Re: [Biofuel] Run for your livees!!
Hi guys An easy way to prove the date of your idea is to put together several sets of plans of your invention, seal them well and register mail three or four sets to yourself and a couple to your lawyer, obviously with instructions to him not to open his envelopes until needed. That way you have a sealed envelope with a date stamp on it. If at any time you do need to prove it was your idea, you can open the envelope in court. Regards Jed ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Jatropha Curcas
Hi BellaBok Sounds like a cool plan. You don't have to get the seed from India, you can get it from Zimbabwe at the government nursery in Harare. If you know any people who live in Harare, ask them to go to the government nursery and speak to David in the seed dept. I have seen it growing here in Quelimane, Mozambique, where we are living at the moment and I could probably get some seed down to you if you gave me your address, we have guys from South Africa travelling back and forth all the time. I grew Jatropha in Ruwa, about 30 km from Harare and they did quite well there. What I found with them is the seed is very difficult to get out of the outer shell but maybe you can invent or buy a machine to do that part of the job. Have you thought of using Lucinia (don't know how to spell it). I am not sure of the oil content but I think the tree will do well in your hard conditions. I am sure you have hundreds of goats in that area so it will be good as goat feed as well as giving you oil and you can feed the seed cake to the earth worms as well. Your problem will be keeping the goats out of the plantation while the trees are trying to grow. I can get some of this seed to you as well, it grows here. Good luck with your plan. Jed - Original Message - From: isabel taylor To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 8:27 PM Subject: [Biofuel] Jatropha Curcas We are thinking ofplanting Jatropha Curcas treesusing earth worms to compost waste, the compost we get from the worms we will use for the Jatrophatrees. We are think of only planting Jatropha because of the following reasons: 1. Once planted the Jatropha trees bear for approximately 50 years. 2. We have ordered seeds from India andwe intend planting these seeds and once the trees are old enough we take cuttings from them,we will supply the local people with these cuttings so that they will beable to establish small plantations. Apparently Jatropha grows easily from cuttings and the cuttings produce fruitsearlier than Jatropha planted from seeds. 3. Once again we will assist the local people to establish simple hand presses that would be able to press the fruit and the oil once filtered can be used directly in there tractors and stationery engines. We will teach them to start up on normal diesel and then switch over to the Jatropha oil once the engines are warm and to switch back to diesel again before shutting off the engine so that none of the Jatropha oilis left inside the diesel pump and pipes, filter etc.of the engine. People who do not have tractors or engines can sell the oil or the fruit on the open market. 4. The compost that the worms produce for them they can use in their own plantations or gardens or sellon the open market. 5. Oh!Inearly forgot we are up in the north eastern section of South Africa (Limpopo province)the area were we are issupposed to be sub tropical but the last 4 years has been very dry and we have not received any where nearour normal rainfall and this year so far is the worse. Limpopo is the poorest province in South Africa. One advantage we have is that there is large tracts of land that can be used for planting and the quality of the soil generally is not bad, now all we need is for our normal rainfall to return. 6.One of the reason we are thinking of using Jatropha is because we understand it grows in all conditions and will even grow in semi arid regions, it never goes below 8 degrees Celsius here. 7. Locally thereare nosources of used vegetable oils etc. to enable us totry and make bio diesel so we willwait until we are able to produce our own oil and them learn how to convert it to bio diesel. There are many other reasons that we are thinking of going exclusively with jatropha but you must understand that we are only going on what we have read and have no practical experience and would appreciate any input and advice from anyone as we do not want to disappoint the local people, to them it would be a tremendous boast ifthis plan can work. I hope I am allowed to post such a lengthy question and that it is relevant to the list? Greetings BellaBok ___Biofuel mailing listBiofuel@sustainablelists.orghttp://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.orgBiofuel at Journey to Forever:http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.htmlSearch the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages):http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever:
Re: [Biofuel] Peugeot 505 four cylinder turbo charged dieselvehicle!?
Hi Brian I remember a mechanic telling me almost 25 years ago that the hard starting problems on those motors was most often due to an uneven clearance between the top of the pistons and the cylinder head. The clearance on all four needs to be the same. This can be checked using a short piece of resin core soldering wire placed on the top of each piston before bolting the head down which will compress the wire giving you the clearance on each piston so you can skim off the pistons until they are equal. Amazing vehicles, we still have hundreds of them running around Zimbabwe and they are still being overloaded and treated badly and they are still going. Good luck, Jed - Original Message - From: Brian Rodgers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 6:05 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Peugeot 505 four cylinder turbo charged dieselvehicle!? October 7, 2005 Hi everyone After three months of wishy washy thinking and anxiety over money to invest in my biodiesel project, this very moment my dream has been realized. I am now the proud owner of a 1981 Peugeot 505 four cylinder turbo charged diesel vehicle! I know what you are thinking, What's a American good ol' boy' doing with a Peugeot? Well, it is a long story, the short version is: If we live our lives in a spiritually wholesome and environmentally friendly fashion, we can expect good things to come to us. We don't need much and we have patience. Anyway, I said this is the short version right? We now have this car sitting here at the Ranch in northeastern New Mexico. It has only one mechanical problem that I can see; It is very hard to start, when it finally does it bellows blue-white smoke, and the coolant lines slowly begin to pressurize. The radiator hoses balloon up, very scary and we shut it down before they blow. At first glance it looks like a leaking head gasket. It is now sitting in front of my little workshop and I am so excited to finally have a car that I can make my own biodiesel for. Nevertheless, my rash days are past and I am content to ask first before I tear into anything mechanically. I ask for information. I am relatively new to Biofuels, but I do have a fine set of Mechanics tools, much updated from the days long ago when I was a factory trained VW mechanic. Please don't give me the negative perspective. If you do, I can take it. But I still have that wonderful glow a guy gets when he gets a new car to refurbish. How's that line go? Sing me the bad news! So far I have zero cash investment in this really cute little car. I have three Mercedes gas powered monsters which have been steadily moving closer to the ranch dump. I toyed with the idea of buying a 1982 300 Turbo Sedan that a friend has offered for $2000.00. I don't like the body style, too heavy, and we couldn't afford it anyway. This Peugeot is almost 1000 pounds lighter than my 1980 480SE. And damn, did I say it is sleek and in mint condition? So yeah that's the good news. Anybody out there have any experience with these? Looks like a very clean engine, but that may be because the radiator already washed it off with a steam bath. I have extended experience with petrol vehicles. My tools are metric and I love to read first then spin nuts after I at least think I understand. Diesel engines, this is only my second. I won't say what I did to the first one. I intend to make this motor sing again! So, I have heard of carbon buildup in the cylinders causing issues in dino-diesel motors. Any ideas? Things I could check. I suppose checking the compression through the spark plug holes is out of the question, lol. I will be looking for the factory service manual, unless it is written in French of course. Nah, I have factory service literature on the Benz and it is not in German. See how wishy washy I have become? Maybe it is the fog this morning, yeah fog in New Mexico, go figure. They have fog in France right? So how did my bio-diesel processing chemicals and WVO collecting go this week? Not well, physically. I talked it up pretty good, whatever that is worth. I think I know what I need to find for the test batches. A couple of little bottles of Heet (methanol). Blue or yellow? There is a bit of confusion in the biofuel group about this, and a jar of Red Devil drain opener (lye.) A five gallon can for transporting the WVO back to the ranch and a 12 volt pump for filling my container at the rear of the Mc Donald's. Oh, and I have to ask Vince, the owner of the local McDonald's, if is ok to use some of the WVO from his business. Ok, I am so excited about our new diesel that I am totally torn between writing and thinking about it and going out into the fog and starting… something, anything… How about learning? Sincerely, Brian Rodgers ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel
