RE: [Biofuel] Biofuel as a rural community development project inMozambique

2005-06-30 Thread Armando R
Alexis, With the current oil prices I am sure many things can be done in rural communities in Mozambique in the area of biofuels. I would leave fuel ethanol for the sugar cane factories to produce. It can be mixed up to 10% in gasoline as the Malawians are doing, apparently. The rural poor buy

Re: [Biofuel] US oil war game

2005-06-30 Thread Hakan Falk
I am surprised if this is the first time they did this, but is was done by former officials. Maybe this war game was only an alibi, to be able to bring the issues out in the open. It would be enormously if the sitting administration have not done this frequently during the last 20 years and

Re: [Biofuel] Hybrid Diesel

2005-06-30 Thread Frantz DESPREZ
Paddy O'Reilly a écrit : I'm not sure what the average price of gas (aka petrol) is in the US, in Ireland it has just passed the Euro mark per litre - that's USD5.44 a gallon and in England its about 90p per litre - that's USD8.17 a gallon. Perhaps this kind of price in the US will be

[Biofuel] Mike Pelly on National Public

2005-06-30 Thread Keith Addison
Fwd'd message from Mike Pelly: Hello Keith, I managed to get a few more minutes of fame today on National Public Radio and wanted to share it with you. Mike http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4722639 The full sound file is at that link. Very nice too, great work Mike!

Re: [Biofuel] Hybrid Diesel

2005-06-30 Thread Paddy O'Reilly
Believe me, with the amount of smoke coming from some of the exhausts its as if the vehicles were running on turf. However that route (pardon the pun) is being stopped since the government environment body has put a stop to the erosion of the countryside by turf-cutting. Unfortunately Ireland

Re: [Biofuel] fuel efficient cars

2005-06-30 Thread MH
Trivia Facts - You just never know when one of these may pop up in quiz one day!? http://www.3wheelers.com/facts.html Lowest fuel consumption of a 3-Wheeler In 1996 a road legal vehicle set the record for the lowest petrol consumption at the Shell Mileage Marathon, Northants.

RE: [Biofuel] US oil war game

2005-06-30 Thread Chris Lloyd
If you want to put a frown on the face of [Saudi] Wahhabis, talk about 100-mile-per-gallon vehicles, Woolsey said. We don't need a Manhattan Project to do it. It cannot be that difficult as Austin Cars in the UK used to advertise their Model 7 as Doing 100 mph and 100 mpg (UK gallon) and

Re: [Biofuel] fuel efficient cars and motorcycles

2005-06-30 Thread Todd Hershberger
I'm getting a 1965 Royal Enfield Bullet ready for the road.  It is powered by a Lombardini Greaves 325 cc diesel.  Hopefully it will go 50 mph on B100 and get about 150-200 mpg.  Does anyone have experience with these motorcycles?  I believe they were available in the UK and in India.  Wish me

RE: [Biofuel] Hybrid Diesel

2005-06-30 Thread Tim Schlueter
The price of gas in UK is striking! Attached is a fuel price report published by The Automobile Association of UK. I calculate the US dollar cost of a US gallon of 95 octane(don't know ethanol content) purchased in the UK to be $5.77. This is closer to the Ireland cost quoted below vs. the

RE: [Biofuel] Biofuel as a rural community development projectinMozambique

2005-06-30 Thread Mel Riser
Title: RE: [Biofuel] Biofuel as a rural community development projectinMozambique Here is something from another list i am on. interesting numbers mel funny you should mention this. while i was at a biodiesel conf in nh

[Biofuel] Cross Posted Reply -- Re: The Cost of Alternative Energy

2005-06-30 Thread Michael Redler
There is a lot of debate about the different choices for alternative energy and which one is "better". While I don't disagreewith Barbara's assessment, there also needs to be a parallel discussion about what technology is the most appropriate for a given situation. Even at 100% efficiency,

Re: [Biofuel] fuel efficient cars and motorcycles

2005-06-30 Thread Keith Addison
I'm getting a 1965 Royal Enfield Bullet ready for the road. It is powered by a Lombardini Greaves 325 cc diesel. Hopefully it will go 50 mph on B100 and get about 150-200 mpg. Does anyone have experience with these motorcycles? I believe they were available in the UK and in India. Wish me

Re: [Biofuel] fuel efficient cars

2005-06-30 Thread Hakan Falk
Hi, When I did a part of the military service early 1960th 1,100 km north of Stockholm, I did this stretch in my 1955 VW on 80-90 liter. The 500cc one cylinder BSA I had, took about half of it and could do around 160-170 kmh. I also had a Plymouth V8 and it took 4-5 times more than the VW,

RE: [Biofuel] Hybrid Diesel

2005-06-30 Thread Chris Lloyd
It also interesting to note that tax accounts for 69.9% of the total cost! Can that be right! YES it bloody well is and some places charge up to 7 dollars for a sized US gallon. Chris. Wessex Ferret Club (http://www.wessexferretclub.co.uk) -- No virus found in this outgoing message.

RE: [Biofuel] strange observation re mileage

2005-06-30 Thread DERICK GIORCHINO
I have experienced the exact opposite. With A light rain or damp road surface, not a torrent my dodge gained 1.5 mpg or so this had me checking for tire wear thinking that there was tire scrub. But I found tire wear to be good pressure on the money. I cant explain the gain but bring on the

Re: [Biofuel] Mystery logo

2005-06-30 Thread capt3d
"intel inside"?;)-Original Message-From: r [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.orgSent: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 21:45:25 -0400Subject: [Biofuel] Mystery logo I saw a few logos stamped on the inside of the gas tank fuel door of my vehicle, a 2003 Dodge Caravan SE. One of them, I found

Re: [Biofuel] fuel efficient cars and motorcycles

2005-06-30 Thread MH
I had a 1968 VW Beetle that got 28 mpg US not quit as good as you but it had a larger engine than yours and my foot was heavier back then. I loved the simplicity of it all although I grew tried of scraping the windows in winter with the window down. I eventually learned how to replace the

Re: [Biofuel] fuel efficient cars and motorcycles

2005-06-30 Thread Hakan Falk
Mopeds are defined by the engine and weight, the weight I do not remember straight off but the engine had to be under 50 cc. I Sweden they had an additional restriction and that was that they would not go faster than 30 kmph, which was achieved by reducing the carburetor intake and I do no know

[Biofuel] White emulsion

2005-06-30 Thread fil_paulette
Hello everyone again, Yesterday a person I know, gave me 1000 liters of out of validation virgin oil. I'm thinking making biodiesel with it so I don't see a problem with using it. I did a titration using fenolftalein just like I did for passed batches, but this time I spended 5 ml of NaOH

Re: [Biofuel] re property taking supreme court

2005-06-30 Thread marilyn
The white house resident has had his own experience with eminent domain. It made him a wealthy man. http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=100228 Back in 1989, Bush hauled in the moolah on the stadium built in Arlington, Texas for the Texas Rangers. What's interesting about

Re: [Biofuel] re property taking supreme court

2005-06-30 Thread -------
And http://www.bushfiles.com/bushfiles/SweetheartDeal.html S.Chapin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The white house resident has had his own experience with eminent domain. It made him a wealthy man. http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=100228 Back in 1989, Bush hauled in the