RE: [Biofuel] Re: Environmentalism is dead. What's next?

2005-06-25 Thread Chris Lloyd
You lot want to try living in the UK with our strange rules, you don't own anything under your own property, water or minerals. One of my property borders is a river but I can't fish it or extract water, if the council wants your land you have very little chance of stopping them taking it. They

[Biofuel] cetane#

2005-06-25 Thread Stelios Terzakis
Does anyone has a clue what cetane number (CN), biodiesel from used edible oils should have? Should it be greater or smaller than the relative virgin oils. Does burning of oils just oxidise oils ( which increase PV and CN ) or it cuts the fatty acids chains and decrease the CN. Can someone

Re: [Biofuel] VW Diesel

2005-06-25 Thread Keith Addison
Hello John Just FYI, there is a major debate on SVO use raging at TDIclub.com right now. It's actually spilled over into 3 different threads in the biodiesel section of the forums(sic). Would you perhaps be up to giving us a summary? Best wishes Keith jh Lyn Gerry wrote: Hi Mike and

RE: [Biofuel] Re: Environmentalism is dead. What's next?

2005-06-25 Thread Michael Redler
OK well, maybe I went a little too far, alluding to the our government as heading toward feudalism. However my frustration is genuine, as is most of yours. MikeChris Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You lot want to try living in the UK with our strange rules, you don'town anything under your own

Re: [Biofuel] Re: Environmentalism is dead. What's next?

2005-06-25 Thread John Hayes
Please reread my original Norman Rockwell-esque comment in context. It's in a paragraph about the industrial nature of the area in question. Yet you take it out of context and portray my comment as some sort of class war (McMansions those people etc) and sarcastically imply that I think those

Re: [Biofuel] VW Diesel

2005-06-25 Thread John Hayes
You have the 'SVO destroyed my TDI' folks. And the 'SVO is just fine' pollyannas. And the Greasel 'TDIclub member don't have a clue' people. And the professional 'we need more scientific data' skeptics. And the 'yes, we need data but your studies are too old' counter-skeptics. Yup. I think

[Biofuel] Money that grows on crops

2005-06-25 Thread Kirk McLoren
http://csmonitor.com/2004/0415/p17s02-sten.html Money that grows on crops By Jen Ross | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor CONCEPCIÓN, CHILE – He can't quite make money grow from trees, but a New Zealand scientist has devised a way to harvest gold from plants. The idea: Use common

Re: [Biofuel] Re: Environmentalism is dead. What's next?

2005-06-25 Thread Brian
I really didn't mean it to be personally about you. Sorry that it came off that way. I was just pointing out my perception of what the case is really about. Brian - Original Message - From: John Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005

Re: [Biofuel] VW Diesel

2005-06-25 Thread Lyn Gerry
On 25 Jun 2005 at 8:46, John Hayes wrote: You have the 'SVO destroyed my TDI' folks. And the 'SVO is just fine' pollyannas. I went to the TDIclub site as well. I probably only saw a fraction of the posts, and what I saw made me realize that I didn't really do Mike's question justice

Re: [Biofuel] VW Diesel

2005-06-25 Thread Keith Addison
Hello Lyn There's rather more to it than just pre-heating the oil to lower the viscosity. I posted this a few weeks ago: Is there anyone out there who can compare the commercially available kits, their pros and cons? Which is the best system to install for use in Northern California.

Re: [Biofuel] VW Diesel

2005-06-25 Thread Keith Addison
You have the 'SVO destroyed my TDI' folks. And the 'SVO is just fine' pollyannas. And the Greasel 'TDIclub member don't have a clue' people. And the professional 'we need more scientific data' skeptics. And the 'yes, we need data but your studies are too old' counter-skeptics. Yup. I think

[Biofuel] Magnesol

2005-06-25 Thread Chris Sommerfeld
I manage a small biodiesel lab at a school here in the Bahamas. We currently make about 250 gal a week. Within the next month we plan to expand to make about 450 gal a week. We are always looking for new ways to improve our processing. Currently we use bubble washing in the wash/dry stage.

Re: [Biofuel] VW Diesel

2005-06-25 Thread Lyn Gerry
I went to the site that Keith recommended and it looks fantastic. What this maker Elsbett sells is a one tank system you can put anything from WVO to Dino into. If such a system exists, why are people bothing to make biodiesel? It would be easier, more ecological, economical etc to just use

[Biofuel] Pilger puts the boot in.........

2005-06-25 Thread bmolloy
Hi All, This is largely a restatement of"Bards of the Powerful".The difference is the source - international gadfly journo John Pilger. Intypical Pilger fashionit goes directly for the cohones. If mainstream journos took a leaf from the Pilger hymnbook perhaps we'd all be informed enough

Re: Re[2]: [Biofuel] Re: Environmentalism is dead. What's next?

2005-06-25 Thread capt3d
whaa-a-a?!? In a message dated 6/24/05 12:05:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the Vikings (probably ancestors to Roman legions from the part that we now know as Turkey) ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org