[biofuels-biz] Hydrogen Cars Remain Decades in the Future Under New Budget

2003-02-05 Thread Steve Spence
Hydrogen Cars Remain Decades in the Future Under New Budget By DANNY HAKIM (NYT) The Bush administration plan to spur development of hydrogen cars does not envision mass production until 2020. ETROIT, Feb. 4 - The Bush administration plan to spur development of hydrogen cars does not envision

[biofuels-biz] how to make ehanol from wood with sulfuric acid

2003-02-05 Thread SHROPPB208
Steve Spence I read one of your topics on how to make ethanol from sawdust please contact me I need more details. - Original Message - From: Steve Spence To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; Biodiesel - Egroups ; Biofuel - Egroups ;

[biofuel] Re: Hakan you cannot be serious.

2003-02-05 Thread ALAN
Dear Hakan Any real petrol head with reasonable long term international knowledge of automotive or motorcycle history can tell you your statement that ... The good thing is that the advanced vehicle technologies...are not based in US any longer. ...is not true. Apologies to those from the USA,

Re: [biofuel] Introduction and some questions - Newbie

2003-02-05 Thread girl mark
hello Rui, batch processes of all kinds work very very well. Unless you're about to jump right into massive scale commercial production, you don't need to worry about continuous process in order to efficiently make good biodiesel. there are hundreds of ways to build a biodiesel processor for

Re: [biofuel] Introduction and some questions - Newbie

2003-02-05 Thread girl mark
Has anyone looked at the pressures produced by direct injection fuel pumps? The Dodge/Cummins direct injection pump puts out 24000 psi... Hmmm by the way , those kinds of pressures are very dangerous for reasons beyond just the capacity of the container/component design. I know someone

Re: [biofuel] Introduction and some questions - Newbie

2003-02-05 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Rui Hi, I am a gearhead first and foremost. A friend of mine has a VW Jetta diesel (TDI) and he introduced me to Biodiesel. I do not currently own a diesel vehicle but I am looking to convert my Toyota LandCruiser to diesel, plus I want to look at the potential of using a biofuel for

Re: [biofuel] Introduction and some questions - Newbie

2003-02-05 Thread Appal Energy
Rui, Continuous process is not all that proponents crack it up to be. You can make every bit as good a product and in some instances better with the batch system, ranging from gallon jugs to 3,000 gallon reactors. Or you could fire up your multi-million dollar hp reactor and keep an engineer

[biofuel] Methanol CA?

2003-02-05 Thread Ken
Can anyone point me to a source for Methanol in sunny California??? Thanks, Ken 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

RE: [biofuel] Introduction and some questions - Newbie

2003-02-05 Thread kirk
There is an out of print book Novel Drilling Technoques that in the second edition talks about cutting sandstone at several meters per second with liquid pressures of that magnitude. Granite I think was 7cm per second if memory serves. Obscure technology. Anyway, you can lose a lot more than

RE: [biofuel] Introduction and some questions - Newbie

2003-02-05 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Kirk There is an out of print book Novel Drilling Technoques that in the second edition talks about cutting sandstone at several meters per second with liquid pressures of that magnitude. Granite I think was 7cm per second if memory serves. Obscure technology. Anyway, you can lose a lot more

RE: [biofuel] Methanol CA?

2003-02-05 Thread Hall, Edward C.
Ken, Anywhere in particular in CA? How much Methanol are you looking for? I'm in San Diego, I buy 5-35gal quantities from VP Racing fuels through local performance shops. I wish I had the room to work with larger amounts, I'd buy in bulk direct from VP in LA, it's much cheaper. There's a group in

Re: [biofuel] Methanol CA?

2003-02-05 Thread girl mark
well that depends on where you are in california. look in the phone book under racing (or automotive-racing and performance, amazing how many people miss that one when they look at racetracks and only find the horse racing variety!). ask at your local hot rod shops or race engine builders.

ethical ethanol was RE: [biofuel] Methanol CA?

2003-02-05 Thread girl mark
the ethanol bulk buy is Ken Provost's project (listmember here as well as at the Burnveggies list...). It's an interesting one but be aware that ethanol is not super useful for complete beginners- ethanol is much harder to work predictably with than methanol. I was able to get 100% ethanol

Re: ethical ethanol was RE: [biofuel] Methanol CA?

2003-02-05 Thread Ken Provost
On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 11:19 AM, girl mark wrote: the ethanol bulk buy is Ken Provost's project (listmember here as well as at the Burnveggies list...). It's an interesting one but be aware that ethanol is not super useful for complete beginners- ethanol is much harder to

RE: [biofuel] Introduction and some questions - Newbie

2003-02-05 Thread kirk
Biofuels has many powerful enemies, who'd no doubt be most delighted if we started killing ourselves (and others), they'd kick us with it for years to come. ++ If biofuel becomes a big enough threat I am sure they will arrange some demonstrations to encourage laws to outlaw

Re: [biofuel] OT: Columbia Space Shuttle Lost

2003-02-05 Thread Lisa
A NASA spokesperson was asked about that in an interview, and said that since Columbia was not on a mission to dock with the Space Station, it had been launched without the hardware necessary to make such a connection. He also openly speculated that that would not happen again! Lisa

[biofuel] Newbie - thanks for feedback

2003-02-05 Thread Rui Fernandes
Hi, Thanks, for the feedback. My goal in getting into working with biodiesel is to produce enough for myself as well as potentially selling it on a small scale. Continous processing looked very attractive because I would not have to store all that much product at any one time. I am not quite

RE: [biofuel] palm source

2003-02-05 Thread Crabb, David
Speaking of this is there a ranking on the easiness of collecting the crop? jatropha sounds nice for arid areas, and looks highly productive, but can you get to the oil source easily? I don't want to spend 10 times as much time collecting the 'fruit of the labor' Atleast coconuts are easy to

Re: [biofuel] Methanol CA?

2003-02-05 Thread Ken
Thanks for the help! I live in the foothills Nevada City to be exact. Hope to get my Ford F250 runnin on bio-diesel soon. Ken - Original Message - From: girl mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 11:12 AM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Methanol

RE: [biofuel]OT: Columbia Space Shuttle Lost

2003-02-05 Thread Crabb, David
I believe that they dont take a bunch of extra fuel around just in case they need to get to any object in the earths orbit. Its not like they can just fill up at a station along the way. although this is interesting, they could leave refueling items at various places in orbit, should this need to

RE: [biofuel] Democracy--Nazi Germany was Democratic!???

2003-02-05 Thread Crabb, David
I think it would be safe for all of us to agree that it was not Nazi Germany was Democratic but that Nazi Germany came into being in a democratic system? I think you and Thor both have some valid points. I don't, however, agree with you on your comparison to Today's Us president and the

[biofuel] VW to offer 2.0-liter, four-cylinder diesel in Passat this year

2003-02-05 Thread Steve Spence
VW to offer 2.0-liter, four-cylinder diesel in Passat this year By RALPH KISIEL | Automotive News Volkswagen of America Inc. will offer a diesel engine in its Passat sedan this year. The automaker

[biofuel] Hydrogen Cars Remain Decades in the Future Under New Budget

2003-02-05 Thread Steve Spence
Hydrogen Cars Remain Decades in the Future Under New Budget By DANNY HAKIM (NYT) The Bush administration plan to spur development of hydrogen cars does not envision mass production until 2020. ETROIT, Feb. 4 - The Bush administration plan to spur development of hydrogen cars does not envision

[biofuel] Re: Introduction and some questions - Newbie

2003-02-05 Thread motie_d [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is an out of print book Novel Drilling Technoques that in the second edition talks about cutting sandstone at several meters per second with liquid pressures of that magnitude. Granite I think was 7cm per second if memory