Re: [Biofuel] replacement diesel engine

2004-09-27 Thread George Smiley
I drive an 89 Mazda 626 super charged 2 litre diesel. To put one of these engines into another 626 petrol car even would be one of the labours of Hercules, it fills the compartment, also an inter cooler, (why on a supercharger I do not know, and has a diesel computer box under the dash, any numbe

Re: [Biofuel] We're Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore

2004-09-29 Thread George Smiley
We never were, just that our memories play tricks. I remember the Eisenhower years like that too, but then little things come flooding back. Joe McCarthy, Nixon and the Pumpkin Papers, the sacrifice of so many small nations for corporate interests - Iran, Guatemala, Chile and for national securit

Re: [Biofuel] Deuterium: The Alternative Power Source

2004-10-04 Thread George Smiley
You should shove it up your proverbial Marty which is the only way to collimate neutrinos. The only neutrino source powerful enough to interact with matter occurs within a supernova, as it happens, and these are pretty rare on the ground. Did you find the deuterium in the Philippine deeps too? an

Re: [Biofuel] Methanol from Trees

2004-10-22 Thread George Smiley
These people use the same arguments that set us up in Canada and Australia and god knows where else for the woodchippers. That these little spindly, generally rewgrowth trees are useless, and here is a heaven sent opportunity to get them out of the way. Well the problem is that they are spindly a

Re: [Biofuel] Methanol from Trees

2004-10-23 Thread George Smiley
Dear Peggy It would take days to bridge gaps between the theoretical, the industry perspective, and the grossly different realities that stem from conflicts of interest, generally self interest between conservationists, industry shills (foresters), the industry players and the political machines.

Re: [biofuel] Re: proper storage of used cooking oil to make it last longest possible

2004-05-28 Thread George Smiley
It ought to take months for your oil to go rancid, considering it lasts a week or so exposed to air at high temperatures. Displace air with carbon dioxide - when the tank (smaller is better) is just about full put the nozzle of a MIG gun in and press the trigger - 18 litres/ minute should go in -

Re: [biofuel] Ice Age bolthole

2004-06-12 Thread George Smiley
Trouble with methane - it's the lightest of all those 'anes' and the amount you can put in a car tire will get you about as far as you walked with the tire. Saw a picture of them cooking with biogas in Vietnam - stored in a huge clear plastic bag suspended over the range and the gas came out when

Re: [biofuel] Ice Age bolthole

2004-06-13 Thread George Smiley
ddison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Ice Age bolthole > "George Smiley" wrote: > > >Trouble with methane - it's the lightest of all those 'anes' and the amount > >you can put in a car tire wil

Re: [biofuel] DEUTERIUM: Philippines' Economic Solutions

2004-08-15 Thread George Smiley
To be polite, this is total crap, a variation on the old 'free energy from the hydrogen in water' scam. Besides being very rare and difficult to extract, deuterium electolyses, burns and in short has exactly the same chemical properties as ordinary hydrogen. Which is why it is hard to isolate.