Here in Canada there are apparently regulations now in place that prohibit
animal waste going into livestock feed because of the mad cow situation.
Here on the Left Coast, I have noticed several waste management/rendering
companies becoming pretty big biodiesel producers. While I feel reticent
abo
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Crappy Canadian Tire has those windshield wash fluid heaters on sale right
now. Not much info on the box,
but they only seem to heat the fluid for a few seconds. I don't know if
this could be bypassed, but I'd be worried the plastic would melt if you
figured out how to keep it on all the time.
On
I have a 1988 F250, and it has a thermostatically-controlled fuel heater
above the filter. Unfortunately, it is a very flimsy device, designed only
for very rare use in sub -20F temperatures.
I found this out when I considered hotwiring it so I could control it from
the cab. But a Ford mechanic s
I've never tried making biodiesel without heating the oil, except in
little demo batches (2 litre pop bottle). How necessary is it, and can
anyone describe the chemistry or physics of it to me in dumb-dumb terms?
Or maybe its in the archives, and someone could point me in the right
direction.
Tha
Chavez must be walking a tightrope, what with greedy Citgo execs,
power-hungry generals and zombie CIA agents all plotting his downfall.
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Canada is about to become a provincial territory of the Empire of the USA,
what with the newly elected reactionary and neo-con Conservative party,
led by homophobe and misogynist Stephen Harper.
The 'harmonization' between the two countries, who once held the longest
unprotected border, was begun
Hi Bob,
I often add about 0.5% gasoline to my oil before I begin the
transesterification process, usually in extremely humid or damp weather.
Not scientific at all, really, but the gasoline 'polishes' the used oil a
bit, and the benzene content seems to remedy the moisture content which
could resu
le 'criminal intelligence' agent
turned up at my door...Sheesh! Do they think I'm a criminal, or
intelligent?
All the best. Sorry your candidate didn't make it!
KF
> Darryl McMahon
>
> Joe Street wrote:
> > Hey Kenji;
> >
> > The neocons are not all in
I vote for who I think would do the best job. My local Green candidate is
a bit of a jerk, has no experience, and is an economist (I'm biased
against that kind of shamanism). I wanted to vote green party because I
agree with the principle that the environment is the most important issue,
but...
On
I've used that dark, thick oil straight in my diesel Ford truck on my
cross-country veggie trips, and it doesn't seem to have had any adverse
effects. I filtered it, tho.
Kenji
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Thomas Kelly wrote:
> Mark,
> It's soybean oil. I've been told that frying w. soy/ teryaki sa
When I first joined this list, I somewhat naively commented on the
the co-operative association as a legitimate way to counter corporate
aggression.
I was immediately chastised by the list manager, and I don't think that
post ever made it to the list, and I assumed it was a list unconcerned
with p
I've got a friend named Mark (Marc?) Masur living in KL. He plays in the
Philharmonic (percussion), and he was asking me about biodiesel for
running his generator.
I'll try to find his email, but you could probably phone the Malaysia
Philharmonic and ask for him (or leave a message - I don't know
The WISE Energy folks are very knowledgeable and have produced an
excellent report, which will be an invaluable resource for everyone making
biodiesel on Vancouver Island (Victoria).
Kees represents the 'business'-minded part of the biodiesel movement, to
me. He expends alot of time and energy acq
Hi Keith,
If you still have the Canucks email, you might pass him my email if he's
interested in the direction a bunch of us are going.
At the meeting about co-ops we held the other day, the issue Kees' gang
came up, and I agree
with you. He's a sour puss, sure, but he knows his stuff and critica
g cylindrical unit comming off the reactor is
> not a "condenser" but rather a coaxial drying unit
>
> Joe
>
> Kenji James Fuse wrote:
>
> >The WISE Energy folks are very knowledgeable and have produced an
> >excellent report, which will be an invaluab
Would any of you be willing to dub me a "lord of biodiesel' or something?
Seriously, I think it would be a good idea if this list put together a
dumb-ass 'certification' test so we could hang it on our walls and point
to it should some
regulatory agent come snooping around our setups threatening t
So here's the latest I've found for Canada. The push is on for the
government of Canada to "establish a Federal registration and
certification program for all biodiesel producers, importers to guarantee
all biodiesel into the Canadian petroleum fuel distribution system meets
the accepted North Amer
in the home.
Kenji Fuse
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Zeke Yewdall wrote:
> If you don't sell your fuel, aren't there exemptions? For example,
> you have to have all kinds of business licenses to do just about
> anything for hire, but do it for yourself, and no one cares.
>
> O
up to the mark - in fact we're interested in exceeding it (we
> are... right?) Striving for perfection is an admirable thing - I also
> realise it's not a real worl thing... but as a guiding principle it's good.
>
> Nigel
>
>
> - Original Message -
ent is going to put quality
> control to if they end of legislating something before we show that we
> are policing ourselves.
>
> On 2/22/06, Kenji James Fuse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I wasn't talking aboout the ASTM test, although one of these days I&#
I'm finally putting away my mister and bubble stone. Thanks, Keith and
Todd, for your persistent good advice.
There were a couple of discouraging moments there, but I've kept better
records since and now stir washing saves me a lot of time.
Anybody need a mister or bubble-stone?
Kenji Fuse
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Hi Mike,
As I posted a few months ago, the environmental 'elite' are not the only
ones crying wolf about biodiesel. The anarchist (and mostly excellent)
indymedia.org [?] ran an article titled something like "Biodiesel will
kill Thousands!"
It made no mention of the fact that biodiesel is the per
I've never even heard of monbiot but I'm never surprised when Editors
champion a so-called 'liberal' or 'environmentalist' who turns out to be
an apologist for status quo and the media's sponsors. That's 'balance'
these days...
kf
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Julian Voelcker wrote:
> You really should j
Hi Burak,
I don't think most used cooking oil is dumped in the sewer any more. The
rendering industry is quite huge in the glutanous northern hemisphere.
I've heard they make make-up and livestock feed with the stuff, as well as
a few chemicals even.
Not to say homebrewed biodiesel isn't a better
So I have a 60 litre batch in my wash tank that's not doing too well. New
source of not-so-good-quality used oil; didn't do a titration (doh!);
reacted well (two-stage base-base); didn't do a wash test (double doh!).
The first wash produced a really milky wash water, and the fuel was
ever-so-emuls
I've got some old oil with a few dollops of whitish-green mold growing on
top. I'm thinking of trying to turn it into biodiesel, but I don't want to
add biocide until the process is done.
Anyone have links or info on using micro-organism-infected feedstock for
biodiesel? Does the reaction kill the
Hey Andrew,
Glad to hear the meeting's happening soon. Please keep me posted as to
where it leads.
Kenji Fuse
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Andrew Netherton wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> This is a reminder for the first meeting of the Waterloo biofuel
> co-operative. The meeting is on Tuesday, March 14th at 7
Oh let them have their moment in the sun. The rain will soon fall on their
parade and they'll come running to you and this list asking for advice and
what-not.
I'm trusting you will embrace them with open arms when that happens.
Kenji Fuse
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Keith Addison wrote:
> I wish peopl
I always assumed carotene comes from carrots - am I wrong here?
Kenji Fuse
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Keith Addison wrote:
> Hi Bob
>
> >In the case of farmed salmon, I believe the dye is added to the diet,
> >not the processed flesh, (not that it makes a lot of difference)
> >
> >http://seattlepi.nws
Does anybody have any info on hydrid diesels in North America?
My friend is interestd in the idea and would probably buy one, but we
can't find anything on the market. Aren't passenger car diesel hybrids up
and running in Europe?
Kenji Fuse
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, MH wrote:
> I was listening to a
What did I miss here? Propranolol helps maintain memory?
In the classical music biz, propranolol use is endemic. A perfectionist
approach has permeated the industry since hi-fi recordings have upped the
ante.
I use the drug when I have to play nerve-wracking solos in front of 1400
people, and the
This is a solicitation for help from the Mercedes buffs out there. Some of
you will say 'go to a mercedes forum', but last time there were several
really useful replies.
I plan to install a second fuel tank next week, so now I have to decide
how to do it. The vehicle is a 1976 Mercedes-Benz 300D.
After travelling across the USA and Canada on used grease, I definitely
recommend trying the Asian places first. Nine out of ten times, they have
the cleanest oil.
Here at home, I get all the oil I need from two Japanese restaurants, and
a fancy-pants place where a friend of mine works.
Good luck
The hockey metaphor is a good one. If acumen at hockey is equated with
'running the whole show', then Canada is getting rotten tomatos thrown at
her, judging by our "Home on Native Land's" abyssmal performance at
the Torino Winter Olympics ('the true NOR strong NOR free').
If Canada ran the whole
d probably be
> better off if the dart landed North of the border.
>
> If nothing in this message makes sense to you, I'll sum up by saying that
> my Canadian friends show no signs or symptoms of being part of an empire.
> THIS is what's at the core of my last post.
>
Howdy neighbour!
If you ever take vacations out to Vancouver Island, let me know (the more
advance warning I have the better) and you can watch me mix chemicals in
my primitive, 'brain cooking' fashion. I'm in bee-yoo-tee-full Victoria.
We might even have a decent processor up and running if this
So I guess it had to happen sooner or later! Luckily I only made a small
20 l batch, and not 200! 20 l's of glop...
Ok, ok, I didn't titrate; I thought perhaps since the WVO was from my
regular source, I could use the average 6.2 g lye/litre (actually I used
a little less this time). And I didn't
There is a 'strainer' on the bottom of the fuel tank, where the feed line
starts. One of these days I'd like to change it, just to see how much crud
is in there.
I've been driving a 1976 300D on 30%petro-diesel/70% WVO for a year now.
No modifications, although it smokes more withthis blend than o
Just wondering if any of you homebrewers out there have ever taken the
ASTM D6751 test? Up here in Canada, a lab in Edmonton does the test. It
costs $1400, but the government can help out up to the tune of 70%, and
you can also do specific aspects of the test (free glycerine, etc) for a
couple hund
Hi all,
My name's Kenji Fuse and I'm a homebrewer in Victoria, BC. Still killing
myself stirring the stuff manually, so I'm ready to build a sealed
processor.
I have a question to put out to you fine experienced folk: what's the best
mechanical method of mixing?
Does the Clear Water pump really
Please don't shop at WarMart!
Despite the problems with the labour movement, i think all of us
progressives on this list would agree the hostility shown by WarMart
against organized labour is downright unacceptable. At least up here in
kanada
ie, a Quebec WarMart store's employees voted this past
Wow, somehow I thought she passed away long ago...
Thanks for the update, and now a quiet minute to remember...
kf
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Michael Redler wrote:
> FYI
>
> Peace,
>
> Mike
>
> uriela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: uriela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon,
Don't forget all the stupid and lazy Canadians up here. We've managed to
vote in a provinicial neo-con guv'ment up in british Columbia which can go
head to head with yours, selling off public utilities and ripping up
workers contracts faster than you can say "our premier was busted for
drunk drivi
I had a little meeting last year about renewable fuels with Oaf-icials of
the Alberta
ministries of Environment, Agriculture and Energy, with only the
agriculture guy having alot of useful input.
He thought it wasn't a problem to distill for fuel purposes (after all,
Canada did ratify Kyoto Acc!)
Heard good things about Canadian peacekeepers?
What about Somalia? A scared soldier with a gun is a scared soldier with a
gun.
Maybe the focus could be on how to stop the USA from invading countries in
the future. And stopping real atrocities like the use of depleted uranium
in shells. Your vets
Sometimes my quality test results in cloudy biodiesel on top. Usually,
though, this is no problem if you have some way to 'dry' it. I simply put
my bubble stone in the biodiesel and bubble away for around an hour. This
will clear cloudy biodiesel that doesn't contain alot of soaps and ffa's.
Kenj
I've been so impressed by this list, I thought I'd ask a Mercedes-specific
question even before I try an MB site:
Any of you fine folk know how to retard the injection timing on a 1976
300D (115 114 chassis, OM 617 engine)?
It runs fine on 25-30% diesel or biodiesel and 75-70% wvo, but it smokes
<
Pressure causes heat, in a low compression engine there is not enough heat
to make the fuel spontaniousely combust. If you raise the compression
ratio
you create more pressure. That added pressure creates more heat. That heat
causes fuel with a lower OCTANE RATING to spontaniousely combust befor
Thanks for the thorough description, Chris!
I'm not much of a mechanic, and what is straight forward for you sounds
kinda complex to me!
And my injection pump is an older model than you describe, I think. At
least, it doesn't have the manual pump at the IP, but rather at the main
fuel filter. Pr
> I'll post it as soon as I can. I know this looks really complicated, but just
> take it one step at a time and you'll do fine!
> Good Luck!
> Chris Rice
> - Original Message -
> From: Kenji James Fuse<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Bio
Chavez has said un-American things like he will sell oil and gas to poor
Americans for dirt cheap, and of course his offers of help after Katrina
were denied by the government.
Hopefully the anti-free trade movement down there will soon make its way
through the US to Canada...Hopefully Chavez wil
Doug,
The US may already be reaching that meltdown. The huge and growing poor
population seem to attest to that.
Other than a mighty military industry and its spin-offs, the only
substantial investment occuring in the US is speculative, mostly on
foreign markets.
Of course we are not too near t
My lips ain't touching that bush...
On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Ken Riznyk wrote:
> Will somebody please give this man a blowjob so we can
> impeach him.
>
> --- Appal Energy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Lovely. Absolutely lovely.
> >
> > If this proves to be true, then we unequivocally
> > have a m
I've had to bring production inside while it's cold and damp outside. I'm
well aware of the dangerous fumes during processing, but what about bd
fumes while it washes and dries? Is it harmful to be in a 8ftX16ft room
with 20 gallons of biodiesel (I am definitely aware of the smell)?
Kenji Fuse
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I just read the book Biodiesel Power (one of three Biodiesel books in my
local library) by Lyle Estill. Kind of entertaining, reading about
problems we all know intimately like used cubies and and dealing with
bureacracy in book format (as opposed to on a computer moniter).
Most disappointing was t
Getting off-topic a bit...
Any concerns about consistently drinking distilled water? I've heard it
can "leach minerals from the body". A friend of mine uses a water
distiller so I'd like to know more.
Kenji
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Anybody have info on freezing oil and biodiesel to remove wax?
I just tried freezing a cubie of used oil, and the top half seemed only
slightly less viscous and waxy than the lower half. Am I wrong here? Is
wax simply an inevitable state for frozen oil? I thought I read somewhere
that you freeze bi
What do others use for hand protection from methanol and methoxide? Do
neoprene gloves provide adequate enough protection from methanol and
methoxide?
And can I whine about how poorly the 4 litre jugs of methanol pour, or
rather how well they drip? Or is it just me?
Kenji Fuse
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Hey Greg,
Can't you put your biodiesel in a furnace tank and call it home heating
oil? That should get around that arcane law.
Too bad about your neighbour, tho'...
Kenji Fuse
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Did you all hear today's Democracy Now? Looks like the US is letting
Chavez sell heating oil at a 40% reduction to poor-er folk in Brooklyn and
Boston.
I imagine the petro boys and the corporate world are squirming right now:
this is the first time a major corporation (Citgo?) has VOLUNTARILY take
Thanks to all for the thorough responses to my queries about methanol and
gloves! Y'all rule...
What's your views on my addition of 0.5-2% addition of gasoline to my
veggie oil prior to biodiesel production during cold/damp weather?
It seems to take care of the moisture factor which had me occasi
The NBB does do some of this advocacy, although we all know it is
basically a lobby for the soy industry.
I'm more inclined to put my $100 into forming a co-operative association.
It seems more practical and hands-on. It provides very real protection, as
an incorporation, yet offers an alternative
Hi Joe,
Out here in BC, the climate is coldly ignorant on all things biofuel.
I sent the provincial environment minister an email informing him that I
thought the 50% road tax exemption on biofuels was sadly inadequate, and
four months later I have yet to receive a reply.
The provincial Green le
I've had a question about the two-stage, base-base method as well. My
second stage resulted in such a little amount of glycerin it didn't seem
worth the extra time or effort. Any comments? I suppose the removal of
this last
tablespoon of glycerin gets my BD to ASTM standards for free glycerin, but
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