RE: [Biofuel] CAFE vs ANWR

2005-03-21 Thread John Freeman
Hakan, I live in the Northeast corner of the US, in Massachusetts. I bought a Toyota Prius in 2003. I would have also considered diesel vehicles (VW TDI probably) IF they had been available in my state, and IF we had low sulphur fuel in the US. I believe 3 states, CA, NY, MA, and maybe more,

Re: [Biofuel] WVO- Filter ideas???

2005-03-21 Thread Kenneth Kron (CEO)
In the US restaurant equipment suppliers sell both filters and filter material that work very well for warm VO coming out of the fryer. The big drawback with screening on top of the barrels is that restaurants tend to over fill the barrel because they cant see how full it is and

Re: [Biofuel] CAFE vs ANWR

2005-03-21 Thread Doug Younker
Interesting still cap and unused wells? That puts a kink in John H.'s statement This idea that we are somehow using up their oil now while saving our oil for a later date is flawed. The oil will flow to the highest bidder, period. statement. I really doubt the existence of such wells unless the

Re: [Biofuel] doubt to the members

2005-03-21 Thread ramjee
Dear Dr. Paulraj: I suspect that it is due to the suboptimal Nitrogen availability in the diet, because of which sufficient digestion is not taking place (though typically pongam cake has somewhere around 3.5-4.5% Nitrogen content). May be you can work on this? Again, if you had not powdered

RE: [Biofuel] CAFE vs ANWR

2005-03-21 Thread Hakan Falk
Jack, Inserted answers below, At 12:39 AM 3/21/2005, you wrote: Hakan, I live in the Northeast corner of the US, in Massachusetts. I bought a Toyota Prius in 2003. I would have also considered diesel vehicles (VW TDI probably) IF they had been available in my state, and IF we had low

Re: [Biofuel] CAFE vs ANWR

2005-03-21 Thread John Hayes
1. Why is diesel fuel so much more expensive in the US? In MA, it costs at least 10% more, reducing its advantage. John, two quick comments: a) over the course of a year, diesel is NOT more expensive than gasoline. Diesel is more in the winter (when demand for home heating oil is

RE: [Biofuel] CAFE vs ANWR

2005-03-21 Thread Chris Lloyd
Since the first oil supply troubles in the 50s the US has been careful to keep oil in reserve This again from a program on world oil supplies shown in the UK, I seem to remember the program was discussing the US wanting to drill in the Artic. The program researchers thought it was a fallback

Re: [Biofuel] CAFE vs ANWR

2005-03-21 Thread Peter Martin
consumers STILL spend the same $$ per week regardless of what you buy! I've a TDI that gets 47mpg. Our driving per week expenditures are base on about 500 miles per week. A gas powered vehicle would need to get 40mpg for us to spend the same on gas. Not too many around here that do! I have

re: [Biofuel] glycerin blocks

2005-03-21 Thread DHAJOGLO
Jeremy, Can you make glycerin blocks from non gelling glycerin? I have about 20 gallons of liquid glycerin and about 5 Gal. that gelled. Jeremy Pure glycerol will melt somewhere around 20C I believe. However, if you have any impurites (espically Methanol) then it will stay in a liquid state

[Biofuel] Biofuel and intensive farming

2005-03-21 Thread Rich3800
If we, in the near future, are to get a sizeable share of our fuel energy coming form land farming and reduce depency on fossil oil, then farmers need to stop using artificial fertilizers, which kill the soil microorganisms that live in the ground and that process soil nutrients for plants to

Re: [Biofuel] glycerin blocks

2005-03-21 Thread TLC Orchids and Such
yes it is air tight. I haven't done methanol recovery on the glycerin and it still has the naoh in it. I saw the five gallon methanol recovery still (for glycerin) on journey to forever's site. but others say to leave the methanol in to make a more flammable log. It also is still caustic. Thanks

Re: [Biofuel] WVO- Filter ideas???

2005-03-21 Thread TLC Orchids and Such
Here is a link I came acrost doing a search they have 200, 400 and 600 micron 55 gal drop in strainers http://www.thecarycompany.com/containers/ez-strainers.html Jeremy - Original Message - From: Kenneth Kron (CEO) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005

Re: [Biofuel] Biofuel and my home oil furnace.

2005-03-21 Thread Tim Smith
I was asking around in my group of friends and found out that one of them had a family garage that used to heat it's self with a waist oil furnace. Apparently with that furnace you could use any used oil which they believed would burn SVO or WVO. Of course this was sort of a word of mouth thing

[Biofuel] diesel, is it cleaner?

2005-03-21 Thread Andrew Tracey
Back in the 80's there was a report published about the findings of number of independant scientists investigating the effects of burning diesel fuel and the connection to the big increase of asthma in children. Not only did they find the two very much connected, they also claimed diesel was

[Biofuel] Too much Lye

2005-03-21 Thread Vincent zadworny
hey y'all have been reading lots but not writing as much thanks for all the valuable info. i just did a 40 gallon batch and added a bit too lye to the reaction and am wondering if the excess lye will wash out with the rest of it in the bubble wash stage. please help if you can. vincent