Mon,
You got the same problem with a Phil. Coconut Authority manager here in
Zamboanga City. He has been into coco-diesel for about 15 years
now, and he cannot go into commercial production due to the DOE
requirements. The tests are expensive.
We were in a meeting with DOST-PCIERD requesting
Ken Dunn wrote:
When talking to friends, family and others regarding the
Earth-friendly practices that we can all include in our lifestyles, I
always stumble over quantifying the true price of packaging for
consumer goods. Its easy enough to calculate the transportation costs
of an avacodo from
Jeromie,
Who should have the right to be upset?
At 05:11 07/10/2005, you wrote:
Ken Dunn wrote:
snip
Of course, the plastic
won't break down in any of our lifetimes yet, its not easy to
determine the displacement of a resource when you don't know the
inputs. For many (Americans anyway)
Hi Hakan and all,
One of the real problems is not having an economic system that accounts for the lack of degradability or environmental consequences of products produced. This is a world wide problem not limited to the U.S. More than10 years ago I worked on a research team to make a
with the rising cost of oil these will
eventually become valuable resources,
Its also only a matter of time before we
start mining our rubbish dumps!
There's also a French company i saw on
Beyond 2000, it had to do with turning tires back into its raw
components.
once again once bought
Nuts. I guess I've just wasted 5 pounds, then.
Keith Addison wrote:
Someone just advised me of this:
check out ebay item number 8002774582. this ebayer is selling links
to your web page
See:
http://snipurl.com/i7rn
eBay.co.uk: biodiesel (not lpg gas petrol diesel)
Hi Tom and Bede,
Maybe the coming oil crises will be a blessing
for our earth. Because the moment oil is no loner
available, we have to produce fuel and plastics
etc. from other sources. If all playing on a
level field, the possibilities are more equal and
the wealth will be more
Bede a écrit :
with the rising cost of oil these will eventually become valuable
resources,
Its also only a matter of time before we start mining our rubbish dumps!
There's also a French company i saw on Beyond 2000, it had to do with
turning tires back into its raw components.
once
The many projects and technologies that pass or fail to make it into the
regulated environment have a common thread. To measure and improve, we must
compare apples to apples. An energy credit trading scheme is a stopgap measure
consistant with current tech levels. It allows measurable
Looks to me like all you need to do is wash and you'll have good biodiesel
Bobby
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Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 21:09:01
Could somebody give me a clue as to what I am
Hakan Falk wrote:
It is the most wasteful people on the earth, by no comparison.
4+% of the world population, who uses 25% of the world
resources. It is not a question of insult, it is the sad truth. To
hide behind a hypocritical emotion about insult, instead of put
an end to the unfair and
Thank you all for your reply. I have the spare filters in the car and
will change when needed.
The tank filter will have to be done when I have the time or if needed.
As now the car runs like a rocket on the Bio, a little bit of white
smoke when cold.
Again thanks
Peter
Hello Ben
Could somebody give me a clue as to what I am doing wrong? All my
batches except one have turned out pale in color. I am using new oil
in 1 liter batches. My measurements are accurate. Taking a big
breath now...
Here is a picture of my samples.
with the rising cost of oil these will eventually become valuable resources,
Its also only a matter of time before we start mining our rubbish dumps!
There's also a French company i saw on Beyond 2000, it had to do
with turning tires back into its raw components.
once again once bought back, it
Sorry...need more coffee...previous post should read...Europe has plunged
every generation into war WITHOUT US help...
Robert
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 06:36:37
If only. We here in US don't seem to learn very quickly.
Hi Tom and Bede,
Maybe the coming oil crises will be a blessing
for our earth. Because the moment oil is no loner
available, we have to produce fuel and plastics
etc. from other sources. If all playing on a
level field, the
With all due respect, The USA is a highly visible consumer. Their arrogance
and might is right policies are a natural target. We would be remiss to
forget their considerable humanitarian contribution (no not war). Europe has
plunged every generation into war with US help. Not only is the
Jeromie,
I thought that we talked about energy on this list and
especially oil. In that case you can go to
http://www.bp.com
and look at their statistic and reporting, it is regarded
as reliable source and generally accepted.
You can also look at the works of ASPO or Matt Simmon's
on oil
Robert,
I do not understand what you mean by trust laws.
If you mean the anti trust laws, Reagan got rid
of them, during his presidency. Before that, US
had this 70% rule to protect consumers from being
dependent of a monopoly source.
Hakan
At 14:36 07/10/2005, you wrote:
With all due
Robert,
You were right before, now you got it wrong. Now
I have to ask you to read up on the world wars
and the influence from the US finance powers.
Iraq was plunged into the Iranian war by US and
was not really successful, so the US occupation
got rid of a failing leader. You are right in
This is so true, and the flip side is that even if we were to get really
serious about recycling, it is still only the third R of the three R's
Reduce Re-use and Recycle. The area where I live was the first in
Canada (maybe north america?) to institute a blue box recycling program
for
Hakan Falk a écrit :
Robert,
You were right before, now you got it wrong. Now
I have to ask you to read up on the world wars
and the influence from the US finance powers.
Iraq was plunged into the Iranian war by US and
was not really successful, so the US occupation
got rid of a failing
October 7, 2005
Hi everyone
After three months of wishy washy thinking and anxiety over money to
invest in my biodiesel project, this very moment my dream has been
realized. I am now the proud owner of a 1981 Peugeot 505 four cylinder
turbo charged diesel vehicle! I know what you are thinking,
Hakan
Thanks for the input, its appreciated. In response:
The Japanese Government targets a specific industry and supports the top few
competitors. Internally the mega structures are Kieretsu-based (thank you
MacArthur -a man with far too much glory for his skill level). The Allies
needed
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I'm a chemist.
Has any one written anything about the details of the chemistry in making
biodiesel.
Looks like you are doing a transesterification to replace glycerine with
methanol. This would drop the molecular wight and thus the viscosity.
adding a little bit of an surfactant (soap) would
Hi Brian,
About the Peugeot 505, If the smoke is blue and white, your car is
burning oil, this could be the o rings of the pistons or a liking
gasket on the head of the engine. About the coolant, it seems
that one of the lines are blocked I would recommend you to flash the
cooling system of the
Please use the list archives Marty.
http://snipurl.com/i8mp
Search results for 'magnasol'
Best wishes
Keith
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October 7, 2005
Hi everyone
After three months of wishy washy thinking and anxiety over money to
invest in my biodiesel project, this very moment my dream has been
realized. I am now the proud owner of a 1981 Peugeot 505 four cylinder
turbo charged diesel vehicle! I know what you are thinking,
Sorry...need more coffee...previous post should read...Europe has
plunged every generation into war WITHOUT US help...
Except this generation and the last one, which the US have plunged
into war all over the world all by itself, though they haven't been
the only ones it's true. I think you got
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
Brian,
When you get an old car, never assume that the last guy to turn a
wrench on it was competent. (Sorry to be negative! Yes, been there,
down that!)
It sounds like you have an over pressure issue in the engine caused one
of several things.
Check that the coolant is good, buy a coolant
Yesterday, our esteemed Imperial leader, W, gave a speech at a National
Endowment for Democracy event that attempted to both alleviate our fears and
cultivate our terror in order to garner support for his administration's
illogical foreign and domestic security policies. Below are the
ROFL
ROFL
ROFL
Excellent Earl! Are there audio clips available? I could use more audio
for my next protest song.
Joe
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Yesterday, our esteemed Imperial leader, W, gave a speech at a National
Endowment for Democracy event that attempted to both alleviate our fears and
Thank you Arden I must confer. I would also like to add that if we look
at people in an evolutionary sense we may find some interesting
parallels as to why some folks do VERY well on this type of diet and
others not. Consider those peoples that have for many more centuries
(more than modern
I'm glad you liked it. I think CNN has audio of the speech. That is I
first found the transcripts.
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ROFL
Hallo Folks,
An interesting site:
http://www.globalrichlist.com/
Gives one pause.
Happy Happy,
Gustl/Aug/Del
--
Je mehr wir haben, desto mehr fordert Gott von uns.
We can't change the winds but we can adjust our sails.
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle
Congratulations on the new car!
From my experience, if I were in your shoes, and looking at a foggy
day, I'd be thinking twice about mixing my methoxide today, the NaOH
will turn to liquid before you can blink, drawing water out of the air.
(That might clear out the fog)
Instead, I guess
Wow, too cool, you all are.
I knew I was in the right place to learn.
Dammit all, there is so much to learn.
Thanks Juan, I was hoping there was something I could do right away
before I find a service manual. Flushing the coolant is a great idea.
I will pull off some of the worse looking hoses and
Hello Brian.
I drive a 405 GLD with the smaller 1.9 L diesel. Your problems sounds
similar to any water cooled engine, starts with rust in the small holes of
the water passages, local overheating, head gasket burning and combustion
gasses leaking to the water jaket and built up the pressure in
Fantastic Michael.
Thank you so much for the advice.
Simple things often cause people a lot of trouble, while we sit
thinking, Well I 'm screwed if it is this or that. Better to begin
at the beginning. Your advice is perfect for me. Although I was a
highly skilled auto mechanic twenty years ago
There ia an Australian Peugeot (and other French cars) list: Aussiefrogs
I suggest you consider joining, as there are some very knowledgeable buffs on
the list.
regards Doug
(Peugeot 405SRDT: great car!)
On Saturday 08 October 2005 3:12, Keith Addison wrote:
October 7, 2005
Hi everyone
Hay
Just
joined the biodiesel world and this group as well.
I’m
from Israel my name is Golan.
Just
mixed my first 100-liter batch.
I use
electric pump about 16 liter a minute
2.5
kw heater.
I
preformed quality test (150 cc water 150 cc biodiesel shaked toghether in
ahalf aliter
Sorry all, I have to stand by my statement. Attached is a list of the top 20
wars in terms of military dead sonce WW1.
1 20,000,000 Second World War1937-45
2 8,500,000 First World War 1914-18
3 1,200,000 Korean War 1950-53
4
In using ethanol in autos and trucks with 'modern computerized fuel
injection systems are there any problems to anticipate? I understand that
many new gasoline cars and trucks can run on 85% ethanol, or a 5.5 to 1
ethanol to gasoline mix. Is it possible to modify such systems to run on
100%
Hay
Just
joined the biodiesel world and this group as well.
I’m
from Israel my name is Golan.
Just
mixed my first 100-liter batch.
I use
electric pump about 16 liter a minute
2.5
kw heater.
I
preformed quality test after 24 hours and got 4-5 millimeter white layer
In-between the
Hello Robert
Sorry all, I have to stand by my statement. Attached is a list of
the top 20 wars in terms of military dead sonce WW1.
1 20,000,000 Second World War1937-45
2 8,500,000 First World War 1914-18
3 1,200,000 Korean War
Louie,
You know once you start thinking about commercial production you
will find all sorts of hurdles and blocks put in your way by big
business and BIG Oil stooges in government. The idea is to discourage
anyone who tries to think independently and make him toe the line, or
tax it to death so
Your Welcome Brian!!
I am here to help and to learn from you guys :) On 10/7/05, Brian Rodgers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wow, too cool, you all are.I knew I was in the right place to learn.Dammit all, there is so much to learn.
Thanks Juan, I was hoping there was something I could do right
Look up Chemicals in the yellow pages Brenntag comes to mind 2.45 gal. 4
drums or more 3.45 for one up for smaller sizes.
Chris wrote:
Look up automobile in Yellow Pages, and find the guys that sell performance
parts, race car parts, etc. After a few calls, someone will tell you where
you
There is diesel Peuggie for sale on ebay, too.
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Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 6:05 PM
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There ia an Australian Peugeot (and other
Let's
say I wanted to start brewing my own B100 to save some money. Is it possible to
buy SVO at less than $2.50/gallon? And if so, where would one get such (in
Houston?) and how much would one have to buy? a 55gal drum? or
two?
Dave
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Hi Mike,
Interesting question, I'm new with this so I can't answer your question,
but what would the benefit be to adding glyceryl triacetate back to the
fuel be? Higher yields or better properties of the end result?
Thanks
Jim
michael skinner wrote:
I'm a chemist.
Has any one written
I have a dim memory from decades ago of reading a comment on the Peugeot
403/404 engines, which said that they were excellent and would have been
good racing engines for their size class - if they hadn't had rubber seals
(o-rings?) between the wet liners and the block (head?). Consider the
glycerine represent about 5% of the yield loss converting it woudl actually
boost what could be added back by giving you 3 times the volume you lost.
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Nice, Joe, thanks!
This is so true, and the flip side is that even if we were to get really
serious about recycling, it is still only the third R of the three R's
Reduce Re-use and Recycle. The area where I live was the first in
Canada (maybe north america?) to institute a blue box recycling
Let's say I wanted to start brewing my own B100 to save some money.
Is it possible to buy SVO at less than $2.50/gallon? And if so,
where would one get such (in Houston?) and how much would one have
to buy? a 55gal drum? or two?
Dave
I don't know about SVO prices in the US, but consider
Hi Mike,
Interesting question, I'm new with this so I can't answer your question,
but what would the benefit be to adding glyceryl triacetate back to the
fuel be? Higher yields or better properties of the end result?
Thanks
Jim
Archived messages on glyceryl triacetate:
http://snipurl.com/i8wx
Ben,
looks like it just needs a wash,
i had the same questions when i started, but it is usually kind of pale when you
use new oil. it doesn't tend to be darker until you use WVO.
jason
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im going to soung like a fool for saying this, but im good at that anyway...
what about hemp? its been fought over for years about whether or not its
worth the risk of raising for paper and other fiber materials, its basically
a scrub that has no nutritional value (that i know of anyway) and
Hello everybody
Thank you so much for the replies.
I was told when I got this car that it had a blown head gasket. The
reasoning the mechanic used was excess pressure on the coolant system.
Also, now that I have started the engine a few times it fires up
pretty quick.
Here is an excerpt from a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a dim memory from decades ago of reading a comment on the Peugeot
403/404 engines, which said that they were excellent and would have been
good racing engines for their size class - if they hadn't had rubber seals
(o-rings?) between the wet liners and the block
Gustl Steiner-Zehender wrote:
Hallo Folks,
An interesting site:
http://www.globalrichlist.com/
Wow! I knew I was comfortable and doing well, but that's a REAL eye
opener! What have I ever done to be in such elite company?
Gives one pause.
Indeed! Thanks Gustl!
Doug,
I never really checked it, but years ago it was said that Volvo used
the Peugot engine in their diesels initially and for many years.
Hakan
At 00:44 08/10/2005, you wrote:
I have a dim memory from decades ago of reading a comment on the Peugeot
403/404 engines, which said that they were
Brian Rodgers wrote:
Hello everybody
Thank you so much for the replies.
I was told when I got this car that it had a blown head gasket. The
reasoning the mechanic used was excess pressure on the coolant system.
Also, now that I have started the engine a few times it fires up
pretty quick.
Here is
Ok thanks
I realise that the compression should be comparatively similar between
cylinders, any ideas on what basic (ball park) compression should be
on a diesel engine? Antone know of a trick to seal the coolant system
for a minor leak coming from head gasket? Wishful thinking?
From the looks
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
I have turning wrenches for lots and lots of years. The in tank filter is
100,000.mikron and will stop up with water over the years I have had to fix
this kind of problem for myself and others, a quick and easy fix is to find
the first opening in the fuel line after the tank split the line open
Hi Louie / Ramon,
Well, I also do have something in the works. But it will be along the lines
of commercial production. If you can direct me to that PCA manager in Zambo
who wants to do something commercially, I may be able to help.
However, I have a different concept than what the two
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
http://evocm.com/ethanol/pvc_pics/DSC03856.JPG
Thanks guys, I thought I was doing something wrong.
Apparently, most of the pictures I see are wvo.
Keith, the sample is a combination of two pour offsso there is a liters worth of glycerin in the jar.
I dont have any translucent containers
Brian Rodgers wrote:
Ok thanks
I realise that the compression should be comparatively similar between
cylinders, any ideas on what basic (ball park) compression should be
on a diesel engine? Antone know of a trick to seal the coolant system
for a minor leak coming from head gasket? Wishful
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