[Burnveggies] California Biodiesel Consumers Conference, Jan 31 and Feb 1

2003-12-26 Thread girl Mark
California Biodiesel Consumers’ Conference Towards sustainable biodiesel for passenger car and small business B100 consumers in California January 31 and Feb 1 , 10am-5 pm Pitzer College, Claremont, CA More info coming soon at: www.veggieavenger.com/conference Email us: [EMAIL

[Burnveggies] NBB fee structure discriminates against small producers

2004-01-26 Thread girl mark
I looked at the NBB's fee structure a little more closely, and some interesting things came up. (where I looked was the www.me.iastate.edu/biodiesel 'online course', to be fair, rather than the NBB website) We keep quoting a $5,000 fee plus a royalty on every gallon produced. This is

[biofuels-biz] minor correction to NBB fee structure post

2004-01-26 Thread girl mark
OOPS! It got pointed out to me that I put a dollar sign in the wrong place in the NBB fee structure post, though I think it was fairly obvious what the real numbers should have been. Everywhere I said something like: .01 cents per gallon produced (one hundredth of a cent) it actually should

[biofuels-biz] new US small producer/distributor/co-op discussion list

2004-01-27 Thread girl mark
hi folks, Keith Addison is deleting his Yahoogroups Biofuels-biz discussion list shortly, with the hope that the relevant discussion continues on Biofuel. I am starting a new discussion list for small producers/small distributors in the US. I was hoping to start this and to actually give

[biofuels-biz] Let's name names- Girl Mark takes on Big Industry myth was Re: [biofuel] BIG INDUSTRY responds...

2002-11-23 Thread girl mark
Since Mr Noyes had to go and start talking about 'second hand reports' of downed vehicles and then not name names, or what part of the country, or whose homemade fuel, I'm going to go into what I know about this. I'm sorry, Graham, but I'm a homebrewer who lives in the West, I've been

[biofuels-biz] tax situation in Maine

2002-11-23 Thread girl mark
While we're kind of on the subject of naming names and such, could anyone verify the recent World Energy assertion that a nonprofit in Maine got hit with massive fines by the IRS for not paying road tax? I'm particularly interested in hearing who it was this happened to. When Homestead got the

[biofuels-biz] correction was Re: [biofuel] tax situation in Maine

2002-11-23 Thread girl mark
oops, it's late here, an' I got too much equipment on the brain. I didn't make it clear in the post below what exactly I was talking about. World Energy put out a letter that says that a nonprofit organization in Maine, which made their own biodiesel fuel only to fuel their own vehicles, and

[biofuels-biz] Re: correction was Re: tax situation in Maine

2002-11-23 Thread girl mark
Here's a letter that some of us got from Graham Noyes (presumably in his World Energy, not private citizen guise) a while back. It came after Coby Smolens cc'd Graham a mass email that Coby was sending out to some local biodiesel users, encouraging them to do a letterwriting campaign to encourage

Re: [biofuels-biz] BD Business and Ability to be Profitable-- does big vs small matter?

2002-11-25 Thread girl mark
any idea on how many small producers we';re talking about in the us? Mark At 03:48 PM 11/25/2002 -0500, you wrote: Hello again. One charge that I have heard public policy folks levy at small producers is along the following lines: Small producers can't make their production business really

[biofuels-biz] [biofuel] Homebrewer on a soapbox! was A Response to

2002-11-26 Thread girl mark
waiting to see where this great thing goes.) and again, most of the small producers are probably great people, and I';ve certainly met very nice ones, I'm just noticing a trend. It's a good time for us to give thought to what our exact mission is, and to refine our role therein. girl Mark Berkeley

[biofuels-biz] regulations was: Re:Homebrewer on a soapbox!

2002-11-26 Thread girl mark
Thor, as far as straw men go, I wasn't just replying to your post, there's been a lot of this kind of talk lately. I am very interested in seeing more face to face, local connections in the homebrewer community, but would be very suspicious of any situation where an organization would be

Re: [biofuels-biz] Homebrew problems

2002-11-26 Thread girl mark
This brings up a question I';ve had for a while- are there other acids besides ffa, that are not water-soluble and are found in oils? We had some particularly terrible oil that titrated at 13 ml, and I just couldn't bring myself to believe that it was ffa causing the high values in the

Re: [biofuels-biz] skin on biodiesel

2002-12-12 Thread girl mark
Paul, Is tallow biodiesel more likely to form soaps? I always assumed that skin is a sign of soaps, though I haven't made any fuel that skinned in a long time. This would be washed out. Mark At 09:39 PM 12/11/2002 +1000, you wrote: Michael, have noticed that raw biodiesel from tallow readily

Re: [biofuels-biz] Skin on biodiesel

2002-12-12 Thread girl mark
a predited (molar) yield of esters with skin forming you are therefore running sub-optimally. Diglycerides should be soluble in the ester layer, monoglycerides solubilise in water. Dave rpg wrote: - Original Message - From: girl mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul, Is tallow biodiesel

Re: [biofuels-biz] skin on biodiesel/suggestions

2002-12-16 Thread girl mark
Though wash problems weren't a main point of this thread, they've come up again in there, so... Let's not forget that soaps (I guess I've made this point in this thread already) also cause wash problems, along with the wash problems caused by poor conversion. I think when you have

[biofuels-biz] Bubble Drying and drying questions in general

2002-12-16 Thread girl mark
Apologies to those on multiple lists for all the cross-posting. I spammed a couple of the biofuel-related lists last week with some complaints about trying to make biodiesel in the midst of some dramatic local weather. We got the first real winter storm, serious rain- the Northern California

[biofuels-biz] dry fuel

2002-12-17 Thread girl mark
I just realized that there's something missing from my already long previous post. Doing the D.I.Y. water content test I described, one should be aware that perfectly good fuel will still have some water content. Camillo Holecek of Energeia claims it's normal for biodiesel to contain 1200 ppm

RE: [biofuels-biz] UK Co-Operatives

2002-12-19 Thread girl mark
I will post a detailed email about how our Berkeley biodiesel coop is organized, but it'll take me a few days to write it up. I get requests for this info a lot. Mark At 12:32 PM 12/19/2002 +, you wrote: Martin Presently a lot of research and development with vegetable oil fuels

lists and local projects was Re: [biofuels-biz] Biofuel Business Plan Group

2002-12-24 Thread girl mark
Forgive me for the unsnipped thread attached to this letter- it seemed important to place this in context. Andrew, What I don't understand is, why can't such your project be undertaken via an existing forum like the biofuels-biz list itself? Why is a new list necessary? A little on lists and

Re: lists and local projects was Re: [biofuels-biz] Biofuel Business Plan Group

2002-12-24 Thread girl mark
Hi Keith,I think I did post this to biofuel... what the hell tiime is it over there anyway? My header on this message says 2 am, and some earlier thing you posted said 3 pm (while I was awake late last night I guess). the magic question- do you ever sleep? Take care, Mark At 02:04 AM

[biofuels-biz] oops was Re:

2002-12-24 Thread girl mark
Sorry , folks, i thought I was replying to keith offlist not to the whole list. Mark At 10:43 AM 12/24/2002 -0800, you wrote: Hi Keith,I think I did post this to biofuel... what the hell tiime is it over there anyway? My header on this message says 2 am, and some earlier thing you posted said 3

[biofuels-biz] biodiesel biproduct

2003-01-06 Thread girl mark
At 11:50 PM 1/6/2003 +, you wrote: Thanks, Paddy. I always understood that the dark colouration was due to the FFAs. What do you reckon is in the by-product apart from glycerine, alcohol and a few salts? other stuff in the glycerine byproduct is soaps- in fact when you 'neutralize' the

[biofuels-biz] warning on methanol safety and respirators- biodieselers please read

2003-01-09 Thread girl mark
My friend Jeff Biosmell just took a long look at OSHA (US industrial safety regulator) and other safety regulations regarding handling of methanol. Some scary stuff turned up that a lot of us didn't know, and that many are basing our biodiesel-making practice on. I feel especially responsible

[biofuels-biz] waste oil burners burning glycerine, ffa's Re: [biofuel] Re: biodiesel vs. propane for heating

2003-01-11 Thread girl mark
I looked up a few of those commercial oil burners for use with WVO. Sounds pretty interesting, though pricey... something to try and find secondhand, maybe? Then I got an email from a farmer nearby, someone who grows oil crops, asking about biodiesel production for on-farm use, and about

Re: [biofuels-biz] Re: [biofuel] Re: bumper stickers- let's make 'em! :)

2003-01-25 Thread girl mark
://energy.saving.nu/biofuel-sticker.jpg I like the poster from girl Mark as a theme and then it is possible to change texts. Hakan At 09:46 AM 1/22/2003 -0800, murdoch wrote: *Ssomething* along those lines, yeah. Pretty quick with a computer aren't ya? I'd also like to get one or two

Re: [biofuels-biz] waste oil burners bu rning glycerine, ffa'sÊ

2003-01-25 Thread girl mark
Any chance you could give us some more details or a schematic? this sounds really interesting (though most of us wouldn't have access to a masonry stove just for our biodiesel operation) Mark At 12:04 PM 1/12/2003 -0500, you wrote: I've got a couple years experience with burning glycerin. I

[biofuels-biz] the great bubble drying controversy

2003-01-25 Thread girl mark
... maybe that's an overly dramatic title for this post, but... I'm inadvertently started this bubble drying trend a few months ago and now I have some questions about it all. (I got the idea from one of the U of Idaho papers, though it isn't a common practice for some reason). I had

[biofuels-biz] bubble drying- big correction

2003-01-25 Thread girl mark
oops I made a really big mistake in last post. where it says: had taken some samples of both unwashed and some washed fuel and I had sealed them in mason jars. It should read: has taken some samples of both washed/undried and washed/dried fuel and sealed them in mason jars If any of you

[biofuels-biz] the plot thickens was Re: [biofuel] bubble drying- big correction

2003-01-26 Thread girl mark
: girl mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip Like I said I haven't done this qualitatively before- so I don't know if the amount of water sufficient to form haze in the fuel is a sufficient mass of water for me to weigh on a .1g sensitivity scale. any ideas on what is the weight of the water

screenprinting Re: [biofuels-biz] I volunteer to make bumper stickers at cost

2003-01-27 Thread girl mark
Actually high school aged punk rock kids all over the US make stickers and tshirts and other screenprint stuff for almost no money- the supplies for screenprinting are CHEAP (don't know about that specific UV resistant ink, though). Doing a good job is another matter of course, one of

[biofuels-biz] free stainless steel 3500 gallon conical tank available- california

2003-02-07 Thread girl mark
I just got a call from someone about a huge conical steel tank that is available in northern california- free of charge. the man who told me about it hopes that a biodiesel producer will get it- I think it was part of a batch of surplus winery equipment that the same man found for other

RE: [biofuels-biz] Digest Number 481

2003-02-07 Thread girl mark
I don't know anyone in that company personally but local word has it that they got a grant to pay for the price difference between petrodiesel and biodiesel. I don't know where the grant money came from, the biodiesel comes from the Yokayo Biofuels biodiesel broker. Anyway it was touted as a

Re: [biofuels-biz] b@stard crabs

2003-02-07 Thread girl mark
jeez, that poor Crabb guy gets it on these lists from all sides (ie biofuel list a while back for something about Iraq, here for questioning the coffee delivery company's announcement and asking whether it perhaps be greenwash). Personally I dont think talking about either business policy or

[biofuels-biz] Obstacles facing small producers and co-ops in the US

2003-02-07 Thread girl mark
(I'm crossposting this, read the rest of the thread below if you didnt get this through the biofuel list... The thread started with a new person asking why there aren't more small biodiesel producer businesses since it seems so easy, and continued with Keith Addison pointing out that some of

[biofuels-biz] clarification was Re: [biofuel] Obstacles facing...

2003-02-08 Thread girl mark
I kind of forgot in my post, that the point I was trying to make about 'heavy industrial' zoning in this town, was that the costs of renting a site zoned this way are far more expensive than the costs of rentring a light industrial site (I live (illegally) in what is actually a

[biofuels-biz] northern california biodiesel, and blue sun biodiesel

2003-02-08 Thread girl mark
well, join the local 'burnveggies' list for Northern California biodieselers- www.goblin.punk.net/mailman/listinfo/burnveggies and see who we are! nice, community-oriented list. check out the archives when you join. There is a great need for people to do some kind of advocacy effort here (so

[biofuels-biz] West Coast regional biodiesel advocacy

2003-02-08 Thread girl mark
Since we just had someone asking about concerted advocacy efforts here, I'm passing on a request I had from a biodiesel advocacy guy from a non-profit in the Northwest who is looking for people to network with. I personally know nothing aobut their operation- and I personally don't think that

Re: [biofuels-biz] northern california biodiesel, and blue sun biodiesel

2003-02-09 Thread girl mark
Mark, large-scale biodiesel manufacturers have an easier time dealing with regulations than the little guys do. The hurdles I was pointing out are the ones that slow down development of small producer business and of coops- the big plants don't have these issues as much partly because they're

Re: [biofuels-biz] northern california biodiesel, and blue sun biodiesel

2003-02-09 Thread girl mark
recovery? Wastewater treatment? Time to make a top 40 list for homebrewers. There's no reason to not. Todd Swearingen - Original Message - From: girl mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuels-biz@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 12:55 PM Subject: Re: [biofuels-biz] northern

Re: [biofuels-biz] Re: Smithfield to Convert Hog Waste Into Fuel

2003-02-26 Thread girl mark
Having lived in north Carolina when the large-scale hog farming hog waste water pollution issue came up there a few years ago, I'm really happy to see this small step happening, even if it doesn't do much for the sustainability of the actual industrial animal husbandry in the first place.

Re: [biofuels-biz] Output capacity of still (ATF Form)

2003-03-04 Thread girl mark
I've succeeded and I've failed at making ethanol biodiesel. I would second what Keith just posted, but suggest that you hang on to that 200 gallon water heater- it'll make a great and (for a homebrewer anyhow) extremely large biodiesel processor someday, if you decide to work on such a scale

[biofuels-biz] two-stage and glycerine acidification

2003-03-06 Thread girl mark
Heyyy, folks, question for those using acid-base two-stage: Aleks' directions involve an optional glycerol remix including addition of phosphoric acid 'for easier washing'. I dont' want to try this for the same reasons I don't add acid to wash water- the possibility of splitting up soaps back

[biofuels-biz] biodiesel workshop at RealGoods

2003-03-07 Thread girl mark
dependence on foreign oil. In this hands on class, learn the process of making fuel from restaurant waste oil, and discover how to build your own small-scale biodiesel processor. Class is taught by Kumar Plocher and Maria 'girl Mark' Alovert March 16, $125 July 19, $125 http

[biofuels-biz] Biodiesel Awareness Day- March 18th, Santa Rosa, CA

2003-03-13 Thread girl mark
to fuel the vehicle. And like any road trip across the U.S., there are plenty of side-trips through the nation's heart and soul. 8:15p ~ Biofuels Panel Discussion, Emcee Lindsay Hassett, with: - 'girl Mark', Berkeley Biodiesel Collective DIY/Skillshare - Kumar Plocher, Yokayo Biofuels in Ukiah, CA

[biofuels-biz] Happy International Biodiesel Awareness Day

2003-03-18 Thread girl mark
Hello, all, just a reminder that today is Rudolph Diesel's 145th birthday and a few communities are hosting biodiesel awareness events (Boulder, Berkeley, and Santa Rosa are the ones I know of)... go patronize your local biodiesel awareness celebration! mark Yahoo!

[biofuels-biz] Fwd: [Burnveggies] excise tax, biodiesel, and war

2003-03-20 Thread girl mark
that allows us Californians to make 400 gallons a year without having to pay excise tax. -K Message: 2 Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 14:05:04 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: girl mark Subject: Re: [Burnveggies] Fw: What is the ARB's position related to bio-diesel? Ken, Could you

[biofuels-biz] Questions about CNG fuel versus biodiesel

2003-04-17 Thread girl mark
Hi all, I have a few questions about CNG fuel that I often am asked, thanks to the vocal anti-diesel lobby in the US, and to the many who oppose commercial biodiesel use because it offers a direct competition to compressed natural conversion for fleets. We get a lot of comments about the cost

[biofuels-biz] life cycle analysis

2003-04-18 Thread girl mark
I've been looking for some data on how much energy goes into making gasoline, and how much into other fuels. The general public always asks the life cycle analysis question about biodiesel: is it sustainable to grow and harvest all those plants and transport them soewhere to make fuel... to

[biofuels-biz] more biodiesel versus gas emissions comparison info

2003-04-21 Thread girl mark
Hi all, there's an interesting thread on biodieselnow.com's forums (didn't know there was this forum, huh?) about comparisons of emissions. It's a long read and it's a lot of good links, as well as lots of subjective opinions of course. They were trying to answer questions about 'what pollutes

Re: [biofuels-biz] NBB and health effects data -

2003-05-23 Thread girl mark
Hi all, I wanted to clear up something in an older post here: it was a post about the status of the EPA position on small producers. IN the end of this, was the following email from Tom Leue. If I am not mistaken, the story related below (told by Graham Noyes of World Enegy) was never

Re: [biofuels-biz] Re: [biofuel] Bad quality at World Energy? what's that again about homebrewers???

2003-05-30 Thread girl mark
Hi levent, Just a few comments on home quality control: I do not know the situation in USA. I agree that home brewers can destroy the market if they produce and sell bad-products. Are you speaking from experience with 'bad homebrew?' Many of them are not equipped with proper facilities

[biofuels-biz] homebrewers, and industry lessons?

2003-05-30 Thread girl mark
(crossposted from biofuels-biz)At 01:23 PM 5/30/2003 -0700, you wrote: Hi levent, Just a few comments on home quality control: Levent wrote: I do not know the situation in USA. I agree that home brewers can destroy the market if they produce and sell bad-products. mark wrote: Are you

[biofuels-biz] another case of bad quality control

2003-05-30 Thread girl mark
On the other hand, here's another post about some bad fuel that is being sold: http://forums.biodieselnow.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=640whichpage=1 read towards the bottom of the first page and then follow the next few. This is about Re-Fine LLC brand fuel being sold in pre-packaged pails at some

[biofuels-biz] Northern California Biodiesel/SVO users

2003-06-04 Thread girl mark
Hello all, I started a new announcements email list for biodiesel-related events happening in Northern California. It is open for anyone to join and view the archives, however, it is not a discussion forum. It's an announcement-only newsletter', so it should stay low-volume. I expect to post

[biofuels-biz] Free Biodiesel Workshop this Sunday- Davis, California

2003-06-04 Thread girl mark
Hi Locals: I'm teaching a free biodiesel how-to workshop this Sunday, June 8th at the Domes student co-op at UC Davis, 11 am-3 pm. Unlike some of my other workshops, this one will be demo-style- ie, not hands-on for the students, due to possible UC nervousness about such things- but I'll

[biofuels-biz] Biodiesel Sustainability Forum, Saturday, June 7th, Santa Rosa CA

2003-06-04 Thread girl mark
, biodiesel activist and fleet manager of Berkeley's B-100-powered curbside recycling fleet -Kumar Plocher of Yokayo Biofuels, who deliver B-100 to retail customers in Northern California -Maria girl Mark Alovert, homebrew biodiesel educator and member of the Berkeley Biodiesel Co-op/Biodiesel

[biofuels-biz] Homebrew Biodiesel Class, June 29, Ukiah CA

2003-06-04 Thread girl mark
Apologies to all the out-of-state people getting my last few announcements, this is last of these pesky California events announcements for today. *** Hands-on Homebrew Biodiesel Class, June 29, Ukiah, CA Join girl Mark and Kumar Plocher at Yokayo Biofuels

Re: [biofuels-biz] Fwd: quality control, customer service, and big industry

2003-06-04 Thread girl mark
that is a great document, but that QC recommendation is only a recommendation. There isn't particularly an enforcable law about how often companies run analysis, I dont' think... mark At 04:57 PM 6/4/2003 -0500, you wrote: The most recent guideline that I have found for how often to QC

Re: [biofuels-biz] Fwd: quality control, customer service, and big industry

2003-06-04 Thread girl mark
The odd thing is that it is the big guys (two of them apparently in the past few weeks) who are having obvious quality control problems, and that they're not admiting it (or catching the problem) until some customer/retailer points it out (both World Energy and another producer who just

Re: [biofuels-biz] Catalysts don't participate?

2003-08-06 Thread girl mark
That brings up something for me that I was just wondering about (being a bucket chemist as well, and in fact a very ignorant one): what are the reactants in saponification? Is water a catalyst or a reactant there? Is there anything other than soap formed? What is the role of heat in

[biofuels-biz] any homebrewers or BD for sale along western half of I-80?

2003-08-06 Thread girl mark
Hi all, My life just got a little more exciting. I and my teaching partner and one of our biodiesel interns are going on a road trip in a little VW she just bought, all heading to Ames Iowa for the Iowa State University commercial biodiesel workshop series in mid-august.. Buying a cheap VW and

[biofuel] long! Re: Fwd: Heating element

2004-08-23 Thread girl mark
At 06:10 AM 8/23/2004 +, you wrote: --- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, josephputzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I've just begun to build a processor out of two 55 gallon drums. I am having a 1 bushing welded to the drum so that I can put a screw- in heating element into the processor.

[biofuel] correction priming Clearwater pump- stuff from Biofuel list

2004-08-23 Thread girl mark
sorry, I realised I wrote gibberish and that it maybe didn't quite make sense: exerpt: the www.veggieavenger.com/media thread on the Appleseed (keith please link this thread from the journeytoforever article it's derived from) what I meant to say was: Keith, please add to my Appleseed

take down my articles from journeytoforever.org was Re: [biofuel] Re: Love Those

2004-08-24 Thread girl mark
I'm reversing the order of messages here, so that it is obvious to everyone what Im talking about in my reply. so the latest is at the bottom... Mark ** --- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, bioveging [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All this came about by following your

list netiquette and the [biofuel] list Re: Fwd: [biofuel] Re: Love Thos

2004-08-24 Thread girl mark
Keith, Actually, I can't say I've EVER spent any time reading online resources about Netiquette, or have run into this 'dont' promote other forums' rule anywhere. Perhaps the [biofuel] list introductory file should include a link to your online resources about Netiquette (since it's a large

[biofuel] Biodiesel orientation, Portland, OR, 8/31

2004-08-24 Thread girl mark
Biodiesel Orientation, Portland Oregon Presented by: Loren Fennell Oregon Bio-Diesel Workshop Tuesday Evening, Aug. 31st, 6:30-8:30 p.m. 2223 N. Randolph off Interstate Ave., Portland, OR $5 - $15 donation (based on ability to pay; no one turned away for lack of funds) Learn about:

[biofuel] Loren Fennell's biodiesel workshop- Portland, September 11/12

2004-08-24 Thread girl mark
OREGON BIO-DIESEL WORKSHOP Loren Fennell, Research Design, Facilitator, Workshop Co-founder David McMahon, Cloudburst Recycling, Inc., Workshop Co-founder Jim Mittelstedt, Diesel Mechanic, Consultant Presents: STRAIGHT VEGETABLE OIL (SVO) VEHICLE CONVERSION BIO-DIESEL PRODUCTION WORKSHOP

Re: Fwd: Re: take down my articles from journeytoforever.org was Re: [biofuel] Re: Love Those

2004-08-25 Thread girl mark
: Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 23:57:27 -0800 (PST) From: girl Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Processor upload To: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bravo, wonderful, release it. Yay, thank you! finally! With a promise of more pics, no mention of veggieavenger, and no reply to my question about

[biofuel] Gentlemen, set your filters

2004-08-28 Thread girl mark
I'm going to write up my promised response to Keith sometime tomorrow when I get a chance. Since there are several issues being, ahem, 'discussed', it's quite likely to come in to the Biofuel list at the end of the day as several long messages, with lots of quoting back and forth.

[biofuel] more analysis of the Bay Area B100 pumps saga

2004-01-24 Thread girl Mark
Both the individuals whose messages are below, were heavily involved in the campaign to get us the NAFT Gas B100 pump. Mark --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eric Lyons wrote: Mark: Thanks for your analysis. I think the important take home points are something like: 1. Commercial fuel

[biofuel] NBB fee structure discriminates against small producers

2004-01-26 Thread girl mark
(apologies for the crossposting..) I looked at the NBB's fee structure a little more closely, and some interesting things came up. (where I looked was the www.me.iastate.edu/biodiesel 'online course', to be fair, rather than the NBB website) We keep quoting a $5,000 fee plus a royalty on

[biofuel] minor correction to NBB fee structure post

2004-01-26 Thread girl mark
OOPS! It got pointed out to me that I put a dollar sign in the wrong place in the NBB fee structure post, though I think it was fairly obvious what the real numbers should have been. Everywhere I said something like: .01 cents per gallon produced (one hundredth of a cent) it actually should

[biofuel] new US small producer/distributor/co-op discussion list

2004-01-28 Thread girl mark
hi folks, Keith Addison is deleting his Yahoogroups Biofuels-biz discussion list shortly, with the hope that the relevant discussion continues on Biofuel. I am starting a new discussion list for small producers/small distributors in the US. I was hoping to start this and to actually give

[biofuel] B100 getting banned in California

2004-02-10 Thread girl mark
(Apologies for the crossposting and apologies if you've gotten this message multiple times in your inbox) Sales of all B100 biodiesel are about to be banned in California, on the technicality that the biodiesel specification, ASTM D-6751, is technically entitled a biodiesel 'blendstock'

[biofuel] Fwd: quality control issues and blendstock marketing was theRe: NBB

2004-02-10 Thread girl mark
(crossposted from the US small producers list) --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], skillshare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (quoting Keith Addison): Highlights included a plant tour at Imperial Western Products' (www.biotanefuels.com) biodiesel plant

[biofuel] more reactor design plans

2004-02-11 Thread girl mark
here's a link to a photo log of another reactor I just built with some Biofuel list members. It also contains a (perhaps confusing?) description of some pressure issues I've had with sealed reactors: http://www.veggieavenger.com/avengerboard/viewtopic.php?t=377 [Non-text portions of this

[biofuel] background to the B100 ban... the oil companies speak

2004-02-12 Thread girl mark
Here's the background to the upcoming California B100 ban. Yes, its coming in response to commentary from oil companies. the following is commentary submitted to the CDFA Division of Measurement Standards , from several months ago during the public comment period.

[biofuel] Comprehensive Biodiesel Class, Laytonville, CA, March 13

2004-02-24 Thread girl mark
Comprehensive Homebrew Biodiesel Class March 13, 2004 At Biofuel Station, Laytonville, CA instructor: Maria Mark Alovert Biodiesel is a renewable fuel made from any plant oil and other fats. It can be used in any diesel engine without modifications, and can be made easily in your

[biofuel] some upcoming biodiesel events in California

2004-02-25 Thread girl mark
here are the classes and biodiesel events (mostly in northern California) that I know about in the next few months. There are several more 'in the works' which I don't have exact dates for yet, please keep checking at www.groups.yahoo.com/group/norcal-biodiesel-events for more details. If you

[biofuel] homebrew education tour?

2004-02-27 Thread girl mark
I'm flirting with the idea of doing a Biodiesel Homebrew Education tour this summer. It's still in the 'whim' stage and Im not completely committed to doing this- I might try and find a real job instead, or intensify my search for a sailboat, or something similar that might take up my summer

[biofuel] San Francisco area- used homebrew reactors for sale

2004-03-02 Thread girl mark
I was planning on dismantling two of my old reactors and wash tanks because I am now using bigger equipment, but I thought I'd offer them for sale first before scrapping (and reusing) the parts. They're built from an upside down barrel, with a heating element, drain and separate dip tube

[biofuel] Biodiesel Equipment Building workshop, Santa Cruz, CA, April10 and 11th

2004-03-09 Thread girl mark
I'm running a biodiesel equipment building Intensive class two days- April 10th and 11th, 10 am-5 pm, Santa Cruz. To register and for location, please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] this is a hands-on class where we'll build: -A `fumeless' enclosed processor which can be converted to a methanol

[biofuel] Biodiesel Car Show, March 27th, downtown Berkeley

2004-03-15 Thread girl mark
::**::**::Biodiesel Car Show::**::**:: Saturday March 27, 2004 10 am- 3 pm - FREE! Downtown Berkeley Farmer's Market Allston Way between Milvia Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way Get inspired to end your petroleum addiction! Say goodbye to foreign oil dependence and spewing greenhouse gases

[biofuel] updates to reactor and wash tank info on Veggieavenger

2004-03-15 Thread girl mark
Hi folks, I post photos and plans for various biodiesel equipment over on the www.veggieavenger.com/media forum and encourage any of you to post photos or diagrams of their biodiesel or SVO equipment there as well. If you register as a user to the veggieavenger forum, there's a handy 'topic

[biofuel] Biodiesel Coops

2004-03-23 Thread girl mark
Sorry about the somewhat redundant info, but here's a coops-only version of my solicitation to join the local-b100-biz list. mark Hi all, I've had the busiest winter of my life, learning all sorts of annoying lessons by making a 200 gallon per day plant in my

[biofuel] details of Biodiesel Equipment Intensive, Santa Cruz, April 10 and 11

2004-03-26 Thread girl mark
We are hosting an intensive biodiesel equipment building class/workparty in April in Santa Cruz, California, aiming to make homebrew systems for several people by the end of the two-day class/workparty. Additionally, there'll be a showing of some biodiesel documentaries and a barbeque potluck

[biofuel] Biodiesel Class in Tucson, Arizona, May 22, possibly equipment class May 23?

2004-04-17 Thread girl mark
Hello all, Biodiesel homebrewing Class, Tucson, May 22: I'm doing a homebrew biodiesel class in Tucson Arizona on May 22nd, and will be sending out more info about this workshop in a couple of days. The homebrew class will be a 10-5 event, and will cover basics of biodiesel process. I will be

[biofuel] possible Albuquerque biodiesel class, and correction to: Biodiesel Class in Tucson

2004-04-17 Thread girl mark
two more things, 1. the biodiesel homebrew reactor system I'm proposing for the equipment building class below can be seen at www.veggieavenger.com/media under $150 fumeless reactor plans and Sean Parks' Standpipe Wash Tank' threads 2. I am also planning on coming to Albuquerque New Mexico

[biofuel] nice biodiesel reactor photos from Maine

2004-04-26 Thread girl mark
Hi, As some of you know, we have a homebrew biodiesel equipment photo and plans archive at www.veggieavenger.com/media - the home of the 'water heater'-based reactor as well as many others. If you have any photos of your biodiesel gear (or svo or waste oil burners for that matter!) and

[biofuel] article on Biofuel Oasis in Oakland Tribune

2004-04-28 Thread girl mark
County's first biodiesel station cooks up alternative to gasoline Berkeley venture offers vegetable oil recycled as environmentally friendly fuel By Kristin Bender, STAFF WRITER BERKELEY -- BioFuel Oasis, the first biodiesel station in Alameda County, doesn't have a pump or those handy

[biofuel] Women's Homebrew Biodiesel Class, May 6 and 7th, Berkeley CA

2004-04-28 Thread girl mark
Real Women Make Biodiesel: Women's Homebrew Biodiesel Workshop Thursday, May 6 and Friday, May 7th, 6-9 pm (On May 7th, come with snack food at 5:30, for an optional question and answer discussion on topics from the previous day) With Maria 'Mark' Alovert and Pamela Beitz Space limits the

[biofuel] OT: anybody have a 1.6 VW diesel head or motor for sale?

2004-05-02 Thread girl mark
offtopic: Does anyone on these lists in the US have for sale: any of the following Volkswagen diesel engines or engine parts from the Rabbit/Jetta/Golf family: 1. functioning (or at least not cracked) 1.6L, non-turbo cylinder head (12 mm bolts), 2. or a 1.6 turbodiesel motor in any condition

[biofuel] Testing for Soap In Unwashed Biodiesel and Glycerol

2004-05-11 Thread girl mark
Here is an article I just wrote for my zine, trying to make sense of the standard US lab method for testing for soap in oils (I Am Not A Chemist). A couple of years ago a bunch of us were looking pretty hard at the Leonardo european vocational training website (

[biofuel] first correction: Testing for Soap In Unwashed Biodiesel and Glycerol

2004-05-11 Thread girl mark
Typo: I wrote this and it's wrong: To convert from the weight measurements above to volume measurements that we use, use the following: Biodiesel: approx .97 kg/liter (I'm not sure if this applies to unwashed though) Glycerol: approx 1.26 kg per liter (not sure if this applies to glycerol

[biofuel] Upcoming Biodiesel Events Newsletter- May edition (mostly California)

2004-05-11 Thread girl mark
Here are the classes and biodiesel events (mostly in northern California) that I know about in the next few months. This listing is from the california biodiesel events list, www.groups.yahoo.com/group/norcal-biodiesel-events . More details will be posted there for some of these events. If

[biofuel] The Tucson Biodiesel Workshops, May 22 and 23

2004-05-11 Thread girl mark
Here are the details of the two Biodiesel workshops in Tucson this month: May 22- Homebrew Biodiesel Comprehensive Workshop, 10-5 Wear closed toe shoes and long pants, bring safety glasses if you have them, and be prepared for being in a no-air-conditioning building most of the day (the

[biofuel] Biodiesel Equipment Class, berkeley, Ca, May 30

2004-05-19 Thread girl mark
Homebrew Biodiesel Equipment Building and Design Class May 30, 12-6 Berkeley CA email me for directions to the workshop site: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $20-$50 sliding scale optional 80-page biodiesel homebrewing guidebook available $8 I am teaching a one-day biodiesel equipment building workshop

Re: [local-b100-biz] Re: [biofuel] You ought to write a book.

2004-05-24 Thread girl mark
to collectively write something that would at least give Fryer to the Fuel Tank a run for its money. 'specially considering your background in journalism. And it would be a great way to help support the work you guy are doing at JTF. What say we all? :o) I said to girl mark before I went

[biofuel] Biodiesel Equipment Workshop, Berkeley, May 30

2004-05-24 Thread girl mark
Biodiesel Equipment Class May 30, 12-6 At Tinkers Workshop Shorebird facility, 80 Bolivar Dr, Berkeley (please note: this is not the Tinkers' Workshop better-known main site) No pre-registration needed, please come! Cost: $20-$50 sliding scale Optional 85-page homebrew biodiesel guidebook

[biofuel] passive 'carboy' methoxide mixer method for homebrewers- photos

2004-06-03 Thread girl mark
I posted this a while ago at veggieavenger but I don't think I announced it here (I apologise for double posting if I did). a link to the how-to- http://www.veggieavenger.com/avengerboard/viewtopic.php?t=403 It's a photo how-to on mixing up methoxide using the passive carboy methoxide

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