Hi Ken,
Im not an expert on the subject but my guess is the glycerol molecule
is eaten up by bacteria/enzymes in our stomach thereby breaking the
triglyceride into free fatty acids. our body produces the monolaurin
from the VCO by the reaction mentioned. it is the monolaurin that
breaks the
$5000 for 52,000 gallon/year comes to almost 10 cents
per gallon fee which is outrageous.
What if several small producers (in the same
region/geographic area) banded together and paid the
$5000 fee once? It's still outrageous to me to have
any money going to the NBB, but at least it would be
hi folks,
Keith Addison is deleting his Yahoogroups Biofuels-biz discussion list
shortly, with the hope that the relevant discussion continues on Biofuel.
I am starting a new discussion list for small producers/small
distributors in the US. I was hoping to start this and to actually give
Hello Michael
Keith, et.al,
Has somebody already posted a list [anywhere really], hopefully by State, of
dealers of Methanol? Maybe the prices paid could also be regularily updated?
I had a horrible time finding out who in my area I can buy Methanol from. I
did however, eventually find a
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Begin forwarded message:
Lyle Estill [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/26/04 4:17 PM
Just had a long conversation with Rob del Bueno, formerly of Vegenergy
in Atlanta. He's the guy that was getting fined 25K per day by the
EPA. girl Mark once wondered if that was true, or apocryphal, and I'm
To follow up to my previous post,
I was not trying to slam Rob from Vegenergy. Just trying to let the
word out that he was not fined.
Here's the original article which started the rumor that this producer
was fined by the EPA:
http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/2003-10-30/news_feature.html
x-charset ISO-8859-1Hey folks,
Made a mini-batch the other night and am going to try mix up my fist 5
gallon batch later this week. I thought for kicks, and future process
practice I'd even try to wash it and get some top grade stuff out of
it. I have a few questions after reading over the
$5000 for 52,000 gallon/year comes to almost 10 cents
per gallon fee which is outrageous.
What if several small producers (in the same
region/geographic area) banded together and paid the
$5000 fee once? It's still outrageous to me to have
any money going to the NBB, but at least it would be
Dan Maker wrote:
Alan Petrillo said:
I have had the good fortune to scavenge a Mettler Gram-Matic Balance
model B6 that apparently has a maximum capacity of 99.999g. As I am
still in 2-liter or less experimental scale, its relatively small
capacity is just fine for now. This is what it
x-charset ISO-8859-1A friend asked if I had ever heard of people using
biodiesel on boat
motors. Any reason you couldn't use it? I'd think it'd be a GREAT
idea as it's a tad less of a polluter than dino-diesel is in the lakes.
Anybody ever heard of a marina selling bio-diesel?
-Paul
Tom Ryan wrote:
I'm new and ready to converse w/y'all.
Welcome Tom. So go ahead, converse - what are you interested in?
Best wishes
Keith
Biofuel at Journey to Forever:
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Biofuels list archives:
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x-charset ISO-8859-1See also:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1127373,00.html
Social responsibility is just a PR tool for businesses, says report
Wednesday January 21, 2004
The Guardian
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http://www.christianaid.co.uk/indepth/0401csr/index.htm
In depth: Christian Aid
Most farmers on this planet are in a struggle to survive the raw deal given
them by regulations forced upon them by the same people who own the
utilities,drug companies,oil companies and most everything else.Huge
,interlinked global
corporations do not deserve the whole pie and certainly not
x-charset ISO-8859-1Welcome to the list, Jennifer Radtke(co-owner of Biofuel
Oasis in
Berkeley, www.biofueloasis.com) and Rachel Burton (co-owner of
Piedmont Biofuels in North Carolina, www.biofuels.coop)
The problem with a group of us 'banding together' and paying the NBB
one fee is that
Some of these quick yea or nay verdicts on various products, by
folks who have never used them, strike me as over-simplified.
Even if I tried something once on my own car, I'm not sure I'd
conclude that my own experience with one single vehicle and fuel was
the last word on whether or not
There is lots of products out there claiming save fuel by 25% from a
small gadget straped on the fuel line ..
The fuel flows through the unit I have and there are what sound to be a series
of metaldiscs that are free to slide from one end of the tube to the other.
There
are different sized
x-charset ISO-8859-1I think there is a precedent for this. Its hard to get
the data, but a couple
of years ago I had some information that some NBB members had one membership
for production centers in more than one location. Can't prove that now, but
I'll ask when I go to the NBB conference
x-charset ISO-8859-1What a lovely pile of cow flop. You'll end up testing
nothing except the
patience of eveyone else. If the manufacturer's claims held any water
whatsoever you wouldn't need to make promises of further testing, as you'd
have been able to answer the question face up last week.
Hi,
I have a question in regards to mixing the Methanol and Lye. I am just doing
small test batches. I was wondering how far in advance can you mix it. Can
it be made ahead of time or does it have to be made and used right away. I am
mixing it in a sealed container and I don't open it
x-charset ISO-8859-1Mensaje citado por Maud Essen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On a related topic, because I'm working small-scale and only with
SVO, I was thinking it would be smart to pre-measure some packets of
chemicals while I was in a chemical measuring mode. Does anyone have
any ideas for
x-charset ISO-8859-1I live in rural Iowa, and my local electric co-op has had
several wind
generation articles in their monthly self-promotional magazine, which
read to me as your basic attempt to undermine any thought of a small
producer hooking into their grid.
What it boils down to is this:
Hello Paul
Hey folks,
Made a mini-batch the other night and am going to try mix up my fist 5
gallon batch later this week. I thought for kicks, and future process
practice I'd even try to wash it and get some top grade stuff out of
it. I have a few questions after reading over the material on
Perhaps, but it seems to me that the only casualty of this battle will
be consumers. So what happens if he succeeds? The co-op is forced to
buy his electricity at retail; they'll just jack up the price of
electricity paid by everyone else to make up the loss. The
representative from the co-op
Hi,
A little while back there was talk about 70% Isopropyl Alcohol verses 95%. I
didn't see the answer as to if the 70% would work or not. I haven't been
able to find anything more than the 70% in Rubbing alcohol. I want to do a
Titration and need to know if it will work or not.
Thanks
x-charset ISO-8859-1Hi All,
I'm a newbie. I made a 1 liter batch using base only (1 step) process
and used veg. oil, and am ready to try something more ambitious. I
and my grandson attended SEI's biodiesel class.
One of the problems I see is filtering the WVO. Sloow!
Dale Scroggins shows
It seems to me that if the utility company would put a meter on the farmer's
turbine, that the utility would then have the capacity to buy the farmer's
electricity at wholesale and then sell it to the farmer at the retail price. I
think the farmer would get screwed.
If the utility wanted to
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