Oil from human waste.

By

LaurenTousignant

Your toilet could be the future of oil.

Turning sewage sludge into fuel has long been a science fiction fantasy of a waste-free world. But researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed technology to turn our 34 billion gallons of sewage a day into biocrude oil CLZ6, -1.23%

The technology, called hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL), uses pressure and heat to mimic how the Earth creates crude oil, a process that takes millions of years. But HTL takes mere minutes.

“The best thing about this process is how simple it is,” Corinne Drennan, who works on bioenergy technologies at PNNL, said in the press release. “The reactor is literally a hot, pressurized tube.”

HTL breaks down organic matter, like human waste, into simpler compounds. That material gets pressurized at 3,000 pounds per square inch (one hundredth times of a car tire) and the reactor heats the sludge at 660 degrees Fahrenheit.

Drennan also explained that the sludge has fats which “appear to facilitate the conversion of other materials…such as toilet paper, and keep the sludge moving through the reactor.”

The end result is basically fossil petroleum, which can be refined to make fuel, like gasoline and diesel. One person alone could generate enough waste to produce up to three gallons a year.

In the past, sludge was considered unusable for biofuel conversion because it was too wet. But HTL’s research eliminated the need for drying — an energy intensive and expensive process.

Genifuel Corporation, a Utah-based company that makes renewable fuel equipment, has licensed the technology and is currently working with Metro Vancouver to build a demo plant.

They hope the approximately $9 million plant could start construction as early as 2018.

If the demo is successful, the technology has the potential to pump out 30 million barrels of oil a year.

 

A woman tells us why she is voting for Trump.

A Woman's view on Trump

 

Someone asked a woman how she could vote for Trump, a “misogynist, a racist and a bigot”. Here is her answer: 

 

Because I use my head to research and find out what candidates really are, not what the media wants me to think.

Because Donald Trump has more women in executive and managerial positions than any comparable company, which tells me he is not a misogynist.

Because he pays these women the same or more than their male counterparts, which tells me he looks for capacity and skills in people, not color, gender or race.

Because he fought the West Palm Beach City Council to be able to open his newly purchased club, so he could include blacks and Jews as members, who had been banned until then. This tells me he is not a racist. 

Because he has raised wonderful children who have turned out to be outstanding, hardworking and compassionate adults. He must be doing something right. 

Because his economic plans make sense, are conservative in nature, and I vote based on what is best for my family, my friends and my country.

Because everybody, the left and the right are afraid of him, the media is trying to destroy his image, and even foreign governments are voicing their opinions, so he must be doing something right. Clean house maybe? 

Because I want a Supreme Court that will uphold the Constitution, not behave as minions of the administration.  I have had enough with judges who are more like political activists than law enforcers.  

Because I fear for my family’s safety if the current trend of not confronting blatant terrorism continues – which is a threat to our way of life. 

Because I am fed up with the rampant corruption of this administration. Accountability in government is paramount, and as this administration has demonstrated, it is a foreign concept to them.

Because I am fed up with the political correctness gone wild, and because Trump is not afraid to say what everybody thinks but does not dare to say. A thug is a thug, regardless of color, and that's it. 

Because it is about time someone puts America's interests ahead of other countries. 

Because I know he recognizes and embraces America's exceptionalism, and will not tour the World apologizing for who we are. That tells me he is a patriot. 

Because, unlike HRC, he has actually held a job, worked hard and achieved success. 

 

And last, but not least,
because I am more offended by what Hillary does than by what Trump says.

NYPD opens door to sewer.

Clinton Foundation linked to all sorts of crimes including child porn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLAe3UeddUI

Clinton Foundation case moving toward indictment.

So say FBI sources and so reports Bret Baier.FBI experts estimate that Sec Hillary's illegal server was hacked by 5 (that is five) separate entities.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/11/02/fbi_sources_tell_fox_news_indictment_likely_in_clinton_foundation_case.html

How the Elites work the system.

By Thomas Frank in the Guardian.

The emails currently roiling the US presidential campaign are part of some unknown digital collection amassed by the troublesome Anthony Weiner, but if your purpose is to understand the clique of people who dominate Washington today, the emails that really matter are the ones being slowly released by WikiLeaks from the hacked account of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair John Podesta. They are last week’s scandal in a year running over with scandals, but in truth their significance goes far beyond mere scandal: they are a window into the soul of the Democratic party and into the dreams and thoughts of the class to whom the party answers.

The class to which I refer is not rising in angry protest; they are by and large pretty satisfied, pretty contented. Nobody takes road trips to exotic West Virginia to see what the members of this class looks like or how they live; on the contrary, they are the ones for whom such stories are written. This bunch doesn’t have to make do with a comb-over TV mountebank for a leader; for this class, the choices are always pretty good, and this year they happen to be excellent.

They are the comfortable and well-educated mainstay of our modern Democratic party. They are also the grandees of our national media; the architects of our software; the designers of our streets; the high officials of our banking system; the authors of just about every plan to fix social security or fine-tune the Middle East with precision droning. They are, they think, not a class at all but rather the enlightened ones, the people who must be answered to but who need never explain themselves.

Let us turn the magnifying glass on them for a change, by sorting through the hacked personal emails of John Podesta, who has been a Washington power broker for decades. I admit that I feel uncomfortable digging through this hoard; stealing someone’s email is a crime, after all, and it is outrageous that people’s personal information has been exposed, since WikiLeaks doesn’t seem to have redacted the emails in any way. There is also the issue of authenticity to contend with: we don’t know absolutely and for sure that these emails were not tampered with by whoever stole them from John Podesta. The supposed authors of the messages are refusing to confirm or deny their authenticity, and though they seem to be real, there is a small possibility they aren’t.

With all that taken into consideration, I think the WikiLeaks releases furnish us with an opportunity to observe the upper reaches of the American status hierarchy in all its righteousness and majesty.

The dramatis personae of the liberal class are all present in this amazing body of work: financial innovators. High-achieving colleagues attempting to get jobs for their high-achieving children. Foundation executives doing fine and noble things. Prizes, of course, and high academic achievement.

 

Certain industries loom large and virtuous here. Hillary’s ingratiating speeches to Wall Street are well known of course, but what is remarkable is that, in the party of Jackson and Bryan and Roosevelt, smiling financiers now seem to stand on every corner, constantly proffering advice about this and that. In one now-famous email chain, for example, the reader can watch current US trade representative Michael Froman, writing from a Citibank email address in 2008, appear to name President Obama’s cabinet even before the great hope-and-change election was decided (incidentally, an important clue to understanding why that greatest of zombie banks was never put out of its misery).

 

The far-sighted innovators of Silicon Valley are also here in force, interacting all the time with the leaders of the party of the people. We watch as Podesta appears to email Sheryl Sandberg. He makes plans to visit Mark Zuckerberg (who, according to one missive, wants to “learn more about next steps for his philanthropy and social action”). Podesta exchanges emails with an entrepreneur about an ugly race now unfolding for Silicon Valley’s seat in Congress; this man, in turn, appears to forward to Podesta the remarks of yet another Silicon Valley grandee, who complains that one of the Democratic combatants in that fight was criticizing billionaires who give to Democrats. Specifically, the miscreant Dem in question was said to be:

“… spinning (and attacking) donors who have supported Democrats. John Arnold and Marc Leder have both given to Cory Booker, Joe Kennedy, and others. He is also attacking every billionaire that donates to [Congressional candidate] Ro [Khanna], many whom support other Democrats as well.”

                      

Attacking billionaires! In the year 2015! It was, one of the correspondents appears to write, “madness and political malpractice of the party to allow this to continue”.

There are wonderful things to be found in this treasure trove when you search the gilded words “Davos” or “Tahoe”. But it is when you search “Vineyard” on the WikiLeaks dump that you realize these people truly inhabit a different world from the rest of us. By “vineyard”, of course, they mean Martha’s Vineyard, the ritzy vacation resort island off the coast of Massachusetts where presidents Clinton and Obama spent most of their summer vacations. The Vineyard is a place for the very, very rich to unwind, yes, but as we learn from these emails, it is also a place of high idealism; a land of enlightened liberal commitment far beyond anything ordinary citizens can ever achieve.

Consider, for example, the 2015 email from a foundation executive to a retired mortgage banker (who then seems to have forwarded the note on to Podesta, and thus into history) expressing concern that “Hillary’s image is being torn apart in the media and there’s not enough effective push back”. The public eavesdrops as yet another financier invites Podesta to a dinner featuring “food produced exclusively by the island’s farmers and fishermen which will be matched with specially selected wines”. We learn how a Hillary campaign aide recommended that a policy statement appear on a certain day so that “It wont get in the way of any other news we are trying to make – but far enough ahead of Hamptons and Vineyard money events”. We even read the pleadings of a man who wants to be invited to a state dinner at the White House and who offers, as one of several exhibits in his favor, the fact that he “joined the DSCC Majority Trust in Martha’s Vineyard (contributing over $32,400 to Democratic senators) in July 2014”.

 

(Hilariously, in another email chain, the Clinton team appears to scheme to “hit” Bernie Sanders for attending “DSCC retreats on Martha’s Vineyard with lobbyists”.)

Then there is the apparent nepotism, the dozens if not hundreds of mundane emails in which petitioners for this or that plum Washington job or high-profile academic appointment politely appeal to Podesta – the ward-heeler of the meritocratic elite – for a solicitous word whispered in the ear of a powerful crony.

 

This genre of Podesta email, in which people try to arrange jobs for themselves or their kids, points us toward the most fundamental thing we know about the people at the top of this class: their loyalty to one another and the way it overrides everything else. Of course Hillary Clinton staffed her state department with investment bankers and then did speaking engagements for investment banks as soon as she was done at the state department. Of course she appears to think that any kind of bank reform should “come from the industry itself”. And of course no elite bankers were ever prosecuted by the Obama administration. Read these emails and you understand, with a start, that the people at the top tier of American life all know each other. They are all engaged in promoting one another’s careers, constantly.

 

Everything blurs into everything else in this world. The state department, the banks, Silicon Valley, the nonprofits, the “Global CEO Advisory Firm” that appears to have solicited donations for the Clinton Foundation. Executives here go from foundation to government to thinktank to startup. There are honors. Venture capital. Foundation grants. Endowed chairs. Advanced degrees. For them the door revolves. The friends all succeed. They break every boundary.

But the One Big Boundary remains. Yes, it’s all supposed to be a meritocracy. But if you aren’t part of this happy, prosperous in-group – if you don’t have John Podesta’s email address – you’re out.

Leaks: what goes around comes around.

The Media had it taped out that leaking the recording of Trump being lewd would sink him. Add to that the women coming around to denounce Trump and the Media  Democrats figured they had it made. After all, they knocked out a black Republican business man from contention in 2012 with far less.

That is when WikiLeaks happened. The Media can scaresely complain that the leaks might be illegal, since they ROUTINELY traffic in leaked materials when it hurts Republicans. So, they are coming up with a rather disingenuous rejoinder that the leaks come from the KGB. Unfortunately, that is not a good defense. If the KGB has hacked the Hilldebeast's emails (along with those of Dem leaders) then the use of the private server was a disastrous idea.

The Hilldebeast believed that she contained the scandal by deleting 33K emails. She thought that no one would then find them or being able to recover them. SHE WAS WRONG!!! First came the admission from the FBI that...yes, they found 650,000 emails on Huma Abedin and Weiner's laptop. And there are hints that WikiLeaks will release copies of the 33K emails deleted by the Hilldebest's Expert.

What have we learned?

1. Not only the Hilldebest but Obama himself communicated on unauthorized (unsecured) servers - Obama under an assumed name.

2. The Dems disclosed their contempt for the electorate;

3. The HRC campaign colluded with independent groups (against the law);

4. The HRC campaign colluded with the Media

5. The HRC campaign got the questions for at least one debate;

6. The HRC campaign has widespread efforts to steal the election.

7. The Hilldebest complains that Trump's assertions that the election is rigged strikes at democracy itself. Unfortunately, the election IS RIGGED as Podesta admits.

What goes around comes around.

when will the precious metal rally resume?

One expert says when the Gold Miner Index (GDX) closes above 25.0. This morning it stands at 25.11.