i had another thought, (scary huh?) these are the presumptions this idea revolves around:
1. exposing a substance to vacuum lowers the boiling point 2. a substance under vacuum vaporizes more quickly than at atmospheric pressure 3. excess energy or energy byproduct (normally lost) tapped from another source to produce vacuum qualifies as a low cost, if not (net, at least) free expenditure. if one were to apply vacuum to a castor based alcohol refinery, the heat required would be considerably less, therefore the front-end energy requirements would be less. does it make sense to use this to speed the vaporization process, or am i just lost? AND all the permit applications and tax references i have looked up, at least in the US, require fuel grade alcohol to be denatured at a minimum of at least 5% to qualify for the alcohol tax exemption(not sales or road taxes ). can castor oil be used as a denaturant? unless taken in large amounts it is generally not harmful to humans, it is biodegradeable, and as we discussed previously, it dissolves in alcohol. as an added bonus, drinking castor treated alcohol should in theory make a person violently ill with very few lasting side effects (i think the threat -even percieved- of violent diarrhea and vomiting would be a powerful deterrent to drinking the stuff anyway.) I can feel the laser dots on my forehead already... _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
