Re: [biofuel] Re: Methanol Ethanol

2003-12-01 Thread Dan Maker
girl_mark_fire said: Randy Davis in Sonoma County CA who is a very visible SVO/biodiesel guy in their SVO coop. (virgin oil, regularly) Ken Provost on this board (WVO) Any regularity on this Ken? From reading your notes, it sounded like you ended up with more soap than BD... Laurie from

Re: [biofuel] Re: Methanol Ethanol

2003-12-01 Thread Ken Provost
on 12/1/03 6:34 AM, Dan Maker at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any regularity on this Ken? From reading your notes, it sounded like you ended up with more soap than BD... OK, Dan -- I'm gonna tell you my story once (even tho it's well documented in scores of messages in the archives), and

Re: [biofuel] Re: Methanol Ethanol

2003-12-01 Thread Dan Maker
Ken Provost said: I used it for over a year in a 5:1 mix with methanol As I understand the chemistry, the methanol was creating the methoxide (K or Na) which was providing the catylist for your reaction, while the ethanol was doing the esterfication. This is something that the chemist and I

[biofuel] Re: Methanol Ethanol

2003-12-01 Thread skillshare
I'm sorry, Dan, but in the real world, biodiesel doesn't lend itself well to theory. You should just get into making small liter batches, lots of people started this way and you;d get a lot further this way then just trying to apply scientific theory on the internet without making the stuff.

[biofuel] Re: Methanol Ethanol

2003-11-30 Thread girl_mark_fire
Randy Davis in Sonoma County CA who is a very visible SVO/biodiesel guy in their SVO coop. (virgin oil, regularly) Ken Provost on this board (WVO) Laurie from the Veggieavenger forum who is also a SOnoma person. (virgin oil) those are just people I know of. Two of the three hve access to our

Re: [biofuel] Re: Methanol/Ethanol in Gas

2001-11-26 Thread steve spence
: [biofuel] Re: Methanol/Ethanol in Gas Hi all, Can i buy unleaded gasoline and just add methanol or ethanol that comes from a still? Any performance boost in doing so? How much should i add. Tnx Ken Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send

[biofuel] Re: Methanol/Ethanol in Gas

2001-11-20 Thread Ken
Hi all, Can i buy unleaded gasoline and just add methanol or ethanol that comes from a still? Any performance boost in doing so? How much should i add. Tnx Ken Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Universal Inkjet Refill Kit $29.95 Refill any ink cartridge

[biofuel] Re: Methanol/Ethanol in Gas

2001-11-20 Thread k5farms
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Can i buy unleaded gasoline and just add methanol or ethanol that comes from a still? Any performance boost in doing so? How much should i add. Tnx Ken To mix ethanol with gas, use enough benzene or benzanol to stop the