Re: [Biofuel] Oil Pricing

is it wise to try and save the dollar? sometimes the best (and only) way to learn is from your mistakes... Jason ICQ#: 154998177 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Kirk McLoren To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 6:38 PM Subject: R

Re: [Biofuel] The Death of a Compost Bin

i suggest a steel drum on a hand dolly. Jason ICQ#: 154998177 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: robert and benita rabello To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 7:01 PM Subject: [Biofuel] The Death of a Compost Bin Although I don'

[Biofuel] The Death of a Compost Bin

Although I don't do all of my composting in a bin, nearly all of our household table scraps and the entire collection of waste from our bunny cage went into a black plastic compost bin. Please note the past tense verb . . . About a week or so ago, we had a blast of arctic air sweep through th

Re: [Biofuel] Oil Pricing

In an effort to help restore balance to our balance of trade, and thereby bouy the falling USD, I crossed Pauli Girl Dark off my shopping list and "invested" in a 12 pack of Yuengling's Original Black and Tan. --- Hear Hear Kirk Thomas Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [Biofuel] Jean Pain

Eric, If you want to have flexibility, you should have a low temperature heating system and floor heating is ideal. To this you can have a larger number of heating sources to choose from and better efficiency. It is also wise to use the buildings accumulation potential, instead of being depen

Re: [Biofuel] permanent magnet alternators

automotive alternators run at 2 to 3 times crank speed. Look at the relative size of the pulleys. Kirk Hakan Falk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joe, Yes I got messed up with language, circumference, area and wind speed, because circumference is not really interesting. Regarding relations

[Biofuel] Jean Pain

I am interested in Jean Pain's methods of using compost to heat his house. In the Journey to Forever reprint of the article that appeared in Reader's Digest it mentions he pipes the water into registers. I was wondering if it might be more efficient to use underfloor radiant heating instead. Unf

Re: [Biofuel] permanent magnet alternators

Hi, to my mind, a car alternator will rev about 2-4 times the engine revs. The size of the alternator pulley is about 50mm & the crank pulley is 100-125mm. This gives 2+. A car alternator will rev fairly high, because the rotor diameter is only small: about 80mm from guess. Usually the slower

Re: [Biofuel] permanent magnet alternators

Commercially produced microturbines typically run at 20,000rpm or higher (I think some are 100,000rpm). Check out Capstone's website http://www.microturbine.com/prodsol/techtour/index.asp Perhaps that alternator is made for that but probably not. On 12/8/06, Hakan Falk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Biofuel] permanent magnet alternators

Joe, Yes I got messed up with language, circumference, area and wind speed, because circumference is not really interesting. Regarding relations between area and wind speed, you have a table on my site. If you double the circumference the area goes up with the quadrate and if you double the w

Re: [Biofuel] permanent magnet alternators

Hi Hakan; If the diameter of the pulley is doubled the circumference is doubled. Not 4 times. You must be thinking of area. Now if you double the diameter on a wind turbine you do get 4 times the power. Is this what you were thinking of? If a 3 meter turbine produces 1kw ( a safe guess

Re: [Biofuel] permanent magnet alternators

Joe, Twice the diameter, would be close to 1 to 4, right (THE SQUARE OF 2)? Agree that 2,500 might be close to normal speed. That would be something like 10,000 rpm for the alternator at normal speed. Talking about that the alternator would explode at 18,000 rpm is maybe an overstatement? Wi

Re: [Biofuel] permanent magnet alternators

Hi Hakan; I bet the pulley on the crankshaft is less than twice the alternator's pulley diameter. Also the amount of time your engine is reving above 2500 rpm is short compared to the normal. Anyways they talk about low losses but the gearbox required to turn the alternator that fast would b

Re: [Biofuel] Oil Pricing

Mike, I have my own concerns regarding the US economy . debt, trade deficit, housing market & how it is being financed, etc etc. What measures madmen with power will use to "protect us". I follow currencies as I follow species of organisms as indicators of economic/environm

Re: [Biofuel] permanent magnet alternators

Joe, How much are they spinning in a car? To me it looks like the wheel on the alternator is much smaller than the wheel on the car engine, could it be 1 to 4 or more? 4,000 rpm for the car engine is quite usual, so the alternator can not be far from 18,000 in normal conditions. Just a though

[Biofuel] Biofuel from Grass

It's a little short on specifics, but it's an interesting story: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6594253 robert luis rabello "The Edge of Justice" "The Long Journey" New Adventure for Your Mind http://www.newadventure.ca Ranger Supercharger Project Page http://w

Re: [Biofuel] permanent magnet alternators

Joe Street wrote: Read that page carefully! It says the alternator can produce 12 Kwat 18,000 RPM!!! Good luck spiniing that thing that fast. I'm sure the bearings would catch fire if the whole thing doesn't explode first. Speeds that high require incredible balancing and air bear

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: Dollar DOWN

And so it begins... j Kirk McLoren wrote: More info on the Dollar's demise and the US economy. This kind of info appears to be increasing more and more. Mike DuPree - Original Message - *From:* RBLOPER *To:* RBLOPER

Re: [Biofuel] permanent magnet alternators

Read that page carefully! It says the alternator can produce 12 Kwat 18,000 RPM!!! Good luck spiniing that thing that fast. I'm sure the bearings would catch fire if the whole thing doesn't explode first. Speeds that high require incredible balancing and air bearing spindles. Buyer

Re: [Biofuel] permanent magnet alternators

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