[Biofuel] FFA testing in the acid part of the Foolproof process
Hi All, I have been fooling around with the Foolproof process and have a few questions/observations. I do not get an emulsion when I add the alcohol to the WVO. I am using store bought denatured alcohol which is quite dry by my tests, and seems to have 10 to 20% methanol in it. I have gotten plenty of soap in the final fuel even after a good separation of glycerin. I know there is plenty of FFA in my starting oil. Is there a test to determine if the acid stage is working or how far along the esterification is.? I did the shake with water test and the original oil becomes a milkshake. The acid stage product separates quickly but is murky. ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
[Biofuel] The ultimate bidiesel workshop class
Folks, Iowa State University (USA) will host a biodiesel workshop conference the end of October. It is five days long and covers everything from start to finish. Here is the link to the workshop class: http://www.me.iastate.edu/biodiesel/ Here is the link to the daily schedule of topics: http://www.ucs.iastate.edu/mnet/biodiesel04/home.html For Americans that joke about Iowa being a 'flyover' state, drop down and enjoy real hospitality! From the heartland of grain growing and the future world center of ethanol and biodiesel production!!!... Ron B. ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
[Biofuel] replacement diesel engine
Hi, There has been some talk on this list a while back about small cubic image replacement engine for American cars, but I was wondering does anyone make them for foreign cars? I would like to a diesel in a mazda 626 or toyota camry. I really didn't spend much time looking, but are there options to do this? Thanks, Al ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
RE: [Biofuel] China's Energy Crisis Blankets Hong Kong in Smog
The report on the viability of nuclear energy below may answer your question. http://www.oprit.rug.nl/deenen/ Regards Dermot -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ken Provost Sent: 20 September 2004 00:09 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Biofuel] China's Energy Crisis Blankets Hong Kong in Smog China faces a chronic energy shortage and making the switch from coal-fired plants to cleaner fuel is costly and disruptive. Electricity provider CLP Holdings, which steadily reduced its emission of pollutants in the 1990s, reversed progress last year by burning 50 percent more coal than in 2002 and cutting its use of gas, a cleaner fuel. Reserves in the South China Sea gas field on which it relied were overestimated, forcing it to burn more coal to meet rising demand here and in China but CLP said it would maintain a balanced fuel mix of coal, gas and nuclear in the long run. Fascinating to me, especially having just finished Richard Heinberg's new book Powerdown -- Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World. A technical question about nuclear (I'm sure this group has SEVERAL people who know the answer -- pardon my ignorance :-)): Does a nuclear power plant need constant replacement of spent fuel rods, or do you just load it up once, and then it keeps going for 20-30 years with no additional inputs? The answer makes a big difference when conditions may be very different in 20-30 years -K ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: Fw: [biofuel] Cloudy Biodiesel ZZ
What's this washed ceramic filter? The links I read about making biodiesel don't say anything about filtering. Ken --- Jan Lieuwe Bolding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That sounds reasonable but what causes this wax component, Is this unsufficient washing? JLB - Original Message - From: Buck Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 12:24 AM Subject: RE: Fw: [biofuel] Cloudy Biodiesel ZZ it soudnss almosst as if you have soome wax componednt theat comes out at jusst that top of the fence temp, few degreess either way, i migh chill a small sample, run it thru a washed ceramic filter the try to figureee from ther, buck From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fw: [biofuel] Cloudy Biodiesel Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 07:36:39 +0900 Another problem email. I hope we'll sort this out soon. - Keith From: Jan Lieuwe Bolding [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fw: [biofuel] Cloudy Biodiesel Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:29:32 +0200 - Original Message - From: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Jan Lieuwe Bolding To: mailto:biofuel@yahoogroups.combiofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 11:06 PM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Cloudy Biodiesel I have seen clear Bio-Diesel from the Awwcid - Base proces getting cloudy(hazy) when I mix It with regular Diesel when I want to produce B20 or higher. When I heat It to approx 40 °C or filtrate with Seitz K1000 filtrationplates It becomes clear again. I have determined the water-content of the BD with a Karl Fisher titrator to be approx. 0.3%. My theory is that a component of the BD is not solluable in regular Diesel and by mixing them can be filtered out, because by adding more BD It gets cloudy again and by adding more regular Diesel It stays clear. Can someone confirm this theory? Jan Lieuwe Bolding Chemical Engineer The Netherlands - Original Message - From: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Greg Harbican To: mailto:biofuel@yahoogroups.combiofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 11:20 PM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Cloudy Biodiesel It warmed up, and, what ever it was that was making it cloudy went back in to solution. My guess is that you didn't have a complete reaction, I say this because of your low PH, if I remember right, good BioDiesel has a near neutral Ph ( 7 ). Did you let it cool down and if so did it become cloudy again? Greg H. - Original Message - From: Jeff To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 13:02 Subject: [biofuel] Cloudy Biodiesel I wonder why it stayed cloudy untill it sat in the sun for a couple of minutes. Any ideas? Jeff ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ ___ Do you Yahoo!? Express yourself with Y! Messenger! Free. Download now. http://messenger.yahoo.com ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] Changing Government Agendas -was: Kerry preferredaround World - Poll
I guess I have to eat crow here. It's good to know, now I can respond to all the pronuclear engineers who keep on complaining about the negative net energy loss of producing ethanol. Ken --- MH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Ron for your reply. I read a news article at one of your links that has been mentioned here before about US Corn-Ethanol averaging 67% net energy according to a recent US gov't report upping it from 34% previously or was it 36%. Additional information is welcomed. Net Energy Value of Ethanol Increases, Says USDA Jun 10, 2004 Newswire, National Corn Growers Association http://www.cornandsoybeandigest.com/news/EthanolValue/ ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] cloudy Biodiesel...
If it looks like crystalised jello then it is residual glycerine IMO. Why are you using vinegar ? That has usually been suggested for breaking emulsions, but if you have a complete reaction then you shouldn't need vinegar in the wash. Prior to using vinegar try the quality wash test, found here: http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_vehicle.html#quality Luc - Original Message - From: Paul Tanner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 1:00 AM Subject: [Biofuel] cloudy Biodiesel... Hi, I have been making some small trial batches of Biodiesel, and had pretty good success.. nice reaction, clear fuel, then refined with washing etc (water and vinegar).. still nice and clear.. however, I notice that when I made a large batch (approx. 175 litres) the fuel at the bottom (after I had removed the glycerine from the tank) appeared to have some sort of crystals at the bottom of the container, that looked a little like miso soup.. cloudy at the bottom, clear at the top.. the crystals (I'll call them that, given that's what they look like - I doubt they *are* crystals) dissolve back into the fuel, when the fuel is warmed.. I thought this might be the normal higher cloud point of Biodiesel...but they re-appear when the fuel is back to normal room temperature. just wondering if anyone has seen this too.. or could provide an idea as to the cause. many thanks in advance.. regards, Paul. --- Paul Tanner Client IT Architect IBM Business Consulting Services Level 24, 60 City Rd. Melbourne, VIC 3000 Phone: +61-3-8646 5346 Fax: +61-3-9626 6010 Mobile:+61-402 000 980 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] Creating a cool room storage in a hot climate - solar.
Hi All, Check out ice caves on the web. There are many in the US and probably around the world. They are natural north facing holes with the correct angle and moisture conditions to have ice in them all year around. By adding a little intelligence to the design and proper doors that shut at the right times you could have your ownMaxwell's demon could work for a cool room, even in Texas. ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] Slogan
Hi All, I haven't kept up on this thread so this may have already been suggested. Biodiesel is for Life As we say in Alabama, Keep on keepin' on. Bill Clark - Original Message - From: subramanian D.V [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 2:17 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Slogan Mr. Keith, Would junk the wars ( or warmongers) for ever make a better slogan for a sticker? Regards, Mani Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 9/18/04 2:20 PM, Jeff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fossils Fuels are Extinct While Biodiesel is Alive and Growing! Is this a better one? Jeff Still too long, but I'd put a bumper sticker on my Beetle TDI that just said Fossil Fuels are Extinct. That's good Ken! It hits home and it's a teaser, it'd get at least some people thinking about what isn't extinct, maybe starting to ask questions. Reminds me of my old War is Obsolete sticker -K Hasten the day when you can put one there saying Warmongers are Obsolete and it's just a superfluous statement of fact rather than a goal. Regards Keith ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ - Do you Yahoo!? vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today! ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] Bin Laden
on 9/21/04 1:08 AM, Doug Foskey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was told today that Usama bin Laden had his name changed to the current spelling after the 9/11 attacks, due to the possibility of accidently inferring from his first name a relevance to a country: Have others heard this? My guess is he probly spells his name in Arabic letters rather than Roman letters, and doesn't care much how we transliterate it -K ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
[Biofuel] Cold Weather Study on Soy Biodiesel
PDF file http://www.mda.state.mn.us/ams/biodieselfinal.pdf ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] Kerry preferred around World - Poll
Wayne, You have to work on your understanding of the world and systems. Socialism as system and idea is quite more democratic and respectful to human rights than the traditional US republican ideal. I hope that Bush is not necessarily representative for US way of life, it is at least not my experiences and it would be quite frightening if he was. Looking at numbers, he cannot claim to represent even half of the US population. So your opinion is not representative for US nor the majority of the US population and we should be very grateful for that. Hakan At 12:01 AM 9/15/2004, you wrote: Since most of the world is more socialist than democratic and does not like the US way of life in the first place, of course they would want the candidate that would be most destructive to the US. Just my opinion! Wayne --- MH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most countries want Kerry in White House Sep 9, 2004 http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_9-9-2004_pg4_2 WASHINGTON: A majority of people in 30 of 35 countries want Democratic party flagbearer John Kerry in the White House, according to a survey released Wednesday showing US President George W Bush rebuffed by all of America's traditional allies. On average, Senator Kerry was favored by more than a two-to-one margin - 46 percent to 20 percent, the survey by GlobeScan Inc, a global research firm, and the local University of Maryland, showed. Only one in five want to see Bush reelected, said Steven Kull, the university's program on international policy attitudes. Though he is not as well known, Kerry would win handily if the people of the world were to elect the US president. The only countries where Bush was preferred in the poll covering a total of 34,330 people and conducted in July and August were the Philippines, Nigeria and Poland. India and Thailand were divided. The margin of error in the survey covering all regions of the world ranged from plus or minus 2.3 to five percent. Kerry was strongly preferred among all of America's traditional allies, including Norway (74 percent compared with Bush's seven percent), Germany (74 percent to 10 percent), France (64 percent to five percent), the Netherlands (63 percent to six percent), Italy (58 percent to 14 percent) and Spain (45 percent to seven percent). Even in Britain, where Prime Minister Tony Blair is Bush's closest ally in the war on terror, Kerry trounced the incumbent 47 percent to 16 percent. Kerry was also greatly favored among Canadians by 61 percent to Bush's 16 percent and among the Japanese by 43 percent to 23 percent. Even among countries that have contributed troops to Iraq, most favored Kerry, and said that their view of US foreign policy has gotten worse under Bush. They included Britain, the Czech Republic, Italy, the Netherlands, the Dominican Republic, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Japan, Norway and Spain. Asked how President Bush's foreign policy had affected their feelings towards the United States, a majority of those polled in 31 countries said it made them feel worse about America, while those in only three countries said it had made them feel better. Perhaps most sobering for Americans is the strength of the view that US foreign policy is on the wrong track, even in countries contributing troops in Iraq, said GlobeScan President Doug Miller. In Europe, the exception for Bush was a new ally, Polland, where he was preferred by a narrow majority of 31 percent against Kerry's 26 percent. Another new European ally, the Czech Republic, however went for Kerry (42 percent to Bush's 18 percent) as did Sweden (58 percent to 10 percent). Asia was the most mixed region, though Kerry still did better. Aside from enjoying a large margin in Japan, he was preferred by clear majorities in China (52 percent to Bush's 12 percent) and Indonesia (57 percent to 34 percent). But those polled were divided in India (Kerry 34 percent, Bush 33 percent) and Thailand (Kerry 30 percent, Bush 33 percent). Latin Americans went for Kerry in all nine countries polled. In only two cases did Kerry win by a large majority - Brazil (57 percent to 14 percent) and the Dominican Republic (51 percent to 38 percent) - but in most cases the spread was quite wide. Global Poll Shows a Kerry Landslide Poll finds him preferred around world by Thomas Crampton September 8, 2004 by the International Herald Tribune http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0908-03.htm Another pattern that became apparent in studying the data was that those people with higher education and more income were more strongly in favor of Kerry, Kull said. Those at the top of world society are more negative towards Bush than those at the bottom, Kull said. The most likely common link is that those who have the most access to information tend be more
RE: [Biofuel] China's Energy Crisis Blankets Hong Kong in Smog
Hello Thomas, The time of usefulness for nuclear power is dependent of the half-life of the element used. The half-life for radioactive cobalt is five and a half years. After natural degradation it becomes nickel. The half-life for cesium is thirty years. So what this means is that in five years half of the power has dissipated for cobalt. In another five years, half of that is gone, and so on. The final fizzle extends into eternity. Atomic energy labs measure the initial load and predict when it will no longer be powerful enough to keep the system efficiently working. Then they add a new load or augment the existing load. It's never really over...it just keeps on going slower, and slower, and slower. Peggy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tomas Juknevicius Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 3:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Biofuel] China's Energy Crisis Blankets Hong Kong in Smog Ken Provost wrote: A technical question about nuclear (I'm sure this group has SEVERAL people who know the answer -- pardon my ignorance :-)): Does a nuclear power plant need constant replacement of spent fuel rods, or do you just load it up once, and then it keeps going for 20-30 years with no additional inputs? The answer makes a big difference when conditions may be very different in 20-30 years -K Hi Ken, all, I believe that the correct answer is It depends. For example I hear, that the reactors for the ships (submarines, icebreakers) are loaded once and then used until spent... What happens then , I do not know (rebuild/retrofit perhaps?) But for the ground power plants (of course this depends on the power plant type - I am speaking about RBMK's here, I do not know the details for French or USA or Japanese type of nukes, also pebble beds...), it is usually arranged so, that each cassete is replaced as it is spent, not all cassettes at once. Each month or so, some spent cassettes are removed, replaced with new ones. The limiting factor for replacement are the channels, into which these casssetes are inserted. After some time (30-50 years? just guessing here) the neutrons from nuclear fission erode them, and they have to be replaced. This means - rebuilding the whole reactor. We have a big nuke here in Lithuania, which can supply energy to all our country (3.5 mil. people). I certainly know, that they buy nuclear fuel cassettes from Russia on a regular basis. They have a barter here - some amount of eletricity goes to Russia in exchange for nuclear fuel; This way they are not dependent on currency rate swings and can operate predictably... Some info about it here: http://www.iae.lt -- Tomas Juknevicius ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] 2004 VW Jetta TDI
Mel, VW is certifying all their new diesel engines for use with RME (Rape based biodiesel) in Europe. Your chat pages are wrong, if you want to belive the VW engine specifications in Europe. Hakan At 01:43 AM 9/19/2004, you wrote: After having a VW Pickup and becoming interested in Biodiesel as a fuel I have bought a new 2004 VW Jetta TDI. I have read several postings from various chat pages that the new TDIs shouldn't run Biodiesel. Does anyone have any experience with the new TDIs? I would like to start using Biodiesel in it either as an addative or straight, but don't want to cause any problems. Thanks for any help or information. Mel ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] FFA testing in the acid part of the Foolproof process
Hi All, I have been fooling around with the Foolproof process and have a few questions/observations. First, is this your first attempt to make biodiesel? You saw what it says at the top of that page? NOTE: The two-stage biodiesel processes are advanced methods, not for novices -- learn the basics thoroughly first. The single-stage base method is the place to start. Start here. Here being here: Where do I start? http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_make.html#start Not for novices is linked and takes you here: http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_make2.html#whystart Did you read that? If not you really should. I do not get an emulsion when I add the alcohol to the WVO. Emulsion? You mean this? 6. Mix for five minutes -- the mixture will become murky because of solvent change (methanol is a polar compound, oil is strongly non-polar; a suspension will form). Are you starting with WVO? It's best to start with SVO. You're giving yourself too many variables all at once, instead of starting at the beginning with the simplest process and adding new factors one at a time. I am using store bought denatured alcohol which is quite dry by my tests, and seems to have 10 to 20% methanol in it. Denatured alcohol will not work. It is mostly ethanol, and making ethyl esters is not easy, and also not for novices. See: Ethyl esters -- making ethanol biodiesel http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_make2.html#ethylester Also it is not dry, it will have about 5% water in it, and the biodiesel process is sensitive to water, especially ethyl esters. You need 99%+ methanol, and then start with a single-stage base reaction with SVO, virgin oil. I have gotten plenty of soap in the final fuel even after a good separation of glycerin. You're sure you got a separation of glycerine? I know there is plenty of FFA in my starting oil. How do you know? Is there a test to determine if the acid stage is working or how far along the esterification is.? I did the shake with water test and the original oil becomes a milkshake. You shook the original oil? Or what your process produced? The acid stage product separates quickly but is murky. I don't think so. Go back to the beginning Joe, don't take short-cuts. Best wishes Keith Addison Journey to Forever ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] Slogan
If we have to connect wars with the fuel then how about this one: Don't fight for fuel: grow your Own Otherwise, how are these: Dinofuel is to Biofuel as Dead is to Living fossil fuel is to biofuel as dead is to living M.P.Singh - Original Message - From: subramanian D.V [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 12:47 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Slogan Mr. Keith, Would junk the wars ( or warmongers) for ever make a better slogan for a sticker? Regards, Mani Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 9/18/04 2:20 PM, Jeff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fossils Fuels are Extinct While Biodiesel is Alive and Growing! Is this a better one? Jeff Still too long, but I'd put a bumper sticker on my Beetle TDI that just said Fossil Fuels are Extinct. That's good Ken! It hits home and it's a teaser, it'd get at least some people thinking about what isn't extinct, maybe starting to ask questions. Reminds me of my old War is Obsolete sticker -K Hasten the day when you can put one there saying Warmongers are Obsolete and it's just a superfluous statement of fact rather than a goal. Regards Keith ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ - Do you Yahoo!? vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today! ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
[Biofuel] Energy content of glycerin?
Seems to me that it should be pretty close to that of vegetable oil looking at the relative energy contents of the substances going into and coming out of the reaction. I don't have my references right now but basically veggie oil comes out around 130K BTU's (depending on the actual oil), BD comes out around 120K BTU's where as alcohol is around 64K BTU's Kenneth ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] Fossil fuels fuel the politics
Osama is to the NWO what Emmanuel Goldstein of Orwell's 1984 was; nothing more than a fictional focal point to which all terrors are attributed, a common enemy used to instill perpetual fear in the minds of people who otherwise might take the time to actually think and that would inevitably result in the truth coming out and the gig would be up. All so-called Al Queda cells and people associated with it have turned out to be intellingence black ops and those charged as being complicit have ALL had their cases fall apart. Who benefits from all this terror? Who gets what they want ? It certainly is not the Arabs/Palestinians, so who actually did it? Who gets the $ ? Who gets the bombs? Who gets to grab land that doesn't belong to them ? That is who wins and who did it, IMHO :) Luc - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 5:41 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Fossil fuels fuel the politics you are so pathetically ignorant, it borders on the suspicion of having matriculated from a public school. - Original Message - From: bmolloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 7:48 PM Subject: [Biofuel] Fossil fuels fuel the politics Hi all, A new thread for consideration: fossil fuel use is fuelling our politics. Up until now we've been eating the rabbits. But what happens when the rabbits get a gun? Pitt takes a look at the question. Bob. When the Rabbits Get a Gun By William Rivers Pitt From: http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/091504A.shtml t r u t h o u t | Perspective Wednesday 15 September 2004 *** This is the comforting fiction: Osama bin Laden is a monster who sprang whole from the fetid mire. He had no childhood, no influences, no education, no experiences to form his view of the world. He did not exist, and then he did, a vessel into which the universe poured the essence of evil. It is a simple, straightforward story of a man who hates freedom and kills for the pure joy of feeling innocent blood drip from his fingers. This is the fairy tale by which children are put to bed at night. As frightening and terrifying as bin Laden may be, it is a comfort to imagine him as having been chiseled from the dust. The fiction of his existence, absent of detail, makes him unique, a singular entity not to be replicated. Osama bin Laden becomes truly scary only when the actual context of his life is made clear, where he is from, what he has seen, and why those things motivated him to do what he does. Osama bin Laden becomes truly scary when the realization comes that he is not unique, not singular, not an invention of the universe. He becomes truly scary when the realization comes that there are millions of people who have seen what he has seen, who feel what he feels, and why. He becomes truly scary when the realization comes that he is a creation of the last fifty years of American foreign and economic policy, and that he has an army behind him created by the same influences. Simply, Osama bin Laden becomes truly scary when the realization comes that he can be, and has been, and continues to be, replicated. Osama bin Laden, after being educated at Oxford University, learned how to kill effectively while working as an agent of American Cold War policy in Afghanistan. He was a helpful American ally throughout the 1980s as a ruthless and wealthy warrior against the Soviet Union. It was the desire of the American government to deliver to the Soviets their own Vietnam, to arrange a hopeless military situation which would demoralize the Soviet military and bleed that nation dry. Osama bin Laden played the part of the Viet Cong, and he was good at it. With the help of the American government, he was able to create an army of true believers in Afghanistan. Our government believed that if one bin Laden was good, a hundred would be better, and a thousand better again, in the fight against the Soviets. So strong was this group America helped to create that it became known as 'The Base.' Translated into the local dialect, 'The Base' is known as al Qaeda. Osama bin Laden learned something else besides the art of killing while he was working as an ally of the United States. He learned that given enough time, enough money, enough violence, enough perseverance, and enough fellow warriors, a superpower can be brought to its knees and erased from the book of history. Bin Laden was at the center of one of the most important events of the 20th century: The fall of the Soviet Union. Political pundits like to credit Reagan and the senior Bush for the collapse of that regime, but out in front of them, in the mountains of Afghanistan, was Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, the sharp end of our sword, who did their job very well. Today, the United States faces this group and its leader, armed with their well-learned and America-taught lessons: How to
[Biofuel] We're Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore
This is a piece by an entertainer with a great radio program. He also write and appears to think pretty well. While I keep informed while abstaining from party politics I read everything. This is some of the best. Happy Happy, Gustl -- We're Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore By Garrison Keillor Something has gone seriously haywire with the Republican Party. Once, it was the party of pragmatic Main Street businessmen in steel-rimmed spectacles who decried profligacy and waste, were devoted to their communities and supported the sort of prosperity that raises all ships. They were good-hearted people who vanquished the gnarlier elements of their party, the paranoid Roosevelt-haters, the flat Earthers and Prohibitionists, the antipapist antiforeigner element. The genial Eisenhower was their man, a genuine American hero of D-Day, who made it OK for reasonable people to vote Republican. He brought the Korean War to a stalemate, produced the Interstate Highway System, declined to rescue the French colonial army in Vietnam, and gave us a period of peace and prosperity, in which (oddly) American arts and letters flourished and higher education burgeoned and there was a degree of plain decency in the country. Fifties Republicans were giants compared to today's. Richard Nixon was the last Republican leader to feel a Christian obligation toward the poor. In the years between Nixon and Newt Gingrich, the party migrated southward down the Twisting Trail of Rhetoric and sneered at the idea of public service and became the Scourge of Liberalism, the Great Crusade Against the Sixties, the Death Star of Government, a gang of pirates that diverted and fascinated the media by their sheer chutzpah, such as the misty-eyed flag-waving of Ronald Reagan who, while George McGovern flew bombers in World War II, took a pass and made training films in Long Beach. The Nixon moderate vanished like the passenger pigeon, purged by a legion of angry white men who rose to power on pure punk politics. Bipartisanship is another term of date rape. says Grover Norquist, the Sid Vicious of the GOP. I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub. The boy has Oedipal problems and government is his daddy. The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong's moonwalk was filmed in Roswell, New Mexico, little honkers out to diminish the rest of us, Newt's evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk. Republicans: The No.1 reason the rest of the world thinks we're deaf, dumb and dangerous. Rich ironies abound! Lies pop up like toadstools in the forest! Wild swine crowd round the public trough! Outrageous gerrymandering! Pocket lining on a massive scale! Paid lobbyists sit in committee rooms and write legislation to alleviate the suffering of billionaires! Hypocrisies shine like cat turds in the moonlight! O Mark Twain, where art thou at this hour? Arise and behold the Gilded Age reincarnated gaudier than ever, upholding great wealth as the sure sign of Divine Grace. Here in 2004, George W. Bush is running for reelection on a platform of tragedy. The single greatest failure of national defense in our history, the attacks of 9/11 in which 19 men with box cutters put this nation into a tailspin, a failure the details of which the White House fought to keep secret even as it ran the country into hock up to the hubcaps, thanks to generous tax cuts for the well-fixed, hoping to lead us into a box canyon of debt that will render government impotent, even as we engage in a war against a small country that was undertaken for the president's personal satisfaction but sold to the American public on the basis of brazen misinformation, a war whose purpose is to distract us from an enormous transfer of wealth taking place in this country, flowing upward, and the deception is working beautifully. The concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the few is the death knell of democracy. No republic in the history of humanity has survived this. The election of 2004 will say something about what happens to ours. The omens are not good.
Re: [biofuel] Question - efficiency of sunlight conversion
yes, water vapor is a greenhouse gas, a significant one, but it is a dependent variable. It constitutes a positive reinforcement of radiative forcing. The concentration in the atmosphere is not so much a function of how much water is on the planet, but rather the temperature of the atmosphere. Liquid water, ice and water vapor are in equilibrium, add water vapor to the atmosphere, which will simply condense out , is what I consider an insignificant variable compared to changing the temperature of the atmosphere. With no addition of water to the system, raising the temperature of the atm will have a much greater effect than adding water to the system. I therefore stand by my claim that the amount of water added to the system by the combustion of fossil fuels is insignificant compared to for example addition of CO2 to the system. Appal Energy wrote: Bob, I haven't done the calculations but it would not be difficult to determine the total water released from combustion of all fossil fuels. I doubt if it is a significant issue. Water vapor is a contributor to the greenhouse effect. A fossil-fueled hydrogen economy could contribute a double punch to this problem, CO2 during and post stripping phase and water vapor at the end use stage. That's rather significant. As well, the entire concept of insignificant is a matter of subjectivity and trivializes all things to a point of irrelevance - all too often the intent - no matter how invaluable something's contribution may be.. Those who could care less or couldn't be bothered to care all too off-handedly dismiss anything as insignificant, no matter the end result being catastrophic or incremental towards a productive goal. Nothing is insignificant and those who bandy the term about should be kept under close scrutiny. Todd Swearingen - Original Message - From: bob allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 4:54 PM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Question - efficiency of sunlight conversion Robert, the hydrogen in oil will end up as water regardless. Combustion of hydrocarbons produces CO2 and H2O. So whether you strip the hydrogen out of the fossil fuel and burn it or burn it while it is still part of the fossil fuel makes no difference. I haven't done the calculations but it would not be difficult to determine the total water released from combustion of all fossil fuels. I doubt if it is a significant issue. robert harder wrote: The hydrogen economy is being pushed because it is favored by the current oil companies, the cheapest source of hydrogen is oil and therefore switching to hydrogen will not reduce the use or profits of oil, but i fear that large scale use of hydrogen that was not sourced from the electrolysis of water (which is useless as energy source, only a method of energy storage) will lead to an increase in the total volume of water in earths biosphere and water vapor in our atmosphere which I beleive will be far more apt to alter weather than our current problems of co2 and co gt;From: jeff lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; gt;Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gt;To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gt;Subject: Re: [biofuel] Question - efficiency of sunlight conversion gt;Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 07:53:50 -0700 (PDT) gt; gt; gt; gt;Keith Addison lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; wrote: gt;Hello again Donald gt; gt; gt; gt; gt;As an aside, I am puzzled as to why there is so much emphasis being gt; gt;placed on the quot;Hydrogen Economyquot; at the moment, especially by the US gt; gt;government. Hydogen is just a way of storing and transporting energy, gt; gt;just as are biofuels. OK, I realise that fuel cells can theoretically gt; gt;deliver a greater whole-cycle efficiency than biofuels, but it seems to gt; gt;me that a lot of money is being spent on something that probably won't gt; gt;give us a cost-effective solution for at least 20 years - given that gt; gt;there are still a large number of technical hurdles without totally gt; gt;satisfactory solutions. gt; gt;As an big 'Oil Man' from texas, I think Bush likes the Hydrogen idea because the power is still in his hands rather than the consumer. Assuming we can produce hydrogen in a more cost effective way than electrolysis at some point in the future, it's a turn-key business for gas stations, but mainly for the government. Instead of the customer needing less fuel and saving money that way, we'll still need to refuel like we do now and that fuel can be taxed and priced exactly as gasoline is now. That will have the most minimal impact on the 'economy' and the big oil companies can step right up and capitalize on the opportunity to make about the same profits. gt; gt; gt; gt;- gt;Do you Yahoo!? gt;vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today! gt;___ gt;Biofuel mailing list gt;[EMAIL PROTECTED] gt;http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel gt;
RE: [Biofuel] Fossil fuels fuel the politics
James, The ability to think above and beyond both public and private conditioning is a step toward maturity. Current television (media) conditioning surpasses any traditional schooling for cloning robots out of social units. Creative imagination has value. Try reading James Joyce Finnegan's Wake to see beyond the words. It's not something taught in public school. Peggy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 3:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Fossil fuels fuel the politics you are so pathetically ignorant, it borders on the suspicion of having matriculated from a public school. - Original Message - From: bmolloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 7:48 PM Subject: [Biofuel] Fossil fuels fuel the politics Hi all, A new thread for consideration: fossil fuel use is fuelling our politics. Up until now we've been eating the rabbits. But what happens when the rabbits get a gun? Pitt takes a look at the question. Bob. When the Rabbits Get a Gun By William Rivers Pitt From: http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/091504A.shtml t r u t h o u t | Perspective Wednesday 15 September 2004 *** This is the comforting fiction: Osama bin Laden is a monster who sprang whole from the fetid mire. He had no childhood, no influences, no education, no experiences to form his view of the world. He did not exist, and then he did, a vessel into which the universe poured the essence of evil. It is a simple, straightforward story of a man who hates freedom and kills for the pure joy of feeling innocent blood drip from his fingers. This is the fairy tale by which children are put to bed at night. As frightening and terrifying as bin Laden may be, it is a comfort to imagine him as having been chiseled from the dust. The fiction of his existence, absent of detail, makes him unique, a singular entity not to be replicated. Osama bin Laden becomes truly scary only when the actual context of his life is made clear, where he is from, what he has seen, and why those things motivated him to do what he does. Osama bin Laden becomes truly scary when the realization comes that he is not unique, not singular, not an invention of the universe. He becomes truly scary when the realization comes that there are millions of people who have seen what he has seen, who feel what he feels, and why. He becomes truly scary when the realization comes that he is a creation of the last fifty years of American foreign and economic policy, and that he has an army behind him created by the same influences. Simply, Osama bin Laden becomes truly scary when the realization comes that he can be, and has been, and continues to be, replicated. Osama bin Laden, after being educated at Oxford University, learned how to kill effectively while working as an agent of American Cold War policy in Afghanistan. He was a helpful American ally throughout the 1980s as a ruthless and wealthy warrior against the Soviet Union. It was the desire of the American government to deliver to the Soviets their own Vietnam, to arrange a hopeless military situation which would demoralize the Soviet military and bleed that nation dry. Osama bin Laden played the part of the Viet Cong, and he was good at it. With the help of the American government, he was able to create an army of true believers in Afghanistan. Our government believed that if one bin Laden was good, a hundred would be better, and a thousand better again, in the fight against the Soviets. So strong was this group America helped to create that it became known as 'The Base.' Translated into the local dialect, 'The Base' is known as al Qaeda. Osama bin Laden learned something else besides the art of killing while he was working as an ally of the United States. He learned that given enough time, enough money, enough violence, enough perseverance, and enough fellow warriors, a superpower can be brought to its knees and erased from the book of history. Bin Laden was at the center of one of the most important events of the 20th century: The fall of the Soviet Union. Political pundits like to credit Reagan and the senior Bush for the collapse of that regime, but out in front of them, in the mountains of Afghanistan, was Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, the sharp end of our sword, who did their job very well. Today, the United States faces this group and its leader, armed with their well-learned and America-taught lessons: How to kill massively and how to annihilate a superpower. Osama bin Laden learned a few other things before he became the monster under our collective bed. When Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein began to make his move against Kuwait, bin Laden was outraged. Hussein was a despised name on the lips of bin Laden and his followers; here was an unbelieving heretic who spoke the words of
Re: [Biofuel] The ultimate bidiesel workshop class
Iowa State University (USA) will host a biodiesel workshop conference the end of October. It is five days long and covers everything from start to finish. Here is the link to the workshop class: http://www.me.iastate.edu/biodiesel/ Here is the link to the daily schedule of topics: http://www.ucs.iastate.edu/mnet/biodiesel04/home.html For Americans that joke about Iowa being a 'flyover' state, drop down and enjoy real hospitality! From the heartland of grain growing and the future world center of ethanol and biodiesel production!!!... Ron B. Hi Ron World center? Well, good luck, it's a nice goal and all, but not very realistic, IMHO. Maybe you should just focus on doing as best you can and addressing more local challenges. For one thing, Europe has a 20-year head start on you, especially Austria and Germany, they're way ahead, with biodiesel as they're way ahead with diesels themselves. And they're not hampered by the fact that soy and maize are not counted among the world's most ideal energy crops. You're going to forge ahead of Brazil with ethanol? They're more than 20 years ahead of you, with a lot of advantages, and they do sugar, not maize. I think you'll have a hard time keeping up with India, with biodiesel as well as ethanol. There are also some very interesting developments taking shape in Southeast Asia, and they're in a position to leapfrog quite a lot of obstacles that the US will face. Meanwhile there's Japan... which *looks* quiet right now, but don't believe it. They just made a big ethanol deal with Brazil... And the US has the Big Three, and the other Big Three - ADM, Monsanto and Cargill, and a bureaucracy that thinks they're much more important than biofuels. Anyway, good luck. Best Keith ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
[Biofuel] Mironda Heston, young activist dies in Chicago
Mironda Heston, a young American volunteer in Haiti died in a Chicago Hospital of dengue fever on Thursday. She has been working since June to bring alternative energy options to the isolated poor of Haiti. Following is an account of of her role in an effort to get drilling efforts going for the natives in Haiti. =--=-=-=-=-==-=-=--=-=-==--=-==-=--==--==-=--= I was recommended for a project in Haiti by NGWA president Randy Taylor to Loring Green of Tucson, Ariz., whom I understand was contracted by Mrs. Louise Bowditch, the director of Seed USA, Brookline, Mass. Loring Green, a geologist, had made a previous fact-finding trip to Haiti and needed an experienced drilling instructor, which is why I was recommended. On July 1, 2004, Loring and I went to Haiti to start up a new drilling machine. We had met at a motel in Miami the night before and early that morning, we flew to Port au Prince, Haiti. Haitian customs did not inspect us at all on the way in. I had only two suitcases and a small carry-on bag. I checked my two suitcases and carried on the small bag. Of the two checked bags, one was full of clothing and one was full of fan belts, a pintle hitch, some bug spray and batteries. When I opened my suitcases at our destination ÷Movman Peyizan Papay (MPP), the Peasant Movement of Papaye, near Hinche, Haiti ÷ my bug spray and batteries were missing. Loring, on the other hand, had two large suitcases and several small bags combined into one. Most of his luggage was filled with drilling supplies and equipment. His all arrived OK. Upon our arrival in Port au Prince, we were met by many local people wanting to carry our luggage for a small fee, which we declined. The people were kind and friendly but almost demanding in wanting to carry our luggage. However, we were never concerned for our safety. We were to be met by others with MPP, taken to the nearby general aviation terminal at the same airport, and then flown by a small, four-passenger airplane operated by Mission Aviation Fellowship to Hinche in the Central Plateau province ÷ or as they call it, department. Prior to our landing in Hinche, the people had to run the goats off the short, narrow runway. Once we were on the ground, there were many people under nearby trees waiting to greet the arrivals. A four-door pickup truck met us and took us through Hinche over some very bad roads to the MPP compound near Papaye. Upon arrival at the compound, we were escorted to our rooms to get settled in. Then we were taken to the dining hall and had lunch. All the food was excellent but different from what I was accustomed to. The meals usually consisted of a brown rice, bean sauce, peanut butter and jelly, bread and a juice. All food was covered with a plastic basket to prevent flies from getting to it. The DeepRock rig had not arrived from Port au Prince, Haiti. We were advised it still was tied up in customs. We were introduced to our six drilling students and decided to teach them in a classroom until the rig arrived. For the next several days, we taught the students to sort and screen-pack sand from the river in the classroom and on-site. We taught them to slot PVC well screen with hacksaws and clean out the slots. Then with drawings on a blackboard, we taught them about drilling tools and the names of tools. Mironda Heston, an American who speaks Haitian Creole, translated all of this and was a vital link in our teaching. First Loring and I would teach Mironda. She would interpret to our students, and then she would interpret their questions back to us. Mironda was a fast learner and understood our drawings on the blackboard. This was great because Loring and I were not the best blackboard artists. The following day, we would have a classroom review of what the students learned the day before. They had retained everything we had taught them in detail, including re-drawing exactly what we had drawn on the blackboard the previous day. Mironda would manage the review, as Loring and I could not understand Creole. We could not have managed without her. Since the drill still had not arrived, we decided to visit a drill site with a drill in operation some 15 miles and more than an hour away, as it involved transversing a very bad road. We loaded our five students, Wendy Flick ÷ an associate from New Mexico, Loring, Mironda, Louise Bowditch, our driver and myself in a four-door four-wheel drive Toyota pickup and traveled some destructive roads to the job site. We watched the drilling for a time, discussed the drilling bits and procedures and then returned to the classroom for more blackboard drawings and discussion of what we had seen at the drill site. These students were great learners; they never wanted to stop learning. I would be proud to work with them anytime. I hope that one day soon that I will be asked to return to Haiti to work with these students. One evening, we were invited to a birthday party for Agathe Jean-Baptiste, a medical doctor who has just
RE: [Biofuel] Why We Cannot Win
Hi; As a Canadian I have watched the Iraq situation with concern and apprehension. Like most Canadians I feel strongly connected to U.S.A.; I have always loved and respected their love of capitalism and democracy. It is very sad that so many Amercians and innocent Iraq citizens are being killed or seriously wounded especially when the deaths could of/can be avoided. What is far more disturbing is the loss of freedom and individual rights within the USA--a loss that can easily spread across to Canada and beyond. To any intelligent observer the best course of action, post 9/11, would of been the launch of a co-ordinated international police action NOT an unnecessary, illegal, and unjust war--a never ending one. America would of been completely supported in such an action, would of been accepted as leaders in the action, and all of the world would of been significantly safer with such an action. I know that there are many Americans who share my concerns. I know that it is a significant act of bravery for an American to actual voice their opposition to the Iraq war--I encourage and salute such bravery. I pray that America will return to her previous role as a moderate, intelligent, and benign world leader ( one with flaws but always willing to debate and change their actions). Alex --- On Mon 09/20, Keith Addison lt; [EMAIL PROTECTED] gt; wrote:From: Keith Addison [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 12:36:49 +0900Subject: [Biofuel] Why We Cannot Winhttp://207.44.245.159/article6929.htmWhy We Cannot Winby Al Lorentz09/20/04 LewRockwell.com -- Before I begin, let me state that I am a soldier currently deployed in Iraq, I am not an armchair quarterback. Nor am I some politically idealistic and naïve young soldier, I am an old and seasoned Non-Commissioned Officer with nearly 20 years under my belt. Additionally, I am not just a soldier with a muds-eye view of the war, I am in Civil Affairs and as such, it is my job to be aware of all the events occurring in this country and specifically in my region.I have come to the conclusion that we cannot win here for a number of reasons. Ideology and idealism will never trump history and reality.When we were preparing to deploy, I told my young soldiers to beware of the political solution. Just when you think you have the situation on the ground in hand, someone will come along with a political directive that throws you off the tracks.I believe that we could have won this un-Constitutional invasion of Iraq and possibly pulled off the even more un-Constitutional occupation and subjugation of this sovereign nation. It might have even been possible to foist democracy on these people who seem to have no desire, understanding or respect for such an institution. True the possibility of pulling all this off was a long shot and would have required several hundred billion dollars and even more casualties than we've seen to date but again it would have been possible, not realistic or necessary but possible.Here are the specific reasons why we cannot win in Iraq.First, we refuse to deal in reality. We are in a guerilla war, but because of politics, we are not allowed to declare it a guerilla war and must label the increasingly effective guerilla forces arrayed against us as terrorists, criminals and dead-enders.This implies that there is a zero sum game at work, i.e. we can simply kill X number of the enemy and then the fight is over, mission accomplished, everybody wins. Unfortunately, this is not the case. We have few tools at our disposal and those are proving to be wholly ineffective at fighting the guerillas.The idea behind fighting a guerilla army is not to destroy its every man (an impossibility since he hides himself by day amongst the populace). Rather the idea in guerilla warfare is to erode or destroy his base of support.So long as there is support for the guerilla, for every one you kill two more rise up to take his place. More importantly, when your tools for killing him are precision guided munitions, raids and other acts that create casualties among the innocent populace, you raise the support for the guerillas and undermine the support for yourself. (A 500-pound precision bomb has a casualty-producing radius of 400 meters minimum; do the math.)Second, our assessment of what motivates the average Iraqi was skewed, again by politically motivated experts. We came here with some fantasy idea that the natives were all ignorant, mud-hut dwelling camel riders who would line the streets and pelt us with rose petals, lay palm fronds in the street and be eternally grateful. While at one time there may have actually been support and respect from the locals, months of occupation by our regular military forces have turned the formerly friendly into the recently hostile.Attempts to correct the thinking in this regard are in vain; it is not politically correct to point out the fact that
[Biofuel] Biofuel production- Brazil and USA
From the original topic- Subject: Re: [Biofuel] The ultimate bidiesel workshop class Keith's reply to my original rambunctious post- Hi Ron World center? Well, good luck, it's a nice goal and all, but not very realistic, IMHO. Maybe you should just focus on doing as best you can and addressing more local challenges. For one thing, Europe has a 20-year head start on you, especially Austria and Germany, they're way ahead, with biodiesel as they're way ahead with diesels themselves. And they're not hampered by the fact that soy and maize are not counted among the world's most ideal energy crops. You're going to forge ahead of Brazil with ethanol? They're more than 20 years ahead of you, with a lot of advantages, and they do sugar, not maize. I think you'll have a hard time keeping up with India, with biodiesel as well as ethanol. There are also some very interesting developments taking shape in Southeast Asia, and they're in a position to leapfrog quite a lot of obstacles that the US will face. Meanwhile there's Japan... which *looks* quiet right now, but don't believe it. They just made a big ethanol deal with Brazil... And the US has the Big Three, and the other Big Three - ADM, Monsanto and Cargill, and a bureaucracy that thinks they're much more important than biofuels. Anyway, good luck. Best Keith = Hi Keith, I was being a little frisky...like a Lipizzaner horse, when I mentioned Iowa/Midwestern USA as a future world center for biofuels. grin Link to the horse- http://www.equiworld.net/en/breeds/lipizzaner/ I'll get to see these fine horses this weekend when they come to town for a show. 8~) Back to ethanol: In the last couple of years, the USA has snuck up right behind Brazil. Now, it is a matter of which country can expand faster. 1) Brazil's present ethanol production: 14 billion liters 2) USA's present ethanol production (09/2004): 12.95 billion liters 3) USA ethanol plants presently under construction or expansion: 1.89 billion liters. 4) More USA plants in design or advanced equity fund drives as we speak. 5) California is on the brink to start sugar cane/maize to ethanol conversion plans (not production yet). Link talking about sugar and ethanol production in Brazil (07/2004)- http://www.crystalsugar.com/media/news.archives/conf.asp Excerpt from link above- Brazil's cane production increased from 300 million tons in 1995 to 372 million tons of cane for the current crop an increase of 24 percent. From this, 27 million tons of sugar will be produced, of which 16 million will be exported, he said. In addition, 14 billion liters of ethanol, equating to 25 million tons of sugar, will also be produced. Link to USA ethanol production updated this month- http://www.ethanolrfa.org/eth_prod_fac.html Excerpt from link above (in Million Gallons per Year)- Total Existing Capacity 3420.8 Total Under Construction/Expansions 500.0 Total Capacity 3920.8 Last Updated: September 2004 --- Note: 1 Gallons (US) equals 3.78541 Liters As far as biodiesel is concerned...yes, the USA is still in the womb of development and production, but when the ball gets rolling, it will be a like the Flying Scotsman Express roaring down the tracks under a moonlit night with safety valves popping steam and throttle (British term 'regulator') wide open. big grin Regards, Ron B. ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
[Biofuel] Can We Eliminate Oil - Winning the Oil Endgame
U.S. Can Eliminate Oil Use in a Few Decades Source: Rocky Mountain Institute September 20, 2004 http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040920/cgm011_1.html RMI's Winning the Oil Endgame Shows Businesses How to Mobilize and Profit SNOWMASS, Colo., Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) today released Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs, and Security, a Pentagon-cofunded blueprint for making the United States oil-free. The plan outlines how American industry can restore competitiveness and boost profits by mobilizing modern technologies and smart business strategies to displace oil more cheaply than buying it. Winning the Oil Endgame proves that at an average cost of $12 per barrel (in 2000 dollars), the United States can save half its oil usage through efficiency, then substitute competitive biofuels and saved natural gas for the rest -- all this without taxation or new federal regulation. Unlike previous proposals to force oil savings through government policy, our proposed transition beyond oil is led by business for profit, said RMI CEO Amory Lovins. Our recommendations are market-based, innovation-driven without mandates, and designed to support, not distort, business logic. They're self-financing and would cause the federal deficit to go down, not up. Winning the Oil Endgame shows that by 2015, the United States can save more oil than it gets from the Persian Gulf; by 2025, use less oil than in 1970; by 2040, import no oil; and by 2050, use no oil at all. Because saving and substituting oil costs less than buying it, our study finds a net savings of $70 billion a year, Lovins said. That acts like a giant tax cut for the nation. It simply makes sense and makes money for all. The RMI study focuses on cars and light trucks (SUVs, pickups, and vans). These vehicles account for nearly half of projected 2025 oil use. The report demonstrates that ultralight, ultrasound materials like carbon-fiber can halve vehicles' weight, increase safety, and boost efficiency to about 85 mpg for a midsize car or 66 mpg for a midsize SUV. BMW has confirmed that carbon-fiber autobodies weigh only half as much as steel and have exceptional crash performance, said Lovins. The resulting fuel savings can be like buying gasoline for 56 cents a gallon. Winning the Oil Endgame also predicts that to fight better and save money, the Pentagon -- the world's largest oil buyer-will accelerate the market emergence of superefficient land, sea, and air platforms. A more efficient and effective military can protect American citizens instead of foreign oil, while moving to eliminate oil as a source of conflict. A fuel-efficient military could save tens of billions of dollars a year, said Lovins, who served on a Pentagon task force studying this issue. As our nation stops needing oil, think of the possibilities of being able to treat oil-rich countries the same as nations that don't own a drop. Imagine too our moral clarity if other countries no longer assume everything the United States does is about oil. The RMI report says that by 2015, more efficient vehicles, buildings, and factories will turn oil companies into broad-based energy companies that embrace biofuels as a new product line. Winning the Oil Game demonstrates how cellulosic biofuels (wood-based rather than from starchy or sugary plants like corn) can replace one-fifth of current oil use, more than triple farm income, and create 750,000 agriculture jobs. Europe produces 17 times more biodiesel than we do, Lovins said. The EU has shifted farmers from subsidies to durable revenues, and now oil companies compete to sell their petroleum-free fuel. Winning the Oil Endgame demonstrates half of U.S. natural gas can be saved at less than a fifth of its current price. Two-thirds of that figure comes from saving electricity, especially at peak times when it's inefficiently produced from natural gas. This step alone could return natural gas to abundance within a few years, cutting gas and power bills by $55 billion per year. Recommended policy innovations include: -- Revenue-neutral feebates -- rebates for buyers of efficient cars, paid for by fees on inefficient ones; -- Low-income access to affordable mobility -- a new nationwide initiative to buy efficient cars in bulk and lease or sell them to low-income drivers at terms they can afford; -- RD investment incentives and temporary loan guarantees to help financially weakened U.S. automakers retrain and retool faster; and -- Temporary federal loans guarantees to U.S. airlines for buying very efficient new airplanes, provided that for every plane thus financed, an inefficient one is scrapped. For the first time, our report adds up the new ways to provide all the services now obtained from oil, but without using oil -- which will save us $70 billion a year, concluded
[Biofuel] Filtering BD
Well, it worked like a charm. I removed the in-line filter combo'd with a furncae filter and left the furnace filetr (felt liner) in place and backed it up with a Cummins FF105 fuel filter which I got along with the mounting bracket at a truck repair place. It works great ! Gives the BD a nice polished finish as well :) Luc ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
[Biofuel] More on pump washing
Having tried all sorts of methods, none of which did the job well, I settled on hooking up the water exit pipe from the standpipe design, http://www.veggieavenger.com/avengerboard/viewtopic.php?t=333 to a Pony Pump and have it run up into the wash tank via a T fitting with braided hose that had holes drilled into it, larger holes for the cross than for the lead. The system works pretty well for those who, like me, have a head space clearance problem, although the plan is to replace the T with a cross in the near future (as soon as I can find one in the right size) as that will give more even distribution of the H2O. Right now I give it a swirl with the drill and paint stirrer after pumping for about 1/2 hour just for good measure, but this is not ideal. I do not have the head space required to hook up a stirring mechanism or that is the way I would go, so this has to be made to work well enough to produce the desired complete results without having to bend into the wash tank with a paint stirrer to be sure the job got done right. I am alos thinking of reducing the hose size for the lead hose in order to increase the pressure so that I will get a hard rain effect over the BD, any thoughts ? Luc ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] Ice Farming in the desert
Hey, Thanks Steven, just zapped an email to the library to see if it's available via inter-library loan. Doug - Original Message - From: Melander, Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 10:51 AM Subject: [Biofuel] Ice Farming in the desert : In regards to forming ice at night, take a look at the book Ceramic Houses by Nader Kahili. : There are numerous examples of structures designed to make ice naturally and store it (ice farming in the desert). Also, : another interesting part of the book are cooling towers for homes. : Steve M. : : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : Behalf Of Doug Younker : Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 1:45 PM : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Creating a cool room storage in a hot climate - : solar. : : : Hi, : : Interesting; another post said the Egyptians form ice at night, by ice : forming do you mean the water froze into block of ice? I would guess that a : bit of ice forming may suggest that it may be possible to transfer the heat : in a cool room to the night time sky. Are there any practical example of : this have been done or being done? The post mentioning the Egyptians on : mentioned that they made ice by radiating heat to the night time sky, but : there was indication how they went about it. Thanks : Doug : - Original Message - : From: Kim Garth Travis [EMAIL PROTECTED] : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 6:04 AM : Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Creating a cool room storage in a hot climate - : solar. : : : : Greetings, : : Actually I have put a bottle of water in my solar funnel cooker and left : it : : out at night when the temperature was in the 50F and had ice form. It : will : : only do it for me on a real clear night, it does not work on a cloudy : night. : : Bright Blessings, : : Kim : : : : At 05:12 PM 9/15/2004, you wrote: : : Hi, : : : : But, to create ice wouldn't that require the night time temperatures : to : : get to freezing? Even if the goal was to cool a heat sink, power is still : : would be required. : : Doug : : : : - Original Message - : : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 11:47 AM : : Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Creating a cool room storage in a hot climate - : : solar. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Greetings to all. : : : : : : A new member here. : : : : : : If you have clear skies at night most of the time, solar panels can be : : used in reverse to radiate heat all night long. Circulate anti freeze : from : : them : : : to your block of ice during the night and use the ice in the usual way. : : Not shure how much heat you can get rid of in this way. A calculation or : : : experiment is in order. The panels could be used for heat gain during : the : : day in their usual way. Mount on top of your dirt mound for shade. : : : : : : : : : ___ : : : Biofuel mailing list : : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel : : : : : : Biofuel at Journey to Forever: : : : http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html : : : : : : Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): : : : http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ : : : : : : --- : : Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. : : Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). : : Version: 6.0.754 / Virus Database: 504 - Release Date: 09/06/2004 : : : : ___ : : Biofuel mailing list : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel : : : : Biofuel at Journey to Forever: : : http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html : : : : Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): : : http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ : : : : ___ : : Biofuel mailing list : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel : : : : Biofuel at Journey to Forever: : : http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html : : : : Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): : : http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ : : : --- : Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. : Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). : Version: 6.0.766 / Virus Database: 513 - Release Date: 09/17/2004 : : ___ : Biofuel mailing list : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel : : Biofuel at Journey to Forever: : http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html : : Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): : http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ : ___ : Biofuel mailing list : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel : : Biofuel at Journey to Forever: : http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html : : Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): : http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
