Hi Keith,
The (palm) oil producers around here in Southern
Thailand titrate their oil to find the FFA and add the
precise amount of sodium hydroxide in water to squash
it so that they can sell the oil to the companies who
refine it further to food grade. The sodium hydroxide
solution used is
Lee,
Catalytic cracking is a rather involved chemical and mechanical
process, conducted under high temp and quite often high pressure.
Primary and co-products are extracted at different stages
throughout the process, using multitudes of techniques.
One look at a petrochemical facility and its
Lee,
While I agree entirely with Todd, I can see that you
are just busting to give it a go.
There are several forms of cracking processes and
subsequent re-forming carried out in your friendly
neighbourhood oil refinery. But historically, they
all grew from thermal cracking and the very wide
Thankyou Greg. Back to the drawing board... well, to the Buck knife
anyway. Or possibly spider silk, even if not as an all-purpose
everything-cutter.
Keith
- Original Message -
From: Keith Addison
Anyway, isn't this what SF writers call a monofilament?
Monofilament is only one
I wonder how much oil is in pumpkin seed?
Greg H.
57 gallons/acre.
Cucurbit Seed As Possible Oil Protein Sources
By Dr. Franklin W. Martin
After the hull is removed, cucurbit seeds contain about 50 percent
oil and up to 35 percent proteins. Most of their oil is made up of
non-saturated fatty
Well here is a small amount of information that The Revenoor CO. can provide
for answers.
First, the cheapest and easiest way to get the proof that you need is to make
it yourself.
Second, the legal way to do this is with an Alcohol Producers Permit from ATF.
Every still that The Revenoor
From the Stoves list at Crest:
At 09:02 14/09/02 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:
In any event, with most biofuels you remove the energy and are
still left with
the food -- or feed more often (for livestock). With ethanol the
feed value is
enhanced: the distillers dried grains by-product is more
On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Curtis Sakima wrote:
I'm certainly no expert on the subject, but isn't
un-denatured ethanol moonshine/ATF ... uh, you know
.???
Yes. I have no intention of drinking it, only using it to make biodiesel.
Unfortunately, the fact that I would be using it to make
On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Ken Provost wrote:
In the US, that would always be taxed as beverage alcohol
(I believe -- maybe there are some exceptions) and would
be prohibitively expensive.
Yeah, I was hoping that people here might know some sort of exception
related to making biodiesel. It would
What would make the AIR CAR more feasible is to use liquid nitrogen (LN)
and have a LN generator at home. Any one know how to make LN cheaply?
David Wood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:43:40 -0500, you wrote:
Ah, thanks. I guess I should have been more specific. It
Steve;
that was a great article... 'has corn domesticated us?' G
but, about pellet stoves? is there some way to use corn in a pellet
stove?
In CO in Winter, hell, we'll burn anything!
Neil
Message: 16
Date:
The materials technology issue I expected to see isn't really here, which is
Hydrogen
storage technology. I'm not up on the exact issues here, but I think some of
these new
materials have allegedly excellent H2 storage ability. Texaco went to the
length of
making their investment in ECD
What exactly did you want toknow about those screws? I have done extensive
work on GM diesels but not VW diesels.. even so I can tell you with a high
degree of certainty that item A is most likely the idle speed adjustment.
B looks like a high speed adjustment though that is usually governed.
any Diesel should get you better economny then an equivalent Gas. BUT
Transmission and Rear End gear ratios are going to be as important or more
important then the engine. In my Chevy van I believe I have a 3.72 or 3.42?
I can never remember which.. While not built for towing it does get about 20
I recently replaced a fuel pump, screws A and B are speed controls (idle,
max rpm), C didn't appear to be adjustable, it looks like it's locked in
place with a crimped sleeve at the base of the screw (I could be wrong), I
didn't see anything in any of the instructions I read that talked about
Thank you for your help. Since the original post I have
found out that my pump problem was caused by a full
serve station pumping gas instead of diesel and of
course stupid me didn't notice till the engine didn't
run quite right. I will always use self serve in the
future. The pump is being
Michael Briggs writes:
Gasoline as a denaturant would ruin it for use in making biodiesel.
Not at all -- I've done it many times and run it successfully in my
Beetle TDI for months on end.
Fuel-grade ethanol is 200 proof (actually 99.5% anhydrous)
grain-derived ethanol, denatured with 2% or
Michael S Briggs wrote:
On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Ken Provost wrote:
In the US, that would always be taxed as beverage alcohol
(I believe -- maybe there are some exceptions) and would
be prohibitively expensive.
Yeah, I was hoping that people here might know some sort of exception
related to
On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Ken Provost wrote:
Gasoline as a denaturant would ruin it for use in making biodiesel.
Not at all -- I've done it many times and run it successfully in my
Beetle TDI for months on end.
Really? Okay, sounds good to me - for some reason, I had some recollection
of being
On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Ken Provost wrote:
Michael:
You know, if you're really interested in using ethanol to
make biodiesel, you oughta just cough up (once!) the
$40 a pint or $150 a gallon and get some 200 proof stuff
(with tax) to experiment with. Try Aaper in Kentucky, or
Pharmco -- do
Well in theory, you could give your Buck knife ( I like Cold Steel blades
myself ) a molecular edge, but you would need the same equipment that chip
makers use to lay down the molecular wires that make up pc chips, you would
just have to build up your edge a few molecules at a time, it would
- Original Message -
From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 15:43
Subject: Re: [biofuel] Nanotubes
I like my billhook.
Nothing like a good solid work knife.
Well, it's a cross
between a billhook and a bolo, made for me by
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/17792/story.htm
...mentions diesel exhaust as a main culprit.
Regards,
Edward Beggs
http://www.biofuels.ca
Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~--
4 DVDs Free +sp Join Now
Talking about storage of hydrogen is getting the cart before the horse.
where are you going to get the hydrogen?
Steve Spence
Subscribe to the Renewable Energy Newsletter
Discussion Boards:
http://www.green-trust.org
Renewable Energy Pages - http://www.webconx.dns2go.com/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I believe these are just variations on the pellet stove.
http://www.cornburner.com/
http://www.delphiproducts.com/cornburner2.html
http://www.jppiping.com/html/cornburn.html
http://energy.cas.psu.edu/energyselector/cornlist.html
Homeowners who have their own heating system -- particularly
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 23:45:02 -
From: hakan_falk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: What about Hydrogen?? Was: Air car.
Personally I think that it is not a matter of one technique against
another, if you look ayt the needs, all ideas are valuable. It is
only that the air
A fireplace that uses combustion air from the room and has no insert can be
as low as 2% (yes, two) efficient.
A Finnish or Russian stove is what you need. It has a fast high temp burn
and thus consumes the breakdown products.
I have heard 85% efficiency for this design.
Kirk
-Original
Dear Steve,
I think that you are opening a can of worms here. As Neil said In CO in
Winter, hell, we'll burn anything!. The truth is that the average fireman
knows a lot more about burning than most manufacturer of stoves and almost
anything can be burned. An open fireplace only burns with less
http://www.globalhemp.com/News/2002/September/hemp_homes_could_be
.shtml
Tuesday, September 10, 2002
Hemp homes could be the future
James Mortlock, East Anglian Daily Times
Hemp might be more usually associated with rope and illegal
cigarettes, but it could become the London brick of the 21st
Has anyone ever heard of converting a diesel motor vehicle (such as a
van) into an electric generator? In Japan people will often give away a
still very usable vehicle for free because they no longer want it, and
it costs them money to junk the thing. I'm wondering about the
possibility of
Chris,
Gennies are readily available for power take offs (PTOs). It
might (or then again it might not) be considerably simpler in
some instances to go this route, rather than trying to match an
OEM gennie to a specific engine.
Todd Swearingen
- Original Message -
From: Christopher
Long Ashton Research Station - wood block gasifier converted to
chipped willow feedstock
http://www.harman39.freeserve.co.uk/FFTWebsite/downdraftgas.htm
Development of small scale downdraft gasifiers
http://bioproducts-bioenergy.gov/pdfs/bcota/abstracts/9/367.pdf
Small scale stratified
On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 20:16:20 -0400, you wrote:
Talking about storage of hydrogen is getting the cart before the horse.
where are you going to get the hydrogen?
There seem to be very few technologies or ideas where you do not try to nay-say
them or
shoot them down out-of-hand based on this or
33 matches
Mail list logo
