Re: [Biofuel] automating titration

2006-03-16 Thread Jason Katie
i thank you for your help Mr. Mahoney. the known variables will be: pH of the base (by reference measurement) pH of the Oil (by measurement) volume of the oil (by external input) the unknown will be: volume of base needed to reach a pH of 8.4 i dont really need numbers, just a formula that i

[Biofuel] Drain America First

2006-03-16 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/03/10/drain_america_first.php Drain America First Joseph E. Stiglitz March 10, 2006 Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics, is Professor of Economics at Columbia University and was Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to President

[Biofuel] Ownership Matters: Three Steps to Ensure a Biofuels Industry That Truly Benefits Rural America

2006-03-16 Thread Keith Addison
Ownership Matters: Three Steps to Ensure a Biofuels Industry That Truly Benefits Rural America This February 2006 paper by David Morris was adapted from a speech given at the Minnesota Ag Expo 2006. The paper provides a snapshot of today's biofuels industry and a roadmap to ensure that local

[Biofuel] Chernobyl: A poisonous legacy

2006-03-16 Thread Keith Addison
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article351153.ece Chernobyl: A poisonous legacy Twenty years after a blast in the nuclear plant at Chernobyl spread radioactive debris across Europe, it has been revealed that 375 farms in Britain, with 200,000 sheep, are still contaminated by fallout

[Biofuel] Climate change 'irreversible' as Arctic sea ice fails to re-form

2006-03-16 Thread Keith Addison
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article351135.ece Climate change 'irreversible' as Arctic sea ice fails to re-form By Steve Connor, Science Editor Published: 14 March 2006 Sea ice in the Arctic has failed to re-form for the second consecutive winter, raising fears that global

Re: [Biofuel] automating titration

2006-03-16 Thread Joe Street
Hey Jason; If you are bent on doing this, why not approach it from a different angle? Make a system that imitates what you do yourself, instead of trying to do it numerically just make a system that does what you do. It could all be done by way of gravity feed and counting drops by use of

[Biofuel] The End of Dollar Hegemony

2006-03-16 Thread Keith Addison
See also: http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12346.htm Global Economic Hegemony: A New Kind of Warfare? By Kaleem Hussain 03/15/06 ICSSA The Proposed Iranian Oil Bourse http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg59546.html Petrodollar Warfare: Dollars, Euros and the

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: Greenpeace finds Heinz Baby Rice Cereal contaminated by illegal GE rice

2006-03-16 Thread Jack Schwartz
Keith's post concerning Greenpeace finding Heinz Baby Rice Cereal contaminated by illegal genetically engineered rice makes me wonder if the iron and arsenic content of the Heinz Baby Rice Cereal is also being checked by Greenpeace or others. - 'Institute of Science In Society' Press Release

[Biofuel] Public Power in the Age of Empire

2006-03-16 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.democracynow.org/static/Arundhati_Trans.shtml Arundhati Roy: Transcript of full speech by Arundhati Roy in San Francisco, California on August 16th, 2004. Copyright 2004 Arundhati Roy. For permission to reprint contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] TIDE? OR IVORY SNOW? Public Power in the Age of

Re: [Biofuel] The End of Dollar Hegemony

2006-03-16 Thread DHAJOGLO
I liked this essay (well, actually it depressed me). The end made me think of something, ...gold or its equivalent. Isn't oil the equivalent currency? I mean, we price it in euros or dollars but in fact, it is so central to the world economy that pricing it in gold does not change the

Re: [Biofuel] automating titration

2006-03-16 Thread logan vilas
The same could be done with a ph meter with external alarm. Put a relay inline to a solenoid valve when it hits the right ph the solenoid valve shuts off flow. Just use a measureing device like a burett. when you come back to it read the burett and see how many ml was used. Logan Vilas -

[Biofuel] more mercedes help

2006-03-16 Thread Kenji James Fuse
This is a solicitation for help from the Mercedes buffs out there. Some of you will say 'go to a mercedes forum', but last time there were several really useful replies. I plan to install a second fuel tank next week, so now I have to decide how to do it. The vehicle is a 1976 Mercedes-Benz 300D.

Re: [Biofuel] The End of Dollar Hegemony

2006-03-16 Thread Kirk McLoren
I had conversations over a decade ago with a Belgian who had lived in Argentina (I think) when they experienced triple digit inflation. In other words currency collapse. He said it was quite an experience. The infrastructure fragmented. The electrical grid etc was no longer maintained. If you had

[Biofuel] Mexico discovers 'huge' oil field

2006-03-16 Thread Kirk McLoren
Wednesday, 15 March 2006, 11:44 GMThttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4808466.stmMexico discovers 'huge' oil fieldMexican President Vicente Fox has announced the discovery of a newdeep-water oil field, which is believed to contain 10bn barrels of crude.The field is in the Gulf of Mexico, and

Re: [Biofuel] Mexico discovers 'huge' oil field

2006-03-16 Thread Michael Redler
This will change US-Mexico relations.The timing is interesting sincesocial democracy is taking hold inSouth America, putting Mexico between hegemony and democracy with oilhanging as a dangling carrot.MikeKirk McLoren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wednesday, 15 March 2006, 11:44

Re: [Biofuel] The End of Dollar Hegemony

2006-03-16 Thread Zeke Yewdall
Hmmm. Makes me feel better about having no cash reserves, but a stockpile of PV modules in my garage On 3/16/06, Kirk McLoren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had conversations over a decade ago with a Belgian who had lived in Argentina (I think) when they experienced triple digit inflation. In

Re: [Biofuel] more mercedes help

2006-03-16 Thread Zeke Yewdall
Hmmm. Dunno on the mercedes. The VW injector pumps have a built in lift pump which is integral to the injector pump -- no external lines between the lift pump and the injector pump. I suspect that if there is an external lift pump on the mercedes, that the injector pump cannot function without a

Re: [Biofuel] automating titration

2006-03-16 Thread Zeke Yewdall
It's been a few years since I took chemistry, but I seem to recall that pH is a logarithm of the number of H+ ions in solution. At least in an aqueous solution. That definition might not hold up under a non-aqueous solution such as methoxide. But if you convert from pH to moles of H+ or OH-

[Biofuel] Why Iran's oil bourse can't break the buck

2006-03-16 Thread biofuel
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HC10Ak01.html Mar 10, 2006 Why Iran's oil bourse can't break the buck By F William Engdahl A number of writings have recently appeared with the thesis that the announced plans of the Iranian government to institute a Tehran oil bourse, perhaps as early

Re: [Biofuel] more mercedes help

2006-03-16 Thread MARIA BURGER
Hi Kenji ! You are correct. The black gizmo on the side of the MB injection pump is indeed a lift pump. It keeps the IP body full of fuel at a small pressure, something like 3 or 4 psi. The main thing to remember on a two tank setup is that the fuel line coming out of the top of the spin on

Re: [Biofuel] automating titration

2006-03-16 Thread Jason Katie
thats just it, i wont be metering flows, it will be two seperate meters in two seperate containers, one will be the base methoxide and one will be directly in the oil tank. the volume of oil will be entered by hand into the computer, and the pH of each substance will be entered electronically,

[Biofuel] [EMAIL PROTECTED] more mercedes help

2006-03-16 Thread Dan Albano
Kenji, If you end up plumbing the solenoid valve in between the lift pump and injector pump, you will need to add a separate fuel pump to the vegetable oil circuit. The injector pump can create very high pressure, but produces nothing in the way of vaccuum. The lift pump is required to keep the