Re: [Biofuel] One ton of brush and untreated wood

2005-11-28 Thread Leon Hulett
Mathew, I understand you could make methanol or ethanol from your wood. I don't know the details, but I understand you would have to chip the wood. Then hydrolyze the wood with a dilute acid like; hydrochloric, sulfuric or sulphorous acid. Then ferment the sugars formed and distill the liquid

Re: [Biofuel] E10 experience here in Manila

2005-09-23 Thread Leon Hulett
Chris and Patrick, I agree onyour standards issue, the government can't make a standard. One time I searched and searched for the government's definition of "standard". I couldn't find it and they said try ISO. I found that "ISO" doesn't mean "standards" it is a word in itself. To me a standard

Re: [Biofuel] E10 experience here in Manila

2005-09-23 Thread Leon Hulett
the S in ISO stands for? http://www.iso.org/iso/en/ISOOnline.frontpage Leon Hulett wrote: Chris and Patrick, I agree on your standards issue, the government can't make a standard. One time I searched and searched for the government's definition of standard. I couldn't find

Re: [Biofuel] wind and current power

2005-09-15 Thread Leon Hulett
Zeke Yewdall, Your point is well taken. I like to think the humanities are more important than technology. That people are more important than things. You ask, "Is it that we hope to engineer a technological solution to ourenvironmental/social problems?" I say, yes. I think some wind

Re: [Biofuel] wind and current power

2005-09-14 Thread Leon Hulett
A.P.VORA That link didn't work for me. Can you check it? Leon Leon Hulett [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey

Re: [Biofuel] wind and current power

2005-09-14 Thread Leon Hulett
://ornae.com/ On Sep 13, 2005, at 2:43 PM, Leon Hulett wrote: TarynToo, Sorry, I can't help you with any vision of the Victorian or Scholastic scope of knowledge... But I might add a few things on the wind and my idea. I got a package of wind data on the upper air from

Re: [Biofuel] wind and current power

2005-09-13 Thread Leon Hulett
@sustainablelists.org Date: 9/13/05 1:53:18 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] wind and current power On Sep 12, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Leon Hulett wrote: I did a tiny proposal to Cal Edison in California back in the 80s on Wind Energy Systems in the Jet Stream to see if they were interested. I had visited

Re: [Biofuel] wind and current power

2005-09-12 Thread Leon Hulett
I did a tiny proposal to Cal Edison in California back in the 80s on Wind Energy Systems in the Jet Stream to see if they were interested. I had visited their Solar One Site and thought they might like to do something with wind. What would you like to know? Leon L. Hulett, PE [Original