[Biofuel] Realising Gandhi's village ideal

[Keith Addison]

http://www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1267007.cms

THE TIMES OF INDIA
EDITORIAL

Realising Gandhi's village ideal

Anil K Rajvanshi, Ph.D.
Director
Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI)
Phaltan-Lonand Road, Tambmal,
P.O.Box 44, Phaltan - 415523
Maharashtra, India
 
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October 19, 2005.

This is the Age of Electricity. Yet, 55-60 per cent of rural India 
has no electricity; drinking water supply is poor and a majority of 
rural population uses 180 million tons of biomass every year as fuel 
for cooking using primitive, inefficient and smoky chulhas.

Rural India hasn't really changed much since Mahatma Gandhi's time. 
Villages can easily get electrified if modern hi-technology 
synergises with locally available resources. Biomass is an abundantly 
available local resource, obtained from agricultural residues.

The 600 million tons of agricultural residues India generates every 
year can theoretically produce 70,000 MW of electric power. A hi-tech 
biogas producer can generate biogas with energy of about 13 MJ per kg 
of biomass, which is similar to that produced by burning these 
residues in a power plant.

Freshly harvested biomass contains about 50 per cent moisture. For 
using it in power plants or gasifiers one has to reduce the moisture 
content to about 10-15 per cent. Drying biomass requires energy. The 
freshly harvested biomass can be directly fed into biogas reactors to 
produce gas, saving considerable amount of energy and time.

Besides, the slurry produces excellent fertiliser and soil 
conditioner. For a biogas economy to succeed, it needs efficient 
biogas producers.

At present, biogas is produced inefficiently in fixed and floating 
dome systems, requiring considerable amount of cowdung and other 
nitrogenous material. It is not suitable for a household with less 
than three to four cattle.

Then there are problems of gas production during winter and improper 
mixing of inputs like biomass, night soil and cowdung. Biogas 
reactors should be so designed that the production/unit of biomass 
inputs is maximised.

This can be done by properly maintaining pH of the slurry, 
temperature and other biochemical indicators. Use of genetically 
engineered microbes can also increase gas production efficiency.

A village-level microutility company can be set up in rural areas 
which will buy locally available raw materials like cowdung and 
biomass, and use them in these reactors for power generation and 
supply the gas for cooking and other purposes.

Europe has an installed electric generating capacity of about 2,500 
MW from biogas alone. Besides there are reports that cars and buses 
are running on compressed biogas.

The raw gas, which is a mixture of methane and carbon dioxide, is 
scrubbed to remove carbon dioxide and the resulting methane is 
compressed for use in automotive applications. In Sweden, an 
experimental train is being run on compressed biogas.

In India, extra biogas can be used for running modified autorickshaws 
and two-wheelers. Biogas-powered diesel gensets can also produce 
clean drinking water as a by-product. The strategy of using locally 
available agricultural residues-based biogas gensets will produce 
electric power, excellent fertiliser and clean drinking water for the 
village.

Besides the excess biogas can also be used to provide clean cooking 
fuel. A village-level utility company can set up a 500 kW biogas 
powered diesel genset which can supply enough electricity for an 
average village with a population of 2,000-3,000.

The high temperature exhaust gases from these plants can distil or 
boil water via a suitably designed unit, which can be attached to the 
genset.

A 500 kW power plant can produce about 100,000 litres of clean 
drinking water every day. In producing both electricity and clean 
water, the power plant efficiency will jump from the 35 per cent to 
around 65 per cent.

The microutility company could own the plant, whose shares in turn 
could be owned by villagers, and be managed professionally, without 
the political pitfalls of a cooperative society.

The microutility could also lease village-level transmission lines 
and infrastructure from the local State Electricity Boards (SEBs) at 
a social cost, based on the cost of electricity most SEBs charge 
farmers.

A national biogas technology mission should be set up to help 
research institutes do R&D for hi-tech biogas reactors, provide soft 
loans for entrepreneurs to set up such microutilities and to 
encourage government, corporate sector and NGO partnership in this 
area.

The writer is director, Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute, Maharashtra .

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[Biofuel] [Fwd: [IP] Just a go$%!mned piece of paper...]

[Marty Phee]

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Date:   Sat, 10 Dec 2005 16:12:47 -0500
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From: geoff goodfellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: December 10, 2005 2:19:18 PM EST
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Subject: Just a go$%!mned piece of paper...

Bush on the Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper'
By DOUG THOMPSON
Dec 9, 2005, 07:53

Last month, Republican Congressional leaders filed into the Oval
Office to meet with President George W. Bush and talk about renewing
the controversial USA Patriot Act.

Several provisions of the act, passed in the shell shocked period
immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, caused enough anger
that liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union had joined
forces with prominent conservatives like Phyllis Schlafly and Bob Barr
to oppose renewal.

GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous
provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives still mad
at the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House
Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.

"I don't give a goddamn," Bush retorted. "I'm the President and the
Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way."

"Mr. President," one aide in the meeting said. "There is a valid case
that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution."

"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face," Bush screamed back. "It's
just a goddamned piece of paper!"

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Re: [Biofuel] Sony patch introduces even more vulnerabilities

[Mike Weaver]

I saw that.  I've quit buying anything Sony.

Kirk McLoren wrote:

> The BBC is reporting that mere [1]days after the EFF and
> Sony announced a patch to fix the vulnerability in its SunnComm DRM
> system, security researchers Ed Felten and Alex Halderman have
> discovered that [2]the patch itself introduces yet more 
> vulnerabilities. They have
> now asked users not to apply the patch and are urging Sony to recall
> all of the affected CDs from sale. Sony has said that approximately six
> million CDs using [SunnComm] MediaMax have been shipped to stores.
> Affected artists include Alicia Keys, Britney Spears, Black Rebel
> Motorcycle Club and Faithless."
>
> Discuss this story at:
> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=05/12/09/1349217
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> Links:
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> 1. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/07/1343236&tid=233 
> 
> 2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4511042.stm
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[Biofuel] Sony patch introduces even more vulnerabilities

[Kirk McLoren]

The BBC is reporting that mere [1]days after the EFF andSony announced a patch to fix the vulnerability in its SunnComm DRMsystem, security researchers Ed Felten and Alex Halderman have discovered that [2]the patch itself introduces yet more vulnerabilities. They havenow asked users not to apply the patch and are urging Sony to recall all of the affected CDs from sale. Sony has said that approximately sixmillion CDs using [SunnComm] MediaMax have been shipped to stores.Affected artists include Alicia Keys, Britney Spears, Black RebelMotorcycle Club and Faithless."Discuss this story at:    http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=05/12/09/1349217Links:    0. mailto:ginger_spad@@@yahoo...co...uk    1. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/07/1343236&tid=233    2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4511042.stm
	
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Re: [Biofuel] vehicle/people tracking

[Mike Weaver]

Has to be a coincidence, but the very next email I got was from a 
company offering me a way to track employees via their GPS cellphones.  
It was a coincidence,
right?  Right?

Mike Weaver wrote:

>Anyone hacked around w/ Vag-Com to see if late VW Tdi's have this chip 
>and whether it can be disabled?
>Of course, eventually insurance companies will probably require drives 
>to agree to one in order to get coverage.
>
>in the UK: 
>http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/lifestyle/finance/tm_objectid=15392722&method=full&siteid=50081&headline=tracking-down-those-insurance-costs-name_page.html
>
>Progressive in working on it it in the US, as well.
>
>Michael Redler wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Well done Allen!
>> 
>>Mike
>>
>>*/"E. C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:
>>
>>
>>Hi Doug, Mike, Michael, & All
>>
>>yes, except for a couple points, we are at 1984: the
>>old (still-functioning) 300D's, or other recycled
>>vehicles; ever'body making their own fuel;
>>organically growing or buying what we EACH know is
>>organic; designing, building sustainable power systems
>>-- it's the EACH of us that thwarts Big Brother. So
>>far, we are still consumers, with choices: I choose
>>not to own a new car, or a cell-phone, or the latest
>>TV (nothing there the Alternate Media can't give me
>>w/more honesty & less manipulative advert., anyway) --
>>etc., etc. -- but there are many millons of us
>>"Each's" -- as in another thread here, we are the 2nd
>>superpower, & growing exponentially.
>>Peak Oil is here -- and will make Big Brother
>>irrelevant!
>>
>>Allen
>>
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Re: [Biofuel] vehicle/people tracking

[Mike Weaver]

Anyone hacked around w/ Vag-Com to see if late VW Tdi's have this chip 
and whether it can be disabled?
Of course, eventually insurance companies will probably require drives 
to agree to one in order to get coverage.

in the UK: 
http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/lifestyle/finance/tm_objectid=15392722&method=full&siteid=50081&headline=tracking-down-those-insurance-costs-name_page.html

Progressive in working on it it in the US, as well.

Michael Redler wrote:

> Well done Allen!
>  
> Mike
>
> */"E. C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:
>
>
> Hi Doug, Mike, Michael, & All
>
> yes, except for a couple points, we are at 1984: the
> old (still-functioning) 300D's, or other recycled
> vehicles; ever'body making their own fuel;
> organically growing or buying what we EACH know is
> organic; designing, building sustainable power systems
> -- it's the EACH of us that thwarts Big Brother. So
> far, we are still consumers, with choices: I choose
> not to own a new car, or a cell-phone, or the latest
> TV (nothing there the Alternate Media can't give me
> w/more honesty & less manipulative advert., anyway) --
> etc., etc. -- but there are many millons of us
> "Each's" -- as in another thread here, we are the 2nd
> superpower, & growing exponentially.
> Peak Oil is here -- and will make Big Brother
> irrelevant!
>
> Allen
>
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Re: [Biofuel] In French ?

[Mike Weaver]

Bonjour,

in researching the possibility of making BD with Isopropyl Alcohol, I 
have noticed than in Europe many countries refer to biodiesel as FAME; 
this may be a useful term to search for when looking for French language 
information.

-Mike

Keith Addison wrote:

>>I would highly recommend also using:
>>
>>http://world.altavista.com/
>>
>>I would highly recommend also using an online translator such as AltaVista's
>>Babelfish (http://world.altavista.com/).  I have used it frequently for
>>Russian to English, and it seems to have no problem with English to French
>>when you use the "Translate a web page" option.
>>
>>--Randall
>>Charlotte, NC
>>
>>
>
>Hello Randall
>
>The machine translators are useful, we've discussed using them here 
>before, but that was for when people wanted to post messages in 
>Spanish or French or whatever, not for technical instructions on a 
>website.
>
>How would American biodieselers for instance like it if they had to 
>get their information from Journey to Forever via Babelfish?
>
>Here's how the Spanish version of Mike Pelly's titration instructions 
>come out in English via world.altavista.com:
>
>"Disolución of a gram of lejía in a distilled liter of water prepares 
>one. Asegúrate of which it is dissolved totally. This sample serves 
>like value of reference in valoración. It is important that this 
>disolución is not contaminated because serˆ used in many valuations. 
>Mixture in a container pequeño 10 mililiter of isopropílico alcohol 
>with 1 mililiter of the oil (asegurate of which it is exactly 1 
>mililiter). It takes to the oil sample después of it to have warmed 
>up and to have shaken (5 Figure # 1). Añade two drops of 
>fenolftaleína, that is an indicator ˆ cido-bases colorless in the 
>presence of ˆ cidos and red in the presence of bases."
>
>English version:
>
>"Make up a solution of one gram of lye to one liter of distilled 
>water. Make sure it dissolves completely. This sample is then used as 
>a reference tester for the titration process. It's important not to 
>let the sample get contaminated, it can be used for many titrations. 
>Mix 10 milliliters of isopropyl alcohol in a small container with a 1 
>milliliter sample of WVO -- make sure it's exactly 1 milliliter. Take 
>the WVO titration sample from the reaction vessel (Figure 5 #1) after 
>it's been warmed up and stirred. Add to this solution 2 drops of 
>phenolphthalein, an acid-base indicator that's colorless in acid and 
>red in base."
>
>Not so good eh?
>
>Lots of people in lots of countries speak French. If there aren't any 
>good biofuels how-to sites in French there should be. Invitation 
>stands:
>
>  
>
If some of the French-speaking list members wanted to translate the
Journey to Forever Biofuels section into French we'd be happy to host
it, like the Spanish-language site.


>
>Best
>
>Keith
>
>
>
>  
>
>>- Original Message -
>>From: "Sam Critchley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: 
>>Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 11:51 AM
>>Subject: Re: [Biofuel] In French ?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Biodiesel is often called "diester" in French. Here's a French-language
>>>Wikipedia entry with some links to biodiesel in Switzerland at the bottom:
>>>
>>>http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diester
>>>
>>>I also suggest doing an advanced search on Google for French-language
>>>pages containing the words biodiesel or diester.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Sam
>>>
>>>On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 17:01:00 +0100, Keith Addison
>>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>  
>>>
Hello Olivier



>I have some friends in the French side of Switzerland, Geneva, who are
>interested to try to make Biodiesel. They already have a car (a
>LandRover I beleive) running on SVO.
>
>But they do not speak (nor read) english.
>
>Do you know by any chance a good web site where they can find
>information on how to produce in French ?
>  
>
I don't. Maybe there isn't one.

If some of the French-speaking list members wanted to translate the
Journey to Forever Biofuels section into French we'd be happy to host
it, like the Spanish-language site.

Regards

Keith Addison
Journey to Forever
KYOTO Pref., Japan
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>Thanks,
>Olivier
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Re: [Biofuel] Internet Censorship

[Mike Weaver]

Zeke Yewdall wrote:

I googled "extraordinary rendition" and got plenty of hits - some back 
to 2003.
For fun I googled "bush sucks" and also got plenty of hits.

Look up "The Great Firewall of China" + "Cisco" for an interesting read.

Also have a peek at www.scroogle.org for a different take on google.

Here is anothr project worth looking at if you have Internet censorship 
concerns: http://freenet.sourceforge.net/

/"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though
she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I
worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say
'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from
the Internet?'"/
--Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation 


-Mike

>Has anyone heard about this?
>
>---
>
>Internet Censorship
>By Wayne Madsen
>12-9-5
>
>Internet censorship. It did not happen overnight but slowly came to
>America's shores from testing grounds in China and the Middle East.
>
>Progressive and investigative journalist web site administrators are
>beginning to talk to each other about it, e-mail users are beginning
>to understand why their e-mail is being disrupted by it, major search
>engines appear to be complying with it, and the low to equal
>signal-to-noise ratio of legitimate e-mail and spam appears to be
>perpetuated by it.
>
>In this case, "it," is what privacy and computer experts have long
>warned about: massive censorship of the web on a nationwide and global
>scale. For many years, the web has been heavily censored in countries
>around the world. That censorship continues at this very moment. Now
>it is happening right here in America.
>
>The agreement by the Congress to extend an enhanced Patriot Act for
>another four years will permit the political enforcers of the Bush
>administration, who use law enforcement as their proxies, to further
>clamp censorship controls on the web.
>
>
>[]
>
>
>
>Internet Censorship: The Warning Signs Were Not Hidden
>
>The warning signs for the crackdown on the web have been with us for
>over a decade. The Clipper chip controversy of the 90s, John
>Poindexter's Total Information Awareness (TIA) system pushed in the
>aftermath of 9-11, backroom deals between the Federal government and
>the Internet service industry, and the Patriot Act have ushered in a
>new era of Internet censorship, something just half a decade ago
>computer programmers averred was impossible given the nature of the
>web. They were wrong, dead wrong.
>
>Take for example of what recently occurred when two journalists were
>taking on the phone about a story that appeared on Google News. The
>story was about a Christian fundamentalist move in Congress to use
>U.S. military force in Sudan to end genocide in Darfur. The story
>appeared on the English Google News site in Qatar. But the very same
>Google News site when accessed simultaneously in Washington, DC failed
>to show the article. This censorship is accomplished by geolocation
>filtering: the restriction or modifying of web content  based on the
>geographical region of the user. In addition to countries, such
>filtering can now be implemented for states, cities, and even
>individual IP addresses.
>
>With reports in the Swedish newspaper Svensa Dagbladet today that the
>United States has transmitted a Homeland Security Department "no fly"
>list of 80,000 suspected terrorists to airport authorities around the
>world, it is not unreasonable that a "no [or restricted]
>surfing/emailing" list has been transmitted to Internet Service
>Providers around the world. The systematic disruptions of web sites
>and email strongly suggests that such a list exists.
>
>News reports on CIA prisoner flights and secret prisons are
>disappearing from Google and other search engines like Alltheweb as
>fast as they appear. Here now, gone tomorrow is the name of the game.
>
>Google is systematically failing to list and link to articles that
>contain explosive information about the Bush administration, the war
>in Iraq, Al Qaeda, and U.S. political scandals. But Google is not
>alone in working closely to stifle Internet discourse. America On
>Line, Microsoft, Yahoo and others are slowly turning the Internet into
>an information superhighway dominated by barricades, toll booths,
>off-ramps that lead to dead ends, choke points, and security checks.
>
>America On Line is the most egregious is stifling Internet freedom. A
>former AOL employee noted how AOL and other Internet Service Providers
>cooperate with the Bush administration in censoring email. The Patriot
>Act gave federal agencies the power to review information to the
>packet level and AOL was directed by agencies like the FBI to do more
>than sniff the subject line. The AOL term of service (TOS) has
>gradually been expanded to grant AOL virtually universal power
>regarding information.  Many AOL users are like

[Biofuel] Internet Censorship

[Zeke Yewdall]

Has anyone heard about this?

---

Internet Censorship
By Wayne Madsen
12-9-5

Internet censorship. It did not happen overnight but slowly came to
America's shores from testing grounds in China and the Middle East.

Progressive and investigative journalist web site administrators are
beginning to talk to each other about it, e-mail users are beginning
to understand why their e-mail is being disrupted by it, major search
engines appear to be complying with it, and the low to equal
signal-to-noise ratio of legitimate e-mail and spam appears to be
perpetuated by it.

In this case, "it," is what privacy and computer experts have long
warned about: massive censorship of the web on a nationwide and global
scale. For many years, the web has been heavily censored in countries
around the world. That censorship continues at this very moment. Now
it is happening right here in America.

The agreement by the Congress to extend an enhanced Patriot Act for
another four years will permit the political enforcers of the Bush
administration, who use law enforcement as their proxies, to further
clamp censorship controls on the web.


[]



Internet Censorship: The Warning Signs Were Not Hidden

The warning signs for the crackdown on the web have been with us for
over a decade. The Clipper chip controversy of the 90s, John
Poindexter's Total Information Awareness (TIA) system pushed in the
aftermath of 9-11, backroom deals between the Federal government and
the Internet service industry, and the Patriot Act have ushered in a
new era of Internet censorship, something just half a decade ago
computer programmers averred was impossible given the nature of the
web. They were wrong, dead wrong.

Take for example of what recently occurred when two journalists were
taking on the phone about a story that appeared on Google News. The
story was about a Christian fundamentalist move in Congress to use
U.S. military force in Sudan to end genocide in Darfur. The story
appeared on the English Google News site in Qatar. But the very same
Google News site when accessed simultaneously in Washington, DC failed
to show the article. This censorship is accomplished by geolocation
filtering: the restriction or modifying of web content  based on the
geographical region of the user. In addition to countries, such
filtering can now be implemented for states, cities, and even
individual IP addresses.

With reports in the Swedish newspaper Svensa Dagbladet today that the
United States has transmitted a Homeland Security Department "no fly"
list of 80,000 suspected terrorists to airport authorities around the
world, it is not unreasonable that a "no [or restricted]
surfing/emailing" list has been transmitted to Internet Service
Providers around the world. The systematic disruptions of web sites
and email strongly suggests that such a list exists.

News reports on CIA prisoner flights and secret prisons are
disappearing from Google and other search engines like Alltheweb as
fast as they appear. Here now, gone tomorrow is the name of the game.

Google is systematically failing to list and link to articles that
contain explosive information about the Bush administration, the war
in Iraq, Al Qaeda, and U.S. political scandals. But Google is not
alone in working closely to stifle Internet discourse. America On
Line, Microsoft, Yahoo and others are slowly turning the Internet into
an information superhighway dominated by barricades, toll booths,
off-ramps that lead to dead ends, choke points, and security checks.

America On Line is the most egregious is stifling Internet freedom. A
former AOL employee noted how AOL and other Internet Service Providers
cooperate with the Bush administration in censoring email. The Patriot
Act gave federal agencies the power to review information to the
packet level and AOL was directed by agencies like the FBI to do more
than sniff the subject line. The AOL term of service (TOS) has
gradually been expanded to grant AOL virtually universal power
regarding information.  Many AOL users are likely unaware of the
elastic clause, which says they will be bound by the current TOS and
any TOS revisions which AOL may elect at any time in the future.
Essentially, AOL users once agreed to allow the censorship and
non-delivery of their email.

Microsoft has similar requirements for Hotmail as do Yahoo and Google
for their respective e-mail services.

There are also many cases of Google's search engine failing to list
and link to certain information. According to a number of web site
administrators who carry anti-Bush political content, this situation
has become more pronounced in the last month. In addition, many web
site administrators are reporting a dramatic drop-off in hits to their
sites, according to their web statistic analyzers. Adding to their
woes is the frequency at which spam viruses are being spoofed as
coming from their web site addresses.

Government disruption of th

Re: [Biofuel] In French ?

[Keith Addison]

>I would highly recommend also using:
>
>http://world.altavista.com/
>
>I would highly recommend also using an online translator such as AltaVista's
>Babelfish (http://world.altavista.com/).  I have used it frequently for
>Russian to English, and it seems to have no problem with English to French
>when you use the "Translate a web page" option.
>
>--Randall
>Charlotte, NC

Hello Randall

The machine translators are useful, we've discussed using them here 
before, but that was for when people wanted to post messages in 
Spanish or French or whatever, not for technical instructions on a 
website.

How would American biodieselers for instance like it if they had to 
get their information from Journey to Forever via Babelfish?

Here's how the Spanish version of Mike Pelly's titration instructions 
come out in English via world.altavista.com:

"Disolución of a gram of lejía in a distilled liter of water prepares 
one. Asegúrate of which it is dissolved totally. This sample serves 
like value of reference in valoración. It is important that this 
disolución is not contaminated because serˆ used in many valuations. 
Mixture in a container pequeño 10 mililiter of isopropílico alcohol 
with 1 mililiter of the oil (asegurate of which it is exactly 1 
mililiter). It takes to the oil sample después of it to have warmed 
up and to have shaken (5 Figure # 1). Añade two drops of 
fenolftaleína, that is an indicator ˆ cido-bases colorless in the 
presence of ˆ cidos and red in the presence of bases."

English version:

"Make up a solution of one gram of lye to one liter of distilled 
water. Make sure it dissolves completely. This sample is then used as 
a reference tester for the titration process. It's important not to 
let the sample get contaminated, it can be used for many titrations. 
Mix 10 milliliters of isopropyl alcohol in a small container with a 1 
milliliter sample of WVO -- make sure it's exactly 1 milliliter. Take 
the WVO titration sample from the reaction vessel (Figure 5 #1) after 
it's been warmed up and stirred. Add to this solution 2 drops of 
phenolphthalein, an acid-base indicator that's colorless in acid and 
red in base."

Not so good eh?

Lots of people in lots of countries speak French. If there aren't any 
good biofuels how-to sites in French there should be. Invitation 
stands:

> >> If some of the French-speaking list members wanted to translate the
> >> Journey to Forever Biofuels section into French we'd be happy to host
> >> it, like the Spanish-language site.

Best

Keith



>- Original Message -
>From: "Sam Critchley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: 
>Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 11:51 AM
>Subject: Re: [Biofuel] In French ?
>
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Biodiesel is often called "diester" in French. Here's a French-language
> > Wikipedia entry with some links to biodiesel in Switzerland at the bottom:
> >
> > http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diester
> >
> > I also suggest doing an advanced search on Google for French-language
> > pages containing the words biodiesel or diester.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Sam
> >
> > On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 17:01:00 +0100, Keith Addison
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello Olivier
> >>
> >>> I have some friends in the French side of Switzerland, Geneva, who are
> >>> interested to try to make Biodiesel. They already have a car (a
> >>> LandRover I beleive) running on SVO.
> >>>
> >>> But they do not speak (nor read) english.
> >>>
> >>> Do you know by any chance a good web site where they can find
> >>> information on how to produce in French ?
> >>
> >> I don't. Maybe there isn't one.
> >>
> >> If some of the French-speaking list members wanted to translate the
> >> Journey to Forever Biofuels section into French we'd be happy to host
> >> it, like the Spanish-language site.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>
> >> Keith Addison
> >> Journey to Forever
> >> KYOTO Pref., Japan
> >> http://journeytoforever.org/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Olivier


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