[biofuel] Several Matters

2002-04-06 Thread murdoch65
Returning to the fact that I think this group is excellent, a real find, I also think the recent change in yahoo has made it very difficult to maintain my membership. I'm not sure what to do. The group is, in my view, almost unusable through the web without pop3 implementation, given time

[biofuel] Re: Several Matters

2002-04-06 Thread murdoch65
thanks, I had missed this point about the email addresses, maintinaing too many of them, sort of faking myself out. MM Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Stock for $4. No Minimums. FREE Money 2002.

[biofuel] yahoo change in email policy to affect use of group (?)

2002-03-24 Thread murdoch65
I'm not sure but since they won't be offering POP3 access without a payment, this might affect my and others' use of groups like this. I think I'll pay it. I'd like to see them comp me to it since I pay already for a jfax account which is already owned by them I think.

[biofuel] Re: regenerative braking is overrated.

2002-03-17 Thread murdoch65
Lynn B. Di Tullio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a nutshell...its too much hot air! or not enough... The size tank you would need for compressed air energy storage would be enormous. Compressed air tanks are used for starting gas turbines, to overcome inertia at remote (non-personed)

[biofuel] Re: regenerative braking is overrated.

2002-03-17 Thread murdoch65
http://www.zeropollution.com/zeropollution/ Seems like a lot of effort to go to if it is so easily disproven - on the other hand they seems to be making little progress with getting into production - last I hear they were supposed to be going into Mexico City, wasn't it? Edward

[biofuel] Re: regenerative braking is overrated.

2002-03-17 Thread murdoch65
What are you referring to, the Ford Tonka or some other regen system? And are you addressing the issue of overall efficiency or the issue of whether regen is to be had down to zero speed without friction brakes, (which I don't think I've seen in a vehicle)? --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], steve

[biofuel] Re: regenerative braking is overrated.

2002-03-15 Thread murdoch65
In reading through that article, I have not come across yet any mention of the regen braking working at slow speeds, but there is some extensive discussion of the hydraulic approach being better efficiency than others. I question the efficiency comparisons they make. I think some electric

[biofuel] Re: regenerative braking is overrated.

2002-03-15 Thread murdoch65
I really don't know. I don't know why the compressed air concept has not just completely taken off, sorry for the pun. It is the only proposal I can recall seeing for a completely non-chemical solution to storing energy on board a vehicle (i.e., the energy is carried entirely as potential

[biofuel] Question about Biodiesel in Farm States

2002-03-15 Thread murdoch65
What is the status of diesel engines being made available to farmers: is there any sort of warranty violation if the farmers run biodiesel? Have the manufacturers of farm equipment done a good job of certifying their engines to run on farmers' products? My followup would-will-be: how

Hybrid Design Realities was Re: [biofuel] Re: Senators ReachAgreement on Fuel Economy

2002-03-12 Thread murdoch65
I agree with much of what you say and am a fan of biodiesel and other biofuels at this point, generally. A problem that I see is that none of this, including the railing against the stubborn mediocrity of the Big 3 et. al. addresses the reality of the nationwide and largely worldwide

[biofuel] Re: regenerative braking is overrated.

2002-03-12 Thread murdoch65
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It works much better with supercaps than Pb/acid. In fact it may not be worth doing without supercaps in many situations. In principle, regen braking is an attempt to recycle the energy of motion of a vehicle. Conventionally-made

[biofuel] Re: Senators Reach Agreement on Fuel Economy

2002-03-11 Thread murdoch65
Does anyone have any inside info on what type of vehicles these 'gentlemen' own? Or is this just another case of, Do as I say, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2207-2002Mar9.html I also saw an editorial the other day giving a good accounting of celebs who have touted enviro

[biofuel] Re: Senators Reach Agreement on Fuel Economy

2002-03-10 Thread murdoch65
Two other stories of interest this weekend. An Agreement on ethanol (I guess) and there was a local story in the San Diego union TRibune www.uniontrib.com that MTBE is found to be leaking even with the new tanks installed (it's theorized through the connections which can shift if the ground

[biofuel] important ethanol development

2002-03-02 Thread murdoch65
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news? tmpl=storyu=/ap/20020301/ap_on_go_co/ethanol_in_cars_9 PS: Does anyone know how to bookmark my groups to my.yahoo.com page? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Stock for $4. No Minimums. FREE Money 2002.

[biofuel] california governor decision

2002-02-24 Thread murdoch65
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp? source=blq/yhoositeid=yhoodist=yhooguid=%7B3CD930A1%2D1B53%2D4210% 2D9E78%2DA74664259B5C%7D In a conversation I had last fall with the CAlepa which supposedly advises the governor, it had sounded to me like they were convinced of some of the

[biofuel] L3

2002-02-24 Thread murdoch65
In my discussions with these folks, http://www.engineering.sdsu.edu/%7Ehev/text.html they claimed that their engine might work better with biodiesel than with regular (it is the VW Lupo engine, which they got by importing an entire Lupo from Germany), but they had not yet verified. They'll