The basic concept for making alchohol from dead bio materials [yard waste etc] is to seal the materials in an airtight steel container and heat till all volitiles are gassified, condense the gasses into liquid. One byproduct is charcoal which can be further used to supply heat. A solar oven arrangement might suppply additional heat. I'm not sure of the exact specs on the process but that's the basics. The result is "wood alchohol" aka methonal. A more effecient method for production for automobiles may be to install a wood gas generator as was available on Mercedes cars during ww2 and is in common use in the Philippines today on taxis and motor boats. [not very convenient, but it works] Mother earth news built and ran a Chevey LUV on wood gas. [got about 1 mile per pound of wood if I recall]
Some auto makers are offering "multifuel" engines that will burn whatever you put into them if it's at least in the same class of fuel [can't run peanut oil in a gasoline engine but can in a diesel...can run alchohol or alchohol/gasoline mix in a gas engine regardless of ratios] Ken At 09:59 AM 5/5/01 -0500, you wrote: >Hello, All-- > >I've tried unsuccessfully to find Robert Warren of the California Alcohol >Fuel Producers' Assn., who had a super high efficiency distiller >guaranteed to make 5 gal. of 190 proof "on your first run". It employed >special baffles housed in 4" copper tubing configured in a narrow, >inverted "U" shape about 5' tall, connecting two reservoirs that sat on >the floor. The unit was advertised a defunct solar catalog several years >ago. > >I'll be getting details soon on running such fuels in a 1:4 mixture with >WATER...so please let me know of any info about making alcohol from free >material such as dead wood or sawdust (I've heard that only malic acid & >sugar are required). > >Regards, >Russ Rosser >Dietary Minerals: >Sea Salt, Seaweed Juice >(256) 546-5945, 547-7850 >cel: (256) 390-1439 > > > >On Sat, 05 May 2001 08:16:40 -0700 Ode Coyote <[email protected]> writes: >> >> Methonol can be produced using any biomass resulting in a net >> neutral >> carbon dioxide production/consumption loop. > > >-- >The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > >To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: >[email protected] -or- [email protected] >with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > >To post, address your message to: [email protected] >Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html >List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > >
