Re: [Biofuel] Injector pumps Jetta TDI

[Keith Addison]

Hi Ken

I have been mostly a lurker in this group but lost interest when it 
became a political group rather than a DIY on biofuel.


Well, that didn't happen. I'm not trying to be argumentative, but 
there's MUCH less "politics" (whatever that might be) now than there 
was when the group was at it's height, between 2001 and about 2009. I 
could easily prove that, but I'm sure there's no need. We said, quite 
a number of times, that "politics" is in the eye of the beholder, and 
it usually means "stuff I don't agree with".


Never mind - what happened was that by 2009 the list had covered the 
ground as far as DIY biofuels is concerned. Good job, well done. What 
would it be about DIY biofuels that you won't find in the list 
archives 
(), 
or at the Journey to Forever website's Biofuels section, or, even 
better, in JtF's two books on biofuels, "Make your own ethanol fuel" 
(http://journeytoforever.org/ethanol_still.html) and "The Biodiesel 
BIble" (http://journeytoforever.org/biodieselbible.html)?


Anyway, most of the the posts now are about biofuels or energy 
issues. (Thanks Darryl!)


I like the content of the posts but there is just too much to read. 
Anyhow I have a technical question. Previously I had read disputes 
about whether biodiesel or SVO could be used in a Jetta. I bought my 
Jetta with the expressed desire to use biofuel but it because 
difficult because most of the sources of vegetable oil dried up so I 
just wound up using regular diesel.


There are solutions to that.

Anyway recently my injector pump broke and needed to be replaced. My 
repair guy said that he could not find a used or reliable reman pump 
because the veggie crowd is buying them all up because they are 
ruining them and having to replace them too often. I would like to 
hear comments on this. Is there any truth to this.


No offence mesnt, but there are a couple of sad truths about SVO 
users, or many of them. First is that, though biodiesel is much 
better fuel, a very common reason for taking the SVO route instead of 
biodiesel is that people are afraid of titration. They often say it's 
all those dreadful poisonous chemicals they're afraid of, but usually 
it's because they don't want to learn titration (and as we know, the 
chemicals are perfectly safe when you know how). So they get an SVO 
kit (usually a half-assed kit), LOTS of filters, and use SVO - 
blithely unaware that you have to titrate the SVO anyway. If it 
titrates at more than 2.5 ml of 0.1% NaOH solution it's no good for 
SVO. This is spelled out loud and clear at the JtF SVO page 
(). But they think 
filtering it will solve the problem. It won't. And hence, methinks, 
the run on ruined fuel pumps.


All best

Keith


After about a month my repair guy managed to find a used one in 
North Carolina.

Ken


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Re: [Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report #125

[Keith Addison]

Hey, Dawie, howzit?

The problem here is, of course, not that industrial secrets are 
being stolen, but that industrial secrets are being kept in the 
first place. -D


Would you care to expand on that a little? Or even a lot? Not picking 
a squabble, I'd like to know how you see it. I didn't think it was an 
"of course". Also, I've never managed to find anything I'd argue 
about with William Blum.


Bests

Keith



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 From: Keith Addison 
To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org
Sent: Saturday, 8 February 2014, 0:52
Subject: [Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report #125


William Blum writes:

... "So what do we have here? The NSA being used to steal industrial
secrets; nothing to do with fighting terrorism. And the NSA stealing
money and otherwise sabotaging unnamed financial systems, which may
also represent gaining industrial advantage for the United States.

"Long-time readers of this report may have come to the realization
that I'm not an ecstatic admirer of US foreign policy. But this stuff
shocks even me. It's the gross pettiness of "The World's Only
Superpower".
A careful search of the extensive Lexis-Nexis database failed to turn
up a single American mainstream media source, print or broadcast,
that mentioned this revelation. I found it only on those websites
which carried my report, plus three other sites: Techdirt, Lawfare,
and Crikey (First Digital Media)." ...

The EU has been complaining about the US using its spy network to
steal industrial secrets for a long time.

The NSA and Britain's GCHQ started construction of the Echelon global
wide area network surveillance system in 1981, soon joined by
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Hong Kong. Europe was excluded.
Europe started complaining about industrial eavesdropping in the 80s.

British journalist Duncan Campbell has covered this story from the start:

Somebody's listening
Duncan Campbell
New Statesman August 1988
http://praxis.leedsmet.ac.uk/praxis/documents/echelon_enc.doc?

Interception Capabilities 2000 (report written for the EU)
Duncan Campbell
http://www.cyber-rights.org/interception/stoa/interception_capabilities_2000.htm
pdf:
http://www.duncancampbell.org/menu/surveillance/echelon/IC2001-Paper1.pdf

Up to now:

Revealed: Britain's 'secret listening post in the heart of Berlin'
Claims that GCHQ has maintained spying operations even after US pulled out
DUNCAN CAMPBELL , CAHAL MILMO , KIM SENGUPTA , NIGEL MORRIS , TONY PATTERSON
Tuesday 05 November 2013


UPDATE: Germany calls in Britain's ambassador to demand explanation
over 'secret Berlin listening post'


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