Hi all, Paging Melbournians;
I saw again today the "100% Ethanol bus" this morning - Ventura Bus I was wondering is nyone knew where they got their fuel from (the supplier) and what is the concentration? A contact number would be good :-) (It is too late in teh day to call... I am a bit too busy to do so for a day or 2 anyway..) the implecation from the bus is that the ethanol comes from renuable biological sources, not petrochemicals.... would be great to get a steady supply of ecologically sound ethanol for BD production locally... BTW, has anyone thought of looking into transetherification - using acetone? or any of a number of trans- chemistry? On a similar note: How is petro oil cracked into lighter fractions? Pyrolosis? catalyst? why not do the same in milder form to winterise BD? heck, do it carefully enough and you could produce any fuel you want, right down to petrol... (and before anyone points it out, yes I suspect all this is well beyond the scope of a backyard bucket chemistry adventure - but I can dream! :-) ) -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 It's a book. Non-volatile storage media. Everyone should have one. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> DVD Rentals with No Late Fees - Try Netflix for FREE! http://us.click.yahoo.com/ZKLNcC/pEZFAA/i5gGAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
