Re: [Biofuel] Calgary Biodiesel Group

2006-03-08 Thread lres1
esday, March 08, 2006 4:19 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Calgary Biodiesel Group ***No virus was detected in the attachment no filenameYour mail has been scanned by InterScan.***-***I wish people would stop saying this, it's endlessly regurgita

Re: [Biofuel] Calgary Biodiesel Group

2006-03-08 Thread Keith Addison
>Oh let them have their moment in the sun. The rain will soon fall on their >parade and they'll come running to you and this list asking for advice and >what-not. > >I'm trusting you will embrace them with open arms when that happens. What touching faith Kenji. :-) And indeed, for only twice my no

Re: [Biofuel] Calgary Biodiesel Group

2006-03-08 Thread Keith Addison
> > After all, we did add lead to gasoline for knock until the >"treehuggers" made us stop. ;) < > >No we added lead because it cut the cost of producing fuel that did not >knock. There is no need to add lead (Russia stopped in 1956) it just made >more profit for the petrol companies. Chris http

Re: [Biofuel] Calgary Biodiesel Group

2006-03-08 Thread Chris Lloyd
> After all, we did add lead to gasoline for knock until the "treehuggers" made us stop. ;) < No we added lead because it cut the cost of producing fuel that did not knock. There is no need to add lead (Russia stopped in 1956) it just made more profit for the petrol companies. Chris __

Re: [Biofuel] Calgary Biodiesel Group

2006-03-08 Thread bob allen
There is little or no free sulfur in fossil fuels, it is present as hydrogen sulfide, H2S which is the stuff of rotten egg smells. when present in significant amounts, it is called "sour crude". "Sweet crude" is more valuable and therefore brings a higher price. Most sulfur in crude oil is pr

Re: [Biofuel] Calgary Biodiesel Group

2006-03-08 Thread Zeke Yewdall
It was my understanding that the lack of sulpher is not necessarily the cause of low lubricity in the low sulphur fuel, but that the process of removing the sulphur also changed the fuel to have less lubricity. Anyone know exactly how they remove the sulphur, and what it does to the lubricity of t

Re: [Biofuel] Calgary Biodiesel Group

2006-03-08 Thread Kenji James Fuse
Oh let them have their moment in the sun. The rain will soon fall on their parade and they'll come running to you and this list asking for advice and what-not. I'm trusting you will embrace them with open arms when that happens. Kenji Fuse On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Keith Addison wrote: > I wish peopl

Re: [Biofuel] Calgary Biodiesel Group

2006-03-08 Thread Michael Redler
Re: "the leading technologies have been extremely expensive and/or cumbersome due to inconsistent production quality."   Besides providing a hefty income to the government, the patent office is overflowing with IP which exists exclusively for the sake of making money.   That said, there are two

Re: [Biofuel] Calgary Biodiesel Group

2006-03-08 Thread John Hayes
Kirk McLoren wrote: > Sulphur is not added as a lubricant. WHere do they get that rubbish? > Kirk > > */Darryl McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote: > > Biodiesel demand is expected to balloon when a new air pollution law > comes into effect in June, dropping the maximum allowable s! ulphu

Re: [Biofuel] Calgary Biodiesel Group

2006-03-08 Thread Keith Addison
I wish people would stop saying this, it's endlessly regurgitated but it's not true: "The original combustion fuel used by Rudolf Diesel in 1900 in his prototype compression engine was derived from peanut oil, the first ever biodiesel." - Australian Biodiesel Group This is even worse - peanut

Re: [Biofuel] Calgary Biodiesel Group

2006-03-07 Thread David Miller
Kirk McLoren wrote: > Sulphur is not added as a lubricant. WHere do they get that rubbish? > Kirk It's not deliberately added, but sulfur does indeed provide a lot of lubrication for the injector pump. My understanding is that it needs to be replaced in very low sulfur fuel, BD makes a great rep

Re: [Biofuel] Calgary Biodiesel Group

2006-03-07 Thread Kirk McLoren
Sulphur is not added as a lubricant. WHere do they get that rubbish? KirkDarryl McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Spotted this in the March 2006 C3 Views. First I have heard of this group in Calgary.http://www.climatechangecentral.com/resources/c3views/C3_Views_March_06.pdf page 15==

[Biofuel] Calgary Biodiesel Group

2006-03-07 Thread Darryl McMahon
Spotted this in the March 2006 C3 Views. First I have heard of this group in Calgary. http://www.climatechangecentral.com/resources/c3views/C3_Views_March_06.pdf page 15 === French fries, fried chicken and other fast food may have a bad rap for their calori