[biofuel] Re: Alternative Method of Methanol Production

2001-02-23 Thread physkid
I took a look around the site. After reading through the info, the site itself comes to the following conclusions: Obert and Dave have shown that it is possible to encapsulate a synthetic biochemical pathway and have it function to synthesize methanol. They have shown that methanol can be

Re: [biofuel] Affordable Fuel Preheater

2001-02-23 Thread Trudy Williams
I was planning to use a dual tank system with SVO. I thought the 12 volt heater would give the SVO biodiesel quicker heating capabilities, especially when my wife won't let me park in the driveway and plug in my engine block heater. Greg -- Original Message

Re: [biofuel] RE: Affordable Fuel Preheater

2001-02-23 Thread Trudy Williams
My heating element uses 130 amps. Do you know the amperage of the halogen light? I would think the lamp would break easily. I shouldn't even touch my headlight, since my fingers' oil will help cause it to shatter. Greg -- Original Message -- From:

[biofuel] Re: Affordable Fuel Preheater

2001-02-23 Thread evoz
What about using a glow plug or two? They are already designed to run in hot, oily hostile environments. Andrew. --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Trudy Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My heating element uses 130 amps. Do you know the amperage of the halogen light? I would think the lamp would

Re: [biofuel] Re: Alternative Method of Methanol Production

2001-02-23 Thread jerry dycus
Hi Andrew and All, Thanks for the summary Andrew. Hopefully it will work in the future. It looks like I was wrong about making methanol from Destructive Distillation of wood and running it thru a copper tube to make methanol at atm pressure. It works but not very much methanol

Re: [biofuel] Continuous feed gasifier

2001-02-23 Thread Scott Cathy
Keith I sure would like to Know more about that gasifier/genset. I suspect the owner likes his privacy, or I have really slipped with my browsing techniques. If prudence dictates, contact me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scott Nikolai - Original Message - From: Keith Addison [EMAIL

Re: [biofuel] [alternatepower] Lead -- Hazardous Material?

2001-02-23 Thread jerry dycus
Hi Keith and All, I'll bet Keith's eyes lit up when he seen this ;-). --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dick Boyd -- The amount of lead (and associated toxins) getting into the food chain from crashes is minuscule in COMPARISON to the discarded lead reaching our landfills, leaching

Re: [biofuel] Re: Alternative Method of Methanol Production

2001-02-23 Thread jerry dycus
Hi Robert and All, --- robert luis rabello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jerry dycus wrote: The main way to make methanol now is to use syn gas( H2,CO) and pure O2 at 1500 lbs pressure and a catalyst, copper(old) or zinc(new) based.. Thanks for the summary! I've been looking