[biofuel] Canola warning
Kirk wrote: Beware of Canola Oil, Canola Oil is an Industrial Oil, Not Fit For Human Consumption. Here is a summary of a few facts regarding Canola Oil: It is genetically engineered rapeseed. Wrong, as pointed out by another listmember. Canada paid the FDA the sum of $50 million to have rape registered Unlikely, as no prior approval would have been required from the FDA, so why pay them anything? Rapeseed is a lubricating oil used by small industry. It has never been meant for human consumption. The following is from Purseglove: Tropical Crops (1968) Quote: Brassica napus L. (2n+38) RAPE Rape was in ancient cultivation in the Mediterranean region. It is grown in Europe as green fodder for livestock and for its seeds from which rape or colza oil is extracted, for which purpose it is also grown in Japan. The residual rape-seed cake is fed to livestock. Rape oil is edible; it is used for greasing loaves of bread before baking. It is also used as an illuminant and lubricant and for soap manufacture. Rape is not much grown in the tropics... End Quote. This information is somewhat out of date, as huile de colza is now a popular salad oil in France, and I would guess elsewhere in the Common Market. Marc de Piolenc Iligan Philippines Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/
RE: [biofuel] Digest Number 465
Message: 1 Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 20:13:35 -0400 From: Greg Yohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: list We're stuck with them! -Original Message- From: Harmon Seaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 8:10 PM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [biofuel] list Excuse me, I just joined the list, and I've looked all over the yahoo/groups stuff trying to figure out how to turn off the banner ads I'm getting with the mail from this list. It says attachments are disabled for the list - as they should be -- but I'm getting the html ads anyway. Anybody know how to kill them? I dont know about you .,.. but mine says.. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] So i assume those are the advertisements you get? are you getting the digest? Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/
Re: [biofuel] Digest Number 465
Crabb, David wrote: I dont know about you .,.. but mine says.. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] So i assume those are the advertisements you get? are you getting the digest? Nope, not the digest. And mine also had the [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] bit, but also full-color banner ads. Anyway, it's stopped now. -- Harmon Seaver, MLIS CyberShamanix Work 920-203-9633 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home 920-233-5820 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/
Re: [biofuel] Reclaiming the methanol
Methanol is extremely soluble but a reflux condenser should give a good yield. Beyond that the methods cited for drying ethanol should apply. Harry in Oz. Thankyou Harry. Hey, I got all the answers I wanted! Great! Thanks one and all. Best Keith Addison Journey to Forever Handmade Projects Tokyo http://journeytoforever.org/ Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/
[biofuel] Brazil ups alcohol in gasoline to 22 pct on May 31
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=10954 Planet Ark Brazil ups alcohol in gasoline to 22 pct on May 31 BRAZIL: May 24, 2001 SAO PAULO - Brazil will raise the alcohol content of all gasoline sold domestically to 22 percent from 20 percent beginning on May 31, the Agriculture Ministry said yesterday. The final step to approving the increase to 22 percent happened today when the Interministerial Council on Sugar and Alcohol sent the decree to the National Council on Farm Policy, said Pedro Camargo Neto, the Agriculture Ministry's secretary of production and trade. Brazil's gasoline had contained 24 percent of the sugarcane-based ethanol, or alcohol as it is referred to locally, but the government had to reduce the ratio of the clean-burning fuel in gasoline four percentage points late last year. A prolonged drought over Brazil's main center-south sugarcane crop cut the region's output by 20 percent and the government feared the consumption of alcohol at the time would create sharp price fluctuations and supply problems on sugar and alcohol markets. Brazil launched its Pro-Alcohol Program in the early 1970s during the world energy crisis to ease its dependency on foreign oil imports while bolstering demand on the country's sugar market. This season's center-south crop was pegged between 222 million and 227 million tonnes, well above the 207 million turned out during the 2000/01 drought-stricken season. But a shortage of rain in January and March in certain top-cane-producing regions of the Center-South have raised concerns that the harvest figures may tend toward 222 million tonnes rather than the upper end of the estimate. The government has responded conservatively at this point while production figures from the field - only recently having begun harvest - are still pending, said a sector analyst. But a sugar trader based in Rio de Janeiro said the move to raise the mixture to only 22 percent had been widely expected for a month now and the market has already factored it into prices. The two-point rise of alcohol in fuel will translate into about 500,000 tonnes of sugar taken off the market, said the trader, a specialist in alcohol production, who declined to be named. He added that many of the country's smaller gasoline distributors already cut their gasoline with levels of alcohol well above the government's mandated 20 percent level. These smaller chains account for about 50 percent of the country's distributors, so the impact of the two point increase on the sugar market will be somewhat mitigated, he said. After extracting the liquid from the sugarcane by crushing, mills distill some of the cane juice into ethanol and the rest is used for the production of sugar. Residents of Brazil now should breathe better during the Southern Hemisphere's winter months when pollution tends to worsen in larger cities like Sao Paulo due to inversion problems. Alcohol is a renewable bio-or green fuel and is said to burn 10 percent cleaner than gasoline. REUTERS NEWS SERVICE Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/
[biofuel] Hybrid electric vehicle seen as clean but slow
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=10958 Planet Ark Hybrid electric vehicle seen as clean but slow UK: May 25, 2001 LONDON - Despite a tax break by George W. Bush, hybrid cars combining a small internal combustion engine with a battery pack have made a slow start on the world's congested roads. The hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) promise to cut emissions and fuel consumption, but the battery technology has not yet delivered the acceleration and sustained speed which conventional motorists demand. Seen by some as the car of the future, the HEV got a boost this month from the U.S. president's energy strategy. Bush announced plans for $4 billion in tax breaks for buyers of the more environmentally-friendly hybrid and fuel cell vehicles, in a package otherwise widely condemned by critics as a threat to the environment. A number of industry analysts said the announcement, while welcome, would do little to speed output of hybrids. It might encourage a few more people to go for them (HEVs), but the major bugbear is not so much the price but their performance parameters, said Angus MacMillan of metal consultants Brook Hunt, who sees the move on HEVs as a relatively insignificant gesture. It's (a) small sop to the environmental lobby, given what the other legislation is going to exact on the environment. Patrick Moseley, research programme manager at the U.S.-based Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC), expressed a contrary view. Hybrids are already selling pretty well as they are, he said. The first generation includes Toyota Motor Corp's Prius model and Honda Motor Co's Insight. In February, worldwide sales of the Prius were reported at around 50,000. In the second half of 2000 some 5,562 cars had been sold or leased in the United States, according to the Electric Vehicle Association of the Americas' website . This compares with some 3,805 of Honda's Insight model since the fourth quarter of 1999. HEVs - which have a small internal combustion engine and a battery pack - are seen holding the most promise for cutting emissions and fuel consumption in the short-term. HEV engines are designed to run at constant speed to keep batteries charged on open roads. Battery-only operation is used in towns and cities to cut pollution. Overall emissions are estimated to be 50 percent lower than normal cars. But many see HEVs as little more than an interim technology to some form of pure electric vehicle. FUEL CELL CARS Fuel cell cars, also favoured by Bush's tax break, comprise an onboard charger which can also directly drive the system. Hydrogen and electricity are burnt to create electricity, while emissions are hot, distilled water. The technology would still need a battery to power electronic devices but configurations are being investigated. The most important thing surely is the recognition of the importance of commercialisation, said Marcus Nurdin, managing director of the World Fuel Cell Council. But technology had to be improved, he said. Costs had to be cut and infrastructure issues - such as the safe storage of hydrogen - had to be resolved before volume output could begin. Others were more sceptical of the tax break benefits. The tax incentive doesn't matter if the technology is not there, said Brook Hunt's MacMillan. Gerry Woolf, head of Britain's Electric Vehicle Association, saw a move towards HEVs in the popular, gas-guzzling sports utility vehicles (SUVs) sector as a sign of their increased acceptance. Ford aims to offer hybrid Escape models from 2003. On its website it said the vehicles will achieve up to 40 miles (64 km) per gallon in city driving and travel up to 500 miles (804.7 km) on a single tank of gasoline. Woolf said the vehicle would initially use nickel-metal hydride batteries, but added that General Motors was leaning towards lead-acid batteries for its SUV models. In the industry, a battle for HEV battery configuration is raging between nickel-metal hydride and lead-acid technologies and this was also seen as being unaffected by the tax breaks. Toyota's Prius and Honda's Insight have opted for nickel-metal hydride batteries. Analysts said nickel-metal hydride batteries had better chemistry and further development was needed for lead-acid technology to cope with the heavy duty cycle required for HEVs. But some were confident the lead-acid camp could make up lost ground, simply because of cost advantages. The Electric Vehicle Association's Woolf said a lead-acid battery pack for HEVs costs around $200. Other technologies were at least three or four times as expensive and the car industry was not willing to pay such a price in the longer term, he said. In the early year or two, lead won't be there - but it will be in the longer term, ALABC's Moseley said. Potentially, lead would have much to lose if nickel maintained a stranglehold on HEVs, given that around three-quarters of the six
[biofuel] London council first buyer of fuel cell vehicle
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=10940 Planet Ark London council first buyer of fuel cell vehicle UK: May 24, 2001 LONDON - The first zero-emissions fuel cell vehicle to be sold commercially was snapped up yesterday by London's Westminster City Council. The van, which will be used in the upkeep of London's parks, was sold to the council by UK-based makers ZeVco for 33,000 pounds ($47,000). The cost of making this vehicle ran into hundreds of thousands of pounds, but it is like a prototype. It's to show people what fuel cell technology can do, and hopefully attract investment, ZeVco General Manager Alan Osborne told Reuters. Fuel cell vehicles run on an electrochemical combination of hydrogen and oxygen which produces electricity and water. The fuel cell acts as an on board charger to power the vehicle with water its only emission. The ZeVco vehicle has a top speed of 100 kilometres an hour (62 mph) can accelerate from 0 to 50 km/h in 15 seconds and is 50 percent cheaper to run than a conventional combustion engine-powered vehicle. The vehicle looks no different from an ordinary van but it is extremely quiet. If we made another one now the cost would halve, and you can imagine that if we made a lot the cost would reduce massively, Osborne said. The difficulty of installing a hydrogen refueling network similar to a petrol station network across Britain means that for the foreseeable future fuel cell vehicle producers will target fleet operators as a potential market, Osborne said. The best market for us is duty vehicles, fleet operators in urban environments such as delivery vans, buses and taxis - people who can bring a fleet back to a central depot and refuel there, he added. Executive Chairman of ZeVco's UK-based parent company ZeTek Nicholas Abson said: We have been approached by the one of the big three courier companies with a view to producing a vehicle fleet for them. No details of the negotiations were as yet available, he added. REUTERS NEWS SERVICE Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/
[biofuel] Magellan Announces First Biofuel Power Generation Package
http://biz.yahoo.com/cnw/010524/magellan_biofuel_pack_2.html Yahoo - Thursday May 24, 4:00 pm Eastern Time Press Release SOURCE: Magellan Aerospace Corporation Magellan Announces First Biofuel Power Generation Package TORONTO, May 24 /CNW/ - Magellan Aerospace Corporation announced today that its Orenda Turbines operating unit has entered a formal collaboration agreement to supply a power generation unit with a turbine modified to run on biofuel. The 2.5-megawatt gas turbine generator package, known as the OGT 2500, will be installed in the United Kingdom in cooperation with Border Biofuels Limited and DynaMotive Technologies Limited. The biofuel will be made entirely from organic forestry waste using a process called pyrolysis, developed by DynaMotive. The unit will reach operational status in mid-2002. This program is the inaugural commercial application for this technology, and will qualify Magellan for an ongoing project that could result in orders for an additional 15 to 20 units. In order to demonstrate an integrated biofuel, pyrolysis and energy conversion plant, the UK project received a pnds stlg 1.15 million grant from the British Government, Department of Trade and Industry, to fund commercial testing prior to entry into full commercial service. UK Energy Minister, Peter Hain, said, Biomass is a key source of renewable energy and will be very important if we are to achieve our target of securing 10% of our electricity from renewable sources by 2010. Biofuel is a clean-burning fuel that can be produced from a variety of biomass waste, including sawdust and sugarcane bagasse. Magellan has installed a full-scale development model of the OGT 2500 in its Orenda facility, and is currently using the electrical power generated to power the factory. The installed unit is running on natural gas, an option where biofuel is not readily available. Magellan Aerospace Corporation is one of the world's most integrated and comprehensive aerospace industry suppliers. Magellan designs, engineers, and manufactures aeroengine and aerostructure components for aerospace markets, advanced products for military and space markets, and complementary specialty products. Magellan is a public company whose shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange (MAL), with operating units throughout the United States and Canada. For further information William A. Matthews, Vice President Marketing, (905) 677-1889, www.magellanaerospace.com Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/
[biofuel] Navistar unit calls on Pemex to clean up diesel
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=10964 Planet Ark Navistar unit calls on Pemex to clean up diesel MEXICO: May 25, 2001 MEXICO CITY - U.S. truck and bus maker International called yesterday for Mexico's state-owned oil monopoly to begin producing a lower-sulfur diesel fuel so that it can introduce its new low-emissions diesel engines here. The only piece missing is the diesel. We are pushing so that these changes come about faster, said Jose Manuel Canal, vice president for the company's international operations. International, a unit of Chicago-based Navistar International Corp. , said it will introduce its so-called green diesel technology in buses in California in September this year. But Canal said the company cannot begin to make and sell buses or trucks using this technology in Mexico until Petroleos de Mexico (Pemex) the government-run producer and refiner of oil, begins making a diesel fuel with 15 parts per million of sulfur or lower. International said the lowest sulfur diesel currently available in Mexico is 500 parts per million. Canal said the company has had no indication from Pemex when it could begin to produce low-sulfur diesel. Roughly half of Mexico's oil is Maya crude, the world's third heaviest in terms of metals and sulfur content. It therefore requires more processing at the refinery end. Pemex is slowly upgrading refineries to increase Mexico's capacity to process Maya. But budgetary constraints mean the upgrades will take years. It is unclear when low-sulfur diesel could be produced in any sizeable quantity. INCREASED MARKET SHARE International has one factory in Mexico, opened in 1998 in the northern state of Nuevo Leon, which manufactures 45 units a day of trucks, trailers and buses. Most are sold on the domestic market. Canal said in the first four months of the year, International increased its market share to 34 percent compared with 24 percent in the same period last year. In the first three months of 2001, International sold 2,500 units - including trucks and buses - in Mexico. Canal did not provide a comparative figure for last year. Earlier this year, Mexico's Association of Bus, Truck and Trailer Manufacturers (ANPACT) said that heavy vehicle sales in Mexico fell 6 percent during the first quarter, to 7,504 units. Canal said the reasons International was doing well compared with its competitors here were financing plans and products. NEW TECHNOLOGY TOUTED International executives said yesterday that their low-emission diesel engines last longer, are more powerful, and have a greater operating range than natural gas engines with comparable emissions. They said low-emission diesel engines will cost only 10 percent more than current diesel engines. Mexico City, part of an urban area of some 19 million people, is one of the most polluted cities in the world, and the local government is currently trying to replace tens of thousands of buses for safer, less-polluting models. Canal said on average its new low-emissions buses pollute only 1 percent as much as the tens of thousands of buses currently on the road in Mexico City. He also said International has adapted the technology on the new engines so it could work well in the high altitude of Mexico City, which is more than 7,000 feet (2,200 meters) above sea level, worsening the emissions of some engines. Story by Fiona Ortiz REUTERS NEWS SERVICE Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/
[biofuel] New Research May Reduce Renewable Fuel Costs
http://ens-news.com/ens/may2001/2001L-05-24-09.html New Research May Reduce Renewable Fuel Costs BOULDER, Colorado, May 24, 2001 (ENS) - Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder have developed a novel means of producing ethanol that could decrease the cost of renewable fuel. Associate professor Kathleen Danna of the molecular, cellular and developmental biology department and her research team created a new technique they expect to produce low cost enzymes vital for the conversion of plant cellulose into ethanol. Producing large quantities of the enzymes could slash costs for the processing of renewable fuels from plant biomass, said Danna. By promoting the development of renewable fuels, our work should have significant economic and environmental impact, Danna said. An established biofuels industry will strengthen U.S. agriculture and reduce our country's dependence on foreign oil. Ethanol, also known as ethyl alcohol, is a clean burning fuel that is used as a gasoline additive in some states, including Colorado, during the high pollution months in winter. In Brazil, ethanol has been used on an experimental basis to run fleets of cars with modified engines using fuel made of 95 percent ethanol. Although the ethanol now used as a fuel additive in America is derived from cornstarch rather than cellulose via biomass conversion, cornstarch as a source of raw material would not be able to meet the demand if ethanol were to become a major transportation fuel, Danna said. While there is a competing use for cornstarch - food - the supply of plant biomass is so large that households, industry and government often must pay for its disposal. The increased use of biofuels at the expense of petroleum will reduce air pollution, particularly particulate matter, carbon monoxide, ozone and nitrous oxide and will slow the accumulation of greenhouse gases, Danna said. * * * Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/
[biofuel] Rocket Technology Could Produce Pollution Free Electricity
http://ens-news.com/ens/may2001/2001L-05-24-09.html Rocket Technology Could Produce Pollution Free Electricity LIVERMORE, California, May 24, 2001 (ENS) - Researchers from a Sacramento energy firm and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) believe a rocket technology may have a down to earth application - producing electricity. Clean Energy Systems Inc. officials - mostly retired rocket scientists - have developed a technology they think can generate low cost, pollution free electricity from fossil fuels. But, since utility companies require five or six years of demonstrated operation for a new technology before purchasing it, Clean Energy officials approached LLNL about building a research facility there. Utilities are known for wanting to buy the second or third plant, never the first, said Ray Smith, LLNL's Applied Energy Technology Program leader. We think the government should reduce the scientific and economic risk by building the first plant. Lab officials plan to submit a proposal this year to the Department of Energy to build a 10 megawatt, $70 million facility at the Laboratory based on Clean Energy's technology. Clean Energy's technology represents a whole new approach to producing steam and electricity cleanly. It replaces six story high steam boilers with a generator that is seven to eight feet long and one foot in diameter, Smith said. A variety of fossil fuels - natural gas, synthetic gas from coal, petroleum and biomass - are among the possible sources that could power the Clean Energy system. The firm's gas generator burns the fuel, along with oxygen and water at high temperatures, and produces a gas mixture of steam and carbon dioxide. Like a rocket engine, the generator burns pure oxygen to produce steam and avoids producing nitrogen oxides. The steam, in turn, powers the turbines that drive an electric generator and produces electricity without pollutants. A condenser cools the steam into water and separates it from the carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide (CO2) from the system could be injected into aging oil fields, where it can help retrieve up to two barrels of oil per barrel of CO2. A key part of the research we want to do is for the sequestration of carbon dioxide - how much of the gas stays in the oil field and whether it can also be sequestered in deep saline aquifers, Smith said. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/
[biofuel] Toyota delivers gas/electric vehicles to Denver
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=10946 Planet Ark Toyota delivers gas/electric vehicles to Denver USA: May 24, 2001 DENVER - With rising gasoline prices and concern over air pollution as a backdrop, Toyota Motors yesterday delivered to the city of Denver 39 gas-electric hybrid cars that register 52 miles per gallon in city driving. The purchase of the 2001 Prius sedan models, which run on both an electric motor and a conventional engine, will bring to 14 percent the share of the city's light vehicle fleet that runs on alternate fuels, city officials said. We're committed to making Denver an environmentally friendly city, Theresa Donahue, manager of Denver's Department of Environmental Health, said in front of City Hall where the vehicles were parked. The cars will be used by the Denver Fire Department, Parks and Recreation and other city agencies. The delivery of the cars in downtown Denver provided Toyota with a golden marketing opportunity. Hopefully it helps spread the world that these vehicles exist, Greg Kitzens, assistant General Manager for Toyota Motor Sales USA, Inc., told Reuters. Only Toyota with its Prius and Honda Motor Co. Ltd. with the Honda Insight, have hybrid gas-electric vehicles for sale. Other automakers are not expected to have models available until 2003 at the earliest. Toyota also delivered seven RAV4-EVs, or electric vehicles, that get 126 miles (200 km) on one tank or charge, that will be leased by companies in the Denver area. PRIUS NEEDS NO RECHARGING The four-door Prius sedan, which seats five, does not need to be recharged because it generates power when the driver steps on the brake. Because of this, the car, which retails at $19,995, gets better mileage in the city than on the highway, 52 mpg (83 kilometers) compared with 48. Toyota is selling the Prius model at a rate of about 1,000 a month, in line with its annual target of 12,000, Kitzens said. About 4 percent of Prius sales in the United States go to fleets, but about 30-35 percent of sales in western U.S. states are for fleets, a Toyota spokeswoman said. The Denver region, which covers six western states, accounts for about 10 percent of Prius sales, Kitzens said, a higher count than would be expected in the sparsely populated Rocky Mountain region. While the Prius is a hybrid, the RAV4-EVs is powered solely by an electric motor. Seven public access charging stations will be built around the Denver area, including at Denver International Airport through a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy Clean Cities program, Donahue said. The RAV4, which looks like a small sport utility vehicle, is being offered for lease exclusively to fleet users. As of spring 2001, 821 RAV4-Evs have been delivered. It takes about five to six hours to fully recharge the battery. Both vehicles offer a smooth ride and if it were not for indicators in the Prius showing when the electric motor kicks in, many drivers would not detect the difference. Story by Judith Crosson REUTERS NEWS SERVICE Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/
[biofuel] Re: Reclaiming the methanol
I think you may be near the correct answer for a mixture only of water and methanol. The boiling point of mixtures can be calculated, but are easier to find experimentally. However, in recovering methanol from biodiesel byproduct we have a much more complex mixture. Any water in the mix is either tied up in soap or, at the very least, heavy in dissolved catalyst. Either will make the water much more difficult to boil. I haven't taken my rig up to high enough temperature to after methanol recovery to recover any water, so I can't be sure at what temperature and pressure water recovery would begin, but suspect it would be at a very high temp or low pressure. Dale --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Hi Dale Thanks, good info. I don't think water can be recovered from the byproduct at anywhere near the boiling point of methanol. Now let's see if I can get this right. If it's a mixture of methanol and water that's being boiled, the boiling point of the mixture will be somewhere between the two boiling points, depending on the proportion of the mix. Of course vapours come off before boiling point is reached, but the methanol component won't boil off at the boiling point of pure methanol (64.7 deg C), while the water component remains unboiled until the temperature reaches 100 deg C. If you evaporate a liquid mixture, the vapour has a higher proportion of the more volatile components than the liquid it evaporated from. Alcohol is more volatile than water (it takes less energy to vaporise alcohol than to vaporise water). So when you boil a mix of the two, the vapour contains more alcohol - not because the alcohol component of the mix is boiling first, but because the alcohol is more volatile. So the proportion of alcohol in the boiling liquid steadily goes down, and the boiling point of the mixture steadily goes up. In a 50-50 mix the boiling point will start off being halfway between the boiling points of the two components - more alcohol lowers the boiling point, more water raises it. If you boil a mix of methanol and water, you'll get vapours of both. (How did I do, O Silent One?) If I screwed up, Dale, I'll no doubt be hearing about it and will post a correction. Thanks again. Keith Addison Journey to Forever Handmade Projects Tokyo http://journeytoforever.org/ Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/
[biofuel] ENVIRO FRIENDLY GAS
looks as if vegetable fuel is making its intro to the public...read on belowalicia GREASED LIGHTNING The first gas station in a major city to sell vegetable fuel for diesel cars and trucks opened yesterday in San Francisco. A similar station also opened in Sparks, Nev. The biodiesel fuel is made from recycled vegetable oil from restaurants or from soybean oil. The fuel doesn't cut back on nitrogen oxide emissions, but it does avoid the carbon monoxide problems and the cloud of particulates that come from burning diesel. Vehicles using biodiesel experience a small drop in fuel economy, and give off the scent of french fries. Teri Shore, from the enviro group Bluewater Network, said biodiesel could help with the U.S.'s energy problems: Instead of mining in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, we can mine the nation's supplies of restaurant grease. straight to the source: San Francisco Chronicle, Jane Kay, 23 May 2001 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/05/23/MN110637.DTL straight to the source: Las Vegas Sun, Associated Press, 23 May 2001 http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/archives/2001/may/22/052210907.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/
[biofuel] Re: Reclaiming the methanol
Sorry, Mike, I didn't make it very clear, did I? I've used much more than 30 gallons in processing fuel. In total, I have recovered and reused about 30 gallons. Dale --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Brownstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dale, Isn't there any loss of methanol during reaction? I am surprised that you are recovering all that you use. Or did I mis-understand you? Mike Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/
[biofuel] dysfunctional redress
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fwd: Saving Gasoline and Money Thanks a whole lot, Steve Spence. I really needed to know that. Got anything for erectile dysfunction; i.e. limp dick? if the magnet is the right shape, sliding it into the urethra will noticeably stiffen things up... ouch mag giver, md. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/
Re: [biofuel] Vinegar into oil
Hi Pedro Am, I right in thinking that you speak (and write) better English than me??? el Guiri Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/
RE: [biofuel] dysfunctional redress
would it work as a compass? -Original Message- From: Dick Carlstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 3:52 PM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [biofuel] dysfunctional redress From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fwd: Saving Gasoline and Money Thanks a whole lot, Steve Spence. I really needed to know that. Got anything for erectile dysfunction; i.e. limp dick? if the magnet is the right shape, sliding it into the urethra will noticeably stiffen things up... ouch mag giver, md. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/ --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.252 / Virus Database: 125 - Release Date: 5/9/2001 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.252 / Virus Database: 125 - Release Date: 5/9/2001 Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/
RE: [biofuel] Canola warning
You didn't read the later post. A German scientist published re. GM canola. You can eat soy also. But it is thyroid antagonistic and mimics estrogen to some extent. I find much of the facts depend on what maketing group you quote. Also I didn't write. I wrote you may find this interesting The rest was written by a physician and proper credit should be given the author. -Original Message- From: F. Marc de Piolenc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 7:35 AM To: Biofuel List Subject: [biofuel] Canola warning Kirk wrote: Beware of Canola Oil, Canola Oil is an Industrial Oil, Not Fit For Human Consumption. Here is a summary of a few facts regarding Canola Oil: It is genetically engineered rapeseed. Wrong, as pointed out by another listmember. Canada paid the FDA the sum of $50 million to have rape registered Unlikely, as no prior approval would have been required from the FDA, so why pay them anything? Rapeseed is a lubricating oil used by small industry. It has never been meant for human consumption. The following is from Purseglove: Tropical Crops (1968) Quote: Brassica napus L. (2n+38) RAPE Rape was in ancient cultivation in the Mediterranean region. It is grown in Europe as green fodder for livestock and for its seeds from which rape or colza oil is extracted, for which purpose it is also grown in Japan. The residual rape-seed cake is fed to livestock. Rape oil is edible; it is used for greasing loaves of bread before baking. It is also used as an illuminant and lubricant and for soap manufacture. Rape is not much grown in the tropics... End Quote. This information is somewhat out of date, as huile de colza is now a popular salad oil in France, and I would guess elsewhere in the Common Market. Marc de Piolenc Iligan Philippines Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/ --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.252 / Virus Database: 125 - Release Date: 5/9/2001 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.252 / Virus Database: 125 - Release Date: 5/9/2001 Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/
[biofuel] Mobile BD plant loading/ unloading
Dana Linscott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The sliding frame lowboys I was referring to in an earlier post are used for transport of large farm equipment in the US and are not the types later posters described. These are very simple to build and sturdy. They do not have drop tails but rather are flat. The axles are mounted on a sliding subframe which by unlatching the pins holding it to the main frame and dropping in pins to prevent wheel rotation allow the main frame to be slid back by backing the tow vehicle. Bloody brilliant. And besides cheapness, the obvious advantage over side-loaders is the possibility of extracting a container from tight places. The majority of the trailers I have seen have high flotation tires(to allow use on unimproved roads and fields) and a simple but sturdy suspension. While not designed for high speed I have used them myself at 50 mph which I would consider the max top speed. This is the part I don't get. Conventional low-pressure tires tend to be large in diameter, which in turn requires a lot of clearance from the ground. How do they get around this? Not that it really matters, now that I think of it - it's easy to carry matting or planks along for moving the trailer a short distance off a compacted surface. You may also wish to consider reinforcing the container and attaching three legged supports near the corners which could be swung down or carried along and assembled when the unit is moved on a flatbed. As long as it's handled by the corners, reinforcement should not be necessary, so I would just make the supports removable and attach them to the lower corners for handling. I like this idea - I was fumbling for something similar but could not get the stability I wanted. Low trailer plus tripod wins the day! Simple hydraulic jacks could then be used to raise the container up the required few inches to a foot so that the trailer could be pulled out. That part's easy - it was lowering the container to the pad afterward that I could not figure out. Building up the pad to meet the container, plus a low trailer height, solve this problem. If you constructed a trailer which allows the side of the container to extend out a foot or so from the edge of the trailer you could even simply use hydraulic jacks and blocking to raise and lower the container. This is what I did for my houseboat (14 ton) and after a little practice I could unload it in about half an hour by myself. 15 minutes with help. 2 jacks= $60us and blocking (cut up old railroad ties) $80us. Set directly upon the blocking it is quite stable. As long as one is building equipment for the purpose, it makes sense to do the tripod thing and save a lot of labor and danger! Unless you have several containers to move I wonder if your best bet would not be to simply construct a robust trailer and leave the unit on it. Exactly what my father-in-law wants to do with my personal trailer. As for the BD plant, it probably makes more sense here to build it on a trailer in the first place. Still, containers have obvious advantages in any scheme that involves centralized production of plants, which might very well be needed for viability in the long term. Our group has decided to use a heavy 20' flatbed trailer and weld reinforcing skids to the bottom of the container which allow the wheel wells of the trailer to fit under the bottom of the container. This will allow the trailer to be used for other things as well (gathering WVO). We will then construct a low platform (about 3' high)with railroad ties and soil at each place we intend to place the container. The container will simply be winched on and off the trailer. The skids will of course make the container non-shippable by ocean - at least not as a standard container. I gather that doesn't matter. If need be we can simply pull up the timbers and scatter the soil to abandon a site...and reuse the timbers. Exactly. Again, many thanks! Marc de Piolenc Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/
Re: [biofuel] Digest Number 465
your post had a color banner on it. Steve Spence Subscribe to the Renewable Energy Newsletter: http://www.webconx.com/subscribe.htm Renewable Energy Pages - http://www.webconx.com Palm Pilot Pages - http://www.webconx.com/palm X10 Home Automation - http://www.webconx.com/x10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (212) 894-3704 x3154 - voicemail/fax We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. -- - Original Message - From: Harmon Seaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 11:39 AM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Digest Number 465 Crabb, David wrote: I dont know about you .,.. but mine says.. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] So i assume those are the advertisements you get? are you getting the digest? Nope, not the digest. And mine also had the [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] bit, but also full-color banner ads. Anyway, it's stopped now. -- Harmon Seaver, MLIS CyberShamanix Work 920-203-9633 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home 920-233-5820 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor www. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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 the Yahoo! Terms of Service. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/
[biofuel] magnet in the urethra
From: kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: dysfunctional redress would it work as a compass? it would definitely point at true north. maybe at true south too, but can't vouch for that yet. shielding at the protruding end might hamper accuracy. spring mattresses are definitely a no-no, unless non-magnetic stainless steel springs are fitted. when hiking alone, make sure no metalic rings or such interfere with true directional functions. if the magnet's section is too large, or the urethra's too small, violent expulsion of the magnet might ocurr when flushing, or milking. magnet removal is recommended when such a possiblity exists. metalic zippers should be non-magnetic, to preclude operational dificulties. this must be stressed, as people with penile dysfunction also tend to have memory dysfunction regarding zippers and such. considering a ceramic magnet's brittle nature, such types should be avoided. excess vacuum could also violently displace the magnet, inducing choking. otherwise, it is a very cost effective solution. i believe radio shack carries them in different lengths and diameters. Thanks a whole lot, Steve Spence. I really needed to know that. Got anything for erectile dysfunction; i.e. limp dick? if the magnet is the right shape, sliding it into the urethra will noticeably stiffen things up... ouch mag giver, md. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/
[biofuel] 3M Corp. Donates $200,000 For Clean School Buses
http://ens.lycos.com/ens/may2001/2001L-05-25-09.html 3M Corp. Donates $200,000 For Clean School Buses HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, May 25, 2001 (ENS) - 3M Corp. has donated $200,000 to Pennsylvania's Clean Air Fund for a pilot project to retrofit school buses to reduce air pollution. 3M's donation to Pennsylvania's Clean Air Fund for this project is part of our commitment to the environment, said Dr. Katherine Reed, 3M staff vice president for environmental technology and safety services. This gift complements 3M's efforts to reduce air emissions at our operations throughout the world. Since 1990, 3M has applied its innovation and technology to reduce its volatile organic air emissions by almost 90 percent. Some of these reductions have generated emission credits that provide the funding for this grant. It is 3M's position that it will not profit from the emission credits generated by its emission reduction programs. Instead, the company has provided grants for a variety of environmentally beneficial projects, Reed said. Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Secretary David Hess applauded 3M Corp. for its donation. This project will equip school buses currently in use with diesel retrofit technology, Hess said. This technology will reduce the amount of air pollution buses produce, helping to clean up the air for their precious riders - our children. Now, it's time for school districts to do their part. Until June 29, we are accepting applications from school districts who want to be part of this ground breaking program, Hess added. DEP is seeking one or two school bus fleets interested in the demonstration project. Public, private and contractor operated fleets of any size are eligible to apply. Retrofit technology could include particulate traps and catalytic converters. Fuel changes, such as using low sulfur fuel, also could be considered a retrofit. The selection will be made based on severity of the pollution in the area, appropriateness of the fleet for retrofit, and the potential emission reductions. Applications are due by June 29. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/
[biofuel] The U.S. Discovers Public Transport And The Chinese Abandon Their Bikes
The U.S. Discovers Public Transport And The Chinese Abandon Their Bikes WHILE 3.5% MORE North Americans used public transport last year and the number of vehicle-miles racked up on highways remained static, on the other side of the globe Chinese people abandon their bikes and switch to cars. Only a decade ago Beijing residents took their bikes for 60% of local trips but now the figure has fallen to 40%. In Shanghai and Guangzhou, it has dropped to as low as 20%. Of the 83,000 Chinese killed in traffic last year, about a third were bicyclists. Many Chinese seem to view this as a necessary cost of progress and one-third of urban Chinese families plan to buy a car in the next five years. The Chinese government has promoted car ownership, and car sales have been rising at 15% annually, with the number of cars in Beijing tripling since 1993. It has, of course, been impossible to build enough roads for all these new cars, so total gridlock has become routine and therefore cities start banning bikes from streets. CAR BUSTERS BULLETIN -- -- -- -- = CAR BUSTERS Magazine and Resource Centre Krtk 26, 100 00 Praha 10, Czech Republic tel: +(420) 2-7481-0849 ; fax: +(420) 2-7481-6727 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.carbusters.ecn.cz Monthly edition no. 26 ö May 2001 Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/
[biofuel] More on Jerusalem artichokes
According to the Alcohol Yield tables in the Mother Earth Alcohol Fuel Manual, Jerusalem artichokes yield 20 gallons of 99.5% ethanol per ton, and 1,200 gallons per acre. Yield per acre is calculated on three harvests of heads per year. Comparative yields are 889 gal/acre for sugar in Hawaii, 555 gal/acre for sugar in Louisiana, and 79 gal/acre for wheat (sugar and wheat yields USDA Ag. Stat. 1978). http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/ethanol_motherearth/meCh3. html#alcoholyield (If the link breaks, copy and paste it together again.) Best Keith Addison Journey to Forever Handmade Projects Tokyo http://journeytoforever.org/ Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 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/
