Re: [Biofuel] The Hidden Agenda Behind the Bird Flu Hoax

2006-05-11 Thread David Miller
D. Mindock wrote: You know, I'm just flat amazed to find Mr Mindock, whom I regarded as about as liberal as they come, in complete agreement with Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the conservative radio gang on anything. And here it is, in black and white. FWIW, which isn't much, I don't think

Re: [Biofuel] The Hidden Agenda Behind the Bird Flu Hoax

2006-05-11 Thread David Miller
Keith Addison wrote: D. Mindock wrote: You know, I'm just flat amazed to find Mr Mindock, whom I regarded as about as liberal as they come, in complete agreement with Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the conservative radio gang on anything. And here it is, in black and white. FWIW, which

Re: [Biofuel] Fw: Car runs on water

2006-05-08 Thread David Miller
D. Mindock wrote: Here is a Philippine inventor who first started running cars on only water almost 30 years ago. He has 100 engines he has converted that will run on just tap or sea water. Needless to say all the car companies have tried to steal his technology so he is going to share it

Re: [Biofuel] was WVO-Water Separation: coalescer media, now electric resistance heat efficiency

2006-04-28 Thread David Miller
Joe Street wrote: Hey I just thought of something. If I used your heatpump and connected the output heat exchanger to a sterling motor generator set with an overall efficiency of lets say 50%, I could get 1.5 KW of electrical power from the 3 KW heat energy coming out of the heatpump.

Re: [Biofuel] And what does the Economist say about running out of oil?

2006-04-25 Thread David Miller
Mike Weaver wrote: Redler, you never like my ideas. You've made me cry. Now how do you feel? *snif* Ok I can't leave well enough alone. A good friend who follows peak oil pretty closely sent me this. I think it's optimistic at best and pretty delusional at worst. I found it to

Re: [Biofuel] small oil presses, WVO and sustainability

2006-04-10 Thread David Miller
Michael Redler wrote: Thanks Jason, Katie and Keith. The reason for my post had mostly to do with soil degradation. I was researching what crops gave the best yield for ethanol production and began looking at sugar beets as a possibility. However, the research suggests that root crops

Re: [Biofuel] acids

2006-04-04 Thread David Miller
Johnathan Corgan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thsi is true that pool dealers mostly deal in muratic acid and not sulphuric. in my youth as a pool boy i have never seen sulphuric acid used in a pool. so it gets back to my problem of purchasing concentrated sulphuric acid since i am

Re: [Biofuel] The Age of Autism: Hot potato on the Hill

2006-04-02 Thread David Miller
D. Mindock wrote: Bob, - Original Message - From: "bob allen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 10:13 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] The Age of Autism: Hot potato on the Hill D. Mindock wrote: Autism is

Re: [Biofuel] The Age of Autism: Hot potato on the Hill

2006-04-02 Thread David Miller
te my time with more flames. --- David Todd Swearingen David Miller wrote: D. Mindock wrote: Bob, - Original Message - From: "bob allen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 10:13 AM Subject: Re: [B

Re: [Biofuel] please confirm or debunk: dieselsecret.com

2006-03-28 Thread David Miller
Andrew Netherton wrote: Don't you remember the episode where Uncle Jesse actually made up a batch of moonshine to run in a car? He had to outrun Roscoe and use up all the fuel so he wouldn't get caught and go to jail! Of course, it wasn't the General Lee that they were burning it in.

Re: [Biofuel] best source for WVO

2006-03-22 Thread David Miller
Bob Carr wrote: It leaves a horrid toffee like deposit on your valves , pistons, rings and every other part that comes into contact with the fuel. When your piston rings are glued into their grooves, the sugar deposits will find their way into your engine oil where they act as an abrasive on

Re: [Biofuel] Global warming, oceans warming up, earth's core climate changes

2006-03-20 Thread David Miller
Mike McGinness wrote: I ran into something new (to me) recently on the topic of global warming, CO2 and the greenhouse gas issue that I decided to follow up on today to see if there was anything to it. I have spent an entire day reading and searching the internet on the topic and here are

Re: [Biofuel] hybrid efficiency

2006-03-09 Thread David Miller
Hakan Falk wrote: That means that bottled water is more expensive than gasoline, as I understand, http://www.bairdpetro.com/gasoline_prices/index.htmhttp://www.bairdpetro.com/gasoline_prices/index.htm @ $1.453 per gallon. So, what was wrong with the original statement? Nothing as I

Re: [Biofuel] Interesting Read

2006-03-07 Thread David Miller
Chip Mefford wrote: In other news, I'll soon also have the 3rdworld CD online. Will post the url when I get it up. If anyone knows how to bust an iso image up into 'chunks' that can be reassembled into a workable iso image, please let me know. I'm glad to say that renegade.sparks.net

Re: [Biofuel] Interesting Read

2006-03-07 Thread David Miller
John Hayes wrote: David Miller wrote: Chip Mefford wrote: If anyone knows how to bust an iso image up into 'chunks' that can be reassembled into a workable iso image, please let me know. As for breaking the image up, it's trivial with dd, a standard unix utility

Re: [Biofuel] A wealth of manuals

2006-03-07 Thread David Miller
David Marquis wrote: Hello Michael, I can host it for awhile. Please send me email directly and we can discuss it. I'm not Michael, but I wanted to point out that I'm already hosting it. There's a bunch of discussion of it being on renegade.sparks.net. You are, of course, welcome to

Re: [Biofuel] Calgary Biodiesel Group

2006-03-07 Thread David Miller
Kirk McLoren wrote: Sulphur is not added as a lubricant. WHere do they get that rubbish? Kirk It's not deliberately added, but sulfur does indeed provide a lot of lubrication for the injector pump. My understanding is that it needs to be replaced in very low sulfur fuel, BD makes a great

Re: [Biofuel] Party Hacks - The fix is in for 2008

2006-03-04 Thread David Miller
Ken Provost wrote: On Mar 4, 2006, at 7:57 AM, robert luis rabello wrote: How can we take our own country back if the electoral system is rigged against our wishes? I used to complain that the German people of the 1930's essentially did nothing to check the rise of the National

Re: [Biofuel] A wealth of manuals

2006-03-02 Thread David Miller
I have a mostly idle server with a 100 Mbit connection to the AOL/TW backbone. Obviously, using it all would be frowned upon, but I'm willing to put it up and see what happens. Has anybody already downloaded it? It sounds like it's not going to happen very fast. Please let me know

Re: [Biofuel] A wealth of manuals

2006-02-28 Thread David Miller
Evergreen Solutions wrote: If there is somebody who has succeeded in getting these, make a .torrent and host it somewhere and put up the link...better sharing for everyone. I have a mostly idle server with a 100 Mbit connection to the AOL/TW backbone. Obviously, using it all would be

Re: [Biofuel] A wealth of manuals

2006-02-28 Thread David Miller
doug wrote: Logan Vilas wrote: I'm having the same problems downloading the link, but I'm downloading the entire web site. I'll see how that goes. So far it's about 30-50kb/s Logan Vilas After several attempts at the cd.iso file, I just started going through the links and DL

Re: [Biofuel] Compressed air wash

2006-02-24 Thread David Miller
Joe Street wrote: Thanks Jim; I'm not a chemist so maybe you can fill me in on the reaction. Air is about 80% nitrogen so is the degradation that people have been referring to as oxidation just a generalized term that includes a nitrification process as well? Joe PS Helium is

Re: [Biofuel] So called magnetic fuel conditionersandmagnetic watertreatment

2006-02-14 Thread David Miller
Greg and April wrote: Just because something appears to work, does not mean that it actualy does, unless conclusive scientific testing - that eliminates any other possible variables as the actual reason for the improvement, proves it does. *** Sorry Keith, but, it's time for the pro-magnet

Re: [Biofuel] So called magnetic fuel conditioners

2006-02-14 Thread David Miller
, but not the opossite. And that means statistically something. Please, show us where the EPA confirmed a significant increase. I'll wait. You'll excuse me if I don't find the manufacturers claims credible, I hope. --- David - Original Message - From: David Miller [EMAIL

Re: [Biofuel] So called magnetic fuel conditioners

2006-02-12 Thread David Miller
Andres Secco wrote: Dear all, Magnets are being offered through spam e-mail and its has been so since early '90 ties. The professional use of magnets is very wide. My experience in industrial cooling towers, boilers and engines is very possitive and in some cases have it documented. How

Re: [Biofuel] So called magnetic fuel conditioners

2006-02-10 Thread David Miller
Andres Secco wrote: All will depend on how strong is the magnet. With 6000 gauss or more settled in the gasoline inlet will be enough to get good results on the gas efficiency. Also engine runs much better. Polarization of different materials including boilers fuel, gasoline engines,

[Biofuel] Termites, global warming

2006-02-08 Thread David Miller
Joe Street wrote: Well there may be something to this. It may not be the main source of greenhouse gas but IIRC methane is 6 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than CO2 and there are a lot of cows being grown to serve the north american obsession with beef. And they do fart a hell of a

[Biofuel] Breakup of the religious right?

2006-02-08 Thread David Miller
From http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060208/ZNYT02/602080410 Published Wednesday, February 8, 2006 86 Evangelical Leaders Join to Fight Global Warming By LAURIE GOODSTEIN New York Times Despite opposition from some of their colleagues, 86 evangelical Christian

Re: [Biofuel] Annexing Khuzestan; battle-plans for Iran

2006-02-03 Thread David Miller
Marty Phee wrote: One disturbing article I saw was about China. They've decided to stop buying so much US debt and diversify their holdings. What happens when we can't sell our debt? Also, the US foreign policy is losing ground to China. Their making friends/alliances with many more

Re: [Biofuel] Annexing Khuzestan; battle-plans for Iran

2006-02-02 Thread David Miller
Keith Addison wrote: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11743.htm Annexing Khuzestan; battle-plans for Iran By Mike Whitney [snip] The bottom line on the bourse is this; the dollar is underwritten by a national debt that now exceeds $8 trillion dollars and trade deficits

Re: [Biofuel] Daniel Kammen on Ethanol

2006-01-31 Thread David Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A potentially weird aside: If woody feedstocks are effective, I wonder if the paper industry could make ethanol from their pulp, and still use the resultant stock for paper production? As mentioned in the original, wood is composed primarily of lignin and cellulose.

Re: [Biofuel] considering a purchase of a diesel home generator, input appreciated

2006-01-24 Thread David Miller
Paul S Cantrell wrote: Mark, I agree that a 50 kVA genset is overkill unless you live in a mansion, BUT you can check with your local utility (Reliant? or Coop?) about Net Metering. Since your meter would run backward, you could 'store' power into the grid when you run it and pull power

Re: [Biofuel] Bin Laden citing US polls about withdrawing from Iraq

2006-01-23 Thread David Miller
robert luis rabello wrote: Michael Redler wrote: [snip] Yet the religious principle of do no harm to your neighbor and do not harm a child come directly from a tradition far older than psychology and the field of child development. (I can give you book, chapter and verse in the

Re: [Biofuel] Bin Laden citing US polls about withdrawing from Iraq

2006-01-23 Thread David Miller
Keith Addison wrote: Hello David I could perhaps agree with the point you're making, but I think you stretch it so far it breaks. robert luis rabello wrote: Michael Redler wrote: [snip] Yet the religious principle of do no harm to your neighbor and do not harm

Re: [Biofuel] Dewatering with vacuum.

2006-01-18 Thread David Miller
- Original Message - *From:* Joe Street mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *To:* Biofuel@sustainablelists.org mailto:Biofuel@sustainablelists.org *Sent:* Wednesday, January 11, 2006 2:00 PM *Subject:* Re: [Biofuel] Dewatering with vacuum. David Miller wrote

Re: [Biofuel] Dewatering with vacuum.

2006-01-18 Thread David Miller
Jeromie Reeves wrote: inline David Miller wrote: [snip] I'm not sure what you're referring to in I should look for a 50. I'd suggest looking for a dry pump that doesn't require oil lubrication. These are commonly used for refridgeration or freeze drying of food, should go

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: [lost-arts] Help Stop the USDA

2006-01-14 Thread David Miller
Appal Energy wrote: And the rationale behind this? At least the official rationale? I can think of one. How about start with the animals and get the system down pat. Then with the stroke of a pen go for the humans? I thought it was obvious. The stated goal as I understand it is to be

Re: [Biofuel] Dewatering with vacuum.

2006-01-11 Thread David Miller
William Adams wrote: Your water-to-steam volume change calculation is not correct. The correct volume increase is 1,244x, obtained as follows: One mole (molecular wt. in gm) of liquid water = 18 gm = 18 cc. One mole of steam = 18 gm h2o vapor = 22,400 cc. At standard temperature and

Re: [Biofuel] Dewatering with vacuum.

2006-01-06 Thread David Miller
logan vilas wrote: Water boils off at 43F at 20-50mmhg of vacuum at sea level. At 140F it takes about 150-200mmhg. When fluids are mixed togther the Pressure of Vaporization changes especially when thouroughly mixed. You do not need a condensor if you are useing a AC type vacuum

Re: [Biofuel] Alternative way of producing bd (using electric)

2005-12-21 Thread David Miller
Zeke Yewdall wrote: Come on Mike. How do you argue that a perpetual motion machine wouldn't be useful? Perpetual motion machines could indeed be useful. And the patent office WILL grant patents on them. You just have to provide them with one as proof:) I expect to be showing them mine

Re: [Biofuel] Alternative way of producing bd (using electric)

2005-12-20 Thread David Miller
bob allen wrote: Howdy Teoman, looking back in the archives I find the link: http://tinyurl.com/8hjv7 this is to a patent application, not a patent. Even if the process is patented, does that mean that the patent office has checked out the process and confirms that it actually works as

Re: [Biofuel] Alternative way of producing bd (using electric)

2005-12-20 Thread David Miller
Mike Weaver wrote: HAY David then pills you sold me dont werk MIKE Mike, like I told you, you have to take them longer. At least 30 days, and if you miss a day you have to start all over. You obviously missed a day, so I'll be expecting your next order right away! --- David David

Re: [Biofuel] Steam hybrid from BMW to enter market with 'Turbosteamer'

2005-12-17 Thread David Miller
Joe Acquisto wrote: Zeke Yewdall[EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/16/05 3:01 PM Although it doesn't specify, I would suspect that this is a turbine design, not a piston design. I've seen a 30kW steam turbine that wasn't much larger than an AC compressor for a car. Add a heat exhanger in

Re: [Biofuel] Steam hybrid from BMW to enter market with 'Turbosteamer'

2005-12-16 Thread David Miller
Paul S Cantrell wrote: On 12/16/05, *David Kramer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wouldn't such a steam engine increase the weight of the vehicle and thereby the amount of energy needed to drive it? David David, Yes I would think so, too. I would have

[Biofuel] Biofuels revolutionize Brazil's auto industry

2005-12-12 Thread David Miller
From http://news.tradingcharts.com/futures/0/9/73364090.html /Sao Paulo, Dec 12, 2005 (EFE via COMTEX) -- /By Jaime Ortega Carrascal. ).- The flex fuel technology developed and implemented in Brazil that allows a car to run on either gasoline or alcohol has revolutionized the local auto

Re: [Biofuel] Bob Allen -Other Vaccines during WWI - THE 1918 INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC

2005-12-07 Thread David Miller
Zeke Yewdall wrote: Yet they are already being sued over drugs like vioxx. Are the threats of law suits any higher for vaccines than for other drugs released with insufficient testing? Vaccinations have their own special problems. For starters, they're all different and time-sensitive.

Re: [Biofuel] Preheating heat source - BriteLyt? Petromax

2005-12-06 Thread David Miller
Mike Weaver wrote: I've done some initial research but haven't delved into one. Sooner or later I'll find an oil furnace someone is throwing away and see what I can do. If I had to cut the BD with another agent to make it easier to use I would do that. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: Free Range Birds and Avian Flu

2005-12-04 Thread David Miller
Keith Addison wrote: Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:00:47 EST Reply-To: Sustainable Agriculture Network Discussion Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Free Range Birds and Avian Flu To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] We need to even the playing field and get a true

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: Free Range Birds and Avian Flu

2005-12-04 Thread David Miller
Keith Addison wrote: Helklo David I think you don't know much about organics, eh? Not as much as you or others on this list. More than most though. Try this: An Agricultural Testament by Sir Albert Howard, Oxford University Press, 1940. 11. The Retreat of the Crop and the Animal before

Re: [Biofuel] US Guvmint to tax alternate fuel vehicles?

2005-12-02 Thread David Miller
Mike Weaver wrote: All kidding aside, do the members of this list think the idea of an advocacy group to defend BD has merit, and more importantly would anyone pay to be a member? I would pay something just to support the cause. Probably in the $50-100 range. --- David

Re: [Biofuel] US Guvmint to tax alternate fuel vehicles?

2005-12-01 Thread David Miller
Joe Street wrote: Why not just add some of the dye yourself ..doh! Because here in the states they put the dye in the untaxed fuel (HHO, K1), not in the stuff that's taxed. So adding dye would be a way of saying that you didn't pay taxes on fuel that you actually had. --- David

[Biofuel] [OT] Diebold problems in NC

2005-12-01 Thread David Miller
For anyone interested in the veracity of our elections, this slashdot discussion is very troubling: http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/11/29/2024208.shtml?tid=103tid=123tid=219 There's reference in the article to what statistically looks like fraud here:

Re: [Biofuel] US Guvmint to tax alternate fuel vehicles?

2005-12-01 Thread David Miller
in a long time to make it worthwhile financially. --- David Joe David Miller wrote: Joe Street wrote: Why not just add some of the dye yourself ..doh! Because here in the states they put the dye in the untaxed fuel (HHO, K1), not in the stuff that's taxed. So adding dye

Re: [Biofuel] Supplemental Hydrogen Injection for Class 8 Trucks

2005-11-22 Thread David Miller
robert luis rabello wrote: Greg and April wrote: This makes allot more sense. [snip] #5I wonder if it makes a difference if the 100 hours at 15 mph or at 75 mph? It won't. The unit is not tied into the onboard fuel injection management computer. From what I

Re: [Biofuel] truckers choose hydrogen power

2005-11-19 Thread David Miller
Darryl McMahon wrote: when water is broken down to O2 and H2 applied to fuel at a rate of 1/375? So now we are supposed to believe that some device will improve efficiency Catalysts can work at even lower ratios. That's not really relevent here since we're not talking about any kind

Re: [Biofuel] truckers choose hydrogen power

2005-11-18 Thread David Miller
William Adams wrote: David, Thanks for the correction of air intake. Agreed, it would be good to look at the beast. Can the anecdotes can be believed ? And, is the concept for real? Let's try putting a couple of things together here Darryl says: According to the CHEC website

Re: [Biofuel] truckers choose hydrogen power

2005-11-17 Thread David Miller
William Adams wrote: Interesting calculation, and good for back-of-the-envelope stuff. I just wanted to point out that an 1800 RPM 10 liter engine will consume 150 liters of air/second, not 300 since it only takes in air every other stroke. That's assuming a 4 stroke engine, of course:) In

Re: [Biofuel] rigged voting machines was Oil and democracy -was-Scientific method

2005-10-28 Thread David Miller
Alt.EnergyNetwork wrote: It might be a good idea to get rid of those nasty Diebolt rigged voting machines that left no paper trail. During the election the ceo of that co, told Bush I'll deliver Ohio. This is being parroted way out of context. The CEO of Diebold was chairman of some

Re: [Biofuel] US Montana’s energy future

2005-10-28 Thread David Miller
MH wrote: Sounds like a great conference! This paragraph caught my attention: A second coal story came out of Great Falls, where the City Council voted 4-1 to spend $2 million of that city’s funds on “preparations” for the proposed 250 megawatt Highwood coal-burning power plant east of the

Re: [Biofuel] Multi Fuel Engines

2005-10-17 Thread David Miller
Kurt Nolte wrote: On 10/16/05, *Jeromie Reeves* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about a rotary engine that doest take those delicate graphite seals? Long story short I had one via my lil brother that only had 1 working cell and still put out

Re: [Biofuel] Multi Fuel Engines

2005-10-17 Thread David Miller
robert luis rabello wrote: I've been looking at this one for a long time: http://www.freedom-motors.com/ Apparently, it can run as a gen set with externally mixed diesel fuel and the engine puts out very little in the way of pollution. Unlike some of the other manufacturers

Re: [Biofuel] Multi Fuel Engines

2005-10-17 Thread David Miller
Kurt Nolte wrote: From what I understand, a rotary engine is actually a step /down/ in thermal efficiency; maybe it's just the materials used, but I seem to hear something about how they may have more power density, but their thermal efficiency suffers too

Re: [Biofuel] Multi Fuel Engines

2005-10-17 Thread David Miller
robert luis rabello wrote: David Miller wrote: I love looking at new engines:) How'd that old mazda commercial go? Engines that go h ? You're dating yourself, now! (And me, too!) Hey, I can remember Coke I'd like to teach the world to sing commercial. I

Re: [Biofuel] Why aren't there more manufacturers?

2005-10-13 Thread David Miller
Keith Addison wrote: Hello David snip Forgot this bit... I also wonder what people are really doing with the leftover glycerine and wash water with excess methanol. I suspect a lot of both get dumped, as do batches that just go bad. I don't know that, but would be interested to hear from

Re: [Biofuel] Why aren't there more manufacturers?

2005-10-12 Thread David Miller
Bobby Clark wrote: Why are there not a lot of people manufacturing biodiesel? Is it because that petro diesel is cheaper? It seems that I have seen estimates of between $2-$3 per gallon if you make it from virgin oil. If it burns cleaner (which it does) then why aren't manufacturers taking

Re: [Biofuel] Supplemental Heat by BD or byproduct

2005-10-04 Thread David Miller
Darryl McMahon wrote: Kurt Nolte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/3/05, Paul S Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: iI live near Charleston, SC USA about 40 miles from the coast,/i so it gets cold for a few weeks or a couple of months depending on your definition of cold. Anyway heating

Re: [Biofuel] Cheap and easy filtering of WVO

2005-09-30 Thread David Miller
Joe Street wrote: Careful. Even a modest vacuum will result in tremendous forces developing on the large surface area of that drum which is way too wimpy metal for the job as a vacuum vessel. You will end up crushing the drum and making a huge mess! I'll give odds on the sheet

Re: [Biofuel] Double wall heat exchange - Solar Hot Water Heater

2005-09-27 Thread David Miller
Zeke Yewdall wrote: You can actually buy C-PVC pipe for hot water piping here. Since the heat exchanger is not going to be operating at over 90C or so, it should work fine, except that it may be very difficult to get 100mm diamter CPVC. Normally anything that large is drain pipe not hot water

Re: [Biofuel] U.S. market doesn't make it

2005-09-26 Thread David Miller
Ken Riznyk wrote: Here in Pennsylvania diesel cars are exempt from emission inspections. I was recently bear hunting in Maine. The local folks told me that Maine no longer permits sales of Jetta TDI's because of diesel emissions. My question is this - what pollutes more? A cleaner gas

Re: [Biofuel] Flat Panel Solar Hot Water Collector

2005-09-20 Thread David Miller
Ken Dunn wrote: On 9/20/05, *Zeke Yewdall* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The best collectors are actually vaccuum tubes, to reduce convective losses. This leads me to believe that creating a lower profile box and reducing dead airspace would be very

Re: [Biofuel] Flat Panel Solar Hot Water Collector

2005-09-20 Thread David Miller
Ken Dunn wrote: On 9/20/05, *David Miller* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It probably wouldn't make much difference. Windows need an inch or so between the panes for best R-value; less is not always better. There's a point where more wouldn't

Re: [Biofuel] Debatable statement?

2005-09-15 Thread David Miller
Greg and April wrote: Ok, given the same vehicle ( and about the same weight ), how does one go about picking a replacement engine and perhaps the replacing the transmission as well? The reason I ask, is that I would like to replace the engine I have with a better engine, but, I don't

Re: [Biofuel] Debatable statement?

2005-09-15 Thread David Miller
Zeke Yewdall wrote: One major way acceleration hurts is that engines are set to richen the mixture during hard acceleration in order to prevent detonation (knocking, pinging) at high cylinder pressures. Does this apply to diesel engines which almost always operate with excess oxygen? Not if

Re: [Biofuel] Draft US Defense Paper Outlines Preventive Nuclear Strikes

2005-09-14 Thread David Miller
Tom Irwin wrote: Hi All, Hi Tom; Sorry I had to laugh to keep from crying. Let's see, Bush and the neocons will use weapons of mass destruction on bad people thinking about making weapons of mass destruction. Exactly who are the bad people. Oh Brave New World. Someone ought to tell

Re: [Biofuel] Debatable statement?

2005-09-13 Thread David Miller
Joe Street wrote: I think for otherwise identical cars, a medium sized engine (but smaller than what most cars come with nowdays) will get better mileage, because it can accellerate fast enough to get out of the fuel dumping acceleration, and into more fuel efficient cruising faster. If

Re: [Biofuel] wind and current power

2005-09-12 Thread David Miller
Kirk McLoren wrote: Sometimes engineering proposals are just gee whiz stuff. Just to show that you are capable of thinking outside the box. They don't have to have much to do with practicality. The hazard to air navigation is enough to scuttle this idea let alone the liability

Re: [Biofuel] Robertson et al VS. followers

2005-08-27 Thread David Miller
Keith Addison wrote: Hello David Hi Keith:) I expect that's covered under free speech. I'd personally rate Robertsons comments as up there with any number of people who advocate the death of Bush for crimes against humanity or somesuch. If Bush were assasinated would these people really

Re: [Biofuel] Robertson et al VS. followers

2005-08-26 Thread David Miller
Hakan Falk wrote: Robert, A question, In many countries death threat and instigation of murdering a person is against the criminal laws. Is it not the same in US and if, why have they not arrested and questioned Robertson? It's tempting to reply to the effect that he's a supporter of Bush

Re: [Biofuel] Robertson et al VS. followers

2005-08-26 Thread David Miller
Hakan Falk wrote: David, So it is legal in US to suggest that a man should be assassinated? I expect that's covered under free speech. I'd personally rate Robertsons comments as up there with any number of people who advocate the death of Bush for crimes against humanity or somesuch. If