Hi Zeke,On 9/14/05, Zeke Yewdall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That monitoring station suggested to me that such a flying platform could...
On a philosophical level, I often wonder why people are so excitedabout fancy new ideas like fusion, or flying wind turbines, etc.Isit that we hope to engineer a
Hello Ken, Sean
Sean Brady writes:
I am using KOH as catalyst, and most of the literature
I have read is based on using NaOH as catalyst.
I believe that 3,5g NaOH per litre oil is the minimum
amount of catalyst needed for unused oil and increases
as your feedstock oil is more used
Yeah no doubt Pat Robertson could think of ways to kill two birds with
one stone..
Joe
David Miller wrote:
Tom Irwin wrote:
Someone ought to tell them that nuclear
winter doesn't negate global warming.
Are you sure about that? Maybe they'd balance each other out.
Hello everyone
I'm asking for solutions in decreasing the time required for the wash stage in
biodiesel manufacturing.
In the present I use bubble wash and a quantity of water of 0,3 liters per
liter of biodiesel. Is this correct? Normaly in three washes the product is
ready for the next
Hello everyone
I'm asking for solutions in decreasing the time required for the wash stage in
biodiesel manufacturing.
In the present I use bubble wash and a quantity of water of 0,3 liters per
liter of biodiesel. Is this correct? Normaly in three washes the product is
ready for the next step,
Hello,
Is there anyone out there that makes biodiesel in upstate SC or northeast
Georgia? I am just starting to become interested in making biodiesel and I
would really like to see the process first hand if possible. If there is no
one, then wish me luck in becoming one of the firsts in my
Hi Bobby,
I'd be glad to help you. I'm very near Columbus, GA.
Your choice. I have lots of room for you to camp at my place.
Michael Lendzian
CINS Network Support Team
Columbus State University
CINS/Center for Commerce Technology Room 105
706.569.3044 (help desk)
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Yep, a Friend sent me this story as well. I asked, Is this another
magic box similar to changing world technology's?
http://www.globalfinest.com/tech/
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Does anyone know if anything has to be done to the fuel system if you're planning on running E-85 in your vehicle? I have heard conflicting stories. I have a 2001 Chevy Impala that I would fill up with E85. I've been using 10% Ethanol with no problems.
Any information would be greatly
Hmmm... maybe we can start using roadkill instead of cats? That is, unless you are from WV and decide to eat yours instead...
Drew
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As it is mid September in Wisconsin our temperature this morning was 45F/ 7C. I have been using BD for the past several months with good results. I would like to continue using BD into the colder months.
After looking at the antigel products listed at JTF the Wintron product seems to be cost
Lot's of us lurking, but haven't tried it yet... :-)
I know of at least five here in Greenville, SC.
Jerry
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From: Bobby Clark
Date: 09/15/05 10:29:58
To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org
Subject: [Biofuel] Biodiesel in SC
Hello,
Is there anyone out there that
I'm Famous!
Yes this way has worked for me.
I can only stress to be sure to have your completed wash batch free of water
in the end. Mainly due to damage to your injector-pump and engine
components (over time). It is the fuel that lubricates the injector pump
and poor lubrication could lead to a
Angela,
the fuel system of your car will most likely
not tolerate more than 30% E85 in gasoline. The "black box" has to be adjusted
to increase the highest possible fuel amount to be injected.
I think that the easiest way is to get a car
with a carburettor, and enlarge the main injector to a
On 9/15/05, Kirk McLoren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Average person has no idea of how they have no security.
--Kirk
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~tygar/papers/Keyboard_Acoustic_Emanations_Revisited/preprint.pdf The link leads to a PDF full-text file of a research paper:
Keyboard Acoustic
One major way acceleration hurts is that engines are set to richen the
mixture during hard acceleration in order to prevent detonation
(knocking, pinging) at high cylinder pressures.
Also, carburated engines richen the mixture to compensate for fuel
vapour condensing on the intake manifold walls
Charles Lindberg did some of this training for P-38 pilots in the Pacific.
For gasoline engines, high BMEP is good as long as you stay below the
range where you have to richen the mixture to avoid detonation.
Operation at lean mixtures is good as long as combustion is fast enough
so that you can
One major way acceleration hurts is that engines are set to richen the
mixture during hard acceleration in order to prevent detonation
(knocking, pinging) at high cylinder pressures.
Does this apply to diesel engines which almost always operate with
excess oxygen?
The plasma torch system of changing trash into fuel appears to
be catching on in Japan. This article says it can produce three to
four times as much energy in carbon-rich gas, and 50% more
energy than it uses in the form of hydrogen gas. Does anyone
know more about it?
Greetings greasy-ones,
Some clarification please, I'm not sure if I'm reading this correctly.
10 micron is .000394 inch, that's pretty darn small. Even 20 micron at
.00079 inch is vey small.
For perspective (for me anyway), the thickness of paper is around .004 inch
(100 micron) and human
http://www.nrel.gov/csp/lab_capabilities.html#hfsf
I had read a few years ago about NREL using their solar furnace to
turn waste into plasma. At the time they were just trying new ideas
to get rid of toxic waste, but solar is a possible fuel source for a
plasma reduction unit that doesn't use
Does anybody know how to do a biofuel usin ethanol?
I mean 92% ethanol, not dry ethanol. I've read that it is possible. O maybe
somebody knows how to easily dry ethanol?
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I thought this was amusing and interesting, about a new technology to
make fuel from common waste materials.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/15/cats_fuel_diesel/
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Zeke Yewdall,
Your point is well taken.
I like to think the humanities are more important than technology.
That people are more important than things.
You ask, "Is it that we hope to engineer a technological solution to ourenvironmental/social problems?" I say, yes.
I think some wind
Ok, given the same vehicle ( and about the
same weight ), how does one go about picking a replacement engine and
perhapsthe replacing thetransmission as well?
The reason I ask, is that I would like to
replace the engine I have with a better engine, but, I don't want to over
power.
Greg H.
When the boulder-biodiesel crew was down in Colombia working on the
biodiesel processor for gaviotas, they did try a batch of chicken
scraps, boiling all the grease off and turning it into biodiesel.
They said it worked fine, but smelled the lab up so bad that none of
them felt like eating for a
H. Are you sure you want to get that applied? The academics will
be appalled. :)
I am doing that right now with a VW rabbit, and I have settled on a
SVO engine, vs an electric motor (with renewable energy to charge the
batteries). The size and design of the engine is more dictacted by
I followed a link in another thread to www.slashdot.org and found this:
BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- A German inventor said he has developed a
method to produce crude oil products from waste that he believes can
be an answer to the soaring costs of fuel, but denied a German
newspaper story
It is not easy, due to the fact that ethoxide, can't be made by the
combination of sodium or potassium hydroxide and ethanol, as one does
with base plus methanol to form methoxide. It can be done however via
alternative ways of making the ethoxide:
K + EtOH --- K(+) (-)OEt + 1/2 H2
Very interesting discussion here.
How many people here are swapping engines?
I was giving some thought to removing the 351 ci gasaholic in my Ford
f150 and replacing it with a diesel engine.
Years ago (before I saw the advantage of diesel) I pulled a engine
from my Mercedes 240d and did major mods
Too underpowered and the vehicle will be too slow to overtake and pass other vehicles.
KirkGreg and April [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, given the same vehicle ( and about the same weight ), how does one go about picking a replacement engine and perhapsthe replacing thetransmission as well?
The
Uh. Passing other vehicles? My first car was an old subaru that took
several miles to hit 70mph on the highway. I don't think I'll be
disapointed by a diesel rabbit.
But seriously, if the average automobile engine nowadays has 40% more
power than it needs for cruising at the speed limit (my
No, diesels are not susceptible to detonation which is a non-applicable
concept in its pure form. You want a diesel to burn the fuel wherever the
fuel is, as soon as it is injected. The problem is to get it to burn fast
enough.
Diesels do generate smoke from incomplete combustion as the air
Hi Bob and all,
I seem to be having fairly good success drying 95% ethanol with 3A molecular sieve. I still have horrible problems making BioD with 100% ethanol (purchased)but I´m still working on it.
Tom Irwin
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Hi All,
This reminds me of a thought I forgot to write down weeks ago. IfBioD made from french fry oil smells like French fries what does BioD made from Castor oil smell like?
Tom Irwin
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Hi Ed,
I think standard coffee filters are 10 micron. I have filters in the lab that filter down to 1.22 microns and others for sterilizing media that are .22 microns so it would not surprise me about automotive filters or restaurant filters.
Tom Irwin
From: Ed Hall [mailto:[EMAIL
Tom, two questions, 1. how do you know the ethanol is being dried? and 2. what
procedure are you
using for bioD from ethanol?
Tom Irwin wrote:
Hi Bob and all,
I seem to be having fairly good success drying 95% ethanol with 3A
molecular sieve. I still have horrible problems making BioD
--- Tom Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I still have horrible problems making BioD with 100%
ethanol (purchased)but I'm still working on it.
You probly know this already, but adding even 10-15%
methanol to the anhydrous ethanol makes the reaction
go markedly better.
-K
There was a company doing something similar, working next to a turkey
processing plant, turning the entrails, feet, heads, feathers, etc into
oil, gas, and minerals. Cats are not unique in their carbonaceous make
up.
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Hi Zeke,
On Sep 15, 2005, at 5:59 PM, Zeke Yewdall wrote:
...
Even the new hybrids get lousy gas mileage,
because the hybrid design is optimized for adding power, not
increasing mileage like the insight and prius were. ...
Oh man, this just burns my a*s. I was so excited a few years ago
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2ObjectID=10345772
A German has angered animal rights groups by inventing an organic fuel
containing run-over cat remains.
Inventor Christian Koch, 55, of Saxony, told the Bild newspaper he had gone
170,000km without a problem in his car on the
I've seen this before, and it works. Worked about a year on a similar
project. The problem, as I see it, is what energy source is strong
enough to create the plasma? If you believe in the law of conservation
of energy (which I do) then you need either a big wire to the power
plant, or else a
True.
OTOH, if the job must be done, then you have to choose the best tool
available from the limited selection that is available.
Agreed. And that was my point. Pick the (most) right tool for the job.
That is why you bother to learn what the best alternative is.
If one size of
Hi all,
I thought we can dry up alkohol using CaO or Zeolite. Is it true ? So what's wrong with that method ?
And by using CaO / Zeolite, is it possible to dry alkohol 70% v/v to 99% v/v ?
Thank You
-daniel
On 9/16/05, bob allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tom, two questions, 1. how do you know
Greg and April wrote:
Ok, given the same vehicle ( and about the same weight ), how does one
go about picking a replacement engine and perhaps the replacing
the transmission as well?
The reason I ask, is that I would like to replace the engine I have
with a better engine, but, I don't
With a GVWR of 5360, an 80-85 HP 4 banger,
grades of up to 8% and stop signs stop lights that stop you in the
middle of the hill, going to a smaller engine is not what I have in mind.
Greg H.
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Zeke Yewdall wrote:
One major way acceleration hurts is that engines are set to richen the
mixture during hard acceleration in order to prevent detonation
(knocking, pinging) at high cylinder pressures.
Does this apply to diesel engines which almost always operate with
excess oxygen?
Not if
Really, Five people that haven't tried it. When I get started, I'll be happy
to help you, but if you know anyone who is already making it, I would like
to know.
Thanks,
Bobby Clark
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Bingo!
Greg H.
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Very interesting discussion here.
How many people here are swapping engines?
I was giving
I don't think that the transmission was optimized for fast acceleration,
that little 4 banger diesel with only about 85 Hp is only capable of so
much.The transmission is geared so low, that it doesn't take any effort
to start from a dead stop in 2nd gear if necessary.
Greg H.
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I know what you are talking about.
At 55 mph ( on the flats, no headwind, no cargo other than the spare tire,
and 1 passenger ), I have a little reserve.At 65 mph I have almost
none.
Greg H.
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