Re: [biofuel] Re: Drink Water From Dehumidifier?

2004-07-20 Thread Janet Van Stoat
You are absolutely correct! If we were as careful about our inside air quality as we are about the water we drink, we would all be much healthier. - Original Message - From: Curtis Sakima To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 3:35 PM Subject: [biofuel] Re:

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2004-07-20 Thread khurramloan
AN INTRODUCTION Hi. My name is Khurram and I have a BA degree in Environmental Studies from Oberlin but very basic training in Chemisty. Recently I aquired a Land Rover 1979 SIII Defender (2.25 diesel engine) which I am interested in running on biodiesel, SVO or WVO. GREENXL AND PLANT OIL I

[biofuel] question about biofuel

2004-07-20 Thread Richard Dambrov
Hello, I am new to biofuel so I have many questions. The main question I have is can I convert my regular unleaded fossil gasoline truck to take biodiesel? Is it realistic and/or relatively inexpensive? If so, what are some resources to make it inexpensive? Rich ---

Re: [biofuel] Price of Fuel

2004-07-20 Thread Keith Addison
Hello Donald I much agree with what you say, but not about "Joe Public" who doesn't know any better and doesn't want to. Ending with this: >I >think you will find that people are the same the world over - most >people don't care at all, and those that do will need a certain amount >of persuadin

[biofuel] Fwd: E85 in NW Iowa Offered 25 Cents Below Regular Unleaded

2004-07-20 Thread Codock Draconin
Not sure how well this forwarded but the email I got was pretty interesting, not sure if the HTML will forward correctly so I copy and pasted the text in. -Nathan --- National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[biofuel] Tha' Ballad of Dubya [political humor]

2004-07-20 Thread Kim & Garth Travis
> >The Texas Hillbilly (redneck) Song (Sing to the tune of "The Beverly >Hillbillies") > >Come and listen to my story 'bout a boy name Bush. >His IQ was zero and his head was up his tush. >He drank like a fish while he was drivin' all about. >But that didn't matter 'cuz his daddy bailed him out.

[biofuel] Re: Drink Water From Dehumidifier?

2004-07-20 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Jonathan >I have approx. 60 gallons of distilled water in plastic milk >containers from my dehumidifier sitting in my basement. I had >planned on using it for wash water for biodiesel on a small scale. >Can anyone see any potential problems by using this water as wash >water? Thanks. Jonath

Re: [biofuel] Price of Fuel

2004-07-20 Thread Keith Addison
Bravo Lyle! >Dear List, > >I watch the contributions fly by from various subscribers reporting >their fuel prices to the student who needs the data for a project. > >That's wonderful. > >And it seems there is a sense that biodiesel needs to compete with >regular diesel on price. Yes. But not in

[biofuel] Re: Drink Water From Dehumidifier?

2004-07-20 Thread Curtis Sakima
Kinda funny you get grossed out by the dehumidifier water. Not saying it is clean ... no, not by a long shot. However, just think ... the stuff all stuck on the dehumidifier coil ... are in a large part ... the same stuff INHALED by that same observer grossing out at the sight of the coil

Re: [biofuel] Price of Fuel

2004-07-20 Thread Donald Allwright
--- Lyle Estill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear List, > > I watch the contributions fly by from various subscribers reporting > their fuel prices to the student who needs the data for a project. > > That's wonderful. > > And it seems there is a sense that biodiesel needs to compete with > r

[biofuel] Re: BUS POWER

2004-07-20 Thread Brian
That would probably be Jasper Engine and Transmission in Jasper, IN. They rebuild more engines than anyone else in the world, I am told. Brian --- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > FARMSHOW.COM in their mag showed a company in indiana [i believe] that stocks > more used

[biofuel] Price of Fuel

2004-07-20 Thread Lyle Estill
Dear List, I watch the contributions fly by from various subscribers reporting their fuel prices to the student who needs the data for a project. That's wonderful. And it seems there is a sense that biodiesel needs to compete with regular diesel on price. I get that a lot at Piedmont Biofuel

Re: [biofuel] Drink Water From Dehumidifier?

2004-07-20 Thread Brian Kelly
I used a cheap 4X6 ft plastic covered cloth tarp, suspended it's corners about a foot high with stakes, rolled a small rock to the center, put a small container on the ground under the rock. I left this setup undisturbed over night, and in the morning I had about a pint of water. It tasted like p

[biofuel] Re: What diesel engine will fit in 87' GMC schoolbus?

2004-07-20 Thread Andre Shoumatoff
From: "Greg Harbican" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > A several years ago ( when I had some money LOL ), and I was looking at > a RV, I inquired about diesel engines ( I was just learning about > bioDiesel at the time ), and the guy that was helping me, made the > comment, > > " Why would you want to bot

Re: [biofuel] Drinking rain water [was: Drink Water From Dehumidifier?]

2004-07-20 Thread Martin Klingensmith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking into building an Earthship, and I was wondering if you could > tell me if drinking rain water is safe (I mean after it has been > filtered like described in the Earthship books)? > > Thanks, > Al > Hi Al, I think rainwater is fine but in some a

[biofuel] Re: Drink Water From Dehumidifier?

2004-07-20 Thread j_schearer2000
I have approx. 60 gallons of distilled water in plastic milk containers from my dehumidifier sitting in my basement. I had planned on using it for wash water for biodiesel on a small scale. Can anyone see any potential problems by using this water as wash water? Thanks. Jonathan. --- In b

[biofuel] Re: Drink Water From Dehumidifier?

2004-07-20 Thread nick_75au
Hi guys and girls, There is a company in Australia who are making a unit which does this process through refridgerated air, im not sure how your dehumidifiers work but this on is designed to sit in an office or home and be a replacement for a bottled water cooler, this is the URL http://www.air

Re: [biofuel] Re: please help...

2004-07-20 Thread Donald Allwright
It's similar in the UK - places advertise 'biodiesel'. When you look closer, it's B5. OK that's 150% better than B2, but still not exactly biodiesel. Oh, and they charge 2p per litre more for it, despite it being no more expensive for the garage to buy. However B2 is significantly different in it

RE: [biofuel] please help...

2004-07-20 Thread Donald Allwright
Dinodiesel in my part of the UK is currently 80.9 pence per litre - that's about USD1.49 per litre. Commercial biodiesel is about 78pence per litre, or USD1.44 so slightly cheaper. That takes into account a 20 pence per litre tax advantage in favour of biodiesel, so the base price is therefore abo

RE: [biofuel] Drink Water From Dehumidifier?

2004-07-20 Thread Bryan Brah
Why not just use the water as you would any other greywater source (i.e. water plants with it). That way you won't waste any time or energy making it potable. If you're really set on drinking it, there are several quick methods to process it. Most camping water filtration systems should do w

Re: [biofuel] Drink Water From Dehumidifier?

2004-07-20 Thread Chris Hull
Someone is already marketing a commercial product to do this sort of thing (though not, apparently specifically for basements). I heard about it a year or so ago. Check out http://www.hyflux.com/, apparently their product is now called the Dragon-fly. I believe they're based in Singapore, but I

[biofuel] Drinking rain water [was: Drink Water From Dehumidifier?]

2004-07-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I am looking into building an Earthship, and I was wondering if you could tell me if drinking rain water is safe (I mean after it has been filtered like described in the Earthship books)? Thanks, Al On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Janet Van Stoat wrote: > Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:40:20 -0500 > From

[biofuel] BUS POWER

2004-07-20 Thread MALONEKR
FARMSHOW.COM in their mag showed a company in indiana [i believe] that stocks more used diesel engines than anyone else.Each engine is checked throughly and put on a dyno before sold with a solid guarantee.This place has maybe 2-3000 engines of ALL types diesels and they can steer you to what

[biofuel] Re: Canada - Burying CO2

2004-07-20 Thread Noctaire
That's an interesting write up on how they're doing what they do. It doesn't really answer one very important question --> What happens when there is a rupture of some kind and a large system dumps those millions of CCFs of CO2 into the air? Yahoo! Groups Spons

[biofuel] Re: Canada - Burying CO2

2004-07-20 Thread Noctaire
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, bob allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > check the link to the discussion of the degassing of Lake Nyos as > an example: > > http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/Nyos.html Nyos is a perfect example. How do these idiots intend to prevent this from happe