Re: [Biofuel] Pepsi Forced to Admit It's Bottling Tap Water

2007-08-07 Thread Joe Street
LOL LOL but the best one is Evian water. Evian is NAIVE spelled backwards!! Perfect. (said it here b4) BTW here are some locals who are not just emailing web forums on this issue. Take action. It is amazing how fast theis group mobilized and how much effect they are having. http://www.well

Re: [Biofuel] Biofuel Quality Test

2007-08-07 Thread Joe Street
Hey Tom; Take a sample from your fuel after settling 6-8 hrs and set it asside in a mason jar for the longer period and see what settles out. Rod believes that glycerin settles slower in a poorly completed reaction. I believe he is right. And yes it only takes a little glycerin to emulsify

Re: [Biofuel] Biofuel Quality Test

2007-08-07 Thread Joe Street
Thomas Kelly wrote: Hi Joe, >glycerin settles slower in a poorly completed reaction. I wonder why Well I'm no chemist but my guess would be that the large Mono and Di and triglyceride molecules that are left are jammed in between the ester molecules and the glycerine has to jostle

Re: [Biofuel] Urgent Call For Strong Oversight Of Nanotechnology

2007-08-08 Thread Joe Street
Hi Keith; Thank you for this. As you may know I was involved for the past two years as nanotech lab manager at the University of Waterloo. My grave concerns over the unexpected and severe toxicity of materials (benign at the macro scale) when taken to the range of tens of nanometers or less

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-09 Thread Joe Street
. It might be best to include more settling time in the schedule. Tom - Original Message - *From:* Joe Street <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *To:* biofuel@sustainablelists.org <mailto:biofuel@sustainablelists.org> *Sent:* Tuesd

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-09 Thread Joe Street
See below Thomas Kelly wrote: Joe, You wrote: "Have you ever tried dosing the batch again with a little methoxide? After you remove the glycerin it doesn't take much to get the last bit of the reaction to go and settle out the remaining glycerin." I've been concerned about the exce

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-09 Thread Joe Street
solved in the BD and separates from the liquid BD phase with time. - Original Message ----- *From:* Joe Street <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *To:* biofuel@sustainablelists.org <mailto:biofuel@sustainablelists.org> *Sent:* Thursday, August 09, 2007 11:30 AM *S

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-09 Thread Joe Street
BD and separates from the liquid BD phase with time. ----- Original Message - *From:* Joe Street <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *To:* biofuel@sustainablelists.org <mailto:biofuel@sustainablelists.org> *Sent:* Thursday, August 09, 2007 11:30 AM

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-10 Thread Joe Street
- Original Message ----- *From:* Joe Street <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *To:* biofuel@sustainablelists.org <mailto:biofuel@sustainablelists.org> *Sent:* Friday, August 10, 2007 3:45 PM *Subject:* Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time Hi Jan; Ok your post a

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-10 Thread Joe Street
Hi Keith; Most often the process comes to 95% or more complete and that is good enough for me ( personal choice) and doesn't give me wash problems either. Maybe 20% of the time it only gets to somewhere around 90% and this is a problem. It tends to be most likely to happen when the feedstoc

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-10 Thread Joe Street
Hi Keith; See my answers below. Keith Addison wrote: Well, settling time is free. Acid-base aside, there's the two-stage base-base process, which quite a lot of people use and like, but otherwise why do more than one stage? Do you mean two separate stages, with a methanol test in betw

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerine Settling Time

2007-08-10 Thread Joe Street
but after a week of settling more of the glycerine has settled out. Even a small amount of glycerine compound the emulsifying effects of the unreacted glycerides . Yes? By the way, I always ask him "Did you do a quality test?" His answer: "Oops, I forgo

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerin as an Emulsifier (was Glycerine Settling Time)

2007-08-10 Thread Joe Street
Thanks a lot Tom for all that work in a short time. You have really shed some light on this discussion. Jumping to your questions at the end, it seems clear then that Jan and Andres were right on and it must be the soap and mono-diglycerides etc rather than the glycerine itself which is the c

Re: [Biofuel] Glycerin as an Emulsifier (was Glycerine Settling Time)

2007-08-13 Thread Joe Street
Hi Tom; If the answers to questions 2 and 3 are yes then it would explain a lot. Then the anwer to question one could be that although the BD did not pass the QT if it was settled long enough that there is no glycerol it would be consistent with the emergent theory. No? Joe Thomas Kelly w

[Biofuel] World clock

2007-08-22 Thread Joe Street
I tried to post this link during the transition but I don't think it made it to the list. I have had some server problems here as well so if this is a double post ...sorry. http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf Interesting how the numbers for internet nodes and oil pumped move the fastest

Re: [Biofuel] Salt water as fuel?

2007-09-17 Thread Joe Street
Actually RF energy is quite capable of splitting molecules in a gas phase, raising electrons into higher energy states and producing a whole range of ionized species and radicals according to the statistical probabilities. We do it all the time in vacuum systems to use the plasmas for differen

Re: [Biofuel] Rapeseed Biofuel Produces More Greenhouse Gas Than Oil Or Petrol

2007-09-28 Thread Joe Street
Olivier Morf wrote: >Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2507851.ece >September 22, 2007 > >Rapeseed Biofuel Produces More Greenhouse Gas Than Oil Or Petrol > >By Lewis Smith > SNIP > >Rapeseed and maize biodiesels were calculated to produce up to 70 per cent >and 50

Re: [Biofuel] Rapeseed Biofuel Produces More Greenhouse Gas Than Oil Or Petrol

2007-09-28 Thread Joe Street
is my guess ) biofuels still will perform better on >environmental terms and most likely will be more economical >as the damages cost of biofuels are much lower then teh one form fossil >fuels. >Very best for us >Chic >Joe Street escreveu: > > >>Olivier Morf wrote: >&g

Re: [Biofuel] 747 on biofuel

2007-10-02 Thread Joe Street
Damn it all to hell. My friend just bought a Moyes Dragonfly and I had a half baked notion to put a LIM cycle engine on it and make the claim to be the first to go flying on biodiesel! Well I'm glad the wheels are

Re: [Biofuel] 747 on biofuel

2007-10-04 Thread Joe Street
lly makes the LIM any different from a >two-stroke diesel? They too are blower scavenged, port exhausted closed >crankcase engines... > >-Kurt > >Joe Street wrote: > > >>Damn it all to hell. My friend just bought a Moyes Dragonfly >><http://www.liteflite.com.a

Re: [Biofuel] Biodiesel storage - was Re: Best Country's for producing BD

2007-10-29 Thread Joe Street
That's very useful information Keith thank you. One of our local brewers took some BD made from canola and put it on a cookie sheet and left it sit all summer and he says it hasn't dried the way oil does. He can't see any difference in it other than the dust it collected. Your info is even mo

[Biofuel] Veggie power

2007-12-21 Thread Joe Street
Music to my ears! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpfYt7vRHuY Happy holidays all. Joe ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://jour

Re: [Biofuel] Zeolite on eBay

2008-01-03 Thread Joe Street
Hi Tom; Happy New year. I'm surprised by your comments about temperature damaging zeolite. I have always baked it in vacuum but when you say 'lol' temperatures perhaps you are meaning les than 500 degrees celsius or such? I heat to about 150 C. But now I wonder if that is too hot?? Did you

Re: [Biofuel] Convert your Microwave oven to make Colloidal Silver

2007-02-05 Thread Joe Street
Microwave radiation changes the structure of water? How so? Water is a polar molecule and therefore responds to rotating magnetic fields. The RF fields inside the microwave oven cause the water molecules to spin in resonance with the microwave frequency. Molecular movement is synonomous wit

Re: [Biofuel] Convert your Microwave oven to make Colloidal Silver

2007-02-05 Thread Joe Street
ter pure silver, it will be safe to consume. >I use it to stop the progression of periodontal disease. I have a bad case >of it. Also am using ozonated > water. I have no problem with killing of friendly gut flora, but I >do take a good probiotic to hedge my bets. > Peace, D.

Re: [Biofuel] Chicken Little Strikes Again! CO2 is rising!C02 isrising!A scientific Rebutal

2007-02-07 Thread Joe Street
This is speculation but I would be willing to bet that more CO2 is sunk into algae around the world than forests or crops. Joe Randall wrote: Phillip, ... At the same time, 85% of the world's forests (which are natural carbon sinks) have been destroyed or degraded. ... Could you

Re: [Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report

2007-02-07 Thread Joe Street
Since when is 'America' a country?? Frank Navarrete wrote: America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde Only to be imprisoned in "civilized" England for being homosexual and forced to do hard labor which led to his death. Let

Re: [Biofuel] Blackspot Shoes

2007-02-12 Thread Joe Street
I like ur attitude Mack! Publish it under creative commons license and let the people go wild. I'd build a pair. Joe Dawie Coetzee wrote: The website was initially appealing, but then I thought, isn't "global anti-brand" a contradiction in terms? I wonder if they'd send me a set of bluepr

Re: [Biofuel] Blackspot Shoes

2007-02-12 Thread Joe Street
I'm forever wearing out shoes and boots. The soles seem to go the fastest, especially on my boots. I walk 8 km a day to and from work. Boots that have a sole hard enough to last are too friggin slippery in winter, and softer rubber just disappears. I wish I had boots withreplaceable soles.

Re: [Biofuel] Liposuccions: a new source of biodiesel :-)

2007-02-13 Thread Joe Street
Used to bending over??? Speak for yourself there buddy. In Canada them's fightin words.lol Joe M&K DuPree wrote: Are we talking about grain fed lipofat vs range fed? Range fed would require walking around and bending over, causing less fat and more lean meat, whereas grain fed requires

Re: [Biofuel] Liposuccions: a new source of biodiesel :-)

2007-02-14 Thread Joe Street
'Big sticks' are the WORST when ur bent over! lol M&K DuPree wrote: LOL..well, Uncle Sam carries a bigger stick. Some like it, most don't, but what do you do? :p - Original Message ----- *From:* Joe Street <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *To:* bio

Re: [Biofuel] The Anti-Empire Report

2007-02-15 Thread Joe Street
And witness how our entertainment media is obsessed with violent and scandalous subject matter, our sports become increasingly violent and individual members of our society tend toward increasing levels of egocentricity and self indulgence. Didn' similar things happen in the times leading up t

Re: [Biofuel] Over unity? Shock waves and steam heat *#

2007-02-20 Thread Joe Street
I believe this is how the Rheem company gets super high efficiency in their gas furnace by using longitudinal pressure waves to increase heat transfer efficiency to the heat exchanger. Joe Zeke Yewdall wrote: Do a search on "thermoacoustic". This isn't all that mysterious, and if you want

Re: [Biofuel] Global Warming: It's All About Energy (Keith Addison)

2007-02-21 Thread Joe Street
I don't think you are going to find much agreement around here. I'd be willing to bet that a lot of the members of this list might not only disagree but find your comments somewhat offensive. I know I do. Joe John Wilson wrote: This in my opinion is without a doubt the greatest con ever per

Re: [Biofuel] Global Warming: It's All About Energy (Keith

2007-02-22 Thread Joe Street
Hi John; I read your website and it's a good thing you came to this forum, because you have been misinformed. It's not your fault you have been a victim of disinformation just like so many others. Read the archives and you will find the answers to all your questions and confusion. You'll fi

Re: [Biofuel] negative ions

2007-02-22 Thread Joe Street
Ok could you explain again how the pulverization of water results in ionization (of a molecule?) I don't follow. Joe Kirk McLoren wrote: > December 30, 1990 > > NEGION.ASC > > This article is from raum & zeit (Space & Time),

Re: [Biofuel] LED light bulbs

2007-02-27 Thread Joe Street
Are these LED lights able to work with a dimmer? The last place in my house that doesn't have CF bulbs is a room which has five pot lights which are connected to a dimmer. CF bulbs can't be used on a dimmer so I hope these LED lights are an alternative. Anyone tried it? Joe Paul S Cantrell

Re: [Biofuel] vanishing honey bees

2007-03-01 Thread Joe Street
I'm surprised GMO pollen is not listed as a possible cause under investigation. Seems like a no brainer to check that one out. Joe Kirk McLoren wrote: ++ | Vanishing Honeybees Will Affect Future Crops

Re: [Biofuel] A quote for our time from another time

2007-03-01 Thread Joe Street
Yes this is effectively what is happening, but on the other hand the techie types that turn the wheels in the high tech arena are also people with a personal life and there are plenty of them that don't just twiddle their thumbs at home. This is why there is such a plethora of do it yerself in

Re: [Biofuel] LED light bulbs

2007-03-01 Thread Joe Street
Ferkin 'A' dude! I'm with you on that one. Replaceable LED's. As for what goes into the manufacture of them I could tell you loads. None of it is pretty. The semiconductor industry uses plenty of horrendous toxins. Most of the vacuum pumps are filled with perflorinated polyether fluid ( c

Re: [Biofuel] A quote for our time from another time

2007-03-01 Thread Joe Street
uot; is a ruse. Thanks, D, for leading us into this quagmire of despair and unrelenting bullshit...:P - Original Message - *From:* Joe Street <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *To:* biofuel@sustainablelists.org <mailto:biofuel@sustainablelists.org> *Sent

Re: [Biofuel] Al Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth' Power Use

2007-03-05 Thread Joe Street
Nice post Darryl; I agree with you on all points. I'm sure Gore's excesses are not out of line with others in his social circles but all of these elite people combined draw a drop of the bucket compared to the masses and businesses of the world. This does not give them license of course, and

Re: [Biofuel] Build your own wind turbine.

2007-03-06 Thread Joe Street
And another great DIY website is www.otherpower.com I want to build one of these! Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hugh Piggott has a website at http://www.scoraigwind.co.uk see his books Another good site without the DIY aspect is Paul Gipe's http://www.wind-works.org Doug Woodard St. Cat

Re: [Biofuel] Localize Me

2007-03-08 Thread Joe Street
How does local burger's oil titrate? I notice a correlation between titration value and the values of the restauranteur. M&K DuPree wrote: Thanks for the response, Jason. Agreed. Obviously, however, Local Burger makes its' point of selling health consciousness (in more ways than just perso

Re: [Biofuel] Localize Me

2007-03-08 Thread Joe Street
You rock Jesse! Has there ever been a marriage proposal on this list? Oh yeah someone already got to you first.damn ;) Joe Jesse Frayne wrote: This thread is just so ME!! I shop and cook for my neighbourhood, they pick up their dinners up on the way home from work. I feed some sing

Re: [Biofuel] Localize Me

2007-03-09 Thread Joe Street
Oh sure muddy the issue with numbersyou know Keith doesn't allow that! ;) Joe Jesse Frayne wrote: Flirt! You KNOW I'm old enough to be your mother. I'm practically old enough to be Darryl's mother, fercryinoutloud. Cheers. --- Joe Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Biofuel] OOPS! DID VERICHIP HAVE A "SENIOR MOMENT?"

2007-03-12 Thread Joe Street
Hey Phillip; Now I am curious. I fiddled around with some RFID dev kits from microchip corp a few years back and understand the technology, but I am curious does new technology use some technique for sequentially changing serial numbers or encription keys? If not what is to stop someone from

Re: [Biofuel] kind of interesting

2007-03-13 Thread Joe Street
Really Jesse? Mark knows Bill Lishman? What a small world. You know I was standing down at the mouth of wilmot creek where it blows into Lake Ontario trout fishing when the ultralight went directly over me with the classic V formation of geese. It was just after Dawn and I had been fishing

[Biofuel] WVO contaminated with diesel fuel

2007-03-15 Thread Joe Street
I have been searching the archives with various keywords for a post about what happens when you try to react oil that has a few percent of petroleum diesel in it. I seem to remember the subject came up some time back but I cannot find it. Does anyone know what happens in this case? Does the

Re: [Biofuel] WVO contaminated with diesel fuel

2007-03-16 Thread Joe Street
Thanks to Fox and James for the response. Joe fox mulder wrote: --- JAMES PHELPS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joe I re ran some bio with Diesel in it and it was inert to the reaction and was intact afterward as near as I could tell. Jim - Original Message - From: Joe

Re: [Biofuel] Yellowstone Supervolcano Making Strange Rumblings

2007-03-16 Thread Joe Street
I am reminded of my post a while back on global warming where I speculated that if the earth is viewed as a closed system floating in a vacuum where the energy flux adsorbed is balanced by the radiated loss on the dark side, if the outflux is reduced then the entire earth as a system must warm.

Re: [Biofuel] How do you catch a crow?

2007-03-19 Thread Joe Street
Keith Addison wrote: >Hi all > >A pesky crow moved in a couple of weeks ago. I guess they're all >pesky, I haven't met any other kind. It reckons this is its territory >now, there are good pickings here, it's taken to scavenging poultry >feed for instance, sneak-thief, darts in as soon as you

Re: [Biofuel] How do you catch a crow?

2007-03-19 Thread Joe Street
Sorry Keith I'm having a very black time here this weekend and today. I have a very special place in my heart for birds of all kinds and ravens and crows being so intelligent are closest to the tender meat. I think I responded as much out of my blackness as anything but this talk of killing s

Re: [Biofuel] Brix levels (was Nice Table of Vitamin C)

2007-03-27 Thread Joe Street
I'm not sure about strawberries but some fruits ripen when exposed to ethylene gas. It is a common procedure to pick unripened fruit and ripen it along the shipping route by purging the shipping container with ethylene. Joe Thomas Kelly wrote: snip > In addition to food mile concerns, t

Re: [Biofuel] Solar power breakthrough at Massey

2007-04-12 Thread Joe Street
Porphyrin dyes and nanotitanides are very promising ideas. There is a company which claims to be leading in dyesol technologies but so far they don't have much to offer in terms of real product. I don't know much about the lifetime of the dye which I suspect is the thing that will degrade und

Re: [Biofuel] 3D Solar Cells Boost Efficiency

2007-04-17 Thread Joe Street
What a laugh! These have got to be the most expensive PV cells yet! And such an elaborate method to create the 3D geometryiron seed layer, carbon nanotubes and then to top it all off molecular beam epitaxy no less. ROFL ROFL. This is not even newsworthy. The columns are 40 uM square and

Re: [Biofuel] Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?

2007-04-17 Thread Joe Street
My thoughts too Kirk. There are probably a lot of other shoes on their way to the floor at the moment also. There was a story just today in the local paper how 80 to 90% of bees in the Niagara region are dead over the winter. This is prime wine and agricultural land. Farmers are gonna feel t

Re: [Biofuel] Ethyl Esters (was Biodiesel "New Process")

2007-04-18 Thread Joe Street
I am very keen to get off the meth also Jim. I have by no means given up or anything, just haven't got to it yet. I did collect some ethanol but didn't get as far as you with the sieves. Read up on using corn grits which looks very promising. I should push myself to get some progress on it.

Re: [Biofuel] Ethyl Esters (was Biodiesel "New Process")

2007-04-18 Thread Joe Street
ROFL. Sorry I guess I should have gone to bed before 3 am last nighter this morning. Ahh coffee Sorry Tom. Joe PS Did u recover the ethanol from the keg? ;^> Thomas Kelly wrote: Hey Joe, How many times have I asked you not to call me Jim? Actually, it's quite an honor

Re: [Biofuel] 100% efficient light source

2007-04-19 Thread Joe Street
Cool! I haven't kept up with Jabbour's work in a while but I visited his lab in 2003 and he helped me design an OLED deposition system. A hell of a nice guy. He told me all the details of his self made deposition tool for OLED devices and what he would improve if he were to do it over. You

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: Ethanol is a killer

2007-04-19 Thread Joe Street
Hey Dawie; Ever checked out the scene about aldehyde formation from biodiesel? Combustion is just not good. But some fuels are better than others. Joe Dawie Coetzee wrote: I shall repeat this at every opportunity. The operative phrase here is, "if every vehicle in the United States ran

Re: [Biofuel] Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?

2007-04-19 Thread Joe Street
Chip Mefford wrote: SNIP >There is no possible way that anyone, or any group >or any existing, or forseeable 'quantum' computing >model can predict what the consequences of some >of the GMO stuff is/will be, even over such a short >period of time as a decade. key search phrase >'sensitive depen

Re: [Biofuel] Biodiesel "New Process"

2007-04-20 Thread Joe Street
Currently with the way it is anyone who wants to make ethyl esters pretty much has to grow ther own ethanol, and of course from a sustainability perspective it is still the best approach but with all the hype I am hearing about ethanol and E85 and with all the big investment all over the place

Re: [Biofuel] Chevy diesels

2007-04-23 Thread Joe Street
Yep I have the exact same symptoms when I add too much BD to the mix in cold temperatures. At idle and low acceleration it is fine but when injection volume is increased ( hill climbing or hard accel) the flow through the filter can't keep up. It is not clear from you message Jan if this is w

Re: [Biofuel] uTube: Dave Deppner and Trees for the Future

2007-04-23 Thread Joe Street
Hey thanks for that very inspiring video link Jesse! Yesterday ( for Earth day) my daughter and I planted some ash and sugar maple along the banks of the Speed river and pulled out a mountain of trash. Sure felt good. The tree planting was kinda an extension of the guerrilla gardening movement

Re: [Biofuel] Patented GMO jatropha

2007-04-26 Thread Joe Street
You should plant only heirloom varieties of ANY plant. BTW seeds should sprout easily given the right conditions otherwise nature would not have produced them or rather they would not have survived over time. This difficulty should be warning you of something. Joe James Quaid wrote: Keith

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: Producing Ethanol--and Conserving the Soil

2007-04-26 Thread Joe Street
Hey Pagandai; Do you know about the International Permaculture Conference (IPC8) which is happening in Sao Paulo on May 4th? Bill Mollison the inventer of permaculture will give a course on design and many other leading speakers of the world will present. I wish I could attend. http://www.

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: Producing Ethanol--and Conserving the Soil

2007-04-26 Thread Joe Street
s done many great things, re-introducing sustainable agriculture to many people. Please see him, meet him & learn! regards Doug On Friday 27 April 2007 12:18:02 am Joe Street wrote: Hey Pagandai; Do you know about the International Permaculture Conference (IPC8) which is happening in Sao

Re: [Biofuel] Patented GMO jatropha

2007-04-27 Thread Joe Street
I'm thinking castor beans are pretty hard to beat and especially if you want to make ethyl esters you are better off with castor oil due to the soluability of ethanol in that oil. Of course the ricin might get you some unwanted attention. Darn there I go putting keywords in emails again. Me

Re: [Biofuel] Patented GMO jatropha

2007-05-01 Thread Joe Street
Since that plant is not native to this continent will I have to get a permit from anyone to import the seeds? What is the procedure with that? Joe James Quaid wrote: I'd like to give you a recommendation. But, the last batch of seeds I purchased aren't sprouting too well. This may be due to

Re: [Biofuel] Patented GMO jatropha

2007-05-01 Thread Joe Street
Keith Addison wrote: > >No problem if you compost the cake. (It's not yellow, is it, the >cake?) (And is your compost Bin Laden with nice organic compostibles?) > > LMAO where do you get your material? Too funny. You put me in such a good mood I think I need to listen to some music. Maybe

Re: [Biofuel] Flying F Bio-Fuels

2007-05-01 Thread Joe Street
What's the 'F' stand for in 'Flying F Biofuel' ?? J;^> Kirk McLoren wrote: 6800 for a 40 gallon batch is well . . . As high as a giraffes tail? Kirk */[EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote: Has anyone heard about this company? They make a reactor and are selling it. I was approached by the h

Re: [Biofuel] Biodiesel compatible gravity-fed filter?

2007-05-02 Thread Joe Street
Pushing a fluid with the viscosity BD can have through a 10 micron pore size filter just requires some pressure or a lot of time take your pick. However there is nothing stopping you from rigging up a block and tackle to the top of the barn and hoisting the barrel up 40 or 50 feet to give you

Re: [Biofuel] Biofuels - facts and fiction (The Ecologist)

2007-05-02 Thread Joe Street
Interesting that the article criticizes the biofuel lobby for claiming some energy output derived from waste or 'co-product' streams and yet the article goes on to state that anaerobic digestion of vinasse from ethanol production results in methane gas which they choose to call a greenhouse gas

Re: [Biofuel] Troubles with the First Batch.. Request Advise from the Experienced!!

2007-05-07 Thread Joe Street
Sounds like you have water somewhere Shawn; This might be in the oil or in your methanol (likely). Even the KOH can adsorb water very quickly although if it does it tends to 'melt' before your eyes. Heat the oil above the boiling point of water first and see if you can steam any water out of i

Re: [Biofuel] Free Market

2007-05-07 Thread Joe Street
Wow .must be a slow news day in the sustainable world J;^> robert and benita rabello wrote: Thomas Kelly wrote: There's no apostrophe in its as used below: A car company can move it's factories to Mexico and claim it's a free market. That would be the first its, ; righ

Re: [Biofuel] Free Market

2007-05-07 Thread Joe Street
more and more people studying English, this alarming trend will only get worse. Remember. Think before you punctuate. Joe Street wrote: Wow .must be a slow news day in the sustainable world J;^> robert and benita rabello wrote: Thomas Kelly wrote: There's

Re: [Biofuel] Australia hands over man to US courts

2007-05-08 Thread Joe Street
"Givit away Givit away Givit away Givit away now"- Red Hot Chili Peppers Joe Keith Addison wrote: snip > >This is a little difficult to explain though: > >http://www.josephjenkins.com/books_humanure.html >Joseph Jenkins, Inc. - The Humanure Handbook > >This is where Joseph Jenkins sells h

Re: [Biofuel] Biofuels Report: How Green is my Tank? (The Ecologist)

2007-05-08 Thread Joe Street
Problem with wheel motors is the mass. It makes for poor handling because when the wheel encounters bumps or a sudden drop in road height it takes too long for the spring to push it back in contact with the pavement. The suspension can only have so much preload with a given chassis weight. B

Re: [Biofuel] Re-processing troubles

2007-05-09 Thread Joe Street
AAA or is that eh? eh? eh? lol Always Add Acid. Well at least it will let the oil and water let go of the soaps. Next time make sure there is very little soap by keeping everything DRY. Joe Bis Bisson wrote: Matt I made a dodgey brew last year which did a similar thing when washed. A

Re: [Biofuel] Biofuels Report: How Green is my Tank? (The Ecologist)

2007-05-09 Thread Joe Street
the weight transfer that is not susceptible to tuning by changing roll stiffness and/or roll centre positions. -Dawie - Original Message From: Joe Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, 8 May, 2007 6:40:35 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Biofuels

Re: [Biofuel] Re-processing troubles

2007-05-09 Thread Joe Street
Hi Tom; Excellent synopsis on 'how to do it right'. Although this is the same information that is there on the journey to forever website and probably a hundred times over here on the forum, I wish there was a way to bold it in the archives or something. The message should show up in red in

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: Gas Station Owner Told to Raise Prices

2007-05-10 Thread Joe Street
SUV's are a laugh.(or else I'd cry) The other day as I was walking home from work I noticed a shiny black new looking SUV parked up the street. I think it was a jeep brand and in big letters emblazoned on the rear bumper was the word PATRIOT. I had a good belly laugh as I walked by it lsteni

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: Gas Station Owner Told to Raise Prices

2007-05-10 Thread Joe Street
oh that must be a BIG ONE! Fred Oliff wrote: Hello Joe, is there not also a Jeep Commander? as in Commander-in-Chief? From: /Joe Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ Reply-To: /biofuel@sustainablelis

Re: [Biofuel] Gas prices - & government hot air - making drivers fume

2007-05-11 Thread Joe Street
Dawie Coetzee wrote: Fair enough: but this proceeds from the assumption that any and all "lifestyles" are equally available on the supermarket shelves, and it is our failure to select Lifestyle A over Lifestyle B that has got us into the mess we're in. There is a misconception that we've got

Re: [Biofuel] Isopropyl Alcohol supplies - Used to be Titrationquestion from a Newbie

2007-05-15 Thread Joe Street
Guys; The titration solution is water anyways so what difference is 10% water gonna make in the IPA? The water is always a problem cuz it makes the oil want to drop out and unless you've got good agitation I wonder how accurate the titration really is. I've been wondering what about using a

[Biofuel] Might is right?

2007-05-18 Thread Joe Street
Hi Keith; I agree with you about the discussion around handguns in the US. It will not be a productive rant/argument anywhere and will quickly degenerate into a shouting match. But can we have a more general discussion on the concept of force because it is a very important issue to me in a m

Re: [Biofuel] Might is right?

2007-05-22 Thread Joe Street
Hi Keith; So much to say. This thread is really where the rubber hits the road isn't it? You have raised so many good points I don't want to snip anything! So I'll use the same technique injecting my comments here and there although I am not always a fan of what that does to the archives if

Re: [Biofuel] Might is right?

2007-05-22 Thread Joe Street
dependance Day.) Think: what would Neo do? Jesse --- Joe Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Keith; I agree with you about the discussion around handguns in the US. It will not be a productive rant/argument anywhere and will quickly degenerate into a shouting match. But can we

Re: [Biofuel] THE LETHAL SCIENCE OF SPLENDA, A POISONOUS CHLOROCARBON

2007-05-22 Thread Joe Street
I'm thinking of putting a sticker on the bumper of my car that says: "Just say NO to halogens" Joe Kirk McLoren wrote: You will find several referances to splenda and insecticides http://aolsearch.aol.ca/web?query=Splenda%20and%20%20Insecticide including in this a

Re: [Biofuel] Governments using filters to censor Internet, survey finds

2007-05-22 Thread Joe Street
Hey Doug; I have always noticed your amateur radio callsign attached to your signature. I looked you up on QRZ.com and see you have an advanced rating. So now that this subject has come up I have to ask if you have any involvement with the Hinternet or any HSMM activity on the 9cm amateur ba

Re: [Biofuel] Governments using filters to censor Internet, survey finds

2007-05-22 Thread Joe Street
search for connections and hit the refresh button every time doesn't make me smile. Do you have any suggestions? Joe Mike Weaver wrote: What are you running? DD-WRT? That's what I run on my Buffalos. Been tinkering with antennas some. Joe Street wrote: Hey Doug; I have always

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: US Gasoline Prices Hit All Time Historical Highest Level - Adjusted For Inflation

2007-05-22 Thread Joe Street
9300! Where are you at? Leadville Colorado? Great news on the greenhouse. Joe Zeke Yewdall wrote: Finally. I don't like where the money is going, but for years, I have been arguing for public transportation, higher mpg vehicals, electric cars, etc. And the argument has always been that t

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: US Gasoline Prices Hit All Time Historical Highest Level - Adjusted For Inflation

2007-05-23 Thread Joe Street
Hey Darryl; What about adding a wheelmotor to a dirtsurfer? That would be my ride of choice...surfing the trails and sidewalks with style. http://www.dirtsurfer.com/ Would have to factor in some extra battery capacity for some sort of ghetto blaster. Gotta have tunes to ride the groovelo

Re: [Biofuel] Newbie Seeking Diesel Van Recommendations

2007-05-23 Thread Joe Street
Look for a mitsubishi delica. A buddy of mine just imported one with low miles from Japan. He loves it. Joe Luke Kareklas wrote: Hello All, I am a Kid's Birthday Party Entertainer, as well as a Juggler, Magician, and "Balloon Guy." I live in the Midwest, and have all 4 seasons during th

Re: [Biofuel] Newbie Seeking Diesel Van Recommendations

2007-05-29 Thread Joe Street
Hi Ray; Sorry for the delay. Try this forum for more information on Delicas. http://delica.ca/forum/index.php Joe raymond greeley wrote: I would like to see this van, what did you send it in. I have not been able to open ray ---

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: [MCS-Canada] Fluoride can kill...................

2007-05-29 Thread Joe Street
Hey Kirk; It's this last bit that has got my attention; Kirk McLoren wrote: SNIP Lester was shattered. He couldn't understand it. Yet there was a reason. Despite taking care to drink only bottled water, Lester didn't know that *much more of the pollution-laced tap water is ab

Re: [Biofuel] Newbie Seeking Diesel Van Recommendations

2007-05-29 Thread Joe Street
esels? Fred From: /Joe Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/ Reply-To: /biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ To: /biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ Subject: /Re: [Biofuel] Newbie Seeking Diesel Van Recommendations/ Date: /

Re: [Biofuel] Meth test (was Off topic)

2007-05-29 Thread Joe Street
sting from methyl esters. The method will show huch much of the material by mass that is soluble in methanol. This includes mostl mono- and diglycerides. The residue consists therefore mostly from unreacted oil. With best Jan Warnqvist - Original Message - *From:* Joe Street &l

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: [MCS-Canada] Fluoride can kill...................

2007-05-29 Thread Joe Street
es be they juice or soda drinks. I know in Umatilla Oregon just drinking the water is enough to cause fluorosis. CIty water is 6ppm. They encourage pregnant women and children not to drink the water. Kirk */Joe Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote: Hey Kirk; It's this las

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