Re: [Biofuel] Veg Oil vs Bio diesel

2005-01-07 Thread Neoteric Biofuels Inc
On Jan 6, 2005, at 8:08 AM, ken murphy wrote: It was reported in the news papers a couple of years ago that a local company changed to using vegetable oil as a fuel in all their large trucks. ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Biofuel] worth seeing

2005-01-07 Thread Kirk McLoren
Takes a little bit to load but worth the wait. Kirk We Are One http://www.hiddengifts.org/we_are_one/ - Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page – Try My Yahoo! ___ Biofuel

Re: [Fwd: Re: [Biofuel] Re: pump mixing,...]

2005-01-07 Thread John Guttridge
Cornell's defrees hydraulics lab who has been helping me out. Evan wrote: John, I think you said it just right. I'll ask around to verify what I told you, but I still maintain that your pumps will be as good as impellers. Both are attached to motors, and transfer the energy into

Re: [Biofuel] Jatropha

2005-01-07 Thread francisco j burgos
muchas gracias F. - Original Message - From: FRANCISCO [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 5:17 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Jatropha Francisco 1) I am please to share with you my views about Jatropha after a detailed literature research during

Re: [Biofuel] Tripple Purpose Genset

2005-01-07 Thread Nancy Canning
Hello Nancy, Would you happen to have a link for these cars? Even the name of the which railroad would be great. I have no use for one, but my father will go absolutely nuts if I can locate a couple for him. Thanks! AntiFossil Mike Krafka Minnesota USA

Re: [Biofuel] biodiesel processor

2005-01-07 Thread Doug Younker
Phillip; I am curious as to what you are referring to as an orphan gas station? Under ground tanks where what and laws concerning them are, what shut down many service stations in the USA. I would think to re-open those stations to retail biofuels the storage will have to be brought up to

Re: [Biofuel] biodiesel processor

2005-01-07 Thread Phillip Wolfe
Doug, Good points. There are some gas stations that are up to standard in which the owner-operators want to sell or spin off - in ones and two...or in bunches. I was thinking of a neighborhood gas station in which the owner is retiring and or closed and up to par...just looking for another

Re: [Biofuel] Veg Oil vs Bio diesel

2005-01-07 Thread ken murphy
Landscaping materials, ie; decomposing granite. He runs dump trucks which are very similar to cement trucks. --- Neoteric Biofuels Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was that a cement company? On Jan 6, 2005, at 8:08 AM, ken murphy wrote: It was reported in the news papers a couple of

Re: [Biofuel] Veg Oil vs Bio diesel

2005-01-07 Thread Erika Davis
SVO if not preheated is unlikely to burn completely and it might coke the valves, also it is higher viscosity so it may damage the injector pump as it has to push harder. Is this true of all Straight Vegetable Oils? Is it a particular kind of vegetable oil that SVO is generally referring

Re: [Biofuel] Earth Quake Prediction

2005-01-07 Thread Kirk McLoren
Movement can occur any time you add or delete oil or water. The deep well injection project at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, near Denver, in the 1960s is a good example. While the frequency of the earthquakes at RMA somewhat matched the frequency of pumping, the magnitude of the associated

Re: [Biofuel] Earth Quake Prediction and Deep Well Injection Correlation

2005-01-07 Thread Phillip Wolfe
Wow. Kirk - that was a surprising revalation - the fact that the Deep Well Injection Project was correlated to quake activity in its local vicinity. How did you know about that? Was that a petroleum project? I will check your citations. Thanks. --- Kirk McLoren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [Biofuel] Earth Quake Prediction and Deep Well Injection Correlation

2005-01-07 Thread Kirk McLoren
Since you like to read here is some food for thought http://www.nae.edu/nae/bridgecom.nsf/weblinks/NAEW-4NHMDX?OpenDocument More info on quakes and wells http://geosurvey.state.co.us/pubs/rocktalk/rtv5n2.pdf This search string is a good one to Google - State of Stress in the Earth's Crust

Re: [Biofuel] tsunami relief, construction efforts

2005-01-07 Thread desertstallion
Hi, Consider Habitat for Humanity International. http://www.habitat.org/ Derek Hargis -- Original message -- From: Doug Younker [EMAIL PROTECTED] As a volunteer for the local ARC chapter I'm unaware of any RC programs that plan to use the skills mentioned. I

Re: [Biofuel] The Straight Up on Biodiesel - Can you dig it?!

2005-01-07 Thread Legal Eagle
Have you looked at Mike Pelly's set up ? If you are able to work stainless you could consider something along his lilnes: http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_processor11.html is the path. Luc - Original Message - From: Dan Wilde [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

[Biofuel] three phase electricity, cheap motors, and the rotary phase converter

2005-01-07 Thread John Guttridge
biodieseler land as we are all a bunch of scroungers and we seem to need motors. I have found that three phase motors are always really cheap (often free) because no one wants them because three phase power is not typically available in non-commercial settings and it is often only available

Re: [Biofuel] storing vegetable oil

2005-01-07 Thread Legal Eagle
- Original Message - From: ken murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 11:43 AM Subject: [Biofuel] storing vegetable oil If I want to use vegetable oil as fuel, I want to be able to have a month's supply in reserve. You will have no

Re: [Biofuel] New BD brewer

2005-01-07 Thread Legal Eagle
- Original Message - From: Dana Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 5:33 PM Subject: [Biofuel] New BD brewer Hello All, I have been doing the research on BD for that last month or so and am now trying to source all the equipment I

Re: [Biofuel] best processor, was: The Straight Up on Biodiesel - Can you dig it?!

2005-01-07 Thread Kenneth Kron
Any of the plans you see on JTF make quality biodiesel, otherwise they wouldn't be up there. If there's a best I'd think it's Deep Thort, because it does have some tweaks that either help or at least don't hurt. Most of the responsibility for the quality of the biodiesel however will rest

Re: [Biofuel] Tripple Purpose Genset

2005-01-07 Thread Legal Eagle
- Original Message - From: John Guttridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 6:41 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Tripple Purpose Genset G'day Luc, where do you find one of these units and what do they cost? At times they can be had where ever

Re: [Fwd: Re: [Biofuel] Re: pump mixing,...]

2005-01-07 Thread Appal Energy
but I still maintain that your pumps will be as good as impellers. Both are attached to motors, and transfer the energy into fluid motion. I reckon anyone can maintain what they wish. But props and pump-impellers aren't quite the same thing. A prop provides lift/thrust while at the same

Re: [Biofuel] Veg Oil vs Bio diesel

2005-01-07 Thread Neoteric Biofuels Inc
Electric heating combined with coolant heat takes care of that. See our site. Regards, Edward Beggs B.E.S. M.Sc. Neoteric Biofuels Inc. http://www.biofuels.ca On Jan 6, 2005, at 11:23 AM, John Guttridge wrote: who runs liquidsolar (www.liquidsolar.com) reports to me that he almost

Re: [Biofuel] Veg Oil vs Bio diesel

2005-01-07 Thread Neoteric Biofuels Inc
economy than diesel. Regards, Edward Beggs B.E.S. M.Sc. Neoteric Biofuels Inc. http://www.biofuels.ca On Jan 6, 2005, at 11:23 AM, John Guttridge wrote: I don't know what people say with regards to SVO. ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Fwd: Re: [Biofuel] Re: pump mixing,...]

2005-01-07 Thread Kenneth Kron
Pumps incur friction to do their job but what do your get for your friction, you always get heat which in judicious quantities is great for biodiesel reactions. Further more you get, From a pump 1) great micro mixing (i.e. the stuff going through the pump is well mixed). 2) Locally elevated

Re: [Biofuel] Tripple Purpose Genset

2005-01-07 Thread desertstallion
Hi, Although this would work, when I looked into similar stuff for power tools, etc., I came to the conclusion that it is better to have one gen-set and have everything else electric, than to have a bunch of diesel engines about. The maintenance is easier, the management of the systems is

Re: [Biofuel] Veg Oil vs Bio diesel

2005-01-07 Thread Frantz DESPREZ
ken murphy a Žcrit : (...) It was reported in the news papers a couple of years ago that a local company changed to using vegetable oil as a fuel in all their large trucks. The owner of the company made the change because of the reduced pollutants from VO as opposed to diesel. He said there

Re: [Biofuel] nissan diesel

2005-01-07 Thread Chris Kelly
Hiya Ken, I have a Nissan Diesel SD 33. '83 model. The vehicle goes well on biodiesel. Just had alot of problems with the B100 cleaning the tank. So far the only only real problems have been the rubber fuel pipes need replacing and the riser pump may need new O rings and seals. In the bottom of

[Biofuel] E pluribus unum (was biodiesel processor)

2005-01-07 Thread Frantz DESPREZ
(...) E Pluribus Unum Motto of the USA since 1776 Out of many, one ? Tous ensemble ne faire qu'un ? Frightening for countries out of the Empire when it's policy is so agressive and so selfish abroad (despite of current US aid in Indonesia). Should rather be the UN motto (an even I'd be

Re: [Biofuel] Tripple Purpose Genset

2005-01-07 Thread Phillip Wolfe
Hello, During my days in Silicon Valley the high tech manufacturers would always keep big gensets in case of power outages. We called these gensets - big bore gensets - some were cogeneration type gensets or triple purpose gensets, sized them up to 1,000 kilowatts (1Mw) or higher. Companies

Re: [Biofuel] Veg Oil vs Bio diesel

2005-01-07 Thread Neoteric Biofuels Inc
we have today, and their injection systems, were designed to use much lighter viscosity fuel...mid-distillate (diesel). It is imperative to reduce viscosity either via transesterification (make biodiesel) or by application of heat to the vegetable oil. These trucks were, most likely,

Re: [Biofuel] Jatropha

2005-01-07 Thread Jeffrey Steinmetz
Can someone tell me why all the interest in Jatropha? If you look at production of Vegetable oil yields on the Journey to Forever site http://www.journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_yield.html ; you will see it is far from what Oil of Palm is capable of. What is driving the interest and investment

[Biofuel] Biodiesel on Radio tonight 1-7-05

2005-01-07 Thread Richard Ullery
Well on web radio anyway...probably midnight Eastern US time Rudi Weidemann on Jeff Rense show: http://www.rense.com/ http://www.gcnlive.com/monday-friday.htm ^..^ ^..^ ^..^ ^..^ ^..^ ^..^ ^..^ Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they

[Biofuel] student seeking info on conducting Feasability Studies...part of Thesis

2005-01-07 Thread David Thornton
My name is David and i'm a student at university of Mary Washington as well as a home brewer. I was originally drawn to biodiesel for 3 reasons: 1) its resistance to multinational oil corporations, 2) its lower emissions, and 3) the ability to make my own fuel. As I've become more involved in

[Biofuel] Biodiesel on Radio tonight 1-7-05

2005-01-07 Thread Richard U
Well on web radio anyway...probably midnight Eastern US time Rudi Weidemann on Jeff Rense show: http://www.rense.com/ or http://www.gcnlive.com/monday-friday.htm ^..^ ^..^ ^..^ ^..^ ^..^ ^..^ ^..^ Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they

Re: [Biofuel] City - Zoning for Clean Fuel Biodiesel Stations

2005-01-07 Thread Phillip Wolfe
Below is a survey and inquiry I sent by email to my City Planner Listserv in State of California. Feel free to provide me your comments. * Dear City/County Planners: I am conducting a study to determine feasibility of C-store gas stations as clean fueling

[Biofuel] [space-city] Re: [Antigravity] Antigravity or gravifugal? (fwd)

2005-01-07 Thread Party of Citizens
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 14:53:24 -0800 (PST) From: Party of Citizens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Petar Bosnic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [space-city] Re: [Antigravity] Antigravity or gravifugal?

Re: [Biofuel] student seeking info on conducting Feasability Studies...part of Thesis

2005-01-07 Thread Phillip Wolfe
Dave, With a little bit of research on the Journey To Forever website you will find most of your answers. I am sure you will get some responses from the helpful experts on this email list. TO give you encouragement, I worked at a petroleum company for several years. The one I worked for has