, you wrote:
sounds like GLOP!! Have you done the tirtations for the oil? tell us a
little about the oil your using.
James Slayden
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, kavitha palaniappan wrote:
Hi,
I have dropped the idea of using acid catalyst and I started
preparing
biodiesel
Not so much out here west. They are part of several Native American
ceremony's. Sundance, Crying on the Hill, etc
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Steve Spence wrote:
I wonder if you can also ferment the cherries. I was not aware the pits
had
oil potential. They grow almost everywhere.
Steve
I miss my trooper . :(
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, studio53 wrote:
It's a good motor. I have the 86 Isuzu Trooper turbo diesel running on
veg
oil. Bulletproof and as heavy as the Titanic anchor.
---
Jesse Parris |
I wonder if the EarthRoamer guy has had problems:
www.EarthRoamer.com
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, harley3 wrote:
Ken:
Also the automatic dodge transmission used on the Cummins diesel engine
do
not hold up. Look at ads on used dodge trucks with a diesel. Every
truck
with an automatic state
Hi Tricia,
Contact your local ARS, as they work on those issues.
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Tricia Liu wrote:
Corns yeilds 18 gallon/acre
Soya yields 48 gallon/acre
Cocunuts 287 gallon/acre
Oil Palm635 gallon/acre
Chokecherries 214 gallon/acre?
Based on those yields, the price for Oil
because someones pocket was being lined with greenbacks . ;-)
Anyone in Boston doing BD that can sell to the school system out there?
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Keith Addison wrote:
Grist's comment:
Boston is moving to protect its students [from diesel fumes] by
retrofitting school buses
to the crop grown. I would think that chokecherry would be a
better fit in non-farmland plantings. But jatropha seems better in this
application. There also is a blight that is effecting the chokecherry
that might end up being and issue.
James Slayden
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, norris hobson (SRI) wrote
if I was a chemist or a process engineer I might have an inkling, but
since I'm not
James Slayden
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Greg and April wrote:
I have wondered if UV could be used to cause the reaction between the oil
and alcohol, then that would be one less item needed to make BioDiesel
yep, I will be a confusing issue, but a great marketing opportunity, just
like having an organic feedstock.
B100-V!!
James Slayden
On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Martin Klingensmith wrote:
Fuel made from animal by-products raises an interesting issue for vegan
and vegetarians, does
Just for the gallery, how long does it take your experienced oil diving to
gather 40gals with a pitcher? ;-)
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, girl_mark_fire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pumping coldish WVo with a dc pump is one of the most complicated
things I've found about this process. I just gave up
the lessor of two evils.
James Slayden
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Hakan Falk wrote:
James,
Maybe I am starting to get old, but until around 35 years ago it was the
dominant method in refrigerators. It is also a very common in nature and
if
I am not wrong it is to consider as a biogas
hrmm, do they have a reuse systen in your state? They do out here called
CALMAX that you can get lots of things from.
James Slayden
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Doug Allbright wrote:
Can someone suggest a good place to look for 55 gallon drums. I know
where to buy them new for 32.00 each but I saw
anyone know of refurb or salvage 85 or 110 drums. 55's are as common as
dirt, but the larger sizes are somewhat more difficult to find.
SF bay only please. skolnik is in Chicago I believe.
Thnx,
James Slayden
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Keith Addison wrote:
Forwards from the Distillers list
a
PV/battery/sterling cooler for 3rd world applications (mostly vaccines)
and was a really great all in one design. I would also have to look for
the link to that . (weblink burried).
James Slayden
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Hakan Falk wrote:
Dear Kirk,
Do not be impatient, maybe James
I was also wondering about that as a conversion table I looked at had
something like 1tsp == 1gm for salt. Has anyone done a conversion for
Lye? Or seen one somewheres arounds?
James Slayden
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, girl_mark_fire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wouldn 't recommend determining weight
Hrmm, can't seem to find a link for that. Might you have one?
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Robby Davenport wrote:
lowes stores in the usa have deep fryer oil pumps battery operated , for
the deep friers used for whole turkeys; it even has a screen on the
intake . price about 30 buck ' s Robert
Titration scale:
http://www.aweighscales.com/digital_scales_Gram_Scales.htm
$10 seems doable .
James Slayden
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, girl_mark_fire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark, thanks! I completely forgot about this technique, and it's
super useful for those not planning to make any
mention a rebuildable version of this that was somewhat
more hardy?
James Slayden
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http://www.lowes.com/lkn?action=productDetailproductId=25781-335-RDP-1
Sorry!
James
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, James Slayden wrote:
Hola Folks,
Here is a drill pump for pumping BD for only $4.86 @ Lowes. This is
similar to the one that Sears puts out only costs less
).
James Slayden
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Keith Addison wrote:
Hi Tony
Curtis,
Check me if I'm wrong but I've been over to Journeytoforever.org and I
believe that Kieth does indeed drive an SUV. He of course does fuel
it with buidiesel and that does make a difference.
We'd never heard of SUVs. We
Largest one in the nation (apparently):
http://www.baat.com/pr03-02-24.htm
James Slayden
Biofuel at Journey to Forever:
http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html
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continuous. I thought they might be trying the supercitical method, but I
don't think so from what they indicated. I also thought they might be
using some sort of acid/base method, but again I really don't think so.
James Slayden
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, murdoch wrote:
It's nice to see, but let's
5/40 = 12.5% so he is about right there. It should be from ~10 - 15%
depending on feedstock, chemicals, and processing for a single stage batch
process.
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Keith Addison wrote:
mark and keith - thanks for the advice. I am going to go down to
the lab today and run several 1
or get diesel #2 cost competitive with BD!! ;-) Let's see the
real price of diesel #2 ...
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, aegent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A few years ago I tried to convince a co-worker that he should at
least look at the Diesel since it was available in the car he was
looking at.
Just saw the price of Diesel #2 at the local Shell for $2.23. Looks like
things are moving upward. The San Jose BD pump is looking more affordable
by the minute.
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, murdoch wrote:
On Tue, 04 Mar 2003 22:23:21 -, you wrote:
I will be keeping a record of my milage on
use the CO2 to feed algae farms. interesting I haven't seen any tech
pulling the carbon from the oxy and burning the O2 for CHP.
James Slayden
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, kirk wrote:
LOL
Is this the filter through hydrated CaO so it makes CaCO3 ?
Is the CO2 emitted at the kiln where CaCo3 is made
of hemp is in textiles,
paper replacement, etc. No reason that the oil couldn't be used for
biodiesel, although it might have more vaule as a high end product. This
is the same as rice oil, grapeseed oil, and various other high end oils
that lend themselves to a high value product.
James
found a thing on the web. Same goes for avocado
oil. It's quite possible that I should be looking in some sort of
commodity house or something.
Thanks,
James Slayden
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Keith Addison wrote:
Hrmm, maybe not commercial, but could be .
http://www.hempoilcan.com/
http
WOW! There is a market for FFA's ..
http://www.changingworldtech.com/techfr.htm
I would have never guessed. Now how to sell it in bulk following glyc
seperation.
James Slayden
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, murdoch wrote:
http://www.evworld.com/databases/storybuilder.cfm?storyid=507
I
castorbeens come to mind.
James Slayden
On 11 Mar 2003, Darald Bantel wrote:
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 02:43, girl_mark_fire wrote:
Blue Sun Biodiesel, who is a very ambitious biodiesel producer
gearing up to build a huge plant in Colorado, is banking on local
farmers' doublecropping as one
http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_supply.html
There are various plant manufactures listed.
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, chris53bradley wrote:
I would like any info for plant design for use in processing WVO for
biodiesel production. I'm looking for a plant that could handle 1000
litres an hour of
also be looking at something like sunflowers and
vetch, intercropped. Hairy vetch is a nitrogen fixer and cover crop,
and has been intercropped with sunflowers.
Edward Beggs
On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 09:25 AM, James Slayden wrote:
Someone please correct me, but aren't a legumes
Hey Ken,
Have you done any testing with this? Or even heard of it?
James Slayden
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Keith Addison wrote:
From: Murilo D. M. Innocentini [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: new information on ethanol biodiesel process
Date
awesome!
BTW, Follow the directions accurately, to the tee and don't add other
process confusion into it.
James Slayden
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Ken Provost wrote:
Murilo writes:
The tips given by Ken Provost do not help a lot, since
at the end even he says that it is like lottery (matter
of good
interesting, I was also thinking it looked like a mint.
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, kirk wrote:
I don't think it is a hybrid. When I was a youngster our ranch house didn't
have a well as we had a spring. We used to get monster stinging nettles at
the overflow. I know, I had to scythe them.
I am
Just crossposting.
James Slayden
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:28:31 -0800 (PST)
From: James Slayden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [berkeleybiodiesel] [biofuel] crosspost schoolbus conversions
(fwd)
So
positions to really get some BD sold to the folks that want it. Oh
well, still the Fleet manager focus.
James Slayden
On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, girl_mark_fire wrote:
I was laughing too, a little bitterly.
Unfortunately they're trying to recruit one of these fine Petroleum
people to come sell biodiesel
of vehicles here.
James Slayden
On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Sam Clarkson wrote:
Hey folks,
at the moment the only diesel passenger cars sold in the u.s. are german:
Mercedes are cost prohibitive, and VWs are unreliable (consumer reports
rates the passat as average reliability, and every other VW
This is interesting because Ken P. boils off his water for his Eth/Meth
process and has no issues with increased FFA's. Ken, maybe I missed
something wilst I was over, so please correct me if that is the case.
James Slayden
On Sat, 24 May 2003, Keith Addison wrote:
Hello Andreas, Bill
Mark,
If you can get your hands on a used trough solar collector (the kind used
professionally to heat water to steam) that might be the best bet.
Anyone have any experience with this, or know of a salvage place?
James Slayden
On Wed, 21 May 2003, girl_mark_fire wrote:
Spent part
Yep, that is why I am a Veggie ...
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, kirk wrote:
Another good reason to be a vegetarian!
Meat factory was 'rat-infested'
The meat was fit only for pet food and fertilizer
Tons of condemned poultry, unfit to be eaten by humans, were sold
.
James Slayden
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, HempCycle Webmaster wrote:
I don't know the status of the army bike, but eCycle is in the process
of recruiting beta testers and raising the money to build a test run of
100 bikes. I'll be one of the beta testers, and I'll be using hempseed
oil provided
here is some interesting info on Glycerine:
http://www.indiainfoline.com/sect/chor/ch09.html
James Slayden
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Appal Energy wrote:
Hi Maria,
You bet I have some ideas on that thought.
It wouldn't take much to put a few 5 gallon pails of the acidulated
glycerin
hope). Until then, I have the feeling that the
masses can and will make this jump to an intermediate solution that serves
their lifestyle. For me, I am a fringe person anyway so the choice is
clear. :)
James Slayden
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Tim Castleman wrote:
First off, many thanks
I really like the idea of producing H2 and Meth that this method
proposes. It would be a great source of Bio-Methanol for other processes
as well as supplying H2 for various applications (think stationary fuel
cells for backup power generation).
James Slayden
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Greg
I agree that B100 in any application is a great idea, but most people are
just not there yet, nor are there the clean high milage diesels in any
great numbers in the US (but we can hope on the Lupo!!). Personally I am
waiting for the diesel Jeep Liberty this fall.
James Slayden
On Thu, 3 Jul
There was a pilot project several years back that was in a midwestern
state with good emission reductions. There also is a company that makes
switchgrsss pellets for pellet stoves, just can't find it now.
James Slayden
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, murdoch wrote:
http://www.augustachronicle.com
It also seems to me that Ethanol could be used is a mixed spark/EV Hybrid
as a single fuel source. This could also be said of straight Hydrogen,
with without the headache. Something that an interrim solution could met
out.
James Slayden
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, robert luis rabello wrote
An interesting sumation of what some of the soy BD producers are doing
with their FFA co-product. Who woulda guessed .. Better living
through Bovine FFA recycling.
James Slayden
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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:29:12 -0500
From: Ron Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED
interested in setting aside the oil
for you. Good luck!
James Slayden
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Keith Addison wrote:
What happened to a discussion list focused on caches of filtered WVO?
That's what I joined this list for, but I'm ready to leave because I
have to
read through so many post titles (never
Capstone power generation turbines can run on biodiesel, so I assume that
the mod for jet engines wouldn't be that difficult.
http://www.microturbine.com/technology/specsheets.asp
James Slayden
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Keith Addison wrote:
That's GREAT news!!!
Well done! Multiple :-) 's
I think this is done on a commercial scale to decrease FFA's crude
VO. Anyone have some insite into that?
James Slayden
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Keith Addison wrote:
Sounds like an interesting idea, anybody tried it, or heard of it being
done?
Tim wrote to me direct, he's not a list member
and on that note, I have a friend that is still trying to sell both a
rabbit and mercedes. Included are the specs.
James Slayden
-
1981 Rabbit 149K miles $2100 OBO
5 spd w/ large engine (1.9Ltr ??), 4 dr, tan
Hakan,
Interesting I always wondered why that wasn't addressed. Seems to me that
surface temp is a very important quotant, considering the global
deforestation issue.
James
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Hakan Falk wrote:
I read the article about oil depletion based on research by Prof. Aleklett,
I also use the 76 station 87 octane for my truck. You can actually smell
the alcohol in the fuel (at least I can) when you pump up. I don't get
the same smell of alcohol at other stations.
James Slayden
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, murdoch wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 02:16:55 +0900, you wrote
I noted somewhere that Feel Good Cars offered a diesel ZENN in Europe. Can
anyone confirm this?
James Slayden
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, murdoch wrote:
We discussed some of the very few diesel options out there available to the
U.S.
consumers buying passenger cars (such as the VW TDI). As we
10-20 miles?! I like the figures on CalCars that dictate 30-60 . Now
that would have me instantly interested!
James Slayden
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, murdoch wrote:
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 13:34:32 -0700, you wrote:
I would expect to see the first moves from Chrysler, especially now
quickly. Another plus of the
metal-hydride storage is the higher energy density. That will also be a
factor in what form H2 storage will occur in vehicles.
James Slayden
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Hakan Falk wrote:
MM,
Formation and reformation of hydrogen/whatsoever combinations as storage
that your recovery is going well. :)
James Slayden
** sealed and safe even at 5 gal processing **
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Dan Maker wrote:
I'm looking for an alternative source for that article but in the meantime
a google search turns up all kinds of hits on Tom:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Tom
Aaron,
Have you checked out the following for process heat:
http://www.freeheatmachine.com/
James Slayden
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Aaron F. Wieler wrote:
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, shawstafari wrote:
Aaron, any word on the program at Hampshire? Recommendations from
the CU Biodiesel peeps
(or yellowish) milky bile then you have some serious emulsion problems
indicating an incomplete reaction. Go back and reprocess and then try the
test again.
Good luck!
James Slayden
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Keith Addison wrote:
Hi Pieter
Hi Keith,
I don't know for sure whether it is FFA's or something
if that
will be useful for glyc meth recovery.
James Slayden
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Appal Energy wrote:
Doug,
In response to what type of filter is best to use in your quest?
The simplest and least expensive (more often than not) is time.
Time as a filter??
A good bit of glycerin can
to allow for variable timing, etc ...
On the surface it seems simple, but then the devil is in the details.
James Slayden
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, shawstafari wrote:
I have a 2003 Toyota Sequoia.
I want to convert it to a Flex Fuel Vehicle(FFV). Which will use
the
E85 as well as normal
One wood fuel that I could think of as being a fire hazzard up here in
NorCal is Manzanita(sp). It grows like weeds and in a forest fire the
roots continue to burn. It has no value as either a construction wood nor
is it a good wood for a wood stove as it burns too hot.
James Slayden
On Sat
be
organic. They do natural hybrid selection for the top oil producers, but
I can only assume the GM strains have a large factor of oil production
over the natural strains. And with usual GM crops I'm sure they are
difficult to maintain without some sort of high inputs.
James Slayden
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003
Ask Ken Provost about his better longer lasting bubbler. I use it now and
it works great. For some reason I was also using standard bubblers that
would degrade quite rapidly with BD contact, then I transitioned to Ken's
design which is all brass.
James Slayden
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Tan
Is Mark going Corp?!! ;-) hrmmm, stainless steel .
Actually the same thing could be done with black steel, if someone could
find the mufflers in stainless. I have yet to find them.
James Slayden
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Ken Provost wrote:
on 11/25/03 1:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED
, and $10.31 for the 1/2. Not too much of a budget breaker. I guess
Mark gets to keep her ludite status. ;-) Now for those stainless steel
water heaters and drums not to mention stainless plumming.
James Slayden
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Dan Maker wrote:
skillshare said:
brass, biodiesel
same with me, IRC will speed up your typing dramatically!!
James Slayden
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Dan Maker wrote:
snip
That's still WAY cool! Why make a professional call at
all, when you can IRC it and have a permanent record?
Still you have to be able to type fast, which my daughter
Where do you live? The parts that Dan listed From McMaster-Carr
orderable and listed here:
I was reviewing my info on gopherweed recently and it seems that a
distillant of it would be a perfect denaturant, or even bio-meth from a
smallish scale methane source. Al Rutan would come in handy here (or
someone of that ilk).
James Slayden
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Keith Addison wrote
easier and possibly cover more than 1/2 of the Tier I testing. It is
something that was mentioned before, a biodiesel board specifically for
WVO processors, only this could be just serving small (sub 1/2 million
gal) producers, both SVO and WVO.
James Slayden
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, skillshare wrote
a
small amount of Meth.
Good work Ken!!!
James Slayden
BTW, did you ever get another drum of that Parallel Products Eth? I know
you and Dave Shaw were in contact so I wanted to see if it finally got off
the ground.
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Ken Provost wrote:
on 12/30/03 8:26 AM, Dan Maker at [EMAIL
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