I just found out that dessicants like silica gel only work in humid air (because of their high surface area, low vapor pressure pores). Osmosis would work to...
... This is all in the archives, several times perhaps. You have several steps to go still before you find a good way of removing the 5% of the water content...
Hi, I have a motorcycle apart at the moment, & have found the biodiesel is great for cleaning parts! It gets that black grunge (carbon etc) out of the alloy. I...
Doug Foskey
lemans4@...
Sep 1, 2002 12:18 pm
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I agree in that sometimes we don't look at God's / nature's (whatever your religious persuasion) "engineering design" ... and notice how "jigsaw puzzly"...
... Hi Doug I don't think you can improve on that much, biodiesel's a great cleaner - and it's GREAT not to mess with kerosene (paraffin). Is that your Guzzi?...
What questions? Perhaps I was away from my computer. Anyways there is alot of information on that website about using cellulose as a feedstock, but the...
To add to that, we have guys from the University of Pennsylvania publishing scientific articles telling the public that using corn to make ethanol is a ZERO...
Here is something else that really ticks me off: coal liquefaction, making gasoline out of coal using the most environmentally destructive means, is getting...
There seems to have been a flurry of postings lately (maybe just a couple misguided individuals, I don't know :-)) about biodiesel from ethanol (rather than...
To all: There is much peanut farming here. Any problems with peanut oil biodiesel? Thanks, Bill C. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
William Clark
eufclark@...
Sep 2, 2002 12:14 am
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... None at all! I envy you -- peanut is one of the crops I'm gonna try my hand at when I retire and become an oilseed farmer. (The others are sunflower,...
Sorry Rod, I was told that used motor oil had Led in it and since chain saw oil is a product from used motor oil, I assumed that this was the case. I also...
Hakan Falk
hakan@...
Sep 2, 2002 12:30 am
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I am taken off the list by the answers from Rod.Stalenberg (BP) to me personally. I think that this is an important issue and would like to have some qualified...
Hakan Falk
hakan@...
Sep 2, 2002 1:02 am
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HI EVERYBODY ; I BELEIVE THIS TO BE ON TOPIC. shortly i shall be moving to spain to live, olives seem a prolific grower
out there, are there any problems in...
al
101@...
Sep 2, 2002 2:23 am
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... This one, for a start: ... And now we have it again from you that it's a "HUGE WASTE". ... Huh? Journey to Forever doesn't tell you why, doesn't pay enough...
I wonder if there was a "homebrew" way of making METHANOL (and NaOH for that matter). I mean, to completely take the process OFF-GRID. Would be nice for Joe...
Destructive wood distillation for the methanol. Recovery of KOH (potassium hydroxide) from the ash and char. (The traditional method is to put hardwood ash...
Ok fine. You win. They don't teach this stuff in Canadian schools, and I'm trying to find my way around using 50% intuition. The Journey to Forever website...
What is the smallest displacement diesel engine used in common automobiles? From what I can tell, around 2.0 liters total displacement seems to be about as...
What is the significance of diesel engine compression ratio in a cogeneration context? I have heard that with cogeneration, the higher the compression ratio...
Lots more links - I haven't had time tof check them all out yet. We looked at the Hynol process before, and list members weren't very impressed, not much use. ...
... Repeat away, but hasn't it dawned on you by now that that's what we're discussing here all the time? If you can't see that that's exactly what Journey to...
Hi Paul ... Um, yes. Duh! I don't mind admitting it all looks like fly-shit to me. Well, not quite, I can follow it up to a point but easily get lost....
... Yep, & thanks. (Some time I will post a piccy) Regards Doug...
Doug Foskey
lemans4@...
Sep 2, 2002 8:38 am
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... Is the Charade Diesel still in production? It is a 1 litre, 3 cyl diesel, & had the fuel record for production cars in Aus, until Peugeot 406 diesel took ...
Doug Foskey
lemans4@...
Sep 2, 2002 8:46 am
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... From: Keith Addison <keith@...> To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 5:56 PM Subject: [biofuel] Re: Making...
