Re: [Biofuel] The End of the Internet

2006-02-13 Thread Doug Younker
For quite sometime I have felt the fairest way to charge for internet access, by the amount of data the internet transports on behalf of the user. That would crimp the style of commercial email, cause some to rethink their need to send cutesy html formatted email and large attachments to

Re: [Biofuel] So called magnetic fuel conditioners andmagnetic water treatment

2006-02-13 Thread Paul S Cantrell
Mike,Could you please provide links or bibliography, hopefully in english, for the Soviet research on fuel?On 2/12/06, Mike McGinness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately the Russians did most of the magnetic water and fuel treatment R D in this area when it was the Soviet Union during the

Re: [Biofuel] KOH carbonated

2006-02-13 Thread Tomas Juknevicius
Mike McGinness wrote: The KOH reacts with CO2 in the air producing K2CO3 + O2 + H20. The K2CO3 is still considered a strong base and may still work for suponification for your purposes, but it is not as reactive as KOH. Also only one of the two K's from the K2CO3 is a strong base so

Re: [Biofuel] So called magnetic fuel conditioners andmagnetic water treatment

2006-02-13 Thread Greg and April
Mike, You have made a statement that really stands out as to how unreliable the science of magnetism really is. Ozone is now a proven technology for many things, including purification of water, while 30 years ago it was in the realm of junk science. Yet, after 30 years, magnets are still in

[Biofuel] Heavy metals in biodiesel via bioremediation?

2006-02-13 Thread Zeke Yewdall
Reading a bit about the leaded gasoline and lead and mercury contamination from various sources in other threads this morning lead to me thinking about heavy metal emissions from biodiesel. Theoretically, we know exactly what's in there (just veggie oil, transformed with methanol and lye,

[Biofuel] Fwd: Bio-Diesel in Palestine

2006-02-13 Thread Keith Addison
Does anyone have any good advice for Elad Orian? Respond direct or (better) discuss onlist - I gave him the list archives link so he can follow any onlist discussions (or join). I think there are many projects similar to what he envisages, and it would be good to hear about them. Best Keith

Re: [Biofuel] The End of the Internet

2006-02-13 Thread Jeromie Reeves
What SBC is asking is not for (just) end users to pay for the BW they use. Its for Google, Yahoo and the likes to pay for the BW that SBC users use FROM them. IE they want the phone standards applies to IP networks and that is just plain wrong to force on people after the fact. All phone

[Biofuel] Permanent Energy Crisis

2006-02-13 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.alternet.org/story/32077/ Permanent Energy Crisis By Michael Klare, Tomdispatch.com. Posted February 13, 2006. There are many reasons to believe that, unlike the gas and electricity crises of the 70s, 80s and 90s, the energy troubles we now face will last for decades. President

Re: [Biofuel] KOH carbonated

2006-02-13 Thread Andres Secco
Add 5 grams per liter of the KOH you want to test. You may titrate the stuff using HCl and any indicator as phenolftalein or orto-toluidin (from swimming pool test) and when solution changes in color you get or pass the neutral point and compare the quantity of acid used. But... I think and have

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: Bio-Diesel in Palestine

2006-02-13 Thread Appal Energy
Yah. One really good idea. Help him build a business/plant step by step via the internet. Bring him into the conversation, take inventory of his site and available materials and back him up whenever he's ready to put wrenches to fittings. Todd Swearingen Keith Addison wrote: Does anyone

Re: [Biofuel] KOH carbonated

2006-02-13 Thread Mike McGinness
Thomas, Thanks for the corection, I plead temporary insanity (actually I was distracted when I rushed out that email). You are correct there is no O2 produced. Mike Tomas Juknevicius wrote: Mike McGinness wrote: The KOH reacts with CO2 in the air producing K2CO3 + O2 + H20. The K2CO3 is

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: Bio-Diesel in Palestine

2006-02-13 Thread Andres Secco
Dear Elad, Please check the following. Fo you have a source of animal fat or vegetable fat in a rate of five tons per day at least. Waste product the better. A stainless steel reactor 5 cu meters at least. I can advise you on some companis in maahle adumim were to find them Ethanol won´t be a

Re: [Biofuel] KOH carbonated

2006-02-13 Thread the skapegoat
perform a titration with each on equal amounts of vinegar. The difference in volume will tell you how to adjust your formula. JJJN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone,I just got 50 #s of KOH for next to nothing. It is in flake form but it is carbonated to some extent (unkown). I have some

Re: [Biofuel] Prices of commercial biodiesel

2006-02-13 Thread Chandan Haldar
Atul, I appreciate your frustration. But it shouldn't be a surprise that competing with an established utility scale monster such as fossil fuel requires the economics of the alternative to be at least as efficient (apart from its other non-financial merits). I'm under the impression that