[biofuels-biz] Fwd: [biofuel] International Biodiesel Day
Fwd message from Pedro to the Biofuel list (Pedro runs the Spanish-language biodiesel section at Journey to Forever). To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com From: pmacv [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 00:00:11 - Subject: [biofuel] International Biodiesel Day http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/biodiesel August the 10th is the International Biodiesel Day. Here in Spain, appeared some articles promoted by us : - In the nationwide newspaper La Razn ( in the same Augusth the 10th). - In some regional newspapers, like in Catalonia. - In some radio stations, like Onda Regional de Murcia. - In specialized magazines. I am going to recieve more news in the next days from another parts of the country. What we do in this international biodiesel day?. Chiefly, a lot of publicity to promote biodiesel and specially th JtF webisite ;) And in some houses / premises, we make homebrewed biodiesel ( following the 2 liters simplified formula); this is the fiesta part. ;) Next year, one can more information from another cities, regions or states. 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/9bTolB/TM -~- Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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/
Re: [biofuels-biz] WWF welcomes first steps towards sustainable palm oil
Keith Thanks for this info. It is true that every year there are forest fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan caused by clearing for palm oil plantations. Neighboring countries of Singapore, Malaysia, and sometimes Thailand complain every year about air pollution from Indonesia. The government seems to be more proactive in bringing the culprits to justice now, but it still goes on. Prevailing winds tend to blow the smoke away from Jakarta and hence little personal effect on the decision makers here. Ken --- Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://panda.org/news_facts/newsroom/other_news/news.cfm?uNewsID=8444 22, Aug 2003 WWF welcomes first steps towards sustainable palm oil SNIP __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/9bTolB/TM -~- Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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/
[biofuels-biz] The contribution of forestry to food security
Forestry and fuel wood is a regular topic, and so are oil-bearing trees such as jatropha, and others (below), and of course oil palm and coconut. I think there's also growing acceptance of the idea (fact!) that sustainable fuels production has to be a part of a sustainable agriculture, for many reasons - mainly perhaps that industrialized agriculture is just as unsustainable as current fossil-fuel energy use, and closely linked to it with its high use of fossil-fuels, fossil-fuel derived chemicals, the food miles issue and more, plus the very high levels of externalized costs. Tree-farming is an integral part of a sustainable agriculture. See for instance: Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture by J. Russell Smith http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library.html#treecrops The Overstory is an excellent forestry resource, issued every couple of weeks by email - free subscription. Some fuel trees: Copaifera langsdorfii Desf. Caesalpiniaceae Diesel tree http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Copaifera_langsdorfii.html Euphorbia lathyris Petroleum plant http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Euphorbia_lathyris.html See also: http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1990/V1-232.html#Euphorbia Pittosporum resiniferum Petroleum nut http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Pittosporum_resiniferum.html Simmondsia chinensis Jojoba http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Simmondsia_chinensis.html See also: http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/nexus/Simmondsia_chinensis_nex.html http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1990/V1-232.html#Jojoba Moringa oleifera Horseradish-tree, Ben-oil tree, Drumstick-tree http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Moringa_oleifera.html Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:46:45 -1000 From: The Overstory [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The Overstory #127--Food Security THE OVERSTORY #127--The contribution of forestry to food security By Marilyn Hoskins 1st World Congress of Agroforestry, 27 June to 04 July 2004 http://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/wca ADDRESS CHANGES: Please send any changes in your e-mail address to [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: The Overstory #127 - The contribution of forestry to food security By Marilyn Hoskins Contents: : INTRODUCTION : PHYSICAL ACCESS TO FOOD : TREES AND NUTRITION : FAMINE FOODS : FUELWOOD AND FOOD SECURITY : SUSTAINING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION : LITERATURE CITED : ORIGINAL SOURCE : ABOUT THE AUTHOR : WEB LINKS : RELATED EDITIONS OF THE OVERSTORY : PUBLISHER NOTES : SUBSCRIPTIONS INTRODUCTION Food will last so long as forests do...so runs an ancient Kashmiri adage (Ann poshi tele yeli poshi van -- Sheik Nur-ud-Din Wali) Forestry has a large and indispensable role to play in improving present and future food security. Although a great deal remains to be understood about the specifics of this role, it is clear that foresters must make food security a basic consideration in policy formulation, as well as in programme planning, design and implementation. Trees have been an integral part of the food security strategies of rural people for so long that it is curious and disturbing to note how this relationship has often been neglected in the planning of forestry activities. Even more disturbing, agriculture and forestry have often been, and sometimes still are, viewed as being in opposition. Project reports include such statements as farmers may be too concerned over providing the daily food to become interested in planting trees. This false dichotomy is perhaps based on the outdated view that forestry is concerned only with raising timber trees on government lands and that agriculture only involves growing crops in open fields. In fact, farmers have long recognized the importance of trees. They almost invariably incorporate trees in production systems in areas where they have lived for an extended period of time (Sne 1985; Hoskins 1985; Niamir 1989). Inquiry into current and past farming practices has clearly shown that rural people have a wealth of knowledge as to which trees make agricultural crops grow more successfully, which provide fodder during dry seasons, and which help to hold soils for more successful farming on sloping land, etc. PHYSICAL ACCESS TO FOOD The range and importance of foods that rural people obtain either directly from the flora and fauna that comprise the forest environment, or produce in an environment sustained and protected by trees vary significantly, depending on living conditions and availability of resources. However, it is safe to say that forest products provide a large range of locally important goods and services in most parts of the developing world. In wooded areas of Northeast Thailand, for example, 60% of all food comes directly from the forests. At a regional workshop held in Khon Kaen, Thailand, local villagers prepared an exhibit comprising more than 40 plant and animal products gathered from the
[biofuels-biz] NBB and small producers
As requested by Mark, I'm reposting this summary of the NBB and EPA hassle for small producers in the US, first posted in May this year, previously called NBB and health effects data. Best Keith Addison There's been a lot of discussion here and elsewhere about small-producer certification, and a lot of confusion too, it seems. On the one hand there's been quite a lot of talk of conspiracies to exclude the small guys, which I don't think is warranted, and on the other the EPA has said different things at different times. The EPA requires registration of all fuel producers for non-standard fuels used on-road, which includes biodiesel, and the fuels must be tested. The NBB put a sample of soy biodiesel through the required Clean Air Act Tier I and Tier II Health Effects tests, and it passed (the only alternative fuel so far to do so). The tests also covered biodiesel made from other feedstocks, such as corn oil, lard, tallow, WVO, etc., as the differences between them are not significant. The Tier II tests were federally funded and are thus in the public domain, anyone can use them. The Tier I tests were funded by the Soybean Councils and largely paid for with soy check-off dollars. The non-profit NBB was created by the Soybean Councils, which are still the major force within the NBB. The check-off money used for the biodiesel Tier I tests could have been used elsewhere, and the NBB/Soybean Councils want it back. To gain access to the data you'd either have to join the NBB and pay a $5,000 per annum membership fee plus a production tax - or - pay a $100,000 bond to the NBB for non-member access to the Health Effects Data (to be returned at face value, without interest, in 2015, if the NBB has recovered the costs of the tests by then) - or - pay more than $1 million for your own Tier I health effects tests, which will take a few years - or - be prepared to face EPA fines of $25,000 per day, which could be retroactive. The issue is whether small producers are or are not exempt from paying for access to the health effects data. There are supposed to be exemptions for small producers, but it's been said they didn't apply, and one small producer - Tom Leue's Yellow Biodiesel - was apparently closed down on this account, or at least stopped from selling his fuel for on-road use. The small business exemptions depend on which family/category the fuel/additive falls into. If the product is considered baseline or non-baseline, then manufacturers with total annual sales of less than $50 million are not required to meet Tier I or Tier II. If the product is considered atypical, then manufacturers with total annual sales of less than $10 mil are not required to meet Tier II (Tier I still applies). There are three diesel categories in the Diesel Family: Baseline Diesel, Non-Baseline Diesel, and Atypical [diesel]. Baseline Diesel is comprised of diesel fuels and associated additives which satisfy ALL of the following criteria: shall contain no elements other than carbon, hydrogen, oxygen (1%), nitrogen and sulfur (no more than the legal limit for highway diesel). Baseline Diesel must possess the characteristics of ASTM D 975-93. Baseline Diesel must be derived from conventional petroleum sources only. (40CFR79.56(e)3(ii)A) Non-baseline Diesel must meet all the criteria of baseline diesel except: oxygen can be 1% or higher (no specified limit) and it can include diesel fuel and additives which may be derived from synthetic crudes, such as those prepared from coal, shale, tar sands, heavy oil deposits, and other non-conventional petroleum sources. Atypical Diesel comprises diesel and additives which contain one or more elements other than carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur. (40CFR79.56(e)3(ii)C) No mention of source. According to this, biodiesel (either as a fuel or an additive) doesn't meet Baseline or Non-Baseline because its made from non-petroleum sources. Joe Sopata of the EPA has stated that any blend of 6% biodiesel or less was considered a non-baseline fuel, and anything over 6% was considered atypical, and therefore not subject to the Tier 1 exemption. But we could not find these definitions in any EPA documents. What we did find in an EPA document is this: An exception is biodiesel, which is one group, even though it consists of mixed alkyl esters of plant and/or animal origin. http://www.epa.gov/icr/icrs/icrpages/1696ss03.htm This makes biodiesel a non-baseline diesel group, and thus exempt from Tier I and Tier II testing for producers with total annual sales of less than $50 million. For more on this, see Thor Skov's post below. Joe Sopata has since said, in answer to enquiries, that producers who sell less than $10,000,000 annually are exempt from Tier I and Tier II as long as their fuel meets the ASTM standard (ASTM D-6751). This is what I was told: Joe Sopata again stated that fuels meeting all ASTM standards for
[biofuels-biz] Re: Fwd: [biofuel] Insurers Face Global Warming
Hi MM and all Climatologists give waterworld warning for Earth 26 April 2003 Some interesting points. I think esbuck's claim that we can't know if there's really any correlation between global warming and human actions is one we might hear again from the U.S., as it comes under tarriff penalties and the like from the WTO. It's not going to matter, at that point, what scientific subjectivism the U.S. tries to launch, if there is sufficient concensus from outside the country. Of course, it won't have to pay too many penalties directly if it does not wish to, as a hegemonous and powerful country. But there is no getting around that international trade requires mutual agreements and consent... if penalties are levied in that arena, the U.S. Economy will pay, whether anyone here likes it or not, and whether anyone here agrees with the theory of human-caused-global-warming or not. MM You might be interested in this, from New Zealand: http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0308/S00222.htm Climate change: liability looms for directors Tuesday, 26 August 2003, 8:50 am Press Release: Phillip Fox Professionals and company directors should beware the risks of climate change, an environmental lawyer warns. These risks include increases in average temperature, sea level rise, and increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, as well as changing regulatory, social and economic expectations. Phillips Fox climate change partner, Helen Atkins, comments While the implications of climate change are much talked about, to date few business people have integrated this information into their day to day decision making. The risk for company directors and professionals is that they will become liable for losses suffered as a result. One area where this issue will really bite is waterfront property. Title boundaries on the waterfront are often defined by reference to the high tide mark. As a result, owners of low-lying waterfront land could literally see their titles washed away by climate change. If this does occur, they are likely to look to recover their losses from those involved in their decision to purchase the property. But it is not only property professionals who should be concerned. Ms Atkins points out that waterfront property is only an example. Climate change is a cross cutting issue with implications for every sector of the economy. Business people need to make themselves aware of the likely changes to the physical, regulatory and economic environment, and treat these like any other commercial risk. Internationally there is growing recognition of climate change as a business issue. A recent report prepared for the Carbon Disclosure Project (a coalition of institutional investors representing more than US $4 trillion in assets) identifies a series of business risks raised by climate change. The CDP report notes 'The financial impacts of climate change extend well beyond the obvious, emissions-intensive sectors. Companies in the financial services, transportation, semi-conductor, telecoms, electronic equipment, food, agriculture, and tourism sectors among others are also affected' (full text of the report is available at www.cdproject.net). While this is sobering news, it does not spell disaster. It is a case of being alert, but not alarmed, says Ms Atkins. The CDP report contains some good news for businesses that are prepared to do the work. It concludes that 'Managing the financial risks of climate change does not necessarily impose a net cost on companies. Success stories can be identified in virtually every industry sector we examined; substantial commercial opportunities are also being created and captured on the upside.' 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/9bTolB/TM -~- Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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/
Re: [biofuels-biz] WWF welcomes first steps towards sustainable palm oil
Hi Ken Keith Thanks for this info. It is true that every year there are forest fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan caused by clearing for palm oil plantations. Neighboring countries of Singapore, Malaysia, and sometimes Thailand complain every year about air pollution from Indonesia. The government seems to be more proactive in bringing the culprits to justice now, but it still goes on. Prevailing winds tend to blow the smoke away from Jakarta and hence little personal effect on the decision makers here. :-( The neighbouring countries almost seem to be getting used to it, or at least they complain a lot less than a few years ago. More below: Ken --- Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://panda.org/news_facts/newsroom/other_news/news.cfm?uNewsID=8444 22, Aug 2003 WWF welcomes first steps towards sustainable palm oil SNIP http://www.theedge.com.my/article.cfm?id=24251 22-08-2003: Palm oil companies to cooperate with environmental groups By Kevin Tan, 7.17pm Global palm oil industry players are cooperating with environmental groups to come up with international common guidelines to promote sustainable development of the commodity by year-end. The guidelines would cover management criteria for plantations, forest conversion, land tenure in the establishment of new plantations, procurement methods and verification processes. Malaysian Palm Oil Association (MPOA) chief executive M R Chandran said on Aug 22 that organisations from the whole palm oil industry supply chain could demonstrate their commitment on the matter by signing a statement of intent. Speaking to reporters after the closing of the first Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil in Kuala Lumpur, Chandran said the draft statement would be circulated to the roundtable participants next week. Hopefully, we'll get it signed by year-end, he added. Chandran said the roundtable was a breakthrough as it was only a few years ago that industry players and the environmental groups were unable to see eye to eye over the issue of business interests and environmental concerns. Malaysian palm oil producers had been accused by environmental groups of having little regard for the preservation of rainforests in the expansion of their plantations. Many companies now realise it must seek the views of the civil society, Chandran said, adding that the breakthrough was in 'developing trust' between the industry and environmental groups. However, Chandran said the roundtable was not a 'talk shop' as its outcome would be translated into concrete actions. He also hoped that the statement of intent could be made legally binding in the future. The roundtable was organised on the initiatives of MPOA, Golden Hope Plantations Bhd, UK-based Anglia Oil/Aarhus, Switzerland-based Migros, British retailer Sainsburys and Anglo-Dutch consumer product group Unilever in cooperation with the World Wide Fund for Nature. The event attracted the participation of 203 representatives of companies and non-governmental organisations from 16 countries. 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/9bTolB/TM -~- Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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/
[biofuels-biz] Report finds EPA lacked data to support its claims for relaxing air pollution rules
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/08/26/f inancial0313EDT0009.DTL Report finds EPA lacked data to support its claims for relaxing air pollution rules JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer Tuesday, August 26, 2003 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional investigators say the Environmental Protection Agency relied on anecdotes from industries it regulates, not comprehensive data, when it claimed that relaxing air pollution rules for industrial plants would cut emissions and reduce health risks. The General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, said in a report Monday that EPA lacked scientific evidence for its claims that the Clean Air Act's new source review program needed revising because it discourages energy-efficiency improvements at plants. EPA eased pollution-control requirements for utilities, oil companies and manufacturers in December but is reconsidering parts of those final rules now. Because it lacked comprehensive data, EPA relied on anecdotes from the four industries it believes are most affected, the GAO said. Because the information is anecdotal, EPA's findings do not necessarily represent the program's effects across the industries subject to the program. EPA planned to announce more changes to the program Wednesday to allow many of the nation's dirtiest coal-burning power plants and other industrial facilities to claim more upgrades as routine maintenance that do not require more emissions-cutting devices. Agency officials agreed with the report's recommendation that they should find appropriate data to track results of rule changes as federal and state authorities implement them. Agency spokeswoman Lisa Harrison said EPA intends to establish and strengthen mechanisms for judging the program's success. The bottom line is that EPA remains committed to improving the NSR program, and our improvements will make the Clean Air Act work better to protect public health, she said. Jeffrey Marks, director of air quality policy for the National Association of Manufacturers, said better data generally leads to better regulation, but his group believes EPA was correct to conclude its rule changes provided economic, environmental and energy efficiency benefits despite the lack of data. Sen. James Jeffords, I-Vt., the No. 2 senator on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said the report was another indication that the Bush administration's weakening of the Clean Air Act was unwarranted. Environmentalists and some states legally challenged the rules, saying the effects on air quality and public health were unacceptable. Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut's attorney general, said the GAO report confirms the rule changes weren't supported by scientific evidence and showed the administration has sold out to special interests. This report should be the final nail in the coffin of environmental credibility for this administration, he said. EPA said cost-benefit analysis wasn't required since less than $100 million in economic and environmental impacts were at stake. Jeffords and some Senate Democrats said more analysis was needed because EPA documents indicate that keeping the program intact would provide more than $2 billion in annual health benefits. On the Net: EPA New Source Review: www.epa.gov/nsr GAO: www.gao.gov 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/9bTolB/TM -~- Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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/
[biofuels-biz] GAO Cites Corporate Shaping of Energy Plan
See also: http://www.enn.com/news/2003-08-26/s_7794.asp Cheney stifled energy probe, GAO investigators say Tuesday, August 26, 2003 Reuters http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44891-2003Aug25.html GAO Cites Corporate Shaping of Energy Plan By Mike Allen Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, August 26, 2003; Page A01 The White House collaborated heavily with corporations in developing President Bush's energy policy but repeatedly refused to give congressional investigators details of the meetings, according to a federal report issued yesterday. The General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, said in the report that Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham privately discussed the formulation of Bush's policy with chief executive officers of petroleum, electricity, nuclear, coal, chemical and natural gas companies, among others. An energy task force, led by Vice President Cheney, relied for outside advice primarily on petroleum, coal, nuclear, natural gas, electricity industry representatives and lobbyists, while seeking limited input from academic experts, environmentalists and policy groups, the GAO said. The task force was one of Bush's highest priorities after his inauguration and was launched on his 10th day in office. None of the group's meetings was open to the public, and participants told GAO investigators they could not recollect whether official rosters or minutes were kept, the report said. Yesterday's report was the culmination of a lengthy legal battle between Congress and the Bush administration over the secrecy of government deliberations. The GAO sued in federal court for access to records of Cheney's task force, but dropped the action after a decisive court setback, followed by pressure from Republicans. The GAO said its information was incomplete because of administration intransigence. Although the Energy Department released e-mails, letters and calendars that reflected heavy input from corporations, the GAO report provided the first systematic look at the extent to which the administration relied on corporations and insisted on secrecy in developing its policy, issued in May 2001. Among the previously disclosed meetings were private sessions for Kenneth L. Lay, then the chairman of Enron Corp., the Texas energy trading company that collapsed in the nation's largest accounting scandal. Lay was given a 30-minute meeting with Cheney and a conference with a top aide for the task force. David M. Walker, comptroller general of the United States and head of the GAO, said in an interview that the standoff over the task force documents called into question the existence of a reasonable degree of transparency and an appropriate degree of accountability in government. Walker said the energy investigation was the first instance since he took office in November 1998 in which the GAO was unable to do its job and produce a report according to generally accepted government auditing standards. The Congress and the American people had the right to know the limited amount of information we were seeking, Walker said. The White House issued no substantive response. Jennifer Millerwise, Cheney's spokeswoman, said the White House hopes that everyone will now focus as strongly as the administration has on the substance of meeting America's energy needs. David S. Addington, the vice president's counsel, said in a letter to Congress last year that the task force, formally the National Energy Policy Development Group, met with a broad representation of people potentially affected by the group's work, including state and local regulators, labor unions and wildlife advocates. After this month's blackouts crippled much of the Northeast and Midwest, GOP congressional leaders vowed to move swiftly after Labor Day on energy legislation that is based on Bush's policy and includes plans for shoring up the nation's electricity grid. The legislation has been stalled for more than two years; Democrats say that is because of Bush's insistence on tax breaks and other incentives for energy production, including oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The report provides Democrats with ammunition for their contention that Bush's energy policy is filled with favors for corporate interests. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.), who joined the request for the GAO probe when he was chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, said voters should know what role energy companies played in writing the policy. They will never know the full truth because the White House chose to stonewall instead of cooperate with investigators, said Lieberman, a presidential candidate. The report said several corporations and associations, including Chevron Corp. (now part of ChevronTexaco Corp.) and the National Mining Association, gave detailed energy policy recommendations. ChevronTexaco declined to comment. Carol Raulston, a
[biofuels-biz] Green light for ethanol-blended petrol
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0308/S00233.htm Green light for ethanol-blended petrol Tuesday, 26 August 2003, 2:41 pm New Zealand has entered an exciting new era in renewable energy and transport fuels with the granting of approval to blend petrol with ethanol. This is an important step towards reducing net carbon dioxide emissions from the use of transport fuels, Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) Chief Executive Heather Staley said today. I am delighted to be able to report today that the Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA) has approved our application for the manufacture, release, handling and use of petrol-ethanol blends not exceeding 10% ethanol by volume. This means that ethanol can be blended with petrol, up to a maximum of 10 percent, and sold in New Zealand service stations. The 10 percent ethanol limit is the same as in the United States and is now the maximum in Australia. Because the ethanol that will be blended with petrol for New Zealand will be derived from renewable sources, it enables us to take an important step towards reducing overall carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. When and where ethanol-blended petrol is sold is up to individual oil companies but we hope that ethanol will go on sale at some New Zealand service stations later this year. Where the ethanol comes from is again up to individual oil companies. The great thing about ethanol is that it doesn't need to come from fossil fuels and can be sourced from farming activities. In New Zealand ethanol is a by-product of the dairy industry, in Australia, Brazil and the United States crops are grown specifically for the production of ethanol. The use of ethanol-blended petrol is not new to New Zealand - there were trials in the 1980s when many countries were looking at ethanol to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels. There has also been extensive use of petrol-ethanol blends in Australia although the response there has been mixed due to a lack of regulation, resulting in the use of up to 40 percent ethanol in petrol, and a lack of labelling at pumps in some areas. However no problems were reported by motorists during a trial in Brisbane in which there was an ethanol limit of 10 percent, signage on pumps and consumer information available. A 10 percent limit is now the maximum for ethanol-blended petrol across Australia. In New Zealand we want to make sure the ethanol-blended petrol is suitable for use in our vehicles and consumers have all of the information they need. At a maximum ethanol content of 10 percent, most drivers would not be able to notice any difference between the use of ethanol-blended petrol and ordinary petrol. The fuel will also meet all the other quality-related specifications of the Petroleum Products Specifications Regulations 2002, Ms Staley said. These regulations also require pumps to be clearly labelled and consumer information to be provided at the point of sale. EECA is working with oil companies to develop a standard label for pumps which will state 'contains up to 10 percent ethanol' and with the motor vehicle industry, oil companies and consumer groups to prepare detailed information for both consumers and motor trade. The trade information will be sent to the motor trade prior to the fuel going on sale and the consumer information will be available wherever the fuel is sold. Both documents will be available at www.energywise.org.nz in the 'on the road' section. The National Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy covers all types of energy, including transport fuels. Transport is the single biggest energy consumer in New Zealand - and it's the fastest growing. The National Strategy also includes a target of a 23 percent increase in energy from renewable sources by 2012. The introduction of ethanol-blended petrol is an important step towards meeting the 7 percent of the renewable energy target expected to come from transport fuels. The application to ERMA was submitted by EECA with the support of all oil companies and Fonterra, New Zealand's major ethanol producer. Ms Staley says EECA is improving energy choices. For more information visit www.energywise.org.nz ENDS For a copy of the ERMA decision visit http://www.ermanz.govt.nz/search/substance1.cfm and search the register by inserting the application code HSR02058 or use the substance trade name ethanol ETHANOL FACT SHEET Ethanol - the product Ethanol is an alcohol made from sugar or starches and products containing sugars or starches, through a process of fermentation and distilling. In New Zealand, ethanol is a by-product of the dairy industry - it is a by-product of milk processing that is produced by fermenting lactose with a special yeast that converts this sugar into alcohol. The ethanol is then distilled off and further processed to remove water. The ethanol currently produced at Fonterra's Anchor plants is used for
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Title: Lurgi completes one of the largest biodiesel plants in Germany / Considerable market growth for biodiesel fuels expected Dear friends, I found this old note, I don't remember having seen it before. Anyhow, I think is useful. Marcelino Press New Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient Plant for Merz Pharma Lurgi TPS wins contract for a biotechnology project in Martinsried Lurgi TPS opens new office in the Martinsried Innovation and Founder Center for Biotechnology IZB Groundbreaking ceremony for biodiesel plant in Malchin Lurgi Life Science Receives Order for Two New Melamine Plants in Wittenberg Lurgi completes one of the largest biodiesel plants in Germany / Considerable market growth for biodiesel fuels expected Lurgi Hands Over Sorbitol Plant to Customer in France Lurgi Life Science GmbH Commissioned with the Extension of a Titanium Dioxide Plant in Spain Lurgi AG: Major Contracts Consolidate Lurgi to Build Turnkey Biodiesel Plant in Marl/Germany Neue Anlage zur Plasmafraktionierung GMP-gerechte Herstellung von Pharmawirkstoffen Mendel's Heirs Experimenting with Sophisticated Technologies Lurgi Life Science Celebrating Roofing Ceremony for New Multiproduct Pharmaceutical Plant Lurgi Life Science GmbH: Gypsum-free Tartaric Acid Production Lurgi Acquires Further Licenses for Edible Oil Processes Gadomski received Award Pharma-Anlagen als lump-sum-turnkey-Projekte Anlagenbau fr Pharma, Food und Feinchemie Erweiterte Pharma Kompetenz Rohner: Mehrzweckanlage in Pratteln Erfolg mit Lurgi Life Science Technologie Lurgi Life Science strebt Marktfhrerschaft an Biodiesel plant in Marl built by Lurgi Life Science GmbH officially inaugurated by undersecretary Bickenbach on July 17, 2002 Lurgi completes one of the largest biodiesel plants in Germany / Considerable market growth for biodiesel fuels expected In Marl, one of the largest biodiesel plants in the Federal Republic
[biofuel] What a releaf.
I think this could come with a bio diesel trailer with a electric generator to increase operation distance. www.commutercars.com http://www.commutercars.com/ And it is faster then a Porche. Its electric wheelchair appearance is a lie. This is a wolf in cheeps appearance.:) Not everything that happens in the USA is negative. Johs Kleppe [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] International Biodiesel Day
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/biodiesel August the 10th is the International Biodiesel Day. Here in Spain, appeared some articles promoted by us : - In the nationwide newspaper La Razn ( in the same Augusth the 10th). - In some regional newspapers, like in Catalonia. - In some radio stations, like Onda Regional de Murcia. - In specialized magazines. I am going to recieve more news in the next days from another parts of the country. What we do in this international biodiesel day?. Chiefly, a lot of publicity to promote biodiesel and specially th JtF webisite ;) And in some houses / premises, we make homebrewed biodiesel ( following the 2 liters simplified formula); this is the fiesta part. ;) Next year, one can more information from another cities, regions or states. 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] VO and Diesel mix
Hi, Has anyone got any information about blending straight vegetable oil with fossil diesel? What are the environmental issue? Thanks Daniel [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] Testing of biodiesel
Is there any lab that will test a sample of hombrewed bioD to see if it meets specs? I appreciate it J.D. 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] milk fat
Hi, Can I use cow's milk fat to make biodiesel. Thanks 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] help finding IDI
I'm a newbie here and I have been trying to find some info on diesel vehicles. I would like to buy either a SUV or a van to convert to a waste veggie oil system. I was looking at the Elsbett system. Does anyone here have any experience with this and waste veggie oil. It seems I need to find a vehicle that has Indirect Injection. I really have no clue here. If anyone could suggest where I might look to find out what vans and SUV's are IDI that would be extremely helpful. Thanks.. 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] Insurers Face Global Warming
You wrote: A few excerpts from a US government department called -- Dar nit, I was derelict in my duty. What I meant to say [yeah, right buddy] is: A few excerpts from an agency of the US Department of Commerce called -- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Global Warming - Frequently Asked Questions http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html Our Earth and Our Sky NOAA Celebrates 30 Years of Service October 1970. President Richard M. Nixon was on his way to the Middle East when Egyptian President Nassar died. The Pittsburgh Steelers were putting a lot of faith in their new rookie quarterback, Terry Bradshaw. The top grossing movie of the month was Tora! Tora! Tora! - and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a new federal agency to observe, predict and protect our environment, was born. In a July 1970 statement to Congress, President Nixon proposed creating NOAA to serve a national need ...for better protection of life and property from natural hazards...for a better understanding of the total environment...[and] for exploration and development leading to the intelligent use of our marine resources... On October 3, NOAA was established under the Department of Commerce. Thirty years later, NOAA still works for America every day. From providing timely and precise weather, water and climate forecasts, to monitoring the environment, to managing fisheries and building healthy coastlines, to making our nation more competitive through safe navigation and examining changes in the oceans, NOAA is on the front lines for America. In hours of crisis, NOAA employees have been found issuing the tornado warnings that saved hundreds of lives from a deadly storm, flying into the eyes of hurricanes to gather information about possible landfall, fighting to free three grey whales trapped in the ice, fielding a massive scientific operation on the shores to guide the comeback from an oil spill, and monitoring by satellites the movement of hurricanes and other severe storms, volcanic ash and wildfires that threaten communities. [continued] http://www.history.noaa.gov/noaahistory.html NOAA History - A Science Odyssey 1970 - NOAA created within Dept of Commerce; combining Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, U. S. Weather Bureau, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Environmental Data Service, National Satellite Center, Research Libraries, among others. [continued] http://www.history.noaa.gov/timeline1970.html ~~~ 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] help finding IDI
Ford 6.9 and 7.3 vans are IDI, as are Chevy and GMC 6.2 and 6.5 vans. SUV's you've got Chevy and GMC Suburbans with the 6.2 and 6.5, and the occasional Tahoe with the 6.5, some Blazers with the 6.2. IDI Nissan 6's in the IH Scouts, diesel Isuzu Troopers, Land Rover 2.5 NA diesels, all IDI. Elsbett makes nothing for any of these, except maybe the Scout, Trooper and Land Rover. Elsbett does make a singletank kit for the Mercedes G-Wagen. This list is probably not complete, but it's most of them. Craig futureveggiedriver wrote: I'm a newbie here and I have been trying to find some info on diesel vehicles. I would like to buy either a SUV or a van to convert to a waste veggie oil system. I was looking at the Elsbett system. Does anyone here have any experience with this and waste veggie oil. It seems I need to find a vehicle that has Indirect Injection. I really have no clue here. If anyone could suggest where I might look to find out what vans and SUV's are IDI that would be extremely helpful. Thanks.. 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] Testing of biodiesel
I found some in Germany - they are usually testing large biodiesel batches and are quite expensive (around 800 Euros for a full test). If you don't want to sell the stuff you should consider testing only the really important variables (glycerides,...) which is a gaschromatography test and that was about 120 Euros here. I found those laboratories by asking some of the biodiesel producers where they let test their biodiesel... Andreas Ohnsorge CSC Ploenzke AG Abraham-Lincoln-Park 1 65189 Wiesbaden Germany Phone: +49.611.142.20020 Fax: +49.611.142.980028 Mobile:+49 172 - 8 43 30 32 e-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.de.csc.com 100 Jahre Tour de France: Herzlichen Glckwunsch dem Team CSC zum 1. Platz in der Team-Gesamtwertung http://www.csc-cycling.com/. This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. kline @mail.gru.net To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com cc: 26.08.2003 04:39 Subject: [biofuel] Testing of biodiesel Please respond to biofuel Is there any lab that will test a sample of hombrewed bioD to see if it meets specs? I appreciate it J.D. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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/ 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] milk fat
Yes. http://www.ecoliving.co.nz/Ecoliving/mag/issue4/Biodiesel%20- %20The%20Fuel%20of%20the%20Future.htm On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 07:56 PM, carreragt41991 wrote: Hi, Can I use cow's milk fat to make biodiesel. Thanks 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM - ~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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/ 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] Testing of biodiesel
Check ASTM for listings of local labs equipped to do some or all of the tests for the ASTM biodiesel standards, then contact them for quotes. This may help: http://www.astm.org/cgi-bin/SoftCart.exe/LABS/ search.html?L+mystore+xbff5197 On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 07:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any lab that will test a sample of hombrewed bioD to see if it meets specs? I appreciate it J.D. 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM - ~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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/ 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] help finding IDI
Please have a look at our site, we make kits for this and have an FAQ there, also much info on the JTF site. http://www.biofuels.ca http://www.journeytoforever.org Where are you located? On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 09:27 PM, futureveggiedriver wrote: I'm a newbie here and I have been trying to find some info on diesel vehicles. I would like to buy either a SUV or a van to convert to a waste veggie oil system. I was looking at the Elsbett system. Does anyone here have any experience with this and waste veggie oil. It seems I need to find a vehicle that has Indirect Injection. I really have no clue here. If anyone could suggest where I might look to find out what vans and SUV's are IDI that would be extremely helpful. Thanks.. 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM - ~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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/ 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] Testing of biodiesel
http://www.astm.org/ verity_hist.cgi?UserQuery=BIODIESELSEARCH_COLLECTION=ACTIVE_REDLINESEA RCH_STATUS=ALLMARKETING_CODE=GP1NS-search-type=Free+textNS-max- records=5NS-search-type=booleanNS- query=BIODIESEL+AND+NOT+%28STATUS+%3CNEAR%2F1%3E+REPLACED%29CART_NAME=x bff5197STORE_NAME=mystoreNS-collection=ASTM_ACTIVE_REDLINENS- collection2=ASTM_HISTORICALNS-collection3=ASTM_WITHDRAWNNS- collection4=ASTM_WORKITEMS Very long URL, but perhaps you can copy and paste the whole thing into your browser. Leads to publications from ASTM, tests, test methods, standards, etc. On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 07:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any lab that will test a sample of hombrewed bioD to see if it meets specs? I appreciate it J.D. 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM - ~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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/ 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] Testing of biodiesel
Analytical Testing Services in Franklin, PA will test it for you if you send them a 1 gallon sample, to meet ASTM 6751-03, for $972.00 all inclusive - it ain't cheap. their contact: 814-432-9424 [EMAIL PROTECTED] cheers, Jack Jack Kenworthy Sustainable Systems Director The Cape Eleuthera Island School 242-359-7625 ph. 954-252-2224 fax www.islandschool.org - Original Message - From: Andreas W Ohnsorge To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Cc: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 3:02 AM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Testing of biodiesel I found some in Germany - they are usually testing large biodiesel batches and are quite expensive (around 800 Euros for a full test). If you don't want to sell the stuff you should consider testing only the really important variables (glycerides,...) which is a gaschromatography test and that was about 120 Euros here. I found those laboratories by asking some of the biodiesel producers where they let test their biodiesel... Andreas Ohnsorge CSC Ploenzke AG Abraham-Lincoln-Park 1 65189 Wiesbaden Germany Phone: +49.611.142.20020 Fax: +49.611.142.980028 Mobile:+49 172 - 8 43 30 32 e-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.de.csc.com 100 Jahre Tour de France: Herzlichen Glckwunsch dem Team CSC zum 1. Platz in der Team-Gesamtwertung http://www.csc-cycling.com/. This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. kline @mail.gru.net To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com cc: 26.08.2003 04:39 Subject: [biofuel] Testing of biodiesel Please respond to biofuel Is there any lab that will test a sample of hombrewed bioD to see if it meets specs? I appreciate it J.D. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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/ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] UPDATE: Use of vegetable oil in a diesel engine
A few months ago (May 2003), I started a thread about the legalities relating to the use of VO in a diesel engine in the U.S. This eventually led to the discovery, that the U.S. EPA wants certain emissions test results, to recognize VO as a legal motor fuel. Biodiesel went through this process in it's own right, but because of the chemical differences between biodiesel and VO, VO cannot be recognized on the basis of the biodiesel test results. Ed Beggs, of Neoteric Biofuels, Inc., allowed me to forward a thesis he had written, Renewable Oil Fuels and Diesel Engines as Components of Sustainable System Design, to the U.S. EPA. It was my hope that this thesis would provide the EPA with the data they were looking for. I suspected, however, that the thesis would not be enough. Even so, I gambled on the EPA responding with where the data was lacking, so I could begin to research how to complete the data set. Jim Caldwell, of the U.S. EPA, has responded back. It took him about 2 days to respond, so he at least had the time to read the thesis. As I had suspected, Jim informed me that the thesis did not contain the necessary information. But, he was able to point me to the U.S. EPA's Diesel Retrofit Program. After skimming through the information on the Retrofit Program, I've found a section which offers alternative fuels as, for lack of a better way to say it, a 'retrofit' to reduce emissions. It also appears that a wealth of documentation, test plans, and other requirements are available. So, what does this mean in the end? My quest to get VO accepted by the U.S. EPA as a legal motor fuel might just have a chance. At least I have access to a method for submitting the right information the right way, to the EPA. I'll be reading over the information on this program over the next few days/weeks, as I have spare time. Hopefully, then, I can draw up some kind of feasable plan to get regulations pushed through the EPA. If anyone cares to help in some way (I'm certainly don't have the facilities or knowledge, yet, to complete what I'm attempting), I'd be glad to accept it. If not, expect to be hit with questions as I learn how to make this happen. -detrick Original Message Subject: Re: Use of vegetable oil in a diesel engine Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:35:39 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Detrick Merz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Detrick, Thank you for the interesting thesis. However, it does not address whether the technology, when applied to engines certified to U.S. emission standards, will allow those engines to still meet standards. I believe that the most appropriate approach for you to take is through the Voluntary Diesel Retrofit Program. Please see: http://www.epa.gov/otaq/retrofit/index.htm. Jim Caldwell (202) 564-9303 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] Iodine
I have read some vegoils have more iodine than others. Sunflower oil has too much iodine ( according with European Union rules). Can somebody send vegoil list ( prefererly producable in Spain ) with the iodine content of some of them. I have to send the list to an interested biodiesel producer. Regards. 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] Testing of biodiesel
In a message dated 8/25/03 11:14:26 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any lab that will test a sample of hombrewed bioD to see if it meets specs? I appreciate it J.D. I can analyze it for you by infrared spectroscopy. Send a sample plus a sample of the spec fuel. All I need is one drop of each. Normal cost is $60/sample. I'll do this one for you for free. Future samples will be at the stated price. -- Jay [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] UPDATE: Use of vegetable oil in a diesel engine
Detrick, I think that it is very commendable of you, to want to go through this kind of efforts. It is however not without a special reflection that I read about all the efforts that you are to embark on. Is it not remarkable that a Nation that will spend billions of $ on Hydrogen, must relay on an enthusiastic private person to approve vegetable oil in diesel engines? This especially since the original engine design and use, was for vegetable oil. -:)) After making the mistake of believing that, http://strategicplan.doe.gov/Draft%20SP.pdf was a joke, I am taking your information seriously. It is after all 50% chance that it is a serious matter and not a joke. Good luck with your efforts, you are doing a good thing for US and I hope that EPA is embarrassed enough to give you all possible assistance. Hakan At 09:43 AM 8/26/2003 -0400, you wrote: A few months ago (May 2003), I started a thread about the legalities relating to the use of VO in a diesel engine in the U.S. This eventually led to the discovery, that the U.S. EPA wants certain emissions test results, to recognize VO as a legal motor fuel. Biodiesel went through this process in it's own right, but because of the chemical differences between biodiesel and VO, VO cannot be recognized on the basis of the biodiesel test results. Ed Beggs, of Neoteric Biofuels, Inc., allowed me to forward a thesis he had written, Renewable Oil Fuels and Diesel Engines as Components of Sustainable System Design, to the U.S. EPA. It was my hope that this thesis would provide the EPA with the data they were looking for. I suspected, however, that the thesis would not be enough. Even so, I gambled on the EPA responding with where the data was lacking, so I could begin to research how to complete the data set. Jim Caldwell, of the U.S. EPA, has responded back. It took him about 2 days to respond, so he at least had the time to read the thesis. As I had suspected, Jim informed me that the thesis did not contain the necessary information. But, he was able to point me to the U.S. EPA's Diesel Retrofit Program. After skimming through the information on the Retrofit Program, I've found a section which offers alternative fuels as, for lack of a better way to say it, a 'retrofit' to reduce emissions. It also appears that a wealth of documentation, test plans, and other requirements are available. So, what does this mean in the end? My quest to get VO accepted by the U.S. EPA as a legal motor fuel might just have a chance. At least I have access to a method for submitting the right information the right way, to the EPA. I'll be reading over the information on this program over the next few days/weeks, as I have spare time. Hopefully, then, I can draw up some kind of feasable plan to get regulations pushed through the EPA. If anyone cares to help in some way (I'm certainly don't have the facilities or knowledge, yet, to complete what I'm attempting), I'd be glad to accept it. If not, expect to be hit with questions as I learn how to make this happen. -detrick Original Message Subject: Re: Use of vegetable oil in a diesel engine Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:35:39 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Detrick Merz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Detrick, Thank you for the interesting thesis. However, it does not address whether the technology, when applied to engines certified to U.S. emission standards, will allow those engines to still meet standards. I believe that the most appropriate approach for you to take is through the Voluntary Diesel Retrofit Program. Please see: http://www.epa.gov/otaq/retrofit/index.htm. Jim Caldwell (202) 564-9303 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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 Tango
A few things about the Tango: Part of Rick Woodbury's idea is to help crowded municipalities address traffic issues, because more than one such vehicle can occupy a lane, like a motorcycle. Unlike a motorcycle, it has four wheels and unlike a narrow regular car, it is very hard to tip over because of its extremely heavy battery pack deliberately located with a very low positioning. Even if you know this, you'd think it might not work that way, but Mr. Woodbury told me that if you do the math and the physics, sure enough, the battery weight and positioning and Tango's implementation of this are able to give the vehicle good stability. If you look around on that website you'll find a video of the Tango aggressively navigating a difficult windy track and apparently doing so with better handling and stability than a regular car. I emphasize this because the matter is so utterly counter-intuitive. If you look at the vehicle and don't know about the battery-weight-positioning issue, one's first reaction is that the vehicle's rollover problem might be worse than the worst SUV's, but this reportedly is very far from the case. Here is the video: http://www.commutercars.com/theater.html Another issue with the vehicle is the transmission, or lack of a large number of gears. I don't recall what was decided for the vehicle, but I think there's a very direct application of power to the road. I guess you might say this is a feature of some EVs. x amount of horsepower in an EV is perhaps different from x amount in an ICE, in part because the question is available at what speed and RPM. This, and at least one other non-Woodbury EV I've been in are fast enough so that I personally would not drive them when configured for their top acceleration. I'd want a toned-down version, as I just don't think it's necessary or safe to drive on city streets with vehicles that can perhaps outdragrace a Ferrari. I don't recall, but I think Mr. Woodbury is known in EV drag racing circles and it is therefor perhaps not a surpise he's come up with an idea for a 2 seat car that accelerates very quickly. An issue as to availability of this vehicle is I think crash testing laws and regulations. So, sometimes these nascient smaller-production-run EV efforts come as kits, to circumvent these laws, until they can get big enough volume going to do proper testing. Mr. Woodbury is very oriented toward trying to get very large scale production going, in the tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands, but at present it's not at that point. I think if you had many dozens of thousands of dollars you could call him and ask him to produce one for you. I think he mentioned working with a Lotus-experienced engineer in their calculations. Many of the bigger car companies have dismissed the idea of making EV because, they claim, they can't make profits on vehicles below a certain level of production (say: 5000 per year). But some companies are better at that than others. As to your idea of dragging a generator behind, say, biodiesel-powered, I don't know the extent to which AC Propulsion could produce them individually or mass-produce them, but that's the place I would start with such a question. Still, there's enough creativity out there such that if you got a Tango into the hands of a persistent ingenious person, he or she could probably create a drag-behind biodiesel-burning generator. In the U.S. the authorities would probably find the emissions laws as an excuse to give you a hard time, even though in reality a well-made generator would probably have clean emissions. MM On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:12:04 +0200, you wrote: I think this could come with a bio diesel trailer with a electric generator to increase operation distance. www.commutercars.com http://www.commutercars.com/ And it is faster then a Porche. Its electric wheelchair appearance is a lie. This is a wolf in cheeps appearance.:) Not everything that happens in the USA is negative. Johs Kleppe 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] Insurers Face Global Warming
Dear Fellows and Friends: Subj: Global Warming. URL: A HREF=www.hometown.aol.com/sid4salmonwww.hometown.aol.com/sid4salmon/A (project discussion). Bill Clark's discussion was interesting and I am in general agreement. One point that crossed my mind was about Ozone and it's depleted state. In an energy balance consideration, where trees use solar energy for it's work to grow and have energy to move water. What moderates the heat absorption is leaves or other trees provide shade to areas for cooler temperature and heatsinks. The use of energy for growth lowers the radiation back of the absorbed energy. Considering the Ozone cycle of energy absorbed and released in that process high above us. With less ozone, the energy is available for absorption in lower levels perhaps absorbed in dust and then released later. There is many tons of space dust that is delivered to our planet daily along with the solar energy. These are factors we have little control over except for the Ozone depletion. The population explosion is one factor and energy use per capita. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] Ozone again.
International Ozone Day September 16, to focus attention on efforts to preserve the ozone layer in the atmosphere. http://www.unep.org/ozone/ozone_day2003/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] Testing of biodiesel
About gas chromatography : http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatography#Gas_chromatography - Original Message - From: Andreas W Ohnsorge To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 9:02 AM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Testing of biodiesel I found some in Germany - they are usually testing large biodiesel batches and are quite expensive (around 800 Euros for a full test). If you don't want to sell the stuff you should consider testing only the really important variables (glycerides,...) which is a gaschromatography test and that was about 120 Euros here. I found those laboratories by asking some of the biodiesel producers where they let test their biodiesel... Andreas Ohnsorge CSC Ploenzke AG Abraham-Lincoln-Park 1 65189 Wiesbaden Germany Phone: +49.611.142.20020 Fax: +49.611.142.980028 Mobile:+49 172 - 8 43 30 32 e-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.de.csc.com 100 Jahre Tour de France: Herzlichen Glckwunsch dem Team CSC zum 1. Platz in der Team-Gesamtwertung http://www.csc-cycling.com/. This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. kline @mail.gru.net To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com cc: 26.08.2003 04:39 Subject: [biofuel] Testing of biodiesel Please respond to biofuel Is there any lab that will test a sample of hombrewed bioD to see if it meets specs? I appreciate it J.D. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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/ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] help finding IDI
Hello. Some IDI engines are the Nissan SD 33, 3.3 Litre, 6 in line, there are naturally aspirated and turbo models, no synchronization cam shaft belt (with tooth) to change or worry about as well as the Nissan TD 27, a 4 cyl. in line 2.7 Litre. The first equiped old japanese Nissan Patrol ( or Safari) SUV and Pick Ups, up to '88 then they were assembled in Spain, it is 4WD, more than 2 Ton weight. The second is an engine of old Nissan Pick Ups and the SUV Terrano of the 90s. Best regards. Juan On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 09:27 PM, futureveggiedriver wrote: I'm a newbie here and I have been trying to find some info on diesel vehicles. I would like to buy either a SUV or a van to convert to a waste veggie oil system. I was looking at the Elsbett system. Does anyone here have any experience with this and waste veggie oil. It seems I need to find a vehicle that has Indirect Injection. I really have no clue here. If anyone could suggest where I might look to find out what vans and SUV's are IDI that would be extremely helpful. Thanks.. 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] Testing of biodiesel
Good idea. But I think standard (petrol) bodies includes difficult and expensive test to obstruct homebrewed biodiesel ( the best test it«s the engine test and clean cylinders from time to time). For small industrial production is another think. One could analize in different ways the produced biodiesel and give advice ( clean more the oil, and so on...). Regards. Elabore caseramente biodiesel para su actual motor de gasoil petrolfero La solucin a sus problemas energticos. http://www.enlazando.com/energia http://journeytoforever.org/energiaweb/ - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 4:39 AM Subject: [biofuel] Testing of biodiesel Is there any lab that will test a sample of hombrewed bioD to see if it meets specs? I appreciate it J.D. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] Testing of biodiesel II
How does one call the more complete industrial biodesel test??? Regards. Elabore caseramente biodiesel para su actual motor de gasoil petrolfero La solucin a sus problemas energticos. http://www.enlazando.com/energia http://journeytoforever.org/energiaweb/ - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 4:39 AM Subject: [biofuel] Testing of biodiesel Is there any lab that will test a sample of hombrewed bioD to see if it meets specs? I appreciate it J.D. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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: UPDATE: Use of vegetable oil in a diesel engine
Can someone please post again the thread about the possible small-scale biodiesel producer exemptions from the NBB membership/health effects testing requirements? I might have found some more information relevant to this issue while I was at the Iowa State biodiesel workshops last week. I actually left class after we discussed Tier I/Tier II testing, ran to a computer, and tried to find the info in the archives, but I feel like I didn't find the entire story as I remember it- I know that Keith posted a summary a few weeks ago but I've had trouble finding that for some reason. Oh and the 'discussion' in class included a farmer from Tennesses berating the NBB guy quite nicely about it all. It wasn't the NBB guy;'s fault at all- he was totally new to the NBB- but I was kind of chuckling about the whole thing in the background there. Oh, and Detrick, thank you for pursuing this SVO issue. mark --- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Detrick Merz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few months ago (May 2003), I started a thread about the legalities relating to the use of VO in a diesel engine in the U.S. This eventually led to the discovery, that the U.S. EPA wants certain emissions test results, to recognize VO as a legal motor fuel. Biodiesel went through this process in it's own right, but because of the chemical differences between biodiesel and VO, VO cannot be recognized on the basis of the biodiesel test results. Ed Beggs, of Neoteric Biofuels, Inc., allowed me to forward a thesis he had written, Renewable Oil Fuels and Diesel Engines as Components of Sustainable System Design, to the U.S. EPA. It was my hope that this thesis would provide the EPA with the data they were looking for. I suspected, however, that the thesis would not be enough. Even so, I gambled on the EPA responding with where the data was lacking, so I could begin to research how to complete the data set. Jim Caldwell, of the U.S. EPA, has responded back. It took him about 2 days to respond, so he at least had the time to read the thesis. As I had suspected, Jim informed me that the thesis did not contain the necessary information. But, he was able to point me to the U.S. EPA's Diesel Retrofit Program. After skimming through the information on the Retrofit Program, I've found a section which offers alternative fuels as, for lack of a better way to say it, a 'retrofit' to reduce emissions. It also appears that a wealth of documentation, test plans, and other requirements are available. So, what does this mean in the end? My quest to get VO accepted by the U.S. EPA as a legal motor fuel might just have a chance. At least I have access to a method for submitting the right information the right way, to the EPA. I'll be reading over the information on this program over the next few days/weeks, as I have spare time. Hopefully, then, I can draw up some kind of feasable plan to get regulations pushed through the EPA. If anyone cares to help in some way (I'm certainly don't have the facilities or knowledge, yet, to complete what I'm attempting), I'd be glad to accept it. If not, expect to be hit with questions as I learn how to make this happen. -detrick Original Message Subject: Re: Use of vegetable oil in a diesel engine Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:35:39 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Detrick Merz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Detrick, Thank you for the interesting thesis. However, it does not address whether the technology, when applied to engines certified to U.S. emission standards, will allow those engines to still meet standards. I believe that the most appropriate approach for you to take is through the Voluntary Diesel Retrofit Program. Please see: http://www.epa.gov/otaq/retrofit/index.htm. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] Insurers Face Global Warming
This graph shows the increase in the atmospheric concentration of Carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and Antarctic temperature from 420,000 years ago until prior to the industrial revolution. The grey color represents CO2 concentrations, and the scale on the far left refers to the CO2 values. As can be seen in the graph to the left, pre-industrial levels (~280 ppmv) were similar to previous interglacials (times which were not considered an 'ice-age' - as now). The present, post-industrial atmospheric level of CO2 concentration is around 370ppmv, which on this graph would be off the scale. http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/carbdiox.html Thanks, this was instructive. 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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 contribution of forestry to food security
Forestry and fuel wood is a regular topic, and so are oil-bearing trees such as jatropha, and others (below), and of course oil palm and coconut. I think there's also growing acceptance of the idea (fact!) that sustainable fuels production has to be a part of a sustainable agriculture, for many reasons - mainly perhaps that industrialized agriculture is just as unsustainable as current fossil-fuel energy use, and closely linked to it with its high use of fossil-fuels, fossil-fuel derived chemicals, the food miles issue and more, plus the very high levels of externalized costs. Tree-farming is an integral part of a sustainable agriculture. See for instance: Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture by J. Russell Smith http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library.html#treecrops The Overstory is an excellent forestry resource, issued every couple of weeks by email - free subscription. Some fuel trees: Copaifera langsdorfii Desf. Caesalpiniaceae Diesel tree http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Copaifera_langsdorfii.html Euphorbia lathyris Petroleum plant http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Euphorbia_lathyris.html See also: http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1990/V1-232.html#Euphorbia Pittosporum resiniferum Petroleum nut http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Pittosporum_resiniferum.html Simmondsia chinensis Jojoba http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Simmondsia_chinensis.html See also: http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/nexus/Simmondsia_chinensis_nex.html http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1990/V1-232.html#Jojoba Moringa oleifera Horseradish-tree, Ben-oil tree, Drumstick-tree http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Moringa_oleifera.html Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:46:45 -1000 From: The Overstory [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The Overstory #127--Food Security THE OVERSTORY #127--The contribution of forestry to food security By Marilyn Hoskins 1st World Congress of Agroforestry, 27 June to 04 July 2004 http://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/wca ADDRESS CHANGES: Please send any changes in your e-mail address to [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: The Overstory #127 - The contribution of forestry to food security By Marilyn Hoskins Contents: : INTRODUCTION : PHYSICAL ACCESS TO FOOD : TREES AND NUTRITION : FAMINE FOODS : FUELWOOD AND FOOD SECURITY : SUSTAINING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION : LITERATURE CITED : ORIGINAL SOURCE : ABOUT THE AUTHOR : WEB LINKS : RELATED EDITIONS OF THE OVERSTORY : PUBLISHER NOTES : SUBSCRIPTIONS INTRODUCTION Food will last so long as forests do...so runs an ancient Kashmiri adage (Ann poshi tele yeli poshi van -- Sheik Nur-ud-Din Wali) Forestry has a large and indispensable role to play in improving present and future food security. Although a great deal remains to be understood about the specifics of this role, it is clear that foresters must make food security a basic consideration in policy formulation, as well as in programme planning, design and implementation. Trees have been an integral part of the food security strategies of rural people for so long that it is curious and disturbing to note how this relationship has often been neglected in the planning of forestry activities. Even more disturbing, agriculture and forestry have often been, and sometimes still are, viewed as being in opposition. Project reports include such statements as farmers may be too concerned over providing the daily food to become interested in planting trees. This false dichotomy is perhaps based on the outdated view that forestry is concerned only with raising timber trees on government lands and that agriculture only involves growing crops in open fields. In fact, farmers have long recognized the importance of trees. They almost invariably incorporate trees in production systems in areas where they have lived for an extended period of time (Sne 1985; Hoskins 1985; Niamir 1989). Inquiry into current and past farming practices has clearly shown that rural people have a wealth of knowledge as to which trees make agricultural crops grow more successfully, which provide fodder during dry seasons, and which help to hold soils for more successful farming on sloping land, etc. PHYSICAL ACCESS TO FOOD The range and importance of foods that rural people obtain either directly from the flora and fauna that comprise the forest environment, or produce in an environment sustained and protected by trees vary significantly, depending on living conditions and availability of resources. However, it is safe to say that forest products provide a large range of locally important goods and services in most parts of the developing world. In wooded areas of Northeast Thailand, for example, 60% of all food comes directly from the forests. At a regional workshop held in Khon Kaen, Thailand, local villagers prepared an exhibit comprising more than 40 plant and animal products gathered from the
[biofuel] Re: Iodine
Hi Pedro I have read some vegoils have more iodine than others. Sunflower oil has too much iodine ( according with European Union rules). Can somebody send vegoil list ( prefererly producable in Spain ) with the iodine content of some of them. I have to send the list to an interested biodiesel producer. Regards. There are several tables detailing iodine numbers (NOT iodine content!) here: http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_yield.html Oil yields and characteristics See: Oils and esters characteristics http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_yield.html#oils_esters Iodine Values -- High Iodine Values -- Talking about the weather http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_yield.html#iodine Fuel properties of fats and oils http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_yield.html#fuelfats The National standards for biodiesel http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_yield.html#biodstds specify the following iodine values: Austria 120 France 115 Germany 115 Sweden 125 USA No specification The forthcoming CEN Euro biodiesel standard proposes an iodine value of 130. So, to come back to your question about sunflowers: Iodine values for sunflower oil are given as 125 to 135, 125, 110-143. Iodine values for soy oil are given as 125 to 140, 130, 117-143. And iodine values for rapeseed oil are given as 97 to 115, 98, 94-120. As you can see, all the European standards exclude soy oil but include rapeseed oil. It's thought that this is a deliberate exclusion that doesn't have much or anything to do with desirable fuel properties - Europe simply wants to keep American soy oil out of the European biodiesel market, and protect the European market for European-grown rapeseed oil. If it does have anything to do with fuel properties then that makes nonsense out of a very large amount of research and testing, including probably millions of miles of on-road testing, in the US with soy biodiesel, which has not found it to be inferior fuel. Almost certainly it's just politics, and sunflower oil, with similar iodine values to soy, is an innocent victim. FYI, I've copied the information at the Journey to Forever page on Vegetable oil yields and characteristics about Iodine numbers (below). regards Keith Iodine Values Chemically, vegetable and animal oils and fats are triglycerides, glycerol bound to three fatty acids. Animal tallow/lard is saturated, meaning that in the fatty acid portion, all the carbon atoms are bound to two hydrogen atoms, and there are no double bonds. This allows the chains of fatty acids to be straighter and more pliable so they harden at lower temperatures (that's why lard is a solid). As you increase the number of double bonds in a fatty acid, you reduce that ability for oils to gain a conformation that would make them solid, so they remain liquid. To picture it, imagine that you put a bunch of strings in a line. Now tie knots in various places on the strings and see how they don't fit together tightly. To test a vegetable oil to see how many double bonds it has (how unsaturated it is) iodine is introduced to the oil. The iodine will attach itself over a double bond to make a single bond where an iodine atom is now attached to each carbon atom in that double bond. Higher iodine numbers do not refer to the amount of iodine in the oil, but rather the amount of iodine needed to saturate the oil, or break all the double bonds. Oils for the most part contain only trace amounts of iodine naturally. How does this translate to biodiesel? When the fatty acid chains are broken from the glycerol and then re-esterified to methyl or ethyl groups, those fatty acids still have their double bonds. That means that the more double bonds, the lower the cloud point because they resist solidifying at lower temperatures. So, for instance, if you use lard or tallow, the biodiesel will solidify at a higher temperature because the fat it was formed from also solidified at a higher temperature. (Image and text compliments of Jeff Welter) High Iodine Values [The information below refers to straight vegetable oil fuel, but is also useful to show which oils are suitable for making biodiesel and which may not be suitable.] -- From Waste Vegetable Oil as a Diesel Replacement Fuel by Phillip Calais, Environmental Science, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, and A.R. (Tony) Clark, Western Australian Renewable Fuels Association Inc. http://www.shortcircuit.com.au/warfa/paper/paper.htm Many vegetable oils and some animal oils are 'drying' or 'semi-drying' and it is this which makes many oils such as linseed, tung and some fish oils suitable as the base of paints and other coatings. But it is also this property that further restricts their use as fuels. Drying results from the double bonds (and sometimes triple bonds) in the unsaturated oil molecules being broken by atmospheric oxygen and being converted to peroxides. Cross-linking at this site can then occur and the oil
[biofuel] Biodiesel Coop
Hi Everyone, I have been producing Biodiesel for almost a year now and would like to expand to a Coop structure to get more fuel out to users. I am located in Northeasern WI, USA. Anyone interested in checking this out or getting involved can contact me at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please supply contact information so I can contact you about time and place. I am projecting pre startup meetings to begin in mid December 2003 or January 2004. Most of the ground work and red tape issues have been overcome. Projected production start around April 2004. Ed [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] Iodine
In a message dated 8/26/2003 2:37:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have read some vegoils have more iodine than others. Sunflower oil has too much iodine ( according with European Union rules). Dear Fellows and Friends: This statement cause me to recall that in the southern states of the United States, food grown had little or no iodine. I can only presume that that could include Sunflower or any plant. Goiter was a health problem back in the 1920's there when Iodine was added to salt as a supplement to provide the needed iodine to diets. It is quite rare these days to see football size thyroid glands protruding from sides of necks. I suggest that the location where the plants are grown may differ in content in the soil of elements and compounds. I do not think Sunflowers produce iodine themselves or do they? Best regards, Sid. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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: UPDATE: Use of vegetable oil in a diesel engine
Hello Mark Can someone please post again the thread about the possible small-scale biodiesel producer exemptions from the NBB membership/health effects testing requirements? I might have found some more information relevant to this issue while I was at the Iowa State biodiesel workshops last week. :-) I thought that's where you were. I actually left class after we discussed Tier I/Tier II testing, ran to a computer, and tried to find the info in the archives, but I feel like I didn't find the entire story as I remember it- I know that Keith posted a summary a few weeks ago but I've had trouble finding that for some reason. I notice that the archived version is somewhat garbled, dunno why, the original isn't. So I'll post it again - it's now called NBB and small producers, it was previously called NBB and health effects data. Please peruse and anything you can add will be most welcome. Oh and the 'discussion' in class included a farmer from Tennesses berating the NBB guy quite nicely about it all. It wasn't the NBB guy;'s fault at all- he was totally new to the NBB- but I was kind of chuckling about the whole thing in the background there. Oh, and Detrick, thank you for pursuing this SVO issue. Indeed, I second that. Best Keith mark --- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Detrick Merz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few months ago (May 2003), I started a thread about the legalities 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] NBB and small producers
As requested by Mark, I'm reposting this summary of the NBB and EPA hassle for small producers in the US, first posted in May this year, previously called NBB and health effects data. Best Keith Addison There's been a lot of discussion here and elsewhere about small-producer certification, and a lot of confusion too, it seems. On the one hand there's been quite a lot of talk of conspiracies to exclude the small guys, which I don't think is warranted, and on the other the EPA has said different things at different times. The EPA requires registration of all fuel producers for non-standard fuels used on-road, which includes biodiesel, and the fuels must be tested. The NBB put a sample of soy biodiesel through the required Clean Air Act Tier I and Tier II Health Effects tests, and it passed (the only alternative fuel so far to do so). The tests also covered biodiesel made from other feedstocks, such as corn oil, lard, tallow, WVO, etc., as the differences between them are not significant. The Tier II tests were federally funded and are thus in the public domain, anyone can use them. The Tier I tests were funded by the Soybean Councils and largely paid for with soy check-off dollars. The non-profit NBB was created by the Soybean Councils, which are still the major force within the NBB. The check-off money used for the biodiesel Tier I tests could have been used elsewhere, and the NBB/Soybean Councils want it back. To gain access to the data you'd either have to join the NBB and pay a $5,000 per annum membership fee plus a production tax - or - pay a $100,000 bond to the NBB for non-member access to the Health Effects Data (to be returned at face value, without interest, in 2015, if the NBB has recovered the costs of the tests by then) - or - pay more than $1 million for your own Tier I health effects tests, which will take a few years - or - be prepared to face EPA fines of $25,000 per day, which could be retroactive. The issue is whether small producers are or are not exempt from paying for access to the health effects data. There are supposed to be exemptions for small producers, but it's been said they didn't apply, and one small producer - Tom Leue's Yellow Biodiesel - was apparently closed down on this account, or at least stopped from selling his fuel for on-road use. The small business exemptions depend on which family/category the fuel/additive falls into. If the product is considered baseline or non-baseline, then manufacturers with total annual sales of less than $50 million are not required to meet Tier I or Tier II. If the product is considered atypical, then manufacturers with total annual sales of less than $10 mil are not required to meet Tier II (Tier I still applies). There are three diesel categories in the Diesel Family: Baseline Diesel, Non-Baseline Diesel, and Atypical [diesel]. Baseline Diesel is comprised of diesel fuels and associated additives which satisfy ALL of the following criteria: shall contain no elements other than carbon, hydrogen, oxygen (1%), nitrogen and sulfur (no more than the legal limit for highway diesel). Baseline Diesel must possess the characteristics of ASTM D 975-93. Baseline Diesel must be derived from conventional petroleum sources only. (40CFR79.56(e)3(ii)A) Non-baseline Diesel must meet all the criteria of baseline diesel except: oxygen can be 1% or higher (no specified limit) and it can include diesel fuel and additives which may be derived from synthetic crudes, such as those prepared from coal, shale, tar sands, heavy oil deposits, and other non-conventional petroleum sources. Atypical Diesel comprises diesel and additives which contain one or more elements other than carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur. (40CFR79.56(e)3(ii)C) No mention of source. According to this, biodiesel (either as a fuel or an additive) doesn't meet Baseline or Non-Baseline because its made from non-petroleum sources. Joe Sopata of the EPA has stated that any blend of 6% biodiesel or less was considered a non-baseline fuel, and anything over 6% was considered atypical, and therefore not subject to the Tier 1 exemption. But we could not find these definitions in any EPA documents. What we did find in an EPA document is this: An exception is biodiesel, which is one group, even though it consists of mixed alkyl esters of plant and/or animal origin. http://www.epa.gov/icr/icrs/icrpages/1696ss03.htm This makes biodiesel a non-baseline diesel group, and thus exempt from Tier I and Tier II testing for producers with total annual sales of less than $50 million. For more on this, see Thor Skov's post below. Joe Sopata has since said, in answer to enquiries, that producers who sell less than $10,000,000 annually are exempt from Tier I and Tier II as long as their fuel meets the ASTM standard (ASTM D-6751). This is what I was told: Joe Sopata again stated that fuels meeting all ASTM standards for
Re: [biofuel] Biodiesel Coop
Hi Ed Hi Everyone, I have been producing Biodiesel for almost a year now and would like to expand to a Coop structure to get more fuel out to users. I am located in Northeasern WI, USA. Anyone interested in checking this out or getting involved can contact me at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please supply contact information so I can contact you about time and place. I am projecting pre startup meetings to begin in mid December 2003 or January 2004. Most of the ground work and red tape issues have been overcome. Projected production start around April 2004. Ed As previously noted, check these out: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?view=25060list=BIOFUEL Subject: [biofuel] long post- the Grease Trap: Co-ops part 1 From: girl_mark_fire http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?view=25067list=BIOFUEL Subject: [biofuel] another thing... was The Grease Trap: Co-ops part 1 From: girl_mark_fire http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?view=25223list=BIOFUEL Subject: [biofuel] what has worked well- The Grease Trap/ Co-ops part 2 From: girl_mark_fire Best Keith 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] Testing of biodiesel
Just curious, what will you be measuring by IR spectroscopy? I ran virgin vegetable oil, pure FAME, and used vegetable oil and they are essentially indistinguishable. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can analyze it for you by infrared spectroscopy. Send a sample plus a sample of the spec fuel. All I need is one drop of each. Normal cost is $60/sample. I'll do this one for you for free. Future samples will be at the stated price. -- Jay -- -- Bob Allen, Professor of Chemistryhttp://ozarker.org/bob --- Some scientists claim that Hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than Hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. - Frank Zappa --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] sub-zero biodieselers?
Hi, I am about to begin my first winter with Biodiesel and have read up on the higher cloud point issues etc. I have a 1980 MB 300TD. In Vermont we will have steady temparatures well below freezing and intermittent cold spells that will see overnight lows as cold as -30 F. I was pleased to see that both fuel filters in the mercedes are conveniently placed in the engine compartment which is a nice touch, I'm used to crawling under vehicles for filter changes. It looks like the German diesel-therm and a splash of kerosene in the fuel tank might be a good solution? what do you think? Any one with experience and fuel mix ratio suggestions? Also, I have emailed ATG about their diesel-therm, but haven't heard back, are there any US distributors of this product. How does it compare to the Racor inline heater? Anything else i should consider? Thanks again and thanks for all the help with the previous post (55 gal processor ?'s) Kaj - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] Testing of biodiesel
Bob Allen wrote: Just curious, what will you be measuring by IR spectroscopy? I ran virgin vegetable oil, pure FAME, and used vegetable oil and they are essentially indistinguishable. A chemist, who quotes Frank Zappa to boot! Welcome! :-) And all this time I thought it was excentrifugal forz. Tut. Anyway, do you know about all this? NIR Helps Turn Vegetable Oil into High-Quality Biofuel -- ARS News Release, June 15, 1999 http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/NIR.html Rapid Monitoring of Transesterification and Assessing Biodiesel Fuel Quality by Near-infrared Spectroscopy Using a Fiber-Optic Probe, by Gerhard Knothe, ARS, JAOCS 76, 795-800 (July 1999) http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/NIR1.html Monitoring a Progressing Transesterification Reaction by Fiber-Optic Near Infrared Spectroscopy with Correlation to 1H Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, by Gerhard Knothe, ARS, JAOCS 77, 489-493 (May 2000) http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/NIR2.html Best Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can analyze it for you by infrared spectroscopy. Send a sample plus a sample of the spec fuel. All I need is one drop of each. Normal cost is $60/sample. I'll do this one for you for free. Future samples will be at the stated price. -- Jay -- -- Bob Allen, Professor of Chemistryhttp://ozarker.org/bob - -- Some scientists claim that Hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than Hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. - Frank Zappa 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] NBB and small producers
There should not be any tax on BioDiesel at all, until it's use equals or exceeds that of DinoDiesel and gasoline, and even then none at all unless a threshold amount is produced / used, this way the household producer/user would not get reamed. Greg H. - Original Message - From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beyond that, you'll still have to pay federal and state road taxes. That's something that needs some pressure perhaps - should there be any taxes on biodiesel? Regards Keith 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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: Fwd: [biofuel] Insurers Face Global Warming
Hi MM and all Climatologists give waterworld warning for Earth 26 April 2003 Some interesting points. I think esbuck's claim that we can't know if there's really any correlation between global warming and human actions is one we might hear again from the U.S., as it comes under tarriff penalties and the like from the WTO. It's not going to matter, at that point, what scientific subjectivism the U.S. tries to launch, if there is sufficient concensus from outside the country. Of course, it won't have to pay too many penalties directly if it does not wish to, as a hegemonous and powerful country. But there is no getting around that international trade requires mutual agreements and consent... if penalties are levied in that arena, the U.S. Economy will pay, whether anyone here likes it or not, and whether anyone here agrees with the theory of human-caused-global-warming or not. MM You might be interested in this, from New Zealand: http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0308/S00222.htm Climate change: liability looms for directors Tuesday, 26 August 2003, 8:50 am Press Release: Phillip Fox Professionals and company directors should beware the risks of climate change, an environmental lawyer warns. These risks include increases in average temperature, sea level rise, and increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, as well as changing regulatory, social and economic expectations. Phillips Fox climate change partner, Helen Atkins, comments While the implications of climate change are much talked about, to date few business people have integrated this information into their day to day decision making. The risk for company directors and professionals is that they will become liable for losses suffered as a result. One area where this issue will really bite is waterfront property. Title boundaries on the waterfront are often defined by reference to the high tide mark. As a result, owners of low-lying waterfront land could literally see their titles washed away by climate change. If this does occur, they are likely to look to recover their losses from those involved in their decision to purchase the property. But it is not only property professionals who should be concerned. Ms Atkins points out that waterfront property is only an example. Climate change is a cross cutting issue with implications for every sector of the economy. Business people need to make themselves aware of the likely changes to the physical, regulatory and economic environment, and treat these like any other commercial risk. Internationally there is growing recognition of climate change as a business issue. A recent report prepared for the Carbon Disclosure Project (a coalition of institutional investors representing more than US $4 trillion in assets) identifies a series of business risks raised by climate change. The CDP report notes 'The financial impacts of climate change extend well beyond the obvious, emissions-intensive sectors. Companies in the financial services, transportation, semi-conductor, telecoms, electronic equipment, food, agriculture, and tourism sectors among others are also affected' (full text of the report is available at www.cdproject.net). While this is sobering news, it does not spell disaster. It is a case of being alert, but not alarmed, says Ms Atkins. The CDP report contains some good news for businesses that are prepared to do the work. It concludes that 'Managing the financial risks of climate change does not necessarily impose a net cost on companies. Success stories can be identified in virtually every industry sector we examined; substantial commercial opportunities are also being created and captured on the upside.' 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] NBB and small producers
Greg and Keith, Fuel taxation must have some goals and be designed to further those, without having serious ramifications on the economy. Vehicles and taxation for biofuels in developing countries. http://energy.saving.nu/vehicles/taxes.shtml Hakan At 04:12 PM 8/26/2003 -0600, you wrote: There should not be any tax on BioDiesel at all, until it's use equals or exceeds that of DinoDiesel and gasoline, and even then none at all unless a threshold amount is produced / used, this way the household producer/user would not get reamed. Greg H. - Original Message - From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beyond that, you'll still have to pay federal and state road taxes. That's something that needs some pressure perhaps - should there be any taxes on biodiesel? Regards Keith 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] Report finds EPA lacked data to support its claims for relaxing air pollution rules
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/08/26/f inancial0313EDT0009.DTL Report finds EPA lacked data to support its claims for relaxing air pollution rules JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer Tuesday, August 26, 2003 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional investigators say the Environmental Protection Agency relied on anecdotes from industries it regulates, not comprehensive data, when it claimed that relaxing air pollution rules for industrial plants would cut emissions and reduce health risks. The General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, said in a report Monday that EPA lacked scientific evidence for its claims that the Clean Air Act's new source review program needed revising because it discourages energy-efficiency improvements at plants. EPA eased pollution-control requirements for utilities, oil companies and manufacturers in December but is reconsidering parts of those final rules now. Because it lacked comprehensive data, EPA relied on anecdotes from the four industries it believes are most affected, the GAO said. Because the information is anecdotal, EPA's findings do not necessarily represent the program's effects across the industries subject to the program. EPA planned to announce more changes to the program Wednesday to allow many of the nation's dirtiest coal-burning power plants and other industrial facilities to claim more upgrades as routine maintenance that do not require more emissions-cutting devices. Agency officials agreed with the report's recommendation that they should find appropriate data to track results of rule changes as federal and state authorities implement them. Agency spokeswoman Lisa Harrison said EPA intends to establish and strengthen mechanisms for judging the program's success. The bottom line is that EPA remains committed to improving the NSR program, and our improvements will make the Clean Air Act work better to protect public health, she said. Jeffrey Marks, director of air quality policy for the National Association of Manufacturers, said better data generally leads to better regulation, but his group believes EPA was correct to conclude its rule changes provided economic, environmental and energy efficiency benefits despite the lack of data. Sen. James Jeffords, I-Vt., the No. 2 senator on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said the report was another indication that the Bush administration's weakening of the Clean Air Act was unwarranted. Environmentalists and some states legally challenged the rules, saying the effects on air quality and public health were unacceptable. Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut's attorney general, said the GAO report confirms the rule changes weren't supported by scientific evidence and showed the administration has sold out to special interests. This report should be the final nail in the coffin of environmental credibility for this administration, he said. EPA said cost-benefit analysis wasn't required since less than $100 million in economic and environmental impacts were at stake. Jeffords and some Senate Democrats said more analysis was needed because EPA documents indicate that keeping the program intact would provide more than $2 billion in annual health benefits. On the Net: EPA New Source Review: www.epa.gov/nsr GAO: www.gao.gov 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] GAO Cites Corporate Shaping of Energy Plan
See also: http://www.enn.com/news/2003-08-26/s_7794.asp Cheney stifled energy probe, GAO investigators say Tuesday, August 26, 2003 Reuters http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44891-2003Aug25.html GAO Cites Corporate Shaping of Energy Plan By Mike Allen Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, August 26, 2003; Page A01 The White House collaborated heavily with corporations in developing President Bush's energy policy but repeatedly refused to give congressional investigators details of the meetings, according to a federal report issued yesterday. The General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, said in the report that Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham privately discussed the formulation of Bush's policy with chief executive officers of petroleum, electricity, nuclear, coal, chemical and natural gas companies, among others. An energy task force, led by Vice President Cheney, relied for outside advice primarily on petroleum, coal, nuclear, natural gas, electricity industry representatives and lobbyists, while seeking limited input from academic experts, environmentalists and policy groups, the GAO said. The task force was one of Bush's highest priorities after his inauguration and was launched on his 10th day in office. None of the group's meetings was open to the public, and participants told GAO investigators they could not recollect whether official rosters or minutes were kept, the report said. Yesterday's report was the culmination of a lengthy legal battle between Congress and the Bush administration over the secrecy of government deliberations. The GAO sued in federal court for access to records of Cheney's task force, but dropped the action after a decisive court setback, followed by pressure from Republicans. The GAO said its information was incomplete because of administration intransigence. Although the Energy Department released e-mails, letters and calendars that reflected heavy input from corporations, the GAO report provided the first systematic look at the extent to which the administration relied on corporations and insisted on secrecy in developing its policy, issued in May 2001. Among the previously disclosed meetings were private sessions for Kenneth L. Lay, then the chairman of Enron Corp., the Texas energy trading company that collapsed in the nation's largest accounting scandal. Lay was given a 30-minute meeting with Cheney and a conference with a top aide for the task force. David M. Walker, comptroller general of the United States and head of the GAO, said in an interview that the standoff over the task force documents called into question the existence of a reasonable degree of transparency and an appropriate degree of accountability in government. Walker said the energy investigation was the first instance since he took office in November 1998 in which the GAO was unable to do its job and produce a report according to generally accepted government auditing standards. The Congress and the American people had the right to know the limited amount of information we were seeking, Walker said. The White House issued no substantive response. Jennifer Millerwise, Cheney's spokeswoman, said the White House hopes that everyone will now focus as strongly as the administration has on the substance of meeting America's energy needs. David S. Addington, the vice president's counsel, said in a letter to Congress last year that the task force, formally the National Energy Policy Development Group, met with a broad representation of people potentially affected by the group's work, including state and local regulators, labor unions and wildlife advocates. After this month's blackouts crippled much of the Northeast and Midwest, GOP congressional leaders vowed to move swiftly after Labor Day on energy legislation that is based on Bush's policy and includes plans for shoring up the nation's electricity grid. The legislation has been stalled for more than two years; Democrats say that is because of Bush's insistence on tax breaks and other incentives for energy production, including oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The report provides Democrats with ammunition for their contention that Bush's energy policy is filled with favors for corporate interests. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.), who joined the request for the GAO probe when he was chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, said voters should know what role energy companies played in writing the policy. They will never know the full truth because the White House chose to stonewall instead of cooperate with investigators, said Lieberman, a presidential candidate. The report said several corporations and associations, including Chevron Corp. (now part of ChevronTexaco Corp.) and the National Mining Association, gave detailed energy policy recommendations. ChevronTexaco declined to comment. Carol Raulston, a
[biofuel] Green light for ethanol-blended petrol
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0308/S00233.htm Green light for ethanol-blended petrol Tuesday, 26 August 2003, 2:41 pm New Zealand has entered an exciting new era in renewable energy and transport fuels with the granting of approval to blend petrol with ethanol. This is an important step towards reducing net carbon dioxide emissions from the use of transport fuels, Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) Chief Executive Heather Staley said today. I am delighted to be able to report today that the Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA) has approved our application for the manufacture, release, handling and use of petrol-ethanol blends not exceeding 10% ethanol by volume. This means that ethanol can be blended with petrol, up to a maximum of 10 percent, and sold in New Zealand service stations. The 10 percent ethanol limit is the same as in the United States and is now the maximum in Australia. Because the ethanol that will be blended with petrol for New Zealand will be derived from renewable sources, it enables us to take an important step towards reducing overall carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. When and where ethanol-blended petrol is sold is up to individual oil companies but we hope that ethanol will go on sale at some New Zealand service stations later this year. Where the ethanol comes from is again up to individual oil companies. The great thing about ethanol is that it doesn't need to come from fossil fuels and can be sourced from farming activities. In New Zealand ethanol is a by-product of the dairy industry, in Australia, Brazil and the United States crops are grown specifically for the production of ethanol. The use of ethanol-blended petrol is not new to New Zealand - there were trials in the 1980s when many countries were looking at ethanol to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels. There has also been extensive use of petrol-ethanol blends in Australia although the response there has been mixed due to a lack of regulation, resulting in the use of up to 40 percent ethanol in petrol, and a lack of labelling at pumps in some areas. However no problems were reported by motorists during a trial in Brisbane in which there was an ethanol limit of 10 percent, signage on pumps and consumer information available. A 10 percent limit is now the maximum for ethanol-blended petrol across Australia. In New Zealand we want to make sure the ethanol-blended petrol is suitable for use in our vehicles and consumers have all of the information they need. At a maximum ethanol content of 10 percent, most drivers would not be able to notice any difference between the use of ethanol-blended petrol and ordinary petrol. The fuel will also meet all the other quality-related specifications of the Petroleum Products Specifications Regulations 2002, Ms Staley said. These regulations also require pumps to be clearly labelled and consumer information to be provided at the point of sale. EECA is working with oil companies to develop a standard label for pumps which will state 'contains up to 10 percent ethanol' and with the motor vehicle industry, oil companies and consumer groups to prepare detailed information for both consumers and motor trade. The trade information will be sent to the motor trade prior to the fuel going on sale and the consumer information will be available wherever the fuel is sold. Both documents will be available at www.energywise.org.nz in the 'on the road' section. The National Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy covers all types of energy, including transport fuels. Transport is the single biggest energy consumer in New Zealand - and it's the fastest growing. The National Strategy also includes a target of a 23 percent increase in energy from renewable sources by 2012. The introduction of ethanol-blended petrol is an important step towards meeting the 7 percent of the renewable energy target expected to come from transport fuels. The application to ERMA was submitted by EECA with the support of all oil companies and Fonterra, New Zealand's major ethanol producer. Ms Staley says EECA is improving energy choices. For more information visit www.energywise.org.nz ENDS For a copy of the ERMA decision visit http://www.ermanz.govt.nz/search/substance1.cfm and search the register by inserting the application code HSR02058 or use the substance trade name ethanol ETHANOL FACT SHEET Ethanol - the product Ethanol is an alcohol made from sugar or starches and products containing sugars or starches, through a process of fermentation and distilling. In New Zealand, ethanol is a by-product of the dairy industry - it is a by-product of milk processing that is produced by fermenting lactose with a special yeast that converts this sugar into alcohol. The ethanol is then distilled off and further processed to remove water. The ethanol currently produced at Fonterra's Anchor plants is used for
[biofuel] Fuel/ Water Separator for 1979 Mercedes 300 D
Hello, I recently purchased a 1979 Mercedes 300 D and found that it has a Fuel/ Water separator. I can't find anything about this in my Haynes Manual. Is this necessary, and if so what will biodiesel do to it? I am making B100 to run in the car. Thanks, Dave 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] Emailing: lurgi_completes_one_of_the_largest_biodiesel_plants_in_germany_considerable_market_growth_for_biodiesel_fuels_expected
Lurgi completes one of the largest biodiesel plants in Germany / Considerable market growth for biodiesel fuels expectedDear friends, I found this old note, I don't remember having seen it before. Anyhow, I think is useful. Marcelino Press New Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient Plant for Merz Pharma Lurgi TPS wins contract for a biotechnology project in Martinsried Lurgi TPS opens new office in the Martinsried Innovation and Founder Center for Biotechnology IZB Groundbreaking ceremony for biodiesel plant in Malchin Lurgi Life Science Receives Order for Two New Melamine Plants in Wittenberg Lurgi completes one of the largest biodiesel plants in Germany / Considerable market growth for biodiesel fuels expected Lurgi Hands Over Sorbitol Plant to Customer in France Lurgi Life Science GmbH Commissioned with the Extension of a Titanium Dioxide Plant in Spain Lurgi AG: Major Contracts Consolidate Lurgi to Build Turnkey Biodiesel Plant in Marl/Germany Neue Anlage zur Plasmafraktionierung GMP-gerechte Herstellung von Pharmawirkstoffen Mendel's Heirs Experimenting with Sophisticated Technologies Lurgi Life Science Celebrating Roofing Ceremony for New Multiproduct Pharmaceutical Plant Lurgi Life Science GmbH: Gypsum-free Tartaric Acid Production Lurgi Acquires Further Licenses for Edible Oil Processes Gadomski received Award Pharma-Anlagen als lump-sum-turnkey-Projekte Anlagenbau fr Pharma, Food und Feinchemie Erweiterte Pharma Kompetenz Rohner: Mehrzweckanlage in Pratteln Erfolg mit Lurgi Life Science Technologie Lurgi Life Science strebt Marktfhrerschaft an Biodiesel plant in Marl built by Lurgi Life Science GmbH officially inaugurated by undersecretary Bickenbach on July 17, 2002 Lurgi completes one of the largest biodiesel plants in Germany / Considerable market growth for biodiesel fuels expected In Marl, one of the largest biodiesel plants in the Federal Republic of Germany was completed. The official inauguration took place today in the presence of undersecretary Jrg Bickenbach from the Ministry of Economy and MSEs, Energy and Transport of the state of North Rhine Westfalia, Mr. Bernd Klln, chairman of the customer NEW, as well as Dr. Klaus Kliem, president of the Union zur Frderung von l- und Proteinpflanzen e. V. (German association for the promotion of biofuels), Mr. Arnold Pfannkuche, managing director of ABX Logistics, and representatives of the plant operator Infracor GmbH and Lurgi Life Science GmbH. Numerous guests did not want to miss this inauguration ceremony. Lurgi Life Science GmbH, a company based in Chemnitz and Frankfurt, needed only one year for the construction of the biodiesel plant. Applying innovative Lurgi technology, 100,000 tons of biodiesel and 12,000 tons of glycerin per year will be produced in Marl (North Rhine Westfalia) for the customer, Natural Energy West GmbH (NEW), an international cooperation composed of the worldwide agricultural products trading company Bunge (New York / Hamburg), Europe's leading producer of biodiesel Diester (Paris), the oil mill Thywissen (Neuss) and the cooperation RCG Nordwest e.G. (Munster). Production started in March this year. The quality of the biodiesel produced outperforms the requirements of the Biodiesel Standard (diesel fuel E DIN 51606 - FAME / vegetable oil fatty acid methyl ester). The byproduct raw glycerin obtained in parallel in connection with the inter-esterification of rapeseed oil is of high quality (British Standard - BS 2621) so that it can be transformed directly to pharmaceutical-grade glycerin without requiring an intermediate step. For the inter-esterification of rapeseed oil, about ten percent of methanol is added. A catalyst accelerates the inter-esterification process. The excess methanol is removed in a distillation process and recycled - thereby saving our resources. Another asset of the Lurgi technology is the possibility to use alternative feedstocks. Although the plant in Marl exclusively processes rapeseed oil to biodiesel, the inter-esterification process can in principle be operated with equal efficiency also using other vegetable oils such as sunflower,
Re: Fwd: [biofuel] Insurers Face Global Warming
You might be interested in this, from New Zealand: http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0308/S00222.htm Climate change: liability looms for directors Tuesday, 26 August 2003, 8:50 am Press Release: Phillip Fox One thing that comes to mind is that New Zealand taxpayers are already bearing these costs, insofar as New Zealand is already a refugee destination for Pacific Islanders whose islands have gone under the water, or are going under water. To be sure, the numbers didn't appear large yet or anything, from that one article I was reading on Tuvalu, but they did appear to be there. One area where this issue will really bite is waterfront property. This one is interesting to me. If, at this point, one believes that Global Warming might have some validity, could this lead to hesitating to buy? I say that it should, but I'm not familiar with coastal real estate and whether there's been any evidence of coastal disappearance. If and when there is evidence of this that is widespread, it could change many many tunes. The disappearance of thousands or millions of expensive properties belonging to well-heeled well-insured folks around the U.S. and the world could and should lead to a global change-in-tune as to Global Warming. Sure, it's later than some of us would like, but if Sea Levels do rise, that particular Canary will be interesting to watch. MM 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/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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] sustainable Bison Ranching and Other land use attempted
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[biofuel] FOE/GP PRESS RELEASE: GMOs
Forwarded from [environmentaljournalists] PRESS RELEASE Friends of the Earth Europe and Greenpeace Immediate release - Tuesday 26 August FAILING IN THE FIELD GM crops in Spain don't deliver promises, but harm farmers and environment * A new study published today by Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace demonstrates that the growing of GM crops in Spain is causing contamination of organic crops, producing low yields and its benefits are grossly overstated. The report is also highly critical of the Spanish Government for failing to properly control or monitor the situation. [1] Spain is the only country in the European Union where GM crops are grown at a commercial scale: since 1998, an estimated 25,000 hectares are planted each year with a genetically modified corn variety (called Bt176) sold by the Swiss biotech company Syngenta. The corn has been engineered to resist the European Corn Borer, a potentially harmful insect for maize. The cultivation of GM corn in Spain is taking place without any official evaluation (although prescribed by Spanish law). However, there is now information - made available through a few independent studies- that shows that the GM plantings pose serious economic and environmental problems: * A study by IGTA [2] demonstrates that - over the years 1998 to 2000 - in most cases there were no differences between conventional and GM crops when attacked by the corn borer. This indicates that the corn borer survives the toxin produced by the GM plant, which poses a real risk if resistance develops. This can not only create an economic problem to farmers, but also an environmental problem, since heavier and more environmentally damaging pesticides will be needed to fight the armed insects. * The first cases of organic crops contaminated by GMOs have been discovered in the northern region of Navarra by the Council of Organic Farming in Navarra (CPAEN, a public organic certifying body). Consequently the organic certificate was withdrawn and farmers suffered losses because their product could not be labelled organic anymore for marketing purposes. * Studies have shown that the yields for the GM crop are substantially lower then comparable conventional varieties. For example, one study reported that in 1999 the GM corn yielded 25% less then the top yielding variety. * The Spanish Governments own Working Group on Pesticides reported in 2002 that corn borer incidence in Spain is low and does not justify the use of these GM varieties [3]. In contrast, the biotech industry states that Spanish farmers have suffered European Corn Borer for generations. [4] The report by Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth also explains the approval process in the USA and the EU as well as the legal issues related to GMOs since 1996. It reveals for example that Bt 176 varieties were already withdrawn in 2001 from the list of approved varieties by the competent authorities in the US, a country known for its support to GM crops. The findings of the report are supported by mainstream Spanish farmers unions. Liliane Spendeler from Amigos de la Tierra/Friends of the Earth Spain, one of the authors of the report, said: This research shows that GM crops are not the miracle crops that they are often taken for. On the contrary: the only ones benefiting from these crops are the biotech companies, while farmers and the environment are suffering from negative effects. Co-author Juan-Felipe Carrasco of Greenpeace Spain said: Spain has become a big experimental field, where GM crops have been cultivated for the last 5 years without any agronomic advantage compared to conventional varieties and where no measures have been adopted to prevent their negative impacts. The Spanish example illustrates what could happen on all European farmlands if the EU Commission allows contamination thresholds in conventional seeds and if biotech companies are not held liable for their contamination of conventional and organic fields. NOTES TO EDITORS 1. The report The impact of GM corn in Spain is available from Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace websites in Spanish and English: www.tierra.org and www.greenpeace.org/espana_es 2. Instituto Tcnico de Gestin Agraria del Gobierno Navarra, the Official Farm Research Institution in Navarra 3. Spanish Ministry of Agriculture- Report of the Working Group on Pests and Diseases in Extensive Crops. April 2002. 4. Europabio press release, 27th September 2002. CONTACTS Liliane Spendeler, Amigos de la Tierra: Tel: (+34) 91 847 92 48 Mobile (+34) 666 507 647 Juan Felipe Carrasco, Greenpeace: Tel: (+34) 91 444 14 46 Mobile (+34) 626 99 82 44 Geert Ritsema, Friends of the Earth Europe Mobile (+31) 629 005 908 Eric Gall, Greenpeace European Unit, Mobile (+32) 496 16 15 82 Yahoo! Groups Sponsor
