Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: Ethanol is a killer

2007-04-19 Thread Dawie Coetzee
I shall repeat this at every opportunity. The operative phrase here is, "if every vehicle in the United States ran on fuel made primarily from ethanol instead of pure gasoline". Emissions effects are a function of vehicle use patterns. Small-scale ethanol is viable at radically reduced vehicle

Re: [Biofuel] 100% efficient light source

2007-04-19 Thread Joe Street
Cool! I haven't kept up with Jabbour's work in a while but I visited his lab in 2003 and he helped me design an OLED deposition system. A hell of a nice guy. He told me all the details of his self made deposition tool for OLED devices and what he would improve if he were to do it over. You

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: Ethanol is a killer

2007-04-19 Thread Joe Street
Hey Dawie; Ever checked out the scene about aldehyde formation from biodiesel? Combustion is just not good. But some fuels are better than others. Joe Dawie Coetzee wrote: I shall repeat this at every opportunity. The operative phrase here is, "if every vehicle in the United States ran

Re: [Biofuel] Fwd: Ethanol is a killer

2007-04-19 Thread Dawie Coetzee
All I'm saying is, it depends on the total volume of all vehicle emissions out there. If that were low enough, any sort of fuel would have to be a lot more awful than anything currently or potentially available before it's a real problem. In other words, what's a little aldehyde? provided it's n

Re: [Biofuel] Ethyl Esters (was Biodiesel "New Process")

2007-04-19 Thread Thomas Kelly
Ken, Good to hear from you. You wrote: ". then distilled it (ethanol) and dried it with zeolite" This is the part I'm interested in. As a homebrewer (beer/wine) I'm familiar with fermentation. It's the drying part that I'm concerned with. I was getting familiar with zeol

[Biofuel] Fwd: [Celsias] New Comment On: Colony Collapse Disorder - a Moment for Reflection?

2007-04-19 Thread Kirk McLoren
Thought I would share this If we lost our bees we would be in a world of hurt. The message below is encouraging. Easier to solve than putting pollen back in a lab. Kirk Celsias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Celsias] New Comment On: Colony Collapse Disorder

Re: [Biofuel] Biodiesel "New Process"

2007-04-19 Thread Dennis Schultz
Keith, I am interested in developing strains of bacteria for cellulosic ethanol production. Do you have a list of up to date and pertinent references I could have? thanks, Dennis - Original Message - From: Pagandai Pannirselvam To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, Ap

Re: [Biofuel] Ethyl Esters (was Biodiesel "New Process")

2007-04-19 Thread Thomas Kelly
Hello Nick, > Sucrose, our regular table sugar, one pound of it will make 299 ml. > of pure ethanol. yeast will stand up to 11% of alcohol concentration > >before slowing down. The owner of my brew supplies shop told me that she can supply me with yeast strains that can ferment to 14% al

Re: [Biofuel] Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?

2007-04-19 Thread Chip Mefford
Kirk McLoren wrote: > http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/cellularantenna_neil_cherryj3.htm > look at part 6 for openers - whole thing is worth reading > Certainly the electromagnetic issue is just manifesting on most peoples > radar but I think the real culprits are GMO people. > The key evidenc

Re: [Biofuel] Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?

2007-04-19 Thread Joe Street
Chip Mefford wrote: SNIP >There is no possible way that anyone, or any group >or any existing, or forseeable 'quantum' computing >model can predict what the consequences of some >of the GMO stuff is/will be, even over such a short >period of time as a decade. key search phrase >'sensitive depen

[Biofuel] Urban farming gaining momentum - Ontario Farmer - 2007.04.17

2007-04-19 Thread Darryl McMahon
Urban farming gaining momentum; Cities are recognizing the benefits of these small-scale operations within the urban environment Ontario Farmer Tue 17 Apr 2007 Page: A22 Section: News Byline: BY MARK SPOWART, SPECIAL TO ONTARIO FARMER Source: Edition: Final Length: 1186 words Illustration: photo ;

[Biofuel] Giant biofuel plant planned; $400M Alberta project - National Post - 2007.04.18

2007-04-19 Thread Darryl McMahon
Giant biofuel plant planned; $400M Alberta project National Post Wed 18 Apr 2007 Page: FP2 Section: Financial Post Byline: Geoffrey Scotton Dateline: CALGARY Source: CanWest News Service Edition: National Story Type: Business Length: 710 words CALGARY - A site north of Innisfail, Alta., will be hom

Re: [Biofuel] Ethyl Esters (was Biodiesel "New Process")

2007-04-19 Thread Ken Provost
On Apr 19, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Thomas Kelly wrote: > My questions go to point that you were able to achieve 95+% > completion, > and the fact that, in practice, we would like to maximize ethanol > output as > well as achieving complete sugar utilization. Google "Gert Strand" -- they make a

Re: [Biofuel] Biodiesel "New Process"

2007-04-19 Thread Keith Addison
Dear Pannir >Respected Keith > >I am sure about the the use of ethanol, wish to send all >the relevant work available from Brazil so that your experiences >will be reall sucessful. I'd be most grateful for any information you can provide on this. But I can't read Portuguese! :-