Re: [Biofuel] What's Good For GM?

2005-04-09 Thread Busyditch
It had already led a successful effort to destroy the streetcar system in America's cities in order to force people to buy cars, rather than take public transportation. GM later spent decades battling efforts to reduce tailpipe pollution emissions that caused public health problems throughout

Re: [Biofuel] Filtering before use

2005-04-09 Thread Ray J
a coffee filter or a sock... talcum powder is about 10 microns standard table salt is at least 100 microns beach sand is at least 200 microns. I buy filter bags from McMaster-Carrpage 328 in their online catalog they are just a few $ http://www.mcmaster.com/ or try this part # to get

Re: [Biofuel] Iraq Invasion - Age of Oil Scarcity

2005-04-09 Thread robert luis rabello
Hi All, Please do not misunderstand my point about Korea. I do not want my country to invade North Korea. (I never want the U.S. to invade anyone) I have many friends in the South whose lives would be destroyed. I was comparing the relative threat between the leaders of Iraq and North Korea

Re: [Biofuel] Moody's downgrades GM to the brink of junk status

2005-04-09 Thread Greg Harbican
And at first glance at the subject line, I thought, Wow someone has it right, GM food is junk. Greg H. - Original Message - From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 16:29 Subject: [Biofuel] Moody's downgrades GM to the brink of junk

[Biofuel] More titration questions

2005-04-09 Thread John Hayes
this one: http://www.kimble-kontes.com/html/pg-620F.html and it came already loaded with 0.1 N NaOH. I didn't really feel like dumping it out and making some fresh 0.1% w/v NaOH so I pulled out a pencil and some scrap paper. A quick calculation reveals that 0.1 Normal NaOH is a 0.4% w/v

Re: [Biofuel] 2 - Mother Earth News burners and glycerine by-product

2005-04-09 Thread AntiFossil
Hello Keith, Malcolm, and everyone, Keith - Not being familiar w/ Japan at all this may be no help at all to you Keith, but when I go to get my bottles refilled (CO2, Argon, and OxyAcetylene) the guys there are always trying to sell, or sometimes even give away, old damaged tanks. These tanks

Re: [Biofuel] Filtering before use

2005-04-09 Thread TLC Orchids and Such
Hello Brent, If there's a tractor suply near you they sell 5 and 10 micron cartriges with housing. I got the see through one and hooked it up in line after my barell pump. I backflush the filter by leaving some fuel in the line and cranking the pump backwards. make sure you let the BD settle

Re: [Biofuel] More titration questions

2005-04-09 Thread Ken Provost
on 4/8/05 7:46 PM, John Hayes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A quick calculation reveals that 0.1 Normal NaOH is a 0.4% w/v solution. Thus, whatever my titration amount is in mL, I need to multiple with value by 4 to get the number of grams of NaOH per liter WVO. But then I was thinking, if

Re: [Biofuel] Windmills in the Sky

2005-04-09 Thread MH
Hi Hoagy Hey Keith http://www.skywindpower.com/ww/ D. Flying Electric Generators It's a danger to UFOs. Keith Take your laser pen and redirect traffic or put some running lights on them LOL! Do you think waving a laser pen at a speeding UFO would be safer than sawing

[Biofuel] REMINDER: 2nd Biodiesel SVO Meeting in Edmonton

2005-04-09 Thread Joanne Olafson
A reminder about the meeting!! Thank you, Joanne Olafson P.S. Also please note petition to remove fuel tax from biodiesel in Alberta, initiated by Todd Kane in Calgary: http://www.petitiononline.com/abgastax/petition.html 2nd BIODIESEL SVO MEETING IN EDMONTON We are looking for people

Re: [Biofuel] The Lutec over unity device

2005-04-09 Thread D. Mindock
and read their pdf file, a free download. There's a couple dozen articles there. If you read them, you'll get a real sense of what's going on. You won't find it here in this forum. Peace, D. Mindock ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Biofuel] Windmills in the Sky

2005-04-09 Thread Keith Addison
Great! I guess we could all use a bit of inadvertent quagmire extenuation, but the heavens (UFOs, flying windmills and all) forfend that we should be assailed with horribly acidulous primordial ooze by raptorial conglomerates! Regards Keith Hi Hoagy Hey Keith

Re: [Biofuel] The Lutec over unity device

2005-04-09 Thread Keith Addison
Energy is energy. Unconventional energy sources? If they actually produced any energy rather than just smoke and hot air then they wouldn't be unconventional for long, conspiracism notwithstanding. see www.infinite-energy.com and read their pdf file, a free download. There's a couple dozen

Re: [Biofuel] Sunflower Oil

2005-04-09 Thread Jan Warnqvist
Hello Jan. If you use sunflower oil for BD production you most certainly will have a BD similar to the one of soya bean oil. As far as I remember, sunflower oil is the no 1 raw oil for BD production in Spain. Best rgrds Jan Jan Warnqvist AGERATEC AB [EMAIL PROTECTED] + 46 554 201 89 +46 70 499

RE: [Biofuel] The Lutec over unity device

2005-04-09 Thread Tom Irwin
Hi All, One of my favorite devices was the Transmographier from Calvin and Hobbes. Then there was the Flux Capacitor from Buckaroo Banzai in the Fifth Dimension later stolen by the Back to the Future series. Remember any more folks? Tom with a smile -Original Message- From: Keith

Re: [Biofuel] Turbonator?

2005-04-09 Thread J.L.Burney
local auto parts store. like anything else some people swear by it other condemn it. if you want to check out the real original device then look for the tornado fuel saver in the web - Original Message - From: Grahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 07,

Re: [Biofuel] Windmills in the Sky

2005-04-09 Thread J.L.Burney
bucks and lasts 5 years. it also depends on what freq. you want to opperate on. on my 2 ways channel 9 through 14 are non lic. and channel 9 is for non official emergency. 1-8 14-22 each with 32 sub channels is what you need the lic. for and thats just FRS with a 6 mile range - Original

Re: [Biofuel] More titration questions

2005-04-09 Thread John Hayes
on 4/8/05 7:46 PM, John Hayes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A quick calculation reveals that 0.1 Normal NaOH is a 0.4% w/v solution. Thus, whatever my titration amount is in mL, I need to multiple with value by 4 to get the number of grams of NaOH per liter WVO. But then I was thinking, if I

Re: [Biofuel] More titration questions

2005-04-09 Thread bob allen
days old or had exposure to the atmosphere, it will have absorbed CO2. this lowers the amount of OH, and will cause the titration to be off. (you will overestimate the amount of NaOH needed for the methoxide preparation. other than that it your assumptions are correct. John Hayes wrote:

RE: [Biofuel] The Lutec over unity device

2005-04-09 Thread Keith Addison
I liked a friend's wonderfully simple plan for cutting car fuel consumption by 100% - and emissions too, therefore, though we didn't think much about emissions back then. He said all you had to do was to put really big wheels on the back and really small ones on the front and then the car

Re: [Biofuel] The Lutec over unity device

2005-04-09 Thread bob allen
extensions of the second law of thermodynamics or Origins of Oil and the Abiotic Theory , but no energy to be found. rant The latter is particularly galling to me as a scientist, and a continuing source of confusion. the word theory used by a scientist is defined as an overarching

Re: [Biofuel] More titration questions

2005-04-09 Thread Ken Provost
on 4/9/05 5:39 AM, John Hayes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken Provost wrote: You're confused about Actually, Ken, I don't think I am. Given your explanation, I don't think you're confused either! Sorry for jumping to conclusions :-) The fact that you already have a prepared

Re: [Biofuel] Turbonator?

2005-04-09 Thread William Gargan
Even if it did work. it would not work on a diesel, since it is supposed to swirl the fuel mixture in the intake. there is no fuel mixture in the intake of a diesel. Will On Apr 9, 2005 5:20 AM, J.L.Burney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: actualy this thing looks just like the tornado you can pick up

Re: [Biofuel] The Lutec over unity device

2005-04-09 Thread Tim Brodie
rant The latter is particularly galling to me as a scientist, and a continuing source of confusion. the word theory used by a scientist is defined as an overarching explanation of a large set of data, with bazillions of studies supporting the concept. The basic atomic theory and the

RE: [Biofuel] The Lutec over unity device

2005-04-09 Thread Darryl McMahon
Keith (and all), I've always been a fan of the internal gravity drive system you have described here. However, please note the huge penalty encountered when you need to reverse. Also problematic when climbing very steep inclines. The low-tech version of course is simply to plan all your

Re: [Biofuel] REMINDER: 2nd Biodiesel SVO Meeting in Edmonton

2005-04-09 Thread Joanne Olafson
http://www.vueweekly.com/articles/default.aspx?i=1878 The heading of the article uses a play on words: our NHL hockey team is named the Edmonton Oilers. Thank you, Joanne - Original Message - From: Joanne Olafson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 09,

[Biofuel] Speaking of glop

2005-04-09 Thread Tom Irwin
Hi All, After many successful batches made from vegetable oil ( both unused and heavily used) I decided it was time to try all beef lard. Perhaps I shouldn«t have used this method but I did anyway. I used Alex Kacs first stage (of two) method. After liquifying the lard, I added the required 1 ml

Re: [Biofuel] Windmills in the Sky

2005-04-09 Thread MH
ROFL Great! I guess we could all use a bit of inadvertent quagmire extenuation, but the heavens (UFOs, flying windmills and all) forfend that we should be assailed with horribly acidulous primordial ooze by raptorial conglomerates! Regards Keith It sounds laughable although it

Re: [Biofuel] The Lutec over unity device

2005-04-09 Thread John Hayes
Evolution is not science, it's a worldview that fits a set of religious beliefs and as such is really only a religious precursor. Certainly not science. And what of the fact that I can place selective pressure on bacteria in a culture and get them to evolve a new trait, like, oh say,

Re: [Biofuel] The Lutec over unity device

2005-04-09 Thread Keith Addison
extensions of the second law of thermodynamics or Origins of Oil and the Abiotic Theory , but no energy to be found. rant The latter is particularly galling to me as a scientist, and a continuing source of confusion. the word theory used by a scientist is defined as an overarching

Re: [Biofuel] More titration questions

2005-04-09 Thread Keith Addison
snip ps. maybe I'm being a pedant but Keith, do you think you could change 0.1% lye to 0.1% (w/v) lye on the JtF titration page? Not pedantic, you're quite right, I was actually aware of it but hadn't done anything about it, especially as it's now common usage (not my doing). But it's

Re: [Biofuel] Filtering before use

2005-04-09 Thread Keith Addison
filter it, especially if you've let it settle and decant from the top, or at least from well above the bottom. (Our 200-litre drum storage tank has a 3 standpipe in the outlet valve.) It's held that all the gunge and particles and stuff drops out with the glyc by-product layer anyway, and

Re: [Biofuel] Help a greenhorn

2005-04-09 Thread Keith Addison
Guys, I am very green in making biodiesel. I am trying to put together the parts that I need to make it. Start here: Where do I start? http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_make.html#start Familiarise yourself with the process first by making small test batches before you start thinking

Re: [Biofuel] soap, glycerine by-product and how my farm is doing

2005-04-09 Thread Keith Addison
Greetings, Keith I make soap with KOH and/or NaOH depending on what I want. A liquid soap, bar soap or cream soap. The trouble, if it is one, is that we use KOH in the first place for the process, so the by-product is liquid. I doubt that using NaOH in a subsequent soapmaking process

RE: [Biofuel] The Lutec over unity device

2005-04-09 Thread Keith Addison
Keith (and all), I've always been a fan of the internal gravity drive system you have described here. However, please note the huge penalty encountered when you need to reverse. Also problematic when climbing very steep inclines. The low-tech version of course is simply to plan all your

Re: [Biofuel] Windmills in the Sky

2005-04-09 Thread Keith Addison
Great! I guess we could all use a bit of inadvertent quagmire extenuation, but the heavens (UFOs, flying windmills and all) forfend that we should be assailed with horribly acidulous primordial ooze by raptorial conglomerates! Regards Keith It sounds laughable although it could be

Re: [Biofuel] Speaking of glop

2005-04-09 Thread francisco j burgos
just for the records. Do you know if the beef lard ( tallow?) you used contained protein (meat)?. If so, how much (%)?. Tks, Mr. F.J. Burgos - Original Message - From: Tom Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 1:16 PM Subject: [Biofuel]