[Biofuel] BD from animal fat/tallow

2008-03-03 Thread Olivier Morf
I looked at the archive as much as I could with my slow connection and couldn't find the info I am looking for. I know that BD made from animal fat is solid at a higher temperature then BD made from veg. oil at least sunflower. I did a few 1 liter test batches of both sunflower oil bought from

Re: [Biofuel] Evaluation of global wind power

2008-03-03 Thread Chip Mefford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I would rather see a few birds get hit by turbines than killed slowly by pollution, along with everything else around them. Well, Out here in West Virginia, USA, Wind turbine deployments are big stuff. More and more going up every day. Again, as has

[Biofuel] Biotech industry impunity fuels global GE contamination spread

2008-03-03 Thread Keith Addison
Download: GM Contamination Register Report 2007 http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/eu-unit/press-centre/reports/gm-contamination-register-report-2007.pdf --- http://www.thecampaign.org/forums/showthread.php?t=1110 Biotech industry impunity fuels global GE contamination spread Most of the

Re: [Biofuel] Confessions of an 'ex' Peak Oil believer

2008-03-03 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Zeke, John, Hakan and all It's all sort of moot. If we don't run out of oil, or somehow price it out of our ability to use it at the current rate, then we'll kill ourselves with the byproducts of burning it for our own sake, we better hope that we DO run out. Quite right! In that sense

Re: [Biofuel] Evaluation of global wind power

2008-03-03 Thread Zeke Yewdall
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Re: [Biofuel] Confessions of an 'ex' Peak Oil believer

2008-03-03 Thread Chip Mefford
Keith Addison wrote: -SNIP An entirely alternative theory of oil formation has existed since the early 1950's in Russia, almost unknown to the West. It claims conventional American biological origins theory is an unscientific absurdity that is un-provable. They point to the fact that

Re: [Biofuel] Evaluation of global wind power

2008-03-03 Thread talus95889
True, true, true...only way I can think to feel better about it is that the increase in power demand was going to happen (statusquo), but better that it was wind and not coal that is being used to meet that demand...after all...gotta start somewhere, eh? Maybe as petro prices keep climbing,

[Biofuel] New use for glycerine by-product

2008-03-03 Thread Keith Addison
David Soriano of the University of Pittsburgh- Bradford sent me this interesting process he's developed for making a lubricant out of the by-product: A description of converting glycerol into a natural lubricant with the body and adhesiveness suitable for most purposes. The desired viscosity

Re: [Biofuel] doubling the fuel economy of the Ford Escape

2008-03-03 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Chris, Erik, Robert I'm glad you enjoyed On the Slow Train with a Skinful of Wine, thankyou! It was one of a series of weekly columns I wrote while I was working in Hong Kong, Write whatever you like, wow. I did it for more than a year and really enjoyed it. It worked well, had a good

[Biofuel] 1980 Mercedes problems

2008-03-03 Thread doug swanson
I'm hoping this message is not too far off topic for this list, but I felt this would be the place to look for information from someone else who has been stumped with the same problem I'm facing here. I have a 1980 Mercedes 240D that won't run. It will turn over, but there seems to be no flow

Re: [Biofuel] New use for glycerine by-product

2008-03-03 Thread Ken Provost
On Mar 3, 2008, at 11:24 AM, Keith Addison wrote: Any comments, ideas for further uses? David S. Soriano Ph.D. Associate Professor of Chemistry University of Pittsburgh- Bradford Bradford, PA. school website: http://www.upb.pitt.edu ph: 814-362-7544 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This

Re: [Biofuel] 1980 Mercedes problems

2008-03-03 Thread glenne1949
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Re: [Biofuel] 1980 Mercedes problems

2008-03-03 Thread 1 palm
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2008-03-03 Thread Linda Gonzales
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Re: [Biofuel] 1980 Mercedes problems

2008-03-03 Thread Bill Ellis
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