Re: [Biofuel] Double wall heat exchange - Solar Hot Water Heater

2005-09-28 Thread Kjell Lofgren
Well ASCII isn't always ASCII, the question mark in the sentence Personally I would put my ? (or whatever) on stainless steel... was the monetary symbol for EURO... Sorry for messing up. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kjell Lofgren Sent:

[Biofuel] experimental turbine

2005-09-28 Thread Alt.EnergyNetwork
Hi all, This experimental turbine design was submitted to me for comments from the list. The inventor has obiously spent a great deal of effort in developing the idea and has received quite a deal of publicity in Mexico where he lives. I am still studying the plans and have not made any final

[Biofuel] glycerol and aerobic digester

2005-09-28 Thread francisco j burgos
Dear sir: would it be of any good to add glycerol to an aerobic digester?. Thanks in advance, F-J. Burgos - Original Message - From: Appal Energy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 10:47 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] glycerol Glycerol

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: Disappearing Antiwar Protests

2005-09-28 Thread Busyditch
This is nothing new.I attended 3 rallies in DC back before we invaded Iraq (we had already been bombing the S**T out of them) Upon returnign home, we saw there was little or no coverage, and even if there was, there were reports of several thousand marchers when if fact the true amount was several

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: Disappearing Antiwar Protests

2005-09-28 Thread Mike Weaver
So we need to organize local protests too. Busyditch wrote: This is nothing new.I attended 3 rallies in DC back before we invaded Iraq (we had already been bombing the S**T out of them) Upon returnign home, we saw there was little or no coverage, and even if there was, there were reports of

Re: [Biofuel] glycerol and aerobic digester

2005-09-28 Thread Keith Addison
Dear sir: would it be of any good to add glycerol to an aerobic digester?. Thanks in advance, F-J. Burgos See: http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_glycerin.html#biogas Glycerine and biogas Best wishes Keith - Original Message - From: Appal Energy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [Biofuel] freiburg solar house

2005-09-28 Thread Joe Street
Hakan; I agree with you that hydrogen is not a simple solution and requires a huge investment to make it useable at the consumer level. But as I was reading it occured to me that the same could have been said about petroleum refining a hundred years ago. It is true that hydrogen requires more

Re: [Biofuel] freiburg solar house

2005-09-28 Thread Joe Street
I have some experience with compressing helium since I work with cryogenics and helium is used as a refrigerant gas when you want to cool to 10 kelvin. Helium is very difficult to compress and hydrogen would be double trouble. However we do have the ability to make seals that have very

[Biofuel] Webasto and Espar running WVO

2005-09-28 Thread eolsen
Sounds like someone has experience with running a Webasto or Espar on WVO (see below). What needs to be modified and how well does it work? Thanks! Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005

Re: [Biofuel] US army plans to bulk-buy anthrax

2005-09-28 Thread marilyn
Keith Addison wrote: By the way, whatever happened to all those folks who were arrested for the anthrax attacks in 2001? Exerpts below from two articles in 2002 shed some light on his question: 1) Thinking the Unthinkable...Was the Anthrax an Inside Job? Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen

Re: [Biofuel] Constant Gardener; The best film in years, exposes western crimes in africa

2005-09-28 Thread Zeke Yewdall
NGO's, the UN, and especially the western aid agencies are all out to keep Africa and the African people in submission to the western interests, and one cant but help see this in the film. In general, I agree, however not all NGO's are out to do this. I worked for Engineers Without Borders,

Re: [Biofuel] ethanol method

2005-09-28 Thread Keith Addison
Hello Bob Bob Allen wrote: Howdy Tom, I am surprised that the method works at all. There is a fundamental problem with the pKa's of ethanol and methanol. the equilibrium KOH + EtOH -- KOEt + H2O favors the left side of the equasion whereas for methanol KOH + MeOH --- KOMe + H2O

[Biofuel] Potassium hydroxide - was Re: Caustic Soda supply source?

2005-09-28 Thread Keith Addison
Hello Kevin Soap Supplies on the web have both Potassium (Much easier to wash) and Sodium Hydroxide at bulk discounts. You will have to pay a $25.00 Haz Mat fee + freight + fuel surcharges, unless you can pickup yourself instead. Can you provide some details of how it's easier to wash with KOH?

Re: [Biofuel] Constant Gardener; The best film in years, exposes western crimes in africa

2005-09-28 Thread Keith Addison
My wife and I saw the film Constant Gardener last night and would highly recommend it to all citizens of the world. The film, starring Ralph Fiennes, is based on the Le Carre book of the same name, and is about how the western drug companies use Africa as a testing ground for their experimental

Re: [Biofuel] solar heat exchanger

2005-09-28 Thread Tom Scheel
A viable solar installation has solar collection, heat exchange, and storage. I've proposed a system that combines heat exchange and storage, thus giving you efficiency of design. The storage tank and the draindown tank can be the same tank, thus removing a maintainance/failure item (glycol -

Re: [Biofuel] reprocessing biodiesel

2005-09-28 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Tom, Todd Todd, I reprocessed a 95L batch using 10% methanol and 3.5 g NaOH/liter as per JTF. I recall having the same question you pose re: the lye. I simply followed the instructions given at JtF and slightly more than a gallon of additional glycerine mix separated out. The

Re: [Biofuel] Running Toyota Landcruiser (HDJ80) on WVO?

2005-09-28 Thread Greg and April
Did you have to change the gaskets and fuel line?The reason I ask, it that I have a '85 BJ60. Greg H. - Original Message - From: Scott Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 10:34 Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Running Toyota Landcruiser

Re: [Biofuel] Polaris as heat exchanger (was solar heat exchanger...)

2005-09-28 Thread Tom Scheel
The Polaris flue is a 2" diameter heat exhanger. That is how the Polaris achieves 95%+ efficiency ratings. That is the good news. The bad news is that the source of that heat is that 100k+ BTU gas burner you tossed out. So you will not get the short recovery times. What is your square footage of

Re: [Biofuel] windfall tax on big oil

2005-09-28 Thread Terry Dyck
There should be no government subsidies to oil companies, gas taxes should go to research into alternative energies. Terry Dyck From: Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] windfall tax on big oil Date: Sun,

Re: [Biofuel] Polaris as heat exchanger (was solar heat exchanger...)

2005-09-28 Thread Zeke Yewdall
On the positive side, circulating hot water through the flue should increase heat transfer rate considerably compared to the original design as an air to liquid heat exhanger. But the hot water from the collectors are also much lower temperature than flue gasses. I'm interested in hearing the

Re: [Biofuel] Constant Gardener; The best film in years, exposes western crimes in africa

2005-09-28 Thread Joe Street
Hi Keith; If you thought that was a film worth seeing you should also check out the film Darwin's Nightmare which documents the story of the introduction of the Nile Perch to Lake Victoria and how remote slavery works for europeans while they enjoy cheap fish and try not to know about how

Re: [Biofuel] Polaris as heat exchanger (was solar heat exchanger...)

2005-09-28 Thread Joe Street
One thing you might consider is a way to enhance the thermal transfer efficiency by lowering the thermal resistance. If you plan to run copper pipe through the flue consider attaching it to the surface. I have used metal filled epoxy to glue copper tubing to stainless. It worked well. I was

Re: [Biofuel] US army plans to bulk-buy anthrax

2005-09-28 Thread Keith Addison
The reality is if the DOD wanted to cover it up it be a Black Op and the components would be purchased under 50 different departments and the CDC would be buying all the controversial stuff. Maybe, maybe not. That's not the reality, it's just your conjecture. Remember the F-117 and B2 were build

Re: [Biofuel] US army plans to bulk-buy anthrax

2005-09-28 Thread Zeke Yewdall
Not to be too much of a conspiracy theorist, but if you were trying to increase funding for your bioterrorism department, don't you think it might work great if someone internal leaked a little anthrax through the postal system, and created a big hullabuloo, which would get congress in gear to

Re: [Biofuel] windfall tax on big oil

2005-09-28 Thread Mike Weaver
The US taxpayer really doesn't have lobbyists working for them. Terry Dyck wrote: There should be no government subsidies to oil companies, gas taxes should go to research into alternative energies. Terry Dyck From: Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org To:

Re: [Biofuel] ethanol method

2005-09-28 Thread bob allen
Hi Kieth, Keith Addison wrote: Hello Bob snip I'd much like to know more about why ethyl esters is so difficult, but people do get it to work. How are they getting round this problem? the short answer is I don't know. I've communicating with those having success, and read the

Re: [Biofuel] New question on oil seed crops and ley farming

2005-09-28 Thread Andres Yver
Hi Kim, A Tibetan Rinpoche visiting Synergia Ranch in Santa Fe once, was told of a gopher infestation in the fruit orchard, and asked something about the morals of killing, since noisemakers had not worked. His reply: Rodent infestations must be dealt with. It was pretty clear he had no qualms

Re: [Biofuel] US army plans to bulk-buy anthrax

2005-09-28 Thread Appal Energy
So Zeke, You're ...not even saying this was bad if it was what happened... So it's okay for civilians to make battlefield decisions in peace time - decisions that effectively discount some human life in lieu of a theoretically greater good? How about we move your name to the top of the list

Re: [Biofuel] US army plans to bulk-buy anthrax

2005-09-28 Thread Zeke Yewdall
So it's okay for civilians to make battlefield decisions in peace time - decisions that effectively discount some human life in lieu of a theoretically greater good? This has been going on for years, whether or not we approve. Actually, it's probably what inspired the old Star Trek episode.

[Biofuel] Ottawa Biodiesel News

2005-09-28 Thread Darryl McMahon
1) There is a new alternative fuels station at the corner of Clyde (North) and Woodward (below Carlington Ski Hill). (Old Ottawa West) GreenStop is selling B20, E10 and E85 at the pumps. B20 is selling at slight premium ($1.029) over regular petrodiesel ($0.989 at other local stations).

Re: [Biofuel] Polaris as heat exchanger (was solar heat exchanger...)

2005-09-28 Thread Stanley baer
I plan to run the water directly through the flue, the condensing (outlet) end of the flue already has a pipe thread and the plate I made to cover the burner end has a nipple welded on to it. stan Joe Street wrote: One thing you might consider is a way to enhance the thermal transfer

Re: [Biofuel] E10 experience here in Manila

2005-09-28 Thread Ramon
Hi Chris, Is this true that Coops are not allowed to make their own biodiesel? This sounds unreasonable. I guess this is just big oil, big biodiesel, and the politicians and bureaucratsway of making sure that their profits are secured. That's rather depressing news for me since my idea was to

[Biofuel] What Is Truth?

2005-09-28 Thread MH
What Is Truth? -- Johnny Cash The old man turned off the radio, said: Where did all of the old songs go? Kids sure play funny music these days. They play it in the strangest ways. Said: It looks to me like they've all gone wild. It was peaceful back when I was a child. Well, man could

Re: [Biofuel] glycerol and aerobic digester

2005-09-28 Thread francisco j burgos
Dear Mr. Addison: Thanks a lot. F.J. Burgos - Original Message - From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 7:58 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] glycerol and aerobic digester Dear sir: would it be of any good to add glycerol

Re: [Biofuel] Constant Gardener; The best film in years, exposes western crimes in africa

2005-09-28 Thread Thomas Mountain
sounds like you should be working in Eritrea, which has kicked USAID out of the country and is very strict about NGO's From: Zeke Yewdall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:47:32 -0600 To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel]

[Biofuel] Eritrea Shuts Down USAID; to much CIA, wasted money

2005-09-28 Thread Thomas Mountain
The tiny, resource poor Horn of Africa country of Eritrea, which is in the process of starting the biodiesel and ethanol conversion process to replace petroleum imports, has implemented the phased shut down of all USAID projects and asked USAID to depart Eritrea. Eritrean officials showed how

[Biofuel] FW: GOOD RESULTS FINALLY

2005-09-28 Thread Derick Giorchino
Hi all Iwould like to thank you all for the good info and increment over the last months. If it weren't for all the help I would have failed at this and a hate to fail at anything. After lots of bad tests batches and a few large batches.I have found my

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: Disappearing Antiwar Protests

2005-09-28 Thread Scott Brown
Just another point of view. It may be that Bush is in the hands of the media and the people who control the media rather than they are in his control. Does puppet on string seem applicable ??? Scott - Original Message - From: Busyditch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

[Biofuel] $150 ebook machine

2005-09-28 Thread Kirk McLoren
http://www.jinke.com.cn/english/v8/default.asp 290 grams with Li ion battery (just over 10 oz) 800x600 main display Plays mp3 as well USB 1.1 I/O Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. ___ Biofuel mailing list

Re: [Biofuel] Appleseed methanol recovery

2005-09-28 Thread Derick Giorchino
I haven't had that problem yet. I also use clear poly fiber reinforced hose and it seems to get soft instead maybe there is a combination of both the nylon and the poly so it wouldn't get hard or soft. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike

Re: [Biofuel] $150 ebook machine

2005-09-28 Thread robert luis rabello
Kirk McLoren wrote: http://www.jinke.com.cn/english/v8/default.asp 290 grams with Li ion battery (just over 10 oz) 800x600 main display Plays mp3 as well USB 1.1 I/O Notice that it reads from a proprietory format, just like my Franklin e-bookman. (Which cost me less than $50.)

Re: [Biofuel] US army plans to bulk-buy anthrax

2005-09-28 Thread Scott Brown
Having been assigned to the DIA ( Defense Intelligence ) for four years back in the seventies, I do believe that if the US government wants to keep something hidden they can, it just depends on how important is to them... and one of the favored techniques was to fund these types of projects

Re: [Biofuel] New question on oil seed crops and ley farming

2005-09-28 Thread dwoodard
Andres, it might be a good idea to inspect the livers of the rabbits you slaughter. Comfrey is supposed to contain pyrolizidine (spelling?) alkaloids which are said to be toxic to human livers. I don't know whether the alkaloids are broken down or whether it would be possible to ingest them from