Re: [Biofuel] seasonal burning

2006-06-07 Thread Lugano Wilson
thanks. unfortunately, here is the reply from the link: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /pubs/crossref/2000/1999JD901113.shtml on this server. Your browser currently has the FunWebProducts plugin, which is not allowed at this site. To remove this from your system, please

Re: [Biofuel] Healing with light

2006-06-07 Thread Joe Street
Yes you are right but I made the assumption that the integration period was for one second. Well it would have to be a pretty darned bright light to penetrate what was it 8 into tissue? Yikes! That would mean the light could shine right through my arm! ;) Joe Kirk McLoren wrote: A joule

Re: [Biofuel] Healing with light

2006-06-07 Thread bob allen
this is an Infrared LED, so you wouldn't see the light, but rather feel the heat. Joe Street wrote: Yes you are right but I made the assumption that the integration period was for one second. Well it would have to be a pretty darned bright light to penetrate what was it 8 into tissue?

[Biofuel] And now a brief chuckle...

2006-06-07 Thread Mike Weaver
Do we need a constitutional amendment? Is that the most important issue facing the country today -- gay marriage? We were off last week, so apparently we must have caught bin Laden. --Jay Leno You know what's interesting about this whole thing? According to polls, 51 percent of Americans do

[Biofuel] Ethanol for diesel engines

2006-06-07 Thread Tomas Juknevicius
Hi, this one fuel combination is interesting. I've never heard about such possibility before: http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/06/xcelplus_acquir.html -- Tomas Juknevicius ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org

Re: [Biofuel] Kicking the oil habit

2006-06-07 Thread Steve Knox
Mike, I had to live with the guy. You have no idea the damage he did to the state. Steve - Original Message - From: Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 6:49 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Kicking the oil habit Unfortunately. I

[Biofuel] Online sources for self study - Black Bodies

2006-06-07 Thread Mike Redler
Hi everyone, I know of some descent resources for electronic circuits, software development, and a bunch of other stuff. However, I've come up with nuthin' for black bodies which contains both a practical guide for passive solar collection and the analytical/mathematical tools for theoretical

[Biofuel] Diesel news

2006-06-07 Thread Mike Weaver
*J.D. Power Associates forecast last month that the share of diesel-powered cars and light trucks in the US will almost quadruple by 2015*—rising from 3.2% in 2005 to 11.8% by 2015—driven by increasing consumer demand for the more fuel-efficient platforms. * Chrysler Group today unveiled the

Re: [Biofuel] Water: a commodity or a fundamental human right?

2006-06-07 Thread Ken Riznyk
Interesting confleunce of failure of foreign aid and water as a human right. One of the important facts left out of the information on water and Bolivia is that the IMF put stings on a loan to Bolivia to improve water infrastructure which was sadly in need of repair. The IMF required that Bolivia

Re: [Biofuel] 3A molecular Sieve and Methanol recovery Results

2006-06-07 Thread Thomas Kelly
Hello all, 3A Molecular Sieve and Methanol Recovery I first separated the glycerine mix using Phosphoric Acid. This fragment has a high percentage of the excess methanol used to produce methyl esters. I then recovered the methanol using a simple still and condenser. The methanol

Re: [Biofuel] And now a brief chuckle...

2006-06-07 Thread Mike Redler
So...does that mean that 30% of the 49% of people who approve of gay marriage also approve of Bush? Assuming a Gaussian distribution for all samples and a neo-conservative model for logic and reason: 17.7% of Americans approve of gay marriage AND president Bush! Since Bush's approval rating

Re: [Biofuel] Ethanol for diesel engines

2006-06-07 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Tomas Hi, this one fuel combination is interesting. I've never heard about such possibility before: http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/06/xcelplus_acquir.html -- Tomas Juknevicius Fuel-Cycle Energy and Emission Impacts of Ethanol-Diesel Blends in Urban Buses and Farming Tractors, (July

Re: [Biofuel] Water: a commodity or a fundamental human right?

2006-06-07 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Ken Interesting confleunce of failure of foreign aid and water as a human right. Same as energy, same as food, same as money. One of the important facts left out of the information on water and Bolivia is that the IMF put stings on a loan to Bolivia to improve water infrastructure which was

Re: [Biofuel] way off topic

2006-06-07 Thread Doug Turner
Bob, One of the best places to check out the tides is the Hopewell Rocks in New Brunswick. If you can't make it there, then the tidal bore in Truro is O.K (/Heresy a little dull really /heresy). Myself, I loved the waterfront in Halifax. The Marine Museum of the Atlantic had some interesting

Re: [Biofuel] Ethanol for diesel engines

2006-06-07 Thread Hakan Falk
Keith, If I remembered right, the Swedish diesel buses are running on a wood alcohol mix, with some sort of additive. In Sweden it is now more and more common that the buses use biofuel. Hakan At 18:47 07/06/2006, you wrote: Hi Tomas Hi, this one fuel combination is interesting. I've

[Biofuel] high energy costs fuel spike in green home construction

2006-06-07 Thread AltEnergyNetwork
High Energy Costs Fuel Spike in Green Home Construction http://www.alternate-energy.net/N/news.php?detail=n1149694010.news Get your daily alternative energy news Alternate Energy Resource Network 1000+ news sources-resources updated daily

Re: [Biofuel] Online sources for self study - Black Bodies

2006-06-07 Thread Joe Street
Hi Mike; I don't have any references I can recommend but I'll tell you what I did. I dry etched silicon using flourine ions in a reactive ion etcher. Making use of native polymer contamination of the surface and carefully controling the presence of oxygen radicals I was able to form a dense

Re: [Biofuel] Grit plan to cut greenhouse emissions a dud: researchers

2006-06-07 Thread Ken Riznyk
I didn't know that you guys in Canada had the same problem as we do in the US. Our govenment is totally controlled by big corporations. Ken --- A. Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only real plan (Liberal or Conservative) is to keep big business feeding their election campaigns... They

Re: [Biofuel] Water: a commodity or a fundamental human right?

2006-06-07 Thread Mike Weaver
WATER FIGHT: BOLIVIA vs. BECHTEL Last week brought an end to one of the greatest water battles in history. The people of Bolivia have successfully reclaimed ownership of their water from the Bechtel Corporation. In 1999, Bechtel made an arrangement with the Bolivian government to take ownership

Re: [Biofuel] 3A molecular Sieve and Methanol recovery Results

2006-06-07 Thread Thomas Kelly
Hello to all, I have some concerns re: my recent results using 3A Molecular Sieve to dry recovered methanol. Concerns: 1. I distilled 4 gal ( Containers #1 2), and had to interrupt the process. Last 4 gal were distilled two days later (Containers #3 4). 2. Air drying: The Zeolite

Re: [Biofuel] Grit plan to cut greenhouse emissions a dud: researchers

2006-06-07 Thread Joe Street
Oh yeah it's the same old same old. I was not a fan of the former (liberal) prime minister Jean Cretien but I gained a lot of respect for him in his last stretch in office when he did two things. Refusing to support the US in invading Iraq Placing limits on contibutions made by business to

Re: [Biofuel] 3A molecular Sieve and Methanol recovery Results

2006-06-07 Thread Joe Street
Hi Tom; Do you have any unopened zeolite? If it is vacuum dried (and I suspect it is) at the manufacturer, it may gain mass due to adsorption of moisture from the air. Take some out and weigh it and let it sit out in the same conditions as the other stuff you are air drying and then weigh

Re: [Biofuel] 3A molecular Sieve and Methanol recovery Results

2006-06-07 Thread Tom Irwin
Hi Tom, Joe and all, Air drying without heat is probably not the best way to go. Zeolites will absorb moisture from the air. When I was ai Air products we used to heat to 400C under nitrogen flow to a real low dew point that I cannot remember exactly but -40 is stuck in my memory. Then we

Re: [Biofuel] 3A molecular Sieve and Methanol recovery Results

2006-06-07 Thread Thomas Kelly
Joe, Good idea, but ... no, I don't have any unused Zeolite. I dried them on a cool, clear day low humidity. I find it hard to believe that they could have absorbed 10% of their weight in water from the air but that would account for the weight gain by the control.

Re: [Biofuel] BSE/NAIS??

2006-06-07 Thread Mike Weaver
So my question is why doesn't Creekstone go ahead and esport the beef to Japan and then test it there? Or, if it's legal in Canada or Mexico, do the testing there? -Weaver Marylynn Schmidt wrote: Forward from another list Mary Lynn Rev. Mary Lynn Schmidt, Ordained Minister ONE SPIRIT ONE

Re: [Biofuel] Ethanol for diesel engines

2006-06-07 Thread Jason Katie
if the exhaust isnt any better than a gasoline engine on ethanol, what difference would it make whether or not it was ethy or BD? it sounds like the additive isnt all the best either - Original Message - From: Tomas Juknevicius [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent:

[Biofuel] Garrison on attack (of Prarie Home Companion fame)

2006-06-07 Thread D. Mindock
Subject: Garrison on attackhttp://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/06/07/keillor/print.htmlSan FranciscophobiaWe're stuck with a terrible war and a worse president, and all the GOP can do is scream, "Pelosi and her Nancy boys are coming"? This is pathetic.By Garrison KeillorJun. 07,

Re: [Biofuel] Garrison on attack (of Prarie Home Companion fame)

2006-06-07 Thread Jason Katie
i like his stories of Lake Woebegone, but this is not his usual tinder dry humor. what he is saying is true to the fullest extent. the republicans used to be stuck up and elitist, yet good accountants, but idiocy has taken them like leaves in a storm. they are hopeless and doomed. --- Original

[Biofuel] mixing ethoxide (again)

2006-06-07 Thread Jason Katie
has anyone tried using a pump to mix the catalyst itself? i have 3 small pumps laying around and planned to use 2 for the oil mixing and moving, but wondered if i could use the 3rd for mixing the catalyst more quickly. it wont be a very big system (1 or 2L), but i wanted to mess with