[biofuels-biz]

2001-06-05 Thread monteoro
Hello everyone, Anyone producing biodiesel in economical quantity? Maybe we can set up an exchange for biodiesel made from different oil sources. Any reactions? Ken - Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/free_video/ Biofuels at

Re: [biofuel] SRO and SVO,

2001-06-05 Thread steve spence
I like that! Steve Spence Subscribe to the Renewable Energy Newsletter: http://www.webconx.com/subscribe.htm Renewable Energy Pages - http://www.webconx.com Palm Pilot Pages - http://www.webconx.com/palm X10 Home Automation - http://www.webconx.com/x10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (212) 894-3704 x3154 -

[biofuel] We don't need no stinking efficiency!!!! (?)

2001-06-05 Thread Appal Energy
New York Times, OP-ED, June 4, 2001 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/04/opinion/04NERI.html The Mirage of a Growing Fuel Supply By EVAR D. NERING COTTSDALE, Ariz. - When I discussed the exponential function in the first-semester calculus classes that I taught, I invariably used consumption of a

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2001-06-05 Thread Mark Barnard
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Re: [biofuel] SRO and SVO,

2001-06-05 Thread Keith Addison
Thanks, Steve... ...and I will beat Terry to the keyboard, and say that RVO is Recovered Vegetable Oil, I think? We make waste a passe term...turning it into a resource, like many other things once thought of as wastes that are now resource foundation of new industries. The list of terms and

Re: [biofuel] The Carbohydrate Economy

2001-06-05 Thread Keith Addison
Hello Hanns and all Thanks for an interesting and informative post. I guess the milk ferments via naturally present microorganisms (lacto bacteria?). Re David Etherington, the process might suit the very small scale, but the pricing certainly doesn't. I'm sure you're right that larger-scale

[biofuel] Malaysia to promote gas-powered cars in Thailand

2001-06-05 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=11047 Planet Ark Malaysia to promote gas-powered cars in Thailand MALAYSIA: June 4, 2001 KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's state oil company, Petronas , said on Friday it would introduce its natural gas-powered Enviro 2000 cars to Thailand to promote

Re: [biofuel] a question.....

2001-06-05 Thread Edward Beggs
All food for thought About what ought... But is not. Ed - Original Message - From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 10:34 AM Subject: Re: [biofuel] a question. Straight Renewable Oil = SRO Why I use the term: - it is

Re: [biofuel] a question.....

2001-06-05 Thread Keith Addison
All food for thought About what ought... But is not. Too many acronyms ought not but is It's not just food for thought, we're both of us doing this stuff. And both getting somewhere - why I said to each his own. I would hate to see all our diverse freelance efforts regimented in any way.

Re: [biofuel] a question.....

2001-06-05 Thread Harmon Seaver
Re: SVO, SRO, etc. One thing I was taught in writing class long, long ago -- if you use an acronym, you *ALWAY definitely *MUST* write out the whole phrase along with it in the very beginning of the piece, and maybe more than once. Even very, very common terms like DNR. We all know what

Re: [biofuel] a question.....

2001-06-05 Thread Ed Beggs
What's an MLIS? :-) Ok, enough of this fun... Ed - And I'll admit that many of the acronyms I've seen here are quite mysterious. -- Harmon Seaver, MLIS CyberShamanix Work 920-203-9633 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home 920-233-5820 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Biofuel at Journey to

Re: [biofuel] a question.....

2001-06-05 Thread steve spence
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Re: [biofuel] U of T research commercialization corp.

2001-06-05 Thread Keith Addison
Burkhard Wegner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.bioxcorp.com/ See archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/messages Keith Addison Journey to Forever Handmade Projects Tokyo http://journeytoforever.org/ Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html

Re: [biofuel] a question.....

2001-06-05 Thread David Reid
James, Should work well if you can get the picture and its a decent one. B.r., David - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 10:11 AM Subject: Re: [biofuel] a question. I wonder if there's any possibility of

Re: [biofuel] a question.....

2001-06-05 Thread milliontc
Re: SVO, SRO, etc. One thing I was taught in writing... And I'll admit that many of the acronyms I've seen here are quite mysterious. HERE HERE ! James Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send unsubscribe messages to the list

Re: [biofuel] a question.....

2001-06-05 Thread milliontc
I wonder if there's any possibility of getting hold of the picture of the dog sticking it's nose up a bd Land Rover exhaust pipe. James Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an

[biofuel] Washing BD

2001-06-05 Thread Paul Gobert
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Paul Gobert wrote: - Original Message - From: James Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Paul, I read your plans for the bubble wash alternative. I hope I'm wrong, but the windshield washer pump may overheat if run continuously. Jim, Agree with you there Jim,

Re: [biofuel] a question.....

2001-06-05 Thread leegerry
Got all the chemicals and a bucket of pure McDonald's waste veg oil. Will be going thru the learning curve soon. The methanol was real expensive, US$35 per 5gal drum. Anyone got the price for methanol in bulk and the recovery rate of the home made distiller. Figured that the bulk price and

Re: [biofuel] a question.....

2001-06-05 Thread steve spence
that 5 gallons of methanol will make 25 gallons of biodiesel. you really do need a cheaper source of methanol. race tracks will sell it at under $2 / gallon in 55 gallon drums. Steve Spence Subscribe to the Renewable Energy Newsletter: http://www.webconx.com/subscribe.htm Renewable Energy

Re: [biofuel] Re: Horse Manure

2001-06-05 Thread martin.brook
Hi, ssure I can convert this into energy,however I would need some more information to make an educated judgement - Original Message - From: Wendy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 4:16 AM Subject: [biofuel] Re: Horse Manure Message: 21

[biofuel] Fw: German rapeseed oil buyers seek alternatives

2001-06-05 Thread steve spence
- Original Message - From: steve spence [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: alt.energy.homepower,alt.energy.renewable,alt.global-warming,sci.energy Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 9:25 PM Subject: German rapeseed oil buyers seek alternatives http://www.webconx.com/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm

Re: [biofuel] We don't need no stinking efficiency!!!! (?)

2001-06-05 Thread Gary and Jos Kimlin
Mothers milk. No matter how you say it to decrease rate of increase and ultimately the rate of usage, you need to make it more expensive in terms of disposable income of the major user groups. This has the effect of making fuel unavailable to the poor while increasing the flow on costs of most

Re: [biofuel] a question.....

2001-06-05 Thread Keith Addison
I wonder if there's any possibility of getting hold of the picture of the dog sticking it's nose up a bd Land Rover exhaust pipe. James It's here: http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_nox.html Keith Addison Journey to Forever Handmade Projects Tokyo http://journeytoforever.org/ Biofuel at

Re: [biofuel] a question.....

2001-06-05 Thread david e cruse
Hi Gerry, That sounds like you are paying too much for the methanol. I don`t know where you are located, but if you`re near a large city, try the yellow pages under Chemicals. You should be able to find a supplier that will give you a decent price. Here in Atlanta,Ga. I can buy a

Re: [biofuel] a question.....

2001-06-05 Thread Keith Addison
Re: SVO, SRO, etc. One thing I was taught in writing class long, long ago -- if you use an acronym, you *ALWAY definitely *MUST* write out the whole phrase along with it in the very beginning of the piece, and maybe more than once. Even very, very common terms like DNR. We all know what

Re: [biofuel] a question.....

2001-06-05 Thread Keith Addison
I wonder if there's any possibility of getting hold of the picture of the dog sticking it's nose up a bd Land Rover exhaust pipe. James It's here: http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_nox.html And there's a picture of someone drinking bioidiesel here (scroll down to Good enough to drink):

Re: [biofuel] zeolite

2001-06-05 Thread robert luis rabello
ronald miller sr wrote: Hi to all, Does anyone out there know the process for removing water from ethanol using 3A zeolite. I know this is the material used by industry to do this but I'd like to know the process. As I understand it this will remove all the water content of distilled

Re: [biofuel] The Carbohydrate Economy

2001-06-05 Thread monteoro
Hanns, The amount of liquid in the coconut deminishes as time goes by. Some of it becomes part of the meat which will be the copra. But there is still some liquid in a mature coconut. Processes oil by hand yields a very small amount of oil, around 20 to 25 % if you are lucky(tried this in

Re: [biofuel] We don't need no stinking efficiency!!!! (?)

2001-06-05 Thread monteoro
We take the value of something on the short term basis of its supply and demand. The value is relative and can change depending on how you look at it. When everyone wants gas, price goes up. When we don't want it, it goes down. We do not take into account the long term value of a resource. Is

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Methanol Suppliers was Re: [biofuel] a question.....

2001-06-05 Thread Appal Energy
that 5 gallons of methanol will make 25 gallons of biodiesel. you really do need a cheaper source of methanol. race tracks will sell it at under $2 / gallon in 55 gallon drums. Any bulk fuel distributor will be able to acquire 55 gallon drums of methanol, if not already on hand.

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2001-06-05 Thread Harmon Seaver
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[biofuel] Rethinking economy of scale

2001-06-05 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Dear listmates, There has been traffic on both lists about the need to scale up production of biofuels to economical levels, and that has triggered much thinking on my part. Until now I, too, had been concentrating on industrial scale processes - admittedly still not on a very large industrial

[biofuel] Coconut oil

2001-06-05 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Hanns Wetzel wrote: Then there is the juice, which apparently gets thrown away. When the coconut is still green, the juice (I refuse to call it milk) contains much sugar. Do not get coconut water or juice confused with milk. The milk is expressed from the grated meat and contains oil, while the

Re: [biofuel] We don't need no stinking efficiency!!!! (?)

2001-06-05 Thread Gary and Jos Kimlin
Ken! Whether you dig it,grow it or catch it as sunlight. If there is an exponential increase in the rate of use of energy it would need to come from an infinite source at a potentially infinite rate, to be sustainable. There is an absolute limit to Cultivatable land, one we reached at least 30

Re: [biofuel] Coconut oil

2001-06-05 Thread Gary and Jos Kimlin
As I recall I used to use coconut juice as an enzyme source for plant tissue culture when I was mericloning rare plants. The nutritional value is probably what keeps the populations as healthy as they are.-Drink it. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please

Re: [biofuel] Rethinking economy of scale

2001-06-05 Thread Gary and Jos Kimlin
Excellent assessment! Works for First world pensioners too. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to

Re: [biofuel] Re: Horse Manure

2001-06-05 Thread milliontc
Hi Martin Hi,sure I can convert this into energy,however I would need some more information to make an educated judgement You could try running a zig zag copper pipe through it, pass water through the pipe, which should warm it up. james Biofuel at Journey to Forever:

Re: [biofuel] We don't need no stinking efficiency!!!! (?)

2001-06-05 Thread monteoro
When you start to grow it. The real cost of a sustainable energy source is taken into account. If we continue to look for cheap, free crude oil which costs only the exploration and development cost plus profit. This is not sustainable. It does not reflect the real cost of the resource. Cost

Re: [biofuel] Rethinking economy of scale

2001-06-05 Thread Keith Addison
Bravo Marc! And thankyou! A couple of things to add. Biodiesel may or may not be feasible at the individual small-peasant level, but it will be feasible at the next scale - a small-farmers' coop, perhaps. We need to know something about using biodiesel instead of the kero in the coco-kero

Re: [biofuel] We don't need no stinking efficiency!!!! (?)

2001-06-05 Thread Keith Addison
Ken! Whether you dig it,grow it or catch it as sunlight. If there is an exponential increase in the rate of use of energy it would need to come from an infinite source at a potentially infinite rate, to be sustainable. There is an absolute limit to Cultivatable land, one we reached at least 30

Food vs Biodiesel production was Re: [biofuel] We don't need no stinking efficiency!!!! (?)

2001-06-05 Thread Appal Energy
Ken! Whether you dig it,grow it or catch it as sunlight. If there is an exponential increase in the rate of use of energy it would need to come from an infinite source at a potentially infinite rate, to be sustainable. There is an absolute limit to Cultivatable land, one we reached at least

[biofuel] Waste Veggie Oil Disposal Problem

2001-06-05 Thread cpech
Great article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal about waste veggie oil. Price is so low, companies are dumping it down sewers. Cost to remove / clean sewers is enormous. Should be more than enough for biodiesel, and it helps clean up another problem as well. Looking forward to seeing more