Re: [biofuels-biz] Standards - was Re: [biofuel] The importance of proper filtering

2001-06-20 Thread Keith Addison
I don't know... Petrol, gasoline and ethanol make no mention of the engine type they are used in. Also the name diesel suggests we are connected with the dirty stuff provided by the petrochem industry. Petrol and gasoline are not trying to establish themselves in a tough market, as is

Re: [biofuels-biz] Standards - was Re: [biofuel] The importance of proper filtering

2001-06-19 Thread Keith Addison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we need to reconsider the fuel's name. The term biodiesel means methyl ester (to us), but to almost anybody else it simply means a fuel with a biological content. We could start calling the stuff we make methyl ester, but that's not the whole solution maybe

[biofuels-biz] Standards - was Re: [biofuel] The importance of proper filtering

2001-06-19 Thread david_design
I don't know... Petrol, gasoline and ethanol make no mention of the engine type they are used in. Also the name diesel suggests we are connected with the dirty stuff provided by the petrochem industry. If we dump the name diesel perhaps we also dump all it's dirty associations. The Germans

[biofuels-biz] Standards - was Re: [biofuel] The importance of proper filtering

2001-06-18 Thread david_design
I think we need to reconsider the fuel's name. The term biodiesel means methyl ester (to us), but to almost anybody else it simply means a fuel with a biological content. We could start calling the stuff we make methyl ester, but that's not the whole solution maybe bioester is better as it

[biofuels-biz] Standards - was Re: [biofuel] The importance of proper filtering

2001-05-31 Thread Keith Addison
Hi David I agree with you anyway, but my lamentation over filtering didn't refer to the need to filter the biodiesel, and the main problem in this case is that it's not biodiesel anyway, but that's what they're calling it. When you first start using biodiesel, even excellent biodiesel, you