Re: [Biofuel] EPA seizes thousands of illegally imported engines

2006-07-19 Thread lres1
Why weren't the engines labeled for Bio-Fuel use only or some such. For use with bio-fuels only. We run many Chinese engines here on Bio-Diesel. Doug - Original Message - From: AltEnergyNetwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 1:22 PM

[Biofuel] Cause of New Plymouth biodiesel explosion released

2006-07-19 Thread Appal Energy
A bad day at Black Rock... http://www.ktvb.com/news/localnews/stories/ktvbn-jul1406-explosion_cause.113ae8b1.html Cause of New Plymouth biodiesel explosion released 02:30 PM MDT on Friday, July 14, 2006 KTVB.COM PAYETTE -- Investigators say they now know what caused an

Re: [Biofuel] The truth about where to stand on global warming

2006-07-19 Thread Appal Energy
It's an ingrained social flaw, almost to the point of genetic. Humans in general are not happy unless they feel that there's someone beneath them. Remember, it's always easier to destroy or tear down something than it is to build it up or maintain it. There's a dividing line amongst humans

Re: [Biofuel] EPA seizes thousands of illegally imported engines

2006-07-19 Thread Appal Energy
The Bush Administration will continue to enforce the Clean Air Act and stop illegal imports. The public's assistance and cooperation, along with the EPA's commitment to enforcing these regulations, is essential to preserving and protecting the nation's air quality. Chuckle..., chuckle...,

Re: [Biofuel] Cause of New Plymouth biodiesel explosion released

2006-07-19 Thread Mike Weaver
I feel sorry for the guy and his family but using a torch around methanol? Back in my wrenching days my boss made sure we knew an empty gas tank was more danergous than a full one, and god forbid you did any welding the gas tank had to be filled with water first. Appal Energy wrote: A bad day

Re: [Biofuel] breakthrough - store CH4 at 500psi instead of 3600

2006-07-19 Thread Jesse Frayne
How much energy does it take to make ground corn cobs into hockey pucks? In this oxygen-free environment. So you can then burn natural gas. Jesse --- Zeke Yewdall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it's like the hydride storage of hydrogen, you get it out of the sponge by heating it. And when

[Biofuel] Check Your Beliefs

2006-07-19 Thread Fritz Friesinger
Forewardet by Fritz --Check Your BeliefsBy Charley Reese03/17/06 -- -- Let's play a fantasy game to check onour belief in human rights. Let's suppose that in amythical state, a governor announced a campaign topunish

Re: [Biofuel] Cause of New Plymouth biodiesel explosion released

2006-07-19 Thread Joe Street
Here's another trick. When I added a float switch to my hot water tank to interlock the heter element, the tank had already been used many times for biodiesel. I evacuated all the air from the tank and then backfilled it with inert gas before welding. If you have a MIG welder and you have

Re: [Biofuel] {Disarmed} Telegraph - US could be going bankrupt

2006-07-19 Thread Joe Street
This is not just a question of the government' going bankrupt. It is something that is endemic to corporate america. Check out this frontline video about the bankrupcy case for United Airlines. At several points in the movie the lawyers and financial experts say that the kind of dirty

Re: [Biofuel] breakthrough - store CH4 at 500psi instead of 3600

2006-07-19 Thread robert and benita rabello
Kirk McLoren wrote: http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=20176 I had to let this settle for a day or so before I could reply. The article is very misleading, beginning with this little gem: Natural gas is also easier to procure: 85 percent of the current U.S. consumption is

Re: [Biofuel] Biodiesel is mandatory in Illinois

2006-07-19 Thread Tony Marzolino
This is GREAT news. I hope other states/communities will shortly follow in the US. Tony Marzolino"D. Mindock" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the Illinois League of Conservation Voters latest e-newsletter. Peace, D. MindockAs of July 1st , all state, municipal, or county governments, school

[Biofuel] Trash Talk

2006-07-19 Thread D. Mindock
Trash Talk at: http://www.the-rude-awakening.com/RAissues/2006/march/RA071806.html By Justice Litle Remember the classic '80s movie Back to the Future, in which Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) traveled to 1955 in a time machine built by Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd)? The initial version of the

[Biofuel] Liquid Coal

2006-07-19 Thread D. Mindock
It seems that this effort to liquify coal will only ascerbate global warming and air pollution. It seems economically viable but if the social and environmental costs are included, it becomes a losing proposition. Peace, D. Mindock = Peabody

Re: [Biofuel] Trash Talk

2006-07-19 Thread Mike Weaver
Or look up gasification and gasifiers... D. Mindock wrote: Trash Talk at: http://www.the-rude-awakening.com/RAissues/2006/march/RA071806.html By Justice Litle Remember the classic '80s movie Back to the Future, in which Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) traveled to 1955 in a time machine built by

Re: [Biofuel] {Disarmed} Telegraph - US could be going bankrupt

2006-07-19 Thread Kirk McLoren
Well Joe the bottom line is what we knew has finally become official. Payers into the system, ie workers, halve or worse and baby boomers retiring means retirees triple or worse. The math isn't rocket science. What we see know are the psychopaths that have always tried to hide behind doublespeak

[Biofuel] crosspost -[SOLAR] All Energy for Europe Could Come from Concentrating Solar Power (CSP)]

2006-07-19 Thread Kirk McLoren
the pdf is 11megabytes. worth the download. KirkLowell Prag [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From Lowell Prag Wed Jul 19 07:46:05 2006Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:46:05 -0400 (EDT)From: "Lowell Prag" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SOLAR] All Energy for Europe Could Come from

Re: [Biofuel] breakthrough - store CH4 at 500psi instead of 3600

2006-07-19 Thread Kirk McLoren
I think he is making "activated charcoal" You can buy it in 55 gallon drums. I think the commercial product is made from peach pits. You need to transfer it quickly as it adsorbs all sorts of stuff. I think gas mask filters use this stuff.KirkJesse Frayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How much

Re: [Biofuel] Check Your Beliefs

2006-07-19 Thread Bob Molloy
Yo Fritz, Yeah, right on Fritz. And just to prove it your ethnic forebears killed offsix million of these bloody Jews only to have the rest of usdumbwesterners stop them just before they'd finished the job. Now it's up to the poor Palestinians with only suicide bombers and Katushya rockets

Re: [Biofuel] breakthrough - store CH4 at 500psi instead of 3600

2006-07-19 Thread John Beale
You can get it made out of all kinds of things: wood, coal, coconut shells, etc etc. ...and if you look on the University of Missouri website, you find this abstract: Synthesis and analysis of activated carbon briquettes as an adsorbent for natural gas x-tad-biggerby Demetrius Taylor

Re: [Biofuel] Check Your Beliefs

2006-07-19 Thread Zeke Yewdall
Actually, it seems to me that the US and Europe created Israel because we felt bad about the holocaust, but not enough to actually want to stop their anti-semitism so they found a place where the Jew's could have a homeland, without inconveniencing any Europeans. It makes us feel better about

Re: [Biofuel] breakthrough - store CH4 at 500psi instead of 3600

2006-07-19 Thread Zeke Yewdall
Without anincreased static compression ratio or forced induction, the power losswould generally be unacceptable for North American drivers. (Having justreturned from California, where the actual speed most vehicles travel on the highway approaches 90 mph, I just can't see people being willing

Re: [Biofuel] Biodiesel is mandatory in Illinois

2006-07-19 Thread Jason Katie
when i lived in illinois, a lot of the gov't vehicles ran on a mix by county and/or city standards anyway. gassers were not exactly required to fill on ethanol, but most did anyway whether it be for the GP or recommendation from the bosses, and diesel was contracted and B10 was cheaper than

Re: [Biofuel] EPA seizes thousands of illegally imported engines

2006-07-19 Thread Jason Katie
can they do that? that would be a fantastic technicality! i do so solemnly swear to use biofuels in my imported engine... so step off georgie-boy! Jason ICQ#: 154998177 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: lres1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent:

[Biofuel] Pump choice

2006-07-19 Thread Charles List
Hi All Thanks to all who have advised me this last few months, I am now a biofueller! 105l batches, good product. Unfortunately, after 10 good batches, my pump has started spraying out of the back of the impeller housing. So I took it apart and the impeller has broken up and the housing

Re: [Biofuel] Check Your Beliefs

2006-07-19 Thread Paul Webber
On 7/19/06, Bob Molloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yo Fritz, Yeah, right on Fritz. And just to prove it your ethnic forebears killed offsix million of these bloody Jews only to have the rest of usdumbwesterners stop them just before they'd finished the job. There have been many atrocities

Re: [Biofuel] Cause of New Plymouth biodiesel explosion released

2006-07-19 Thread Bill Ellis
Hey Mike,Ditto on the water filled gas tank, course back then it seems folks had just a smidge more in the common sense department. In addition if my boss had caught me even close to a gas tank with a torch I would have been in the unemployment line. Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: [Biofuel] Check Your Beliefs

2006-07-19 Thread Fritz Friesinger
Bob, i bett you havent wread the report of www.btselem.org you would not talk such rhubbish! Fritz - Original Message - From: Bob Molloy To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 6:52 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Check Your Beliefs

Re: [Biofuel] Pump choice

2006-07-19 Thread Jason Katie
i have a pump question on a side note. will a window washer fluid pump from a car work in my little test reactor, or will it dissolve as well? Jason ICQ#: 154998177 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Charles List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent:

Re: [Biofuel] breakthrough - store CH4 at 500psi instead of 3600

2006-07-19 Thread robert and benita rabello
Zeke Yewdall wrote: Isn't that interesting that the North American driver is willing to sacrifice the world and condemn billions of people to a slow painful death, rather than accept a 10% decrease in how fast they can go in their car Although I suppose they don't think of it that

Re: [Biofuel] breakthrough - store CH4 at 500psi instead of 3600

2006-07-19 Thread Zeke Yewdall
Yeah, I know about the getting passed like you are standing still. My truck will do 65 to 70mph on the highway, which isn't bad for a 4 cylinder diesel engine -- probably rated at less horsepower than the stock ford ranger engine in roughly the same size truck. It was funny driving it down through

Re: [Biofuel] Pump choice

2006-07-19 Thread Mike Weaver
Yes. Yes. Jason Katie wrote: i have a pump question on a side note. will a window washer fluid pump from a car work in my little test reactor, or will it dissolve as well? Jason ICQ#: 154998177 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Charles List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [Biofuel] Pump choice

2006-07-19 Thread Zeke Yewdall
Uhh, how can the answer to both questions be yes. If it dissolves, it won't work, right?I'd think it shouldn't have a problem with methanol, since that's in windshield washer fluid anyway, but methoxide is a different monster. Plus, these pumps are pretty chinzy -- I think they'd burn out after

Re: [Biofuel] Check Your Beliefs

2006-07-19 Thread Keith Addison
Hello Bob I think you should check your beliefs. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2921 'Because This Is the Middle East' http://snipurl.com/pg9x Re: [biofuel] Re: Oil and Israel 3 Jun 2004 Keith Yo Fritz, Yeah, right on Fritz. And just to prove it your ethnic forebears killed off six

Re: [Biofuel] Check Your Beliefs

2006-07-19 Thread Hakan Falk
Bob, I forgot about your ethnic forebears massacres of the native American population. In numbers it is also comparable. Bob, I have a lot to do and have been silent for a while, but this I have to comment. It was clearly under the belt and very insensitive and outright dumb, especially

Re: [Biofuel] Check Your Beliefs

2006-07-19 Thread Hakan Falk
Bob, I have a lot to do and have been silent for a while, but this I have to comment. It was clearly under the belt and very insensitive and outright dumb, especially form an American. US do have their own racism and the internment of Americans with Japanese decent during WWII is nothing