[biofuels-biz] EREN Network News -- 06/19/02

2002-06-19 Thread EREN
= EREN NETWORK NEWS -- June 19, 2002 A weekly newsletter from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network (EREN). http://www.eren.doe.gov/ = Featuring: *News

[biofuels-biz] Biofuels for the emerging nations

2002-06-19 Thread Nizar W. Ramji
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Re: AW: [biofuels-biz] raw or refined feedstock ?

2002-06-19 Thread Steven Hobbs
G'day Keith Camillo Thanks for the information, leads and suggestions.Can I please ask, what does DIYS IMHO stand forsomething about do it yourself? I presume when you mention about using an alcohol to lower cloud point, methanol could be as easily used, but is not the fuel of choice because

Re: AW: [biofuels-biz] raw or refined feedstock ?

2002-06-19 Thread Keith Addison
G'day Steven G'day Keith Camillo Thanks for the information, leads and suggestions.Can I please ask, what does DIYS IMHO stand forsomething about do it yourself? Do-it-yourselfers, in my humble opinion. I presume when you mention about using an alcohol to lower cloud point, methanol could

Re: [biofuels-biz] raw or refined feedstock ?

2002-06-19 Thread gjkimlin
Actually the methanol doesn't mix that well with the biodiesel. IPA (Isopropyl Alcohol) does and seems to have a beneficial effect at quite low concentrations 2% even. IPA isn't cheap here, 95% ethanol, even at 10% is attractive since that is what is sold as metholated spirits. Tony clogged

Re: [biofuels-biz] raw or refined feedstock ?

2002-06-19 Thread Appal Energy
At a whim some time back we mixed a high ratio of methanol to biodiesel. The result was a completely homogenous fuel some days later. If memory serves, the ratio was 1:1. A bit more than a simple enhancement. Todd Swearingen - Original Message - From: gjkimlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

RE: [biofuel] Revealed: how the smoke stacks of America havebrought the world's worst drought to Africa

2002-06-19 Thread kirk
What has me confused the most is warming should be accompanied with enhanced evaporation. Yet when I look at tree rings in central Montana the reduced rainfall that began in the early 70's is still with us. As for recording peak temperatures at weather stations reduced humidity should see wider

[biofuel] Global warming b.s.

2002-06-19 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Today, using much of the same data, No way. Even where the same climate records are used, new ways of crunching them and of correlating them with each other, with other evidence and with huge amounts of new data have produced new and much improved information from the old records. An early

Re: [biofuel] Sight tube material

2002-06-19 Thread Keith Addison
I would like to know what a sight tube could be made of for a biodiesel processing tank. Preferrably flexible tubing that could be fixed to barbed fittings on the tank. With thanks, Matt Aleks Kac uses a translucent braided tubing for that. That's with the acid-base method, so it resists

Re: [biofuel] Revealed: how the smoke stacks of America have brought the world's worst drought to Africa

2002-06-19 Thread Keith Addison
Mr Witmer Kris, I wish someone would pay me for writing! I am in nobody's employ. I never pretended to know it all. That's exactly what you pretend. You're missing out, there are certainly people who'd pay you for this kind of activity. If my failure to be convinced that the rich have stolen

Re: [biofuel] Revealed: how the smoke stacks of America have brought the world's worst drought to Africa

2002-06-19 Thread Keith Addison
Christopher Witmer wrote: Todd, if I replied that the feeling is mutual I would be a liar. I believe that all human beings are created in the divine image and therefore worthy of respect. But tell me, does your disdain also apply to the researchers and policy advisors who in the 1970s laid a

[biofuel] black ops

2002-06-19 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Well said Keith, this guys numbers are totally out of whack. They are so far from correct, that I suspect that Christoper is a paid propaganda writer. His words sound very much like someone who is involved in the black ops profession. It seems like every list that is set up to do some public good

Re: [biofuel] Catalyst (metanol/lye) pump

2002-06-19 Thread Keith Addison
Hello Tomas I was hoping you'd get more responses, but I think you got some input on pumps, not anything else. So I'll try. I have been making biodiesel from used (restaurant) vegoil since 1999 here in Finland for my own use, this has been working very well. Now I am building a little larger

Re: [biofuel] Global warming b.s.

2002-06-19 Thread Keith Addison
You keep coming back with this stuff, eh, Marc? You get debunked, you wait a few months and then try it again as if it never happened. Will you be telling us again soon that nukes are good for you too? Today, using much of the same data, No way. Even where the same climate records are

Re: [biofuel] black ops

2002-06-19 Thread Keith Addison
Well said Keith, this guys numbers are totally out of whack. They are so far from correct, that I suspect that Christoper is a paid propaganda writer. His words sound very much like someone who is involved in the black ops profession. It seems like every list that is set up to do some public good

[biofuel] EREN Network News -- 06/19/02

2002-06-19 Thread EREN
= EREN NETWORK NEWS -- June 19, 2002 A weekly newsletter from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network (EREN). http://www.eren.doe.gov/ = Featuring: *News

Re: [biofuel] Global warming b.s.

2002-06-19 Thread Appal Energy
And of course you have reputable references and are willing to forward them for the benefit of all, yes? References which support the claim of seasonal pre-existence and no increased in loss of stratospheric ozone? - Original Message - From: F. Marc de Piolenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [biofuel] Sight tube material

2002-06-19 Thread Ken Provost
Matt wrote: I would like to know what a sight tube could be made of for a biodiesel processing tank. Preferrably flexible tubing that could be fixed to barbed fittings on the tank. I'd recommend fairly thin-walled HDPE (high-density polyethylene). It's not as clear as vinyl, but vinyl clouds up

Re: [biofuel] black ops

2002-06-19 Thread Appal Energy
Come on Marc. The guy enters stage left with sweeping generalizations and stereotypes, using his own expertise and opinion as reference, just itching to stir something up, assuming a different attack position after each response to each ill thought remark. Mention the word cult and he attacks

Re: [biofuel] black ops

2002-06-19 Thread Appal Energy
Keith, It was US MI that Marc used to work for. Does that mean missing intelligence? Sure wish I had saved the location of his personal ego...e web site. Todd - Original Message - From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 4:28

[biofuel] Earth Day - was Revealed: how the smoke stacks of America havebrought the world's worst drought to Africa

2002-06-19 Thread MH
Keith wrote: Finally, would you say that Earth Day should be abandoned? That it's accomplished nothing useful, not helped to awaken a single person's awareness to environmental issues? Regardless of who subsequently funded and profited from it, AFAIK the oil spill off Santa Barbara in 1969

Re: [biofuel] Re: Revealed: how the smoke stacks of America...

2002-06-19 Thread Appal Energy
Curtis, I suppose it all boils down to what the core inner belief is of the practitioner. For some, the filthy lucre is the root of all evil. For others, who choose not to omit portions of texts, it's the love of the filthy lucre that is the root of all evil. Then I suppose love of self comes

Re: [biofuel] Sight tube material

2002-06-19 Thread Eric Ruttan
How about Nylon. One of four chemicaly impervious chemicals. Haven't used it yet but that was my plan. Would appreciate comments if it had been used? Matt wrote: I would like to know what a sight tube could be made of for a biodiesel processing tank. Preferrably flexible tubing that could be

[biofuel] Mathematical Modeling - was Revealed: how the smoke stacks of America have brought the world's worst drought to Africa

2002-06-19 Thread MH
As a after thought if North America effects climate change in Africa then it would stand to reason Russia Asia would effect No. America particularly if coal, dust storms and even bombs exploding (creating dust in the upper atmosphere and nuclear winter fallout) looking back last century

Re: [biofuel] Global warming b.s.

2002-06-19 Thread Rick
I thought that proving a theory, one way or the other made it a fact. Many theories are considered mainstream fact, but wanting proof for something not proven, for an argument, is like cutting on both sides of a tree, it only makes sense if it being held from the top. If that statement

Re: [biofuel] Mathematical Modeling - was Revealed: how the smoke stacks of America have brought the world's worst drought to Africa

2002-06-19 Thread Appal Energy
Have any of you taken a peek at either of these or others related to this topic? If so would ya mind voicing your opinion and/or listing them. Why Hoagy...I'm surprised. Didn't you know that these texts are all part of a bigger communist plot to take over all homelands and forever turn them

Re: [biofuel] Sight tube material

2002-06-19 Thread Keith Addison
Eric Ruttan wrote: How about Nylon. One of four chemicaly impervious chemicals. What are the other three, Eric? Used to use neoprene tubing for such things, long ago - fuel, chemicals, never found anything that rotted it. Neoprene polychloroprene. At least that's what we called it and what

[biofuel] Re: Revealed: how the smoke stacks of America...

2002-06-19 Thread Keith Addison
Preaching ... ideology converts ... dogma. Just a few years ago, I remember those terms only being reserved for religious conversation. You know, the one with the missionary at your door .. explaining why his church is the true church. While you're quietly trying to say no thanks, excuse

Re: [biofuel] Earth Day - was Revealed: how the smoke stacks of America havebrought the world's worst drought to Africa

2002-06-19 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Hoagy Glad you posted some of the Stauber interview - good stuff. Here's a bit more from him, concerning the so-called leaders of the environmental movement and more: http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1997Q4/ PR Watch, vol. 4, no. 4: Flack Attack Anyway, Stauber and Rampton's PR Watch

[biofuel] South Dakota Voters To Decide On Industrial Hemp

2002-06-19 Thread Appal Energy
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