Re: [Biofuel] Okay, This time I really am going to take down the list, , , , but first, please read

2017-03-17 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Chip Mefford. First I want to thank you for your email, the server maintenance, and the expenses. It will be great if the years of green technology and "how to do it" could be available in the future as a record. I looked at FarmOS on the Youtube link, I saw great ideas but here most of

Re: [Biofuel] Plug-In Hybrid HUMMERs Headed For The South Pole On Biodiesel

2015-04-24 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Darryl. I think they need for that trip is to choose a biodiesel ready for low temperatures like the used by jet planes, a winterized fuel prior it is used in Antartica; that proccess is to expose fuel to freezing temperatures equivalent to artantic conditions, give time to cristalize

Re: [Biofuel] The Future of the Biofuels mailing list, your input needed.

2014-11-20 Thread Juan Boveda
although here the electricity is 100% hydroelectric it is not reliable worst in case of emergency. I learnt about new ways in fermentation technology and I appreciated the good will inside list members. Thank you all. Juan Boveda Paraguay El 19/11/2014 12:09, Ivan Menchero escribió: HI! I use

[Biofuel] 110 kilometers on a liter of diesel, Volkswagen XL1 Plug-in Diesel Hybrid

2013-08-24 Thread Juan Boveda
VW XL1 runs on diesel fuel, I guess it can run with Biodiesel mix :) I wish some day VW will make this little automovile available for global market. --- First Drive: Volkswagen XL1 Plug-in Diesel Hybrid By Brad Berman · June

Re: [Biofuel] As 300 Tons of Radioactive Water Leak From Fukushima, Never Believe The Nuclear Crisis Is Over

2013-08-21 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello.More info about this nuclear energy and trouble source for Japan and China: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/21/us-japan-fukushima-severity-idUSBRE97K02B20130821 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/21/us-japan-fukushima-severity-idUSBRE97K02B20130821 By Kiyoshi Takenaka and

[Biofuel] Solar Cell That Turns 1 Photon into 2 Electrons

2013-04-25 Thread Juan Boveda
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-solar-cell-that-turns-1-photon-into-2-electrons The Solar Cell That Turns 1 Photon into 2 Electrons M.I.T. researchers develop an organic solar cell that breaks 100 percent quantum efficiency By Seth Fletcher Solar cells are picky. If an

Re: [Biofuel] Now, fly sky high on biofuel

2013-04-16 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Darryl McMahon. My neighboors Brazilians are ahead in this sector of flying jets with biofuels, in this case biokerosene from jatropha already in 2010. Best. Juan http://www.greenaironline.com/news.php?viewStory=1092 TAM Airlines conducts first-ever Airbus biofuel flight using

Re: [Biofuel] Now, fly sky high on biofuel

2013-04-16 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Darryl McMahon. More about jet fuel mixed with biofuel from Brazil. US Patent granted to PETROBRAS last month, well it is a big oil company stated owned. Best. Juan http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2013/0055624.html Title: PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF AVIATION BIOKEROSENE AND AVIATION

[Biofuel] Warm Arctic, Chilly Mid-Latitudes in the north of the planet

2013-04-03 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello list members. This is from NASA's and it shows how we disturbed the weather: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80804src=eoa-iotd [picture: temperature anomaly map] While a high-pressure weather system brought warmer than normal temperatures to Greenland and northern

[Biofuel] Uruguay, Future Home of the World's Cheapest Solar Energy

2013-03-08 Thread Juan Boveda
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/03/latin-america-report-uruguay-future-home-of-the-worlds-cheapest-solar-energy Latin America Report: Uruguay, Future Home of the World's Cheapest Solar Energy By Renewable Energy World Editors March 7, 2013 New Hampshire, USA --

[Biofuel] Gulf Spill - BP Settles With US - ABC News

2012-11-16 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello list members. This might be of your interest: BP Settles With US for $4.5 Billion in Gulf Spill [11:48 a.m. ET] http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/timeline-gulf-oil-spill-ensuing-legal-cases-17731027#.UKVbfeS88sA — April 20, 2010: An explosion and fire on the BP-operated drilling rig

Re: [Biofuel] Testing the new list

2012-10-31 Thread Juan Boveda
And from the wetlands, at the heart of South America, I read you loud and clear. Best Juan -- Keith Addison escribió: .. and here in a small town which a friend just described as the middle of nowhere. Best Keith even in Sunny Australia. regards Doug On Tue,

[Biofuel] Sandy Hurricane view from space

2012-10-31 Thread Juan Boveda
Sandy Hurricane. The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (30 October 2012) Animation using pictures taken from space in time lapse. I hope all listmembers there are ok. http://www.youtube.com/NASAEarthObservatory?src=eoa-ann ___

Re: [Biofuel] Paraguay: Obama's Second Latin American Coup

2012-06-26 Thread Juan Boveda
30.6%, Lino OVIEDO 21.9%, Pedro FADUL 2.4%, other 4.3% --- Best Regards. Juan Boveda Keith Addison escribió: Paraguay's president ousted in parliamentary coup 25 June 2012 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/jun2012/lugo-j25.shtml Latin American leaders reject Paraguay 'coup' Heads

Re: [Biofuel] Turning tobacco into fuel

2012-05-17 Thread Juan Boveda
/19910741356.html;jsessionid=A5D41FA4910E7D182F8384190D431022 Best Regards. Juan Boveda -- A K Ravishankar escribió: Great idea,.. What are the other possible high biomass plant leaves? On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Chris Burck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [Biofuel] Turning tobacco into fuel

2012-05-17 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Keith. Thank you for remind me these good plants. There are many plants good for oil and/or sugar production, already tested and selected as best ones by nature during eons but those can not be patented. Best Regards. Juan Boveda - Keith Addison escribió: Hello Juan

[Biofuel] Turning tobacco into fuel

2012-05-16 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello list members. This technique shown in the video from the UC Berkeley is by no means something a backyarder can do in a short time. It shows in YouTube how they are using a lot of research and money to produce another GMO.

Re: [Biofuel] Fukushima and Chernobyl

2011-05-31 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Keith. The size distribution of particles depends on the means for producing them, if it was burning or mecanical erotion (like sand blasting) I think both of them took place at Fukushima. According to a paper down the lines, in case of burning of uranium contaminated materials is highly

Re: [Biofuel] How is Keith Doing?

2011-03-16 Thread Juan Boveda (Jefe Lab. Quimico MPSA)
Hello Keith. I checked the Japan Meteorological Agency web site. There I watched a picture with the directions of turbulent cold winds blowing toward the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima-Ken where the nuke plant is located at 23:00 JST, March 16, 2011. See:

Re: [Biofuel] Any advice on pumps?

2007-07-06 Thread Juan Boveda
mechanical systems for temperature control in hot water heaters using LPG in Japan . Maybe some of those can be adapted to control the oil flow with some adjustments in the jet orifice due to veg oil higher viscosity. Best Regards Juan Boveda -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

[Biofuel] {Spam?} RE: Your document - do no open! virus Name=W32%2FSality.Q

2007-05-05 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello everybody. I hope this is not late for some of you. A virus entered the sistem. Our Antivirus System detected and removed a virus, it says: Dangerous Attachment has been Removed. The file word_document4.pif has been removed because of a virus. It was infected with the W32/Sality.Q virus.

Re: [Biofuel] Your document - do no open! virusName=W32%2FSality.Q

2007-05-05 Thread Juan Boveda
something I ask for a confirming email usually Saves a lot of trouble. Kirk Juan Boveda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody. I hope this is not late for some of you. A virus entered the sistem. Our Antivirus System detected and removed a virus, it says: Dangerous Attachment

Re: [Biofuel] How do you catch a crow?

2007-03-19 Thread Juan Boveda
without curing and put that on places where the crows lands or walks. I do not know if that works for crows since they do not exist around here in South America. At least, it is not a gun and it does not kills a bird or little chickens. Best Regards. Juan Boveda Paraguay -Mensaje original- De

[Biofuel] {Spam?} Re: Herbicide-resistant weed worries farmers

2006-12-22 Thread Juan Boveda
is just a boiler on a truck, it could even be self powered like a Steam Train from early times. Best Regards. Juan Boveda -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] nombre de Tom Irwin Enviado el: jueves, 21 de diciembre de 2006 23:23 Para: biofuel

Re: [Biofuel] More Weird Weather

2006-12-12 Thread Juan Boveda
Hola Robert. Two weeks ago I notice your post, around here in Paraguay we had unusuall storms with heavy rainfall and from another source came more to add to a bigger picture of weird weather, this time from NASA's Earth Observatory I got something disturbing: Retreating Ice and Snow in Greenland

[Biofuel] {Spam?} Re: Ethanol and cold starts

2006-11-28 Thread Juan Boveda
to tell if the gasoline pump was on. The fuel used for the tank was high octane gasoline. Best. Juan Boveda -Original- From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thomas Kelly Sent : 11/ 28 / 2006 13:12 For : biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Ethanol

Re: [Biofuel] Passive solar home

2006-11-06 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Robert. Around here for some seldom used barbecues chimney set up is made simple with those ceramic rain tubes around 10 - 25 cm in diameter and 1 meter long made with a connecting bigger end, they are glued together with mortar even with red earth (Brazilian Parana State type) mixed with

Re: [Biofuel] A heat Engine for the house.

2006-10-28 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Jim. Look for information inside the archives, plenty of materials there, you read at the botton of every message: Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ One of those I copied down was written

[Biofuel] Ozone Hole

2006-10-25 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello all. This is going to be a skin burning summer in the south without UV protection, see NASA's Earth Observatory news: Ozone Hole Reaches Record Size http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17436 Best. Juan Information from NOD32 This

Re: [Biofuel] farming irrigation systems--diesel to NH3

2006-10-14 Thread Juan Boveda
plants. Best Regards. Juan Boveda --From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalfof D. MindockSent:Sat 14oct 2006 4:33For: Biofuel@sustainablelists.orgSubject:[Biofuel] farming irrigation systems--diesel to NH3 Justice Litle [writes]:"Most fa

Re: [Biofuel] titrating a virgin oil (cont.)

2006-09-14 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Rafal. About titration with phenolphthalein, before you increase the amount of it put some white reflecting material in the back and under the Erlenmeyer flask you will be using, increase the amount of light in your working area. Best Regards. Juan -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL

Re: [Biofuel] Is possible to reduce Iodine Index???

2006-09-13 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello. Another approach is to use a mixture of lard or animal grease from cows, they have more saturated triglycerides specially stearine but they tend to crystallize al low temperatures, a feature where coconut oil or another palm nut oil performs much better due to have more lauric fatty acid, a

Re: [Biofuel] ENZYMES

2006-08-25 Thread Juan Boveda
Hola Javier. Check with your local industrial washing operators of stone washed denim jeans. Many of them might use stones and celullase. They might tell you the supplier of those cellulases usually they are many times cheaper than chemical reagents suppliers. There are some brands of

Re: [Biofuel] Motorcycles was Fuel Help

2006-08-15 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Andrew Libby. Have you check these? http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_bikes.html Diesel motorbikes Yanmar air-cooled diesel engines, L-A Series, seven models from 2.5-7.4kW (3.4-10hp): http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/yanmar.pdf Diesel Power Military Motorcycles

Re: [Biofuel] GeoExchange, on the cheap

2006-08-04 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Joe Street, Mike Redler and all. About a lifter pump for the amount of water required for evaporation, it could be a windshield washer pump I think is enough but you need a transformer with a rectifier to have 13 volts DC from 110 or 220 AC. They might be expensive unless they come from a

Re: [Biofuel] GeoExchange, on the cheap

2006-08-03 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Mike Redler. I did have the same idea by observing big air conditioner units that uses a spray of water on a cooling tower for evaporation of the hot water and recycle the fresh water for cooling the hot side heat exchanger or condenser. In my home air conditioner, I just put a plug on

[Biofuel] Ethanol powered planes of Brazil... was Sharing Biodiesel

2006-07-28 Thread Juan Boveda
/embraer/ipanema_sci_ame.htm http://www.defesanet.com.br/embraer/ipanema_sci_ame_ee.htm http://www.defesanet.com.br/fab/cta_alcool.htm Best Regards. Juan Boveda Paraguay -Original- From: Matthew Law [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 Jul 2006 11:28 For:biofuel@sustainablelists.org

Re: [Biofuel] Biofuel International seminar In BRASIL :Food Vs Fuel.

2006-06-26 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Pannirselvam. I went to that page using the link you gave us. It has links to some acrobat files after I downloaded I discovered they were the programs for the conference. Some of them I find interesting. Unluckily, I could not find the works published there. Do you know if there will be

Re: [Biofuel] castorbeans

2006-06-21 Thread Juan Boveda
Hi Doug. I have done a seach on the list postings and I got 2 related to yours, the first one form Bob Allen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] about Castrol special oils with castor oil base and another one from busyditch [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for 2 cycle engines Juan Boveda Paraguay -Original

Re: [Biofuel] castorbeans

2006-06-16 Thread Juan Boveda
lots if they are planted in groups. It was discussed the production of biodiesel from castor and Keith sent to the list the following message that has many links. Best Regards. Juan Boveda Paraguay -original- From: Keith Addison [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 3/30

Re: [Biofuel] Conversion tyo diesel Pt 1

2006-05-29 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Keith. I think JtF would be good place to have some information on the change from gasoline engine to diesel engine and it could be available in the Biodiesel section of the Journey to Forever website. In Paraguay the conversion from a gasoline engine to a diesel one is often done in a

Re: [Biofuel] Old toyota diesel

2006-05-26 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello. That pickup model Hi-Lux with the 2.2 L NA, IDI engine, with the long bed, rear wheel drive, was the first pickup I drove for many years. It has a long living engine in a light body, its consumption is around 8 liters/100 Km in road, and in city traffic 10 liters/100 Km. its top speed

Re: [Biofuel] Energy Problem Solved! Here Comes the Turboencabulator!

2006-05-25 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Mike. Even thou my mother language is not English I enjoyed this mixed up technical wording paraphernalia. Somebody with not full attention on the description would think this is a real thing, LOL. Best Regards. Juan -Mensaje original- De: Mike Redler [SMTP:[EMAIL

Re: [Biofuel] Speeding up the acid/base process

2006-03-30 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Jason Katie. I checked Cole-Parmer's book 2003/2004 for ultrasonic cleaners, the following items might give you some idea of the prices. A-08848-10 Ultrasonic cleaner w/timer for 15 oz. Priced US $ 147 A-08859-02 Ultrasonic cleaner w/Temp contr. adjust. waveform, 2 3/4 gall Priced US $

Re: [Biofuel] Nasa scientist censured over greenhouse gas comments

2006-02-02 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello All. I have received this week, something related to this from NASA's news service. Best Regards. Juan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01/31/2006 20:15 For:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Earth Observatory: What's New Week of 31

Re: [Biofuel] Save energy, eat green

2006-01-24 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Bob and all. The title should have been Save energy, eat organic and local products To save energy and money we do not eat meat produced under US American style but Latin American style. Around here in the south of Paraguay we do not rise cattle US American style with large amount of

Re: [Biofuel] SERVER REPORT, Do Not Open it! WORM in ZIP file

2005-12-02 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello. My antivirus program detected the I Worm MyTob.AA inside the file readme.zip, its size is 49.29 KB. It came with a fake address [EMAIL PROTECTED], its the same worm like yesterday message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] The list do not send *.zip files. Best. Juan

Re: [Biofuel] Drying KOH

2005-11-14 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Logan. One simple way to dry air to your sand blast type cabinet and avoid CO2 contamination would be to pressurize with a forced circulation fan with a big filter of powdered Calcium Oxide, CaO (I think, it is called lime) or burned calcium carbonate over 950o C. A simple reaction of

Re: [Biofuel] Keith I think you have a virus.....Do not open body.zip

2005-10-14 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Joe and all. My antivirus AVG from Grisoft detected the same virus inside an attached file with the name body.zip and it sended that message to a virus vault were I already deleted. I noticed it took the biofuel list addresses. I do not think the address is the real because virus tend to

Re: [Biofuel] Peugeot 505 four cylinder turbo charged diesel vehicle!?

2005-10-07 Thread Juan Boveda
this helps. Regards. Juan Boveda Paraguay -Mensaje original- De: Brian Rodgers [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Viernes 7 de Octubre de 2005 12:06 PM Para: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Asunto: Re: [Biofuel] Peugeot 505 four cylinder turbo charged diesel vehicle!? October 7

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: war now

2005-09-20 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Kirk. About american military forces in Paraguay, their presence has been increased here and generated some debates and arguments between our Parliament members some month ago. The local press had news about american troops that had given medical assitance, humanitarian efforts in the

Re: [Biofuel] Wood cellulose breakdown, termites, and methane

2005-09-16 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Des. First, there is a need to separate the oxigen from the gases of the atmosphere before bottling their exhaust or it is a route for trouble with sparks. Regards. Juan -Mensaje original- De: des [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Viernes 16 de Septiembre de 2005 1:58 PM

Re: [Biofuel] Query on MTBE

2005-08-29 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Subramanian. For the possibles uses of MTBE try a search at the United States Patent Office using MTBE or Methyl Terbutyl Ether. www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html www.uspto.gov/netahtml/search-bool.html It might be a lot but select for chemical synthesis using MTBE as one of the reacting

sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org

2005-07-19 Thread Juan Boveda
Muchas Gracias, Keith. I will be visiting those pages, ASAP. Regards. Juan Paraguay -Mensaje original- De: Keith Addison [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Martes 19 de Julio de 2005 10:30 AM Para: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Asunto: [Biofuel] Spanish biofuels site - Journey

RE: [Biofuel] magnetic stir bars.

2005-06-29 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello. Once I did have this same idea but I did not find the materials and the electric engine and the electronic control but other people have done the commercial way for special purposes for laboratory equipment, you could try a Lab equipment supplier like: www.coleparmer.com Cole-Parmer's

RE: [Biofuel] maximum MPG

2005-06-28 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Doug, Hakan and all. The Volkswagen One-Liter Car with a consuption of 1 litre/100 Km is a diesel powered car with only 2 seats in tandem it resembles an aircraft cockpit with wheels with a max. speed 120 Km/h, the information was located at:

RE: [Biofuel] Changfa diesel generator

2005-04-28 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello JD. I am not a physician but if CO (carbon monoxide) level in your blood steam is too high, YES but that means to inhale a large amout of combustion gases and the engine is laking of enough oxigen for complete combustion. The same would happend with any burning fuel in a closed room. It

RE: [Biofuel] human gene in rice

2005-04-26 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Kirk. Oppss, a new chimera was born in the labs at Tsukuba, I remember there were many rice field around and inside that town. I hope they have already have tested and evaluated the eficiency of a control messures or pest for that kind of rice as the nature does for every living thing to

RE: [Biofuel] Future of Ethanol and Brazilian biofuel project

2005-04-19 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Tom. If you are looking for a test amount of ethanol in a place like Uruguay without absolute ethanol producing mill, I would recomend try to find a chemical laboratory reagen suppliers or chemical representatives of Aldrich, Mallinckrodt, Merck, Quimibras Ind. Quimicas, Riedel-De-Haen,

RE: Dutch speaking biofuel group(?) wa s Re: [Biofuel] Sunflo wer Oil

2005-04-12 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Keith. One tip or two that can be useful to list members that are nervous with their grammar. If you have a Microsoft Word (again Gates!!) there is a function that one can write in English and select all sentences then go to the tool bar, there click on Tools and going down there is a

RE: [Biofuel] Mother Earth News burners and biofuels

2005-04-08 Thread Juan Boveda
You've been here? That sounds good. Japan leaves you with good memories to cherish, doesn't it? Yes, I lived in Tsukuba city for a year between 1993 -94 and I was during the end of that year in Tokio during 2 weeks. I was granted with a scholarship by JICA for chemical technology in

RE: [Biofuel] Mother Earth News burners and biofuels

2005-04-07 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Keith. It is good to read that spring is there again in that part of Japan. Around here on your the opposite part of the wolrd, in the midle of South America, last weekend we have a tipical start of the autum with rain and cold winds, temperatures dropping to 13o C but it recover againg

RE: [Biofuel] wind powered water pumps

2005-03-23 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Kim Thanks to the list member Kirk McLoren I found a very interesting link to an e-book on wind energy, it was inside the message he posted the 21th of septembrer 2004. I pasted the message if you do not find it searching the archives. There you might find what you are looking for. Best

RE: [Biofuel] Problems with the Biofuel list

2005-03-22 Thread Juan Boveda
me feel not so isolated. Best Regards. Juan Boveda Pilar - Paraguay South America -Mensaje original- From: Martin Klingensmith [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mo. 21/03/05 11:19 PM For:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[Biofuel] Problems with the Biofuel list I would like

RE: [Biofuel] testing

2005-03-11 Thread Juan Boveda
Martin. Thank you, message is OK, loud and clear. Juan. Paraguay -Mensaje original- De: Martin Klingensmith [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Viernes 11 de Marzo de 2005 4:02 PM Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: [Biofuel] testing this is a test

RE: [Biofuel] biogas from deoiled cake

2005-03-03 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Paul Raj. Have you checked if some air is entering at the digester? Have you have run some test to compare the two of your feed sources about the range of pH, size of the particles, ratio of carbon/nitrogen, carbon/phosphorus? Have you kept the temperature at almost the same level or

RE: [Biofuel] Fwd: Uses of glycerin

2005-03-01 Thread Juan Boveda
Hola Francisco. Methane generating bacteria are sensitive to aerobic conditions and generally they do not produce methane in the presence of oxygen of the air but if the fermenter is like a pool deep enough and not agitated, it could happen that the bottom is anaerobic and in the surface is

RE: [Biofuel] Kyoto- nothing but a buch of crap/junk science

2005-02-28 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Greg and all. I disagree with some appreciation about the cost of flying because the fuel cost increase that you wrote As such, the cost of flying would skyrocket. Refering to flying in an airplane, it is possible and even now, to have cheaper solutions for flying if ethanol is used.

RE: [Biofuel] End of Suburbia

2005-02-24 Thread Juan Boveda
Good evening Ken. A long time ago I choose at the same time 2 options you mentioned: a) move in closer (to a working place) and c) get further out (to the countryside) I used to live in the capital city of Asuncion, its population is around 1/2 million people and now because of my job, I live

RE: [Biofuel] best ethanol feedstock

2005-02-11 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Todd. If you do not have frost for extended period of time during the winter and rain water is abailable, my opinion is to consider the sugar cane by its productivity. If the region is covered by snow during the winter, the sugar cane will dye and you would not have the yearly harvest

RE: [Biofuel] PH meter calibration

2005-02-10 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Jeremy. Some pH meters have microprocesor with values for calibration with 3 specific buffer solution of a given pH value stored in their memory. I remember some 10 years ago, I used a german Hanna pH meters have this feature and if I was trying to use standar buffer solution of 4.00 ;

RE: [Biofuel] Global poverty ,WSF and Brazil

2005-01-31 Thread Juan Boveda
/ Some postings might be dealing with similar problems about BD but it has less topics on Alternative Energy compared to the full spectrum found here. Atentamente, Juan Boveda Paraguay -Mensaje original- De: Legal Eagle [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Sabado 29 de Enero de 2005

RE: [Biofuel] Indura fabric

2005-01-25 Thread Juan Boveda
is not my first language and I am not using a spell chekker. Best Regards. Juan Boveda -Mensaje original- De: Kim Garth Travis [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Martes 25 de Enero de 2005 11:02 AM Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Re: [Biofuel] Indura fabric I would love

RE: [Biofuel] GM Cotton that People Forgot

2005-01-24 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Keith. I do like this kind of updates on cotton technology. I have forwarded the links to some friends of mine so they can translate to Spanish using Google translator funtion. Here, as far as I know, we not not using this tipe of seeds and I take as a warning agains GM Cotton, there are

RE: patents, biotech and cellulosic ethanol was RE: [Biofuel] ethanol from wood

2005-01-20 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Dave. An application of cellulases is in the denim blue (jeans) laundery shop or factory to make the stone washed effect on denim with dimished amout or without stones, you might find global cheap providers of cellulases for the textile sector. A problem arises when they might ask you

RE: patents, biotech and cellulosic ethanol was RE: [Biofuel] ethanol from wood

2005-01-20 Thread Juan Boveda
. Best Regards. Juan Boveda Pilar - Paraguay -Mensaje original- From: Greg Harbican [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 11:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: patents,biotech and cellulosic ethanol was RE: [Biofuel] ethanol from wood Did I

RE: [Biofuel] Pre heating with Solar heating ?

2004-12-03 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Alex. In a sunny and hot enviromment, a simple way to heat the veg oil with the sun before filtering it is to put the oil into small black plastic containers like the ones use to sell lubricating oils and expose them to the sun much higher temperatures can be archived inside a good

RE: [Biofuel] Re: ETHANOL USE IN DIESEL ENGINES

2004-11-16 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Luis. I know of using mixtures of ethanol with veg oil for diesel engines, there are some patents on it. Here you can read about the mixture of castor oil and alcohol at the United States Patent Office online: http://www.uspto.gov Search can be made by number, subject(s), etc.

RE: [Biofuel] Fwd: RV: gallegos vs ame ricanos (paso de verdad de la wen a)

2004-11-05 Thread Juan Boveda
Hola Hakan. This is really good and gives an idea on how somedoby supposelly as the best and full of power could make mistakes and get into a big trouble in an argumet with someone regarded as dumb but knows where he is on earth and his dutty. Regards. Juan -Mensaje original- De:

[Biofuel] Brazilian Ethanol Plane: Ipanema, greener and cheaper to fly

2004-10-25 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Keith and all. The green way is more than ecomically feasible, in the case of an airplane with its new certified Ethanol Fueled Engine in this crop-dusting airplane The Ipanema, the numbers are in very much favor to Ethanol for operational cost eventhough a litle more expensive to buy

RE: [Biofuel] Hydropower was Kerry's environmental car- yea right.(II)

2004-10-20 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Hakan. I was bussy lately but finaly I could manage to search for data on Hydropower in Paraguay. I made a mistake stating that we have here 100% hydropower in the electric grid, it is more likely 99.5% because there are still some places that are too far from the main electric grids

RE: [Biofuel] Hydropower was Kerry's environmental car- yea right.(II)

2004-10-05 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Hakan. You might add to your list Paraguay. Here we have available an electric grid with an 100% Hydropower and more is available if we need. We have here the huge Parana River that falls from one plate to another lower and there are 2 big dams in it, the largest dam is Itaipu with 18

RE: [Biofuel] Old motor

2004-09-28 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Keith. That description of the old Yanmar engine reaminds me of another Yanmar made in Brazil 25 year ago that my father used to shred sugar cane to feed catle at our farm before electricity was available there but we do not need to use a spray of gasoline under subtropical temperatures

RE: [Biofuel] Brazil at Le Mans uses Ethanol

2004-09-23 Thread Juan Boveda
Hi, MH. In Paraguay at those times there were many alcohol fuelled cars imported from Brazil, I still remember the sweet smell of the not completely burned ethanol 96o GL of thoses compact to medium size street cars where just started (after the first spay of gasoline injected to start in our

RE: [Biofuel] PLEASE READ - moderator's message

2004-09-09 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Keith. Its been a long time since I wrote something due to increase in work at my workplace (under economic recovering), I still read some post but it is incresealy difficult to catch up, I still remember those days with the number of list members less than 1000! I think it is better to

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

2004-09-09 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Kin Garth In our country where there is no electric grid avalable, it is standard the use of a refrigerator using Ammonia and Hidrogen as the refrigerating agents and a burner as energy source, using as fuel LPG o Kerosene as the combustion material. You might change the burner for

RE: [biofuel] Q A on Bolivia

2003-10-20 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Keith. Yesterday, I was watching the local news station and the problems in our neighbour country seems to calm down with the resignation of Bolivia's President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, and now Vice-President Carlos Mesa is taking the Presidential Seat and have selected his new

RE: [biofuel] Off topic. Mechanical help

2003-10-20 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Aidan and Edward Last summer (winter for you) time I sent to a mechanic shop my Fiat UNO DS with a model 127 A, 1.3 L diesel engine. It has his piston rings and valve seats damaged by dust and mud of my countryside roads. After they finish, I had a milder problem like you describe,

RE: [biofuel] bromophenol blue mixing question

2003-09-11 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello M skillshare [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and all. You would better dissolve that bromophenol blue sodium salt in 95% ethanol. I use a 0,1% solution in ethanol for determination of soaps in refined edible cotton oil, the titration is done in acetone with 2% distilled water. During the

RE: [biofuel] hydrochloric acid questions

2003-09-05 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Girl-Mark-Fire I was not born in an english speaking country and I was taught chemistry in Spanish but I will do my best with a technical writing. N is the concentration expresed in normality or 1 Normal; it is the concentration in equivalents/litre and the equivalent is mean atomic

RE: [biofuel] Green light for ethanol-blended petrol

2003-08-27 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Keith This article does not say the yeast species used in lactose fermentation to ethanol. Do they tell in another place, the yeast they use in ethanol production at Fonterra's Anchor plants ? Best Regards. Juan - From : Keith Addison [SMTP:[EMAIL

RE: [biofuel] help finding IDI

2003-08-26 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello. Some IDI engines are the Nissan SD 33, 3.3 Litre, 6 in line, there are naturally aspirated and turbo models, no synchronization cam shaft belt (with tooth) to change or worry about as well as the Nissan TD 27, a 4 cyl. in line 2.7 Litre. The first equiped old japanese Nissan Patrol (

RE: [biofuel] Porsche diesel coming for 2005...

2003-08-25 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Alan. This babe almost fly, without been thirsty :-) I think you will add Porshe to your list of diesel aircraft engine manufacturers. like the Sweet Wankels. This one sounds more of an aircraft engine than the common bull engines for pick ups or SUV. Juan -Mensaje original-

RE: [biofuel] SVO in turbodiesels

2003-08-21 Thread Juan Boveda
of fuel price and some of them we get from local japanese auto dealers brand new and from the port of Iquique in Chile, as second hand vehicles or engines, etc. imported from Japan. Best Regards, Juan Boveda Juan Boveda wrote: Hello Alan. Hello, Juan. My mother

RE: [biofuel] SVO in turbodiesels

2003-08-18 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Alan. My mother in law used to have one Trooper 2.5 L TD, it has a low consuption but a drawback was the slaguish acceleration, her model came with 2 tanks, with a soleinoid valve operated at the dash by a button, it was much better for a convertion to a heated tank with SVO or WVO.

RE: [biofuel] Fitting a turbo (was SVO in turbodiesels)

2003-08-18 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Paul. I would consider a good maintenance for that engine, first of all. I used to drive a Toyota Hi-Lux pick up with the 2.2 L engine, a 1981 model, from brand new up to about 600,000 Km on it :-) without cargo its acceleration was good but with more than 800 kg on it, I suffer from its

RE: [biofuel] please help me

2003-08-12 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Sakuna. About the yellow light. You did not mentioned if the burning produces smoke, if it does not, I think it could be the sodium ions present in tap water, when they are exposed to an open flame, they produce a bright yellow light, different from the orange light of the carbon

RE: [biofuel] Fwd: Margarine

2003-07-29 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Duham. This so called Margarine is made from veg oils, the classical reaction uses a nickel based catalyst and hydrogen gas to react at the doble joins in the fatty acid part of the triglycerides.It is an reduction with hydrogen and that increases the saturation of the fatty chain

[biofuel] Re: Source for Sulfuric Acid? and Merk chemical database

2003-07-01 Thread Juan Boveda
Hello Mark. You wrote about sulfuric acid sulfuric acid drain cleaner. It comes in a variety of purities, and it's hard to know exactly what you got. The concentration of the sulfuric acid could be determinated in a symple way using its density. A volumetric flask, a single decimal balance

RE: [biofuel] gooped on gop

2003-04-11 Thread Juan Boveda
You wrote: I am currently making my second batch of biodeisel. I made a huge batch of goop, no separation, which I am guessing is too little lye. What I have learned that may be of use to some folks is that the lye was in the methanol and yet not in solution, (I use a venturi method

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