[Biofuel] reply to Gregory

2004-12-01 Thread mkmiller
Do not put two barrels of B100 on the roof of your car. The weight would exceed the limits of the roof before the additional stress of pot-holes would send the barrels crashing down on you. Have a class I hitch installed on your car and rent/purchase a light duty utility trailer to haul the

[Biofuel] Filtering before washing

2004-12-01 Thread Legal Eagle
or not there would be any benefit to run the settled but yet unwashed BD through a fuel filter once the glycerine has been drained. Any thoughts accompanied by explanation? Thanks Luc ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Biofuel] usual quantities

2004-12-01 Thread Legal Eagle
- Original Message - From: rbarr8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 9:20 PM Subject: [Biofuel] usual quantities After reading many posts on making my own bio-diesel I came to the conclusion it might be best to use the full package of lye rather

Re: [Biofuel] Filtering before washing

2004-12-01 Thread Ken Provost
on 11/30/04 4:54 PM, Legal Eagle at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today, while pondering my reactor/wash tank set up, I wondered about whether or not there would be any benefit to run the settled but yet unwashed BD through a fuel filter once the glycerine has been drained. Any thoughts

Re: [Biofuel] Biofuel slogans and promotion

2004-12-01 Thread Legal Eagle
Drive better and longer. Use biofuels. Luc - Original Message - From: Hakan Falk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 3:58 PM Subject: [Biofuel] Biofuel slogans and promotion Fighting with the growing problem of SP-M, I found out what is in most

Re: [Biofuel] Filtering before washing

2004-12-01 Thread Legal Eagle
would be any benefit to filtering before doing a routine wash. Luc PS: I am still to much of a purist (beginner) to start changing methods right now, so it is traditional for me for now. Thanks for the comeback - Original Message - From: Ken Provost [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

wash in first stage settling, was [Re: [Biofuel] Filtering before washing]

2004-12-01 Thread John Guttridge
the glyc is something that was suggested to me several times. how do people feel about that in general? Ken Provost wrote: on 11/30/04 4:54 PM, Legal Eagle at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today, while pondering my reactor/wash tank set up, I wondered about whether or not there would be any

RE: [Biofuel] Biofuel slogans and promotion

2004-12-01 Thread Peggy
This is a really good bumper sticker! Peggy Or make it short and sweet for short bumpers :) Drive better and longer. Use biofuels. Luc ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to

RE: [Biofuel] Biofuel slogans and promotion

2004-12-01 Thread Peggy
You are a great poet, Tamsyn. Thanks for the post. P. Subject: RE: [Biofuel] Biofuel slogans and promotion I'm new here to the list, but I couldn't resist taking a gander at this question (it involves playing with words, which I love!). What about these ideas? Biofuels: Better for

Re: [Biofuel] GTL

2004-12-01 Thread Jose Luis Hernandez Quisbert
Thank you Phillip: All type of contacts and information are very welcome. I know GTL is not a panacea but in Bolivia we have plenty of gas and very little oil, so we are importing diesel and I am interested in alternative and cleaner fuels. Your kind help and response is higly appreciated.

RE: [Biofuel] Biofuel slogans and promotion

2004-12-01 Thread Peggy
This too is a good slogan. Subject: [Biofuel] Biofuel slogans and promotion Fighting with the growing problem of SPAM, I found out what is in most peoples mind and most at the time. As a result I have the following suggestion, Make your car happy, drive better and longer. Use biofuels.

[Biofuel] winterizing

2004-12-01 Thread Kenneth Kron
searches have turned up empty. -- Kenneth Kron President Bay Area Biofuel http://www.bayareabiofuel.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 415-867-8067 What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it! Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[Biofuel] in line oil heater

2004-12-01 Thread alex burton
2nd message has anyone done any work on a inline heater ? what i am thinking of doing is to take a small stainless steel cooking pot weld the lid on cut two holes for pipe fittings place this on a portable electric stove i would use it to keep the tempreture up while mixing My

Re: [Biofuel] old diesel engine

2004-12-01 Thread Erik Lane
Well, kinda correct. Different engines have different configurations, but for a standard inline four stroke engine here's how it is: The block has the cylinders in it with the pistons running up and down inside them. To close them off to get compression there's a big chunk of metal (the head)

Re: [Biofuel] veg oil innn gm 5.7---6.2

2004-12-01 Thread Erik Lane
Is this shock coupler the same thing as the governor? When I had to have a pump rebuilt that's what they seemed to call it, and from memory their description of it was very similiar to what you're calling the shock coupler. I opened up the top of it before taking it in and found black bits all

Re: [Biofuel] winterizing

2004-12-01 Thread Keith Addison
brief searches have turned up empty. There are some listed here: http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_winter.html Biodiesel in winter Keith Addison -- Kenneth Kron President Bay Area Biofuel http://www.bayareabiofuel.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 415-867-8067 What you can do, or

Re: [Biofuel] Biofuel slogans and promotion

2004-12-01 Thread Legal Eagle
Luc - Original Message - From: Peggy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 9:00 PM Subject: RE: [Biofuel] Biofuel slogans and promotion This is a really good bumper sticker! Peggy Or make it short and sweet for short bumpers :) Drive better

Re: [Biofuel] Filtering before washing

2004-12-01 Thread Keith Addison
Below... on 11/30/04 4:54 PM, Legal Eagle at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today, while pondering my reactor/wash tank set up, I wondered about whether or not there would be any benefit to run the settled but yet unwashed BD through a fuel filter once the glycerine has been drained. Any

Re: [Biofuel] winterizing

2004-12-01 Thread Legal Eagle
http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_winter.html Scroll down to Products Luc - Original Message - From: Kenneth Kron [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 12:27 AM Subject: [Biofuel] winterizing Anyone have suggestions on commonly available

Re: [Biofuel] in line oil heater

2004-12-01 Thread Legal Eagle
- Original Message - From: alex burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 2:08 AM Subject: [Biofuel] in line oil heater hello all 2nd message has anyone done any work on a inline heater ? what i am thinking of doing is to take a

[Biofuel] Green Energy and Electric Companies

2004-12-01 Thread MH
World's Power Firms 'Failing over Clean Energy Plans' By Amanda Brown, PA Environment Correspondent 30 Nov 2004 http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3824641 WWF ranks 'green power' of electric companies 30, Nov 2004

Re: [Biofuel] GTL

2004-12-01 Thread Phillip Wolfe
Dear Jose, I have a couple engineering friends from Bolivia. Is there any possibility to first consider Bolivian homegrown vegtable oil/soy/ to create biofuel? How about creating a Bolivian alternative fuel/biodiesel...then evolve to 100% soy or some derivative to become independent? Most of

RE: [Biofuel] old diesel engine

2004-12-01 Thread Gene Chaffin
Alex: Do yourself a big favor. If you have never dealt with a head gasket, take the engine to a reputable mechanic and have them check out the head before replacement. Then they will install the head in the proper sequence, torque the bolts in the proper sequence and adjust the valves if they

Re: [Biofuel] Filtering before washing

2004-12-01 Thread Ken Provost
on 12/1/04 3:55 AM, Keith Addison at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it perhaps more important when making ethyl esters (as you do) than with methyl esters? It didn't seem to make any difference when we tried it (with methyl esters). Absolutely -- the ethanol process uses a LOT more alkali,

Re: [Biofuel] veg oil innn gm 5.7---6.2

2004-12-01 Thread Buck Williams
internanals,, the old ones were rubberlikeake plastic disc like a disc pump coupling, if u have pepper liake stuff, u must rebauldd the pump, just to ge the trash out, the grit getsss into the finer passesges, and pump must be toanr down completell to change thae shock coupler,,

RE: [Biofuel] old diesel engine

2004-12-01 Thread Buck Williams
some are very espanese to rebuildl just because of thei age , rarity, Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 08:11:54 -0800 Alex: Do yourself a big favor. If you have never dealt with a head gasket, take the engine to a reputable mechanic and have them check out the head before replacement. Then they

[Biofuel] Elections/Public 2004 - Chomsky

2004-12-01 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.zmag.org 29 Nov 2004 Elections/Public 2004 Noam Chomsky The elections of November 2004 have received a great deal of discussion, with exultation in some quarters, despair in others, and general lamentation about a divided nation. They are likely to have policy consequences,

Re: [Biofuel] reply to Mike

2004-12-01 Thread william lemorande
You might want to look at a surplus us army water buffalo. The cost is $2,500. but it is stainless steel and probably can be sold years later for the same amount of money. Check it out here: http://www.colemans.com/milveh.htm Bill Lemorande Milwaukee, WI - Original Message - From:

Re: [Biofuel] Biofuel slogans and promotion

2004-12-01 Thread william lemorande
Illustration of a face on a globe. He is choking with heat and smoke surrounding it. Under that a text message saying: Live Longer... Use Biofuels Bill Lemorande Milwaukee,WI - Original Message - From: Legal Eagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December

[Biofuel] Brazilian Ethanol Film

2004-12-01 Thread william lemorande
I am a film maker and am thinking of going to Brazil to do a documentary on the origins and uses of alcohol (ethanol) as a fuel in Brazil. If any of you has any idea on how to finance this, I would sure appreciate them. My best guess is about $30,000. I have already talked to a couple of TV

Re: [Biofuel] Biofuel slogans and promotion

2004-12-01 Thread Anti-Fossil
Great idea William! Mine was similar, but with two globes. The unhealthy one (dismal, yellowish gray, hazy) to one side, and the healthy one (clear azure blue, white clouds, greens and browns of the continents, as viewed from space). Caption: Renewable Biofuels: We can make it! AntiFossil

Re: [Biofuel] Brazilian Ethanol Film

2004-12-01 Thread FRANCISCO
Here is Chico. Wellcome to Brasil.You can stay in my place and you can work with my daughter as she graduated as movie director and she is fluent in English. This cope with small expenses. Suggest you contact alcohol traders and fuel marketers in you rpart of the world. Very best Chico

Re: [Biofuel] reply to Mike

2004-12-01 Thread Doug Younker
Hi, I had something similar to that, still have the tank but, the under carriage was liberated for another project. My 500 G. tank was used as an overhead diesel storage tank on a farm and was bought at an auction, probably less than $100 in the entire project. Problem with those farm

Re: [Biofuel] Brazilian Ethanol Film

2004-12-01 Thread william lemorande
Thanks ... That is a great offer. I will hopefully give you some details in a few months. It would be great to work with a pro like your daughter, particularly since she speaks portugese. ( I am assuming she does and also speaks english) And to stay with someone knowledgable like yourself