Re: [Biofuel] Changing Government Agendas -was: Kerry

2004-09-26 Thread Jeff
When you stop and think about it, how much energy did it take to produce 196,000 lbs of prehistoric plant matter, or dimons? (Some biologist say the line between plant and animals starts getting really thin at that level, but no matter how you look at it, it is still a prehistoric life form of

Re: [Biofuel] Re: Farmer's Lobby UPDATE

2004-09-26 Thread francisco j burgos
Friends: assuming that the figures of 50 MGY costs US$79.5M are correct, then using the size econnomy rule or the 6/10 rule; the answer for a 5MGY is US$17.13M or US$ 18M approx., not US$25M. Verify the figures pls. F - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Biofuel] Biodiesel Description, History and Properties

2004-09-26 Thread Legal Eagle
From Wikipedia: I have found it quite informative, and in confirmation of most of what I have read at JtF. Rudolf ran his first engine on SVO peanut oil, for the record. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL

RE: [Biofuel] Re: Farmer's Lobby UPDATE

2004-09-26 Thread Peggy
Hello Ron, Thank you for your comparison. However, there are several more things to consider when discussing real costs that are not included in your summary. Your numbers do not indicate any electrical generation (or costs if not generated on site), typical of large US operations. Our

Re: [Biofuel] Schwarzenegger and ChevronTexaco

2004-09-26 Thread Legal Eagle
And let us not forget that Chevron was one of the main players in Afghanistan's Caspian pipeline project until the Taliban got to wanting a representative cut of the pie. The rest is history, ... but it's not about the oil Luc - Original Message - From: Keith Addison [EMAIL

Re: [Biofuel] Fossil fuels fuel the politics

2004-09-26 Thread Hakan Falk
Luc, On the nail, especially when you think that Bush ordered plans for the Iraq invasion before 9/11. The only thing that was missing was a good excuse and Osama only became the perfect alibi. The jury is still out on the success of the venture and my opinion is that it is not going to be

Re: [Biofuel] replacement diesel engine

2004-09-26 Thread Doug Foskey
Hi, Mazda make a 626 diesel (I had a 1992 one). They are interesting because they use a Brown-Boveri Supercharger. This unit uses gas velocity to charge the cylinder with air, was a really tractable engine, even if the power drops off quickly when the revs go up. They were economical too.

Re: [Biofuel] replacement diesel engine

2004-09-26 Thread Legal Eagle
Hi AL; I remember one post somewhere that mentioned that someone was dropping a Mercedes 300D engine into a Toyota pick up truck. Seems to me it said it was basically plug and play as all the mounts ect were in the right place. Maybe someone else will remember this better than I and be able to

[Biofuel] light to energy

2004-09-26 Thread tommy
regarding the listed notice called Solar hydrogen - energy of the future 26 August 2004 A team of Australian scientists predicts that a revolutionary new way to harness the power of the sun to extract clean and almost unlimited energy supplies from water will be a reality within

Fwd: RE: [Biofuel] Brazil at Le Mans uses Ethanol

2004-09-26 Thread nbvillarruz
Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-22E8632E; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit We have an over production of sugar cane here in Capiz Province, Philippines and our planters in cooperation with sugar milling companies are seriously considering

Re: Italian tuneup - was RE: [Biofuel] Putting O2 to the air input

2004-09-26 Thread Doug Younker
Hey While I really don't care, but when did the Italians lay claim to and/or give such a high falutin' name to what previously was refereed to; blowing the cobs out? Italian tune up, I don't see the term catching on around here :) Doug --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG

RE: [Biofuel] Farmer's Lobby

2004-09-26 Thread Peggy
Hi Ron, Actually our cost estimates for the existing industry numbers came from Arkenol's faq where you will find the $5.00/gallon of annual capacity quote and that's not Texas, folks. By the way, our biochemist is not a Texas native. He comes from a long line of legal industrial beverage

RE: [Biofuel] The ultimate bidiesel workshop class

2004-09-26 Thread Peggy
Thank you Keith. You hit the nail on the head. However there is a very big need for teaching the technology. We have become such an official education oriented country that education is now one of our three largest industries and growing. So, to take the system to the masses, the Internet is

RE: [Biofuel] Slogan

2004-09-26 Thread Peggy
Good messages, M.P. I like them. P. Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Slogan If we have to connect wars with the fuel then how about this one: Don't fight for fuel: grow your Own Otherwise, how are these: Dinofuel is to Biofuel as Dead is to Living fossil fuel is to biofuel as dead is to living

RE: [Biofuel] China's Energy Crisis Blankets Hong Kong in Smog

2004-09-26 Thread Peggy
Hello Thomas, I lived in an area where uranium was mined in South Texas thirty plus years ago. As a point of interest, it is reported by family members that the men who worked in the mining projects developed skin cancers and other cancers through the vent holes in their caps. The average life

RE: Fw: [biofuel] Cloudy Biodiesel ZZ

2004-09-26 Thread Peggy
Subject: Re: Fw: [biofuel] Cloudy Biodiesel ZZ What's this washed ceramic filter? The links I read about making biodiesel don't say anything about filtering. Ken Hello Ken, Yesterday I met with a person who said that a petroleum products company makes hydrogen peroxide as a byproduct from

RE: [biofuel] Question - efficiency of sunlight conversion

2004-09-26 Thread Peggy
Good Point Robert! P. Subject: Re: [biofuel] Question - efficiency of sunlight conversion In most less techincal sources you will find the composition of our atmosphere listed as 20% Oxygen, 80% Nitrogen and 1% Other gases, which means that all of the greenhouse gasses that people are