medium.”

This is why I asked about the possibilities of using very pure solid carbon to start with, which I can already show people how to make starting with widely available junk materials and simple tools. 

My experience says cleaning a biomass derived combustion gas to the point the byproducts don’t poison the algae’s growth medium could be difficult in practice, especially with simplified equipment.  The biomass stove designs I’m familiar with - which are quite a few - have low average combustion temperatures.  This leads to lots of uncracked tars in their flue gasses.  Maybe these gasses will be o.k. in that state for algae culture, and maybe they won’t.  I haven’t tried aerating water with biomass stove flue gasses to raise the available CO2 for algae culture, so again I don’t know.

Now if these gasses have to be cleaned first, they’ll need more pressure than natural convection draft will provide.  This is to get them through a filtering system.  My experience says don’t underestimate the problem of cleaning tars from biomass derived gas flows.  I have seen heavy tars condense very rapidly inside 3/4” Schedule 40 pipe elbows at relatively high temperatures (>400 F).

Higher combustion temperatures inside IC engines lead to byproduct nitrous oxides, which are also poisonous to plant life.  However, catalytic converters are widely available for reducing these oxides, typically along with a junked engine.

“There, a heat engine produces the mechanical power…”

Legacy internal combustion engines will be a lot more common than devices like Stirling engines initially.  Along with legacy catalytic converters designed to eliminate nitrous oxides.  This is why I suggested a small scale CHP system like Chastain’s, but running on producer gas from a biomass gasifier.

In this instance you’d take off heat twice.  The first is after the gasifier during gas cooling, the second is from the engine.

Of course, if you can build Stirling type heat engines, compressors and pumps using available local resources, then you can consider other possibilities such as making pure CO2.  This comes back to my own development emphases on metallurgical charcoal, foundry and machine tools.

Maguire

Posted by James Bowery on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:54 | #

The exhaust as algae feedstock isn’t a sticking point for bridging survival during civic egress, but availability of fuel for IC engines is,  unless the difficulty of obtaining and running a biomass gasifier is reduced.

Your point about heat engine fabrication is well taken except that I think that, too, needn’t be a sticking point if the growth system is designed to use human mechanical power and can produce sufficient food calories.

Clearly, developing your own neosmithing capability is the way to go if you have the time but most people during civic egress will be very hard pressed for that time.

My experience with the kinds of men who do neosmith work, even if they are land lords, are far more humane than your typical parasite-cultivated land baron, so it may be that they can be relied upon to some extent during the civil egress bridging survival.  But it should remain a priority to eliminate the need for such specialized parts for bridging survival systems—systems that may use more legacy parts than would sustainable subsistence systems.

Posted by Al Ross on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:59 | #

“if they escape, they may live some months but they will not survive winter”

In a truly libertarian society Bowery would be referring to the ‘forest service’s river ecologist’ and his tax-funded cohorts.

Posted by a Finn on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 23:20 | #

To James: Ok, I hope the experiments proceed well. If you and others of our people are able to develop cheap and sufficiently easy methods of food and energy production, these should be used in present times to help our communities to get an advantage. It would be wasteful to wait e.g. disaster to happen. Also existing methods, like biogas reactors (methane), could be considered to be used for energy production.

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Posted by JB on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 03:19 | #

Maguire:

Prior to project termination over 3,000 species of algae had been collected and evaluated for suitability.  The final mid-90s program report - which I have in PDF and have read - stated this algae collection had been turned over to the University of Hawaii in the hopes of preservation.

do you have a link for that PDF ?