Re: [Biofuel] Human Intelligence and the Environment

On 15/05/2011 4:41 PM, Keith Addison wrote: snip > Anyway, you usually say I'm more optimistic than you are, as if that > explains it. Actually, it's been accepted here before that there's no > contradiction between optimism and realism. So what do you really > mean when you say I'm "optimistic"?

Re: [Biofuel] Human Intelligence and the Environment

On 15/05/2011 8:27 PM, robert and benita rabello wrote: > Ok. I'll concede that I'm more pessimistic about humanity. We > could argue that you'd remain more "optimistic" in contrast, but that's > really not the point of this discussion. Is our intelligence > responsible for the environment

Re: [Biofuel] Human Intelligence and the Environment

We are trying to draw a correlation between intelligence and survival but first we should ask the question whether the two necessarily should have a correlation. Does high intelligence imply enhanced survival ability? Should we make this assumption? Have a look at species which have existed fo

Re: [Biofuel] Human Intelligence and the Environment

I think essential to your question is that there is confusion about the definition of intelligence. What does it mean? And should we assume that a consequence of what we define as intelligence precludes the possibility of self destruction? Perhaps our definitions are not good enough or maybe

Re: [Biofuel] Solar Power Breakthrough.

I think this paper comes the closest to what I am talking about but still leaves out a lot. They admit this though which is good. At the time it was written most PV was made from recycled scrap from the semiconductor industry because nobody was in the business of purifying silicon to the less

Re: [Biofuel] Solar Power Breakthrough.

I think that is a perfect analogy. This has always been a petri dish. Question is, even if we are smarter than yeast, does it make any difference? On 04/05/2011 11:32 AM, Chip Mefford wrote: > Well, > > that mindset, as strange as it seems, is actually backed by a couple of > centuries > of

Re: [Biofuel] Solar Power Breakthrough.

Doh. Yeah well, what I meant to say was a new 'cene' is on the horizon. On 04/05/2011 10:33 AM, Chip Mefford wrote: > It ended, > > we're in the anthropocene. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/l

Re: [Biofuel] Solar Power Breakthrough.

Yep. Like it or not the earth is going to warm up, the Holocene is coming to an end. Even filling the deserts with panels will only hurry it along. J On 04/05/2011 10:12 AM, Zeke Yewdall wrote: > Well... it just goes to prove that you cannot supply side yourself out of > the problem... if hou

Re: [Biofuel] Solar Power Breakthrough.

I like the upper bound approach and it fits more with what I am saying. You have to be careful when you just work with cost figures though. It is very hard to calculate everything in terms of the energy inputs especially when you talk about where to draw the line as to what is included. But I

Re: [Biofuel] Solar Power Breakthrough.

MAIL PROTECTED]> > To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org > Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2011 4:46:43 PM > Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Solar Power Breakthrough. > > > Yes, > > you're correct. > > Much better to use that power to run furnaces to make beer an

Re: [Biofuel] Solar Power Breakthrough.

Yes please do and I can send you some but they are in my opinion not worth the bandwidth needed to download them. Maybe this is just a bad day for me to be positive on the heels of my countrymen giving a majority government to the corruptiles which we will now have to deal with for the next fo

Re: [Biofuel] Solar Power Breakthrough.

I thought Chip was being sarcastic, not that he was actually proposing that people wait, but that many stupid people will perceive it as a reason to wait. On the other hand until the day comes that silicon foundries are using solar energy to do the job of making cells, and indeed panels, the e

Re: [Biofuel] Solar Power Breakthrough.

Well I guess you could call that some kind of a 'breakthrough' but there are a lot of stories floating about that fall into that description. However when current heterojunction technologies are already hitting the 30% conversion efficiency mark and current laboratory techniques using quantum

Re: [Biofuel] Fuel grade ethanol

Methanol is a little more corrosive than ethanol but at that dilution rate that might not be noticeable. The air fuel ratio is a little different but again not an issue at that dilution level. I'd say go ahead if you really want to denature it. Can your flex fuel ranger really burn 100% alcoh

Re: [Biofuel] Biodiesel in Canada

Yup your biodiesel has the ability to adsorb a little humidity but petroleum will not. When you use fuel air is drawn into the tank as it empties and that air always carries some moisture. When the temperature drops and condensation forms, it goes as liquid to the bottom of your petroleum tank

Re: [Biofuel] Biodiesel in Canada

The government gives a gift to diesel mechanics and fuel filter retailers! Based on my experience running biodiesel in the Canadian winter vehicles will need heated fuel filters in the least. Heavy hauling rigs crossing the nation will need a heated tank and line system and a switchover manif

Re: [Biofuel] Query on breaking emulsions

Hi Seth; You are not the first person to consider using the esters as a fluid in a hydrionic system. However the esters can do unexpected things to plastic fittings or elements of plastic assemblies and I think you would be well advised to instead use a more conventional hydrionic system and

Re: [Biofuel] Gun Crazy

So in your opinion Robert how do a people in the current reality (let's say the US citizenry for example) best 'defend' themselves from a government gone bad? Joe robert and benita rabello wrote: >snip > > My problem with the concept of having guns as defense against the >State is that th

[Biofuel] Help put a ban on nicotinoid pesticides

I signed the petition from Avaaz. I hope you will too. see info below. Joe Silently, billions of bees are dying off and our entire food chain is in danger. Bees don't just make honey, they are a giant, humble workforce, pollinating 90% of the plants we grow. Scientists increasingly blame on

Re: [Biofuel] Solar thermal industry set to boom

Hi James; Well we are in complete agreement there. Solar thermal however has the great advantage that it can capture much more of the available solar energy because it doesn't rely on the band gap of a material which is only responsive to certain wavelengths in sunlight. The challenges iare

Re: [Biofuel] Solar thermal industry set to boom

Hi James When I pull a silicon crystal the melt is sitting at ~1450 deg C so I have some feel for the problems you are hinting at without ever having touched a stirling engine. The point I was going for was that diversity is key. One of my friends who is off grid has no problem producing more

Re: [Biofuel] Solar thermal industry set to boom

There is a good and bad side to everything. I work in an alternative energy research facility. I use 250 kwh energy to turn 20 kg of polycrystaline silicon into a meter long monocrystal. The energy input to manufacturing solar panels is disgusting. This doesn't even count the energy used to

Re: [Biofuel] Paying for fire response service (was Alabama Town's Failed Pension..)

I canceled my house insurance years ago and the bank that holds my mortgage is none the wiser. Why should I pay the premiums? If the place burns I can declare personal bankruptcy like any corporate entity. Why should individuals play any differently? Joe Tom Thiel wrote: >One element that s

Re: [Biofuel] Alabama Town's Failed Pension is a Warning (NYT-article)

Noam Scheiber describes something resembling a lateral rather than hierarchical organization although he still assumes some overarching control frame it seems which is a departure from pure lateral networking. That is more the way nature organizes things and hopefully if Schieber is right this r

Re: [Biofuel] Alabama Town's Failed Pension is a Warning (NYT-article)

I think the belief persists in the face of facts and reality because reality is something deliberately kept far away from the mind of the believer for one thing, the examination of the truth of that belief system, or facts, is something the average believer is strongly steered away from (and of

Re: [Biofuel] More on Bees and CCD - EPA Knew of CCD issue with Clothianidin

No it's not just you Darryl; I think leaks and wistle blowers act as a kind of penal system for diplomats and politicians and other corruptiles since they wiggle around other systems. Otherwise I don't feel they have much incentive not to serve themselves in ways that do not benefit the majori

Re: [Biofuel] Fighting Doom: The New Politics of Climate Change

No Keith read what I did say. I haven't said anything about bribery. Please don't put words in my mouth. I gave my opinion that people act according to incentives and penalties. I have read the reference material you suggested and didn't find anything to contradict my opinion actually. If yo

Re: [Biofuel] Readings

Keith Addison wrote: >>Hi Keith; >> >>Well Arnold Toynbee has written litterally volumes. I don't imagine >>I'll get through 12 volumes on world history any time soon but do you >>have any suggested works from your own readings on him as a starting pont? >> >>Joe >> >> > >You're not paying at

[Biofuel] Readings

Hi Keith; Well Arnold Toynbee has written litterally volumes. I don't imagine I'll get through 12 volumes on world history any time soon but do you have any suggested works from your own readings on him as a starting pont? Joe ___ Biofuel mailing l

Re: [Biofuel] Fighting Doom: The New Politics of Climate Change

Darryl McMahon and I wrote: snip >>> >>> >>The economy of a whole province or country depends on a lot of complex >>variables and I don't think the statement proves anything. >> >> > >I disagree. The context for this empirical evidence is a Canadian >government that insists a carbon ta

Re: [Biofuel] Fighting Doom: The New Politics of Climate Change

Hi Darryl; You make some good points. The complaints I was making stem from my understanding or viewpoint on the way things work. To me the real power is and always has and will be from the bottom up so to speak if you look at it in a hierarchical perspective. (I don't but it serves the discu

Re: [Biofuel] Fighting Doom: The New Politics of Climate Change

Okay okay, I'm feeling a bit better now. That's two very positive messages I've received and I'll share the other one with the list: I was discussing all this with a friend and he suggested I look at the situation this way. There may be a small percentage of forward thinking people who see t

Re: [Biofuel] Dry-washing

I have a guy here who learned how to make fuel and he tells me his fuel passes the Jan Warnqvist quality test after 'drywashing' . I haven't seen him do it but my understanding is it isn't faster. Certainly not faster than washing and vacuum drying. Joe Keith Addison wrote: >Hello all > >I

Re: [Biofuel] Fighting Doom: The New Politics of Climate Change

Keith Addison wrote: SNIP >I don't think there's any need to be less than comfy. Comfy is not a >product of consumerism. Quite the opposite, as it turns out. Less is >more. > Yes you're right but only if you see it that way. And when Brendan Smith goes out on the campaign trail telling folks t

Re: [Biofuel] Fighting Doom: The New Politics of Climate Change

Well you may be right Keith, but I'm not sure which one of us it is then. I hope to hell it's me I really wish someone could show me that, but then I'm looking from the perspective of the previous four billion years of evolution on this planet and thinking of the next four billion. That could

Re: [Biofuel] Good for him!

Hello to you Keith; Too late I'm afraid, I already posted the coldness of my heart before I recieved this ha ha, I'm referring to my comment on your post about "Fighting Doom" Well I fought the good fight for years and a voice inside my head was really screaming that humans are too smart not t

Re: [Biofuel] Fighting Doom: The New Politics of Climate Change

Keith Addison wrote: >..."the hidden jewel of the climate crisis ". He's right! > > Oh yes and he really doesn't get it does he? "To save our lives and livelihood we need to burrow down to the root of the problem: halting greenhouse gas emissions. And halting emissions requires joining a mov

Re: [Biofuel] Georges Galloway

Fritz wrote: >SNIP > >I am as Canadian kind ashame for our Governments stand on Tarsands and >Mideastpolitics! >Fritz > > That makes two of us Fritz. As far as I can see we are just USA north. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose. Joe ___ Bio

[Biofuel] Good for him!

We need to see more people with the gonads to do something like that. Every year when I go to work I see another step (or ten) of the corporate takeover of our higher education system. I work in what is considered to be my country's top engineering school. It is to the point now where an engine

Re: [Biofuel] A metalworking question

Another idea that just popped up (pun intended) is what about adapting the ubiquitous PET pop bottle? I wonder with the right amount of heat if the end of one of those could be 'blown' in the way the glass blowers do to make a nice round end and then it could be easily adapted to fit on the c

Re: [Biofuel] A metalworking question

What I was picturing was a large tank carried on the back with two flexible hoses with the rose on the end of each. The head pressure from holding the water almost a meter above would result in a larger spray fan actually than you could get from a can. The handles for the roses could be desi

Re: [Biofuel] A metalworking question

Hi Keith; If I had to make something like that I would look around for something that already had the shape and see if I could modify it to work. There are metal bowls for example. I have some stainless ones in my kitchen. There is a flat but I would guess that it is small enough and in the

Re: [Biofuel] A metalworking question

Hi Jan; Yes I am interested particularly as a lubricant for ethanol in two stroke engines. Petroleum being highly non polar doesn't work with high ethanol concentrations but castor oil can live together with ethanol and the ever present water molecule. There are other co-solvents such as euca

Re: [Biofuel] Biodiesel powered radiant heat

Hi Seth; If you dry the fuel in a tank like a hot water tank you can use a vacuum and speed up the process greatly. Also you can recover methanol, there isn't much in the esters compared to what comes out of waste glycerin but once you have this system you can get excellent methanol recovery

Re: [Biofuel] Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder Update

I asked a friend who is an organic farmer and keeps bees in a more natural way if he or any of his like minded bee keeping community were suffering from this issue. The answer was no. That may not be the most scientific piece of information but still a piece. Joe Chip Mefford wrote: >Yeah,

Re: [Biofuel] UN to Confront Sci-fi Climate Solutions at Biodiversity Meeting

Hi Darryl; Or more importantly (and maybe this is what you meant) we don't understand the intricacies of the natural systems already in existence in order to meddle with them in a way that won't create larger problems than we already have. That is the way of human activity that I see most oft

Re: [Biofuel] Black Tuesday in Japan

I understood that Japan didn't subsidize that heavily at least not compared to north american electricity rates. In Canada the rate is about 6 cents per kwh but then they add surcharges and debt recovery for our defunct candu reactors that never run right and the total charge is about 13 cents p

Re: [Biofuel] Draft Discussion Paper on Bill C-6, the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act

Canada's answer to the US patriot act. Not only is the threat to privacy is disturbing, but the attempt to hide the attack on natural products under a new umbrella is insulting. Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Please forward to all Canadians >Draft Discussion Paper on Bill C-6, the Canada Co

Re: [Biofuel] Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military Worse Than Nuclear Weapons

Another reference quite detailed. http://www.iicph.org/docs/du_update_1_3.htm Joe Craig Barrett wrote: >Hi > >The linked article (the second reference from the Gulf War page) also >doesn't really give anything useful. It gives numbers, but not reasons. >11000 dead, but how many actually die

Re: [Biofuel] Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military Worse Than Nuclear Weapons

Dr Hari Sharma is a retired Prof here at UW where I work. His life became somewhat difficult as a result of the research he began about the so called gulf war syndrome. I talked to people who were involved. Here is a more dtailed reference to his work. I'm sure I could dig up the original p

[Biofuel] E85 Networking works!

I posted a message to both of these lists complaining about how I had such trouble buying ethanol 85 fuel on Friday. Well, I'm not sure who my benefactor is but it had to be someone on one of these lists named Robin who got in touch with Greenfield Ethanol and I got a call from them today sayi

[Biofuel] Ethanol 85

Hi All; It has been a while but I am not idle. I hope everyone is keeping well. I have been working on converting a 2 stroke to run on ethanol. Engine work is well underway. I wanted to get some ethanol to start testing what lubricants I can use as a substitute for the commercial 2 stroke lubes me

Re: [Biofuel] Zeolite on eBay

Hi Tom; Happy New year. I'm surprised by your comments about temperature damaging zeolite. I have always baked it in vacuum but when you say 'lol' temperatures perhaps you are meaning les than 500 degrees celsius or such? I heat to about 150 C. But now I wonder if that is too hot?? Did you

[Biofuel] Veggie power

Music to my ears! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpfYt7vRHuY Happy holidays all. Joe ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://jour

Re: [Biofuel] Biodiesel storage - was Re: Best Country's for producing BD

That's very useful information Keith thank you. One of our local brewers took some BD made from canola and put it on a cookie sheet and left it sit all summer and he says it hasn't dried the way oil does. He can't see any difference in it other than the dust it collected. Your info is even mo

Re: [Biofuel] 747 on biofuel

lly makes the LIM any different from a >two-stroke diesel? They too are blower scavenged, port exhausted closed >crankcase engines... > >-Kurt > >Joe Street wrote: > > >>Damn it all to hell. My friend just bought a Moyes Dragonfly >><http://www.liteflite.com.a

Re: [Biofuel] 747 on biofuel

Damn it all to hell. My friend just bought a Moyes Dragonfly and I had a half baked notion to put a LIM cycle engine on it and make the claim to be the first to go flying on biodiesel! Well I'm glad the wheels are

Re: [Biofuel] Rapeseed Biofuel Produces More Greenhouse Gas Than Oil Or Petrol

is my guess ) biofuels still will perform better on >environmental terms and most likely will be more economical >as the damages cost of biofuels are much lower then teh one form fossil >fuels. >Very best for us >Chic >Joe Street escreveu: > > >>Olivier Morf wrote: >&g

Re: [Biofuel] Rapeseed Biofuel Produces More Greenhouse Gas Than Oil Or Petrol

Olivier Morf wrote: >Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2507851.ece >September 22, 2007 > >Rapeseed Biofuel Produces More Greenhouse Gas Than Oil Or Petrol > >By Lewis Smith > SNIP > >Rapeseed and maize biodiesels were calculated to produce up to 70 per cent >and 50

Re: [Biofuel] Salt water as fuel?

Actually RF energy is quite capable of splitting molecules in a gas phase, raising electrons into higher energy states and producing a whole range of ionized species and radicals according to the statistical probabilities. We do it all the time in vacuum systems to use the plasmas for differen

[Biofuel] World clock

I tried to post this link during the transition but I don't think it made it to the list. I have had some server problems here as well so if this is a double post ...sorry. http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf Interesting how the numbers for internet nodes and oil pumped move the fastest

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerin as an Emulsifier (was Glycerine Settling Time)

Hi Tom; If the answers to questions 2 and 3 are yes then it would explain a lot. Then the anwer to question one could be that although the BD did not pass the QT if it was settled long enough that there is no glycerol it would be consistent with the emergent theory. No? Joe Thomas Kelly w

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerin as an Emulsifier (was Glycerine Settling Time)

Thanks a lot Tom for all that work in a short time. You have really shed some light on this discussion. Jumping to your questions at the end, it seems clear then that Jan and Andres were right on and it must be the soap and mono-diglycerides etc rather than the glycerine itself which is the c

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

Hi Keith; Most often the process comes to 95% or more complete and that is good enough for me ( personal choice) and doesn't give me wash problems either. Maybe 20% of the time it only gets to somewhere around 90% and this is a problem. It tends to be most likely to happen when the feedstoc

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

Hi Keith; See my answers below. Keith Addison wrote: Well, settling time is free. Acid-base aside, there's the two-stage base-base process, which quite a lot of people use and like, but otherwise why do more than one stage? Do you mean two separate stages, with a methanol test in betw

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

- Original Message ----- *From:* Joe Street <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *To:* biofuel@sustainablelists.org <mailto:biofuel@sustainablelists.org> *Sent:* Friday, August 10, 2007 3:45 PM *Subject:* Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time Hi Jan; Ok your post a

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

but after a week of settling more of the glycerine has settled out. Even a small amount of glycerine compound the emulsifying effects of the unreacted glycerides . Yes? By the way, I always ask him "Did you do a quality test?" His answer: "Oops, I forgo

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

BD and separates from the liquid BD phase with time. ----- Original Message - *From:* Joe Street <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *To:* biofuel@sustainablelists.org <mailto:biofuel@sustainablelists.org> *Sent:* Thursday, August 09, 2007 11:30 AM

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

solved in the BD and separates from the liquid BD phase with time. - Original Message ----- *From:* Joe Street <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *To:* biofuel@sustainablelists.org <mailto:biofuel@sustainablelists.org> *Sent:* Thursday, August 09, 2007 11:30 AM *S

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

See below Thomas Kelly wrote: Joe, You wrote: "Have you ever tried dosing the batch again with a little methoxide? After you remove the glycerin it doesn't take much to get the last bit of the reaction to go and settle out the remaining glycerin." I've been concerned about the exce

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

. It might be best to include more settling time in the schedule. Tom - Original Message - *From:* Joe Street <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *To:* biofuel@sustainablelists.org <mailto:biofuel@sustainablelists.org> *Sent:* Tuesd

Re: [Biofuel] Urgent Call For Strong Oversight Of Nanotechnology

Hi Keith; Thank you for this. As you may know I was involved for the past two years as nanotech lab manager at the University of Waterloo. My grave concerns over the unexpected and severe toxicity of materials (benign at the macro scale) when taken to the range of tens of nanometers or less

Re: [Biofuel] Biofuel Quality Test

Thomas Kelly wrote: Hi Joe, >glycerin settles slower in a poorly completed reaction. I wonder why Well I'm no chemist but my guess would be that the large Mono and Di and triglyceride molecules that are left are jammed in between the ester molecules and the glycerine has to jostle

Re: [Biofuel] Biofuel Quality Test

Hey Tom; Take a sample from your fuel after settling 6-8 hrs and set it asside in a mason jar for the longer period and see what settles out. Rod believes that glycerin settles slower in a poorly completed reaction. I believe he is right. And yes it only takes a little glycerin to emulsify

Re: [Biofuel] Pepsi Forced to Admit It's Bottling Tap Water

LOL LOL but the best one is Evian water. Evian is NAIVE spelled backwards!! Perfect. (said it here b4) BTW here are some locals who are not just emailing web forums on this issue. Take action. It is amazing how fast theis group mobilized and how much effect they are having. http://www.well

Re: [Biofuel] squid with alcohol trailer

Ok I had to run a different browser to load the video. Well the oceans sustain us on this planet so we had better take care of them. Joe Kirk McLoren wrote: How odd. I just tried it and went straight to it. Kirk */Joe Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote: The link doesn't

Re: [Biofuel] squid with alcohol trailer

The link doesn't work for me Kirk McLoren wrote: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4633712994669780584&total=42&start=10&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0 A new fishing meth

Re: [Biofuel] Crosspost: Home-Front Ecology

Hey Doug; Not so my friend. I went into a Mac's Milk (corner store here in Can) on the weekend to get some 9v batteries and had to skirt some horse manure in the process. Lots of old order mennonites around southwestern Ontario. Many places have a covered shelter out in the parking lot so t

Re: [Biofuel] Fw: water and electricity as fuel!

I see this as just another example of how nature dances and humans hack. What I mean is that in regard to your comment about how an oxidation reaction can be run backwards given enough energy input and where is all this energy going to come from, well plants are very good at separating carbon

Re: [Biofuel] Allergies

Hey Chip I have been thinking along lines not quite the same but related. Has anyone else noticed this year a step change amongst your circle of friends in the amount of respiratory complaints? I have and have had some sysmptoms myself and I know I am mildly allergic to ragweed but it is not

Re: [Biofuel] Canada and The World Eyes Arctic Resources

The sovereignty of Canada's northern waters has never been officially recognized byt the US. This is of course so they don't have to ask permission to go under the polar ice with the nuke subs. Joe M&K DuPree wrote: Informative article on how the world is running dry (Russian oil empty by 2

Re: [Biofuel] A Sudden Change of State

Hey Tom; I can hear the love in your angry and disappointed words, for this planet, for the life, for the future of it all. It is difficult times for those of us who can see what is coming and it grieves our hearts to know it and to know that we could collectively change it all if only we co

Re: [Biofuel] cheap DIY digital thermometer- an easier way

Great link for the DIY'er Doug but for those with less time or skills I have published a much easier way to get the same benefit. More actually since I have taken a indoor/outdoor thermometer and taken the internal thermistor and mounted it on the end of a wire. This gives you a dual zone the

Re: [Biofuel] Any advice on pumps?

against. -John Message: 8 Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:25:50 -0400 From: Joe Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Any advice on pumps? To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I think this pos

Re: [Biofuel] Any advice on pumps?

I think this post and the previous one missed the point about controlling the flow. A pressure washer is likely a gear pump as I suggested but running it full speed with the bypass and using a needle valve to control the flow misses the point which is that the oil viscosity changes with temper

Re: [Biofuel] Any advice on pumps?

He is looking for a positive displacement type pump. A gear pump is such a beast and would be quieter than a diaphram pump and tend to be made from metal parts which are more likely compatible with the various stuff than elastomers found in the diaphram pums and would last longer for sure. Mo

Re: [Biofuel] Crosspost: ¡GREEN¢ WALMART: AN OXYMORON?

Well when I think of the kind of things Home Depot sells, I don't know how much of it you would go walking home with, but there ARE a lot of horses and wagons around here Joe Dawie Coetzee wrote: Of course the ideal is to be able to get to all those mom and pop outfits by foot, which jus

Re: [Biofuel] license to carry used veg oil

I think the key here is to call it food. Same goes for storing it on your property. I have said it here before, as far as I know there is no problem with stockpiling food anywhere. Likewise the glycerine is not waste but rather co-product, for soapmaking or compost. Speaking of which I saw a

Re: [Biofuel] Crosspost: ¡GREEN¢ WALMART: AN OXYMORON?

Indeed, someone explained to me years ago that one of Home Depot's business strategies is to go into an urban area and open up several stores at strategic locations and then leverage their massive buying power and financial reserves to undercut the market. They only have to do this for a while

Re: [Biofuel] license to carry used veg oil

Simple. Don't carry waste oil. Collect and transport used vegetable oil. Agree to buy it for a minimal cost, and have the paperwork to prove it. It is then a second hand used 'product' and not waste. Joe Daymi Henegar wrote: Hello! I am from California. Have been making biodiesel for sever

Re: [Biofuel] 'What the World Eats'!

Interesting Doug; I also remember reading that farming with chemicals and poor soil has a similar effect on insects which eat plants. They eat more to compensate for the poor nutrient levels in the plants. Joe doug swanson wrote: A friend the other day was commenting on the size of America

Re: [Biofuel] Protecting farms from GMOs

Keith Addison wrote: > GM WATCH daily list >http://www.gmwatch.org >--- >--- >NOTE: As a result of the introduction of GM canola (oilseed rape) in >Canada, organic canola farmers say they've suffered: > >*the loss of market access, >*loss of income, >*loss of choice; > >as well as > >*loss of

Re: [Biofuel] Best before date

Keith Addison wrote: SNIP > Does anyone here know of any reason why, unlike all other diesels, > marine diesels can't use biodiesel? Marine tanks are likely to be in contact with the hull which may be quite cold (in salt water) but asside from that I can't think of anything other than the p

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: [BIO-IPR] Scientist wants to patent man-made lifeform

Interesting Mike; I had a conversation very similar to this last night. We were talking about intelligence and what does that mean and how we define it. We tend to look at things in terms which relate to us and how our minds work. I related a story about a pair of crows I observed as a kid

Re: [Biofuel] Netiquette Re: Meanwhile, back in the US of A: A price to pay for alternative fuels

Except when it is your intent to leave the entire original post in the line. Joe Andrew Lowe wrote: Joe Street wrote: Always put a little petrodiesel in your tank and only use biodiesel as a 'fuel additive'. Joe Mike Weaver wrote: THOSE WHO MAKE THEIR OWN ENVIRONMEN

Re: [Biofuel] Meanwhile, back in the US of A: A price to pay for alternative fuels

Always put a little petrodiesel in your tank and only use biodiesel as a 'fuel additive'. Joe Mike Weaver wrote: >THOSE WHO MAKE THEIR OWN ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY GAS CAN AVOID PAIN AT THE >PUMP BUT NOT THE TAXES. >A price to pay for alternative fuels >Some N.C. officials seek relief from obscure

Re: [Biofuel] Natural Gas Deregulation

Send them packing! robert and benita rabello wrote: The provincial government has opened up the natural gas market to several companies that have supply agreements, and right now representatives from these various firms are going door to door trying to get people to sign long-term (five years

Re: [Biofuel] poison free pesticides

ow much is food grade? Over 20 right? Besides, he has 1500 pages of stuff you can make in your kitchen with grocery store items. Whats the beef? */Joe Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote: Well have a look over here then; http://www.safe2use.com/store/products/personal-care.htm

Re: [Biofuel] poison free pesticides

powdered sugar and baking soda, or use 5% food-grade DE or aspartame instead of boric acid. */Joe Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote: The document appears to be a bunch of advertising for health products! I bet they are expensive. Joe Kirk McLoren wrote: _"The Best

Re: [Biofuel] poison free pesticides

The document appears to be a bunch of advertising for health products! I bet they are expensive. Joe Kirk McLoren wrote: _"The Best Control II"_ was written by acclaimed pest control expert, Stephen L. Tvedten. This body of work encompasses every aspect of Integrated Pest Management (IPM).

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