Hi Steve, I am working on a non toxic preservative using the marriage of Xylitol and Biofuel. Xylitol is a sugar that is toxic to many fungus but whether it will kill all the bad ones is yet to be determined. Xylitol is safe for human consumption and is added to gum to kill tooth bacteria. I am working mainly above ground on a line of Nontoxic biodegradable "oil based" stains. Call me crazy but the luck I have had so far on furniture is turning some heads. Jim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I think it was in 1979 that I read in "Gleanings in Bee Culture" >about a beekeeper who soaked his hive bottom boards in a mixture of >paraffin wax and "resin" (50/50 as I recall) and said they lasted well >against the ground. I imagine the stuff would burn pretty well though. >Enough better than the wood to make it more dangerous?? I don't know. > >Doug Woodard >St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada > > >On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>Hi Jim, >> >>Are you saying that you use biofuel as a wood preservative or as a >>basis for wood preservative? If so, can you say more about that? I am >>very interested in finding alternative wood preservatives especially if >>they are non-toxic. >> >>New Zealand has a huge forest plantation industry, right up there next >>to the sheep industry which produces 100's of thousands of tons of >>tallow most of which is exported today. Marrying the two would be an >>elegant solution. >> >>I am the steward of a 22Ha ( ~50 acres) Radiata Pine plantation myself. >>Radiata (Pinus Radiata or Monterey Pine) produces a beautiful clear >>wood that has excellent properties but not the best of choices for >>exposed weather applications. Unfortunately New Zealand has decided, >>because of some poor building practices which created moisture problems >>and therefore wood rot( what wood wouldn't rot?), that it was the >>timber which was at fault and now mandates CCA (chromated copper >>arsenate) treatment of this wood for use even in interior home framing. >>While I think it may be an uphill battle to convince the industry to >>stop using CCA in the short term, investigating alternative forms of >>preservatives may provide a way of moving forward towards using this >>sustainable resource closer to an environmentally responsible way. ( Of >>course the real answer is better building practices or alternative >>materials like earth brick) As it is though, we are creating a >>nightmare of chemical concoction houses now with sure to follow health >>and disposal issues. >> >>So if you have any ideas on non toxic preservatives, biofuel based or >>otherwise, I'd be very interested to hear about them. Is there any way >>of using recycled glass in a coating, for example? >> >>Steve >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
