Re: [Biofuel] Trees and power companies

2004-10-21 Thread Heidi Wordhouse-Dykema
Hi Kim,  temperatures can hit over 115F, so AC is necessary, not just a  luxury.  I only cool my place to about 80F.   When you get a chance, you might want to look into 'wrapping' your house in strawbale and insulating your roof with wool.  It'll help keep those summer temperatures down in

Re: [Biofuel] 2004 election voter guide

2004-10-20 Thread Heidi Wordhouse-Dykema
On the contrary. Passing along a message, unless a disclaimer or refutation is added, implies the sender Agrees with and supports the message passed. Even the message involved says if you want to help spread the information (ie, you think it's good stuff), please pass it on. If you don't

Re: [Biofuel] Creating a cool room storage in a hot climate

2004-09-11 Thread Heidi Wordhouse-Dykema
Hiya Kim, (a variant of hello?) You might want to check into strawbaling the walls of any edifice you choose to build for your chill-room. As your water table is so high, I'm assuming you're not going subterranean, which would be a no-no with straw. BUT, if you're going to build above

Re: [biofuel] Rice husk ash

2004-07-27 Thread Heidi Wordhouse-Dykema
it'll be sent to a mill. Products are rice and bran, husks are waste. Should be FFTA. Unless they've found some by-product use for them there. Some straw-bale builders are using (unburnt!) rice husks for ceiling/attic insulation. It blows in like cellulose, and the high silica content

Re: [biofuel] f-250 pu

2004-06-08 Thread Heidi Wordhouse-Dykema
At 08:25 PM 6/7/2004 +, you wrote: I have a 97 7.3 Ford F-250 diesel.Can anybody tell me proscons of changing over?also would like to know to what,biofuel,svo,wvo or whatever els their is.thank you. Hiya, I have a '97, 7.3 F250 as well. I've been running it on Bd for about a year now with

Re: Re[2]: [biofuel] plastic tank... Stainless?

2004-05-24 Thread Heidi Wordhouse-Dykema
(milk tank) He got his for 100 dollars from a major milk producer. Any idea how many gallons (or how big space-wise) these milk storage tanks are? I have visions of enormous 3,000 gallon beauties... ...although for a hundred dollar SS tank in a reasonable size, I'd drive my biodiesel

Re: [biofuel] processor from cone shaped plastic tank?

2004-05-22 Thread Heidi Wordhouse-Dykema
Hello Todd, It's not necessarily the tank that is determined to be by and large worthless. Ah, it is as I was supposing, then. As for your wallet? If a person were on a really tight budget they could use a flat bottomed HDPE tank and place it on a shallow incline. This would avoid the extra

Re: [biofuel] processor from cone shaped plastic tank?

2004-05-22 Thread Heidi Wordhouse-Dykema
Does anybody out there personally use a poly tank to make their bd? Yup. But only as wash, storage and transfer vessels, not as a reactor. Just don't have much desire to see 400 gallons of hot oil and caustic running round the bend and down to the creek. (Moment of awed silence) 400 gallons

Re: [biofuel] Plastic cone shaped tanks - Heidi

2004-05-22 Thread Heidi Wordhouse-Dykema
Apparently they are not what some have cracked them up to be, but you are welcomed to get one and have a go at it if you want. Send pics :) There comes a point where either you believe what people here are telling you or you don't. Experience is a great teacher, but other peoples' experience

Re: [biofuel] plastic tank... Stainless?

2004-05-22 Thread Heidi Wordhouse-Dykema
plastic tanks, start to soften already at 60 degree Celsius and they will not hold at boiling point. If you get composite tanks that will take around 100 degree Celsius, they are at least 3 times more expensive than the common ones. Thank you Hakan. This was very illuminating and was some

Re: [biofuel] processor from cone shaped plastic tank?

2004-05-22 Thread Heidi Wordhouse-Dykema
Poly tanks are rated. They're rated for chemical compatibility, UV compatibility, specific gravity, positioning (vertical/horizontal) and temperature, with the later generally being around 110*F for 1.9 SG. (Big smile) Thank you Todd. You've hit it right on the head. I didn't know how to ask

Re: [biofuel] processor from cone shaped plastic tank?

2004-05-21 Thread Heidi Wordhouse-Dykema
I'm bringing myself out of lurk to waggle a small stick at folks and ask for clarification... What other problems *specifically* make folks not like the cone-bottom HDPE barrels? (ie, 'they suck' is inept. (and that's the waggly-stick part of the post.)' they suck because you can't drain

Re: [biofuel] processor from cone shaped plastic tank?

2004-05-21 Thread Heidi Wordhouse-Dykema
I've just dealt with quite a lot of this and your other questions in replying to Tom Ferreira (TJ.). Did you read those messages? There's a great deal more in the archives, have you checked the archives? Not Yahoo's useless archives, this one: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Yes, and

Re: [biofuel] Antibiotic Completeness (was: US poll...)

2004-05-17 Thread Heidi Wordhouse-Dykema
Hello, It is a proven effect of antibiotics, that the average life of humans nearly doubled. I'd like to take a moment to clarify a small detail. Studies that show antibiotic use correlates to a longer average human lifespan are incomplete in their scope. There was a correspondent increase