Re: [Biofuel] Artisanal Cars

7;d be scrapped long before then, wouldn't they, what with Japan's inspection and safety regulation structures. Poo. -Kurt ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbio

Re: [Biofuel] Artisanal Cars

onal 2.8L International turbodiesel as one of the optional engines. Be nice to own one of those with that diesel. -Kurt ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at

Re: [Biofuel] Guns and Dope Party

e expression "Son of a gun"? ;) -Kurt Sorry, couldn't help myself! ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeyto

Re: [Biofuel] Ethanol 85

ly around 1-2. Total failure tends to result if the E85 isn't fresh. If it's been sitting a week, I cut it approximately 50/50 with methanol and it does decently well, but unless I miss a batch it doesn't tend to sit. -Kurt Keith Addison wrote: > Hi Kurt > > >> I

Re: [Biofuel] Ethanol 85

ost-wash. With the cost of E85 per gallon comparable to the local cost of methanol, I just use the E85. Once I have the recovery still working properly, I'll put the recovered alcohol/gasoline mix in one of the cars rather than cycling it back into the process. -Kurt Chris Burck wrote: &

Re: [Biofuel] India's gift to green drive: Bicycle @ 40kmph

ve at 40km/hr, you are incapable of generating the power needed to move at 40km/hr. If it's only a matter of not being able to pedal fast enough, go to the next taller gear until the pedaling speed is slow enough for you to do it. -Kurt MH wrote: > This I'd like to read more abou

Re: [Biofuel] YOUR EFFORT CAN BRING THE OIL PRICE DOWN

Keith Addison wrote: > The best option for most people is to get off the oil habit so that the >> price becomes irrelevant to them in direct purchasing. >> > > Hear hear Darryl. Seventeen mile commute by bike and bus, five days a week for the past four weeks. I&#x

Re: [Biofuel] The food emergency and food myths

lower food prices by lowering the energy costs of food production. Kurt _ Making the world a better place one message at a time. http://www.imtalkathon.com/?source=EML_WLH_Talkathon_BetterPlace -- next part -

Re: [Biofuel] Fascists at it again

eech, education for the masses, environmentalism, and on and on. These are ideals that suffer greatly under islamofascism. Kurt> Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 10:30:56 -0700> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org> Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Fascists at it

Re: [Biofuel] Fascists at it again

t odds with any form of freedom that westerners are accustomed to. > Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 06:14:49 +0900> To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Fascists at it again> > Hello Kurt> > >I am too lazy to double check myself!

Re: [Biofuel] Fascists at it again

ll enforce Sharia Law. I apologize if I got that information incorrect. I am too lazy to double check myself! I do agree that the US is slipping into a nationalistic version of fascism. This is why it is important to celebrate other country's successes, to show that the US way is not

Re: [Biofuel] Water in my Methanol

h works in the liquid state. Kurt > Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 13:32:55 -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > biofuel@sustainablelists.org> Subject: [Biofuel] Water in my Methanol> > Any > suggestions? It looks like water got in my new 55-gal drum of > Methanol. I >

Re: [Biofuel] Vaporized gasoline engines workasproventotheworldbyShell Oil Company in 1973

t the exact same amount of mechanical work as a 40% efficient 100kW engine. -Kurt ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://jou

Re: [Biofuel] SCHOOL 1967 vs. 2007]

ever imagined possible, but you really just -don't care about anything- anymore. Someone gives you a problem, you can work on it, but you aren't going to go looking for problems to solve or magically focus on whatever you desire. -Kurt ___ Biofu

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: [corp-focus] Reclaiming Economic Freedom

gt; language-hatred. It's weird that you can't spell wield. > > Um, not sure there's such a word as "heisted", sorry about that. > > All best > > Keith/Kieth > Or in the sound of an "a" such as "neighbor" or "weigh," hmm? ;

Re: [Biofuel] We need these cars

Kirk McLoren wrote: > The ZENN (zero emissions no noise) car. Video, 10 min > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M88k6Ipp3c > I respectfully beg to differ. We need -fewer- cars, rather than more or equivalent numbers of quiet car

Re: [Biofuel] 747 on biofuel

Just out of curiosity... what really makes the LIM any different from a two-stroke diesel? They too are blower scavenged, port exhausted closed crankcase engines... -Kurt Joe Street wrote: > Damn it all to hell. My friend just bought a Moyes Dragonfly > <http://www.liteflite.com.a

[Biofuel] biofuel specific?

Biofuelers: I have been lurking on this list for awhile, but never actually participated. I am wondering if there is some way I could filter the posts to read only those that directly related to biofuel issues? This listserve is very active, and I really do enjoy reading some of the pos

Re: [Biofuel] Mass-Produced Electric Cars

No, no compost anymore, sadly. We had a decent bin going at our last house six years ago, but we never had the time or need to get one started here. Maybe that's a project for this year. -Kurt Who is off to work for 13 hours, ferrying people about between cities and later keeping drunk

Re: [Biofuel] Mass-Produced Electric Cars

transportation service, but still... I'll take all the advertisement I can get! -Kurt ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever:

Re: [Biofuel] She's Dead, Jim

6.5, just make sure you don't get the one with the rudimentary computer... -Kurt Paul S Cantrell wrote: > Daryl, > I say fix it. > > If you are willing to pay the amount to fix it to get another truck > just like it...why not fix the one you have? > > You already HAV

Re: [Biofuel] another do it yourself project

Very cool indeed. Might have to look into a few of those for the house; we don't get much wind down in the hole, but the roof of the house would be perfect to lift them up into the winds... -Kurt fujee01 wrote: > http://www.mdpub.com/Wind_Turbine/in

Re: [Biofuel] Back to the topic...New BD stuff

For what it's worth, methanol will strip aluminum oxide right off a surface. Methoxide does so even more quickly, under steady exposure. -Kurt ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/lis

Re: [Biofuel] Splenda "Explodes Internally," Says Chemist

k sodas; everyone needs a vice, after all. I just don't drink any of the "diet" or "low calorie" sodas, as they tend to run heavy on the artificials and I'm active enough to burn off calories from the real thing. -Kurt Logan Vilas wrote: > Not trying to be t

Re: [Biofuel] Tyson and Chicken fat as Biodiesel

expensive than the bio. -Kurt ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined

Re: [Biofuel] Radiation Ovens, the Proven Dangers of Microwaves

robert and benita rabello wrote: > When is spring coming around? All of this discussion is SO depressing > . . . I need to start growing things again! > I agree! Especially since this spring will see me producing biodiesel for the F250 workhorse in full swing.

Re: [Biofuel] Making Methanol

It's possible, using the same process as rendering methanol from natural gas, but as I recall some of their catalysts are pretty nasty. Takes a good bit of steam, too, at least during certain portions of the process. -Kurt Thomas Kelly wrote: > It appears to be difficult to make

Re: [Biofuel] FW: Why You Might Not Want The Flu Shot

myself and my own preferences to help protect others. -Kurt JAMES PHELPS wrote: > Tom, > I agree and feel like you, but my 87 year old mom is probably in better > health than us both! She chooses not to get the shot. That said I still > agree with you about those at risk and lead

Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis as Anesthesia Was Testimonials as Evidence)

My apologies then, Joe, Bob. I picked the most prominent/recent opposition posts. I also wrote that original at ~3AM my time, if memory serves me. Joe Street wrote: > Hi Kurt; > > Pardon my snipping style but. > > Kurt Nolte wrote: > snip > > >> On the ot

Re: [Biofuel] Closed-Mindedness (Was Hypnosis as Anesthesia Was Testimonials as Evidence)

coin that some of those drugs are legitimately dangerous, you're close-minded but also a stoner/hippy/whatever the label of the day is. I'm terrible at making points, but I guess I'll try to just out with it. I fear that the term "close minded individual" is coming to mean

Re: [Biofuel] A Plan to Save the Country [USA]

You know, D... one of the few things you've posted that I've read all the way through and not had any kind of problem with at all. But then I'm pro-education, pro-freedom, and pro-independence, too. Peace, -Kurt ___ Biofuel maili

Re: [Biofuel] Have You Hugged Your Hummer Today?

00 000 miles? (Transported in a C 5 to Iraq and back, > maybe . . .) I think in either case, I'll just stick with the diesel. Simple, cheap, economical, and when needed... powerful. -Kurt ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://

Re: [Biofuel] EV is not dead

about having to fight for. ;p Peace, love and electric vehicles! -Kurt ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforeve

[Biofuel] Digester question

be better to do something else with them? I'd love to do something about reducing this ugly, ugly /waste/ I unfortunately contribute to every day, but at the moment it's mostly theoretical. 'preciation in advance for all your help,

Re: [Biofuel] breakthrough - store CH4 at 500psi instead of 3600

blage, tank plus briquettes plus gas, weigh compared to a tank of gas or ethanol? For that matter, how's the gas extracted if the carbon pores "soak methane up like a sponge?" These are the questions whose answers interest me most. -Kurt ___

Re: [Biofuel] shedding fat for oil

27;. I test drove a Golf before I bought the Lancer (which became my mother's car when the SUV was totaled; best wreck to ever happen since nobody was hurt and it took two SUVs off the roads); I didn't fit worth crap in that driver's seat. *Shrugs.* Different people different habi

Re: [Biofuel] shedding fat for oil

te" standards (A mere 28mpg combined), but it is after all only a year younger than I (it's twenty) and weighs in at 3000 pounds. It's also a station wagon, and it's long wheelbase gives me plenty of legroom for comfort and safety. So beware, please, sweeping statements like th

Re: [Biofuel] was..was..smart car coming to US in 2008

as in their Civics for more power... > Hey, you can get more power out of a Civic if you put high octane gas in it! ... You just have to follow that with putting a turbo on it, crank the boost pressure way up, and pray you don't blow a pi

Re: [Biofuel] Tanks for storing Biodiesel

Jason& Katie wrote: > brake fluid will eat ANYTHING if you let it. so will bologna mystery > meat. leave a slab of the bologna on a car hood in the sun for 45 > minutes and you have a perfectly lunchmeat shaped hole in your paint. Mmmm, preservatives! Imagine what those do to your digestive sys

Re: [Biofuel] Worldwide oil consumption seen soaring

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 > -- > /

Re: [Biofuel] Worldwide oil consumption seen soaring

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

Re: [Biofuel] Class Warfare: The Minimum Wage Goes Down

Keith Addison wrote: > The GOP just shafted the working people of America. By rejecting an > attempt to raise the minimum wage, the Republican-controlled Senate > showed that it is far more interested in lining the pockets of its > campaign contributors than - as Paul Krugman wrote in a New York

Re: [Biofuel] OT: Hybrid Camry

of the car and the AW drivetrain slow me down. The car weighs nearly 3k pounds, and it usually only takes a couple of soft taps on the brake to slow from 40~ish to nothing at lights. I do the same thing going down hills, too. Shifter bushings are cheap, and they're really all I'm wear

Re: [Biofuel] "Quackbuster" Busted in Court

lthier for just bulling through the common illnesses everyone gets. -Kurt ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytofo

Re: [Biofuel] Liberty BD Issues?

ke-test has appropriate separation, but the water portion is all frothy and white. Methinks it didn't quite push all the way through to completion, oh well. Reprocess and try again, add ten minutes stirring time! Only two liters, after all. ;) Peace all! -Kurt

[Biofuel] Liberty BD Issues?

ng at acquiring with the intention of doing a diesel conversion. And I'd really rather not still be reliant on Petro, you know? Peace all -Kurt ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/b

Re: [Biofuel] Run for your livees!!

I can only hope that book has better grammar than his advertisement for it does. Hmmm... maybe I should get it. I mean, I need a source of starter for our fireplace, and seventy nine pages would last through quite a number of fire startings... ;) I'm sure, environmentally conscious and environmen

Re: [Biofuel] More about Bhopal

just, just... Unforgiveable? Inexcusable? Atrocious and hellish? Damn English language is failing me at the moment. No word for how utterly disgusted reading that makes me. Makes me glad I don't use pesticides or heavy cleaners already. And leaves me wondering how long it's go

Re: [Biofuel] US Guvmint to tax alternate fuel vehicles?

l the strings of the world, IE corporations. -Kurt ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel

Re: [Biofuel] clarification plz, ethanol

I recently ran my non-FFV (Certified) Mitsubishi Lancer on E85 for a few weeks. I got about the same mpg rating on E85 as I do on regular 87 Octane gasoline; about 33 miles per gallon combined C/H mileage, down from my usual 34-36 mpg. I think in my case, however, this reduction was mostly due to t

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

ent back until two years before she died. Mom asked why she'd stayed vegetarian for so long, and she just said "It wasn't bothering me,  so I just didn't think about it." Peace -Kurt ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustain

Re: [Biofuel] truckers choose hydrogen power

On 11/22/05, Mike Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm glad I'm not the only one who hears bells in his head. Sometimes I hear whistles instead. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_

Re: [Biofuel] truckers choose hydrogen power

ferences to actual dyno benchmarks.  And I think that picture of the white car on the chassis dyno is a stock photograph; I've seen one very, very similar to it before. -Kurt ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablel

Re: [Biofuel] truckers choose hydrogen power

This site is setting of nine thousand kinds of alarm bells in my head. Read their challenge. "Open to anyone who wants to take a chance.  You decide to purchase the complete Hydrogen-Boost system with installation, at individual component prices and we will guarantee a

Re: [Biofuel] I am Not A Christian-was This isn't the real America, by JC

Yarr!On 11/17/05, Fred Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Mike, Were you wearing your pirate suit while making that proclamation? fredOn 11/17/05, Mike Weaver < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: God is a Flying Spaghetti Monster and them that don't repent shall fryin ever-lasting torment.  With a little

Re: [Biofuel] Success! I think..

I never thought of that. Nice trick! On 11/17/05, Appal Energy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kurt,Take a sport cap off of a 1 liter water bottle and put it on top of a 2liter PET bottle (soda bottle). Invert bottle. Slice off the bottom.Fill bottle with contents of your one liter reaction

Re: [Biofuel] Success! I think..

treat it as virgin oil, do you mean for Kurt to do the whole process again?  If so why would that be?   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Kurt Nolte Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 6:02 AM To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Succe

Re: [Biofuel] Success! I think..

ECTED]> wrote: Sounds good Kurt but you need to take a liter of your hooch and treat it as virgin oil and see if any reaction happens with methoxide. Joe Kurt Nolte wrote: Right, so, I think I may be successful here! Have a batch that I mixed up a few days ago, using a modified for local mate

Re: [Biofuel] 2 articles -- hybrid vehicles - energy efficient computer

ctive, and in general very useful. You can do most if not all the repair work on your own if you are so inclined, without having to be both a mechanics whiz and a computer genius. But that's just me. I believe firmly in the value of retrofitting. Peace -Kurt

[Biofuel] Success! I think..

d to tweak? Peace -Kurt ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel an

Re: [Biofuel] 20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA

ained a fairly common occurence throughout electoral history. They just happened to get caught once again. So... what do we do? Peace -Kurt ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofu

Re: [Biofuel] processor design

-KurtOn 10/31/05, john owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:   Would there be any one with experience building processors willing to look at a CAD drawing of my processor and help me improve it?    ___Biofuel mailing listBiofuel@sustainablelists.org http://

Re: [Biofuel] Starting at Square One

dequately mixed? Having only worked with NaOH with water solutions previously, I'm not sure how this is supposed to look. Do I need to do something to make it dissolve better? Thanks for the help, -Kurt ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainable

[Biofuel] Very liberating

love to patronize that station regularly and help support the more widespread use of E85, but I don't want to tear up my car engine either. I called the Dealership, but they weren't certain, and said they'd get back to me on it when they found out. That

Re: [Biofuel] Separating Glycerine/FFA

t; products if this route were to be taken. Not deliberately generate more of them, y'know? If salt was to be a byproduct then it would seem logical to try and come up with some manner of use for the salt, but seeing as how it won't be neces

Re: [Biofuel] If this isn't aggression...

blame and performing acts of political evangelization does not save lives, neither does dwelling on the past. Action and responsibility in the here and now and forethought and deliberate caution in the future saves lives. Peace, may it come quickly -Kurt __

Re: [Biofuel] Separating Glycerine/FFA

ely exhausted, instead of getting rid of potentially valuable products and also having to purchase salt for your brine. Just a thought. Peace -Kurt ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/bio

Re: [Biofuel] Jatropha Curcas

tation, and even swallow homes; could Jatropha one day do this? Just my caution and pessimism. Peace -Kurt ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofu

Re: [Biofuel] Starting at Square One

The crying shame is that he has plans to, if he doesn't sell it, "Put a Chevy 350 in it and make it run again." Idiot. It was a beautiful car besides the engine and mildew on the seats. Oh well. Peace -KurtOn 10/30/05, Buck Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: iff u examiane the seller sat

Re: [Biofuel] Portents of the upcoming Big One

he country back over to its inhabitants; usually you fight an aggressive war to expand your own borders. If anything it might be ruled an inappropriate military action, but not a pure war of aggression. Just my two cents, anyway. Peace -Kurt ___

Re: [Biofuel] Also starting out

well. Maybe not for BD, but for the gasoline cars we have around here in any case. And I plan on permitting myself properly with all the appropriate authorities; I'm on pretty good terms with local law enforcement here, I'd rather not jeopardize that. ;) -KurtOn 10/29/05, Ken Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Biofuel] Starting at Square One

it still runs it's worth more and I'm gonna charge you more for it." I walked away. I told him and his brother(?) thanks, but I was no longer interested in buying an inappropriately advertised car. So, back to square one once more. In a different way. ;) Peace -Kurt _

Re: [Biofuel] Starting at Square One

ons, and then come back to you guys to see what you all think. If it's good, I'll go back Monday, work out final prices, and own myself a diesel Mercedes. If it's bad, well there are several other options for if it's bad. Peace. -Kurt __

Re: [Biofuel] Starting at Square One

ut so far the Volvo Diesels I've seen are sold by the time I get to them.  And there aren't that many of them. I'd gladly do that if I could find one, be much simpler. Though perhaps I should look for the 1.6L VW diesel? New option. -Kurt ___

Re: [Biofuel] Starting at Square One

g to fix up one of the cheaper ones and just deal with driving something not quite to my liking. If nothing else it would be a challenge, which can be good or bad. -Kurt ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/m

Re: [Biofuel] Still looking for a cheap TEFC motor

duced a plume of sparks a good three feet long at first. Nope, no sir. It's a 1hp motor though, so I pity losing it. Would have made a good pumper. Best of luck to ya in your searches. Peace -Kurt ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainableli

Re: [Biofuel] Still looking for a cheap TEFC motor

is, but... I do have an assortment of various old tool and appliance motors here at the house that I could probably come up with a way to part with. Would one of those work? -KurtOn 10/25/05, Ken Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was looking back through to archives tonight to see if I could mayb

Re: [Biofuel] Starting at Square One

en scrounging up meters for a while now. If it doesn't have a tach I'll see what I can do to pick a tasteful one up, instead of those gaudy "racer style" tachos. Still flirting with the idea, guess I should my act together and make a decision, eh? -Kurt __

[Biofuel] Starting at Square One

still being able to get loans through the parents. More flexible payback schedules, for one thing. ;)} and we go and check it out first. Just wondering if anyone on the list has had good/bad experiences with it. The shifter looks a little funky from the pictures, almost

Re: [Biofuel] Multi Fuel Engines

cting and manifolding the airflows all over the place. The only place where that one runs into problems is when you try to figure out how to get the driveshaft power out through the turbine shaft. :p Which is where my poor tired brain breaks down. Peace out. -Kurt

Re: [Biofuel] Multi Fuel Engines

>  From what I understand, a rotary engine is actually a step /down/ in> thermal efficiency; maybe it's just the materials used, but I seem to > hear something about how they may have more power density, but their> thermal efficiency suffers too much to really make them widespread.It's not the ma

Re: [Biofuel] Multi Fuel Engines

ne. Personally I'm a gas turbine fan, but I don't see them overtaking everything and replacing all other engines anytime soon, so I figured I might as well get with something people are a little more familiar with. ;p -Kurt ___ Biofuel mailing li

Re: [Biofuel] oil price gouging poll

Buying. We are the consumer, and the power of the dollar is ours, not the businesses'. But then again, there I go ranting again about the "Cater to my whims" culture that my fellow Americans seem to have developed. Seems to have become epidemic in my rants lately. Oh well,

Re: [Biofuel] Start Up Problems

doing the shake test?  That also helped... I'm slowly, very slowly progressing back up to full sized test batches while I gather parts. Hoped some of this helps! -Kurt On 10/15/05, Peter Currie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: G'day group it is with great embarrassment that l hav

Re: [Biofuel] Multi Fuel Engines

3-cylinder. It would be perfect for that "slow burn" combustion of compression ignition engines. Perfect for diesel. Even more perfect for BD. I want to build it. I need to build this. And all I can think now is "God I'm a geek" :p -Kurt On 10/15/05, Greg and April

Re: [Biofuel] methoxide solution

It sounds like a great new toy, but believe me - you don't really need magnetic mixer to prepare methoxide solution :) If you want to playwith it, that's a different matter, but it's quite enough to use ordinary thick plastic HDPE bottle carefully swirling it. It takesa bit of time, but hydroxide m

Re: [Biofuel] methoxide solution - missing scale

On 10/15/05, Brian Rodgers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok very cool I just might try it now and close everything up tightwhile working.Brian Rodgers Best of luck to ya, once more. And now I need to get back to work before they decided I'm not earning my pay

Re: [Biofuel] methoxide solution - missing scale

On 10/15/05, Brian Rodgers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I do recall that that ambient humidity messes with the methoxidemixing. Should I wait until the rain quits to continue with the experiment? Lye is hygroscopic; it absorbs water quite readily. Yeah, I'd suggest waiting for it to quit raining, a

Re: [Biofuel] methoxide solution - missing scale

Not a problem, I encourage sharing experiences and tricks. Like I said, I had some of my best results to date on test batches using this method, a nice good clear yellow color top layer and a smooth separation, and it's so far washed very nicely. At least you don't also have to contend with 76% hu

Re: [Biofuel] Resource windfall!

Copper and vegetable oil: "I'm not so worried about the copper but what the copper does to the fuel. Did you ever check what happened toyour fuel properties like oxidation stability and acid value? A lotof research has been done in Germany on VO (and biodiesel) fuelproperties, and who I consider as

Re: [Biofuel] methoxide solution - missing scale

Hey Brian I've run into problems with measuring lye myself, and ultimately managed to work out a loose but somewhat workable way to measure out the lye by volume. It produced some of my best results to date, too, so I think I'm safe to share it with yas. Sodium Hydroxide has a density of 2.1 gra

[Biofuel] Resource windfall!

I was rooting around under the house recently, trying to find a rumored stockpile of materials left over from when we built the house, and lo and behold I found it.   Or something that pretended to be it, at least.   I now have, in my possession, some several dozen feet of copper piping, elbows,

Re: [Biofuel] Grey water heat recovery and low tech Solar collectors????

my preference. Certainly less taxing on our NG water heater, though. And cool showers are pretty effective at cleaning if you've been sweating heavily recently, I've found. Very relaxing too. Just another data point. -Kurt __

Re: [Biofuel] Cummins unaware of fuel crisis?

>From what I've been able to read both in my campus library and online... it sounds almost like they were getting their test results from a poor batch of the fuel. Maybe a bad commercial mixture? It also sounds like they're doing a great deal of "CTA": Covering Their Ass. If something goes wrong

Re: [Biofuel] SUV Drivers in Paris Get Wind Knocked Out of Them

On 10/11/05, Greg and April <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it me, or is the civilian Hummer, really bigger and annoying whencompared to the military Humvee? Latest news is that the military is actually looking into hybridizing their HumVees. That would, to me, be utterly hilarious, since they alread

Re: [Biofuel] Alright, I'm stumped.

On 10/11/05, Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oops, sorry, that message got a bit fouled up, wasn't in ASCII, second try:> > http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_vehicle.html#whatdo> >What should you do if your fuel doesn't pass the wash-test?>>>Well, for one thing I'm certainly not givin

Re: [Biofuel] Alright, I'm stumped.

http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_vehicle.html#whatdo What should you do if your fuel doesn't pass the wash-test? Well, for one thing I'm certainly not giving up. Just stumped. I've licked carburetor problems, idling issues, helped rebuild transmissions, and above all I'm paying my own way th

Re: [Biofuel] Alright, I'm stumped.

On 10/10/05, Thomas Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The "crappy mayonnaise" sounds like soap. That's my ultimate thought, too. "Added a very carefully measured amount of my methoxide, 100mL, to the reprocessing candidate in the blender." ...     "Anyway, five hours after reprocess

[Biofuel] Alright, I'm stumped.

Okay, so earlier this week I tried my first batch. Didn't go so hot, it was still a little cloudy after I was done. Emulsed like crap when I tried to wash it, to the point of a full 50% of the test wash ending up a crappy mayonnaise consistency. To date, after 36+ hours of settling, I barely have 1

[Biofuel] First batch problems, second batch attempt.

Right, mixed up batch one last night. Unfortunately it was pretty improvised; One I need to get a better scale (This one only measures down to the nearest two grams, how screwy is that?), and two I need to get a dryer place to work. Pictures! Batch number one was made in an improvised Drill-press

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