Re: [biofuel] Warren Still Design

Hello George >Hello Keith > >A few days back someone posted a message that said that a Robert >Warren had still design plans for sale and to check out your >Journeys to Forevers web site. The article was under the name >.../ethanol robert1.html. Yes. Sigh... I wrote to him offlist asking him

Re: [biofuel] Re: BSE not in the USA/thermal cracking

Neal, I am interested in discussing thermal cracking and have been doing some research regarding the use of supercritical methanol as a relativly simple to automate scalable transesterification process. I will restrain myself from extraneous editorial comment here lest I be the subject of ridic

Yahoo - was Re: [biofuel] Test

>Time recieved -- 17:11 the next day. > > >- Original Message - >From: "Greg and April" <> >To: >Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 21:43 >Subject: [biofuel] Test > > > > Test > > > > Time sent -- 21:43 > > Yahoo Groups was down for at least 12 hours, for what they called "maintenance". It a

Re: [biofuel] RE: Energy efficiency of modes of transport

See www.cargolifter.com Edward Beggs www.biofuels.ca > From: Harmon Seaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com > Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 09:02:18 -0600 > To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [biofuel] RE: Energy efficiency of modes of transport > > It's a pity they

Re: [biofuel] US Drought

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[biofuel] Re: Test

--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Greg and April" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Test > > Time sent -- 21:43 > > Please excuse this post. Something is going on with my e-mail, I've posted a > few times today, but, have only recieved 1 of my post to come back thru the > group e-mail. So I am seeing how

RE: [biofuel] Re: Drought and thermal cracking

Since you are into arid agriculture perhaps you are familiar with the Burbank thornless cactus. How much cold can it tolerate? We have prickly pear here in Montana but the Burbank looks quite succulent and I wondered if that impaired its cold tolerance. The yield for a dryland crop is enormous.

Re: [biofuel] the need for speed?

Have you read "Beyond Growth", Herman Daly? Ed > From: Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com > Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 19:20:00 +0900 > To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [biofuel] the need for speed? > > Hi Ed > > That's very well put! > > "Progress" to

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[biofuel] Re: Drought and thermal cracking

Here comes Neal ducking and running. The thermal cracking site I visited was Green Oasis, Charleston, SC. Looked good to me since I like simple things. I agree that you may give up some benefits of standard biodiesel production from vegetable oil but it seems so simple. One big drawback i

[biofuel] Perennial Wheat and Perennial Sunflowers

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[biofuel] yahoo.groups

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[biofuel] Hey sport...

Keith, I could use an extra brain here for a moment. We all know that crisis is a great motivator and that it has proven so in the US numerous times. However, aside from a gold rush here and there, a land grab or westward expansion, can you think of any instances where the masses were motivat

[biofuel] Warren Still Design

Hello Keith A few days back someone posted a message that said that a Robert Warren had still design plans for sale and to check out your Journeys to Forevers web site. The article was under the name .../ethanol robert1.html. I have searched your site for Robert Warren and all combinations th

[biofuel] biofuelers in portland, or

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Re: [biofuel] oil seed press/expeller

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Re: [biofuel] Ethanol, RME and biogas

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Re: [biofuel] Test

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Re: [biofuel] Test

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[biofuel] Test

Test Time sent -- 21:43 Please excuse this post. Something is going on with my e-mail, I've posted a few times today, but, have only recieved 1 of my post to come back thru the group e-mail. So I am seeing how long it is taking to get back to me, in effort to find out were the problem is. Greg

Re: [biofuel] the need for speed?

Eloquently put, Ed. Craig "Neoteric Biofuels Inc." wrote: > We are in a race, in a society, where speed is thought synonymous with > efficiency.It's not, not energy efficiency. Slower is better. We pay that > mindset with huge amounts of fossil fuel. We pay for that in a lot of ways > that we

[biofuel] Re: Biodiesel,Glycerine pretreat

Dear Paul, Thanks again for the feed back. The SG results form my tests with pre-treated oil are as follows. Note, all are unwashed except for the normal brew sample: Test 1, 20 mil (8%) methanol. SG 0.9111 Test 2, 25 mil (10%) methanol. SG 0.9051 Test 3, 32 mil (13%) methanol. SG 0.9036 Test

RE: Air travel - was Re: [biofuel] car racing-grand prix etc

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[biofuel] Methanol from biomass

What does anybody know about the state of this technology? Apparently it's come a long way since the old "destructive distillation of wood" days. Now they make a mixture of CO and H2, and use catalysts to turn that into methanol. If I could get some of that to play with, I might even give up on et

Re: [biofuel] Re: Its not possible to make affordable biodiesel in the UK...

Please tell me where I can get methanol this cheap in the UK? Sincerely, Ken - Original Message - From: jim h <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: 01 March 2002 14:32 Subject: Re: [biofuel] Re: Its not possible to make affordable biodiesel in the UK... > > methanol can be got in the uk for abo

Re: [biofuel] Subsidizing Trains, Planes And Automobiles

I can vouch about the problem with customer service. When the wife and I went to visit her folks, in OR, we left Denver CO in one of the newer cars it was good, clean, nice ride, roomy, & great views. On the way back, when we got ready to load up in Portland OR, everyone that was headed to Denve

Re: [biofuel] Re: BSE not in the USA

Neal, The enemy of marginal, bad, poor, insufficient, inadequate and questionable is "better." When "better" can be easily achieved yet not accomplished, the failure borders on criminal. When easily achieved "better" is dismissed in light of the consequences, should those consequences become

[biofuels-biz] Massachusetts College Switches to Biodiesel

http://www.solaraccess.com/news/story.jsp?storyid=1606 Renewable Energy News | Massachusetts College Switches to Biodiesel Amherst, Massachusetts 2002-03-05 [SolarAccess.com] In an effort to expand its alternative fuel program and bring cleaner air to Western Massachusetts, the University of Ma

[biofuel] Massachusetts College Switches to Biodiesel

http://www.solaraccess.com/news/story.jsp?storyid=1606 Renewable Energy News | Massachusetts College Switches to Biodiesel Amherst, Massachusetts 2002-03-05 [SolarAccess.com] In an effort to expand its alternative fuel program and bring cleaner air to Western Massachusetts, the University of Ma

Re: [biofuel] Ethanol, RME and biogas

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Re: [biofuel] RE: Energy efficiency of modes of transport

It's a pity they aren't looking more at LTA heavy-lifters for air freight. Blimps, in other words. There was a guy, can't recall his name, who used to have a forum at EAA, perhaps still does, who was doing some pretty neat design work for a Canadian company on modern heavy-lifters. Of cour

[biofuel] EREN Network News -- 03/06/02

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[biofuels-biz] EREN Network News -- 03/06/02

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[biofuel] Subsidizing Trains, Planes And Automobiles

http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/4618 Q&A Subsidizing Trains, Planes And Automobiles Debunking the Myth of Amtrak Socialism David Case is the executive editor of TomPaine.com. Tom Downs says his experience running Amtrak from 1993 to 1998 was "exhilarating." Despite dealing with an often

Re: Air travel - was Re: [biofuel] car racing-grand prix etc

Would be a shame to see passenger rail go the way of the carrier pigeon and plover. Ridership probably has a great deal to do with the public's perception of safety. I don't think that's going to change much until the industry implements a "locking rail" system which greatly reduces or elimina

[biofuel] RE: Energy efficiency of modes of transport

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/efficiency/eefig_ch5.htm#Figure%205.21. See link.Rail is by far the most efficient, and seems to have the potential for a lot more efficiencyalmost half the fuel used is not used in actual movement of freight, % that would never be allowed or competitive in ai

[biofuel] Ethanol, RME and biogas

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[biofuel] Re: BSE not in the USA

Well, whatever you say, Neal. >RE: thermal cracking. I have been looking at the process of producing >biodiesel from a medium sized produder point of view. If someone could spend >$4,000,000 to make 1500 gal of biodiesel an hour with little additional >inputs besides heat, it could be somethi

Re: [biofuel] the need for speed?

Hi Ed That's very well put! "Progress" too often just means "faster". If only it were just mindless, and not so wasteful and destructive. Brother Aesop was right about the hare and the tortoise - tortoises also live longer and they don't go crazy. Well, I don't think they do - have you ever

[biofuel] Tabletop Physicists May Have Achieved Fusion in a Bottle

Seems to come round every 10 years or so, like a comet. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,47136,00.html FOXNews.com Tabletop Physicists May Have Achieved Fusion in a Bottle Tuesday, March 05, 2002 WASHINGTON - A phenomenon that may be nuclear fusion was created in a laboratory bottle by re

Re: Air travel - was Re: [biofuel] car racing-grand prix etc

>This may all be a useless debate before to much longer, it looks like Amtrak >might be derailed. > >http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/business/DailyNews/amtrak020304.html > >Greg H. Yeah, they're no good, trains just don't waste nearly enough fuel. But, whatever happens to Amtrak, it's a usefu

[biofuel] Re: Biodiesel,Glycerine pretreat

Dear Paul, Thanks again for the feed back. The SG results form my tests with pre-treated oil are as follows. Note all are unwashed except for the normal brew sample: Test 1, 20 mil (8%) methanol. SG 0.9111 Test 2, 25 mil (10%) methanol. SG 0.9051 Test 3, 32 mil (13%) methanol. SG 0.9036 Test 4

[biofuel] US Drought

Preparing for a Drought By PETER H. GLEICK http://www.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/04GLEI.html?todaysheadlines OAKLAND, Calif. -- Up and down the East Coast, scientific evidence is revealing the extent and severity of what could be the deepest drought of the past 100 years. Forest fires in Maine, us