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Comment The ULTIMATE alternative fuel conspiracy ... (Score 1) 183

The ULTIMATE alternative fuel conspiracy ... I found this story myself just searching around on the web for a few days over a period of many years ... Here is the first source in 2000 an IRAQI professor at the University of Babylon in Iraq claims to create an AWSOME alternative fuel ... http://md1.csa.com/partners/viewrecord.php?requester=gs&collection=TRD&recid=0487992EN&q=related%3AcvDnjuQ1qzgJ%3Ascholar.google.com%2F&uid=787066510&setcookie=yes "Performance study of a four-stroke spark ignition engine working with both of hydrogen and ethyl alcohol as supplementary fuel Al-Baghdadi, Maher A.-R. Sadiq" Here a Davis grad student who previously was referencing the above professor in his quest to get funding to do similar research as the only expertise in the field with these fuel supplements ... http://gate.its.ucdavis.edu/enrollment/preprop06/jordan/ “GATE Center > Enrollment > Research Proposals Awarded in August 2005 > Eddie Jordan Hydrogen Enriched Ethanol Project” The library at the University of Babylon was particularly looted and destroyed over a long period of time after the war started. This is where the original work was done ... http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1374/is_4_63/ai_104971393/ A few years later the author/professor, Al-Baghdadi, Maher A.-R. Sadiq, shows up at a university in Libya researching fuel cells but that link is DEAD, but now there is this book at Borders ... http://www.borders.com.au/book/cfd-modeling-and-analysis-of-different-novel-designs-of-air-breathing-pem-fuel-cells/7689234/

Comment I KNOW what it is ... (Score 1) 30

Avocados create around %10 D-mannoheptulose when they do photosynthesis. I learned this studying plant tissue culture for Avocados around 30 years ago. This compound is a 7 carbon sugar that was said to cause instant diabetes in mammals although I think, not sure, now it is considered to simply metabolize much more slowly then glucose and fructose, the two sugars that make up common table sugar, sucrose. In the avocado D-mannoheptulose metabolizes into perseitol, which is an alcohol, avocado fruit do not have any of either when they ripen but they can have quite a bit while they are green. My little dog, when I was a boy would eat the hard green avocados in the family’s orchards quite often you could see his teeth marks in the hard green flesh. The life cycle of the avocado occurs on tropical mountain slopes and so the fruit with its seed would be carried by birds from the trees to their nests high up on top of the mountain, that is if they don't drop it along the way. I have long thought/speculated that perhaps the purpose of the perseitol was for it to cause the birds to become drunk, nibbling on the flesh as they fly, so that they would drop the fruit thus spreading avocados up the sides of mountains so that they can find their perfect climate and soil conditions. I understand that sulfur springs are not uncommon in tropical highlands. And the climate changes rapidly as altitude is increased, avocados are sub-tropical which often grow in topical latitudes, so finding the ideal microclimate is important. Also, the young small brown leaves in their tips contain large amounts of the 7-carbon sugar and alcohol. Are there any new avocado plantings where the birds live and what has happened to their habitat to cause them to switch to eating avocados?

Comment It Sounds Like You did everything correctly ... (Score 1) 1057

It sounds like they are panicking at your leaving !?!?!?! Why are they panicking, are you the only that knows how to do something ? You must realize that they are in a very dark and paranoid place right now, they think you will be damaging them with a competitor -- why would they be thinking this way ?? Are they bigger but not more profitable, trying to grow to become more efficient rather then old fashioned good management, that could mean they are seriously stretched out on loans and perhaps are NOT getting more profitable. Maybe they think they can attack their competitor thru you !?!?!?! What did your lawyer say ???

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