[biofuel] The Other Gasoline Crisis

2000-09-28 Thread Simon Riordan
PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release: September 28, 2000 Contact: David Morris, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, 612-379-3815 THE OTHER GASOLINE CRISIS: SPEEDING UP THE SHIFT FROM MTBE TO ETHANOL MINNEAPOLIS, MN - While gasoline prices have captured the recent headlines, another transportati

[biofuel] hello???

2000-09-28 Thread superboost
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[biofuel] hello?

2000-09-28 Thread j i
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[biofuel] is the grease car popular?

2000-09-28 Thread j i
I saw something on ripley's believe it or not about a VW bus running on veggie oil/fat/lard/cooking grease/etc. Is this popular news? I never saw this before. Is this used in conjunction with a diesel engine or regular 'oline engine? JI -- eGroups Sponsor --

RE: [biofuel] Eth + veg oil = gasreplacement?

2000-09-28 Thread Robert Warren
Jonathan, Ethanol is slower burning and thus the power is applied more evenly and more effectively. Gasoline burns too fast, and this is what leads to engine knock, and why variouus additives try to slow down the combustion process.. The problem with gasoline is that it requires different air-fuel

[biofuel] yeast comes in many varieties

2000-09-28 Thread Robert Warren
Doug, Yeasts are a classification of simple organisms which eat sugars and produce alcohol (ethanol) as a waste product, along with carbon dioxide. They are closer to an animal than a plant, as they breathe oxygen and emit CO2, and do not have a capacity for photosysthesis. There are literally hun

Re: [biofuel] Re: Injectorless diesels?

2000-09-28 Thread John Harris
Hi Bryan Dont know that i can expand much on what I said before about gas/diesel engines try a visit to www.naturalfuels.com/company_info theres a bit there on duel fuel cat engines and you may find some links to other places of interest. There was another post on this group about trying to ru

Re: [biofuel] Re: Injectorless diesels?

2000-09-28 Thread dougy
- Original Message - From: "Keith Addison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 8:00 AM Subject: [biofuel] Re: Injectorless diesels? : >I will remove myself from this list. : > : > WerkSpace Inc. : : Pl

Re: [biofuel] RE: Files??!?

2000-09-28 Thread Mel Robinson
Hello Alan > I'm not here to start any flame wars. Me either Alan, sorry Regards Mel -- eGroups Sponsor -~-~> Special Offer-Earn 300 Points from MyPoints.com for trying @Backup Get automatic protection and access to your important compu

[biofuel] RE: Files??!?

2000-09-28 Thread Alan S. Petrillo
"Mel Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perhaps you misunderstand this Email option. the files are not sent directly > to you through Email. > > There are no "large files of junk" cluttering up your hard drive, There is > nothing "clogging up your connections", get your facts straight befor

Re: [biofuel] Re: Injectorless diesels?

2000-09-28 Thread skaar
i meant for heating the whole house, i have designed separate for solid fuels. gonna add a coil for destressing potable water heater, but point is any fossil fuel is really too expensive to use exclusively. we use oil heat in old enterprise cooking stove for house heat, it's rather inefficient. w

RE: [biofuel] Re: Files??!?

2000-09-28 Thread Ackland, Tony (CALNZAS)
>Cool. Post the links and I'll be among the first to hit them. I should soon have MooNShiNers photos posted at http://www.geocities.com/kiwi_distiller/moonshine.htm they were meant to be there last night, but my dial in server from home started ignoring me Tony http://www.geocities.co

[biofuel] Re: Files??!?

2000-09-28 Thread Alan S. Petrillo
"MooNShiNeR " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ***GEEZ!! All the lists I'm on, if I used the mailing feature I'd > spend half my life downloading email. My inbox would look like novel! > No thanks, I'll check out everything from this purdy web inyorface.*** I get the digest versions. That cuts dow

Re: [biofuel] Re: Injectorless diesels?

2000-09-28 Thread Steve Spence
a biodiesel powered generator (vw diesel) generating electricity is the way I'd go. submerge the radiator in an insulated 55 gallon drum. circulate your house hot water through the drum. if the water isn't staying hot enough, submerge the oil radiator as well. -- Steve Spence Subscribe to the Rene

Re: [biofuel] Re: Injectorless diesels?

2000-09-28 Thread skaar
i'm here cause i want to find an alternate to expensive home heating oil, and maybe for steam power generation fuel. got water heat going in maybe add steam to it, it's going in 10' from the house. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't know about everybody else, but I'm getting tired of listening

[biofuel] Eth + veg oil = gasreplacement?

2000-09-28 Thread Jonathan E. Brickman
I am a homeowner on a small (1/6 acre?) lot, so I won't be building any stills! But I learned about biodiesel a long time ago, and had a thought: if ethanol alone is basically 105 octane supergasoline, might it be possible to use ethanol as a base and reduce the octane with some other easy-access

Eth + veg oil = gasalternative?

2000-09-28 Thread Jonathan E. Brickman
Having read a bit about the work at Journey to Forever, I have a question: have any of you ever attempted to discover a mixture of vegetable oil(s) and ethanol that could fuel an unmodified gasoline engine? Jonathan E. Brickman    [EMAIL PROTECTED]Learn to be happy, and not proud.One tends t

Re: [biofuel] Re: Injectorless diesels?

2000-09-28 Thread Bryan Fullerton
Interesting. I'd not like it to happen to me(G). My turbo must still be pretty good, I'm glad for that. I wonder how a diesel that had that bad of blowby could even start in the first place, compression being the critical component that it is. Of course one really bad cylinder with crankcase venti