Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth are a problem. They often don't
do their homework properly and like to have something dramatic to say.
UK FOE has trotted out similar rubbish in the UK press, but try
contacting the people responsible - you'll never get a reply.
Many of their members simply
Yes.
I am sure that is true. But Deutz Motors have modified one of their engines
a F6L413FW, power output 74kw @ 1500 rpm, to run on straight CNO under full
warranty at a SPC-CIRAC funded pilot power generation project on the Fijian
island of Vanuabalavu. This project was commenced in May last
Samai,
I have one fundamental question:
What is the price of 1 liter of diesel fuel at the pump in your country now?
(Please tell us in U$ dollar!)
And what is the price of 1 liter coconut and of palm oil, when you buy it in
tons? (NOT in 1 liter bottles)
Without that basic information it
You mentioned german Prof. Elsbett.
I met him.
Please let it be known that he is a great technician,
that he is over 70 years of age now,
that he defines himself as a marxist (!),
that he did design a dedicated veg.oil engine for few hundred kW size,
that it was not a commercial succes and that
Sorry, you missed a good part of my point and I may have to be more clear:
There is a wide range of toxics. Agreed.
The problem I mentioned is of the DIOXINE class !
That is a level of toxidity, where any trace IS relevant and there is ZERO
TOLERANCE, specially with authorithies!
All this
Camillo, Keith, Dave,
Thanks for your comments. I would really like to talk
to Prof.Elsbett, please email me his contact if you
can.
The current retail price including tax for
petro-diesel is 14 Baht/L (44Baht=1US$). The bulk
purchase price for coconut oil including transport is
now 11.50 Baht/L.
On fuel quality we have to be whiter than white and be seen to be
so.
Dave
Hi Dave
Indeed yes. You raised some previous questions about quality.
High FFA fats can be acid esterified - see Alecs Kak's recipe on
www.journeytoforever.org. However, I would add that you do need to
titrate. High
Hi Samai
Keith,
The sooner you write the better !
Okay, I'll try to do it soon. Thanks for the information. For one
thing, I didn't know the guys burning coco and palm were using a
heater on the fuel line, that makes a lot more sense to me.
By the way, I'm not at all against the use of coco
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You have to be cheaper to the customer than the alternative. When it
comes to diesel fuel, nobody really cares a fig about it's greeness.
They just want cheap fuel.
That's very sweeping, Dave. Lots of people care that it's cleaner,
including companies, and it makes a
Camillo,
Thankyou for settling this issue. Dioxins are indeed a serious
problem being long lived and only destroyed at very high
temperatures - way above those inside engines.
With high temperatures, NOx emissions become a problem, but at least
they are far less dangerous than dioxins.
Keith you are indeed correct, but if we qualified every statement
we'd never get done
On a medium/large scale of biodiesel production you have to assume
that negative/realistic attitude. It's one thing selling a few litres
to interested committed people like you and me. It's entirely another
Alecs' comment is interesting, but I got less smoke on base/base
ester. I also got considerably more byproduct using less methanol
(15% instead of 20+%). I do not think there was much unreacted oil in
either product.
For the record, I get less mpg than from 100% petroleum ultra low
sulphur
The oil could be wet. Have you made sure it's really dry by boiling
to 120C. Or could it have any detergent in there?
If it's dry, try pre reacting the Crambe oil with sulphuric acid then
doing a normal base/base reaction on the mixture. The acid reaction
is not water tolerant.
Alecs Kak has
Hello Everyone
1.I have a gravity feed oil heater (we use no2 dyed kero) (only heater in house
besides elec space heaters)
2.My tank is 100 Gal. (approx) and is mounted outside on stilts
3.We use 1 tank per 2-3 months to heat the house
4.there is a flow regulator on the heater it self (settings
- Original Message -
From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My Peugeot 404 was better off-road than most of the 4x4
toys I see around these days. I once swapped it with a friend for a
few days because I needed his pickup, and when we reswapped he said:
Don't you ever have to put fuel
Well, John Wayne..the reason that I joined this group is to be a bit
The John Wayne signature was a quip in response to someone on list who
implied the Poppycock posting(s) to be John Wayne against the world. Or
so I inferred.
Was curious if he was reading posts all the way through
[snip]
thanks for the advise dick, it gives me a sound starting point, 2nd hand
Japanese diesel engines are relatively easy to come by here, I can get a 3L
turbo for around AUD $3000 (complete assembly) ready to drop in. My vehicle
although GM is Australian made based on Opel from Germany and uses
Todd, (John) I wanted to say amen.
I also wanted to tell you that I'd rather not use my Mercedes 300D as the
guinea pig for the biodiesel experiments-I have purchased an
ex-military truck, with a giant 6 cyl multi-fuel diesel. I don't think
that they had biodiesel in mind, when they built this.
EJ,
Conservative penchant understood. You may wish to contact HempCar.org as to
what results they are having with biodiesel in their Merc. They are running
hemp biodiesel though.
Your mili-truck will run on Campbells soup if there is enough oil in it -
almost. Biodiesel will work fine. It might
vw has diesel cars out there, also there are old
mercedes, peugeot? and some other brands. I also know
that gm offered diesels in cutlasses in the late 70s,
early 80s. It would seem to me that all diesels are
now in the junkyard because when it came down to
needing a new car people just
Hi Dana
Keith,
I did not mean to imply that YOU were bashing...your
posts seem very balanced as a whole.
Why thankyou! :-) But I should say that it's quite easy to be
balanced about some things when you're not a national of anywhere
in particular.
But I must take
some issue with your
Whoa!!
As a motor mechanic and engineer, we used to repower vehicles, mainly
replacing petrol with diesel engines.
But if you have a late model Opel, think again, I don't think that its going
to be easy, have you thought of trying to match up the transaxles? Why
butcher a perfectly good valuable
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