Among other things, I can make bread and tofu from scratch. In fact, tomorrow morning I'm going to bake special rolls for the American holiday Thanksgiving.
Fortunately, before I start baking tomorrow morning I don't have to figure out how to design a Yeasted Roll Processor that will later scale up to a Loaf of Bread Processor. I don't have to research sources of the flour and yeast I need, nor pay hazmat charges for shipping these raw ingredients, nor fake an industrial address because they can't be shipped to a residence. I can store my ingredients and my Yeasted Roll Processor safely in my home rather than in a locked outbuilding. And when I pull my rolls out of the Yeasted Roll Processor, I will be able to inhale the fumes both safely and with pleasure. Before I leave the house tomorrow to take my freshly baked rolls over to my family dinner, I will probably start another chemical process before I go...and let it proceed unmonitored! Yes, I will toss a load in the Laundry Processor, measure in the chemicals without bothering to get out my triple beam balance, and start it up as I leave the house. By the time I get home my clothes will have been washed, rinsed, and wrung out. And I won't have to distill the alcohol out of the rinse water or find a sustainable way to dispose of an unwanted byproduct. Just like baking bread and making tofu, processing biodiesel is easy and fun for some. But that doesn't mean that it isn't alien, complicated, and intimidating to others. Until the day arrives that we can go to any appliance store to purchase the Biodiesel Processor that meets our family's needs, we must work together to figure out how to make it as easy as possible to build a one that is as safe and efficient as a washing machine in a matter of hours (which means providing a standard design, parts list, and sources). And we must also find ways to make processing biodiesel as simple and mindless as it is to do a load of laundry. Only then will more of the very people who squander the majority of the world's natural resources (yes, my compatriots) will feel able and willing to process their own biodiesel and use it as their primary fuel. Maud St. Louis, Missouri Quinn said: <snip> > >No, Keith, you don't have to be a rocket scientist. But I bet it would >>help. ; ) Keith said: >I bet it wouldn't. More likely it'd be largely or entirely >superfluous, perhaps even a hindrance - this is Appropriate >Technology stuff, KISS, which rocket science isn't too good at. Would >it help a whole lot in figuring how to clean up the wash-water in a >simple greywater system? Or rigging a washing tank from a 55-gal drum >or a plastic garbage bucket or defunct washing machine whatever you >happen to find lying about the place? This stuff isn't much more >complicated than baking bread, if any. I'm a journalist, not a >techie, I don't have any technical training of any kind, I think the <snip> ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
