Re: [biofuels-biz] Interesting Customer perception note

2003-01-30 Thread James Slayden
Hey Ed, Out here in Cali there might be sensitivity to it, and on that note it kinda defeats the purpose of the carbon sequestering and being a renewable. I think that securing a known feedstock will be of value for marketing purposes. I was thinking along the lines of having different

[biofuels-biz] Biomass-to-Fuel-Cells-Article

2003-01-30 Thread murdoch
*Great* article, thx for the reference. First time I've ever seen anyone make even any effort to connect biofuels with fuel cells. They seem to be talking not about reforming to H2 and then passing H2 around, but onboard reforming of some fuel, preferably a sustainable one. And I say: *good*.

[biofuels-biz] Fwd: Advance notice of price increases

2003-01-30 Thread Neoteric Biofuels Inc
Note to all list members: Prices on all items will be increasing Feb. 14th on Neoteric G3 SVO kits, VEG-Therm heaters and other items. We wish to give these list members max. opportunity to order before the price increases take effect. Example: current G3 SVO kit price is $199 US

Re: [biofuel] Taxed To DEATH

2003-01-30 Thread NeilUSA
At 09:31 Tuesday, you wrote: Currently here, we are paying silly amounts for our fuel, on average $1.30 (USD) for a litre of dino-diesel and $1.27 for unleaded. As an example, my company has applied for a licence to make its own biodiesel for our 4 VW Caddy vans. Not a problem we were told by

Re: CFL incandescent bulbs -- was: [biofuel] RE:californians 50%

2003-01-30 Thread Tricia Liu
Check out IKEA! Better price than Costco! - Original Message - From: James Slayden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 7:22 AM Subject: Re: CFL incandescent bulbs -- was: [biofuel] RE:californians 50% I just recently got a pack of 5 CF 60W

Re: [biofuel] American Ship of State has been hi-jacked

2003-01-30 Thread Tricia Liu
We dont have a good energy policy, and local government are not all properly trained. Innovation vs. Realtiy Our solar carport had a big setback in a public hearing, not from the people. Participants all agreed and even expressed their support and willingness to follow suit if

Re: [biofuel] Taxed To DEATH

2003-01-30 Thread krishnaswamy
You should understand that there are other universes of discourse than the cosy one you have chosen to inhabit. - Original Message - From: Damian J. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 9:53 PM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Taxed To DEATH I

Re: Hydrrogen Cars (was: Re: Democracy was [biofuel] Taxed To DEATH)

2003-01-30 Thread krishnaswamy
- Original Message - From: Darryl McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 12:18 AM Subject: Hydrrogen Cars (was: Re: Democracy was [biofuel] Taxed To DEATH) Presumably he is referring to fuel cells, and not combustion. So we are

[biofuel] ffa content and titraion

2003-01-30 Thread girl mark
I was hanging around with the owner of the junk food plant that gives us WVO today, and he asked me how to go about setting up in-house ffa testing. Turns out that industrial food production facilities have to control for FFA in their fryer oil (by law), so he spends $50 per test to have ffa

RE: [biofuel] Change of Pace

2003-01-30 Thread Crabb, David
Over here on our west coast, they started increasing the registration fee for honda insights. Why?.. the logic was that they weren't paying 'their share' of road taxes on the fuel. They deemed that since they were using the road when driving, they were not using as much gas as everyone else,

[biofuel] I thought demand was huge and margins were high for GM's SUVs?

2003-01-30 Thread murdoch
http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/030130/autos_gm_incentives_1.html Reuters GM Ratchets Up Incentives on SUVs, Vans Thursday January 30, 10:06 am ET DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp. (NYSE:GM - News) said on Thursday it was ratcheting up consumer incentives on many of its most popular sport

[biofuel] GWBush.com -- Good Bumper Stickers

2003-01-30 Thread Ryan Morgan, Aerials Express
Hi All, Thought I'd pass this site along in case you still have a spot somewhere between your rear window and your bumper for another sticker. I especially like the one that says: Regieme change starts at home and, I wasn't using my civil liberties anyway. www.gwbush.com Happy motoring!

Re: [biofuel] ffa content and titration

2003-01-30 Thread Ken Provost
Mark writes: Could somebody give me some info on how the results (in ml) of the crude titration that we do for biodiesel making correlate with ffa content (in percent). I depends on the molecular weight of the FFA, which of course depends on the type of oil. One gram of NaOH will neutralize

RE: [biofuel] 1% diesel

2003-01-30 Thread Ryan Morgan, Aerials Express
I seem to remember a report that Chrysler was going to manufacture a Jeep Liberty with a diesel for 2004. Should get between 25-35 MPG at least? Wait until the US dinodiesel catches up with with the rest of the world and we get the good stuff, in 2006 or 2007 (I can't remember which.) I think

RE: [biofuel] seperating glyc and FFA

2003-01-30 Thread filip.ponsaerts
follow-up on my question, see answers below Who can help me on this??? From one of the one-liter batches I'm trying, I tried to split the soap again into FFA. So the deposits of the trans-esterification, I seperated, and mixed with H2SO4. both phases, or just the glycerine phase that had

RE: [biofuel] air car

2003-01-30 Thread Crabb, David
I am sure the transmission loss factor vs gas formulation cost has been beaten to death in other discussions of EVs. But just to make is more simple. assume your Solar panel is sitting on your roof. there wont be too much of a transmission losses. so all day long, you can compress air in a tank

[biofuel] Homemade inverters.

2003-01-30 Thread jokefalcon
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Re: [biofuel] Please help with Yahoo problem

2003-01-30 Thread Kris Book
Thanks Keith and MM, It took a while but, your instructions took care of the problem except on one of the 27 lists I belong to, and I'll just rejoin that one. kris --- murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have one or two different profiles, and one or two different email addresses to which

Re: [biofuel] Please help with Yahoo problem

2003-01-30 Thread Greg and April
Hey Kris, long time no see. ;-) Greg H. - Original Message - From: Kris Book [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:31 Subject: Re: [biofuel] Please help with Yahoo problem Thanks Keith and MM, It took a while but, your instructions took

Re: Democracy was [biofuel] Taxed To DEATH

2003-01-30 Thread MH
I am also very worried by the current trends in the US. I think most of use sense this worrisome trend in USA Democracy which can be listened to using RealPlayer (aka RealAudio) to get a little background that we so seldom here anymore from the dominant privatized US media stations --

[biofuel] Re: Democracy

2003-01-30 Thread Damian J. Anderson
Hakan, What I said was exactly this: If it is a government of the people, by the people, for the people, then it is a democracy. A society in which the people do not have the option to change their government if they don't like it is not a democracy. What democracies are there

[biofuel] A joke I had to pass on....

2003-01-30 Thread Ken Provost
Three Texas surgeons were arguing as to which had the greatest skill. The first began: Three years ago, I reattached seven fingers on a pianist. He went on to give a recital for the Queen of England. The second replied: That's nothing. I attended a man in a car accident. All his arms and legs

Re: [biofuel] ffa content and titration

2003-01-30 Thread James Slayden
I thought I remember seeing this posted on JTF. On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Ken Provost wrote: Mark writes: Could somebody give me some info on how the results (in ml) of the crude titration that we do for biodiesel making correlate with ffa content (in percent). I depends on the molecular

Re: Democracy was [biofuel] Taxed To DEATH

2003-01-30 Thread Hakan Falk
I listened to all of them, At 12:14 PM 1/30/2003 -0600, you wrote: I am also very worried by the current trends in the US. I think most of use sense this worrisome trend in USA Democracy which can be listened to using RealPlayer (aka RealAudio) to get a little background that we so

RE: [biofuel] 1% diesel

2003-01-30 Thread Damian J. Anderson
How is diesel for the environment? My impression is that diesel powered vehicles emit a noxious stench which is not present with gasoline powered vehicles. And in Maryland where I live, we have strict rules about vehicle emissions so that if the car emits too much in hydrocarbons or carbon

Re: [biofuel] Waste Oil Safety-Rocket Stove

2003-01-30 Thread damiandolan
Hi Eddie, What about a fan running off the exhaust Turbo stove? regards, dD biofuel@yahoogroups.com wrote: I am making a Rocket Stove water heater with waste oil kicker.. booster. I am wondering about the safety of the waste oil.. the unseen contimants. I am wondering

[biofuel] [OT]Re: Hydrogen Cars

2003-01-30 Thread Darryl McMahon
krishnaswamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I beg to disagree. Gasification of biomass is one of the most promising routes for conversion of solar energy to hydrogen with photosynthetic intermediation. Atmospheric gasification yields about 5% (w/w) per kg of biomass and another 4% (w/w) per kg of

[biofuel] [OT] Hydrogen cars (more)

2003-01-30 Thread Darryl McMahon
Actually, if we want to pursue theoretical sources of renewable hydrogen, this one is my current favourite. http://www.madison.com/captimes/business/stories/41653.php Please note all caveats and disclaimers in the article, and that it is years from any chance of commercialization. I have

Re: [biofuel] What's wrong with this picture?

2003-01-30 Thread Darryl McMahon
I think this symbolizes a pretty powerful message from Ford. (the Model U concept car) Look at what we could produce if we truly were an environmentally responsible organization. But we won't. And now back to our regular programming - the Ex-Files... Explorer Excursion Exxon

[biofuel] Biomass-to-Fuel-Cells-Article

2003-01-30 Thread murdoch
*Great* article, thx for the reference. First time I've ever seen anyone make even any effort to connect biofuels with fuel cells. They seem to be talking not about reforming to H2 and then passing H2 around, but onboard reforming of some fuel, preferably a sustainable one. And I say: *good*.

Re: [biofuel] What's wrong with this picture?

2003-01-30 Thread Steve Spence
keep the diesels, though. they work great on biodiesel and vegetable oil. Steve Spence Subscribe to the Renewable Energy Newsletter Discussion Boards. Read about Sustainable Technology: http://www.green-trust.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Darryl McMahon [EMAIL

Re: [biofuel] What's wrong with this picture?

2003-01-30 Thread Appal Energy
A hydrogen ICE hybrid? Cripes!!! If these guys are going to go to all the time, trouble and effort, why not just get it right in the first place with existing technologies and infrastructure..perhaps a hybrid diesel/biodiesel that would get 90+ mpg rather than screwing with hydrogen ICE and

Re: [biofuel] What's wrong with this picture?

2003-01-30 Thread Frederick Finch
Darryl, You forgot one And now back to our regular programming - the Ex-Files... Explorer Excursion Exxon Extinction Excrement fred Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/

[biofuel] home heating

2003-01-30 Thread dave dooley
hi can anyone give me advice on running a home heating system on used cooking oil, the system that i have burns kerosene at the moment , it can also burn diesel,the boiler is an external appliance, it has an output of 150,000 btus? YOURS DAVE DOOLEY

[biofuel] [OT]Re: Hydrogen Cars

2003-01-30 Thread Darryl McMahon
Well, I think it is still off-topic, but others are proceeding, so Damian wrote: So I would suppose that fuel cells and hydrogen would come under renewable energy. Only if the hydrogen came from a renewable source. Most comes from petroleum production, not a renewable resource (in

[biofuel] Fwd: Advance notice of price increases

2003-01-30 Thread Neoteric Biofuels Inc
Note to all list members: Prices on all items will be increasing Feb. 14th on Neoteric G3 SVO kits, VEG-Therm heaters and other items. We wish to give these list members max. opportunity to order before the price increases take effect. Example: current G3 SVO kit price is $199 US

RE: [biofuel] Homemade inverters.

2003-01-30 Thread Patrick McBrady
Go to google.com and type in inverter plans. Good Luck PM -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 9:20 AM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [biofuel] Homemade inverters. Howdy all, Can anyone tell me where to find a

Re: [biofuel] Re: Democracy

2003-01-30 Thread robert luis rabello
Damian J. Anderson wrote: snip It seems to me that many European greens are more like watermelons: green on the outside, red on the inside. Cute! But don't they have a right to be red on the inside in a democracy? To its credit, the USA fought tyranny and defended freedom for the

RE: [biofuel] Homemade inverters.

2003-01-30 Thread Martin Klingensmith
Well, I haven't seen any good plans yet, I've been looking for a long time. I can say, however; that you should definitely not try to use this plan: http://www.i4at.org/lib2/inverter.htm It will probably waste more energy than it converts for you. I would like to try to come up with a good plan