Hi Ken >Thanks Keith, > >Maybe you could publish a dictionary on Biodiesel Jargon(hehe)
Aaarghh!! (a) It would only encourage more jargon use, as well as jargon proliferation, exacerbating the considerable difficulties of (b) keeping the sodding thing updated. :-( Yeah, I know, you're kidding. >no but >seriously if we want people to be guided, then the resources for their >"inquisitive minds" should be available. Like what happened to me, i was >just looking for ways to make methanol(and i don't remember why i wanted to >make methanol) and the search engine gave me biodiesel instead. Now i am >making biodiesel and smelling like it. Good thing this stuff isnt toxic! >But the point is that you guys made a webpage with all the information i >needed really encouraged me to do it(Thanks alot again, you have made >Mother Earth proud). :-) Yer more'n welcome. >So the next evolution would be to make it more >specific, how to test the used oil and from there classify the process >needed to get good biodiesel. We've been pushing that. I think you'll find more about it at Journey to Forever than most places. And more coming. >From the other messages, some have resorted >to using virgin vegetable oil as raw material. From a business point of >view that may be feasible but from an environmental view maybe not. We >want to close the cycle of pollution(throwing away used oil) and making it >profitable. No one said there wouldn't be any challenges. But how can >victory be sweet if there is no sorrow. > >Keith, i'm very interested in the NIR spectrometer thing. Do you have any >experience with that equipment? is it expensive? Yes, it's expensive, but the tests are much cheaper and simpler. And it needs one-off GC tests to serve as a baseline. Re which, see Steve's message today, "Re: Enough waste oil?" No, I don't have any experience of NIR. You should understand that I'm not in the biofuels-for-sale business, nor likely to be. I don't really have any "interest" in this group, I just started it because there seemed to be a need - I kept (keep) getting letters from folks wanting to go into biz and needing some advice. Anyway, Steve Spence turned up the original ARS news release and I followed it up by writing to Gerhard Knothe and uploading the papers he sent me. (As I said, we try to push the quality issue.) You see. Best Keith Addison >Thanks > >Ken C. Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://www.webconx.com/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
