does anyone know if a regular 2'x1.5' satellite dish (primestar i think)
will work for a solar collector? i was thinking about using it to heat my BD
via exchanger. (maybe borrow the steam pump with check valves idea...) i am
going to try and layer it with tinfoil to begin with, then depending on
I just can't recall when, but the following was from an episode of the
Religion and Ethics program aired on PBS during a past Congressional
debate on the minimum wage. I recall the term used was just wage.
Problem is that here in the USA such criteria is labeled communist,
instead of
Hi Richard!
I`ve read that you knew some website about production and statistics of
biodiesel in Europe. Could you help me and send me some of this website?
Thanks very much!
I`m sorry but Ì don`t know anything about this in USA.
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I believe that either economic model (communist or capitalist) is
destined to collapse, sooner or later. One of the main factors being
greed. Greed is what causes inflation. Companies are driven to make
more profit. People need more income to purchase the higher priced
items they need AND
On Jun 25, 2006, at 10:51 PM, Jason Katie wrote:
does anyone know if a regular 2'x1.5' satellite dish
(primestar i think) will work for a solar collector?
Pretty small -- 300 watts of insolation at best. Figure a typical
small stove burner puts out 1000 watts at least. Now one of
those
Hi Andrew;
Is the water you used conditioned by a water softener?
Joe
Tonomár András wrote:
Dear List members,
I need your ideas of what went worng with my washing
I make 45 l batches for almost a year now and I have only had minor
emulsion problems
in the first wash that I could
hi Angela, try this EU page you find lots of policy on REs and country reports on the developments http://ec.europa.eu/energy/res/legislation/electricity_en.htmLuganoAngela Perez Linde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Richard!I`ve read that you knew some website about production and
The bottom line is that the world has to go Hydrogen.
Every once in a while we find a post that challenges years of research and
discussion and asks everyone to take a giant step back and re-examine ideas on
a particular issue long after a consensus has been reached, as if we've missed
Charles,
I think an oil burner can tolerate impurities. The problem is that
you may have to make some minor modifications. The problem I had, and, I
think, you as well, was that we were burning inferior fuel w/o any
modifications to the burner. I think that glycerides in the fuel (from
Hello Tom,
Thanks for your ideas.
I always do a wash test prior to the first wash.
I usea 0,5l pet bottle and half - half BD, water.
I shake the hell out of it. Since my early test
batches, my fuel always passes the test with great result.
the same was with this
From memory this is the same basics as the
Daimler Puch system and has no injector pump. Please let me know if I am out
here. This engine was known as the Styre and mostly run in boats (14+ years of
operations in Australia) Macintyre engineering from memory were the Australian
agents for
Re: Nuclear Power
One aspect of nuclear power which concerns me (in addition to the
overwhelming number of reasons not to support it) is the less publicized
situation it creates in terms of ROI. There is a huge investment put
into construction and decommission then, an equally huge amount of
I am planning to build a still to to fuel my gas powered vehicles.
Some of the material I have been reading talks about salvaging the
burner from an old gas water heater to use gas as
a heat source for a still.
Is it possible to salvage the burner from an oil hot water heater, and
fuel it with
http://eatthestate.org/10-20/MailingItDemocracy.htm
You'd think that something as
fundamental to democracy as honest elections
would not be placed in jeopardy, seemingly
intentionally,with no input from the masses.
There is no voter in his right mind that'd be in favor of
the systems that
Yeah, I'd go for a larger one -- more energy collection. I think the larger ones are also tracking? wherease the current generation satellit dishes are fixed.On 6/26/06,
Ken Provost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jun 25, 2006, at 10:51 PM, Jason Katie wrote: does anyone know if a regular 2'x1.5'
It may be of interest to do a search on low heat transfer generators. Also
Solar ponds. This is where a very heavy brine is in the bottom layers of a
square sided pond and very fresh water is on top, that is about a meter per
layer. Under the brine layer is laid black alkathine pipes and black
I saw the movie on Friday evening. Lots of great factoids for those who
are not in the know about global warming. The presentation is such that
I don't see how anyone could not be persuaded. I thought that was very
encouraging. Al Gore has so much of an opportunity to reach a large
Hello Pannirselvam.
I went to that page using the link you gave us.
It has links to some acrobat files after I downloaded I discovered they
were the programs for the conference.
Some of them I find interesting.
Unluckily, I could not find the works published there.
Do you know if there will be
Zeke Yewdall wrote:
Yeah, I'd go for a larger one -- more energy collection. I think the
larger ones are also tracking? wherease the current generation
satellit dishes are fixed.
Yeah, but they tracked the satellite, not the sun.
Dwight
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a little reprogramming of the tracking software should fix that, right?On 6/26/06, Dwight HoganCamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:Zeke Yewdall wrote: Yeah, I'd go for a larger one -- more energy collection.I think the
larger ones are also tracking?wherease the current generation satellit dishes are
Joe,
I saw it yesterday and I concur completely...Everyone go see it and
take 3 people with you!
I encourage everyone to go see it, if nothing else to make me (us)
seem less nutty! lol been talkin' about this since high school...
On 6/26/06, Joe Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I saw the movie
Depends on the tracking unit. Most were setup and knew about where the
sat should be located then used a AGC
loop to to fine tracking. A easy sun tracker would do about the same
using some photo diodes or small solar cells at
4 points on the dish wired to just balance the readings from opposing
I'm not sure exactly how the satelite dishes are set up mechanically. Solar tracking is easiest if you have a tilted NS axis, around which it can rotate. That way the tilt of the NS axis can be adjusted daily, but during the day, you only have to rotate about that axis from east to west, rather
I got the tracking sensor for my 10' dish from Duane Johnson, his site
is at http://www.redrok.com/main.htm
You can read how to make your own, or do the lazy thing and just buy the
ready-made module. It would have cost me as much to buy the parts as
the ready made one he sells. Then it's just
Hello Doug,
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When we first started hearing about Hydrogen, there had been relatively
little
Huh, that's funny, I have been very successful making algae from
biodiesel, especially in the Summer.
-Weaver
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WHy would you advocate hydrogen with all its losses. Supercaps are the perfect battery for transportation. More efficient than lead acid too (and no lead) - as for hydrogen who needs 25% system efficiency? KirkMike Redler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "The bottom line is that the world has to go
tracking is easy, even on 2 axes, but i was curious
to know if it would be effective for an exchange heater. i have a dish, but was
worried it wouldnt be of any use to me.
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Kirk McLoren wrote:
WHy would you advocate hydrogen with all its losses. Supercaps are the
perfect battery for transportation. More efficient than lead acid too
(and no lead)
- as for hydrogen who needs 25% system efficiency?
Only people building nuclear power plants who think they've
if im reading this right, castor shells can be distilled and the ethanol be
introduced into the BD to thin it? the heat from distilling the mash should
damage the ricin, and even if it cant be composted immediately, it could be
digested for methane energy output and the sludge could/should be
i wanted to try this also, i have a mostly scrap
lawnmower engine that is good for experiments of this nature.
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Joe,
the water is from the household water heater
and is not conditioned.
It sounds stupid but my first idea was that the water was too hot
than I added 0,1l vinegar to break the emulsion.
Is this a reason for the brown powder?
Andrew
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Maybe now isn't that best time to get an electrical engineering degree :-/Will KOn 6/23/06, D. Mindock
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The Death of US
EngineeringBy Paul Craig RobertsThe
May payroll jobs report released June 2 by the Bureau of LaborStatistics
confirms the jobs pattern for
put a methane gas ring under the flashpan for a preheater/pilot light with
one of those static electric pushbutton grill starters maybe? hit the button
to preheat with methane, then start the oil drip?
Jason
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Engineers have been saying this for years.
I'm the chair of a local ASME chapter so, I hear it a lot. In fact I'm
representative of the lost jobs mentioned in the article, having lost
my last engineering job in September.
I forwarded the article to my ASME chapter and received the following
Anyone in the US, interested in an SVO workshop?
Central Carolina Community College, and Piedmont Biofuels are pleased
to announce they will co-host their third Elsbett Straight Vegetable
Oil Conversion Workshop.
The dates have been set for July 14th-16th 2006 from 9 a.m. to 5 P.M.
each
I tried using biodiesel (probably about 25% biodiesel/75% gasoline) in a lawnmower. Smokey startup, and stalled right away. I think the primitive lawnmower carb couldn't vaporize the biodiesel effectively -- relying on the vaccuum from the engine to suck the fuel out of the tank into the carb
this is strange. if there is a force input, even though it is pulsed it is
still not free. it may be insanely efficient, but so were the old kerosene
popper motors that used ungainly huge flywheels to produce steady power from
pulses. this is not a new technique by any means.
Jason
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I didn't.
Kirk McLoren wrote:
WHy would you advocate hydrogen with all its losses. Supercaps
are the perfect battery for transportation. More efficient than lead
acid too (and no lead)
- as for hydrogen who needs 25% system efficiency?
Kirk
Mike Redler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's that Kirk ?
Sending your homemade videos ?
;-)
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Hello,I always thought it would be really cool to power an internal combustion engine with hydrogen derived from electrolysis powered by the engine itself, but doesn't it take more energy to split the hydrogen/oxygen that the hydrogen is able to produce when combusted? I guess that's why this
Hi John,I don't mean to be a pain in the ass but, your focus is on company profits, re-issue of currency, and monetary greed- not a common denominatorin an explanation on why both capitalist and communist societies would fail.At least for now, it's not an explanation that makes sense to
sorry, bad explanation again. i meant as a
lubricant not a fuel, i believe it was kieth who pointed me at information about
castor oil. it breaks down under heat and pressureand the lubricative
properties are enhanced after a period of use. the problem is if it breaks down
too far, it turns
"...do we really think if companies are forced to pay their workers more that they'll just suck up the extra cost and not raise prices?"Sure...when they are employee owned.The salaries of CEO's are hundreds of times more than their employees. That sucking sound youmighthave heardis the
Will Kelleher wrote:
Hello,
I always thought it would be really cool to power an internal
combustion engine with hydrogen derived from electrolysis powered by
the engine itself, but doesn't it take more energy to split the
hydrogen/oxygen that the hydrogen is able to produce when
No problems Michael. It's just the overly simplistic way I see it. It
may very well be totally inaccurate and most certainly an
over-simplification.
And you make a very good regarding participation.
Cheers,
John
Michael Redler wrote:
Hi John,
I don't mean to be a pain in the ass but,
Everyone,The only reasonable solution to the energy crisis is solar! It's free and basically infinite. All we have to do is develop some better solar cells and batteries (or those new capacitors that everyone is talking about) to power our electric engines!
Will KOn 6/26/06, Mike Redler [EMAIL
Tom,I know that some drum manufacturors sell 55 gallon steel drums with an epoxy lining. This could be the case with your methanol drum. I don't think the biodiesel will dissolve the epoxy, but I don't know for sure. Hope that helps.
Will KelleherOn 6/18/06, Thomas Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I saw the movie this weekend and I was very impressed by the story and facts. Not that this is a new topic to any of the members on this list, but the portrayal of clear and present dangers of looming climate change are well illustrated and makes an extra effort to bring this issue to public
acually the "supercap battery" that fits a 9V
package is all about space efficiency, if you wanted to, you could build a
multifarad capacitor out of tinfoil andplastic wrapin a 5 gallon
bucket for a similar effect with lower cost, justWAAAY too big for a 9V
package, and heavy-heavy. (i
Will,I earned my B.S. in mechanical engineering technology in 1992 and worked as a mechanical design engineer for seven years. Frustrated by the lack of legitimate and rewarding work, I earned a BSEE in 2000 with the idea that you must apply theory to something which has no moving parts.
I'm with you on that one Will. And if regenerative braking becomes commonplace in electric vehicles, think of the energy savings when the bulk of your off-highway miles comes from wind resistance and not acceleration.Imagine the energy recycled from a 2000lb car accelerating from zero to
Jason Katie wrote:
acually the supercap battery that fits a 9V package is all about
space efficiency, if you wanted to, you could build a multifarad
capacitor out of tinfoil and plastic wrap in a 5 gallon bucket for a
similar effect with lower cost, just WAAAY too big for a 9V package,
I agree. My engineering degree may not get me a job (well, it did, but it was lousy pay, and in a cube), but it (along with alot of hands on experience) will aid immensly when I need to deal with the crazy world we are entering when services such as electricity, food, heat, water, etc, are not
i believe any engineering degree would be needed
for personal uses long before the "system" collapses. how else would the garage
tinker, or the backyard designer survive the idiocy bestowed upon the people of
america by decades of complacency and sheeple-ism?
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its pretty simple theory, take two dielectric layers (i.e. extremely thin
plastic) and layer them between two foil layers like so-
--- being plasticwrap/thin wax paper/other
being foil
--
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Jason Katie wrote:
its pretty simple theory, take two dielectric layers (i.e. extremely thin
plastic) and layer them between two foil layers like so-
--- being plasticwrap/thin wax paper/other
being foil
--
Used to be the case for long term storage of AVGAS
that the drums had to be lined. Once the lining was punctured the drums were not
useable for AVGAS storage. Was easy to damage the lining by inserting the wrong
pump and destroying/damaging the lining at the bottom of the drum. Re-fueling
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