--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], skillshare [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Yesterday at the National Biodiesel Board board meeting, the NBB's
voting members adopted some changes to NBB membership policy, and,
essentially, changes to the NBB's EPA Tier I/Tier II health effects
data access policies.
The
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], girl_mark_fire [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Algae/feedstock researcher guru Michael Briggs, of the University of
New Hampshire Biodiesel Project, who also moderates Biodieselnow.com,
is doing a biodiesel workshop with me this coming Sunday July 18th, in
Durham New
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, John Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it true that fast food fryers aso like to use hydrogenated fats
because there's a different 'mouthfeel' to foods cooked in them- ie
they're crispier or something like htat?
mark
Well, I have a container of 600
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, biobenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you look really carefully in the photos on the website, there is
actually now just such a valve- but the diagram is still the
ultra-simple version without one- I haven't gotten around to updating
the diagram yet as it , in
congratulations, luc.
I posted this lonk a while back, but here it is again- 'dprobe's '
reactor. It's a 'cabinet' biodiesel reactor/wash tank unit like Luc's
describing. This one obviously is quite a bit more complex than my
original posted plans- and he's got everything in one place. Nice,
Sean's awesome standpipe wash tank design is at www.veggieavenger.
com/media, along with instructions on using it with the Appleseed
water heater reactor as well.
mark
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Steven Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Luc,
Happy to hear you found a home for your
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
She did actually have an $8 book (about 80 pages she'd printed out..
..
it was not published with a hard cover or by a publishing house)
that
she had written that she was selling at the end of class, as well.
I
don't know
theories that different people have had aobut this type of foam:
some kinds of oils make biodiesel that makes foam during washing
a lot of air being entrained in the biodiesel can form this sort of
foam (I haven't seen this personally)
several different factors about the water could prevent
I try to post a current listing of workshops or events relating to
biodiesel and SVo in California:
www.groups.yahoo.com/group/norcal-biodiesel-events
I'm also working on a website which will also have more of these
listings in a non-list format, pretty much what Murdoch suggested. It
allegedly it's an animal fats thing. I haven't personally dealt with
it because in the US we don't get fast food cooked in animal fats.
anyone else (ie australians, eaters of fine tallow fried ... er...
food), more info? Is 'normally used' animal fat harder to convert
fully than vegoil?
no, the whole point is to have it be a hard copy.
Mark
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Mark,
Can the book be purchased as a PDF? Or, on a CD?
Derek
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yes, the yellow bottle HEET is perfect for making test batches of
biodiesel, thought it's too expensive for big batches. Iso-Heet is
isopropyl that's usually more reliably neutral than other forms of
isopropyl I've bought.
mark
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Steven Pfaff [EMAIL
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Glycerol remix is a University Of Idaho invention I believe.
mark
That comes from here:
[... when the processing's finished]
17. Allow to settle for one hour.
18. Optional: For easier washing: Drain off the glycerine.
My suggestion for folks who only have thick oil available or people
who need to dewater is the following (sorry no photos of this design
available yet):
take a closed-head (ie with two bungs rather than the type with a
removable lid) drum and turn it upside down.
Cut off what used to be the
no, the elements don't burn the oil to any point that matters (you'll
get black stuff on the element but ffa content is unaffected) and a
preheat tank does not need to be stirred, so it can just be a plain
(metal!) barrel without a circulating pump.
Neither does the water heater processor
I've gotten quite a flurry of off-list interest from people in other
areas of the country who want to host a workshop due to my biodiesel
class 'tour' rumors. Here's some of my other plans:
-Im going to Albuquerque and Tucson in May to tie up some loose ends
from my past, and would love to
I don 't think you can get it for free on the 'net, but it's in an
AOCS-published book on 'testing of fats and oils'. University
libraries might have it (sorry I don 't have the title of the book)
mark
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Tan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
HI! Can anyone point me to
interesting idea. I of course don't know if the 'precipitate' is
actually a solid precipitate or a viscous liquid of some kind, or
water comtaminated by something (I don' t filter the oil so there
could be anything suspended in it), or what. I't s happened more than
once.
mark
--- In
I think you already got one at the conference, and I've been out of
them for a couple of months now. I'll be adding a few updates to the
equipment stuff, but I'll also post those at
www.veggieavenger.com/media along with color photos.
Mark
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], girl_mark_fire [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Biodiesel 101
Tuesday, March 30, 7pm
BioFuel Oasis, 2465 4th St @ Dwight, Berkeley
$5-10
Learn the advantages and cautions to running biodiesel
in your car, how a diesel engine works, and much more.
We're planning on doing
During my recent Babington Burner learning curve, I had a scary
little accident while burning glycerol that still contained methanol
(I learned that I can run very fast when an explosion seems imminent).
I'm now curious about what anyone else who burns glycerol that still
contains some
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wrote:
Hi all,
so it looks like the small producer issues should be worked on soon
by the NBB workgroup. They have a few months to solicit input from us
and to give a recommendation to the governing board of the NBB. I'd
like to start the discussion
] wrote:
Hello Mark
You might find this helpful:
http://journeytoforever.org/maria-alovert.jpg
Best
Keith
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], girl_mark_fire
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am looking for a few names to use in a caption for a photo:
It's a photo from Tickell's website
x-charset ISO-8859-1--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], girl_mark_fire
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am looking for a few names to use in a caption for a photo:
It's a photo from Tickell's website of the schoolyard fight' debate
at the NBB convention that took place between a few small
producer types
x-charset ISO-8859-1folks,
I went to one of these Path To Freedom House parties in Pasadena,
California last month and it was INSPIRATIONAL! This household grows
an amazing amount of food in their backyard in the city, and they've
recently added biodiesel to their impressive list of
x-charset ISO-8859-1you guys are missing a major point about why peopel are
so upset
about the FuelMeister. It's the misinformation, and it's the fact
that it creates itself a market by misrepresenting the reality of
homebrewing and the great supposed difficulty of equipment building.
It's
x-charset ISO-8859-1the materials in galvanizing (ie zinc) are also a
catalyst for
oxidation just like copper, so stay away from it if possible.
mark
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Copper is a catalyst for oxidation of biodiesel, causing a green
oxidation of
the
x-charset ISO-8859-1Here's a crosspost from another thread (the blogs thread
at infopop)
about the IRS federal excise tax exemption for homemade biodiesel (I
think they adapted it from some other fuel application but have made
it clear in other statements that they apply this to homebrew
x-charset ISO-8859-1Welcome to the list, Jennifer Radtke(co-owner of Biofuel
Oasis in
Berkeley, www.biofueloasis.com) and Rachel Burton (co-owner of
Piedmont Biofuels in North Carolina, www.biofuels.coop)
The problem with a group of us 'banding together' and paying the NBB
one fee is that
**
NAFT Gas in Fairfax, CA, just north of SF, just stopped selling
biodiesel, which they had been conveniently offering for about 6
months.
I thought there were some interesting lessons in the whole story
behind this pump- the interaction between the enthusiasts of our
growing
Website is www.biodieselconsumers.org and it's up and running.
mark
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, solar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is there another way to find out about the conference in Claremont?
the
website appears to be down.
thanks,
grant
-Original Message-
From: girl
this particular panel discussion is a sort of practice session for
the state of the industry discussion at Claremont biodiesel users'
conference (I'm one of the speakers in both panels, along with
Jennifer Radtke and Hope Smith of Biofuel Oasis, and Kumar Plocher of
Yokayo Biofuels. I think
California Biodiesel Consumers' Conference
Towards sustainable biodiesel for passenger car and
small business B100 consumers in California
January 31 and Feb 1 , 10am-5 pm
Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
More info coming soon at:
www.veggieavenger.com/conference
Email us: [EMAIL
go read this, now, especially the commentary at the end:
http://www.biofuels.coop/blog/archives/15.html
This story summarises the small grassroots producer problem
in the US in a nutshell.
mark
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--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, skillshare [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi all,
I am running a 'thread' on the Veggieavenger biodiesel photo
forum about Tankenstein, the monstrously ugly 120-gallon water
heater processor I just built. It's not super exciting or very
different than my $150
First question is, did you wash it?
Otherwise, how strictly did you follow the recipe, and did you use
phosphoric acid for the wash?
Try identifying whether it is in fact FFA you're seeing or some
other (water soluble) acid: shake up a sample of your finished
fuel with warm distilled water,
ooh, tell us aobut vegtherm -lite. What is tha application- heating
biodiesel lines, or is it an svo application still?
Time for my Yearly Wintertime Retelling of the one single
Berkeley Recycling gelled fuel story. They run 16 (garbage type)
curbaide recycling trucks on B100 in Berkeley,
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, skillshare [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I called Jim Caldwell at the EPA today to talk about the
classification of biodiesel within the EPA registration process (ie
whether it's classified as non-baseline or atypical), and to ask
about the possible small business
Hello!
For small-scale information, www.journeytoforever.org has the
best info.
For commercial production, please have a look at the 'technical
papers' and other information at www.me.iastate.edu/biodiesel
for information from Iowa State University.
If I understand correctly, there is no
Biodiesel Equipment Building Class
Saturday, Dec. 13th, 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
San Gregorio Stage Stop (corner of Hwy 84 and Stage
Road, 10 miles south of Half Moon Bay just off of Hwy
101)
Instructor: Maria 'Mark' Alovert.
$15- 50 sliding scale
Bring potluck lunch to share.
Please RSVP to
I heard about a project in Maine where some local farmer near
the coast was making fine fish fertiliser by composting fish
scraps from some similar large-scale fish operation. I don't have
info though on how to find out more...
Interesting part for me was the fact that the guy would also put
Randy Davis in Sonoma County CA who is a very visible
SVO/biodiesel guy in their SVO coop. (virgin oil, regularly)
Ken Provost on this board (WVO)
Laurie from the Veggieavenger forum who is also a SOnoma
person. (virgin oil)
those are just people I know of.
Two of the three hve access to our
I made my first biodiesel washing emulsion of the season last
week. Yep, it's winter (I actually had to wear a snowsuit at night
even in Berkeley last week) and emulsification in the wash is
more of a problem in wintertime temps. I was expecting to start
hearing about people having washing
Here was the other offlist interesting question put to Dear Abby (I
mean Chump Mark) in the mail tonight:
--- Paul B.Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, ...
Thanks so much for posing the pics and drawings of
the biodiesel on the
web site. Am hoping to get something together
sometime
Never Go To A Gas Station Again!
Make your Own Biodiesel:
A Hands-on Workshop
When: Sunday December 7th, 2003
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m+
Westside Santa Cruz location, please rsvp for directions
Cost: $15-$50 sliding scale, $5 for optional 70-page textbook
Bring a potluck lunch to share
Sorry for the second posting, I think the contact information got
snipped by Yahoo, here it is this time.
Never Go To A Gas Station Again!
Make your Own Biodiesel:
A Hands-on Workshop
When: Sunday December 7th, 2003
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m+
Westside Santa Cruz location, please rsvp for
Never Go To A Gas Station Again!
Make your Own Biodiesel:
A Hands-on Workshop
When: Sunday December 7th, 2003
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m+
Westside Santa Cruz location, please rsvp for directions
Cost: $15-$50 sliding scale, $5 for optional 70-page textbook
Bring a potluck lunch to share
Sorry for the second posting, I think the contact information got
snipped by Yahoo, here it is this time.
Never Go To A Gas Station Again!
Make your Own Biodiesel:
A Hands-on Workshop
When: Sunday December 7th, 2003
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m+
Westside Santa Cruz location, please rsvp for
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, girl_mark_fire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The East Bay Biodiesel and Barbeque Appreciation Society (the East Bay
Biodiesel Internship turned into a sort of homebrew co-op but we
can't decide on a good name) spent a chunk of today putting the
plumbing of a Fumeless
The East Bay Biodiesel and Barbeque Appreciation Society (the East Bay
Biodiesel Internship turned into a sort of hoomebrew co-op but we
can't decide on a good name) spent a chunk of today putting the
plumbing of a Fumeless through it's paces (in between bouts of eating
a lot of grilled food and
Apologies for the spam if anyone's seen these like 7 times
already today.
mark
-- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], girl_mark_fire
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Due to overwhelming public demand for detailed, off-the-shelf
parts processor plans- for a design anyone can
build without welding and with minimal
Hi folks,
forwarding something from the southern california biodiesel ilst-
there's a regional LA area biodiesel meetup this SUnday (sorry I
don' thave the exact info on where) and we're first meeting (i'm
going down to LA for the meetup) to build a homebrew
processor. at the following
Here;'s the address of the Los Angeles area biodiesel meeting
this weekend. The processor build is earlier in the day nearby,
check my other forward email for that address.
mark
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 5pm on Sunday, you will find me here:
Wahib's (middle
There was another message at Burnveggies today whereby
someone reported that they filled up a sample into a glass bottle
of what is probably partly IWP fuel from the Naft pump in Fairfax
(CA) and a dark substance settled to the bottom.
Here is a link to some photographs of the same stuff. It
Quite ironic to see this here in light of the recent thread on quality
and small producers. By the way IWP is connected withBeker
Commodities I believe.
mark
--- In biofuels-biz@yahoogroups.com, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Fwd from the California list.
.
Subject: [Burnveggies]
Run Your Car on Vegetable Oil
BIODIESEL
A home-grown alternative fuel
Wednesday, November 12, 7-9 pm, $free
Ecology Center Bookstore, 2530 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley
510 548 2220 ext 233
Join us at the Ecology Center Bookstore for a slide show and
discussion about one of the most exciting
Run Your Car on Vegetable Oil
BIODIESEL
A home-grown alternative fuel
Wednesday, November 12, 7-9 pm, $free
Ecology Center Bookstore, 2530 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley
510 548 2220 ext 233
Join us at the Ecology Center Bookstore for a slide show and
discussion about one of the most exciting
Jim and all,
I'm actually not reading this list right now, so I might miss any
discussion here.
Some of the info I'm quoting below is based on information I have on
paper. I'm sure it's also on the web somewhere in some form. The 'on
paper' part is an upcoming book on biodiesel business
Hello all,
There is a negative warning label being proposed in a
labeling agency in california, as well as a very
ill-advised requirement that affects the sale of
biodiesel blends. There is a public comment period
which ends in three days, on Tuesday. In addition to
the warning label, it
ºhat's cause, no duh, this call to actio was written by the NBB,
and you would think it would include a link to something
summarising the situation, but they aren't so good at this
promoting biodiesel thing.
mark
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
This seems
Here's one that was posted on the biodieselnow.com thread
about this labeling requirement, posted by Kent Bullard. sorry
about being wrong about something in an earlier post about the
proposal not being sponsored by engine manufacturers- it is in
fact, along with chevron/texaco and western
Mark,.
what tests are you using? also, what kind of acidbase process are you
using?
mark
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, mark schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
When I manufacture the methyl esters, all of the
glycerol is removed from the bio-diesel via
centrifuge either now in a lab or
I've used with good success with several processors, a cheap ($35)
pump sold by Northern Tool and Harbor Freight Tool, called '1 Clear
Water Pump. We just built a processor this weekend similar to Dale
Scroggin's 'touchless' (out of a water heater tank) but haven't used
it yet (actually it
At:
www.me.iastate.edu/biodiesel under the 'technical papers' section,
there is a paper about 'blend detection'. Dr Jon Van Gerpen (and
others?) experimented with a common, cheap (well, cheapish- at $350)
off-the-shelf sensor from a Ford flex-fuel vehicle . it's normally
used for detecting
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, simonswb6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
how does using hot water help with the bubble wash?
Hot water dissolves soap better than cold water does (same reason as
why sugar dissolves in hot tea better than in cold tea).
Heat also breaks/prevents emulsions.
Hot
Yes, it worked in my experience with something similar. Where did you
get this info on the correlation between the density and the exact
purity? we have a sulfuric acid drain cleaner in the US which varies
in purity quite a lot, but is commonly available at hardware stores. I
suppose there
I think that part of the acid advice comes from Terry UK's old, old
message that's up at your site- 'add a gloop' I think it says. It was
the best info there was at the time (a lot better than the
bound-for-emulsion suggestions in Tickell's book which tell you to
basically spray water at the
Thank you very much, Juan and Ken, for explainging all this!
mark
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Larosa Rodolfo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Juan ,
sos un fenmeno.
Tens mucha claridad para explicar esas cosas.
Rodolfo
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From: Juan Boveda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey, that's how I was planning on making a weldless lidded processor
when the 'respirators don't work against methanol' info came to light
and I had two open barrel processors! I figured, thick plywood lids
would be a quick retrofit for the type of stirred-barrel processor a
lot of us used.
any of you AMericans know the name of the AMish old-time hardware
supply mailorder place in Ohio (todd, do you perhaps know the place
I'm referring to?). They sell a lot of oldtime technology- various
farm equipment made the old way, a lot of really fancy wood stoves,
homesteading gear,
Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For those of us that are unable to attend, may we purchase the
textbook also?
Thanks
Barry
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sorry about it everyone and apologies for going against the no-crass
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Hi all,
I'm fooling around with the acid titration for soap/catalyst
measurement again (if you really dig around in the site below, you
eventually find instructions in German: http://koal2.cop.fi/leonardo/
There's also a published AOCS method for it which uses slightly
different nasty
If it's a 55 gallon drum with bungs (ie closed head drum), you turn it
upside down, and make the former bottom into the new top, and the
bungs side, the bottom. How yoyu treat the top is up to you- I
recmommend brazing in fittings and making it a completely enclosed
unit. But if you're trying
wow, you're looking at some complicated work to make that into
biodiesel. It's going to be related to how to make biodiesel from
'brown grease' or 'trap grease'- which are composed of a lot of free
fatty acid and not so much of oil anymore. I think yours is called
black grease. DO searches
Sweet! Just make sure you have a really good lid on it with a GASKET
for fumes. Gaskets can be made up out of silicone.
mark
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Neoteric Biofuels Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi Mark, just a mention once again that old-fashioned wringer
washers
make a good
Thanks Darren!
Why do university researchers here PERSIST in conducting these
unheated SVO studies?
I just read through the U of Idaho summary of the research literature
on raw oil (ie unheated SVO studies from the 1960's through today) and
for decades, in study after study, they destroyed
For one view of the emissions comparisons, go to any of the Harvard
websites and do a search in their multisite search engine for
report on bus alternatives biodiesel
(which I think should pull up their studies on the matter). There's a
(modeled, not actual) comparison of various fuels
Oh and also go to forums.biodieselnow.com and look for a thread
entitled biodiesel vs. gasoline? and follow all the links therein
(now that's a read!)
mark
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Hi Ed, thanks for the good info there. My comments between yours
below:
Mark
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Neoteric Biofuels Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
snip
. One other note on the testing I had done was that, because of
time
constraints, we had to use the heated tank for the soy
A number of people do, but there are some very serious problems with
them.
1.
FIrst, they're extremely expensive. Ive heard quotes from $1600 to
$3000 for something you can build yourself for $150-$300. There are no
quality benefits to buying one of the commercial units that are
currently
I can't open that missouri link from the annoying computer Im using
but a couple of people from our local [Burnveggies] list are wondering
offlist about this issue too- what's it say (and equally importantly,
how did 'they' arrive at it)?
mark
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Thor Skov [EMAIL
Well, I was wrong that I had anything to add to this- when I was
doing my search I was mostly finding a repeated post with some
very confusing language about non-baseline versus atypical, so I
thought that there might have been some misinterpretation- but
thanks again for posting this. Since
Here's a link to the thread from Veggieavenger forum about the
400 gallon per quarter exemption for federal excise taxes on
homebrew (?) biodiesel and SVO:
http://www.veggieavenger.com/avengerboard/viewtopic.php?t=17
8
and below is another thread which attempts to translate some of
the other
Can someone please post again the thread about the possible
small-scale biodiesel producer exemptions from the NBB
membership/health effects testing requirements? I might have found
some more information relevant to this issue while I was at the Iowa
State biodiesel workshops last week.
I
Jon Van Gerpen and other researchers have various information
about acid-catalised biodiesel on
www.me.iastate.edu/biodiesel
Theres a section on the site called 'technical papers' and one of
the studies is up in there usually, along with lots of other
interesting reading.
Recently the site
Congratulations, Jack!
I am also starting to think about just suggesting 22% for homebrewers
in general at this point. 20% is a compromise, not set in stone- and
there's simply not that much difference between 20 and 22 in terms of
the per-gallon cost of the finished product even without
Hey Ken Provost, can you come down for this?
mark
***
At long last a biodiesel homebrewing workshop in the south bay.
Please forward to folks who might be interested.
Biodiesel Homebrewing Workshop
Saturday, August 9, 11-6 pm. Taught by Maria 'Girl Mark'
In my opinion those Vanagons are generally wayyy expensive for what
they do (or don't do- such as moving up hills. Though 48 horsepower
pushing that much metal around is kind of impressive). I guess it's
called 'keeping it's value' though.
but I just want to give a plug in support of Ryan
you may also be getting an 'off the scale' reading if it's an oil
that you're trying to find a pH for.
mark
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, mark schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Dear Brent
If the pH is above 12 and regular diesel is
around 7.5 to 8.5 say then I'd not touch it with
a
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Appal Energy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm still trying to figure out what is so terribly wrong with
simply heating
the oil to ~50*C and letting it settle out.
...the fact that it doesn't work much of the time.
It's worked for millenia. Doubtful that
well randomly enough I've got a story for you about this (probably a
lot of them, having lived in NC and spent a bit of time in Tenn, and
would recommend both).
anyway, I was involved with Earth First back there and a few years
ago when we had the yearly Rendezvous (the yearly EF! gathering)
weird.
mark
My BD reads 7-7.5, if they are saying that they have a canola based
product,
then they must be adding something like methanol to get that high of
a
reading. I don't understand your comment.
Brent
From: girl_mark_fire [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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bringing it back to fuels, I forgot to mention that for
'Subcommandante Bubba' the ethanol fuel part of it is just a hobby,
not his daily fuel- he didn't drive himself to the workshop (a couple
of hours away from where he lived) on ethanol. It's hard to compete
against $1.09 a gallon
I was referring to the simple water content testing method of 'heat a
sample with a thermometer, look at how much it's boiling or not, when
the temps hit the boiling point of water'.
keep us updated on your process.
mark
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, mark schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There is an excellent book available in the US called a Chinese
Biogas Manual which is a translation of training literature used in
Chinese communes by crews who built village-scale digesters. I forget
who published it, but I believe I bought it through RealGoods or
something like that.
mark
Which model do you have, and have you used it with biodiesel
(assuming it;s the multifuel one)?
mark
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Greg and April [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I love my little whisperlite.
Greg H.
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