Re: [Biofuel] India's gift to green drive: Bicycle @ 40kmph

2008-08-14 Thread Steve Moran
Shimano used to have something called the biopace chainring. The chainrings where oblong, so that you would get a more powerful downstroke. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopace -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Worthy Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [Biofuel] The food emergency and food myths

2008-06-30 Thread Steve Moran
Don't farmers have the right to sell their corn to whoever they want to sell it too? Even if corn is going to make ethanol, so? So the world has increased its demand for oil, and that means that oil costs more, that means that we need to find ways to offset that, so we make corn into ethanol, and

[Biofuel] soap titration

2008-06-20 Thread Steve Moran
I don't think I've seen anything on this aspect, and as I'm kind of new to make BD, I don' t know if knowing how much soap you're producing would help correct the problem or not, but the place I get my isopropanol from has a link now mentioning soap titration, so I thought I'd share. http://www

Re: [Biofuel] WVO in PA, USA

2008-06-19 Thread Steve Moran
Ya just never know ;) This is almost as intriguing a mystery as all those feet washing up in canada. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Keith Addison Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 1:03 PM To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofu

Re: [Biofuel] WVO in PA, USA

2008-06-19 Thread Steve Moran
Maybe he's working with a group of guys to make it. Maybe he owns a delivery truck. Maybe he owns a company that has 12 trucks in its fleet. Maybe he has a hole in his storage tank. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Keith Addison Sent: T

Re: [Biofuel] biodiesel test batch question

2008-04-29 Thread Steve Moran
>I do my test batches in a pot on a coleman stove out in the garage so I > can maintain the temp. How do you agitate the mix? Is the processor an open pot? Tom - Original Message ----- From: "Steve Moran" &

Re: [Biofuel] american Trucks

2008-04-28 Thread Steve Moran
I've also heard that the powerstroke is hit or miss. Anything after 2003 is going to be a lot quieter than the old diesels, there were some new federal requirements imposed in 2003 about noise levels. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zeke Y

Re: [Biofuel] biodiesel test batch question

2008-04-28 Thread Steve Moran
I do my test batches in a pot on a coleman stove out in the garage so I can maintain the temp. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mike Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 1:58 PM To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: [Biofuel] biodiesel test ba

Re: [Biofuel] biodiesel test batch question

2008-04-28 Thread Steve Moran
I think (but I'm not sure) that methanol will evaporate at 140, is that correct? If it is, then keeping the temp below that would become very important too. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Thomas Kelly Sent: Mon 4/28/2008 6:39 PM To: sustainablelorgbiofuel

Re: [Biofuel] We Need To Solve The Oil Crisis--Now

2008-04-24 Thread Steve Moran
well, if the ice age is coming, then maybe we all need hummers and big trucks to create more green house gasses ;) 55 is fine for the densely populate tracts of america (the coasts), but its going to be a rea hard sell in the vast expanses of the middle of the country. The federal governm

Re: [Biofuel] We Need To Solve The Oil Crisis--Now

2008-04-24 Thread Steve Moran
" More laws don't fix a damn thing - look at the 'War on Drugs' or Washington DC where handgun ownership is illegal and the crime is the worst in the country." Even more disgusting is how laws are enforced, in Denver, Co, they have a concealed weapons ban, which conflicts with the state that all

Re: [Biofuel] We Need To Solve The Oil Crisis--Now

2008-04-24 Thread Steve Moran
Speed limits should not be set at the national level, it's a state or municipal issue. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Schneider Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 11:26 AM To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [B

Re: [Biofuel] Food Rationing in America?

2008-04-22 Thread Steve Moran
gee, and we're still paying farmers to leave thier feilds sit? I live in colorado, and I have freinds that bought farms solely because the government pays them to not grow. Great investment, getting paid to sit on your butt. seems to me that if the shortage was really that bad, we'd stop wast

Re: [Biofuel] Message In A Bottle

2008-04-19 Thread Steve Moran
these things http://www.trashskimmer.com/balt.htm From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Steve Moran Sent: Sat 4/19/2008 9:38 AM To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org; sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Message In A Bottle

Re: [Biofuel] Message In A Bottle

2008-04-19 Thread Steve Moran
They use something like that in the balitmore harbor. a smallish boat with a conveyor belt in the center and two arms that scissor horizontally across the top of the water and have conveyor type belts on them that pull the garbage toward the center belt. The boat floats on pontoons on the ousi