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

Yes, sign me up. Zeke On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 3:55 AM, Ivan Menchero wrote: > sign me in, look like a great idea > > > Sent from Outlook > > > > From: sustainablelorgbiofuel-boun...@lists.sustainablelists.org <

Re: [Biofuel] 'Climate Change' Deleted From Wisconsin DNR Website

Hopefully Wisconsin has also deleted any references to snow in their winter driving training? On Wednesday, December 28, 2016, Darryl McMahon wrote: > http://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change-deleted-dnr-website-2166939088.html > > [The universe cares not what you think. > >

Re: [Biofuel] Electric vehicle study suggests plug-in batteries better than hydrogen fuel cells | E Magazine

This is new? Seems like the same stuff all of us in the Electric Vehicle world knew about 20 years ago. Round trip efficiency of hydrogen storage is just not very good compared to batteries. And fuel cells make lithium batteries look cheap On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Darryl McMahon

Re: [Biofuel] Ethanol, Recycling, Climate Change and Other Expensive Illusions - Breitbart

Hmm. Leaving aside the corn based biofuels issue, which I kind of agree is a bit stupid, his arguments on recycling just don't make sense. Several times, he mentions that the environmental benefit is not there and implies that recycling costs more carbon than it saves... but never gives any

Re: [Biofuel] First Solar, Utilities Say Big Solar Farms Cheaper Than Rooftops - Renewable Energy World

Completely ignoring what the relative value per kWh is of electricity produced on the same site as load, vs eletricity produced remotely and that is required to be transported and distributed out to the loads. I don't argue that a large solar farm is cheaper per kWh produced, but by the time you

Re: [Biofuel] Abandoned Uranium Mines Plague Navajo Nation

I've spent a bit of time down there and I've driven by a number of the old Uranium mines. The coal mining is a big issue as well, in the particular area where I've been going -- dropping the water table for pumping coal slurry and drying up wells. Z On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Darryl

Re: [Biofuel] Oklahoma Recognizes Role of Drilling in Earthquakes - NYTimes.com

I think the last sentence here is the most telling part -- it may be irreversible. He is probably saying this as a reason to not stop the disposal wells, but I think it serves better as a reason why we never should start. Once you do... who knows how long before the earthquakes stop. 100 years?

Re: [Biofuel] Pittsburgh to Run City Trucks on Biodiesel | Domestic Fuel

Sounds like they are installing a dual tank system to allow starting on diesel then switching to biodiesel later to prevent jelling issues. If it were just running on biodiesel in weather above 30F or so, my typical proceedure is just to have a few spare fuel filters handy. usually somewhere

Re: [Biofuel] Yale Environment 360: Solar Shingles Made from Common Metals Offer Cheaper Energy Option

The whole cost effective test is quite odd. Why is that always the measure of whether solar is worth doing? No one ever asks this about other things. Is having a child cost effective? How about going to a concert? Even for other buying decisions it is rarely asked. Is a dishwasher cost

Re: [Biofuel] Yale Environment 360: Solar Shingles Made from Common Metals Offer Cheaper Energy Option

The dow shingles have fairly limited distribution from what can tell. They are only selling them to roofers here in Colorado, not to solar installers -- so despite having all of the various solar certifications, I cannot sell them. Definitely not selling them retail to DIY folks. Needless to

Re: [Biofuel] Carbon Capture and Storage Technology Won't Stop Climate Change | The New Republic

$17/ton seems like a very low amount. Just doing some back of the envelope calculations for PV shows around $50/ton (if it costs $0.05/kWh more than coal generated power, saving 2lbs/kWh. I sill think ccs faces other massive problems, but if it only costs 1.7 cents/kWh, why all the whining about

Re: [Biofuel] Low-Cost Solar Panel Captures Four Times More Energy Producing Solar Electricity Hot Water

It all depends on the temperatures of the thermal energy and whether you have a use for it. This is actually what I did my thesis research on, and I found that it generally resulted in way too much thermal energy for residential uses, and not high enough temperature of thermal energy (though mine

Re: [Biofuel] Low-Cost Solar Panel Captures Four Times More Energy Producing Solar Electricity Hot Water

On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Chris Burck chris.bu...@gmail.com wrote: I've wondered about these issues you mention. What is the threshold temperature, that you'd want to keep your PV below? On Sunday, February 8, 2015, Zeke Yewdall zyewd...@gmail.com wrote: It all depends

Re: [Biofuel] Low-Cost Solar Panel Captures Four Times More Energy Producing Solar Electricity Hot Water

how much silicon cells can stand at peak temperature, but I think it's 100C or higher before you actually start hurting it, as opposed to just decreasing output voltage. Z On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Zeke Yewdall zyewd...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Chris Burck

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

I really like getting the updates, and do read almost all of them, though I rarely comment on them. I would hate to see it go. I wish I could contribute more as well, but haven't much in the past few years. Z On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 8:44 AM, kalan gavin.ka...@gmail.com wrote: I can second

Re: [Biofuel] Going green with renewable fuel in city buses will cost more | More Local News - KITV Home

Yes. Sending your kids to better schools costs more too. As does eating organic foods instead of twinkies and soda. Guess we'd better rethink that whole thing, if lowest cost trumps all other considerations when making any decision. Why is it that people are willing to pay more for quality

[Biofuel] Any beekeeping contacts in Switzerland?

I am trying to find out more about the beehouses used in Switzerland (and other mountainous regions in Europe). There's very little info on them here in the US, but the standard langstroth hive does not work as well in cold winter climates, from what I can gather. And, they require electric

Re: [Biofuel] Global Warming Caused by the Transportation Sector Could Devastate It

We already had a lot of highways washed out here in Colorado last fall due to a stationary front that didn't move for three days due to a weaker than normal jet stream. 18 of rain in three days was more than the infrastructure in a semi-arid climate could stand. Many of the roads are still not

Re: [Biofuel] Can biodiesel damage my diesel car engine? - Yahoo7 Finance Australia

Biodiesel or ethanol quite different... I did try burning about 40% biodiesel 60% gasoline in a lawnmower once... it didn't like it :) (lots of smoke, and carburetor died after about a minute). But as far as I know, ethanol is for spark ignition engines, and biodiesel for compression

Re: [Biofuel] Hawaiian Electric gets 86% of energy from oil and coal - Pacific Business News

Funny it doesn't mention that in many area of Hawaii it is illegal to connect rooftop solar to the grid. People want it but are being forced into off grid solar because the utility is taking such a conservative approach and caps Pv at such a low level (compared to what Germany is doing, for

Re: [Biofuel] Do-it-yourself biodiesel : Don’t try this at home

There are also just accidents even for professional outfits with chemists and engineers and all. Like when the occasional oil refinery blows up making a boom you can hear 15 miles away (the one near Denver did that back in the 70's). Or the Mayflower pipeline last year On Tue, Jun 24,

Re: [Biofuel] Opinions on Duramax and PowerStroke engines for biodiesel use

I haven't had experience with the powerstroke, but I did run biodiesel in the older international diesel -- in mid 1994 they switched from the 7.3 liter international indirect injection engine to the 7.3 liter powerstroke which is direct injection. Completely different engines the older

Re: [Biofuel] Autism Nation: America's Chemical Brain Drain

Great... so the same chemicals that are killing the bees and the monarch butterflies (and probably frogs and who knows what else) are also killing us. And someone said that humans are intelligent life On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Darryl McMahon dar...@econogics.com wrote:

Re: [Biofuel] Autism Nation: America's Chemical Brain Drain

LOL... you have a point there. More like one of those aggressive flesh eating bacteria. On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Keith Addison ke...@journeytoforever.orgwrote: Hi Zeke Great... so the same chemicals that are killing the bees and the monarch butterflies (and probably frogs and who

Re: [Biofuel] The rise of social capital

On the one hand, connection fees do make sense for utilities... if you had a solar system with a generator for backup, you'd have to buy that generator, even if you didn't use it very often... same with the utility -- you should have to pay them to be there, even if you don't use them much.

Re: [Biofuel] Injector pumps Jetta TDI

What year of TDI? We ran a '99 TDI on biodiesel for a long time with no issues. I'm not sure that I'd run SVO on the TDI pumps, but biodiesel should not be an issue. I've found that many diesel mechanics have what could best be called an allergic reaction to biodiesel, and blame it for all

Re: [Biofuel] The great biofuels scandal - Telegraph

A. Good to know Z Sent from my iPhone On Dec 18, 2013, at 5:59 AM, Keith Addison ke...@journeytoforever.org wrote: Hi all Bjorn Lomborg is, was, or used to be into various shades of global warming denial, depending, I think, on which way the wind's blowing. Recent big winds may

Re: [Biofuel] The great biofuels scandal - Telegraph

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Bjørn Lomborg wrote: The costs of global climate policies is running at about $1billion every day. Wind turbines cost 10 times the estimated benefits in terms of emissions cuts, and solar panels cost close to 100 times the benefits. Yet, with spending on these

Re: [Biofuel] Plastic forest

A windstorm last week broke about 15 feet off the top of a 25 foot lodgepole pine near my house. It had a canker infection where it broke which commonly weakens the trunks on lodgepoles in this area. I think the top 5 feet if this will do quite nicely as a Christmas tree. Most years I am

Re: [Biofuel] Mitsubishi Delica Van biodiesel

What is the designation of the 2.5 liter engine? Is it the 4D56T? If so, I have quite a bit of experience with the 2.3 liter version, the 4D55T. I've been running biodiesel in my 1984 truck for several years, and it runs pretty well on it... a bit smoother than on #2 diesel. When I switched it

Re: [Biofuel] Mitsubishi Delica Van biodiesel

tough is it to remove and reinstall middle and rear seats? That's a bit of a bear in our current van, and we do it a couple of times a month on average. Thanks, Darryl On 09/09/2013 9:40 PM, Zeke Yewdall wrote: What is the designation of the 2.5 liter engine? Is it the 4D56T? If so, I

Re: [Biofuel] Templeton High students convert Mercedes to run on biodiesel

Yes... what exactly was involved in the conversion is what I would like to know too. Unless they did some sort of system to run B100 in cold weather, there is not much more than changing the fuel filter a few times as the biodiesel cleans out all the old gunk in there. Z On Sun, May 12, 2013

Re: [Biofuel] Some Boise taxis to be converted to run on biodiesel

Yes, that was my first response too usually, converting a vehicle (especially an old mercedes) to biodiesel consists of changing the fuel filter a few times as the biodiesel cleans out years of crude in the fuel system, and that's about it :) On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:15 AM, Thomas Kelly

Re: [Biofuel] Solar panels may cost all households

Lots of talk of the costs imposed on other people by people who install solar panels, but no mention of the benefit that people who install solar panels are giving to all of society by reducing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Tony cr...@vianet.net.au

Re: [Biofuel] remove from mailing list please

Wow... did none of you read Darryl's email of March 30th which reiterated how to unsubscribe? On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:46 AM, detbellestarr detbellest...@yahoo.comwrote: Please remove my name also. This is not the list I thought I was signing up for. Thank you.

Re: [Biofuel] Elsbett is back in action

Nice. I may soon have a diesel vehicle running again (old 109 station wagon landrover, but with a mercedes OM617 turbodiesel engine). used veggie oil has become pretty scarce around here though -- not free for the taking any more like it was 10 years ago when I first got into biodiesel and

Re: [Biofuel] JAL 787 fire demonstrates risk of highly consumer-used lithium-ion batteries

Apparently the planes are using Lithium cobalt batteries -- same as the fire prone laptops used (use). Most (though not all) of the electric car batteries are Lithium iron. http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1081753_boeing-787-batteries-same-as-those-in-electric-cars-umm-no On Sun, Jan 13, 2013

Re: [Biofuel] JAL 787 fire demonstrates risk of highly consumer-used lithium-ion batteries

will still burn (lithium is flammable itself), but won't self ignite nearly as well :) On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Zeke Yewdall zyewd...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently the planes are using Lithium cobalt batteries -- same as the fire prone laptops used (use). Most (though not all

Re: [Biofuel] JAL 787 fire demonstrates risk of highly consumer-used lithium-ion batteries

Little mention of the fact that there are actually at least 6 types of batteries called lithium some of which are much more prone to thermal runaway than others. Or that at least some of the electric car fires were in hybrids (the Fiskar) and were ignited by the internal combustion engine, not

Re: [Biofuel] US Department of Agriculture pushes for weaker rules on poultry industry

The concept behind HACCP is to monitor potential hazards that can lead to the production of unsafe foods during the process rather than simply relying on a final inspection to detect it. Hmmm and I supposed that using GMO stuffed, antibiotic overdosed stressed out chicken house chickens as

Re: [Biofuel] The UN Asks for Control Over the World's Internet

Somehow I don't think the US government is actually opposed to this... they're just jealous that the UN thought of it first... Z On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Keith Addison ke...@journeytoforever.orgwrote:

Re: [Biofuel] This Year's Garden

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:13 PM, robert and benita rabello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/11/2012 8:37 PM, Zeke Yewdall wrote: Yes, it's been weird this year. It stopped snowing in early March here (right when it's supposed to really start snowing), and we got very little moisture from

Re: [Biofuel] This Year's Garden

Yes, it's been weird this year. It stopped snowing in early March here (right when it's supposed to really start snowing), and we got very little moisture from March to the end of June. I was planting in April, when usually I'm still plowing the driveway well into May. Horrible forest fires --

Re: [Biofuel] {Biofuel] Solar, Wind other Alternatives

Not theirs, but I have an order from Iron Edison, the one in Lakewood, CO, coming in two weeks that I'll be installing I'll try to remember to post how well they work once I have a little experience with them. Z On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Curt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a

Re: [Biofuel] Solar, Wind other Alternatives

The link to your charge controller didn't work, so I'm not sure exactly what it has and does not have. But, usually, the meter for the solar panels is built into that. If not, a good all around meter is the trimetric battery meter -- it will measure battery voltage, and net amps (PV minus load

Re: [Biofuel] Solar, Wind other Alternatives

I'm not sure... but I am a big fan of the nickel iron cells (aside from the price of new ones... eek. The might be cheaper there, since they are only produced in china any more, and you're a little closer). Z On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder how big 2 x

Re: [Biofuel] Solar, Wind other Alternatives

For the grid-tie inverters, we have been using the SMA inverters quite a bit... not the cheapest ones out there, but they work reliably and do tell you what's going on -- we've used a lot of chinese made ones, and the failure rate has been less than desirable (30% or so on one brand). Z On Mon,

Re: [Biofuel] Bio Engine Oil

Bio based, no... but I have seen, in the last few months, introduction of a whole line of recycled engine oils in the local auto parts stores here. I'm not really sure what the recycled content is percentage wise, but apparently it's using old engine oil, filtering all the bad stuff out, and

Re: [Biofuel] Survey: Fox News Viewers Less Informed Than Those Who Don't Watch Any News

Sorry, but Duh you can almost feel your brain cells melting when watching fox news (and to be fair, the other major TV news networks are not a lot better) On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/22-4 Published

Re: [Biofuel] China Benefits as US Solar Industry Withers

Yup China and SE asia is really taking over the solar panel business. Most distributors only sell chinese modules -- some have some japanese or american or european offerings, but not many. The two american companies mentioned -- first solar and Sunpower, are both made in southeast asia, not

Re: [Biofuel] Time for U.S. to say yes to Canadian oil sands

Interesting that when you are addicted to coke, the problem does not seem to be the addition, but where to get more coke. Nowhere in the article did I see any discussion of reducing oil demand. Z On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:02 PM, C Pinelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From my personal

Re: [Biofuel] How do you get WVO?

That's what's happened around here in the last few years... it's no longer considered waste -- you have to pay to get it, and pick it up regularly on a schedule, and all. In the bigger picture, this is good, the economy realizing that there is no waste and it can be used for other things -- at

Re: [Biofuel] Petroleum alternatives, yes; How about Nuclear?

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 5:02 AM, Chip Mefford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about we just turn away from hard path energy all together and embrace the soft path? Soft path energy approaches lead us off into an uncertain future. The hard path leads us to oblivion. Isn't it interesting that the

Re: [Biofuel] Trees not cure for global warming

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:32 AM, Thomas Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would also think that is the ground is covered in reflective snow would not the trees also be covered. That would be with evergreen treees. Not necesarily -- here in high country in Colorado, the trees are not covered for

Re: [Biofuel] Fukushima and Chernobyl

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: What's the diameter of a radioactive particle? Anyway, pollutants and toxins, including I presume radioactive particles, can gain access via the skin, eyes and ears, as well as the nose and mouth. Do radioactive

Re: [Biofuel] Fukushima and Chernobyl

. i was referring to radioactive particles in the sense of contaminated or dirty particles, which will generally be fairly large and don't enter very easily through the skin. On May 31, 2011 10:12 AM, Zeke Yewdall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- next part -- An HTML attachment

Re: [Biofuel] Solar Power Breakthrough.

a positive though which is good, I'm not saying solar is bad obviously, I'm just trying to be realistic about what it really means to the planet. It is not quite as sweet as the local salesman is telling. Joe On 03/05/2011 11:57 PM, Zeke Yewdall wrote: Well, instead of trying to calculate

Re: [Biofuel] Solar Power Breakthrough.

I just love the people who don't think they need to do anything to prevent global warming or pollution or whatever, because technolgy will come to the rescue... then refuse to use the technology that could actually help alleviate the issue...I don't need to worry about the emissions from all

Re: [Biofuel] Solar Power Breakthrough.

and tell you the break even point is just a few years. This is a big deception. One day I'd like to see a foundry running on solar energy. That is the first need. Joe On 03/05/2011 11:53 AM, Zeke Yewdall wrote: I just love the people who don't think they need to do anything to prevent global

Re: [Biofuel] Solar Power Breakthrough.

assume starting from silicon wafers and tell you the break even point is just a few years. This is a big deception. One day I'd like to see a foundry running on solar energy. That is the first need. Joe On 03/05/2011 11:53 AM, Zeke Yewdall wrote: I just love the people who don't think

Re: [Biofuel] Solar Power Breakthrough.

In about 15 years maybe. In my experience, it takes 5 to 10 years for a new lab solar cell to turn into a commercially available mass produced solar cell. To take a new concept that so far doesn't even have a lab solar cell It'll be some time. I wouldnt hold off on buying current solar

[Biofuel] Algae based biodiesel

This company apparently has made actual algae based biodiesel... in quantities bigger than a desktop beaker. They claim 80,000 liters delivered this year, with 550,000 next year. Still peanuts in the grand scheme... but will I have to stop staying that it doesn't exist? A friend of mine knows

Re: [Biofuel] Biodiesel in Canada

I've found that I can run b100 down to about 25 with canola based b100, more like 35 with other types. I've never had gelling issues with B20 down to about 0F. Below that I haven't tried. With heated filters like you'd use for SVO I think you'd be fine once you got it up to temperature. Those

Re: [Biofuel] Gun Crazy

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Dawie Coetzee [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: As regards guns, I'm not very fond of the things. I especially dislike the ones in the hands of the State. As much as I'd want a disarmed population I wouldn't want it faced with an armed police and an armed military.

Re: [Biofuel] Gun Crazy

People's opinion about the motor vehicle death rates seems to fall under the category of of people being unable to properly assess risks. People are afraid of bears and spiders, but not of driving... which is far more likely to kill them.I hike in the mountains alone alot, and people tell me

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

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Darryl McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I could build it out of fireproof materials. As almost nobody does this, I assume it is generally considered to be cost-prohibitive. I could build in a fire-suppression system. Having experienced an inundation in a

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

Same here. That's quite common in rural areas here. Often property taxes via special levies that we vote upon fund the equipment, etc, but the staff volunteers their time. The insurance companies don't like this and charge higher premiums than houses in town with a paid fire department but

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

Alot of the US has a strange attraction to worshipping the almighty free market. Any sort of public or regulated business ideas Socialism, public health care, etc is attacked with a fervor usually reserved for religious disagreements. People might claim to believe in God, but what their

Re: [Biofuel] greenhouse farming

There's a greenhouse here in boulder colorado that has aledgedly only needed auxiliary heat for about 6 hours in the last 20 years to stay above freezing year round -- not quite as cold a climate as the dakotas for sure, but a pretty cold winter still. It's built into the ground, with only the

Re: [Biofuel] greenhouse farming

This the one that I have http://www.amazon.com/Solar-Greenhouse-Book-James-McCullagh/dp/0878571981/ref=sr_1_1?s=booksie=UTF8qid=129148sr=1-1 On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I can't find any record of a book called Passive solar heating published by

Re: [Biofuel] greenhouse farming

I've been in one of their greenhouses, in Estes Park. Pretty nice... though I'm not sure how well it would do without supplimental heat. The one I was in had four 4x8 foot solar thermal collectors heating the pond in it, plus an electric backup heater. The dome shape is elegant visually, and

Re: [Biofuel] greenhouse farming

I have Mazria's book too. Regarding the colder climatesalot of the earlier passive solar design ('70's) was for the desert southwest of the US -- still a fairly cold climate in the winter compared to coastal california (snow and frost is not uncommon, though it doesn't usually accumulate much

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

My thought when people suggest that technological fixes will solve the global climate change problem and that we don't have to worry about it... is that we already ignore all the technological fixes that have already been invented are, in the grand scheme of things, being solidly ignored.

Re: [Biofuel] SVO Vehicles in USA US mainstrem media is controlled by Corporations

There are two thoughts I have here. One is the assumption that people want an alternative to oil there certainly was alot of outcry against the oil spill in the gulf. But if congress had taken action and really done something to prevent using oil... I bet the outcry would have been 1000

Re: [Biofuel] SVO Vehicles in USA

Yes, just about any diesel vehicle is also a biodiesel vehicle -- I've run it in my Mitsubishi pickup, Isuzu cabover box truck, VW rabbit, and mercedes without any modification (other than changing the fuel filters often at first, because the biodiesel cleans all the gunk out of old diesel

Re: [Biofuel] Nothing shall be eaten that we don't own - scary stuff.

Guag's original email has it all as text in the email. Not sure what happened to Keith's. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:05 PM, deborah howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really wanted to read this but it didn't come through! On Aug 17, 2010, at 3:41 AM, Keith Addison wrote: An HTML attachment

Re: [Biofuel] (no subject) Piracy!!!

For whatever reason, yahoo based emails seem to be more prone to spoofing than some others. Though, I have seen a gmail one spoofed once too. On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Dawie Coetzee [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Robin Strange thing is, all this happened during two days while my computer was

Re: [Biofuel] To answer your questions

I'll take a crack at the PV -- I work in this industry and have for a while. Cost wise, it is quite expensive, however it's come down alot in the last few years. When I first got into it in the early 80's, panels cost $10/watt -- not including any of the balance of system. Now, we're seeing

Re: [Biofuel] Hydrogen fuel?

I've never tried it, but the laws of physics don't give much room for improvement. If you take mechanical energy from the engine, turn it to electricity via the alternator, electrolyze water to hydrogen, then burn the hydrogen you're never going to get out as much as you put in, unless every

Re: [Biofuel] pv biz

100 months better not be the life of the PV. That's less than 10 years. I have several that are approching 25 years and are still working fine. Z On Wednesday, March 10, 2010, Manick Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I made errors in my hasty earlier mail.Kindly accept my

Re: [Biofuel] Merceds-Benz

Not ALL of the US biodiesel being dumped on europe is Soy based. I know of one plant in Galveston (a subsidary of the same company that bought my solar company) that was designed to buy palm oil from SE asia, and turning that to biodiesel to send to Europe. Not any better than soy (quite

Re: [Biofuel] Merceds-Benz

Haven't really heard either way. I have heard lots of rumors about quite a few of the common rail diesel's having problems with biodiesel, due to polymerization of the biodiesel at extremely high pressures that those engines have, but I cannot remember any details or specific examples of any of

Re: [Biofuel] Electric vehicles, touted as next big thing, still in their infancy [Japan]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Ivan Menchero [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: BTW how come the electric vehicle do not have solar panels on their roof? prize? AC/DC problems? Ivan - It's mostly because of power density. An average car, with current solar panel efficiencies, and average

Re: [Biofuel] Nissan calls on composers of movie scores to give EVs sound

Just run studded snow tires -- in slow speed driving around residential areas, they are louder than the diesel engine in my mitsubishi truck. And I thought that was a drawback ;) On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Darryl McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Sorry, I have no Japanese skills or

Re: [Biofuel] solar collector window

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Darryl McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Evacuated vacuum tube systems are gaining in favour for solar water heating locally in recent years, though I'm still not a fan. They just seem overly complex and expensive for their gains over low-tech approaches. The

Re: [Biofuel] before you buy solar tiles

We've installed well over 200 grid tie PV systems in Colorado -- and no solar tile systems, despite the fact that we do offer them (crystalline silicon ones that interlock with standard concrete tile, not amorphous silicon like these). A good flush mount installation of regular panels looks

Re: [Biofuel] before you buy solar tiles

As long as you put a water proof layer down underneath them (tarpaper or iceshield or such, yeah... the typical roof surface is not really needed. Except that technically solar panels are not class A fire rated without something underneath them. Z On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Chris Burck

Re: [Biofuel] before you buy solar tiles

Actually some are going that direction. In rural Boulder county if you want to build a house over 3600 square feet, you need to get 25% of the energy it will use from on site sources (solar, wind). If over 5000 square feet, you have to get 50% from on site sources. People are raising hell about

Re: [Biofuel] effect of biodiesel on injection pump

On and off problems are seldom mechanical - -they are more likely to be electrical. With the newer injection pumps, it can be difficult to separate the mechanical parts from the electrical parts, but I'd try to replace any electrical parts (such as a fuel temp sensor, if it has one) before going

Re: [Biofuel] Causes of fuel injection pump failures

Maybe this is a non-US thing, but here, we didn't get the TDI till '96 in the passat, and '98 in the jetta, so I can't imagine that they were making the TDI a full 10 years earlier in other countries, while still sending the standard turbo diesel's to to the US that had a purely mechanical

Re: [Biofuel] A wind turbine for your home

On wind turbine ratings the average power out of a wind turbine will generally be much less than the rated power. Unless, of course, you have a nice constant 28mph wind with no turbulence or variation most turbines tend to be rated around 25 to 30mph. I have had a little 200 watt rated

Re: [Biofuel] A wind turbine for your home

www.dsireusa.org has just about everything as far as rebates, incentives, etc. I had not heard anything about rebates... only the tax credits. Z On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Andrew Spagnolo [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hello everybody, The message bellow states that federal and state rebates

Re: [Biofuel] New el cheapo VW commuter car

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 7:03 PM, bmolloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it has an incredible consumption of 0.99litre/100Km (258 miles/gallon), thus in terms of fuel bettering the electric car. How does that better an electric car? An electric car can refuel directly from your on-site

Re: [Biofuel] List

I got about 25 threads from the list in March. not much discussion, but news posts and such. Z 2009/4/1 Kirk McLoren [EMAIL PROTECTED] Been away from the internet for a while. Is the list really this quiet, 1 post in March? Kirk -- next part -- An HTML

Re: [Biofuel] Artisanal Cars

There are no inspections at all here in Colorado for old cars. When you first buy it, it has to get an emissions test (or not, depending on which county you are in), but then you get collector license plates (for ones over 25 years old), and it never has to be inspected again. Newer cars only

Re: [Biofuel] Artisanal Cars

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Keith Addison wrote: Old cars aren't necessarily scrapped here. It's expensive to scrap a car. Our two are 19 and 20 years old, both those models are still quite common (especially the TownAce, it's a classic). There are

Re: [Biofuel] Artisanal Cars

What about the original toyota diesel's used in the FJ's? BJ's I think they designated them actually. Alot of the FJ landcruisers are originally copied from 40's chevy's apparently -- I have a friend who has owned both, and says the 6 clyinder engines are very similar, and the wheel bolt pattern

Re: [Biofuel] Viability of converting a vehicle to run straight Ethanol?

Would a small amount of biodiesel dissolve in ethanol to provide the lubrication? Z On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What a lot of people don't realize is that E85 has fossil fuel in it because the fossil fuel acts like a lubricant. Running a motor on straight

Re: [Biofuel] Jan. 2009 ARES report

Yeah -- you can't talk on amateur radio frequencies without a license, or a ham standing next to you. Just like amateur radio operators can't talk on PS frequencies even if they have a valid reason to -- like saturday this week when I was out hiking and saw a brush fire across the valley. Even

Re: [Biofuel] German Geo-engineers Show Iron Will to Defy Global UN Moratorium

Kind of ironic that risky behaviour like this that may have unknown, but possibly severe, effects on the global climate are being banned, but there are no cops meeting every american commuter as they get into their giant SUV for a 50 mile solo commute every day, and keeping them from doing risky

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