Re: [biofuels-biz] Energy Considerations of a Supercritical Reactor

2003-07-10 Thread Julio Carbajo Rafel
Winny, Is your technology able for proccesing animal fats? If it is so, please contact me off the circuit in this mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If somebody else has able comercial technology for this (tested tech), please contact me. Best regards, Julio - Original Message - From: Winny

[biofuels-biz] Coconut crazy

2003-07-10 Thread Marc de Piolenc
Well actually I mean both Marc! As you say, drinking coconuts are usually immature nuts full of a watery liquid and look good with a couple of straws stuck out the top. Whereas the cream or milk is prepared by shredding the flesh of the mature coconut and squeezing the pulp through a muslin or

[biofuels-biz] coconut crazy

2003-07-10 Thread Marc de Piolenc
I'd like to eventually develop a packaged program for isolated economies based on bio-fuels. That's something I've been thinking about, too, since I first heard the word biodiesel about two years ago. It makes good sense. The components that need to be added to the excellent biofuels

[biofuels-biz] Energy Considerations of a Supercritical Reactor

2003-07-10 Thread guillaume.murere
Winny; May be I missed something. Can you please give me more information on your technology. What are the advantages of your technology compared to existing ones? Do you have a web site. Thank you Guillaume De: Winny De Schryver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/07/09 mer. PM 02:51:37

Re: [biofuels-biz] coconut crazy

2003-07-10 Thread Sam Jai-In
Perhaps you could also add Jatropha; details at www.jatropha.org Samai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to eventually develop a packaged program for isolated economies based on bio-fuels. That's something I've been thinking about, too, since I first heard the word biodiesel about two

Re: [biofuels-biz] Coconut Crazy

2003-07-10 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Bruce Keith, I'm not taking this off-line! This stuff is too interesting! Good! While my background is in electric generation and economic development, I did time with P.G.E. back in the 80's on alternative energy - I'm a business guy who grew up in the Pacific Islands. As I noted, with

[biofuels-biz] Back yard Bio-Diesel chemists are playing with a toxic time bomb

2003-07-10 Thread Keith Addison
Who are all these dreadful people poisoning the environment by making biodiesel??? Techno-fixes are pipe dreams in many cases, said Kert Davies, research director for Greenpeace, which has been conducting a broad campaign against Exxon Mobil. The real solution, he said, is cutting the use of

[biofuels-biz] Power plant uses coal, grass

2003-07-10 Thread murdoch
http://www.augustachronicle.com/stories/070603/met_energy3.shtml Interesting comments about switchgrass, project results. Also, the comments of the International Paper person were interesting to me. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Free shipping on all

[biofuels-biz] The choices of fuel economies, an introduction. (long)

2003-07-10 Thread Hakan
I wrote the following, think that I am around 80% ready and like some response from the group. Originally I included taxation and vehicle standards for developing countries, but it was too much and it will be separate articles. Hakan http://energy.saving.nu/resources/scamartists.shtml The

[biofuels-biz] more on methanol micro fuel cells for portable devices

2003-07-10 Thread murdoch
I've seen a fair amount of skepticism toward Hydrogen, but if these fuel cell technologies that can use more easily handled fuels do come into vogue, then perhaps a market will develop for the fuels. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=31art_id=qw1056997621856B215set_id=1

Re: [biofuels-biz] The Hydrogen hype, the scam artists at work.

2003-07-10 Thread murdoch
Interesting responses, thx. On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 15:19:53 +0700, you wrote: Sorry Murdoch, Didn't realise you had some questions in here. I forget what the escape velocity is for Planet Earth. But I know that normal hydrogen molecules exceed it. That is why free hydrogen does not exist in

[biofuel] MSR Whisperlite mini stovesRe: Petromax Lantern

2003-07-10 Thread girl_mark_fire
Which model do you have, and have you used it with biodiesel (assuming it;s the multifuel one)? mark --- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Greg and April [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I love my little whisperlite. Greg H. - Original Message - From: girl_mark_fire [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Solar energy - was RE: [biofuel] Re: Dead car

2003-07-10 Thread ONG San Guan
Hi, I am interested in Solar energy for conversion to electricity and heating for bath water or warmth. Any possibility in high altitude area with high UV content like Yunnan, China. Any technical drawings of parts that make a whole to start off with? Would you help me to help the poor highland

[biofuel] Workshop Will Explore California's Petroleum Future

2003-07-10 Thread Tim Castleman
For immediate release: July 9, 2003 Media Contact: Claudia Chandler (916) 654-4989 As the demand for gasoline in California increases by 2.6 percent each year, consumers find themselves increasingly vulnerable to tight supplies and sporadically higher prices. A workshop to be held in Sacramento

[biofuel] Back yard Bio-Diesel chemists are playing with a toxic time bomb

2003-07-10 Thread Keith Addison
Who are all these dreadful people poisoning the environment by making biodiesel??? Techno-fixes are pipe dreams in many cases, said Kert Davies, research director for Greenpeace, which has been conducting a broad campaign against Exxon Mobil. The real solution, he said, is cutting the use of

Re: [biofuel] MSR Whisperlite mini stovesRe: Petromax Lantern

2003-07-10 Thread Greg and April
I have the International 600, and I haven't used BioDiesel in it yet, I still have gas in the one bottle, and just can't pour it out or burn it up for no other reason than to get rid of it in order to try BioDiesel in it. Greg H. - Original Message - From: girl_mark_fire [EMAIL

[biofuel] Kucinich on Energy

2003-07-10 Thread Randy Scott
http://www.kucinich.us/issues/issue_energy.htm Thanks to advances in renewables, there are fewer technical obstacles to energy independence for our country. There are many political obstacles -- but the oil, auto and electric utility corporations won't be directing energy policy in a Kucinich

Re: [biofuel]Back yard Bio-Diesel chemists are playing with a toxic time bomb

2003-07-10 Thread robert luis rabello
Keith Addison wrote: Who are all these dreadful people poisoning the environment by making biodiesel??? I think a better question is: Who are these dreadful people advocating continued use of fossil diesel and black oil? On my recent trip to California, I looked up their address.

[biofuel] Independent Commission On Pre-war Intelligence

2003-07-10 Thread Keith Addison
Fwd from the Homestead list: SUPPORT CONGRESSIONAL CALL FOR INDEPENDENT INTELLIGENCE COMMISSION: On June 26, Rep. Henry Waxman (CA) introduced HR 2625 (click here to view the bill http://www.fcnl.org/pdfs/waxman_intel.pdf), a bill that would establish an open, bi-partisan commission to

[biofuel] (fwd) Fuel cells may power cell phones, laptops

2003-07-10 Thread murdoch
In this case: never mind the talk about Hydrogen. What is being proposed here is methanol power. Notice how there's no talk of ethanol or some other chemical more widely available. Perhaps this is because they're not as often manufactured by the Petroleum Industry. Medis (as covered in

Re: [biofuel]Back yard Bio-Diesel chemists are playing with a toxic time bomb

2003-07-10 Thread Keith Addison
Keith Addison wrote: Who are all these dreadful people poisoning the environment by making biodiesel??? I think a better question is: Who are these dreadful people advocating continued use of fossil diesel and black oil? On my recent trip to California, I looked up their address.

[biofuel] ET Re: Solar energy

2003-07-10 Thread Kris Book
I was just reading about a solar concentrator that is claimed to be more economical than other sources of renewable energy. Unfortunately, there is very little in the hard facts department of this web site, so we will have to wait and see. Check it out:

Re: [biofuel] ET Re: Solar energy

2003-07-10 Thread murdoch
One thing that I think is ok is that it's not PV-based. There's no set rule that dictates that any and all efforts to convert sunlight to electricity have to use the photovoltaic process. On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 11:53:14 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: I was just reading about a solar concentrator that is

[biofuel] Power plant uses coal, grass

2003-07-10 Thread murdoch
http://www.augustachronicle.com/stories/070603/met_energy3.shtml Interesting comments about switchgrass, project results. Also, the comments of the International Paper person were interesting to me. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Free shipping on all

Re: [biofuel] Power plant uses coal, grass

2003-07-10 Thread murdoch
Oops, the IP comments were in a different version that I read. Essentially, a spokesperson pointed out how much wood waste products are re-used in the paper industry, in the making of power for the industry, and how this gets little credit in wider renewable energy discussions. On Thu, 10 Jul

Re: [biofuel] Rental Car Economics

2003-07-10 Thread Darryl McMahon
In Ottawa we have Virtucar. http://www.vrtucar.com/ For other locales, check out: http://www.carsharing.net/where.html Darryl To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com From: mark manchester [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 16:03:12 -0400

[biofuel] The choices of fuel economies, an introduction. (long)

2003-07-10 Thread Hakan
I wrote the following, think that I am around 80% ready and like some response from the group. Originally I included taxation and vehicle standards for developing countries, but it was too much and it will be separate articles. Hakan http://energy.saving.nu/resources/scamartists.shtml The

Re: [biofuel] Biogas question

2003-07-10 Thread pan ruti
Helo caroline Eventhough the methane bacteria works well to produce biogas, the huge amount of water as well as the the need to mix and dispose of the effluents , and the need to feed and dispose of quality effluent make the project much complex and the project

Re: [biofuel] (fwd) Fuel cells may power cell phones, laptops

2003-07-10 Thread Greg and April
Part of it, I think, is that Methanol has a slightly higher Hydrogen density than Ethanol. This would could to a higher efficiency, for the amount of fuel used. Let me think CH30H ( Methanol ) 4 out of 6 atoms ( 2/3rds ) are Hydrogen and C2H5OH ( Ethanol ) 6 out of 9 (also 2/3rds ) are Hydrogen

[biofuel] more on methanol micro fuel cells for portable devices

2003-07-10 Thread murdoch
I've seen a fair amount of skepticism toward Hydrogen, but if these fuel cell technologies that can use more easily handled fuels do come into vogue, then perhaps a market will develop for the fuels. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=31art_id=qw1056997621856B215set_id=1

Re: [biofuel] (fwd) Fuel cells may power cell phones, laptops

2003-07-10 Thread murdoch
Seems like about three years ago now that I set out one day to do some research on the web and find out why there was so little discussion of ethanol use in fuel cells. To this day, I know of only one company which specifically talks about it (Medis), and they told me in my discussion with them

Re: [biofuel] Biogas question

2003-07-10 Thread Hakan
I also like to know about the septic tank and if we would get biogas. Fertilizer is an other thing and I was always told by farmers that human excrements did not produce good fertilizer, because it was produced by meat eaters, it had to be mixed with cow dung or similar. The best fertilizer