Re: [biofuel] Need epoxy coated(food grade) steel drum for Bio-D processor??

2004-01-22 Thread doug
x-charset ISO-8859-1Phosphoric acid: very dilute, can use hot water. Put about 4 litres (1 US gal) roll around until clean. Wash with soapy water after. regards Doug On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:57 am, Maud Essen wrote: Speaking of rusty drums, I have scavenged several and they seem to be

[biofuel] 4TH Batch

2004-01-22 Thread RGMTRUCK
Hi again, Well it took 4 trys but I think I got it this time. It has been blended for about 3 hrs so far and I have seperation at the bottom. I have it in a glass jar that just holds my 1 liter plus Methonal and it has about 1/2 inch on the bottom that is different than the rest so far. I

Re: [biofuel] Need epoxy coated(food grade) steel drum for Bio-Dprocessor??

2004-01-22 Thread Maud Essen
Speaking of rusty drums, I have scavenged several and they seem to be slightly pre-rusted on the interior. I know I don't want to put iron oxide into my fuel system. Is there an effective way to remove this rust or render it inert so I can still use the drums? Maud St. Louis, Missouri

Re: [biofuel] First aid for house owners. final draft

2004-01-22 Thread glenne1949
Hakan, Thanks for your comment. Yes, I am sure you are right. The problem in the past has been the wrong choice of paint, not allowing moisture to penetrate through the paint. Most of the damage happened before I got the house, and I need to make sure the next paint chosen will allow

Re: [biofuel] First aid for house owners. final draft

2004-01-22 Thread Friedrich Friesinger
Hi Glenn,Hakan, if you talk about moisture penetration,dont you want to say hydrofuge material to be used to protect the walls?You dont want moisture to get in but it should not be haltet to get out! korrect me if i get it wrong please Fritz - Original Message - From: [EMAIL

Re: [biofuel] Methanol

2004-01-22 Thread Walt Patrick
At 09:05 AM 1/21/04 -0700, you wrote: Hey Walt, If you don't mind, I have a question. In an earlier post ( see below ), you talked about using electricity, in an organic solution, to generate H2 and CO. In the post you mention that you used sugar solution, have you tried it with

Re: [biofuel] First aid for house owners. final draft

2004-01-22 Thread Hakan Falk
Fritz, The problem is that the original building techniques was open constructions, the paints for this old buildings was usually chalk based paints. They painted them white in the spring and this reflected sun radiation during the summer and the fall rains took away most of the paint and

Re: [biofuel] Methanol

2004-01-22 Thread Greg and April
I was thinking of doing it in a closed container, were no air could get in and provide an O2 source ( maybe even under a low vacuum ), that would limit the flammability issue. As for making ethanol and then methanol, I was thinking that the steps for making ethanol from cellulose is a known

Re: [biofuel] Need epoxy coated(food grade) steel drum for Bio-Dprocessor??

2004-01-22 Thread kline
x-charset ISO-8859-1Maud, IHave you ever noticed how most small diesel fuel pumps have filter/water separators inline? This sort of setup is also recommended for biodiesel. I'm wondering if a good fuel filter/seaparator would eliminate any concern over rust contamination etc. J.D. Speaking of

[biofuel] Messages

2004-01-22 Thread Lindsay Ferris
I'm not sure of the procedure for enrolment...So it's full steam ahead. I have been working as a volunteer, mainly within Vanuatu, since 1997. I recently spent 3 months working with a Rural Training Centre on Maewo island, part of the Vanuatu chain. I was disturbed to find the prevalence of

[biofuel] Use of castoroil for biofuel

2004-01-22 Thread A P Purohit
There are several type of oils available in our region based on polyhydroxyesters of faty acids. Is there any known method of using such oils with very high viscocity for biofuel? Will it require to midify our normal diesel pupm to use such biofuel? Thanks Abhijit Purohit [Non-text portions

[biofuel] Dimensioning and use of AC/heat pump units

2004-01-22 Thread Hakan Falk
I wrote a small piece about, Dimensioning and use of AC/heat pump units. http://energysavingnow.com/hvac/acunits.shtml This was done as a part of, First aid for house owners. Final draft, Jan. 2004. http://www.energysavingnow.com/firstaid/http://www.energysavingnow.com/firstaid/ but have

Re: [biofuel] Free and Green

2004-01-22 Thread murdoch
This is a heck of an article. Some comments below. With no time to spare, advocates of green energy might want to steal a page from the Republicans' free market playbook. GOP politicians and their bloviating brethren at right-wing think tanks love to declare their support for level playing

[biofuel] Corporations Need Treatment, Documentary Argues

2004-01-22 Thread Keith Addison
x-charset ISO-8859-1http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0120-03.htm Published on Tuesday, January 20, 2004 by the Inter Press Service http://www.ips.org Corporations Need Treatment, Documentary Argues by Stephen Leahy TORONTO - Corporations are not only the most powerful institutions in

[biofuel] Re: ending of biofuels-biz list

2004-01-22 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Darryl Sorry to be coming in a bit late. Had a little trouble recovering from moving e- mail from one computer to another. (And apparently still am - my first send was bounced by my ISP.) Keith, I understand your reasoning. I am one who is subscribed to both lists, and have found that

Re: [biofuel] rant F-ing Bosch!

2004-01-22 Thread Alan Petrillo
Neoteric Biofuels Inc wrote: Good to know. Thanks for correcting. No problem. This is really what I hate about dealing with international conglomerates. Conglomerate: Oh we didn't build that. It was built by our Subsidiary, and you'll have to contact them directly for support. Subsidiary:

[biofuel] west texas wind+turbines

2004-01-22 Thread MALONEKR
The wind rarely stops blowing out here for very long.We now have some large turbine farms streching from near abilene west to iraan-rankin and other areas.We could put up a million of them out here without counting new mexico,arizona or california.They even make our small mountains more

Re: [biofuel] Re: rant F-ing Bosch!

2004-01-22 Thread Alan Petrillo
Go Hoff wrote: Is it the groups general census that Bosh is not consumer friendly - but worse that they seem to have the monopoly on the diesel/SVO/WVO pumps we need? So far I've got to agree. I have written and telephoned, mailed and faxed all the Bosh leads I could find here (sweden)

[biofuel] re: First aid for house owners. final draft

2004-01-22 Thread Thor Skov
Hakan, Great work! It looks quite comprehensive. I have not yet read this all the way through, just skimmed it, but I do have one comment so far. I am in the process of designing my house rebuild, and so have spent a lot of time in the past year learning about green building. Although the

[biofuel] Re: Free and Green

2004-01-22 Thread the_maniacal_engineer
x-charset ISO-8859-1A dish stirling solar system is similar. No exotic chemicals used in the manufacture as compared to PV, No thermal pollution (the sun is gonna shine anyway, so the same heat load has to go somewhere) They can be air cooled, or at least coolant in a sealed loop. Also solar

Re: [biofuel] Free and Green

2004-01-22 Thread murdoch
I disagree with the idea that the only anticipateable negative enviro consequence of wind energy is bird kills. I'd prefer to be more cautious than that. If you develop any of these technologies (solar, wind, whatever) to the point of providing more than 20 or 30 % of man's power needs, then I

Re: [biofuel] re: First aid for house owners. final draft

2004-01-22 Thread Hakan Falk
Thanks Thor, It is good that you liked it. Someone told me that the info on the site was good, but he would like to see some samples on what he could do. That way he could understand it better. That lead to the idea to get a selection that was easy and without major rebuilding. Most paints