[biofuel] European Renewables Directive

2001-02-25 Thread Mati Biofuel
Hallo, Was this draft European Renewables Directive Directive adopted by the European Comission or by the EU Energy Ministers Council: http://www.jxj.com/magsandj/rew/2000_06/taking_road.html Mati Kokk Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-~ eGroups is now

Re: [biofuel] Ammonia

2001-02-25 Thread Mati Biofuel
Why to produce ammonia or other nitrate products at all. Instead you could grow special bacteria which are able to produce nitrogen fertiliser. Then, instead of fertilizer, you may spread the bacteria to your fields. OK, may-be there are restrictions, I am not sufficiently competent on this

[biofuel] bi-metallic thermal generator

2001-02-25 Thread Mikel Pelly
Letter from Mike Pelly: Keith, this is a page I found and is now archived on a Mitshubishi site of all places. Looks like they might now own the patents on this one too. The process generates electricity from dissimiler metals (semi-conductors I think)they are each at a different temperature.

Re: [biofuel] Ammonia

2001-02-25 Thread Scott Cathy
Keith I realize that your right about technically not needing a nitrogen fertilzier. However, CONVENTIONAL WISDOM tells farmers that they do. It would be a whole lot better to sway farmers on an incremental basis rather than all in one shot. I don't have the chemical background to know

Re: [biofuel] bi-metallic thermal generator

2001-02-25 Thread John Harris
Looks like they where well on the way to a KISS solution then their TIPS let them down They stated the problem a half dozen times as variable input temp and then didnt try to address that issue instead of playing around with a volt control system that will reduce efficiency and reliability and