Might be easier to just put the volvo diesel in it. From what I
understand, the volvo 2.4 liter diesel was just a 6 cylinder version
of the 1.6 used in all the VW stuff, made by VW/Audi so alot of parts
are interchangeable.
I agree, it would be challenge though. I tried putting a VW diesel in
Yeah. The volvo diesels are pretty rare compared to the Mercs.
There's an old diesel jetta for sale on ebay right now. I was just
there looking for a 1.6 diesel engine actually.
Z
On 10/27/05, Kurt Nolte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/27/05, Zeke Yewdall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Might
Cooling. Any thermal power plant rejects roughly 60 - 70% of the
energy from burning fuel as waste heat. Some plants use big ponds
that just sit there and give off heat (evaporating in the process),
and some use cooling towers (that's what the giant concrete things are
on nuclear power plants,
Unfortunately, there are too many specialized engineering software
packages that I use every day that can only operate under windows
(often they are even picky about the version of windows) for me to
consider Linux. If it was just web browsing, spreadsheets, word
processing, and the like, I'd
Sometimes I wonder if the rest of the world understands that all
americans don't support GW and his policies though... After all, we
claim to be a democracy, so therefore, shouldn't the government by
nature reflect the will of it's people.
In reality, only my congressional representative
but that does not mean that people could not have acces to a
voting terminal. That must be a very scary thought.
Joe
Zeke Yewdall wrote:
Sometimes I wonder if the rest of the world understands that all
americans don't support GW and his policies though... After all, we
claim
Ah.. My '91 rabbit isn't even running yet. Currently the car's in
the driveway, and the rebuilt engine's on the garage floor... But
with luck, it'll be up and running on waste veggie oil in a few more
weeks, or months (3 months and counting so far)
On 10/27/05, Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An interesting case in point is the small town that I'm moving to.
Back in the 70's they set up their own participatory democracy (not a
representative democracy), and basically succeeded from county
control. They have their own building department, water board, etc.
Only 60 some people live
viz straight represetative democracy - be careful what you wish for. If
Saudi Arabia had a pure representational system they'd wind up with a
far more radical Wahab state.
Well, that would not be so good for the US I agree. But are you
saying that a dictatorship is better than a
Huh?
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- President Theodore Roosevelt - 1906
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From: Zeke Yewdall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] oil price gouging poll
I wasn't around in the 60's, but as long as I remember, we
No experience with the I-mark, but if it has the same 2.2 NA liter
diesel engine as the pickup from the same year, it should be a good
catch. Those engines were known to be pretty bulletproof, and also
good for use with SVO or biodiesel. Slow as dirt, but 35mpg in the 4wd
trucks. The car should
I wasn't around in the 60's, but as long as I remember, we wore
seatbelts. My dad refused to start the car if everyone didn't have
their belt on, and he even added belts to some older vehicals that
didn't have them.
How did this thread turn from price gouging to seat belt use anyway?
On
Don't know if the whole list would, but I would. I'm not a Peugeot
fan (I'd only seen them in Africa, so I didn't know they existed in
the US till you found one), but I'm a fan of any old diesels --
because they can be run on biodiesel, of course.
Zeke
Apparently I stirred up some interest with
Not quite a direct answer to your questions, but one thing I've found
very helpful when taking apart engines that I lack manuals for (or
even ones that I have generic manuals for), is to take LOTS of digital
pictures before ripping into it. Then you can refer to them when you
are wondering
in paper bags, that are marked with
location. (This works well for things like injector pumps, or gearboxes that
have shims, etc.)
regards Doug.
On Thursday 20 October 2005 10:55, Zeke Yewdall wrote:
Not quite a direct answer to your questions, but one thing I've found
very helpful when taking
I stopped by one of the small town hardware stores on my way to work
this morning. I was hunting for the 99% Isopropyl alcohol I had bought
there years ago. No luck they don't carry it any longer. They did have
other alcohols which I am unfamiliar with. methyl ester ketone? (sp)
I have no
I stand corrected.
On 10/19/05, Ken Provost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's right, but the hardener is methyl ethyl ketone
peroxide -- a very different thing from simple MEK.
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On Oct 19, 2005, at 11:12 AM, Zeke Yewdall wrote:
Methyl Ethyl Ketone is used as the hardening agent in
fiberglass work. NASTY stuff. Ketones aren't technically
alcohols anyway, if I remember my organic chemistry right.
That's right, but the hardener is methyl
Wait. Are you are running unheated WVO?? I have heard that you can do
this with the old mercedes because they have a much stronger injector
pump design than most everything else. But I don't think it's
generally recommended in anything else, especially in anything with
Lucas injector pumps.
The
Well, it should be the same as any other newer direct injection
diesel. Typically these don't have any trouble on high quaility
biodiesel, but often have problems with lower quaility biodiesel
(unwashed fuel, glycerin in the fuel, or incompletely reacted
fuel). I don't have any specific experience
If Kia sold diesels in the US, I would probably consider one...What
I've found is that just about anything sold in the US with a gas engine
and automatic transmission, is available in europe or asia with a
diesel and a manual transmission. Sort of blows holes in the
arguement that they use here
Exactly. I still want the toyota made VW Taro that we had in
Africa. Way better (fuel consumption, as well as off road
handling and load capacity) than the toyota tacoma available here in
the US.On 10/18/05, Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Shoot - I drove all over Africa in a stick
Since most of the energy for BD production is heating (right? -- I
haven't calculated out kilojoules used for different uses), I would
use solar thermal collectors instead of PV. Small PV array to run the
pumps/mixer etc. Solar thermal collectors are 40 - 80% efficient, so
the area will be much
CSI president Pam Solo said: Americans have seen too much
price gouging and too little action from Washington on
energy prices, fuel-efficient vehicles and our dangerous
reliance on foreign oil. The benefits of making 40 miles
per gallon the standard for all autos in the United States
are
http://www.dair.co.uk/
Two cylinder, four piston, horizontally opposed diesel engine for
airplanes. I want one of these for my car, but they're too pricey as
of yet.
On 10/15/05, Kirk Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Geek on!
http://www.intertrader.net/ptfdeltic.htm
kirk
On Oct 15,
My drums have come with palm oil and stuff so it hasn't been an issue,
but I have used biodiesel for cleaning other stuff covered with
petroleum oil products and it works good. You'll end with some
engine-oil contaminated biodiesel, which can be diluted and used as
fuel, if you don't mind a
I saw an analysis somewhere before the last election, which pointed
out that the two parties in the US are really made up several factions
that really have little in common. For example the Republican party
is made up of fiscal conservatives, social conservatives, and
neo-cons/war hawks. These
Hmmm. Interesting direction this thread is taking...
While we are talking about showers, why exactly is it assumed in the
US that everyone must take a shower every day. When in a dry
climate, not doing much physical work (like going to the office every
day) I get by with every other day fine.
Yeah, maybe he understands it more than we think, and he's just
frustrated about the complete lack of uniformity and perponderance of
red tape people in utility interconnection agreements...
On 10/14/05, Chip Mefford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Zeke
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On 10/14/05, Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On that topic
http://www.gridpoint.com/news/
Zeke Yewdall wrote:
Yeah, maybe he understands it more than we think, and he's just
frustrated about the complete lack of uniformity and perponderance of
red tape people in utility
Since the greywater portion of the heat exchanger must operate under
very the low pressure head of a gravity drain and still flow at an
adequate rate, it must be quite large in diameter. It is essentially
a drain pipe and is no more likely to get clogged than any other drain
pipe. Since the
Um, they already exist, George
I had an interesting opportunity to go see some research and
development being done on solar energy. I'm convinced, someday in the
relative near future we'll be able to have units on our houses that
will be able to power electronics within our houses, and
So if we assume that energy to heat water costs about $15/Mbtu (or
about 1.5 cents per MJ), then you've saved about 9 cents on that
shower. Times four showers a day for a year, and you've saved
$131 Since incoming water temp is usually more like 5 or 10C here
in the northern US, you'd
Agreed. The only loss of power from B100 that I get it when the
filter clogs up from all the gunk it cleaned out of the fuel system,
which you can't really blame on the fuel characteristics as much as
poor maintenance and dirty diesel fuel previously.
On 10/13/05, Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Item 1. Hybrid cars: Find the right person to ask, ask
publically, and put the answer in print: Why is it that four
years ago hybrids got 50 mpg, and now they get 25 mpg? What's the
point?
This is because the US market has been focused on performance, not
efficiency. The first hybrids
with electricity. Interesting
comparison. Throw another log or two in the fire, dude! They're renewable
and CO2 neutral.
Tom Irwin
From: Zeke Yewdall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org
Sent: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:06:05 -0300
Subject: Re: [Biofuel
in all that copper smelting/fabrication?
Zeke Yewdall wrote:
So if we assume that energy to heat water costs about $15/Mbtu (or
about 1.5 cents per MJ), then you've saved about 9 cents on that
shower. Times four showers a day for a year, and you've saved
$131 Since incoming water temp
Just for clarification, all of my calculations and discussion were
intended for heating the incoming DHW supply with the greywater heat,
not space heating. Sorry about not being more specific earlier.
Zeke
On 10/13/05, Michael Redler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
h?
I reviewed your
You forgot to add the road tax and a markup for profit to the
biodiesel... Anyone who is selling biodiesel has those costs too.
On 10/9/05, Jason and Katie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I sat here and figured up the ballpark cost of parts for BD in a 390
gallon batch-( i started my numbers with a
It's the same as for the cars -- only bigger. You can't get the kits,
but all the stuff is just standard auto parts store stuff. We've
converted a full sized school bus for about $500 in parts. I'd
recommend reading the websites that talk about how to do it for cars,
then once you understand the
filter gets clogged -- then it sort of
struggles along at 25mph or less till you fix it.
On 10/12/05, Jeromie Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What MPG/SVO do you get?
Zeke Yewdall wrote:
It's the same as for the cars -- only bigger. You can't get the kits,
but all the stuff is just standard
For the big refiners, I think the answer is obvious -- political inertia
But for small refiners or starups, the biggest reason I can think of
it the capital and time required to bring a plant on line. Who wants
to lend a few million to a small entrepenuer to produce biodiesel when
all the
Here's some links on the military's reasons for going hybrid. Mostly
better performance and redundancy from individual hub motors, the
ability to travel in battery only mode to eliminate thermal signature,
and fuel reduction.
http://evworld.com/archives/conferences/evs14/humvee.html
Good find! On the smoke, I'd replace the coolant hoses so you can get
it up to operating temp, and check the glow plugs.It could be
something as simple as a bit of unburned fuel due to being cold...,
and will go way when it's warm.
On 10/7/05, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
October
I think that the volvo diesels were just a 2 cylinder longer version
of the VW diesels. Makes sense, since the VW was 1.6 liters, and the
volvo was 2.4 liters. I've heard that the puegot diesels were used in
80's jeeps, but this was on an unconfirmed internet forum and seems
fishy to me. Only
Somewhere around 400psi I think? Check the VW forum.
I've tried the copper flake sealant for the coolant when I blew the
head gasket on my subaru. Actually worked okay for a while, but it
also finished clogging my heater core that was mostly clogged before.
I've found that replacing a head
There is a vast amount of wasteland suitable for installing solar
collectors on, that truely is a wasteland as far as nature is
concerned:
Roofs of shopping malls and big box stores. Some of the larger stores
can easily fit a MW of PV modules on the roof -- and there is no
shortage of roofs
I can't speak for size, but I do know that homes in the south are
typically built without any insulation. When gas prices were low,
this was seen as an extra construction expense that was only justified
in the north... Even many of the ones here in Colorado from the 60's
and 70's had minimal
Apparently around here you can buy methanol from the pump at the local
race course -- the race cars use it for fuel. It's around $5/gallon
or so I think. If you can find any race car people in your area, they
may know where to get it.
Zeke
On 10/3/05, ReZn0r [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Bobby,
I believe that there are number of people on this list who have used
biodiesel in furnaces designed for heating oil. Might be something in
the archives from people who have done this.
On 10/3/05, Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stop. Don't. Been there, done that. BD won't climb a wick.
What if we tapped into the same source of energy as the hurricanes,
but without the hurricane.There are turbines that at operate on
the temperature differential between warm surface water and cold deep
water in the ocean. Is the gulf of mexico cold enough at the bottom
to run one of these?
Around here (colorado, USA), the organic soap making place has lots of
em. All their chemicals and oils get delivered in big barrels, either
steel or poly, and they just have to dispose of them afterwards.
Zeke
On 9/30/05, ROY Washbish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mike
If you have an oil changing
Because reading a newspaper might cause inadvertent education If
you drive it to the corner walmart to buy potato chips and soda to eat
while watching deperate housewifes that would be better.
Who is he to say I shouldn't drive my Cadillac Escalade to buy a newspaper?
Do they make a distinction between propylene glycol, which is actually
used as an ingredient in food, and ethlyene glycol, which is
poisonous? We only use propylene glycol solution now, but I wonder if
this requirement is still from back in the 70's and early 80's when
various stuff (ethylene
Mike. You should go work for Karl Rove. Excellent skills at taking
quotes out of context.
OK Zeke, you got my attention with...
...and figured that killing a few people in order to kick start the
political process and
eventually potentially save many more people was worth it.
I was
NGO's,
the UN, and especially the western aid agencies are all out to keep Africa
and the African people in submission to the western interests, and one cant
but help see this in the film.
In general, I agree, however not all NGO's are out to do this. I
worked for Engineers Without Borders,
On the positive side, circulating hot water through the flue should
increase heat transfer rate considerably compared to the original
design as an air to liquid heat exhanger. But the hot water from the
collectors are also much lower temperature than flue gasses. I'm
interested in hearing the
Not to be too much of a conspiracy theorist, but if you were trying to
increase funding for your bioterrorism department, don't you think it
might work great if someone internal leaked a little anthrax through
the postal system, and created a big hullabuloo, which would get
congress in gear to
So it's okay for civilians to make battlefield decisions in peace time
- decisions that effectively discount some human life in lieu of a
theoretically greater good?
This has been going on for years, whether or not we approve.
Actually, it's probably what inspired the old Star Trek episode.
Watching national geographic? I thought it was a written
publication. Maybe a result of my not owning a TV...
On 9/26/05, Rexis Tree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even national geographic predicted that a hurricane in New Orleans will be
devastating one whole damn year ago. Unfortunately most
2 - use a drain down open system instead of glycol. This allows you to
use water everywhere. A pump (not a circulator) pumps the water up to your
rooftop collectors when the system senses available heat (standard, cheap
solar differential controls) and gravity drains it down when the system
I'm a bit squimish in killing animals, too. I was raised as a city
boy. I was giving thought to lethal injection with potassium chloride
solution. Pigs and humans have lots of similarities. It's worth a question
to the local vet.
Why eat animals then? Eating meat is a rather inefficient
Recently (this spring I believe) Home Power Magazine had a series of
articles with nice diagrams of all the various solar hot water
systems, space heating and DHW, batch heating, closed loop, and open
loop systems. I'd recommend searching their archives, as these were
the easiest to understand
This is a well documented effect of biodiesel, and some emissions
testing places recommend filling up with biodiesel and trying again
when an old diesel won't meet emissions any more.
I don't enough about diesel engine combustion chemistry to explain why
it does this though. Perhaps due to
Is there a way to balance the PH of the glycol to extend the life of
it? I knew that there is maintenance. I assumed I would have to
periodically flush and replace.
Hmmm. I'm not actually sure :) I know that it is recommended to
test it every two years, but no one actually said what to
You can actually buy C-PVC pipe for hot water piping here. Since the
heat exchanger is not going to be operating at over 90C or so, it
should work fine, except that it may be very difficult to get 100mm
diamter CPVC. Normally anything that large is drain pipe not hot
water supply, and will be
Well, in this case, there is not supposed to be any heat transfer
through the PVC, so I wouldn't be worried about that. I agree that
metal would be better, it you can find some large diameter metal pipe
for cheap. What about just putting a coil of copper tubing in a big
metal trash can?
-PVC I seen are for heated floor and they
are transparent/yellow, if you ask me that have a slightly
defect color seeing, as most men. If you want a more exact
color, always ask a women.
Hakan
At 21:04 27/09/2005, you wrote:
Zeke Yewdall wrote:
You can actually buy C-PVC pipe for hot water
If it was so easy, as you say, why it is such an expensive development
hunt, to try to find suitable and economical storage solutions?
Hakan
Hakan
I actually agree with alot of your reply, that storing hydrogen is
significantly harder than natural gas. However, I think that the main
issue,
Yes, there are legitimate and good purposes to all of their plans.
But based on history I think we can trust the US DOD to ignore the
uses you have pointed out which could save lives, and focus on killing
people.
On 9/27/05, John Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Keith Addison posted an article
Halliburton Gets Contract To Pry Gold Fillings From New Orleans Corpses'
Teeth
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40525rss=1
What a day when the spoof articles are no less believable than the
real ones.
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I agree that from a pollution issue, hydrogen fuel cell vehicals are
much better than biodiesel, but for now (and probably for the next 15
years at least), biodiesel makes much more sense -- mainly because we
could fully transition in probably 5 years if we really tried. By
then, the hydrogen
miles a gallon or a
jetta diesel getting 45 miles per gallon.
--- Zeke Yewdall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah. I want the 2.5l diesel D-max too. But
instead I just bought a
21 year old Mitsubishi pickup because that was the
last time they
imported the diesel to the US. I can't justify
As far as I can tell, Clipper wind is the current representation of
the former Zond wind, which was absorbed into Enron Wind before the
Enron parent company went under. I thought that GE had taken the wind
portion of Enron, but apparently some of the people formed Clipper
wind instead.
On
Transestherification swaps out the glycerol chain for an alcohol one w/i the
molecular bond of the oil, which, like Keith said, makes it burn...or rather
explode under pressure better than SVO. I believe in researching storage
legality that BD must be treated as a Category 3 explosive, you
What if we had sent that money to alternative energy research...
Haven't you been paying attention? That would be an unfair subsidy
that undermines the free market
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Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Zeke Yewdall wrote:
Anyway, if you do mean biodiesel, there wouldn't be much point in
making a list, biodiesel works in all diesel engines.
Is there anyone on this list running biodiesel in the CRD engines? I
have heard rumors (mostly from the same
Soilent green anyone?
I suspect that the problem is the energy input require to depolymerize
the input feedstock. Is this more or less than the energy we get
out of it.
On 9/26/05, Walker Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't know if this has been discussed here or not, but if it
works as
sustainable crop.
Interestingly, my dad's 1953 bulldozer is technically a PD system as
well, although completely mechanical. I haven't tried running it on
biodiesel or SVO, but I doubt it would have trouble.
On 9/26/05, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Zeke Yewdall wrote
or 16 to 1. With a big cylinder
the air loses less heat to the walls. I suspect the oil field engines
were/are unsupercharged.
Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Zeke Yewdall wrote:
alot of the
industrial diesels for power generation are designed to run
Are you thinking of running it on biodiesel made from WVO, or on the WVO itself?
On 9/25/05, Julian Voelcker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An enterprising local farmer has started making and selling 100%
Biodiesel from WVO (Waste Vegetable Oil) and is selling it for 85pence
per litre (about 10-15%
I'd also be interested in non-electric solutions, as a cabin PV system
isn't happy with a 300 watt block heater all night. And often you
have to park at the bottom of the driveway instead of at the house
half a mile up the hill
I was thinking of some sort of biodiesel powered heater, with an
Any one who has done at least a little research into
the biodiesel conversion process is aware that it removes glycerin from
the wvo and converts the oil into esters. Viscosity reduction may be a
by product but is not why the process is done.
I was under the impression that the viscosity
From what I read, the device functions by assisting in dispersion of
the fuel -- just like the new super high pressure CRD injection
systems. So if it really does do that, I can see that it would help.
However, I am a little skeptical that I can actually do this. Even
assuming that it perfectly
.
Anyway, if you do mean biodiesel, there wouldn't be much point in
making a list, biodiesel works in all diesel engines.
Is there anyone on this list running biodiesel in the CRD engines? I
have heard rumors (mostly from the same people who claim that
biodiesel will ruin any diesel engine,
Interesting... I live about 25 miles from NREL, and honestly, they
are not very interested in promoting, testing, making standards for,
etc, for biodiesel. Their biofuels division is much more interested
in pie in the sky research on hydrogen fuels (due to political
directives).There is
Commerciall tanks tend to be pretty expensive. I have heard of people
doing as John says with two diameters of pipe. I think there is also
a company that makes just double wall heat exhangers that you can buy
by the foot. I can't remember the name, but they usually have an ad
in Home Power
For heavy fuels of indeterminate chemical composition, I usually use
2.5 to 3 for a rule of thumb for lbs of CO2 produced for each lb of
fuel consumed. I was actually suprised that this example was about
the same weight of CO2 as fuel.
But very roughly put and depending on the efficiency of
I'm sure there were egyptians, greeks, romans, spaniards, britons,
russians, etc who saw the collapse of their respective civillizations
and empires well before it happened too. Why should the US fair any
better?
On 9/23/05, Gustl Steiner-Zehender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hallo,
You already
So, can you just burn 192 proof ethanol in an engine? I can't see any
fundamental problem, other than a little decrease in burning
temperature from having an additional 4% non-combustible stuff in
there. But we are already using air that has ~80% non-combustible
nitrogen in it...
On 9/22/05,
It's called the Echo in the US, and since we have lots of E10 here in
the wintertime, I assume it is designed for that. It's not on the EPA
list of cars compatible with E85. I don't have any direct experience
with it though.
On 9/22/05, Patrick Anthony Opaco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Mike,
Yes -- our capabilities have expanded alot since then. Some of those
other countries did take out their entire world too -- it just
happened to be one river basin was the extent of their reach. Global
warming does present more disturbing questions about rebuilding
however, since there is no
I don't know how much I would trust the DOE for certain things
anyway... I trust that their historical data on energy is accurate,
but the predictions, not so much. Have you looked at what they
project the price of a barrel of oil to be in 15 years? Somewhere
around $25. I suspect there
Ooops.
On 9/24/05, Chris Tan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry guys but I'm referring to the Philippine DoE.
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Okay, this an admitedly anti-Bush source, but I have to say that he
makes a very convincing arguement, given the history of this
administration.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mike_whi_050923_the_inevitable_war_w.htm
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... I dont even want to know... this is obviously wy
over my head... thanks a lot, now my brain hurts. :-( :-(
Ray J
Zeke Yewdall wrote:
For heavy fuels of indeterminate chemical composition, I usually use
2.5 to 3 for a rule of thumb for lbs of CO2 produced for each
When I look up a Boeing 747-200 I get about 365 tonnes for the total
take off weight, with a maximum fuel weight of about 160 tonnes, for a
range of 13,000 km. This translates into 480 tonnes of CO2 for a
8,000 mile trip.
For a smaller Airbus A320-200 the takeoff weight is 75 tonnes, with 18
Honestly I don't know, I'm just going by the biodiesel used in a
non-native environment will remove engine buildup that can clog fuel filters
easily statement. With any luck at all, I'll have some really good
emissions testing to share w/i a few months.
Correct me if I'm wrong, basing this
True, there is no proof of global warming. But my roommate said it
well last night while we were watching the scare coverage of Rita on
Fox news. He said that he was willing to admit that it was possible
that it could be just cyclical variations in hurricane patterns and
not global warming, if
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