RE: [biofuel] Need info on Perkins D3152 Engine

2002-09-12 Thread Keith Addison
>Is this a car sales site? >Raw What's that supposed to mean? It's not a car, and he's not trying to sell it. Keith >-Original Message- >From: Christopher Witmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, 13 September 2002 1:44 PM >To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com >Subject: [biofuel] Need inf

RE: [biofuel] Need info on Perkins D3152 Engine

2002-09-12 Thread rwenham
Is this a car sales site? Raw -Original Message- From: Christopher Witmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 13 September 2002 1:44 PM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [biofuel] Need info on Perkins D3152 Engine Anyone familiar with the Perkins D3152 engine? I have located one

[biofuel] Need info on Perkins D3152 Engine

2002-09-12 Thread Christopher Witmer
Anyone familiar with the Perkins D3152 engine? I have located one that is about 25 or 30 years old and has 86 hours on it (run twice each month just to keep tabs on it). The metal tag on the unit says D3-152I. Am I correct in my understanding that this is a three-cylinder, 2.5 liter engine? An

Re: [biofuel] Diesel/Electric Hybrid ?

2002-09-12 Thread Steve Spence
they are correct in saying that it takes more electricity to make hydrogen than you get back. they are incorrect, and even greatly optimistic about the efficiency of hydrogen vs. battery. Steve Spence Subscribe to the Renewable Energy Newsletter & Discussion Boards: http://www.green-trust.org Re

Re: [biofuel] burning automatic transmission fluid

2002-09-12 Thread Steve Spence
please don't. it's not a biofuel, and isn't pleasant to the environment. Steve Spence Subscribe to the Renewable Energy Newsletter & Discussion Boards: http://www.green-trust.org Renewable Energy Pages - http://www.webconx.dns2go.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "jim kra

Re: [biofuels-biz] neuralised layers in crude glycerine

2002-09-12 Thread Appal Energy
Paddy, Why is it that I get the feeling that the point is more to create issue or criticism, rather than to understand what is supposedly being critiqued? Rather makes one think that the real purpose doesn't have much at all to do with making biodiesel or understanding its making, the entire pro

Re: [biofuels-biz] neuralised layers in crude glycerine

2002-09-12 Thread Keith Addison
>OK Keith, > re: "Why do you think the three layers are not what Todd and I say they >are, and what do you think they are?" My main problem is with the bottom >layer - why is it so large and what is the oily substance that the catalyst >is associated with? I'm afraid I don't have any answers - onl

Re: [biofuel] Air car.

2002-09-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Can anyone tell me how air powered cars work? http://www.theaircar.com/UKPressrelease.html#Eng >How does it work? > >90m3 of compressed air is stored in fibre tanks. The expansion of this air >pushes the pistons and creates movement. The atmospheric temperature is used >to re-heat the eng

[biofuels-biz] neuralised layers in crude glycerine

2002-09-12 Thread goat industries
OK Keith, re: "Why do you think the three layers are not what Todd and I say they are, and what do you think they are?" My main problem is with the bottom layer - why is it so large and what is the oily substance that the catalyst is associated with? I'm afraid I don't have any answers - only mor

[biofuel] Air car.

2002-09-12 Thread jokefalcon
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[biofuel] Re: Diesel/Electric Hybrid ?

2002-09-12 Thread motie_d
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK so i am going to take a lot of liberty on my snippoing cause this is > all that interests me for now. > > motie_d wrote: > < > snip > > < > > > > > The credibilty is fine, as far as the Technology goes. The > > Feasabil

Re: [biofuel] Re: Diesel/Electric Hybrid ?

2002-09-12 Thread David Wood
OK so i am going to take a lot of liberty on my snippoing cause this is all that interests me for now. motie_d wrote: < snip < > The credibilty is fine, as far as the Technology goes. The > Feasability is where problems occur. I have spent the past several > years working on a Project ve

Re: [biofuel] James Woolsey, former CIA director

2002-09-12 Thread Hakan Falk
Thank's for the link you gave me, I have now listened to his speech and the Q&A. He was much more knowledgeable about ethanol than I thought, after reading the brief. I must say that I still have to stick with the impression on the rest. His views on political situation was very simplistic and a

Re: [biofuel] Diesel/Electric Hybrid ?

2002-09-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 11:53:58 -0600, you wrote: >Misleading. Very misleading. >Efficiency numbers are not for process. >Electrolyzers are usually less than 2/3 efficient. Fuel cells too. Worse >than lead/acid cells and site says otherwise. >Kirk I also saw some dubious stuff, but they had somethi

Re: [biofuel] James Woolsey, former CIA director

2002-09-12 Thread Hakan Falk
No, I did not hear the whole of his speech and it is possible that he was more enlighten on the technical aspects of bio fuels. If you say so, I will believe you and remain hopeful on prominent US officials. But a summary generally give the points that was perceived as important and maybe it was

[biofuels-biz] Re: [biofuel] James Woolsey, former CIA director

2002-09-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My apologies -- my mistake. The entire speech (more than 1 hour including Q+A) does appear to be viewable here: http://www.rff.org by clicking on the name "James Woolsey" That links to this: http://stream.realimpact.org/rihurl.ram?file=realimpact/essential/lccr/9-11-02/woolsey.rm To be sure,

Re: [biofuel] James Woolsey, former CIA director

2002-09-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My apologies -- my mistake. The entire speech (more than 1 hour including Q+A) does appear to be viewable here: http://www.rff.org by clicking on the name "James Woolsey" That links to this: http://stream.realimpact.org/rihurl.ram?file=realimpact/essential/lccr/9-11-02/woolsey.rm To be sure,

Re: [biofuel] James Woolsey, former CIA director

2002-09-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>I am sorry but I can not find anything strategic or intelligent in >his speech. You haven't heard or seen his speech (that I'm aware). The summary posted at that website was poor... about 1/50th of what he had to say. Woolsey spoke at some length about Ethanol, about various issues in using i

Re: [biofuel] James Woolsey, former CIA director

2002-09-12 Thread Hakan Falk
Details Apart from the headline, it is not much to agree on. I do not want to participate in a senseless US bashing, but this speech is very disappointing if it is done by a prominent public official. It must be sad, if the few and questionable words about ethanol is the most you heard in US

Re: [biofuels-biz] neuralised layers in crude glycerine and high FFA feedstocks

2002-09-12 Thread Steven & Helen Hobbs
G'day Paddy, A copy would be great. Thanks Steven goat industries wrote: > I don't necessarily disagree with Todd's thoughts as to the constitiution > of the 3 layers, I was more interested in why he thought what he did rather > than what he thought (all due respect to Todd). It should be easy

[biofuels-biz] Re: [biofuel] James Woolsey, former CIA director

2002-09-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I should add: I'm working on trying to get them to lower the price or make it free. Not enough of the speech is about biowaste-to-fuel (maybe 10 percent) to justify those with modest means buying it, IMO. It's just that a portion of the speech went over that issue. MM On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 04:04:

Re: [biofuel] James Woolsey, former CIA director

2002-09-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I should add: I'm working on trying to get them to lower the price or make it free. Not enough of the speech is about biowaste-to-fuel (maybe 10 percent) to justify those with modest means buying it, IMO. It's just that a portion of the speech went over that issue. MM On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 04:04:

[biofuels-biz] Re: [biofuel] James Woolsey, former CIA director

2002-09-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More on this speech, which is the most I've *ever* heard from any prominent public official, on the virtues and strategic importance of converting biowaste to fuel (never mind the quibbling that some would probably have with some of his details). http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.

Re: [biofuel] James Woolsey, former CIA director

2002-09-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More on this speech, which is the most I've *ever* heard from any prominent public official, on the virtues and strategic importance of converting biowaste to fuel (never mind the quibbling that some would probably have with some of his details). http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.

[biofuel] Elsbett kit conversion class- Portland OR Sept 14th

2002-09-12 Thread girl Mark
Apologies for cross-posting Below is info about a workshop hosted this weekend by Capra J'neva, who does an extremely informative and well-balanced SVO conversion class. If yer in Portland or nearby, it's very much worth attending. Mark Workshop: VEGETABLE OIL CAR CONVERSION - the Elsbett Kit

[biofuel] LOL about energy efficiency

2002-09-12 Thread Hakan Falk
US, Canada and Australia belongs to the largest energy consumers in the world, with a very inefficient and wasteful usage. The following is therefore quite astonishing. It seems more as an attempt to control and deprive emerging economies of energy resources, disguised as a honorable cause.