Re: [Biofuel] How many trees were killed to build your home ?

2005-07-04 Thread Randall
Try these links: http://www.papercrete.com/ http://www.rammedearthworks.com/ http://www.deatech.com/cobcottage/ http://www.adobebuilder.com/ http://www.earthship.org/ http://www.touchtheearthranch.com/tirestart.htm --Randy Charlotte, NC - Original Message - From:

Re: [Biofuel] How many trees were killed to build your home ?

2005-07-04 Thread Chris
Panasteel is a company in Savannah, GA USA, that buys recycled steel and makes wood frame alternative material. Their website is www.panasteel.com. I am sure that there is a company in your country that is doing the same thing and would be a more logical choice. I mention Panasteel because

[Biofuel] re: Custom Superhomes questions and comments

2005-07-04 Thread
Sorry I did not answer sooner, I was in digest mode but not right now. - Looks like the link was reposted in the replies if you could not get to it and also reposted below - CSH has spent alot of money getting a Spectra Analysis done of their (finished) product and it produced no gassoffs or

[Biofuel] Inequality in wealth

2005-07-04 Thread Keith Addison
Inequality in wealth: Just 0.13% of the world population controlled nearly 25% of world financial assets in 2004 by Anup Shah Inequality in wealth: Just 0.13% of the world population controlled nearly 25% of world financial assets in 2004. That is, the total wealth of the top 8.3 million

Re: [Biofuel] Will Brazilian Flex Fuel Device work on American Cars?

2005-07-04 Thread Ryan Hall
Robert, I have seen several people mention E 100 on this list lately. I personally want to buy a diesel and produce bio diesel, but I drive EFI gasoline cars right now. The flextek device offers great promise for me to do my part now without waiting until I buy my Jetta. My question is,

[Biofuel] Will the G8 Summit reveal more broken promises or effective action on third world debt and climate change?

2005-07-04 Thread Keith Addison
Will the G8 Summit reveal more broken promises or effective action on third world debt and climate change? by Anup Shah Sunday, July 03, 2005 Will the G8 Summit reveal more broken promises or effective action on third world debt and climate change? The G8 Summit in July 2005 looks to be

[Biofuel] Biodiversity, agriculture and climate change, and famine as a commercial opportunity

2005-07-04 Thread Keith Addison
See also: http://www.mindfully.org/GE/GE4/Famine-As-Commerce-Bertini6aug02.htm Famine as commerce: Africa's tragedy DEVANDER SHARMA / AgBioIndia 6aug02 Biodiversity, agriculture and climate change, and famine as a commercial opportunity by Anup Shah Biodiversity, agriculture and climate

Re: [Biofuel] How many trees were killed to build your home ?

2005-07-04 Thread Appal Energy
We do not live in the US. Would like to know what is this panasteel or recycled steel? Something that requires a boatload of fossil fuels to smelt, sheet and press. Nice thing about renewables. They're renewable. And to a very large they do it in a carbon neutral way without much

[Biofuel] Clogged filter

2005-07-04 Thread fil_paulette
Hello everyone, Last week, a person I known went with his truck to a local dealer for a check up. In there, they discover inside the diesel filter a strange mud that looks like a aquous phase with suspended solids in it. The mud plugged the fuel filter and it has to be replaced. This person

Re: [Biofuel] Will Brazilian Flex Fuel Device work on American Cars?

2005-07-04 Thread robert luis rabello
Ryan Hall wrote: Robert, I have seen several people mention E 100 on this list lately. I personally want to buy a diesel and produce bio diesel, but I drive EFI gasoline cars right now. The flextek device offers great promise for me to do my part now without waiting until I buy my Jetta.

Re: [Biofuel] Clogged filter

2005-07-04 Thread Theo Chadzichristos
Hey don’t worry about the filters that’s exactly what is suppose to happen. In my diesel benz I had to replace my fuel filter because they had completely plugged up. I decided to break one of the filters open and inside was a mushy, muddy type gunk. That’s the residue that biodiesel cleans out of

Re: [Biofuel] fuel efficient cars and motorcycles

2005-07-04 Thread Frantz DESPREZ
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : todd, that's awesome! curiously, i've been pondering this very concept--a diesel-powered motorbike--recently. i figured it had to have been done somewhere by someone. best fo luck More about dieselmotorcycles :

Re: [Biofuel] How many trees were killed to build your home ?

2005-07-04 Thread Nancy Canning
go to Google, type in recycled tire earth home and you havemany of web pages, even designs for homes made from recycled tires filled with earth and then stucco over.It's a great energy efficient way to build. - Original Message - From: Josephine Wee To:

Re: [Biofuel] Hybrid Diesel / turf

2005-07-04 Thread Paddy O'Reilly
Sorry - idle banter and off-topic rant about the state of diesel engines in Ireland. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 7/1/05 9:13:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hello paddy and frantz. i didn't understand this exchange. what's this about turf? wold

Re: [Biofuel] Hybrid Diesel

2005-07-04 Thread Frantz DESPREZ
Chris a écrit : Wood gasification, using peat instead of wood? (Burning the 'smoke' in a regular car engine.) exactly But Paddy was right when he objected me that it is not ecological. Peat-bogs are very special habitats for fauna and flora (i.e. carnivorous plants) and they need

RE: [Biofuel] Biofuel as a rural community development project in Mozambique

2005-07-04 Thread Keith Addison
Hello Alexis Dear Armando, Hakan, Chris, Mel, and everyone else, Thanks for the responses received to my question. I make two tentative conclusions: (a) It seems biodiesel is probably more attractive than bioethanol, as far as local production for poverty reduction is concerned. You don't

[Biofuel] Engine tech. Was Napier Deltic Engines

2005-07-04 Thread Joe Street
On the subject of engine technology have a look at this http://www.limtechnology.com/Pages/concept.htm It is a two stroke diesel design that uses cylinder porting for exhaust but still uses valves in the cylinder head (un driven like check valves) to intake boosted air and uses direct

Re: [Biofuel] How many trees were killed to build your home ?

2005-07-04 Thread Ken Provost
on 7/4/05 7:28 AM, Nancy Canning at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: go to Google, type in recycled tire earth home and you have many of web pages, even designs for homes made from recycled tires filled with earth and then stucco over. It's a great energy efficient way to build. Ahhh, if only

[Biofuel] ASPO on the Economic near-Future

2005-07-04 Thread Ken Provost
From the latest ASPO Newsletter: http://www.peakoil.net/ Expect a severe downturn in the world's economy over the next two years as Bilderbergers try to safeguard the remaining oil supply by taking money out of people's hands. In a recession or, at worst, a depression, the population will

[Biofuel] (no subject)

2005-07-04 Thread alex burton
Hello All Thanks for all the advice in the past. After a year of making Biodiesel and not being able to use it i purchased a 1994 Discovery (at the Right price ) I wanted somthing after 1996 but couldnt afford it so 1994 is it.I have checked for all the normal stuff eg cracked head

Re: [Biofuel] Will Brazilian Flex Fuel Device work on American Cars?

2005-07-04 Thread Luis Eduardo Puerto
I don't know very much of E85 or E100, I know that in Brazil it is being produced in big quantities as well as in USA. I don't know where exactly you can get it in Canada. I have a question, for what type of cars is etahnol appropriate??? Can it be used with any car at all?? I know that

Re: [Biofuel] How many trees were killed to build your home ?

2005-07-04 Thread Nancy Canning
What about cast earth, and how would it compare to flyash concrete construction? - Original Message - From: Randall To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 5:38 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] How many trees were killed to build your home ?

Re: [Biofuel] (no subject)

2005-07-04 Thread Jerry Turner
Alex, I would think you could find a number of website forums that deal strictly with the LR. If you got the owners manual it should give you that information. Check with a LR dealership?? Good luck, Jerry - Original Message - From: alex burton To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org