RE: [Biofuel] US Takes the Lead in Trashing Planet

2005-04-17 Thread Tom Irwin
To All, I wonder how long that Japanese and Chinese cooperation is going to continue given the last few days of protests and Japanese business trashings taking place. It seems we have some new folks in ancient conflict over oil. For a while there, it seemed that many Chinese were making a go of

[Biofuel] Massachusetts Bioheat Seminar

2005-04-17 Thread TILAPIA
Despite the Best Laid Plans... Please be notified that this seminar, scheduled for April 28, 2005 in Westboro, MA has been POSTPONED, since most of the participants are out there trying to buy more petroleum oil. This event will be rescheduled when the buying frenzy has faded. Tom Leue

RE: [Biofuel] 'Changing World Technologies' Plan to Turn Garbage into Oil

2005-04-17 Thread Tom Irwin
To All, I agree with the good doctor«s assessment of changing garbage into oil. However, I think there is enormous potential in tapping the gas produced from sanitary landfills. It«s already being done in many places. There are some good zeolite processes for removing the CO2 from the CH4 to get

Re: [Biofuel] Acetone in fuel increases mileage by 15 -35%

2005-04-17 Thread dwoodard
Acetone is a perfectly good motor fuel ingredient, all other things being equal. Sir Harry Ricardo and colleagues used it in Castrol R motor racing fuel in the early 1920's, a mixture designed to have extreme heat of vapourization and charge density with high knock resistance. They used the

[Biofuel] Ethanol IndyCar Racing

2005-04-17 Thread MH
Corn-based ethanol to fuel Indy 500 LIBBY QUAID Associated Press Mar. 02, 2005 http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/politics/11033860.htm --- ETHANOL TO FUEL THE INDYCAR SERIES! 3/3/2005 http://www.pauldana.com/pages/whatsnew.asp?whatarticleID=20 WASHINGTON,

[Biofuel] Future of Ethanol

2005-04-17 Thread MH
David Morris is vice president of the Minneapolis-based Institute for Local Self-Reliance. THE FUTURE OF ETHANOL David Morris April 16, 2005 http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5351029.html Want to see the potential of biofuels? Visit Brazil, as I did a few weeks ago. In

[Biofuel] Green Car Congress

2005-04-17 Thread MH
http://www.greencarcongress.com April 15, 2005 - VW Abandons its 1-liter Car Project - ZAP Exceeds $500M in Orders for Smart Car April 14, 2005 - Novozymes and NREL Reduce Cost of Enzymes for Biomass-to-Ethanol Production 30-Fold - US House Energy Committee Shoots Down

[Biofuel] Solar powered seed oil extraction

2005-04-17 Thread Charles A. Leveque, III
To all, Dr. Joseph Mpagalile of Tanzania, is just completing a 9 month Fulbright Scholarship, which was available through our US State Department, at The University of Nebraska at Lincoln, NB. His successful project was the completion of a SOLAR powered seed oil extraction device, which he will

Re: [Biofuel] Gas Electric Vehicle Symposium in Monaco

2005-04-17 Thread Michael
Although LPG is a much smarter idea than the freedom car with hydrogen that would misuse even more LPG to make hydrogen, it is something that will make LPG even more scarce and expensive. Michael http://RecoveryByDiscovery.com/grandchildren.htm#17 - Original Message - From: Frantz

Re: [Biofuel] Acetone in fuel increases mileage by 15 -35%

2005-04-17 Thread subramanian D.V
Thank you Doug, The experiment is for on the road driving under normal driving conditions for two months and only to see whether there is a mileage increase or not. I'll certainly keep an eye on plastic and rubber parts. Thank you Keith for yr encouragement and infmn that comml acetone is

Re: [Biofuel] Acetone in fuel increases mileage by 15 -35%

2005-04-17 Thread subramanian D.V
Thank you Mr. Roy for yr helpful comments Regards, DVS ROY Washbish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi DVS It was YOUR question but it sure interests me also. I sure hope no one was REALLY put out by your use of acetone. I feel that they were actually looking for someone with TEST equipment of

Re: [Biofuel] Diesel moped car...2 things!

2005-04-17 Thread Greg Harbican
I suspect that the reason that the smaller engine get's worse mileage, is the fact that their is a point with all other things being equal, that smaller engines have to work harder to move the same amount of weight, with a corresponding increase in fuel use.This is more evident on hills and

[Biofuel] Biodiesel/SVO filtration

2005-04-17 Thread Chris
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit SVO and biodiesel interchangeably. Oh well. Chris K Cayce, SC More From The Ann Arbor News | Subscribe To The Ann Arbor News Saline's Davco Technology sees a

Re: [Biofuel] Future of Ethanol and Brazilian biofuel project

2005-04-17 Thread Pannir P.V
Hello MH Thank you bringing here the Brazilian biofuel project and also the the developing world experience together here. One of the the main problem of biofuel ethanol project are the conflict of food vs fuel; the next is the big scale and small scale

Re: [Biofuel] End of cheap oil is a blessing

2005-04-17 Thread J.L.Burney
- Original Message - From: Appal Energy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 8:22 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] End of cheap oil is a blessing Jay, because i can drive like a reasonable adult and i know the limits of my SUV. That's what everyone says.

Re: [Biofuel] End of cheap oil is a blessing

2005-04-17 Thread Brian
between ability to avoid an accident and the ability to survive an accident. A look at the archives should find this article. There was a table in the article showing the number of occupant deaths per 100,000 vehicles sold. The lowest? Toyota Camry and VW Jetta. The highest, Ford F-150 if

Re: [Biofuel] End of cheap oil is a blessing

2005-04-17 Thread J.L.Burney
makes me feel a bit on edge but i do think i would be able to avoid an accident much easyer if i was moveing. now take into account getting rear ended at a stop light? you cannot avoid anything while your not moveing. if you take into account the type of driveing i do then you will see that

Re: [Biofuel] End of cheap oil is a blessing

2005-04-17 Thread Kirk McLoren
My daughter was in an Olds Cutlass Supreme, a 1975 tank. She was rearended by an oxygen thief who admitted to the highway patrol that he wasn't looking where he was going. The Olds was totaled and she had some torn ligaments. She would have been dead in a puddlejumper. The simple physical fact