[biofuel] Oil Age Eskimos

2004-01-29 Thread Ramjee Swaminathan
Oil Age Eskimos Joseph J. Jorgensen 401 pages University of California Press May 1990 ASIN: 0520068432 This is one of a few fine books on the impact assessment of huge petro_projects - covering all aspects of 'life'; which incidentally was published a little less than year after the

Re: [biofuel] Isopropyl Alcohol

2004-01-29 Thread TAMPAPING
the guy in savanna ga he showed me the titration test used a alcohol like everclear he made a batch in blender ( 1 liter. blender batch) tested i density was 8.5 ph was 5 i think i live in the tampa bay area i know someone in the cataplier org. i'm going to get a

[biofuel] New Distillers FAQ

2004-01-29 Thread Ackland, Tony (CALNZAS)
x-charset ISO-8859-1NEW DISTILLERS Frequently Asked Questions (Feb'03) Posted near the 1st of each month, to the NEW_DISTILLERS newsgroup at www.yahoogroups.com Please email any additions, corrections, clarifications required, etc regarding the FAQ to Tony Ackland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]),

RE: [biofuel] 1000 Acres For Veg Oil?

2004-01-29 Thread Heath Blount
Edward, check out the USDA section on rural biomass grants, if your interested in dealing with the Govt. There is a lot of money out there for bio-based projects. http://www.bioproducts-bioenergy.gov/solicitations/solicitations.asp

[biofuel] the tax thing Re: A bit on business

2004-01-29 Thread girl_mark_fire
x-charset ISO-8859-1Here's a crosspost from another thread (the blogs thread at infopop) about the IRS federal excise tax exemption for homemade biodiesel (I think they adapted it from some other fuel application but have made it clear in other statements that they apply this to homebrew

[biofuel] I am building a biodiesel Plant in Nebraska USA

2004-01-29 Thread mymommyathome
x-charset ISO-8859-1 If you really want to make biodiesel a household item, think about investing in its commercial production. It is simple a commercial plant cost 3 Million. I need only 3,000 investors who want to invest $1000 dollars. Here is how you make a return. For every $1000

Re: [biofuel] newbie

2004-01-29 Thread TAMPAPING
you'll love it how far along are you from doin a small blender worth got a connection for wvo [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives:

[biofuel] Plastic #4...?

2004-01-29 Thread Paul B.Schmidt
x-charset ISO-8859-1I'm looking for a flat out list of which types of plastic -#1,2,3,4,... are good to use and which one's aren't. I have a #4 trash can I'm thinking of using for a washing tub, but will it rot out? Tried to search through JTF... but didn't find it or missed it. Anybody?

Re: [biofuel] Re: A bit on business

2004-01-29 Thread Tilapia
x-charset ISO-8859-1Oops, I'm bad. I just reviewed and you're correct. But why did I pay them all that money? Tom In a message dated 1/28/04 7:27:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom, you're definitely reading it wrong, and you've been corrected on this at infopop by Ken Provost. It's

Re: [biofuel] Mettler Gram-Matic Balance Questions

2004-01-29 Thread Alan Petrillo
Maud Essen wrote: A local university tagged it for disposal, not because it didn't work but because it was old (according to my friend who scavenged it for me *before* it was hurled into a dumpster). I've seen a lot of that. Fortunately, most of the schools around here usually auction

Re: [biofuel] Mettler Gram-Matic Balance Questions

2004-01-29 Thread Maud Essen
Thank you, Jay, for the details. I'm going to attempt this operation next weekend, as this weekend is my beloved nephew's 10th birthday and there will be many celebrations. I hope you'll field questions if I become totally confused! I bet I'm going to have to find the knife edges are not

Re: [biofuel] Re: Fuel from Pine roots?

2004-01-29 Thread Alan Petrillo
look4bryan wrote: This is my first post to the Group, hello everyone. I recall reading recently that Japanese aviation fuel in WWII was alchohol, not gasoline. Possibly, but I doubt it. Where did you read that? Recall that one of the reasons they went to war was because the US cut

Re: [biofuel] gas Saving Device

2004-01-29 Thread Ken Gotberg
Hi Albert You can try the US Embassy in HK if there still is one there. A friend in Indonesia got a bad check from an American for teak furniture that he took with him. I told her to try the US Embassy in Jakarta and believe it or not, they put pressure on the jerk and she got her money!!

[biofuel] international fraud

2004-01-29 Thread MALONEKR
US federal trade commission may help you even thou they could not help us on a deal with an eastern eureopean company.goverments work slowly,so put in your documantation and go on about your life. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Biofuel at Journey to Forever:

Re: [biofuel] Plastic #4...?

2004-01-29 Thread Keith Addison
I'm looking for a flat out list of which types of plastic -#1,2,3,4,... are good to use and which one's aren't. I have a #4 trash can I'm thinking of using for a washing tub, but will it rot out? Tried to search through JTF... but didn't find it or missed it. Anybody? - Paul Identifying

RE: [biofuel] Washing info and water pollution

2004-01-29 Thread Franklin B. Del Rosario
x-charset ISO-8859-1My problem is not washing BD but how to treat the soap water before damping to sewer line before I have a lot of soap water stock in my 2 pieces 100 liters plastic drum because I can still collect small amount of BD floating above the soap water and I don’t want to damp my

R: [biofuel] Washing info and water pollution

2004-01-29 Thread Larosa Rodolfo
x-charset ISO-8859-1DEar Franklin, to evitate soap formation is neccesary use neutral oil, or oil with low acid content. Is possible previously neutralize the oil with diluted soda solution, and then separate the acqueous( heavier) soap solution. But first of transesterification reaction is

Re: [biofuel] About Bamboo

2004-01-29 Thread Ken Gotberg
Hi Kieth Here's something for the bamboo archivges Ken http://www.tcpalm.com/tcp/home_and_garden/article/0,1651,TCP_1039_2558657,00.html Bamboozled By Pat Rubin Scripps Howard News Service January 11, 2004 Bill Sleuter has been making forays into his neighbor's garden, not to pick tomatoes

Re: [biofuel] Washing info and water pollution

2004-01-29 Thread Appal Energy
x-charset ISO-8859-1Franklin, Magnesium sulfate (Epsom Salt) added to your waste wash water will alter the suspended soaps from dissolvable sodium or potassium to insolvent magnesium soaps. These will rise to the water's surface in the form of a greasy solid that can captured and used in a

[biofuel] Plastic PVC biodiesel

2004-01-29 Thread Tilapia
Please clarify, if possible: rumor says that PVC pipe is incompatible with biodiesel. After 4+ years of operation, I saw no deterioration in the methoxide line that had PVC with solvent welded joints. The threaded joints did weep methoxide, and had to be replaced, but the straight sections

Re: [biofuel] the tax thing Re: A bit on business

2004-01-29 Thread Dan Maker
girl_mark_fire said: Internal Revenue Service 26 CFR Parts 40, 42, 48, and 602 [TD 8659] RIN 1545-AR92 Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Excise Tax; Registration Requirements snip (1)(i) of this section is not blended taxable fuel if, during the calendar quarter in which the blender removes or

[biofuel] Re: Plastic PVC biodiesel

2004-01-29 Thread Keith Addison
FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DATE: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:53:59 EST SUBJECT: Plastic PVC biodiesel Please clarify, if possible: rumor says that PVC pipe is incompatible with biodiesel. After 4+ years of operation, I saw no deterioration in the methoxide line that had PVC with solvent welded joints.

[biofuel] Re: I am building a biodiesel Plant in Nebraska USA

2004-01-29 Thread Keith Addison
If you really want to make biodiesel a household item, think about investing in its commercial production. It is simple a commercial plant cost 3 Million. I need only 3,000 investors who want to invest $1000 dollars. Here is how you make a return. For every $1000 dollars you invest you will

[biofuel] Webiste down??

2004-01-29 Thread Paul B . Schmidt
I cant hit the web site on a link from a posting today? Anybody else or is it just a local thing? Still up? Virus attack? The MAN shuttin us down?! - Paul Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives:

RE: [biofuel] I am building a biodiesel Plant in Nebraska USA

2004-01-29 Thread Bryan Brah
Let's see, if I give you $1000 dollars, you will, at some undetermined time in the future, sell me an undetermined amount of biodiesel at an undetermined price. Since there isn't really a market price per se for BD, you're going to have to come up with something better than that. I've heard of

[biofuel] Great letter Keith

2004-01-29 Thread mymommyathome
x-charset ISO-8859-1I agree with some of your assumptions. However when it comes to capitalism and the markets and making a profit I don't apologize. If you took the time to realize Keith, your standard of living would be much lower if we did not mass produce. Yes, there are a number of

Re: [biofuel] Great letter Keith

2004-01-29 Thread Hakan Falk
Greg, Bryan. Keith. If we look at the biofuels as business venture, I belive that we will see a market organization that is going to be similar to the milk markets. In this will always be space for small to big ventures and many of them. The reason for the existence of big oil is the

[biofuel] Re: Fuel from Pine roots?

2004-01-29 Thread look4bryan
x-charset ISO-8859-1 Possibly, but I doubt it. Where did you read that? Not sure where I read it, prolly chased it down after following various links off of journeytoforever.org or ww2.green-trust.org. The article was something to do with US combatants capturing a Japanese base on an island

[biofuel] Re: Plastic PVC biodiesel

2004-01-29 Thread Thor Skov
Tom - I encourage you to consider an alternative to PVC, since it is such an environmentally destructive material and production prcess. Remember, the cheapness of PVC is just a cost borne by society at large, as it is with cheap petroleum. Have you considered using industrial grade PEX or

Re: [biofuel] Webiste down??

2004-01-29 Thread Keith Addison
I cant hit the web site on a link from a posting today? Anybody else or is it just a local thing? Still up? Virus attack? The MAN shuttin us down?! - Paul Both JtF and the NNYtech archives are down at the moment, tech problems, not the MAN, LOL! I believe Martin's working on it, I'm

Re: [biofuel] Great letter Keith

2004-01-29 Thread Keith Addison
Yes Greg, that's all very well, except that it's not, and except that you didn't answer the questions, and snipped the Great letter you're responding to (so I'll put it back, below). All of which rather persuades me that Bryan might be right about snake-oil. That's how the free energy

[biofuel] Re: Fuel from Pine roots?

2004-01-29 Thread Keith Addison
Possibly, but I doubt it. Where did you read that? Not sure where I read it, prolly chased it down after following various links off of journeytoforever.org or ww2.green-trust.org. The article was something to do with US combatants capturing a Japanese base on an island somewhere and being

[biofuel] Question from a newbie

2004-01-29 Thread Ted Dinkelman
Greetings, I have been a member of your group for a little while now. The amount of information is incredable. It has my mind working on ways I can conserve energy and generate my own heat/electricity. Thanks to all. I have a question. I have a portable kerosine heater I use in my garage

Website's back again - Re: [biofuel] Webiste down??

2004-01-29 Thread Keith Addison
And the archives too. Thanks Martin! Sorry for hassles, all. regards Keith Journey to Forever I cant hit the web site on a link from a posting today? Anybody else or is it just a local thing? Still up? Virus attack? The MAN shuttin us down?! - Paul Both JtF and the NNYtech

[biofuel] Solar Power in China?

2004-01-29 Thread Ryan Morgan, Aerials Express
x-charset ISO-8859-1Hello all, Lately I've been hearing rumors of some advanced solar power units being manufactured inexpensively in China. Does anyone know of an article or a genuine research source on this? Thanks in advance, Ryan Biofuel at Journey to Forever:

[biofuel] Fwd: DOE Cancels Alternative Fuel Vehicle Requirement

2004-01-29 Thread Keith Addison
From: Ryan Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DOE Cancels Alternative Fuel Vehicle Requirement Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:54:04 -0500 EMS Update - Jan. 29, 2004 DOE Cancels Alternative Fuel Vehicle Requirement The Department of Energy today announced by

Re: [biofuel] Great letter Keith

2004-01-29 Thread J. Curtis Cheney, VII
Greg, I agree with you. There does seem to be two camps here. The backyarders and those who seek to make biodiesel production a profitable venture. Seeking a profit does not make a person evil. Enviromentalism and profits can happen within the same venture. Think about it. J. Curtis

Re: [biofuel] Great letter Keith

2004-01-29 Thread Keith Addison
Greg, I agree with you. There does seem to be two camps here. The backyarders and those who seek to make biodiesel production a profitable venture. Seeking a profit does not make a person evil. Enviromentalism and profits can happen within the same venture. Think about it. We have

[biofuel] Discussion of Valdez Spill Costs... to Fishermen, Others

2004-01-29 Thread murdoch
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58311-2004Jan28_2.html Some of those injured by the Valdez grounding included salmon fishermen. The salmon run of 1989 was completely wiped out by the spill, and only now are the numbers coming back to pre-Valdez levels, according to Steve

[biofuel] Re: Fwd: DOE Cancels Alternative Fuel Vehicle Requirement

2004-01-29 Thread Robert Del Bueno
x-charset ISO-8859-1Wow. This could be a major blow. Does anyone know if this what AFV/alt fuel legislation from EPAct is still intact? --- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ryan Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [biofuel] I am building a biodiesel Plant in Nebraska USA

2004-01-29 Thread Appal Energy
x-charset ISO-8859-1This is interesting. Hope you don't mind if I troubleshoot a few of your thought processes. 1) $3 million dollars? Are you aware of how much production volume that equates to? Are you also aware that such a centralized plant poses enormous waste in natural, economical and