I snipped the message because I didn't want to embarass anyone. I only
snipped the part that described the name of the organization in question, not
changing anything from World Energy. I got the message from the Massachusetts
Dept. of Energy, who had assumed that it was the Chewonki Foundation
Graham, Keith, Tom, et. al.
Graham,
First, I sincerely hope that you do not bow out of
this discussion, as your participation does provide a
perspective that otherwise has been absent (in my
limited experience with this listserve).
I also want to thank Keith for his wonderful post a
while
I think that many forget that biodiesel is a great solvent. if your tank and
lines are full of gunk, biodiesel will loosen it up, clogging your filter.
This may be the source of the bad experiences with biodiesel. Once the
system is cleaned out from the biodiesel, no more problems. Would have
hello;
I think Steve is correct re detergent effect.
It is not unusal to have problems when switching to a different fuel
or oil ( see Amsoil site at
http://www.bestsyntheticoil.com/members/amsoil/1mrtruck/index.shtml ).
Since these types of problems are fairly well known it is possible
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], girl mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got some corrections on James' post:
In the class yesterday we spent some time discussing homebrew quality
control, and quality tests that can be done by homebrewers in the absence
of gas chromotography, NIR, and other equipment.
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Thor
Thanks for this contribution, positive and constructive, and what we
all should be doing.
I also hope Graham doesn't bow out. Though I must say that what his
unique perspective has mostly provided so far is a rather
Clean biodiesel is clean biodiesel - no matter who manufactures
it, micro- or macro.
The problems don't lay with the fuel but with the fossil fuel
that preceeded it and with those vendors who are irresponsible
enough as to not continually inform their clientele as to the
problems posed by
Hi Martin
Well done!
I don't think this is a very good reply you got though. They charge
good money for this thing, and deliberately use it to influence,
which it does - it gets into all the mainstream media. They'd be
giving better value for money (maybe the difference that would make
it a
Hello Robert!
Welcome back. I hope you're receiving messages okay now. Please let
me know if you have any problems.
Re wasted wood, I picked this up somewhere or other, for the US, not
Canada: In 1999, for instance, 7.5 million tons of wooden pallets -
platforms associated with shipping -
Hi Robert,
Building houses is always a special experience. I always said that if your
marriage survives a building project, it survives almost
anything.
I inserted some comments,
At 10:24 PM 11/23/2002 -0800, you wrote:
Hello Everyone!
It's been five months since I've been able to post
This must be a early april fools joke. the only corvette diesel I've seen is
at http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/visby/index.html
Corvette DIESEL ENGINE LEADS GM INTO 21st CENTURY
DETROIT - As leaders in quality, design and technology, General Motors
continues the tradition of
http://www.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk/research/combusti/thesis/1_3_2_4.html
3.2.4. Heavy oils as gas turbine fuels
The efficient use of heavy oils in gas turbines is aided by standardising
its properties. Work was carried out jointly by ASME (American Society of
Mechanical Engineers) and ASTM (American
I have found statistics that say for every three new houses built, one
goes in the landfill, labor being more expensive than materials. This
being true, many of us have figured out how to build with the landfill
materials. There is a list dedicated to this topic,
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One man
Keith Addison wrote:
Re wasted wood, I picked this up somewhere or other, for the US, not
Canada: In 1999, for instance, 7.5 million tons of wooden pallets -
platforms associated with shipping - went into the solid waste
stream, accounting for over 60 percent of all wood waste. And:
There
Only in America!!!
I was not aware of that US made pallets of hardwood and did not think that
it could ever be a stupid luxury consumption like this. I can see reason
for some pallets to be made of hardwood, but they should be guarded and
reused. But this irresponsible behavior cannot be
- Original Message -
From: Hakan Falk
To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 3:37 AM
Subject: Re: [biofuel] Back Online
snippo
Even the fast growing teak, developed mainly in
central and south America, takes at least 2-4 the time to mature as
Niel,
I thought by translation from Swedish that it is usually direct related to
the size of the yearly addition of thickness and the age of the tree. This
does not necessary translates to the hardness of the wood, but in many
cases it does. What it does translate to is the time it takes for
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Keith, I've corresponded with Jim Kliesch at ACEEE also as to
the lack of recommendations and information on biodiesel in the
green guide to vehicles. He does know his stuff, has looked into
biodiesel extensively, and in the realm where he
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Spence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
only 10%? that's a significant percentage. all from a waste product. I'd be
happy with that number.
Steve Spence
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It has always seemed to me that there might be a way to use pallets,
stood vertically as a non-load bearing infill or curtain wall - as
infill between posts, filled with insulation, and a coating of
plaster/stucco/mud etc? They always reminds me of the old
lathe/plaster walls
Just went to the seminar with Ianto Evans promoting his book The Hand
Sculpted House and it was excellent. He showed pics of what a stick
frame built house looks like after mother nature takes over and what a cob
structure looks like (very organic, mud back to mud). I started reading
some of
OK Ken I searched greasecar.com and it's an interesting site but I
can't find any reference IRS and Federal excise tax. Can you give a
more specific pointer?
Kenneth
Ken Provost wrote:
In case anyone hasn't been to the greascar site lately, they have
an interesting blurb that the IRS wrote
OK Ken I searched greasecar.com and it's an interesting site but I
can't find any reference IRS and Federal excise tax. Can you give a
more specific pointer?
Scroll to the bottom of the page.
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Graham, Keith, Tom, et. al.
Graham,
First, I sincerely hope that you do not bow out of
this discussion, as your participation does provide a
perspective that otherwise has been absent (in my
limited experience with this listserve).
I also want to thank Keith for his wonderful post a
while back
Hello Thor
Thanks for this contribution, positive and constructive, and what we
all should be doing.
I also hope Graham doesn't bow out. Though I must say that what his
unique perspective has mostly provided so far is a rather clear
picture of why biodieselers tend to distrust industry, and
http://www.greasecar.com/homedetail.cfm?ID=3
Hakan
At 05:35 PM 11/24/2002 -0800, you wrote:
OK Ken I searched greasecar.com and it's an interesting site but I
can't find any reference IRS and Federal excise tax. Can you give a
more specific pointer?
Kenneth
Ken Provost wrote:
In case
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Neil and Adele Craven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I merely make the point to clarify timber species, however huon pine is a
Gymnosperm ie a softwood but is an incredibly slow growing tree. My point was
that the fact that they make a tree faster growing does not change
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hakan Falk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree with you and my comment about teak was more of an attempt to joke,
than a serious suggestion. Stupid joke that I regret when I read it after
the posting. You have several slow growing softwood trees, but hardly fast
growing
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], goat industries [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kieth,
Thanks for your support of the new database, apparently there was
some confusion about whether the German database included the use of
biodiesel methyl ester, or not, which creates too much uncertainty in the
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hakan Falk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jerry,
I do not think that anyone suggest WVO as only source for
bio diesel should do the job, and 10% is a lot if you think
about the 90% use of diesel in train and heavy road transport.
You could run all current diesel automobiles
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Darryl McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
robert luis rabello wrote:
snip
concrete manufacturing is VERY energy intensive
and next time we'll have to be more careful about property selection. Any
ideas about alternatives out there?
Several.
Pressure treated wood
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shawn Zenor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday, November 24, 2002, at 06:37 AM, Hakan Falk wrote:
Only in America!!!
snip
Hardwood is mostly a tropical or sub tropical tree and how can US use
this
for pallets and at the same time be upset about the deforestation
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Neoteric Biofuels Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There was a local guy recycling wood here for a while - he got some
great stuff from pallets. One was a valuable African hardwood, prized
by instrument makers. That one piece, from a pallet he got for free,
was worth a few
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], harley3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Mr. Falk:
Your information was exaggerated and dated. The hardwood pallet made in the
U.S., are reused. Most of the wood pallets have been replaced with a longer
life plastic pallets of one design or another. When wood pallets
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], James Slayden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Graham,
I am starting to think that this isn't just a commerce vs. homebrew think,
but more of a east coast vs. left coast thing. Here is the reason
why. World Energy hasn't been inhibited in moving into the California
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hakan Falk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Robert,
Keith talked about hardwood pallets in US land fills as six per American.
This means nearly 2 billion hardwood pallets in land fills. The shear size
of this made me quite upset. I know that the Americans are second best in
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hakan Falk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Harley,
If you are right, I will sleep better. Knowing that the landfill now
is long life plastic pallets. At least it is dumped in American land
fills. Something for future Archeological excavations, if some one
is left to do
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], James Slayden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interesting I was just thinking about this while up in Berkley and seeing
all the lonely pallets just lying around. It's a shame. I don't know
home much of the industry still contiunes to use hardwood pallets, but
there is a
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], James Slayden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm sure that reclaimation of the landfills will happen well before
Archeologists have a chance to study it. ;-) Someone will realize that
mining the landfills produces much wealth.
James Slayden
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Hakan Falk
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ken Provost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In case anyone hasn't been to the greascar site lately, they have
an interesting blurb that the IRS wrote back to a California
co-op about US Federal taxes. Here it is:
No Federal Excise tax on biodiesel or SVO if you use less than
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], James Slayden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hrmm, 1600 gallons per year divide that by 52 weeks and you come out
with 30.76 bla bla bla gallons per week. So, one could say that a
homebrewer is safe as long as they kept their miles down. Better start
looking into
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hakan Falk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
James,
You are probably right :-( . With current oil depletion it will be
very high value. No proof left of our generations stupid behavior.
Hakan
At 04:07 PM 11/24/2002 -0800, you wrote:
I'm sure that reclaimation of the
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], girl mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got some corrections on James' post:
In the class yesterday we spent some time discussing homebrew quality
control, and quality tests that can be done by homebrewers in the absence
of gas chromotography, NIR, and other equipment.
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hakan Falk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since it is the owner of the car that is responsible to pay the tax, if
it is the same rules as Europe, it is in practise a tax exemption for
bio diesel. Especially for an owner of one or two Lupos.
Hakan
At 04:16 PM 11/24/2002
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], James Slayden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah, I stand corrected. Yes there was quite a lot going on Sorry,
did not mean to cause any more confusion. I was under the impression that
the Ecology Center's BD was from Yokayo, but your history of their
previous troubles
Being the obsessed quality tests homebrewer, I've been looking into the
Leonardo site (very useful!) and was obsessively bugging everyone I knew
for a translation of the residual catalyst test kit they described.
From what I could make out from the babelfish translation (the original
German
I think my post below doesn't make something clear I do encourage everyone
to do quality testing, as much of it as they can figure out (other than
specific gravity or viscosity which I think are not useful tests, at least
when performed on unwashed fuel) I just want to also make the point that
Being the obsessed quality tests homebrewer, I've been looking into the
Leonardo site (very useful!) and was obsessively bugging everyone I knew
for a translation of the residual catalyst test kit they described.
From what I could make out from the babelfish translation (the original
German
Arggh, I missed something else I was gonna write:
Acid number (titration with
KOH, on washed fuel) will tell you about unreacted free fatty acids.
Washing with vinegar or other acid in the wash water will throw off the
ability of that test to tell you about your process.
Mark
And like other
Yahoo - Yahell! LOL! - is up to its less-than-charming bouncing
tricks once again. There have been some viruses going about, and we
don't get them here on these lists because they're set to text-only,
no html, and no attachments. Which doesn't stop Yahoo doing it to us
anyway. For the fifth
Hi all,
Keith asked me offlist for directions for the acid number determination.
Here's the info, forwarded from an offlist exchange I had with Todd
Swearingen a few weeks ago, about this and other quality standards stuff...
Mark
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 00:55:01 -0400
Maria,
Looking at the
Hi Jerry
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Keith, I've corresponded with Jim Kliesch at ACEEE also as to
the lack of recommendations and information on biodiesel in the
green guide to vehicles.
Good!
He does know his stuff, has looked into
biodiesel extensively,
biofuelers, (and coop members and Todd Swearingen)
I am somewhat unclear on what the factors are that influence fuel haze.
Could someone post info about it? Fuel haze is of course water in the fuel,
but it seems that it takes a differing amount of time for haze to clear-
are there different
I am somewhat unclear on what the factors are that influence fuel haze.
Could someone post info about it? Fuel haze is of course water in the fuel,
but it seems that it takes a differing amount of time for haze to clear-
are there different chemical factors that cause biodiesel to hold on to
Sadly no, I teach woodwork for a living to high school children, the majority
of whom merely waste the resource and I recycle it into firewood, and have no
knowledge of the person you are refering to. Sorry.
Neil
Canberra
Australia
- Original Message -
From: Hakan Falk
To:
I've read some stuff on Maui about Neutral talking about post- wash
settling in an open container exposed to open air being some important part
of the picture for him. I don't always agree with Neutral's conclusions,
though, and I don't remember why he though that air movement over the
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hakan Falk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Only in America!!!
I was not aware of that US made pallets of hardwood and did not
think that
it could ever be a stupid luxury consumption like this. I can see
reason
for some pallets to be made of hardwood, but they should
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