Re: [biofuel] Mettler Gram-Matic Balance Questions

2004-01-26 Thread Dan Maker
Alan Petrillo said: I have had the good fortune to scavenge a Mettler Gram-Matic Balance model B6 that apparently has a maximum capacity of 99.999g. As I am still in 2-liter or less experimental scale, its relatively small capacity is just fine for now. This is what it looks like:

Re: [biofuel] the tax thing Re: A bit on business

2004-01-29 Thread Dan Maker
girl_mark_fire said: Internal Revenue Service 26 CFR Parts 40, 42, 48, and 602 [TD 8659] RIN 1545-AR92 Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Excise Tax; Registration Requirements snip (1)(i) of this section is not blended taxable fuel if, during the calendar quarter in which the blender removes or

Re: [biofuel] Popular Mechanics article

2003-09-29 Thread Dan Maker
Alex said: Explosive Plutonium. What was generally believed to be safest chemical form for storing nuclear waste is more explosive than previously realized. In the journal Science, scientists from Denmark's University of Aarhus warn that plutonium oxide may react with water that leaks

Re: [biofuel] Popular Mechanics article

2003-09-29 Thread Dan Maker
Alex said: Dan, every element is radioactive to some degree. True. Some places, just around where we live, have a certain detectable level of radioactivity, which some say is beneficial for people. Possible. The only nasty radiation comes out when atom is being split - in reactors

Re: [biofuel] Popular Mechanics article

2003-09-29 Thread Dan Maker
Alex said: Curie - for what I heard died from depression ( stopped eating). http://www.aip.org/history/curie/radinst3.htm The above URL indicates some sort of leukemia as the cause of her death. Other sources indicate TB. I retract my statement that her death was caused by radiation

Re: [biofuel] Radon Gas

2003-09-29 Thread Dan Maker
Greg and April said: Radon gas is so bad because it has a short half-life of about 4 days, and snip to become stable non-radioactive Lead. Confused yet? Thanks for that. I did not know the full mechanism. Anyway the result is an ultra fine speck of lead which get's left in the lungs.

Re: MOX - was Re: [biofuel] Popular Mechanics article

2003-09-30 Thread Dan Maker
Keith Addison said: Please check your facts. With proper handling... How would you define proper handling? Not like this, I hope: That's an impressive laundry list of problems we've had and currently have with the nuclear industry. Much of what has been done in the past is indefensable,

Re: MOX - was Re: [biofuel] Popular Mechanics article

2003-10-01 Thread Dan Maker
Keith Addison said: I don't think you can even have read my message fully, let alone checked the references there - it took you all of eight minutes after I posted it to post your reply. Okay, it didn't take me long to write it, it was all to hand, and nice to have it all in a new folder

Re: MOX - was Re: [biofuel] Popular Mechanics article

2003-10-01 Thread Dan Maker
Sorry I brought up this topic, as it is off-topic for the list. As Keith has expressed concerns that one person's opinions may be misconstrued for the opinion of all persons involved with biofuels I will refrain from any further comment on this off topic subject. Appal Energy said: And you

Re: MOX - was Re: [biofuel] Popular Mechanics article

2003-10-01 Thread Dan Maker
Appal Energy said: And you are about to be beset by nuclear waste storage just a good storm's distance away at Yucca Mountain. Oddly enough this contemporarily chosen waste handling site is universally known to be flawed for such storage in geologist's circles. In fact, they've had

Re: [biofuel] cold weather

2003-10-02 Thread Dan Maker
Maud Essen said: Can block, tank, or fuel line heaters be made to work off a solar panel? Probably, but all the ones I've seen are 120VAC, so you'd need an inverter. Dan -- Jack of all trades, master of none. Fiber Artist - Genealogist - Kilt Maker - Linux Geek - Piper - Woodworker

Re: Recumbents and White Rabbits was Re: [biofuel] way to go Todd!

2003-10-02 Thread Dan Maker
Appal Energy said: Thor, What got me thinking about it again was looking at RedBeard's (Dan Maker's) recumbant bicycles at his website. They reminded me of my endurance, touring and road racing days in the 80's where literally everything got boiled down to chef salads, granola bars,

[biofuel] Bad Press - Good Oportunity

2003-10-06 Thread Dan Maker
On Sunday, I was listening to Living On Earth, on NPR, and caught a segment on Air Pollution Brain Cancer Where the reseacher has found a link between tiny particulate matter in Diesel exhaust and brain cancer. While this may seem bad on the face, I think it may actually be a good thing. The

Re: [biofuel] WVO filtration

2003-10-06 Thread Dan Maker
Mike Barnett said: Keith, what is the policy regarding sending files to the group? CAn anyone post files? I have found a few really neat filters in a layout I was doing recently for a honey bottling operation. They use filters with heaters some inbuilt, some not, for liquefying the honey.

Re: [biofuel] Energy

2003-10-06 Thread Dan Maker
WARNING!!! This site trys to install addware on your computer. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Anyone for tomorrows energy today? http://members.fortunecity.com/geoffegel/aquagen.htm James Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list

Re: [biofuel] Digest Number 1782

2003-10-07 Thread Dan Maker
Quinn said: I'm thinking about the tank used as a secondary tank for oil in straight WVO set-ups. I'm not an engineer or anything, but is there any reason that the 'tank' couldn't be more of a large flat enclosed tray-shaped thing? It would seem that this would greatly facilitate the

Re: [biofuel] Water from diesel exhaust?

2003-10-08 Thread Dan Maker
Greg and April said: I don't know, but did you catch this part? The system also works on petrol, paraffin, fuel oil and gas. What is left from burning the fossil fuel is also cold, therefore there is no heat pollution. I have to wonder were they think that heat went. I caught that

Re: [biofuel] Home Heating with BioDiesel

2003-10-14 Thread Dan Maker
Thanks to all the respondents to my question re home heating with biodiesel I recieved a lot of good information. The article below was of particular interest and shows some interesting pictures of biodiesel from various feed stock at different tempuratures, demonstrating clouding and gelling.

Re: [biofuel] Home Heating with BioDiesel

2003-10-14 Thread Dan Maker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Has any body tried mixing fryer oil and sawdust or other boimass and burning it in a wood stove or in a masonry heater. ( Masonry Heater Association of North America ) www.mha-net.org Duno about SWVO, but that's a suggested use of low grade glycerine as shown on the

Re: [biofuel] thank you (small diesels)

2003-10-15 Thread Dan Maker
correction: http://chuggerdiesel.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Small diesel engines, ( chuggediesel.com ) Scott,From Wisconsin -- Jack of all trades, master of none. Fiber Artist - Genealogist - Kilt Maker - Linux Geek - Piper - Woodworker http://www.xmission.com/~redbeard

Re: [biofuel] Biodiesel from Wet Ethanol

2003-10-18 Thread Dan Maker
Ken Provost said: I stumbled on something recently -- was waiting to reproduce it before making a big deal. I've been able to get glycerine separation using a mixture of 80% ethanol and 20% methanol for the alcohol portion (250 ml per liter of oil) -- nothing new. But the ethanol portion

Re: [biofuel] was Biodiesel Processor Pumps..now Biodiesel Courses

2003-10-19 Thread Dan Maker
Appal Energy said: Darning a good wool sock rather than buying new I'd like to add spinning your own yarn, and knitting/weaving it into a finished product. Say socks, gloves, hat, jacket, sweater... Try it, you just may like it. Dan -- Jack of all trades, master of none. Fiber Artist

Re: [biofuel] Re: Heater

2003-10-19 Thread Dan Maker
John Moore said: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wastewatts/ Babington Burner and other simple concepts to use WO... Thanks! That's just the ticket for my shop. Dan -- Jack of all trades, master of none. Fiber Artist - Genealogist - Kilt Maker - Linux Geek - Piper - Woodworker

[biofuel] BD and Two Stroke Engines

2003-10-20 Thread Dan Maker
Having spent several hours this weekend rebuilding carburators on two stroke engines, I'm quite hesatant to use BD as the oil component in the fuel mix. There are a lot of little rubber parts in there and it's hard to say what they're made of or how well they'd stand up to BD exposure. I'd be

Re: [biofuel] small diesel engines made in US for passenger cars?

2003-10-21 Thread Dan Maker
Ryan Morgan, Aerials Express said: I would expect to see the first moves from Chrysler, especially now that they have merged with Mercedes Benz. The Jeep Liberty, for example, will be available soon with a diesel here in the U.S.. Look at the new Dodge van:

[biofuel] Fastest EV (and it's 120/240V chargable)

2003-10-22 Thread Dan Maker
The company: http://www.acpropulsion.com/default.htm A review here: http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/10/22.html Another review: http://www.forbes.com/technology/2003/10/21/cx_dl_1021vow.html -- Jack of all trades, master of none. Fiber Artist - Genealogist - Kilt Maker - Linux Geek -

Re: [biofuel] Fwd: Weekend fire destroys backyard biodiesel operation

2003-10-25 Thread Dan Maker
I'm looking for an alternative source for that article but in the meantime a google search turns up all kinds of hits on Tom: http://www.google.com/search?q=Tom+Leuesourceid=operanum=0ie=utf-8oe=utf-8 I used my spam address to gain access to the site, and the full contents of the original

[biofuel] BBC News: 'Minigrids' solve South Asia power crisis

2003-10-27 Thread Dan Maker
This may not dirrectly relate to biofuels (they do mention solar energy, the ultimate source of biofuel) but it's a good example of apropriate technology. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3209239.stm 'Minigrids' solve South Asia power crisis New mini-grids - small, community-owned

Re: [biofuel] Free Fatty Acid con. test

2003-10-28 Thread Dan Maker
Rodney Hadley said: In the interest of not processing a batch of WVO that may have a FFA con. of more than 2%, without first pretreating. Is their a simple test that can be done outside of the lab. Yes, I believe it's called titration. See the JtF website for instructions on how to do it.

Re: [biofuel] Anti-Spam software

2003-10-29 Thread Dan Maker
SpamAssassin on Linux is free and works quite well. I don't know what is avaliable for Mac or windows. I suspect SpamAssassin would work on OS X, as that is a unix based os too. Greg and April said: Does anyone know of good ( and free if possible ) anti-spam software? Greg H.

[biofuel] Political Satire

2003-10-30 Thread Dan Maker
Buy oil, fund terroritst: http://www.nealskorpen.com/images/cyc_terrorists.gif Dan -- Jack of all trades, master of none. Fiber Artist - Genealogist - Kilt Maker - Linux Geek - Piper - Woodworker http://www.xmission.com/~redbeard Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

Re: [biofuel] Bio in a furnace??

2003-10-30 Thread Dan Maker
Paul B.Schmidt said: Newbie here... first post I don't have a diesel car (am thinking about it ) but do have an oil furnace. By coincidence the furnace cleaner guy is here today and I asked him if you can use biodiesel in place of home heating oil, which he said WAS diesel. I

Re: [biofuel] Microturbines vs fuel cells

2003-10-30 Thread Dan Maker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I think they need to try and downsize the turbines to the output for a house sized unit. Then, put one in the house and turn it on, fueled with biodiesel. Turn off the power company. It can set up as a cogen, so one has space heat, hot water, and electricity, all

Re: [biofuel] RE: daihatsu - was Digest Number 1832

2003-11-06 Thread Dan Maker
Keith Addison said: Also the wvo that i have acquired is mainly ground nut oil rather than rape. It shouldn't be a problem. It's not a drying oil, so it won't polymerise. I'm probably wrong, but you may wish to double check and make sure that the nut oil you are getting is not a drying

Re: [biofuel] home heating with biodiesel?

2003-11-07 Thread Dan Maker
Mark Finewood said: Does anyone have experience using biodiesel for home heat in place of fuel oil in their furnace? Take a quick look in the archives for October or September, there is an article in Home Power magazine (I think that's it) by a couple that converted their fuel oil furnace

Re: [biofuel] RE: daihatsu - was Digest Number 1832

2003-11-07 Thread Dan Maker
Keith Addison said: Indeed. But groundnuts/peanuts aren't really nuts, nor do they come from trees. It's an annual legume, in other words a vegetable, and the nuts are a sort of underground bean. True, I read ground nut, as in chopped and processed to extract the oil. The peanut is a

Re: [biofuel] US online wine sales stymied by byzantine state laws

2003-11-11 Thread Dan Maker
Alan Petrillo said: I already purchase wine from PRP wines, and they deliver it to my door. I just have to be present, show ID to the delivery driver, and hand over a check. How in the heck is allowing people to buy specialty or rare wines over the internet going to increase the

Re: [biofuel] GE Biodiesel

2003-11-12 Thread Dan Maker
Bryan Brah said: I have a question for biochemists in the group. I was reading an article about oil spills, and started thinking about a different way to make biodiesel. Would it be possible to engineer microorganisms that eat only glycerin? You could mix them in with WVO and let them

Re: [biofuel] GE Biodiesel

2003-11-13 Thread Dan Maker
Keith Addison said: On this list, I don't think so - not against GM per se, at any rate, or I hope not. Against its application so far in crop-seed production, certainly - virtually a text-book case of how not to apply a new technology, disastrous. But it'sd about what you'd snip Yes,

Re: [biofuel] pumps, etc.

2003-11-21 Thread Dan Maker
Keith Addison said: I'm undecided between using a 55 gal drum with a cone bottom or an old water heater as a processor. Regarding the water heater, I have seen the recommendation that it be plugged into a 110 outlet instead of 220 to keep the elements from getting too hot. Is it okay to do

Re: [biofuel] pumps, etc.

2003-11-21 Thread Dan Maker
Wynn said: Dan, Can you explain WHY it would make an electrician shudder? I see nothing wrong with it! As I'm not an electrician, I am only relating what my co-worker, who is an electrician, said when I mentioned this to him. His biggest concern was that it was quite inefficent. For each

Re: heating elements was Re: [biofuel] pumps, etc.

2003-11-22 Thread Dan Maker
Martin Klingensmith said: Dan Maker said: As I'm not an electrician, I am only relating what my co-worker, who is an electrician, said when I mentioned this to him. I'm not sure where this is coming from. As long as your wiring is properly sized to the heating element, a heating

Re: [biofuel] List archives

2003-11-23 Thread Dan Maker
Keith Addison said: Hey all Say some nice words to Martin Klingensmith for the new design of the archives website: Information Archive at NNYTech http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuels-biz/ Martin, Thanks, an archive is great, and a truly

Re: [biofuel] Re: Bubble Wash Assembly

2003-11-25 Thread Dan Maker
skillshare said: brass, biodiesel, and air bubbles is a terrible combination. Brass contains copper and zinc, both catalysts for oxidation (I think) of biodiesel. Air bubbling is one way to speed up breakdown of biodiesel as well, very quickly. go stainless. I've seen the same sort of air

Re: [biofuel] Re: Bubble Wash Assembly

2003-11-25 Thread Dan Maker
Fred, Mark already gave you the answer, it's not a matter of changing the gas, but one of changing the metal that the difuser is made from. Earlier today I posted a message saying that stainless steel difusers can be gotten, and gave McMaster - Carr as a source. BTW, air, like we breath and

Re: [biofuel] Re: Bubble Wash Assembly

2003-11-26 Thread Dan Maker
James Slayden said: Is Mark going Corp?!! ;-) hrmmm, stainless steel . Actually the same thing could be done with black steel, if someone could find the mufflers in stainless. I have yet to find them. http://www.mcmaster.com/ Look for Type 316 Stainless Steel Exhaust

Re: [biofuel] Re: Bubble Wash Assembly

2003-11-26 Thread Dan Maker
James Slayden said: So, I am going to eat crow as I looked up Dan's Reference and it is the part that one would use to do the bubbler in stainless steel. =) Glad to help, sorry, I just reposted all that info too. Thanks Dan, I really searched for one and couldn't find it. Actually, the

Re: [biofuel] Re: Bubble Wash Assembly

2003-11-26 Thread Dan Maker
Appal Energy said: Actually? :-) To be precise? (chuckle, chuckle...) Air is more or less comprised of: Nitrogen, N2, 78.084% Oxygen, O2, 20.947% snip heh, I was to lazy when I typed that message to look up the numbers, but yeah. Mostly Nitrogen. Cheers, Dan -- Jack of all

Re: [biofuel] zinc and copper etc. Re: Bubble Wash Assembly

2003-11-26 Thread Dan Maker
skillshare said: and what bubbling air does. anyway, read K Shaine Tyson's 'biodiesel handling and use guidelines' (online at a government website, do a search), she talks about oxidation a little and about why to avoid those materials. I've found it in PDF here:

Re: [biofuel] Ethanol Process BioD

2003-11-26 Thread Dan Maker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Is anyone making progress on the reliability of this process, or defining the source oils that are easiest to crack with ethanol? Will the standard processor setup work? (ie - one that makes good bioD with methanol) Randal, I had a conversation with a

Re: [biofuel] Ethanol Process BioD

2003-11-26 Thread Dan Maker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Is it known which source oils crack the easiest with ethanol? As I understand the process it's not ethanol that does the cracking, it's the methoxide ion that catylizes the transesterfication process, ethanol, or methanol can then bind to the fatty acids, where the

Re: [biofuel] BD as Lube oil for two stroke gasoline engine

2003-11-26 Thread Dan Maker
Quinn said: Can someone please tell me what 2T means in regards to oil? Is it what we here in GA call 2-cycle oil? Or am I way off base? Yes, that's what it is, many 2-cycle oils also have the 2T designation on the bottle. There may be more to it, but in essence 2T is 2-cycle oil. Dan --

Re: [biofuel] Ethanol Process BioD

2003-11-26 Thread Dan Maker
Keith Addison said: :-) Your friend ADent just saw sulfuric and methanol and went off half-cocked on all the deadly perils before hoisting aboard how little sulfuric there is and that you mix the methanol first. Yes, he's a trained chemist, look for the peril first, then evaluate the

Re: [biofuel] Ethanol Process BioD

2003-11-26 Thread Dan Maker
Ken Provost said: The question of how much ethoxide is really present is an interesting one -- certainly less than there is methoxide when you use methanol, but that's why you have to use so much more KOH (or NaOH) with ethanol than with methanol. (yes, NaOH does work, once you get it

Re: [biofuel] Ethanol Process BioD

2003-11-26 Thread Dan Maker
Ken Provost said: You still haven't been to the JtoF site, have you? Quite to the contrary, I've read through the BD info there twice. this does not mean that I have a full comprehension of it. The problem is, due to the increased soap formation and the increased solubility of glycerol,

IRC Chat [was - Re: [biofuel] Ethanol Process BioD]

2003-11-26 Thread Dan Maker
Nathan A. McQuillen said: It was an IRC chat session, wasn't it? Generally one can simply cut and paste the transcripts into any text editor. Some IRC servers will keep logs if you ask them to -- groups that use IRC for their meetings rely on such systems. Yeah, it was a chat session.

BD for everyone [was - Re: [biofuel] BD as Lube oil for two stroke gasoline engine]

2003-11-26 Thread Dan Maker
Maud Essen said: snip Until the day arrives that we can go to any appliance store to purchase the Biodiesel Processor that meets our family's needs, we snip Well said, and to that end, I've been looking into and researching on continuous process, relatively low volume, high quality

Re: [biofuel] Re: Ethyl Biodiesel a Chaotic system

2003-11-26 Thread Dan Maker
skillshare said: I think that the great thing that happened is thsat you posted your processes and tips for how to do it, to journeytoforever.org. This If you are refering to the transcript of the conversation with theory on making ethylesters, I posted that to my personal web site, and

Re: [biofuel] Ethyl Biodiesel a Chaotic system

2003-11-26 Thread Dan Maker
Ken Provost said: I have a theory -- the ethyl biodiesel system is Chaotic -- final outcome exquisitely sensitive to initial conditions. Chaos is no longer something to be feared, but embraced :-) -K May I disagree? ;) It is not chaotic, it is simply a chemical process that we haven't

Re: [biofuel] Re: Bubble Wash Assembly

2003-11-27 Thread Dan Maker
Tan said: Thanks for the numerous response but I have to ask again. Could a basketball pin(used for inflating balls) be used to deliver a jet of air/bubbles to a wash tank if powered by a strong enough pump, let's say portable tire air pumps? It could work, I'd think. But it would not work

Re: [biofuel] Tourist Videos Was: Brazil Ethanol

2003-11-27 Thread Dan Maker
Hakan Falk said: -:) You are very right in what you are saying, a lot of hype and no meat. A famous American expression is also where is the beef? from the Apollo film Actually, that's from a Wendy's hamburger chain (source for WVO!) add from 1984-85. Here's a bit of history on the ad

Re: [biofuel] Ethanol Process BioD

2003-11-28 Thread Dan Maker
Ken Provost said: You still haven't been to the JtoF site, have you? Okay, I just re-read (for the second or third time, not sure which) your tips on Ethyl Esters. The problem is, due to the increased soap formation and the increased solubility of glycerol, you never get separation. You

Re: [biofuel] Ethanol Process BioD

2003-11-29 Thread Dan Maker
Ken Provost said: Yes, I'm sure. If you got NO ethoxide ion, you'd get no biodiesel. Ethanol will neither esterify nor trans- esterify directly with oil, soap, or FFAs under alkaline conditions -- only after ionization. Really clean oil and really dry ethanol will make fine biodiesel

Re: [biofuel] HEET for methanol for first test run

2003-11-30 Thread Dan Maker
Ken Provost said: Don't know about HEET, but methanol is readily avail. from auto parts stores as gasoline dryer. There are two formulas, one methanol and one isopropanol, so you have to read the fine print.-K HEET is a mathanol based gasoline dryer, readily avaliable at auto parts

Re: [biofuel] Methanol Ethanol

2003-11-30 Thread Dan Maker
Edward Mendoza said: Can ethanol be used just as effectively as methanol for cutting the veggie oil to make biodiesel? Not with the current processes, particularly not with WVO. There is work being done on this but nothing so far. Dan -- Jack of all trades, master of none. Fiber Artist

Re: [biofuel] Methanol Ethanol

2003-11-30 Thread Dan Maker
Keith Addison said: Not with the current processes, particularly not with WVO. There is work being done on this but nothing so far. Come on Dan, not so! Nothing so far? Mark just said this, as you know (in reply to you in fact): Keith, Name me one person who regularly uses ethanol and

Re: [biofuel] Re: Methanol Ethanol

2003-12-01 Thread Dan Maker
girl_mark_fire said: Randy Davis in Sonoma County CA who is a very visible SVO/biodiesel guy in their SVO coop. (virgin oil, regularly) Ken Provost on this board (WVO) Any regularity on this Ken? From reading your notes, it sounded like you ended up with more soap than BD... Laurie from

Re: [biofuel] Methanol Ethanol

2003-12-01 Thread Dan Maker
Keith Addison said: Have you ever made BD at all Dan? No, I haven't. To answer you, in a word, no. Ah-ha! you say, I knew it! But I don't know what that's supposed to prove - nothing, I'd say, it certainly doesn't gainsay my Not so! What difference does it make if I've made it or not?

Re: [biofuel] Re: Methanol Ethanol

2003-12-01 Thread Dan Maker
Ken Provost said: I used it for over a year in a 5:1 mix with methanol As I understand the chemistry, the methanol was creating the methoxide (K or Na) which was providing the catylist for your reaction, while the ethanol was doing the esterfication. This is something that the chemist and I

[biofuel] Apology

2003-12-01 Thread Dan Maker
Keith, Ken, Mark, List Members, I've realy botched this. Done a poor job comunicating and said some things I realy didn't know enough about to open my mouth. I am sorry. Dan -- Jack of all trades, master of none. Fiber Artist - Genealogist - Kilt Maker - Linux Geek - Piper - Woodworker

Re: [biofuel] Ethanol Process BioD

2003-12-01 Thread Dan Maker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: xmission.com does not acknowledge that that URL exists. Fred Fred, No, I moved it to a different name after there were some conserns about the content. I'll email off list with a good URL. Dan -- Jack of all trades, master of none. Fiber Artist - Genealogist -

Re: [biofuel] Apology

2003-12-01 Thread Dan Maker
Ken Provost said: Apology accepted. Thanks Now high thee hence to your local racing shop, get some methanol, and start brewin' !! -K Planing to do some virgin oil this weekend. Dan -- Jack of all trades, master of none. Fiber Artist - Genealogist - Kilt Maker - Linux Geek - Piper -

Re: [biofuel] acid-base methods Re: Methanol Ethanol

2003-12-02 Thread Dan Maker
skillshare said: Phosphoric acid allegedly works for acid esterification. It's a whole lot more expensive than sulfuric. mark Sulfuric acid is the right acid to use, because of cost. But not the only acid that could be used. I was attempting to eat my foot. Sorry. Dan -- Jack of all

Re: [biofuel] acid-base methods Re: Methanol Ethanol

2003-12-04 Thread Dan Maker
Appal Energy said: Saturation is the point where dissolved solids come out of solution (crystalize). The fluid can only only keep them dissolved up to a point, depending upon temperature, pressure and, of course, the amount dissolved in it. Watching the crystals grow is great children's

Re: [biofuel] Re: What's the true story on ethanol?

2003-12-06 Thread Dan Maker
cheeperdrunk said: Check the Numbers, small operation, 10 gallon of wash. yeast $1.00 A, Amylase $1.00 yeast nutrient $1.00 Propain gas to fire broiler 8 Hrs. $8.00 24 Lb. Corn $2.00 Total, $13.00 plus labor to produce 1 Gal. of 95% Ethanol Local gas $1.60 per gal. who is saveing

Re: [biofuel] Re.Info required

2003-12-09 Thread Dan Maker
giliyar mayya said: hi Can anyone helpme out finding information regarding in making bio fuel. My doubt is that is there any process for making bio diesel from used lubricant oil in cars and trucks? Depending on what you intend to use the end product for, you may find that you can

Re: [biofuel] Heating with SVO

2003-12-17 Thread Dan Maker
Keith Addison said: MOTHER's Waste Oil Heater: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/ethanol_motherearth/me4.html SNIP The altfuelfurnace group at Yahoo deals with running furnaces on WVO. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd add to that the wastewatts group at Yahoo. There has been a lot of

Re: [biofuel] Military diesel motorcycles and other cool stuff...

2003-12-18 Thread Dan Maker
Neoteric Biofuels Inc said: June 2003 http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/article.cfm?Id=3D1134 Military Units Experiment With Ultralight Vehicles by Harold Kennedy The Marine Corps also is updating one of its oldest ultralight=20 vehicles=97the traditional motorcycle=97Doyle

Re: [biofuel] water-ethanol-methanol mixture

2003-12-18 Thread Dan Maker
Ishwaria said: This has got nothing to do with biofuels. We use a mixture of water and 70% ethanol which is denatured with 5%Methanol to clean our filters. If the filter is soaked in this alcohol mixture and then dried using compressed air (couple of minutes) followed by normal drying

Re: [biofuel] Military diesel motorcycles and other cool stuff...

2003-12-19 Thread Dan Maker
Keith Addison said: Hi Dan It's looked promising for quite a while. Unveiled in May 2001... - two and a half years ago, and now: Final testing of the new engine will take place this summer at the Nevada Automotive Test Center, Doyle said. If all goes well, he said, replacements will

Re: [biofuel] Military diesel motorcycles and other cool stuff...

2003-12-21 Thread Dan Maker
Keith Addison said: Hi again Dan If you find any good news please let us know - I really hope it's not just a never-never grant-cow milker or something. It looks like a great bike! But they had that test-demo video out a couple of years ago already, what the hell's taking them so

Re: [biofuel] Military diesel motorcycles and other cool stuff...

2003-12-22 Thread Dan Maker
Alan Petrillo said: If you ever do figure that out please let me know. I'd pay a dollar to see that! ;-) If I ever figure that one out, I'll take it on the road and make a fortune, or at least a buck or two. :) Well, if you don't mind going through the headaches of building a custom

Re: [biofuel] Military diesel motorcycles and other cool stuff...

2003-12-22 Thread Dan Maker
Neoteric Biofuels Inc said: http://www.americanprofile.com/issues/20010930/20010930ne_1354.asp See link above, ask this chap for plans, maybe. Perkins in a Harley, on biodiesel. It's a cool story, but I'm not sure it's the direction I want to go to build a diesel bike. This bit from the

Re: [biofuel] Simple 5-gallon processor

2003-12-22 Thread Dan Maker
Keith Addison said: http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_processor5.html 5-gallon processor - Cheap, simple, safe and effective Nice! I think a 5 gal. / 20 l. test batch is probably easier to make than a 1 l. or 1.5 l. test batch, the smaller the test batch, the more precise your

Re: [biofuel] Military diesel motorcycles and other cool stuff...

2003-12-23 Thread Dan Maker
Bryan Brah said: Thanks primarily to RUB's buying up all the new production, even a basket-case HD will set you back a couple grand. (For the uninitiated, a RUB pronounced rube is a Rich Urban Biker generally a doctor, attorney, accountant or other white collar professional who transports

thin film evaporator for ethanol? [was - Re: [biofuel] Methanol Recovery for Beginners -(2nd try)]

2003-12-23 Thread Dan Maker
Appal Energy said: A thin film evaporator coupled to a condensor is the best method of recovery. A rough verbal description can be found at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/message/30463 Something like this could easily be scaled up and modularized to match volumes of production.

Re: [biofuel] What's wrong with corporations?

2003-12-23 Thread Dan Maker
Keith Addison said: http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/pages/corporations.html Corporate Watch What's wrong with corporations? Some things you'd probably prefer weren't true about corporations Corporations are people too Corporations are benefit scroungers Corporations are

Re: [biofuel] Military diesel motorcycles and other cool stuff...

2003-12-23 Thread Dan Maker
Detrick Merz said: Why not try a HD trans in a jap frame? You're gonna have to modify things to fit a diesel in there anyway. An HD trans? I was thinking, last night, of using a seperate transmission but I haven't done any research into what options are avaliable. Dan -- Jack of all

[biofuel] Still OT, Letter Press Printing [was - OT: Papercrete]

2003-12-23 Thread Dan Maker
Gustl Steiner-Zehender said: Van der Cook adjustable bed proof press Hehe, my wife and I printed our wedding announcements on a Van der Cook, hand set the type, had a lot of fun doing it. She does hand book binding and repair work, majored in Design at university, with an emphases on book

Re: [biofuel] Military diesel motorcycles and other cool stuff...

2003-12-23 Thread Dan Maker
Dan Maker said: Detrick Merz said: Why not try a HD trans in a jap frame? You're gonna have to modify things to fit a diesel in there anyway. An HD trans? Doh! HD == Harley Davidson. I can't believe I missed that the first time. Dan -- Jack of all trades, master of none. Fiber

[biofuel] Test Batches and Theory vs Practice [was - Re: Simple 5-gallon processor]

2003-12-29 Thread Dan Maker
Keith Addison said: Sorry it's taken me so long to reply, hollidays and finishing up a down draft gasifier to burn waste wood have taken a lot of time. The gasifier is working nicely, I now need to build the heat exchanger. If you accidently measure out an extra .1 gram NaOH in each batch it

[biofuel] Washing with glycerin [was - Re: 5 gallon processor dip tube idea]

2003-12-29 Thread Dan Maker
skillshare said: the issue with glycerol messing up washes Ive done myself plenty. I have a pretty good idea of what causes my washing problems since I do a full round of quality control, and I'm in a position to occasionally mess up and get glycerol into my wash tank. Do try it and

Re: [biofuel] Re:Water saving toilets

2003-12-29 Thread Dan Maker
Maud Essen said: Even at the home of my sister who is married to an anti-environmentalist, they only flush on solids. Liquids and associated paper are accumulated until that time. I do the same at my house. It's just a case of awareness and commitment. In the case of my brother-in-law,

Getting Started with Biofuels [was - Re: [biofuel] Hello Friends]

2003-12-30 Thread Dan Maker
Jeff said: Would you tell me how wood can be gasified? I would like to know how to do that. I would like to power my car and a welding machine with a biofuel that would work with a spark plug engine, if I could. This is a very good place to start: http://www.gengas.nu/byggbes/contents.shtml

Re: [biofuel] Test Batches and Theory vs Practice

2003-12-30 Thread Dan Maker
Keith Addison said: That's only one-tenth the required amount of NaOH, it should be 3.5 grams. You say the opposite thing about the iffy test batch below: I think I had too much NaOH in it... Yes, I didn't trust my initial calculations or measurements on my initial test batch and added in

[biofuel] Could this be the answer to polution? [was - Home, Home on the (Radioactive) Range]

2003-12-30 Thread Dan Maker
Keith Addison said: snip nuclear waste that cannot be abided where it is generated. Ahh, could that be the key to safe industry? Keep the waste where it's generated. If it can't be abided where it's created, perhaps it should not be created in the first place. Robert A. Heinlein, in one

Re: [biofuel] Re: Could this be the answer to polution? [was - Home, Home on the (Radioactive)

2003-12-30 Thread Dan Maker
Steve said: interesting thoughts.. This is what happens when business has centralized control.. and does not have a clue what they do to locations where they operate. wish all those high priced CEOs had to live next door to love canal. And that ties directly into the discussion of

Re: [biofuel] Test Batches and Theory vs Practice

2003-12-31 Thread Dan Maker
Ken Provost said: Well, not exactly. I've been using about half 'n' half WVO and flush oil (overall 0.9 ml NaOH titer), but I'm doing a sample of straight WVO (1.7 ml NaOH) tonite with 90:10 eth:meth just to prove you wrong :-) Great to hear you are having such success with wvo. Now can

Re: [biofuel] food for thought

2003-12-31 Thread Dan Maker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: When last I was in Finland, they lived 2.6 people per room in large state-run apartment complexes, a Green dream for saving energy, particularly with no elevators. Let's just pass a law ;-) That sounds like the human eqv. of a battery box chicken coup. Dan --

Re: [biofuel] food for thought

2004-01-02 Thread Dan Maker
Hakan Falk said: http://www.undp.org/ of special interest is, Human Development Report 2003 http://www.undp.org/hdr2003/ Thanks, I'll read these pages. Dan -- Jack of all trades, master of none. Fiber Artist - Genealogist - Kilt Maker - Linux Geek - Piper - Woodworker

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