Re: [biofuel] OT: sustainable plumbing

2003-03-11 Thread Robby Davenport
pvc was almost outlawed in the usa about 20-25 years ago because it doesn't break down very well ,,, the primary thorn in everyones side? clorox bottles! ! Robert murdoch wrote: I'm sorry for posting this to the biofuel group, but there seem to be many sustainability-minded people there, and

Re: [biofuel] OT: sustainable plumbing

2003-03-09 Thread Hakan Falk
Dear MM, Modern sustainable plumbing does not really exist, but I can give you some guide lines in how to judge an existing plumbing. If the house is to your liking, then the plumbing is a secondary problem and it is more of a question to judge the extend and the costs of fixing it. It is all

Re: [biofuel] OT: sustainable plumbing

2003-03-09 Thread murdoch
The new plastic pipes, if you use the proper ones in a proper way, make it more possible to do installations with higher average life span than 45 years. It is only a few manufacturers of adequate pipes for this. Since you are buying an existing house, I will not bore you with the considerations

RE: [biofuel] OT: sustainable plumbing

2003-03-09 Thread kirk
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 10:18 PM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [biofuel] OT: sustainable plumbing whats the URL for your inventing ideas group? Kirk http://groups.yahoo.com/group/inventingideas/?yguid=109391995 With these idea groups, the idea isn't

[biofuel] OT: sustainable plumbing

2003-03-08 Thread murdoch
I'm sorry for posting this to the biofuel group, but there seem to be many sustainability-minded people there, and I don't know of the precise appropriate group. I'm also posting to an inventing ideas group I started, because when we have ideas that relate to inventions, it would be nice to

RE: [biofuel] OT: sustainable plumbing

2003-03-08 Thread kirk
whats the URL for your inventing ideas group? Kirk -Original Message- From: murdoch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 8:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: biofuel@yahoogroups.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [biofuel] OT: sustainable plumbing I'm sorry for posting

Re: [biofuel] OT: sustainable plumbing

2003-03-08 Thread murdoch
whats the URL for your inventing ideas group? Kirk http://groups.yahoo.com/group/inventingideas/?yguid=109391995 With these idea groups, the idea isn't necessarily for me to push hard for a lot of conversation, but 50% of it is I see no reason why I, or someone else, should let ideas die on

Re: [biofuel] OT: sustainable plumbing

2003-03-08 Thread Keith Addison
Hi MM Plumbing isn't necessarily off-topic. We've just had discussion on using hot water to provide process heat for making biodiesel, definitely involves plumbing - I'll be needing to learn more about this soon, for one. What do you heat it with, anyway - preferably biogas maybe, or a WVO

Re: [biofuel] OT: sustainable plumbing

2003-03-08 Thread Appal Energy
consume it. That and it works perfectly well during power outages or if off the grid. Todd - Original Message - From: murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: biofuel@yahoogroups.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 10:42 PM Subject: [biofuel] OT: sustainable