Re: [Biofuel] End of Suburbia

2005-02-25 Thread Ken Richardson
I agree with Paddy I live 35-40 miles from a (Walmart) town in 3 directions Athens,Zanesville and Marietta. We do go every month and get a load of supplies But home is deep in the hills away from all and everything. now I ve got a VW TDI that gets 50mpg and you learn how to get by with

RE: [Biofuel] What Kind of Car?

2005-02-25 Thread Mickey *B**
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Biofuel] What Kind of Car? Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:23:31 EST ILEA Leaf #10: WHAT KIND OF CAR? 2 or 3 years ago, I was passed by an automobile that had stickers all

Re: [Biofuel] End of Suburbia

2005-02-25 Thread Marylynn Schmidt
adventure series. A young boy sets out to save his parents aided by cats/felines of all shapes and sizes .. his parents, great herbalist, have been kidnapped by some pharma corp and is being held and drugged so they cooperate and give them some great herbal healing formula. This whole

Re: [Biofuel] global warming 101

2005-02-25 Thread Rick Littrell
I have no doubt about global warming only about the sources of the warming. I was fascinated by your primer and have a question. Please forgive if this is a stupid question. You said the energy absorbed must equal the energy radiated out into space. What about the energy that is used

Re: [Biofuel] affordable methanol in uk

2005-02-25 Thread philip reid
Hi, Try albion Chemicals, Approx £90 per 205L drum --- JD2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Chris Bennet, Thank you for getting back to me.I'm trying to look into ways of turning wvo into biofuel but havn't been able to get started due to severe problems getting methanol.I've even

Re: [Biofuel] End of Suburbia

2005-02-25 Thread R Del Bueno
The film is not predicting die-off, it is predicting/describing a probable coming change. Are they starving? No. This has been going on for quite a while now, but nobody seems to have noticed. Or very few anyway. So much for die-off at the end of Big Oil. As I assume (yikes! ..pardon)

[Biofuel] Fuel strainer

2005-02-25 Thread TLC Orchids and Such
I was having a problem with my fuel system(f250 6.9L). Stalling, loss of power, white smoke and stall when I mashed the fuel pedal ect. So I started at the the tank and worked my way up. (by the way I havn't started using BD yet, it's in the wash tank) I droped the tank, The first thing I

Re: [Biofuel] Fuel strainer

2005-02-25 Thread Anti-Fossil
And to think they're fighting to keep Wal-mart out of N.Y. ? How on earth are we going to fix our trucks? Nice job Jeremy! AntiFossil Mike Krafka USA - Original Message - From: TLC Orchids and Such [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 9:35 PM

Re: [Biofuel] global warming 101

2005-02-25 Thread Ashley Daminato
--- Rick Littrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'clip' What about the energy that is used to drive the activity on the planet; the mechanical energy in the wind, chemical reactions the atmosphere and oceans and in biological activity, etc. Is this subtracted from what you expect to

Re: [Biofuel] global warming 101

2005-02-25 Thread bob allen
geothermal, and tidal, all energy is solar, directly or indirectly. The heat generated when I pace about a classroom is solar derived. sunlight-- photosynthesis--- plant matter--- food---bob's motion--- heat. Same thing with wind, all biological activity(except those weird ecosystems

Re: [Biofuel] End of Suburbia

2005-02-25 Thread Kim Garth Travis
I live in the middle of nowhere and yes, we do see this all the time. No one walks anywhere, no bicycles, very few motorcycles. They drive 25 miles to the city daily for whatever, even if they do not work. Many who live here drive 150+ miles a day to work and back. Me, I go to town once

Re: [Biofuel] What Kind of Car?

2005-02-25 Thread Paddy O'Reilly
panels when its sitting outside our offices for 8+ hours a day. Based on current technology it could convert about 2.6kW (0.33kwH x 8 hours) into electrical energy. However a 20 mile journey home could use up this energy in the first few miles. Has anybody looked at this scenario - where the

Re: [Biofuel] End of Suburbia

2005-02-25 Thread Paddy O'Reilly
farm is purchased at an elevated price just to fool around and the main income is through some other area. My father did the reverse - he inherited a farm from his father but found the income too low so he became a carpenter/builder/undertaker and ended up farming just as a hobby, plus he

Re: [Biofuel] What Kind of Car?

2005-02-25 Thread bob allen
energy could be captured if the whole parking space is paneled? the spaces in front of my building are 9X18 ft or 162 feet each. or about 15 meters squared. Paddy O'Reilly wrote: I've often thought about a car that would re-charge itself by solar panels when its sitting outside our

Re: [Biofuel] What Kind of Car?

2005-02-25 Thread Paddy O'Reilly
with solar cells. Don't know what the purpose of the exercise is but anything to bring solar panel into mass production and bring down the price is good. I've priced solar panels for my house at 1000 Euros per 165 watt panel. I figure I'd need 10 of them to get 1kW average in Irish climate

Re: [Biofuel] What Kind of Car?

2005-02-25 Thread dwoodard
The advantage of solar panels on the car is that they could be used first in small units to trickle-charge the battery and run a ventilating fan for warm areas. Then for hybrids and electric cars they could be used to charge the battery or whatever storage device was used. They wouldn't have to

[Biofuel] Just For Clarity

2005-02-25 Thread Gustl Steiner-Zehender
Hallo Friends, This is George Washington's proclamation establishing Thanksgiving Day in the United States. Please note that Washington speaks towards the end of the proclamation of true religion which I define and I believed he and all reasonable folks define as that personal

Re: [Biofuel] What Kind of Car?

2005-02-25 Thread Paddy O'Reilly
Could a diesel hybrid with solar panels could be a marketable product? Solar-only is the ultimate clean machine but we're a smidge away from that yet. JD2005 wrote: - Original Message - From: Paddy O'Reilly I've often thought about a car that would re-charge itself by solar

Re: [Biofuel] What Kind of Car?

2005-02-25 Thread Paddy O'Reilly
Mickey *B** wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Biofuel] What Kind of Car? Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:23:31 EST ILEA Leaf #10: WHAT KIND OF CAR? 2 or 3 years ago, I was passed by an automobile

[Biofuel] Pannirselvam: please get in touch

2005-02-25 Thread Adrian CM Van Deusen
Hello Group, I just entered this list, and reading the archives, was very enthused by a post made by Pannirselvam last august. A short quote from that message: We are open to have colaborations to all who want to make powerful the poor to have the fuel and food , not the the large scale

Re: [Biofuel] What Kind of Car?

2005-02-25 Thread Michael Redler
Hey! I've given this some thought too. It can really make the imagination run wild! Solar body panels on your car as standard equipment (you might have to go with the Henry Ford color scheme -- ...any color you want, as long as it's black) ...or maybe PV paint!! I once thought about

[Biofuel] For the Sake of our Children or How the Bush Doctrine of Fascism is Disassembling a Nation

2005-02-25 Thread Appal Energy
By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. EarthLight Magazine #52, Winter 2005 www.earthlight.org/2005/essay52_kennedy_pff.htm Editor's Introduction: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has a passionate desire for a sustainable future. The economic, the political, and the personal worlds are all part of this evolving

Re: [Biofuel] What Kind of Car?

2005-02-25 Thread Michael Redler
It would seem to me that if you are talking about combustion/electric hybrids, the efficiency of the engine and the fuel you are burning for your hybrid is an important decision. In my opinion, the public should not be influenced in a way that makes them think that gasoline is the best or only

Re: [Biofuel] What Kind of Car?

2005-02-25 Thread Michael Redler
2 or 3 years ago, I was passed by an automobile that had stickers all over it claiming to be Magnet Power. Paddy -- I think you might find this interesting (thanks Helen). http://www.methernitha.com/English/english.htm Mike Paddy O'Reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was it a babe magnet

Re: [Biofuel] global warming 101

2005-02-25 Thread Rick Littrell
Thanks so much. Rick bob allen wrote: Rick, with the exception of a very small amount of energy derived from geothermal, and tidal, all energy is solar, directly or indirectly. The heat generated when I pace about a classroom is solar derived. sunlight-- photosynthesis--- plant matter---

[Biofuel] Number 7 Plastics

2005-02-25 Thread Trevor Churney
Hello all, I was wondering if the number 7 plastics were alrighto mix the NaOH and the menthanol and store it in them. I was also wonderig what the heat tolerance of the plastic 55 gal drums. thanks Trevor --

Re: [Biofuel] What Kind of Car?

2005-02-25 Thread bob allen
sell your farm to invest just yet) The two conterrotating discs generate an electrostatic charge. One disc represents the earth, the other the cloud. Using grid electrodes the charges are bound. After that they are

[Biofuel] The Cause of Global Warming

2005-02-25 Thread Kirk McLoren
I find it interesting that this probable cause is never brought up for discussion: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap041013.html __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: [Biofuel] End of Suburbia

2005-02-25 Thread Keith Addison
The film is not predicting die-off, it is predicting/describing a probable coming change. I wasn't talking about the film, and this below was a quote from a previous message: Are they starving? No. This has been going on for quite a while now, but nobody seems to have noticed. Or very

Re: [Biofuel] let us all have touch

2005-02-25 Thread Pannir P.V
Helo , dear Adrian ( que bom ver aqui , gente de nossa terra Brasil) Thank you very much to join in this group Very glad your particpation in biofuel group . Plaese see http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ You can see about some of my biofuel related work. I am

Re: [Biofuel] What Kind of Car?

2005-02-25 Thread JD2005
- Original Message - From: Paddy O'Reilly I've often thought about a car that would re-charge itself by solar panels when its sitting outside our offices for 8+ hours a day. Has anybody looked at this scenario - where the electric-only car recharges itself during daylight hours

Re: [Biofuel] End of Suburbia

2005-02-25 Thread R Del Bueno
I wasn't talking about the film, and this below was a quote from a previous message: My bad..sorry for the bit of confusion on my part. As you say, more sensible behaviour will simply become unavoidable. Perhaps above all else, humans as a species are good at adapting, and adapt we

Re: [Biofuel] What Kind of Car?

2005-02-25 Thread JD2005
Hi; Yes, I think this would be an highly marketable vehicle in a sunny country. You would need additional stuff like supperconductor motors and bearings to make this work in colder darker countries like the uk or other parts of northern europe.Now that really is a long way off. Vis solar