RE: [biofuel] Re: Inexpensive But Good SVO Vehicle

2001-11-21 Thread Anton Berteuax
there is nothing intrinsic to turbos that inhibits you from using WVO. what causes the problems in modern engines is the computer controls that get confused by viscosity changes and the fact that direct injection is less tolerant of bad atomisation than in an idirect injection engine. In the older

Re: [biofuel] FW: VEG-Therm (was Inexpensive But Good SVO Vehicle)

2001-11-21 Thread Keith Addison
Hey, are you guys aware that Ed Beggs offered list members these units for beta-testing? And nobody took him up on it. Bit slow, ain't ya? See below... Offer's still open I think. Best Keith Addison Journey to Forever Handmade Projects Tokyo http://journeytoforever.org/ > > ---

[biofuels-biz] Re: [biofuel] FW: VEG-Therm (was Inexpensive But Good SVO Vehicle)

2001-11-21 Thread Keith Addison
Hey, are you guys aware that Ed Beggs offered list members these units for beta-testing? And nobody took him up on it. Bit slow, ain't ya? See below... Offer's still open I think. Best Keith Addison Journey to Forever Handmade Projects Tokyo http://journeytoforever.org/ > > ---

Re: [biofuel] Cummins 6, was small vee..

2001-11-21 Thread craig reece
Jean-Leon, I've heard that the pre-chamber in an indirect injection engine mixes the fuel-air more completely. Someone else posted this. I've emailed Elsbett in Germany, who have been studying the VW Tdi engine on vegetable oil, and asked them if I can pay them to share their preliminary data wit

[biofuel] RE: Ford Explorer hybrid abandoned

2001-11-21 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Alan >Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, I didn't really "wrote", I just sent! > > Ford engineers and other insiders said the automaker, citing a cash > > crunch and less success with the gasoline-electric hybrid than > > expected, decided to limit the hybrid system to smaller tr

Re: [biofuel] Direct vs. Indirect injection for SVO

2001-11-21 Thread Dana Linscott
My understanding is that the precumbustion chamber aids in mixing the SVO and air and aids in more complete combustion. I recall hearing of problems with SVO droplets spraying onto the cylinder walls and therefore not being burned and in some cases seeping past the rings and ending up diluting th

[biofuel] EREN Network News -- 11/21/01

2001-11-21 Thread Kevin Eber
= EREN NETWORK NEWS -- November 21, 2001 A weekly newsletter from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network (EREN). = Featuring: *N

[biofuel] Methanol, cannot be made non-poisionous?

2001-11-21 Thread k5farms
[cbdnet.access.gpo.gov] PART: U.S. GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENTS SUBPART: SERVICES CLASSCOD: A--Research and Development OFFADD: National Technology Transfer Center, Wheeling Jesuit University, 316 Washington Ave., Wheeling, WV 26003-6295 SUBJECT: A--RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT -- THE SUBJECT TECHNOLOGY