[biofuels-biz] Fwd: Connecticut group AltFuelVehicles-CT

2003-05-22 Thread Keith Addison
FYI Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 06:22:16 - From: bedell_98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Connecticut group AltFuelVehicles-CT Seeking owners and drivers in Connecticut to join a new e-mail listserv group, AltFuelVehicles-CT. To join, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or

[biofuels-biz] Fwd: energy conference

2003-05-22 Thread Keith Addison
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 15:11:53 +0700 From: gumpon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: (no subject) Dear Keith     There will be an international conference on energy at Prince of Songkla University Thailand in December. Anouncement can be found at      

energy conference in Brazil?

2003-05-22 Thread Marcelino Miranda
Can you please tell us if there is an energy/fuels/ethanol conference in Brazil, during the first weeks of June? Details? Many thanks. Marcelino Miranda QUIMICA NOVA S.A.

[biofuel] technology for biodiesel plants.

2003-05-22 Thread avdhesh_gopal
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[biofuel] Fwd: Connecticut group AltFuelVehicles-CT

2003-05-22 Thread Keith Addison
FYI Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 06:22:16 - From: bedell_98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Connecticut group AltFuelVehicles-CT Seeking owners and drivers in Connecticut to join a new e-mail listserv group, AltFuelVehicles-CT. To join, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or

[biofuel] steam versus oil heating for commercial plants

2003-05-22 Thread girl_mark_fire
I saw a heat exchange unit in Ames/Nevada Iowa last week that I forgot to ask the plant operators about: The plant operated both a biodiesel pilot plant and several other biomass pilot projects (the place is called BECON, do a search for BECON biodiesel to find a few websites that mention

Re: [biofuel] Veggie 2-stroke oil?

2003-05-22 Thread Keith Addison
Hello Jay Hi all, I'm new to this list, I've searched the archives, but I haven't really found any useful info on comparisons of 2-stroke oils to a vegggie based oil. It's there though - info on using biodiesel instead of two-stroke oil, also info on other veggie-based oils. I am a regular 2

Re: [biofuel] solar colector ( was Re: price of methanol )

2003-05-22 Thread Kim Garth Travis
I used 3/4 CPVC washed it with plain rubbing alcohol and painted it flat black, mounted on a painted flat black sheet of OSB. I have a total of 175' of linear length. When the wind is not blowing, I am getting temperature of 160+, so I am in the process of adding a plexiglass [high temp]

Re: [biofuel] A question about using SVO/WVO in the U.S.

2003-05-22 Thread Detrick Merz
more comments inline... Keith Addison wrote: nope... I'm talking about SVO/WVO, not biodiesel. Everything I've seen and heard from talking with Jim Caldwell of the EPA, states that the use of SVO and/or WVO in an on-road diesel is against current regulations. Jim Caldwell, yes, I know of

Re: [biofuel] steam versus oil heating for commercial plants

2003-05-22 Thread Andreas W Ohnsorge
Mark, from my university time I remember the following: Heating by Oil is used when you want energy to be transferred with no or low pressure and for temperatures not much beyond 250 - 300 Celsius (above that it becomes either extremly expensive or you crack the teat transfer oil). In addition

Re: VS: [biofuel] Need clearification and advice

2003-05-22 Thread Andreas W Ohnsorge
Thomas, regarding my experiments to remove the FFAs before conversion: The idea behind was to try what is described as the industrial process - titrate the WVO, add water and the required amount of lye (just the amount that is needed to convert the FFAs to soap). Then let the soap settle down,

Re: Re: Re: [biofuel] Fire Mitigation

2003-05-22 Thread Greg
Keith, should over growen forest, be thined? If so, what should be done with the wood from the thinning? Greg H. ---Original Message--- From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05/21/03 02:29 PM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Re: [biofuel] Fire Mitigation a

Re: VS: [biofuel] Need clearification and advice

2003-05-22 Thread Ken Provost
Andreas writes: regarding my experiments to remove the FFAs before conversion: titrate the WVO, add water and the required amount of lye (just the amount that is needed to convert the FFAs to soap). Then let the soap settle down,separate them from the oil (e.g. by filtering) and process the

[biofuel] Re: Portland... was The Grease Trap: Co-ops part 1

2003-05-22 Thread brijam2000
Hello all, I'm Brian from Portland. I'm part of the biodiesel co-op effort up here. For those of you who don't know, I have a lot of respect for girl mark. She helped introduce me to low tech biodiesel making at a seminar, and has done a lot more than just about anyone I know to spread the

[biofuel] Fwd: it can't happen here

2003-05-22 Thread Kris Book
it can't happen here - From the It-Can't-Happen-Here--Or-Can-It? department: A powerful conservative lobbying group/think tank (American Legislative Exchange Council) is actively promoting model state legislation that would criminalize virtually all environmental activism. There

Re: [biofuel] Re: solar collector

2003-05-22 Thread Ken Richardson
We run 90 PSI steam = 300-310 F K [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions.

Re: [biofuel] A question about using SVO/WVO in the U.S.

2003-05-22 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Detrick Hm - very interesting! Seems you've uncovered something. Please pardon my earlier doubts. Now why don't the SVO missionaries and sellers of kits know about this? - as it seems they don't - and done something about it? As it seems they haven't. Is it up to Jim Caldwell/the EPA to

Re: Re: Re: [biofuel] Fire Mitigation

2003-05-22 Thread Keith Addison
Hello Greg Keith, should over growen forest, be thined? I don't think there's any disagreement about that. If so, what should be done with the wood from the thinning? You're putting the cart before the horse Greg - you're not going to demonstrate that therefore let Big Timber do it

Re: [biofuel] Fwd: it can't happen here

2003-05-22 Thread csakima
continuing the precedence - 20 years down the road Texas HB 435: This legislation makes protesting IRAQI WAR issues a criminal activity, and increases penalties for ANTI-WAR organizations participating in activities 'with an intent to influence a governmental entity or the public to take a

[biofuel] Fwd: act NOW to keep a semi-free media.

2003-05-22 Thread Kris Book
If you don't want one single company to own all the public airwaves and media sources in the country, you're going to need to do something about it fast. The links below can tell you more about the details than I can, and I'm not here to debate or influence, but just to

Re: [biofuel] Fire Mitigation

2003-05-22 Thread Greg
---Original Message--- From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05/22/03 08:32 PM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Re: Re: [biofuel] Fire Mitigation Hello Greg Keith, should over growen forest, be thined? I don't think there's any disagreement about that. If so,

Re: [biofuel] Fwd: act NOW to keep a semi-free media.

2003-05-22 Thread Keith Addison
Yup. Semi-free's the right term, but far preferable to what's in the offing. Also these: Q A AIRWAVES HEATING UP by Steven Rosenfeld Michael Copps, one of the five FCC commissioners, speaks out against megamedia. http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/7850 MEDIA MONOPOLY VS. DEMOCRACY

Re: [biofuel] A question about using SVO/WVO in the U.S.

2003-05-22 Thread Detrick Merz
this may offend/irritate some of the kit resellers, espicially the ones that visit this list... regardless, that is not my intention, I only wish to find resolution to my initial questions. see inline, as has become usual :) Keith Addison wrote: Hi Detrick hello, again! Hm - very

:We are Family, by Sister Sledge Was: [biofuel] Fire Mitigation

2003-05-22 Thread csakima
Big Timber, Big Govt, Big Oil. Playing on the same country club greens. Reserving spaces on the same table at the fine dining restaurant Laughing noisily at the same table at the same bar, at the same parties. Board of Directors of the same Companies. Sleeping together in the same bed. Sigh

[biofuel] energy conference in Brazil?

2003-05-22 Thread Marcelino Miranda
Can you please tell us if there is an energy/fuels/ethanol conference in Brazil, during the first weeks of June? Details? Many thanks. Marcelino Miranda QUIMICA NOVA S.A. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To

[biofuel] Just what I need ..... Was: act NOW to keep a semi-free media.

2003-05-22 Thread csakima
Once again, continue the precedence .. Forget CNN . it all merges into GNN ... the Global News Network. American News ... British News French News ... German News Swedish News ... Japan News China News .. Korean News ... IRAQI News ... Iranian News .. All rolled

RE: [biofuel] Just what I need ..... Was: act NOW to keep a semi-free media.

2003-05-22 Thread kirk
If we can become self sufficient with fuel and then food then it won't be so bad. Does that make us drop outs? Kirk -Original Message- From: csakima [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 5:12 PM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [biofuel] Just what I need . Was:

Re: [biofuel] steam versus oil heating for commercial plants

2003-05-22 Thread Hakan
Girl_Mark and Andreas, I am 62 now and I think that I remember that I studied this some 50+ years ago. The change of solids to liquid to gas either needs a lot of energy or releases a lot of energy at the specific temperature/pressure points. . Think it was in the first classes in physics. You

Re: [biofuel] steam versus oil heating for commercial plants

2003-05-22 Thread William Clark
Hello Andreas, Perhaps you could help me with a chemistry question. When water boils, the temperature of a solution will not exceed 100 deg. C until all water is boiled off, correct? If oil containing water is heated, does this still apply? More to the point, can the absence of water be

Re: [biofuel] Just what I need ..... Was: act NOW to keep a semi-free media.

2003-05-22 Thread csakima
Yes! Most definitely! Let's just hope though, that (in doing so,) we don't make ourselves TOO much of a threat to their plan of UWFPWTMM*. They want our W-R to be zero ... which, as everyone knows .. is the total goal of it all. Curtis *UWFPWTMM: Us Working For Peanuts While They Make

Oil and Water Was: [biofuel] steam versus oil heating for commercial plants

2003-05-22 Thread csakima
Was wondering what you meant by oil containing water. Oil and water do not mix. Do you mean a pot full of oil ... with drops of water on the bottom of the pot?? Or what?? Curtis Get your free newsletter at http://www.ezinfocenter.com/3122155/NL - Original Message - From: William