Robert,
I know beans about bio-diesel ;^), but recall a List member (Jan
Steinman I think) who used /developed it regularly. I haven't seen him post to
the List in a while so he may have dropped off. You may get some info on his
website at:
www.bytesmiths.com
Look for the link to Veggie Van Diesel.
Happy Motoring,
Charlie
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Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 4:58 PM
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Subject: [OM] Re: OT biodiesel, was Re: #217
I have not downloaded my e'mails for sometime and must have deleted the
e'mails previous to this one so my reply might not fit the discussion too
well.
I am very interested in alternative fuels for the future and how to solve
energy shortage problems in the future.
What concerns me is the astonishing ineficiency of the way we live today.
Petrol and Diesel cars only use about 30% of the energy from the fuel, the
remainder is dumped as heat.
Electric cars are just as bad. Creating electricity is inefficient and dumps
huge amounts of heat and emissions. Then there are transmission losses
getting the power to your house. Then there are losses charging the
batteries. The car itself is fairly efficient but overall energy use is as
bad as a normal car.
The latest development is the hydrogen fuel cell. This could be a good
vehicle power source in the future but there are problems with creating the
hydrogen for use in these cells. Extracting hydrogen from water as fuel is
very energy hungry so this puts a stop to the use of the efficient fuel
cell.
This are still being developed so someday this problem may be solved.
As for creating Bio diesel, you may be able to create some bio diesel at
home but I bet overall it is environmentally poor using a lot of energy
somewhere in the process to do it. It, however, is good to take an interest
in this sort of thing. Is there a web site?
I am currently working on a device which may extract some free energy from
the environment.
Unfortunately I am a mechanicaly minded engineer not a thermodynamisist so I
am going to make it to see if it works rather than try to do the sums.
Rob
PS. John. Thanks for the OM1n overhaul. It returned safe and well.
John Hermanson wrote:
> > I've heard ads on the radio for a machine (install it in your
> > garage) that
> > allows the owner to make his own bio-diesel........
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