Re: [Biofuel] Nigeria: Shell Oil's 'License to Kill'

2010-10-26 Thread Seth Macdonald
Hi Keith and all of my fellow bio-dieselers!

I joined your mailing list about a year ago.. After discovering journey to 
forever I have made it one of the most important missions in my life to get 
off 
of the fossil fuel drug. In the past year and a half I have built a straw bale 
bio diesel processing shop on my family land deep in the mountains of rural 
British Columbia, Canada. I have successfully set up a network of collection 
with 10 regional restaurants and have successfully made thousands of litres of 
clean-burning bio-diesel. I am currently trying to set-up a small co-op 
business 
here to provide fuel for green farmers in the area. 


I am also madly trying to pour a floor in my shop complete with in-floor 
heating 
pipes before freeze-up(which is happening SOON!)

I am curious if anyone out there has ever tried to run Bio-Diesel in a hydronic 
in-floor heating system. It seems to me to be the perfect solution to using 
energy already consumed by the drying process to heat the facility. My biggest 
question is wether or not plastic pex water pipe is compatible with bio-diesel.

Any leads on this subject would be greatly appreciated,

Sincerely,
The Dred Neck

Dunster BC
Canada
V0J 1J0





From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
Sent: Fri, October 22, 2010 5:45:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Nigeria: Shell Oil's 'License to Kill'

This one still leaves me stunned. I've read it twice now, trying to
imagine how it could possibly come to pass.

Well, they think they own everything, and everyone, and certainly the 
law, whatever law. Even if they don't own it, they're usually in a 
position to bend it.

It seems to me, that as a matter of basic equity in law, that a person
(natural or otherwise) should not be able to invoke the legal system to
its advantage unless it is equally answerable to the same body of law.

How is it that trans-national corporations, that explicitly operate in
the international realm, can be not answerable to international law?

This might help:
http://www.asil.org/files/insight100930pdf.pdf

Still stunned.

I'm not very surprised.

Do you remember this?

How to kill a mammoth, from Roberto Verzola, secretary-general of 
the Philippine Greens:
http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg30628.html
[biofuel] Mammoth corporations

  Economics, properly defined, is the study of human behaviour in the
  marketplace. IT is a BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE. Unfortunately, people are too
  often greedy and the economic models can predict behaviour by reducing
  humans to a collection of pecuniary interests.
  
  So, the problem is not to change economics. The problem is to change
  people's attitude. When that happens, the economist's models will fail.
  
  You can denounce economics all you want, but it is really human behaviour
  that is the problem. That is what we need to address.
  
  Pat

Hi Pat.
I have a different interpretation: it is true that people are
occasionally / often greedy in varying degrees. However economists
idealized this greed and made it the centerpoint of the ideal economic
agent. Then society created a legal person in the perfect image of
this idealized economic agent. This legal person is the
corporation/business firm, the epitome of pure greed. Corporations
(which I'd count as if they were a separate species) have domesticated
many humans and forced them to act and think like corporations too.
This is what we need to address.
Roberto Verzola

Prehistoric peoples could kill mammoths; how about corporations?
by Roberto Verzola

Most legal systems today recognize the registered business firm as a 
distinct legal person, separate from its stockholders, board of 
directors or employees. In fact, laws would often refer to natural 
or legal persons. It should therefore be safe to conclude that such 
registered business firms or corporations are persons (ie, 
organisms), but NOT natural persons, and therefore not humans.

Other social institutions have been created by humans (State, Church, 
etc.), but they have never quite reached the state of life and 
reproductive capacity that corporations attained.

It would be very useful to analyze corporations *as if* they were a 
different species, and then to extract ecological insights from the 
analysis. (By corporations here, I am basically referring to 
registered business firms, or for-profit corporations).

Corporations are born; they grow; they might also die. They can 
reproduce and multiply, using different methods, both asexual and 
sexual. We have bacteria within our bodies as if they were part of 
us; corporations have humans within them. Their genetic programming - 
profit maximization - is much simpler than human genetic programming, 
humans being a bundle of mixed and often conflicting emotions and 
motives. Corporations' computational capabilities for such 
maximization easily exceed most natural persons' capabilities. 
Therefore they 

Re: [Biofuel] Nigeria: Shell Oil's 'License to Kill'

2010-10-26 Thread Chip Mefford


- Original Message -
From: Seth Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 11:11:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Nigeria: Shell Oil's 'License to Kill'

|SNIP

|I am also madly trying to pour a floor in my shop complete with in-floor 
heating 
|pipes before freeze-up(which is happening SOON!)
|
|I am curious if anyone out there has ever tried to run Bio-Diesel in a 
hydronic 
|in-floor heating system. It seems to me to be the perfect solution to using 
|energy already consumed by the drying process to heat the facility. My biggest 
|question is wether or not plastic pex water pipe is compatible with bio-diesel.
|
|Any leads on this subject would be greatly appreciated,
|
|Sincerely,
|The Dred Neck
|
|Dunster BC
|Canada
|V0J 1J0

http://cpm01.smugmug.com/Bicycles/buy-fresh-bike-local-2010/IMG0749/963631153_nZVUP-XL.jpg


Hey Seth;

What you see in this picture, is an experimental greenhouse soil bed heating 
system, which
is based on the same concept as radiant floor heating. This system uses an oil 
burner
converted to run biodiesel. 

It works. 

This system is installed at the Dickenson College Farm CSA, which grows the food
for Dickenson College in Carlisle Pa, US. This is the website: 
http://www.dickinson.edu/about/sustainability/college-farm/
Jen Halpin is the farmer/farm manager, and her partner, Matt is the whacko who
comes up with stuff like this. You can find her contact info on the website,
and they may be able to share some clues with you. 

Good luck! Sounds like a fun project.

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Re: [Biofuel] Biodiesel powered radiant heat (was Nigera)

2010-10-26 Thread Chip Mefford

I should clarify;

The oil burner system shown, is a BACKUP to the solar collector system shown 
here:

http://cpm01.smugmug.com/Bicycles/buy-fresh-bike-local-2010/IMG0751/963631204_narY5-XL.jpg

When planning stuff like this, one of the key points to keep in mind, is the 
order of
energy, as Amory Lovins puts it. Second law of thermodynamics. While an oil 
burner is
in the same order of magnitude as the work in this case, heating the floor, 
it's still
a higher quality of energy. A closer match is solar power. 

The closer the match, the more efficient, taking the long view. esp when you 
factor
in the cracking of the biofuel in the first place. 

Biofuels, like fossilfuels are just too danged convenient for their own good. :)

Using your ingenuity and some more of your food powered energy (IE doing work) 
you
could probably front load your heating needs by dreaming up and implementing a 
solar heat collection/distribution system, which would drop the biofuel 
requirements
for your heating needs radically. 

I know you are trying to get this done on a short timeline, but please plan for
migrating the main energy source from the oil burner to solar collection, I 
think
you'll be happy you did. You don't have time to do it this year, but maybe next
summer. 

Again, neat project, keep us posted!

cheers
--chipper 



- Original Message -
From: Chip Mefford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 6:06:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Nigeria: Shell Oil's 'License to Kill'



- Original Message -
From: Seth Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 11:11:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Nigeria: Shell Oil's 'License to Kill'

|SNIP

|I am also madly trying to pour a floor in my shop complete with in-floor 
heating 
|pipes before freeze-up(which is happening SOON!)
|
|I am curious if anyone out there has ever tried to run Bio-Diesel in a 
hydronic 
|in-floor heating system. It seems to me to be the perfect solution to using 
|energy already consumed by the drying process to heat the facility. My biggest 
|question is wether or not plastic pex water pipe is compatible with bio-diesel.
|
|Any leads on this subject would be greatly appreciated,
|
|Sincerely,
|The Dred Neck
|
|Dunster BC
|Canada
|V0J 1J0

http://cpm01.smugmug.com/Bicycles/buy-fresh-bike-local-2010/IMG0749/963631153_nZVUP-XL.jpg


Hey Seth;

What you see in this picture, is an experimental greenhouse soil bed heating 
system, which
is based on the same concept as radiant floor heating. This system uses an oil 
burner
converted to run biodiesel. 

It works. 

This system is installed at the Dickenson College Farm CSA, which grows the food
for Dickenson College in Carlisle Pa, US. This is the website: 
http://www.dickinson.edu/about/sustainability/college-farm/
Jen Halpin is the farmer/farm manager, and her partner, Matt is the whacko who
comes up with stuff like this. You can find her contact info on the website,
and they may be able to share some clues with you. 

Good luck! Sounds like a fun project.

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Re: [Biofuel] PEX tubing - was Re: Nigeria: Shell Oil's 'License to Kill'

2010-10-26 Thread Keith Addison
Hello Seth

 From the list archives:

Using polyethylene,cross linked pex tubing
is rated for petrochemical use. you will have no
problems using it for svo, or biodiesel fuel and
processing. It is also rated for pressure and
temperature,usually around 200 degress F.and 100
p.s.i. I use it in my business all the time.

Other responses:

http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg19828.html

http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg61418.html

http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg29560.html

There's lots more there. You're supposed to check the archives first, 
before asking. The link is at the end of every message you receive 
from the list. Also, I don't want to sound snarky, but please change 
the subject header when you change the subject, and snip the old 
content - your message was 32kb, sent to all the list members, lots 
of bandwidth, but what you wrote was less than 2kb.

All best

Keith


Hi Keith and all of my fellow bio-dieselers!

I joined your mailing list about a year ago.. After discovering journey to
forever I have made it one of the most important missions in my 
life to get off
of the fossil fuel drug. In the past year and a half I have built a straw bale
bio diesel processing shop on my family land deep in the mountains of rural
British Columbia, Canada. I have successfully set up a network of collection
with 10 regional restaurants and have successfully made thousands of litres of
clean-burning bio-diesel. I am currently trying to set-up a small 
co-op business
here to provide fuel for green farmers in the area.


I am also madly trying to pour a floor in my shop complete with 
in-floor heating
pipes before freeze-up(which is happening SOON!)

I am curious if anyone out there has ever tried to run Bio-Diesel in 
a hydronic
in-floor heating system. It seems to me to be the perfect solution to using
energy already consumed by the drying process to heat the facility. My biggest
question is wether or not plastic pex water pipe is compatible with 
bio-diesel.

Any leads on this subject would be greatly appreciated,

Sincerely,
The Dred Neck

Dunster BC
Canada
V0J 1J0



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Re: [Biofuel] PEX tubing

2010-10-26 Thread Keith Addison
Also:

Gates Corporation
The world's most trusted name in belts, hose and hydraulics.
http://gates.com/
Contact:
http://gates.com/contact/index.cfm?location_id=527


Hello Seth

  From the list archives:

Using polyethylene,cross linked pex tubing
is rated for petrochemical use. you will have no
problems using it for svo, or biodiesel fuel and
processing. It is also rated for pressure and
temperature,usually around 200 degress F.and 100
p.s.i. I use it in my business all the time.

Other responses:

http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg19828.html

http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg61418.html

http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg29560.html

There's lots more there. You're supposed to check the archives first,
before asking. The link is at the end of every message you receive
from the list. Also, I don't want to sound snarky, but please change
the subject header when you change the subject, and snip the old
content - your message was 32kb, sent to all the list members, lots
of bandwidth, but what you wrote was less than 2kb.

All best

Keith


Hi Keith and all of my fellow bio-dieselers!

I joined your mailing list about a year ago.. After discovering journey to
forever I have made it one of the most important missions in my
life to get off
of the fossil fuel drug. In the past year and a half I have built a 
straw bale
bio diesel processing shop on my family land deep in the mountains of rural
British Columbia, Canada. I have successfully set up a network of collection
with 10 regional restaurants and have successfully made thousands 
of litres of
clean-burning bio-diesel. I am currently trying to set-up a small
co-op business
here to provide fuel for green farmers in the area.


I am also madly trying to pour a floor in my shop complete with
in-floor heating
pipes before freeze-up(which is happening SOON!)

I am curious if anyone out there has ever tried to run Bio-Diesel in
a hydronic
in-floor heating system. It seems to me to be the perfect solution to using
energy already consumed by the drying process to heat the facility. 
My biggest
question is wether or not plastic pex water pipe is compatible with
bio-diesel.

Any leads on this subject would be greatly appreciated,

Sincerely,
The Dred Neck

Dunster BC
Canada
  V0J 1J0


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[Biofuel] Biodiesel powered radiant heat

2010-10-26 Thread Fritz
Hi Seth,
i guess you want to recover the cooling of new batches of BD to heat the 
floor.Keep in mind thath floorheating is verry slow to respond and 
should therefore be a continuing thing.Take in account to separate the 
glycerin upfront!
The basic idea is good,sinze you dont need a lot of heat to heat the 
floor (25deg. is enough).The thing is to coordinate your input to get 
even heat to the floor! The Flexpipes should do the tric.To compensate 
for any cold-periode (lack of BD)
i would poor electric cables,the ones that are sold to de-ice the 
eavedrougths,parallel to the Flexpipes.
I did this in two of the houses i built lately and it workes very 
good.2400 watts are heating a whole house if solar has a break during 
nigth and cloudy conditions.You can install a thermostat or a timer to 
switch them on and off.
If you run your BD heater,dont forget to install a heatexchanger before 
going in to the cementslab otherwise to much heat wont be very good!
good luck with the project
Fritz from Quebec

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Re: [Biofuel] Hydronic Heat WAS Nigeria: Shell Oil's 'License to Kill'

2010-10-26 Thread robert and benita rabello
On 10/25/2010 8:11 PM, Seth Macdonald wrote:
 Hi Keith and all of my fellow bio-dieselers!

 I joined your mailing list about a year ago.. After discovering journey to
 forever I have made it one of the most important missions in my life to get 
 off
 of the fossil fuel drug. In the past year and a half I have built a straw bale
 bio diesel processing shop on my family land deep in the mountains of rural
 British Columbia, Canada. I have successfully set up a network of collection
 with 10 regional restaurants and have successfully made thousands of litres of
 clean-burning bio-diesel. I am currently trying to set-up a small co-op 
 business
 here to provide fuel for green farmers in the area.

 Wow!  You're in Dunster?  I live in Sardis.  Some of my online 
students live in the Robson Valley, including two in the family who own 
Lamming Mills.

 I am also madly trying to pour a floor in my shop complete with in-floor 
 heating
 pipes before freeze-up(which is happening SOON!)

 It IS starting to get cold.  Some of my online students tell me 
they've already had snow.
 I am curious if anyone out there has ever tried to run Bio-Diesel in a 
 hydronic
 in-floor heating system. It seems to me to be the perfect solution to using
 energy already consumed by the drying process to heat the facility. My biggest
 question is wether or not plastic pex water pipe is compatible with 
 bio-diesel.

 I have hydronic heating in my house, but I don't understand why you 
wouldn't simply use a coil in a tank, exchange the heat and put water in 
the PEX pipe.  That way, you keep everything separate.

robert luis rabello
The Edge of Justice
The Long Journey
New Adventure for Your Mind
http://www.newadventure.ca

Ranger Supercharger Project Page
http://www.members.shaw.ca/rabello/


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Re: [Biofuel] Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder Update

2010-10-26 Thread Joe Street
I asked a friend who is an organic farmer and keeps bees in a more 
natural way if he or any of his like minded bee keeping community were 
suffering from this issue.  The answer was no. That may not be the most 
scientific piece of information but still a piece.

Joe

Chip Mefford wrote:

Yeah, 

I've been watching this news break and spread (like a virus) for 
a few months now. 

While I have no doubts that there are in fact contributing factors, 
I remain a bit skeptical as to this being the smoking gun, 

esp in view that these stories make no mention of the correlation
(though not necessarily causation, but sure could be) of 
the rising use of neonicotinoid pesticides. 

google about for that. 




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Re: [Biofuel] Nigeria: Shell Oil's 'License to Kill'

2010-10-26 Thread Keith Addison
Nine - an update on How to kill a mammoth. - K

--0--

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/10/25

Published on Monday, October 25, 2010 by TomDispatch.com

Jurassic Ballot: When Corporations Ruled the Earth

by Rebecca Solnit

This country is being run for the benefit of alien life forms. 
They've invaded; they've infiltrated; they've conquered; and a lot of 
the most powerful people on Earth do their bidding, including five 
out of our nine Supreme Court justices earlier this year and a whole 
lot of senators and other elected officials all the time. The 
monsters they serve demand that we ravage the planet and impoverish 
most human beings so that they might thrive. They're like the 
dinosaurs of Jurassic Park, like the Terminators, like the pods 
in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, except that those were on the 
screen and these are in our actual world.

We call these monsters corporations, from the word corporate which 
means embodied. A corporation is a bunch of monetary interests bound 
together into a legal body that was once considered temporary and 
dependent on local licensing, but now may operate anywhere and 
everywhere on Earth, almost unchallenged, and live far longer than 
you.

The results are near-invincible bodies, the most gigantic of which 
are oil companies, larger than blue whales, larger than dinosaurs, 
larger than Godzilla.  Last year, Shell, BP, and Exxon were three of 
the top four mega-corporations by sales on the Fortune Global 500 
list (and Chevron came in eighth). Some of the oil companies are well 
over a century old, having morphed and split and merged while 
continuing to pump filth into the air, the water, and the bodies of 
the many -- and profits into the pockets of the few.

Thanks to a Supreme Court decision this January, they have the same 
rights as you when it comes to putting money into the political 
process, only they're millions of times larger than you -- and 
they're pumping millions of dollars into races nationwide. It's like 
inviting a T. rex into your checkers championship -- and it doesn't 
matter whether dinosaurs can play checkers, at least not once you're 
being pulverized by their pointy teeth.

The amazing thing is that they don't always win, that sometimes 
thousands of puny mammals -- that's us -- do overwhelm one of them.

Gigantic, powerful, undead beings, corporations have been given ever 
more human rights over the past 125 years; they act on their own 
behalf, not mine or yours or humanity's or, really, carbon-based life 
on Earth's. We're made out of carbon, of course, but we depend on a 
planet where much of the carbon is locked up in the earth.  The 
profit margins of the oil corporations depend on putting as much as 
possible of that carbon into the atmosphere.

So in a lot of basic ways, we are at odds with these creations. The 
novelist John le Carré remarked earlier this month, The things that 
are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as 
the things that are done -- dare I say it -- in the name of God. 
Corporations have their jihads and crusades too, since they subscribe 
to a religion of maximum profit for themselves, and they'll kill to 
achieve it.  In an odd way, shareholders and god have merged in the 
weird new religion of unfettered capitalism, the one in which 
regulation is blasphemy and profit is sacred.  Thus, the economic 
jihads of our age.  

They Fund By Night!

In the jihad that concerns me right now, most of the monsters come 
from Texas; the prey is in California; and it's called our economy 
and our environment. Four years ago, with state Assembly Bill 32, the 
Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, we Californians decided we'd 
like to cultivate our environment for the benefit of all of us, human 
and biological, now and in the long future.

They'd like to pillage it to keep their profit margins in tip-top 
shape this year and next. The latest tool to do this is called 
Proposition 23, and it's on our ballot on November 2nd. It is wholly 
destructive, cloaked in lies, and benefits no one -- no one human, 
that is, though it benefits the oil corporations a lot. (You could 
argue that it benefits their shareholders, but I'd suggest that their 
biological and moral nature matters more than their bank accounts do 
and that, as a consequence, they're acting against their deepest 
interests and their humanity.)

When he signed AB 32 into law, Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger, who's 
totally weird, termed out, but really good on climate stuff, said: 
Some have challenged whether AB 32 is good for businesses. I say 
unquestionably it is good for businesses. Not only large, 
well-established businesses, but small businesses that will harness 
their entrepreneurial spirit to help us achieve our climate goals. 
Using market-based incentives, we will reduce carbon emissions to 
1990 levels by the year 2020. That's a 25% reduction.  And by 2050, 
we will reduce emissions to 80% below 1990 levels. We 

Re: [Biofuel] Biodiesel powered radiant heat (was Nigera)

2010-10-26 Thread Seth Macdonald
Thanks for the tip Chip!

The only reason I would want to be heating the floor with Bio-diesel instead of 
water or Glycol heated by solar and/or a wood fired boiler, is because I have 
to 
dry the fuel anyways. I'd rather not waste that energy so to speak so I may as 
well pump the fuel throough the floor while I'm heating it and heat the 
building... When I need to heat the next batch, my thought was to have a hopper 
above the heating system which is allways full and I would recharge the system 
with exactly the amount I remove..

Eventually I'd love to run the system on solar or another renewable heat 
source...


Seth(Dredneck)





From: Chip Mefford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org
Sent: Tue, October 26, 2010 3:30:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Biodiesel powered radiant heat (was Nigera)


I should clarify;

The oil burner system shown, is a BACKUP to the solar collector system shown 
here:

http://cpm01.smugmug.com/Bicycles/buy-fresh-bike-local-2010/IMG0751/963631204_narY5-XL.jpg


When planning stuff like this, one of the key points to keep in mind, is the 
order of
energy, as Amory Lovins puts it. Second law of thermodynamics. While an oil 
burner is
in the same order of magnitude as the work in this case, heating the floor, 
it's 
still
a higher quality of energy. A closer match is solar power. 

The closer the match, the more efficient, taking the long view. esp when you 
factor
in the cracking of the biofuel in the first place. 

Biofuels, like fossilfuels are just too danged convenient for their own good. :)

Using your ingenuity and some more of your food powered energy (IE doing work) 
you
could probably front load your heating needs by dreaming up and implementing a 
solar heat collection/distribution system, which would drop the biofuel 
requirements
for your heating needs radically. 

I know you are trying to get this done on a short timeline, but please plan for
migrating the main energy source from the oil burner to solar collection, I 
think
you'll be happy you did. You don't have time to do it this year, but maybe next
summer. 

Again, neat project, keep us posted!

cheers
--chipper 



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Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 6:06:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Nigeria: Shell Oil's 'License to Kill'



- Original Message -
From: Seth Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 11:11:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Nigeria: Shell Oil's 'License to Kill'

|SNIP

|I am also madly trying to pour a floor in my shop complete with in-floor 
heating 

|pipes before freeze-up(which is happening SOON!)
|
|I am curious if anyone out there has ever tried to run Bio-Diesel in a 
hydronic 

|in-floor heating system. It seems to me to be the perfect solution to using 
|energy already consumed by the drying process to heat the facility. My biggest 
|question is wether or not plastic pex water pipe is compatible with bio-diesel.
|
|Any leads on this subject would be greatly appreciated,
|
|Sincerely,
|The Dred Neck
|
|Dunster BC
|Canada
|V0J 1J0

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Hey Seth;

What you see in this picture, is an experimental greenhouse soil bed heating 
system, which
is based on the same concept as radiant floor heating. This system uses an oil 
burner
converted to run biodiesel. 

It works. 

This system is installed at the Dickenson College Farm CSA, which grows the food
for Dickenson College in Carlisle Pa, US. This is the website: 
http://www.dickinson.edu/about/sustainability/college-farm/
Jen Halpin is the farmer/farm manager, and her partner, Matt is the whacko who
comes up with stuff like this. You can find her contact info on the website,
and they may be able to share some clues with you. 

Good luck! Sounds like a fun project.

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