Re: [Biofuel] Lessons from Katrina --eye opener

2005-09-14 Thread Marty Phee
How about another perspective... http://thislife.org/ Listen to After the flood. It's long, 60min The one women there has a very different story, but I believe she was at the convention center. I have a real problem with this line. “in that place 98 per cent of the people were bad.” So,

[Biofuel] washing method

2005-09-14 Thread john owens
would it be possible to add water to theoutlet pipe of biodiesel reactorwhiletransferring it tothe wash tank and then just letting it settle.something likethe same way coke syrupand soda wateris mixed in a restaurant or MC Donall's. ___ Biofuel mailing

Re: [Biofuel] Debatable statement?

2005-09-14 Thread Greg and April
It's not Dolittle, or bombers that I know of, but I do know that Charles A. Lindbergh, taught P-38 pilots how to get the best of the long range capabilities of the P-38's in the pacific during the war. I find it interesting, and to the best of my knowledge, fuel economy is a concern of the list.

Re: [Biofuel] washing method

2005-09-14 Thread Keith Addison
Hello John would it be possible to add water to the outlet pipe of biodiesel reactor while transferring it to the wash tank and then just letting it settle. something like the same way coke syrup and soda water is mixed in a restaurant or MC Donall's. Could be worth a try, though I don't

Re: [Biofuel] Bush: What didn't go right?

2005-09-14 Thread Joe Street
Hi Taryn; Thanks for the kind words. The non bush part is Mr. George Galloway a scottish member of parliament who gave a blistering redress to the US senate sub comittee earlier this year who accused him of complicity in the oil for food scandal with Iraq. JAFO is me! It is my composer alias

Re: [Biofuel] Using stored co2 energy (was: Shooting Down theBreeze)

2005-09-14 Thread Chris lloyd
but a "cheater's method" involves chilling the bottles to near freezing before final bottling. Some bottlers actually freeze the bottle necks, remove the hollow plastic cork (which has the dead yeast in) and re-cork after adding sugar water. I try to judge the fermentation so I can bottle

Re: [Biofuel] washing method

2005-09-14 Thread Joe Street
Keith Addison wrote: Could be worth a try, though I don't know anything about McDonald's methods of mixing their deadly liquids. Nice one! The candy man can cause he mixes it with love and makes the world go round ROFLMAO! Joe ___

Re: [Biofuel] wind and current power

2005-09-14 Thread ashok vora
Dear All, I suggest to visit website www.oterpowers.com for getting good basic knowledge of wind power and its application. Thanks A.P.VORA --- Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 12, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Leon Hulett wrote: I did a tiny proposal to Cal Edison in

Re: [Biofuel] washing method

2005-09-14 Thread ROY Washbish
Keith FYI It's not a McDonald's mixing machine. It is the design of the soda company. In the old days we use to put some Coke syrup in a glass and then add soda water (hence ... the SODA FOUNTAIN). I guess I'm dated now. LOLRoy Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Johnwould it be

Re: [Biofuel] wind and current power

2005-09-14 Thread des
the URL is www.otherpower.com ashok vora wrote: Dear All, I suggest to visit website www.oterpowers.com for getting good basic knowledge of wind power and its application. Thanks A.P.VORA --- Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 12, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Leon

Re: [Biofuel] Oil shale

2005-09-14 Thread DHAJOGLO
I haven't posted in a while and I just got around to looking at this. I grew up in Grand Junction, Colorado. This is situated right in the heart of oil shale country. There is even a local story (local to Parachute, Colorado) about an early settler that built his fireplace out of oil shale

Re: [Biofuel] wind and current power

2005-09-14 Thread Leon Hulett
A.P.VORA That link didn't work for me. Can you check it? Leon Leon Hulett [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to

Re: [Biofuel] Bush: What didn't go right?

2005-09-14 Thread TarynToo
On Sep 14, 2005, at 8:38 AM, Joe Street wrote: Hi Taryn; Thanks for the kind words.  The non bush part is Mr. George Galloway a scottish member of parliament who gave a blistering redress to the US senate sub comittee earlier this year who accused him of complicity in the oil for food

Re: [Biofuel] Was Debatable statement? [Now] Metro in crash

2005-09-14 Thread Aidan Wilkins
Hello, As a note a Metro does just fine in a head on crash. I don't understand this concept that bigger is better in a crash. My sister hit a car that failed to stop at an intersection with her Metro. She was cruising at 55 mph. The car was of course totaled, but she was just fine,

Re: [Biofuel] washing method

2005-09-14 Thread Bobby Clark
You could make the outlet pipe some type of static mixer or a mix tube. We use these at work to blend liquids that are pumped through them when no other means of mixing is possible. Bobby From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org To:

[Biofuel] Question about Alcohol and Tritation

2005-09-14 Thread Ryan Prince
I only have 91% isopropyl alcohol for titration and we ended up using 6X the amount of alcohol to disove the used vegetable oil (we used 60 ml to 1 ml of oil). The mixture was cloudy up the point of adding that much alcohol. We did heat the mixture to help disolve the oil. When starting there was

Re: [Biofuel] washing method

2005-09-14 Thread Keith Addison
Keith FYI It's not a McDonald's mixing machine. It is the design of the soda company. In the old days we use to put some Coke syrup in a glass and then add soda water (hence ... the SODA FOUNTAIN). I guess I'm dated now. LOL Roy Hey, I remember that. You could make it at home too, people had

Re: [Biofuel] Was Debatable statement? [Now] Metro in crash

2005-09-14 Thread Zeke Yewdall
According to the laws of physics, in a inelastic collision between two objects, the one with more mass will contribute more momentum to the resulting system. If you run a 4000lb vehical head on into a 2000lb vehical, both traveling at the same speed, the lighter vehical will decelerate faster

Re: [Biofuel] Was Debatable statement? [Now] Metro in crash

2005-09-14 Thread Zeke Yewdall
Then again, it would be fun to commute to work in one of these http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/images/m-939-dvic359.jpg On 9/14/05, Zeke Yewdall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to the laws of physics, in a inelastic collision between two objects, the one with more

Re: [Biofuel] Was Debatable statement? [Now] Metro in crash

2005-09-14 Thread Hurley, Edward R
Not very fuel efficient and when the little car pulls out in front of you, you probably will not notice it. The ride in those trucks is pretty rough (rode in them for over 10 years) and you will just think you hit another bump in the road. Don't let Arnold see it or we will have something

Re: [Biofuel] BD disinfo?

2005-09-14 Thread Tom Irwin
Hi Mike and All, Depending on how these degradation tests were performed, I'd say this was good news. It says that Biodiesel is biodegradable in the environment and DinoD lingers quite a bit. If there's a spill of BioD it will degrade fast. Since both tests are in an aqueous or aqautic

Re: [Biofuel] Draft US Defense Paper Outlines Preventive Nuclear Strikes

2005-09-14 Thread Tom Irwin
Hi All, Sorry I had to laugh to keep from crying. Let's see, Bushand the neocons will use weapons of mass destruction on bad people thinking about making weapons of mass destruction. Exactly who are the bad people. Oh Brave New World. Someone ought to tell them that nuclear winter doesn't

Re: [Biofuel] wind and current power

2005-09-14 Thread Leon Hulett
TarynToo, Here are the specs for Chinook: http://www.boeing.com/rotorcraft/military/ch47sd/ch47sdspec.htm GTW: 54,000 lbs Center hook: 12,700 kgs That's a Roger Roger on village level of technology. We don't have to go into this. However, I see shale and other peripheral things here... I

[Biofuel] Biodiesel Manufacture using KOH

2005-09-14 Thread Sean Brady
Hi all. I have recently joined the mailing list and am pleased to see the worldwide interest, knowledge and concern of the members, not only regarding Biofuels, but in environmental and humanitarian matters also. All I can say is keep it up mother earth will love and bless you. I am

Re: [Biofuel] Draft US Defense Paper Outlines Preventive Nuclear Strikes

2005-09-14 Thread David Miller
Tom Irwin wrote: Hi All, Hi Tom; Sorry I had to laugh to keep from crying. Let's see, Bush and the neocons will use weapons of mass destruction on bad people thinking about making weapons of mass destruction. Exactly who are the bad people. Oh Brave New World. Someone ought to tell

Re: [Biofuel] wind and current power

2005-09-14 Thread Zeke Yewdall
That monitoring station suggested to me that such a flying platform could be used for many things. These days quick response computer and cell phone transmissions might be a market. One company in Florida is proposing a platform flying 24/7 at 60 to 70 thousand feet for such markets. I

Re: [Biofuel] Oil shale

2005-09-14 Thread Ray J
You must not have read the article they drill a shaft freeze the ground in a big sphere way out around the shaft.. then boil the oil out of the rock and suck it out of the hole they are not planning to dig out the shale DHAJOGLO wrote: I haven't posted in a while and I just

Re: [Biofuel] Oil shale

2005-09-14 Thread Zeke Yewdall
I think what he was saying was that it would be a tremendous mess even without digging up the shale. Right? On 9/14/05, Ray J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You must not have read the article they drill a shaft freeze the ground in a big sphere way out around the shaft.. then boil the

Re: [Biofuel] Biodiesel Manufacture using KOH

2005-09-14 Thread Ken Provost
Sean Brady writes: I am using KOH as catalyst, and most of the literature I have read is based on using NaOH as catalyst. I believe that 3,5g NaOH per litre oil is the minimum amount of catalyst needed for unused oil and increases as your feedstock oil is more used (WVO). Correct,

Re: [Biofuel] Sucker's Bets for the New Century

2005-09-14 Thread Alan Petrillo
But it was accurate in another way, too, one full of portent for the future. A decade ago, environmental researcher Norman Myers began trying to add up the number of humans at risk of losing their homes from global warming. He looked at all the obvious places -- coastal China, India,