[biofuels-biz] State Run Bio-Fuel Factories for mass and economic production to reduce the price!

2004-01-03 Thread Tricia Liu
California new Governor had declared fiscal emergency, because we have this 38 billions deficit. They have to cut more budgets and spending. Application to get licenses for buying and selling power in California had been temporally stopped since last September. Unless it's special

Re: [biofuels-biz] Diesel or bust

2004-01-03 Thread Hakan Falk
Sounds like the horse breeding business have a future in US. The farmers and others must freeze also, since light heating oil and diesel is the same. But you never know, it is US and maybe the do not know that they can use light heating oil in the tractors and this crises might at the end be

Re: [biofuels-biz] Diesel or bust

2004-01-03 Thread Hakan Falk
Sorry, I got it wrong. It should be Australia. I am so used about all the US problems, that the fingers think by themselves. Hakan At 14:30 03/01/2004, you wrote: Sounds like the horse breeding business have a future in US. The farmers and others must freeze also, since light heating oil and

[biofuels-biz] Happy New Years: And Be Careful What You Eat

2004-01-03 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=13ItemID=4774 Happy New Years: And Be Careful What You Eat by Maria Tomchick December 30, 2003 GLOBAL ECONOMICS In the days following the discovery of mad cow disease in Washington State, the U.S. cattle industry has been hard at work

[biofuels-biz] Conservation at All Costs - How Industry-Backed Environmentalism Creates Violent Conflict Among Indigenous Peoples

2004-01-03 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=9449 CorpWatch.org Conservation at All Costs How Industry-Backed Environmentalism Creates Violent Conflict Among Indigenous Peoples By Shefa Siegel Special to CorpWatch December 22, 2003 Photo: Cartoonist: Khalil Bendib Inside the two room

[biofuels-biz] The Troubled Marriage of Environmentalists and Oil Companies

2004-01-03 Thread Keith Addison
http://kwsnet.com/weblog/2003/12/25.html#a1319 The Troubled Marriage of Environmentalists and Oil Companies CorpWatch by Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero 22 Dec 03 The American environmental group Conservation International (CI) and other environmental organizations are actively collaborating with oil

[biofuels-biz] The Cow Jumped Over the U.S.D.A.

2004-01-03 Thread Keith Addison
See also: http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/ba2000-12-14.htm Interview - 2000.12.14 Unhappy meals Eric Schlosser, an award-winning investigative journalist, uncovers the dark side of the all-American meal http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/press/rollingstone1.html Rolling Stone

[biofuels-biz] Re: Bacteria that decompose oil found

2004-01-03 Thread steve herr
Bacteria that can clean up all sorts of nasty stuff is old news. A guy I used to carpool with went to work for a company called Ecova 18 years ago to become a bug trainer. Basically, they go to the site of any environmental mess, and they would dig up soil from the area. In all likelyhood,

[biofuels-biz] Re-insurer counts cost of global warming

2004-01-03 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1018055.htm . 30/12/2003. ABC News Online Tuesday, December 30, 2003. 1:19pm (AEDT) Re-insurer counts cost of global warming The world's biggest re-insurance company, Munich Re, has attributed a sharp increase in weather-related disasters around the world

[biofuels-biz] ERoEI for grease based biodiesel

2004-01-03 Thread Tilapia
The question has been raised as to the value of making biodiesel from waste vegetable oil resources in terms of the net energy gain. I had posted on this topic a few days ago, but feel a more considered study was in order. This research is based on the following published study: RESOURCES

[biofuels-biz] Re: Bacteria that decompose oil found

2004-01-03 Thread Keith Addison
steve herr wrote: Bacteria that can clean up all sorts of nasty stuff is old news. A guy I used to carpool with went to work for a company called Ecova 18 years ago to become a bug trainer. Basically, they go to the site of any environmental mess, and they would dig up soil from the area. In

Re: [biofuel] SwRI wins EPA contract for development of hybrids

2004-01-03 Thread guillermo Kleinbielen
Soy nuevo en esto, alguien de todo este grupo habla o entiende Espa–ol o Aleman.Mi interes en este tema es muy nuevo y en Argentina lugar donde vivo no hay nada de informacion que haya podido encontrar al respecto. Mi pregunta es como son los equipos para ganarle a la naturaleza el bio-diesel y

Re: [biofuel] Test Batches and Theory vs Practice

2004-01-03 Thread James Slayden
Ken, I wonder how things would go with titrations between 2-3 ml NaOH? That seem to be somewhat average WVO that I am collecting. I sure do need to get over to MAX's to get some of that stuff your collecting .. ;-) This is a great thread and I am glad your doing the experiments to figure

Re: [biofuel] New technology could turn farm by-products into power

2004-01-03 Thread Erik Lane
now i don't understand a statement made on that page, and i suspect it's cause they make assumptions based on large scale, central power rather than small, local systems. This method, called gasification, would be efficient only in large power plants that could each produce enough electricity

Re: [biofuel] New technology could turn farm by-products into power

2004-01-03 Thread murdoch
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 15:52:15 -0800 (PST), you wrote: now i don't understand a statement made on that page, and i suspect it's cause they make assumptions based on large scale, central power rather than small, local systems. This method, called gasification, would be efficient only in large power

Re: [biofuel] SwRI wins EPA contract for development of hybrids

2004-01-03 Thread murdoch
Recepci—n. Un Web site aceptable para que utilicemos traducir se parece ser Žste: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr De all’, soy seguro que alguien puede responder a usted. TambiŽn, pienso que hay alguna gente biofuel-bien informada aqu’ quiŽn puede hablar espa–ol. Sinceramente,

[biofuel] Heat circulation pump to mix 40 gallon reactor

2004-01-03 Thread Stanley Baer
Hi Will a heating circulation pump with 1/10 hp motor be large enough to mix a 40 gallon reactor? I am also planning to use a 750 Watt heating element (the reactor is an inslulated hot water heating tank), Will this heat it quickly enough? One more question. When other people go behind

[biofuel] Re: Test Batches and Theory vs Practice

2004-01-03 Thread Dave Shaw
BTW, did you ever get another drum of that Parallel Products Eth? I know you and Dave Shaw were in contact so I wanted to see if it finally got off the ground. Ken and James, I wish that we'd got more accomplished with regards to our ethanol deliveries. I'm finally getting a shop space

Re: [biofuel] Re: food for thought

2004-01-03 Thread Dennis Davis
Umm, what are EPs and SIPs? Also, if the inside is 70deg, then shouldn't the insolation next to the inside wall work fine, slowly going down as temps drop toward the outside wall? Also, paper insolation of any kind presents a huge fire hazard,(I'm a firefighter,and have seen it) even the stuff

[biofuel] State Run Bio-Fuel Factories for mass and economic production to reduce the price!

2004-01-03 Thread Tricia Liu
California new Governor had declared fiscal emergency, because we have this 38 billions deficit. They have to cut more budgets and spending. Application to get licenses for buying and selling power in California had been temporally stopped since last September. Unless it's special

[biofuel] methanogenic bacteria

2004-01-03 Thread Aileen Agatep
Please suggest methanogenic bacteria we could use to produce methane from water hyacinth..thanks! - Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly...Ping your friends today! Download Messenger Now [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Biofuel at

[biofuel] fwd from Re: [homeenergysolutions] How does double glazing work?

2004-01-03 Thread Hakan Falk
Michael, Yes and no. It is sometimes confusing, but I will try to explain, but first I will give you the link I found to Radiance as follows, http://www.radiancecomfort.com/ If you go to our site http://energysavingnow.com/ and read the introduction, you will also read about how the body

Re: [biofuel] State Run Bio-Fuel Factories for mass and economic production to reduce the price!

2004-01-03 Thread Hakan Falk
Tricia, I was thinking about this and wrote US instead of Australia in my earlier posting. It seems to me that the best use of the present governor is to persuade him to make a couple of state produced movies. That would really make a difference in California's budget and an efficient use of

[biofuel] Spanish biofuels info - was Re: SwRI wins EPA contract ...

2004-01-03 Thread Keith Addison
... Also, I do think there are some biofuel-knowledgeable people here who can speak Spanish. Would fluent Spanish-English speakers on the list please contact me offlist: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! And thankyou for doing that MM. Guillermo wrote: My Englisch is not very well, I'm sorry.

[biofuel] Happy New Years: And Be Careful What You Eat

2004-01-03 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=13ItemID=4774 Happy New Years: And Be Careful What You Eat by Maria Tomchick December 30, 2003 GLOBAL ECONOMICS In the days following the discovery of mad cow disease in Washington State, the U.S. cattle industry has been hard at work

[biofuel] Conservation at All Costs - How Industry-Backed Environmentalism Creates Violent Conflict Among Indigenous Peoples

2004-01-03 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=9449 CorpWatch.org Conservation at All Costs How Industry-Backed Environmentalism Creates Violent Conflict Among Indigenous Peoples By Shefa Siegel Special to CorpWatch December 22, 2003 Photo: Cartoonist: Khalil Bendib Inside the two room

[biofuel] The Cow Jumped Over the U.S.D.A.

2004-01-03 Thread Keith Addison
See also: http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/ba2000-12-14.htm Interview - 2000.12.14 Unhappy meals Eric Schlosser, an award-winning investigative journalist, uncovers the dark side of the all-American meal http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/press/rollingstone1.html Rolling Stone

Re: [biofuel] more folk upset about their small producer challenges

2004-01-03 Thread murdoch
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 13:57:41 -, you wrote: http://www.biofuels.coop/blog/archives/15.html Thanks for posting this. I have passed it on a bit. A few thoughts: The plight of this person, who merely wants to do business, to be entrepeneurial and productive and ambitious and inventive

[biofuel] Honduras Proposal

2004-01-03 Thread mrofmorffromform
Hello all! Im working with the www.sustainablesolutionscaravan.org We have been lucky enough to be invited to present ideas for renewable fuels to the Minister of Energy of Honduras and the Minister of Transportation. There is some debate in our group as to the best solutions to propose

Re: [biofuel] Re: Ethanol Deliveries (was Test Batches... )

2004-01-03 Thread Ken Provost
on 1/2/04 9:34 PM, Dave Shaw at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken and James, I wish that we'd got more accomplished with regards to our ethanol deliveries. I'm finally getting a shop space cleared out for my projects, so I'd be willing to go in on a bulk buy... but what I'm really

[biofuel] Patrick Bedard's Somewhat Poorly Researched Article on EVs and Demand For Them

2004-01-03 Thread murdoch
http://www.caranddriver.com/article.asp?section_id=27article_id=7606page_number=1 Didn't know about this until Paul mentioned it. Some of the keys here in my view: 1. The EV1 was never (never) offered for sale. It was leased, and then only to a small number of people, on a very limited

Re: [biofuel] Honduras Proposal

2004-01-03 Thread Keith Addison
Hello all! Im working with the www.sustainablesolutionscaravan.org We have been lucky enough to be invited to present ideas for renewable fuels to the Minister of Energy of Honduras and the Minister of Transportation. There is some debate in our group as to the best solutions to propose

[biofuel] Re: State Run Bio-Fuel Factories for mass and economic production to reduce the

2004-01-03 Thread Dave Shaw
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Hakan Falk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tricia, I was thinking about this and wrote US instead of Australia in my earlier posting. It seems to me that the best use of the present governor is to persuade him to make a couple of state produced movies. That

Re: [biofuel] Used motor oil

2004-01-03 Thread Alan Petrillo
Gasoline Fumes wrote: Hi, I just joined the group. I'm very interested in making biodiesel, but have a question about using used motor oil as a diesel fuel. I know it wouldn't be bio, but it seems like a good way to get rid of the oil. Can it be converted to diesel fuel using the same

[biofuel] Re: Honduras Proposal

2004-01-03 Thread Dave Shaw
Hello all! Im working with the www.sustainablesolutionscaravan.org Ryan, Glad to hear the trip is doing well. (For all those in the group, the caravan did an amazing biofuels/permaculture *puppet show* for over 50 people at my trailer park to begin their tour towards Costa Rica.) I would

Re: [biofuel] Re-insurer counts cost of global warming

2004-01-03 Thread murdoch
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 02:21:26 +0900, you wrote: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1018055.htm . 30/12/2003. ABC News Online Tuesday, December 30, 2003. 1:19pm (AEDT) Re-insurer counts cost of global warming Good. Thx for posting this. MM Biofuel at Journey to Forever: