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Welcome to the Non-profit Fuel
Cooperative!
If you care about our planet and
everything living on it enough to want
to
do something about it NOW then you have come to the right place.
You realize that not being part of the solution means you are part of
the problem? If the answer is yes then read on otherwise you need
to read up on the links at the end of this page and go do some serious
soul searching. If you think that the health of the earth is important
enough to
warrant a little more effort than simply driving up to a pump and
filling up and forking over a considerable amount of money to the very
people
who don't give a damn about this world then you might be the type of
person who will get involved in this project. WE NEED YOU! Please
join the yahoo
mail list if you want to get involved.
Localization!
"Go small and stay at
home"! This website is about offering people a
way to produce their own fuel from locally obtained feed stock,
typically oil from restaurant fryers, and all the information about how
to build a system to do it, and the steps taken to process the oil and
turn it into high quality fuel for a diesel engine. Much of the
way our modern society works (in the western world) is
unsustainable. Suburban life, driving to work, to the stores,
buying products which are transported over thousands of miles using
wasteful and polluting transportation methods, using petrochemicals to
produce these products and foods, and more petrochemicals to package
and transport them, choosing to buy products that are designed to be
disposable rather than re-usable, it is all based on an addiction to an
energy source that we have come to expect to be plentiful and
cheap. This has seemed the case, but it will not remain so. It
was an illusion that we chose to believe in. We were encouraged to do
so by corporations who care not about the future unless it is the
future of their profit. That attitude is what led us to the problems we
face today and it is not the attitude which will lead us to safety.
Talk about carbon economy. Plants and algae that grew millions of years
ago sequestered huge amounts of carbon from the atmosphere and stored
it away in the form of crude oil effectively storing energy like a
wound up spring. It took many millions of years to do this and
the environment gradually changed as a result. What we have been
doing within the last mere hundred years and especially within the last
50 is to quickly unwind that spring burning up the oil and releasing a
lot of that carbon back to the atmosphere. The climate is
changing accordingly. Should we expect it to be easy or
convenient to undo the damage we have done? Of course not. But world
demand for energy continues to rise and the demand is accelerating as
undeveloped countries with large population bases, race to 'catch up'
with the flawed model of the developed world. Development can be
a good thing but not when the forces that drive the development are
derived from a system called capitalism which has as it's very essence
a mandate for continuous expansion not a concern for long term
sustainability which is what is necessary for continued life in a
closed system like our planet. The days of cheap plentiful petroleum
based energy and products is already over but like a juggernaut with so
much momentum the early signs of disaster have little effect on the
direction humanity is headed. Except for some of us. My purpose
here is to leave a trail of bread crumbs so that others can follow the
path a little easier. Hopefully a lot easier. All the stuff
I have learned about making biofuel is published here, I am not keeping
any secrets. The design details, rational of the design
decisions, the parts lists and assembly instructions and also the
operation manuals are all to be found here for free. The links are not
obvious and you will have to read to find them. This I have done
on purpose, and is my way of weeding out those who will contact me
without reading it, asking questions that are all already answered
here. These are the people seeking instant gratification which is
also a notion which has been cleverly marketed to the masses and
largely gobbled up willingly. It is also a factor, and one which is
largely responsible for leading us to the edge of the abyss where we
stand today. These are the people who also come to me asking for cheap
fuel. It doesn't take me more than a few moments talking with
them to realize that they think biofuel is a cheaper substitute for
petroleum and we can just carry on as always. They just don't get
it, and if this sounds like you, I urge you to read, read, read and
think deeply and open your mind to the possibility of accepting some
changes which may initially look unpleasant. Like walking and
bicycling, like buying local organic produce, like avoiding disposable
and convenience products, and so much more. Why am I doing this?
I believe in a social model called anarchosyndicalism
which means that I want to work for the betterment of myself, my
community and ultimately the world. This is a subject which is almost
completely misunderstood, misrepresented by rebellious teens with funny
hairdoos, and much maligned by corporatists who really fear and stand
to lose control and a lot of money if joe average understood what
anarchy really is and how much good people can do when properly
motivated and empowered. I think anybody who cares about the future
generations wants to preserve this world and live in a society that
fosters peace and prosperity, so being an anarchist, I am highly
motivated to work towards my full potential to help realize that goal,
and most importantly to empower others to do the same for
themselves. You see I am selfish and it gives me great pleasure
and personal satisfaction to think that I am doing something to help
the world. I am only one person but by sharing my work openly and
making it easier for others to do the same I hope I can contribute to
making the world a better place. I remind myself and others of
the traditional African adage "This is not our world, we are only
borrowing it from our children"
Working together there is a way we can operate as a multitude
which I believe is a way that individuals can work within a collective
through a network in an absolutely democratic process to further their
own individual interests, but the framework of multitude allows that to
happen in a way which is not detrimental to the interests of the
majority. Multitude allows a social order which can operate
according to network
theory which is very much aligned with nature and I believe it to
be the solution to the pitfalls of a hierarchical organizational
structure. I'd like to suggest you read the book
Multitude written by Antonio
Negri and Michael Hardt published in 2004. It is the
most inspiring book on social order I have read in a long time.
Anyways in keeping with that inspiration, I offer this work through the
medium most appropriate for it according to this new sociopolitical
theory ( Is it really new or is it just the modern manifestation of old
anarchist theory??) the world wide web. So take the ball and run
with it. I'm cheering for you.
Feb 23, 2009
How time flies! Well over the last year I've been
tinkering. The powered hang glider thing has taken up all my
spare time. It is a labour of love. The unit is powered by a
120cc two stroke engine. Not the cleanest of entities. I bought
it out of necessity since I am the sole tow pilot of our new hang
gliding club and when I have towed the others aloft I am stuck on the
ground unless I want to fart around in the tug which burns about 18
l/hr and glides like a brick. I said I would convert the unit to
electric when I got it and I will one day; the low weight high power
motors are already available as are the power controllers. The
issue remains with the batteries. Although some have done it now
with series/parallel strings of lithium polymer (LiPO) packs which will
deliver somewhere around 300 amps at 50 volts or so they don't say much
about their battery life. These batteries are so sensitive to charge
and discharge cycles that it is very challenging to keep all the cells
healthy within a pack and those packs cost thousands to make.
Yikes! I'm waiting for the day that a better battery or super
light fuel cell comes along.....
In the mean time, I've been working like mad on converting the two
stroke to run on ethanol. First I have fitted the stock engine
with temperature probes to show exhaust and cylinder head
temperature. I also added a lambda probe to the exhaust pipe to
monitor oxygen and therefore mixture. These sensors all need to
be displayed and when I ended up with a huge awkward conglomeration of
hand held displays hanging from an umbilical I decided that a new
display was needed. It is almost finished now. The display
shows all the data needed for flight, RPM, CHT, EGT, Lambda, Battery
voltage and engine hours. Since I needed a crank sensor to get
RPM information I decided to also make the unit capable of outputting a
signal to an electronic ignition module which I have yet to
build. This is important because running on ethanol requires a
little more spark advance than gasoline. Another difference is
that ethanol benefits from higher compression so I have a re-machined
head that ups the compression ratio from the stock 8.5:1 to an even
11.0:1 Ethanol has a different optimum fuel air ratio so I have changed
the carb to a fully adjustable one which required several modifications
to make it fit. It runs well with the new carb on gasoline which
is all I have tested so far. This carb is a diaphragm type and I
have designed a unit I refer to as tthe 'mixture minder' which actually
takes control of the pressure compensation diaphragm in the carb and
manipulates it via pneumatic pressure with a little circuit I built
that gets a signal from the oxygen sensor and uses that to drive the
diaphragm so that the lambda probe stays on target. This prevents the
engine from richening when I climb to higher altitudes where the air is
thinner and less fuel is required. Engines produce more HC in the
exhaust when they run rich. Obviously the reverse is also true
and the circuit will also happily add fuel if more oxygen is available
but I haven't tried adding any yet. ;^>
Plans are to test the instrument this season and put some airtime on it
and then begin running ethanol blends with increasing ethanol quantity
and see where that leads. In the background I'll design and build
the electronic ignition module and see what that adds especially with
the higher ethanol blends. Ethanol has much higher latent heat of
evaporation than gasoline so there is a much more pronounced
temperature drop in the carburettor than is the case with
gasoline. I have made provision for a temperature probe for the
carb and the software I have written automatically detects whether the
sensor is connected. If not it just displays the ambient temperature
from a sensor mounted on the circuit board. If it detects a carb sensor
then it reverts to displaying carb temperature which will be important
for the running on ethanol because there is always the possibility of
ice forming in the carb when there is high humidity in the air due to
the cooling in the carb. Pilots like to keep an eye on stuff like that
while they are flying around over forested areas. On the other hand all
this cooling means that the air inhaled by the engine is significantly
denser which means more power and since an air cooled two stroke engine
gets a big portion of it's cooling from the intake charge cooling the
crank case and botom of the piston face, I don't anticipate that the
extra compression ratio will result in the typical increase in head
temperature as it will when running on gasoline. This needs to be
tested. Potentially some of these issues can be tweaked by
adjusting spark timing to some degree. I have arranged my code so
that the pilot can choose from different spark timing maps which can be
manually selected. I am planning to optimize the timing map for fuel
types which could perhaps look like one for staigh gas, one for E50 one
for E85 and one for E100. I think that an engine that is fully tweaked
to get the most out of ethanol can get more power than on gasoline but
the changes are not backward compatible. In other words I could perhaps
run 14:1 compression and xx degrees of spark advance with alcohol but
then if I put gasoline into that same engine it would detonate and
begone. I'm aiming for a happy medium so if I land out in some farm
field I can go get some local gas and just dial back my spark timing to
fly home.
I've also been lookin into the question of two stroke lubricants that
work with these blends. Got a lot of little bottles of this and that in
my lab now. The problem with petroleum based lubes is that they do not
tolerate any moisture. Ethanol loves to adsorb water, in fact it
will pull it out of the air so any fuel with a significant percentage
of ethanol is likely to contain a not so insignificant amount of
water. We can go to lengths to avoid this using metal cans and
being careful but I'd like to design for real world conditions and real
world people who tend to get lazy about the details at times so I went
in search of a lubricant which tolerates water. There has been
much adoo about ethanol fuels ruining two stroke engines especially in
the marine engine world where water in the fuel is even more
likely. I did tests and found that beyond a small percentage of
water the gasoline and oil simply separate which spells death for a two
stroke. With higher concentrations of ethanol the problem gets
worse. E100 will not even mix with petroleum based lubricants. I
tried co-solvents to try to keep the oil and ethanol to stay
together. I tried vegetable oil. I tried biodiesel.
Now biodiesel is soluble in both gasoline and ethanol. Opinions
vary on how much is needed for proper engine lubrication but the
problem with water got way better right away when I switched to plant
base lubricants. Kinda makes sense eh? Castor oil is a
vegetable oil which has a long history of use in racing engines due to
it's tolerance for high heat and excellent lubricity. Turns out castor
oil also has the amazing property of being a co-solvent for polar and
non-polar molecules like water (polar) and hydrocarbons like gasoline
(non-polar) There are some other co-solvents but they are more
difficult to produce (energy intensive) and are more rare, thus less
sustainable....dead end there. Castor oil it turns out, even with
E100 can tolerate a substantial amount of contamination with water
before phase separation begins. Rather than adding co-solvents as a
band-aid measure, I now had a lubricant which is also a co-solvent. It
tends to emulsify at the onset of separation and the emulsions are
fairly long lasting and I suspect that an emulsified fuel of this type
could still be used so long as it is kept shaken every day or so. I
don't think it would be hard to keep the water content below that point
anyway but if there was mixed fuel from hot humid summer that got cold
in the winter.....then it migh become an issue. There has been a lot of
interest in emulsified fuels on the web of late. Gee I wonder
why. Well I guess good things stand the test of time. When
I was a kid I used to make my own fuel for the RC airplane engines
using methanol from canadian tire and castor oil from the drugstore.
They say when some folks get old they tend to revert to thier
childhood. Well I guess it's true. LOL.
Stay tuned for more....but I can't promise when.
June 27, 2008
Wow! it's been a year since I made an update. I've not been
idle. But then neither has the world. Let's see....Oil now
$141.50 a barrel. Diesel about $1.40 a litre. Stock market
has hit a record low since the great depression. On the other
hand a mennonite man scratched his chin and smiled at me last night as
he contemplated his first batch which passed the wash test and passed
the methanol test in his self made 1700 litre vacuum reactor. The
smile said it all. Long weekend is here.....I'm going flying while I
can still afford the fuel....
June 26, 2007
I'm working on some passive solar stuff which uses vacuum and an idea
kinda like a ram pump. If this works it's gonna be really cool
cuz there's no moving parts except a couple of check valves and the
system automatically circulates when the sun shines with no power
input (other than the sun). Stay tuned for details.
June 11, 2007
The secretary general of OPEC just announced that the price of crude
oil "will go through the roof" as a result of the move of the
industrialized west toward biofuels. LOL! Read all about it
here:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/aeb9a650-136e-11dc-9866-000b5df10621.html
In other news, sadly, due to lack of enrollment Everdale has informed
me that they will not be running the biodiesel workshop this
weekend. :(
May 15, 2007
Just going over some stuff preparing for the course I'm gonna teach at
Everdale in June and I realised I must have been on drugs when I
designed the methoxide mixer originally. I don't know why I
specified welding a stainless fitting on the bottom of the stainless
pot. Considering that I use vacuum to draw the liquid into the
system, all that is required is to route the methoxide delivery tube
down into the pot from above. This has the added advantage of
being able to place the stainless pot into a plastic pail with no hole
in the bottom so if there is ever a spill it affords secondary
containment. Swell! Ok so I modified the docs and uploaded
to the site. BTW the golf is running sweet with the
methanol injection. Lotsa power! Not that I condone laying
rubber all over town but on the highway it sure gives that extra kick
which is just the thing for passing on hills and blind curves when you
need to be quick. (Kidding of course) ;^> I'll put a
page together with pix and docs when I get time. Flying season has
arrived so don't hold yer breath. Oh I added an update to the hang
gliding page too. Free plans for anyone who wants to copy my
launch dolly. Cheers. Sky out dudes. Fly safe.
May 04, 2007
So I've been making progress on the flexfuel Golf TDI. All the
hardware is installed for the alcohol injection system and I have been
using it with the methanol I recover from making biodiesel.
Granted methanol is not a biofuel but if it works with methanol then it
will work with ethanol and when I start making ethyl esters (which is
the next science project) it will be ready. I'm building a page
specifically for the description of the alcohol system and I'll add a
link here when the data is ready for human consumption.
April 27, 2007
Big news! I am now the manager of the Center for Advanced
Photovoltaic Devices and Systems. I'll be spending a lot of my
personal time in this field now as well, so I guess this means a lot
less time for biodiesel work but on the other hand I'm finally working
in a job that is not at odds with my environmental ideals. YAHOOO. (
Party at my place :) I always believed the future is in solar for
meeting the energy needs of this planet. It's a no brainer. Now I
get to work on the cutting edge and believe me there is a lot of stuff
going on in this field. A few years ago I started some research
of my own on nanostructured films for blackbodies and developed a film
with dense silicon columns 100 nm wide and 400 nm tall. The
surface was the blackest thing I have ever seen. Since then some
industrious students have improved the technique getting the column
diameter down around 10nm ! This is in the order of the bohr radius for
silicon which means the band gap of the
material no longer conforms to the classical and well understood model
for bulk silicon material. In laymans terms this means we can tailor
the light response of the material to convert photons from a broader
spectrum of light which means silicon solar cells stand to be much
higher efficiency without high cost! I hope that we will be able to
develop technology that will allow everyone to produce all the power
they need for themselves. My own interest in the structures was
as a nanotextured heat exchanger material as part of a thermoacoustic
heat engine again for converting solar energy to electrical
energy. If anybody out there knows anything about phonon resonance in
ferroelectric materials I'd like to buy you a beer.
April 22, 2007
This date marks the day that Chris Muller passed
into the sky. His death was a tragedy but his life was anything
but. Mark the thermals for us Chris. Pura Vida.
Update Mar 6, 2007....Finaly got permission to link to pics of the beast Feb 20,2009....HERE IT IS thanks Rod!
Ok so it's time to admit that I have been working in secret on
something BIG! A co-op scale reactor capable of doing 1000 to
1500 litres at a time. So far the biggest volume reacted was 1100
litres but there is room enough in the reactor vessel for about 1500
litres. The system is producing high quality fuel. I have
promised the owner not to divulge the location of this system or other
details which could give away the location, but this is big news and I
felt I had to share at least the fact that I know how to build a system
that big and that it works well. Vacuum processing rocks! Well
I've been telling you this all along right? There are so many
advantages to using vacuum that I don't know why anyone would consider
anything else! Anyhoo, the cooperative now has another option besides
individual local scale production which I still feel is the proper
approach to the issue considering what peakoil has in store for us and
our culture of excess, but hey that is just me. Walk on. Apparently
many folks who came to my meetings thought otherwise and would like a
co-op that can make fuel centrally and just distribute it to it's
members....tsk tsk....think of the carbon economy of that decision....I
don't care if you are driving carbon neutral on your way to pickup your
fuel....you are still wasting energy in so doing, but then I am not
supreme dictator of this world ( uh...that would be someone else, but
she doesn't talk to me anymore since December 17th when apparently her
world turned to sunshine at last ...so....wtf). Anyways the point
is
the co-op can build something grandiose if that's what you want.
Send me a message and let me know.
In other news petroleum diesel hit $1.00 per litre again this week. Not
since the past summer have I seen it that high. The Burgan oilfield
(one of the supergiant reserves of sweet crude) has recently peaked at
1.7 meelion barrels per day despite attempts by Kuaiti engineers to
ramp production to 1.9 MB/day. Don't forget that back in 2005 they
predicted that they would pump 2 million barrels a day for the next
30-40 years. Right. The news media did mention the fact somewhere
in the background....lol.....it worked, nobody seems to be aware of the
fact. Some folks seem to think the Saudi's are hiding similar
stories but who knows? Guzzle on I guess. Sigh. Oh and I'm almost done
a mod that will allow me to run methanol recovered from making
biodiesel as another alternative fuel in the car. Ya that's right. This
is so sweet. No more worries about drying the methanol to make it
suitable to re-use in the next batch of biodiesel. Also it makes
for fab windshield washer fluid when diluted 50/50 with water.
I'll publish full details on how to inject methanol into a turbodiesel
when I have everything working. Damn I wish it wasn't so
cold..... Hey when I get the kit from greasecar installed (which I
promise I'll do this summer....it really doesn't suit my living room
anyways) I'll be able to run petrodiesel, biodiesel, straight vegetable
oil AND methanol. I count 4. I guess you can say I have a
multifuel vehicle. Giggle.
Update Jan 17, 2007
Everdale has invited me
back to teach again this summer. The course will run on the
weekend of June 15-17th. I don't think the course is listed yet
on their web page but it will be. This time the plan is for me to
pre-assemble some of the system's sub components so assembly will be
quicker and this will leave time to teach the process as well.
Everdale has graciously offered the use of their reactors for use in
demonstrating the process on site. Sweet. It's all coming
together - see? there is a Great Spirit in the universe.
There is also talk of a seminar happening out in B.C. sometime early
this year (when the weather is a tad nicer ....pleeeze) So stay tuned
for details.
Update Dec 17, 2006
I found out that some women can be
extremely heartless. It's true.
Update July 19, 2006
I have been working on a step by
step description of the process for
making biofuel on the system. I decided it was better to write
two documents. One covers the single stage process which is useful when
working with new or good quality used oil. The second document details
a two stage acid -base process for more difficult feedstocks. I have
published the documents under
the copyleft license and as always, the links are embedded in the
text. Sorry no instant gratification here. My time is very
precious and I will not respond to emails from anyone who has obviously
not taken the time to read all the material I have published on this
website. All the information you need to do what I have done is there
and on the pages in the external links section especially journey to
forever. Take the ball and run with it.
Update June 19, 2006
I taught a course over the weekend
(June 16-18, 2006) at Everdale farms
which was a big success. We built a 90 litre reactor over the
weekend and now Everdale has two systems which they plan to use to
produce biodiesel for their farm equipment. They are growing
oilseed crops and plan to press the oil out and use the pressed seed
cake as a food supplement for farm animals. The oil then gets
rented to restaurant owners under an agreement so that it gets changed
before it becomes so saturated that it is a health risk for the people
eating the fried food ( By the way a lot of restaurants don't change
their oil frequently enough and it means that they are frying food in
oil that is highly saturated and very unhealthy! When I titrate oil
before making biodiesel I find out just how saturated the oil is and
some
places have very unhealthy oil indeed!) The lightly used oil will then
be picked up and turned into biodiesel for the farm equipment which is
guaranteed to be easy with a single stage process due to the good oil
quality. I love this idea. Everybody wins. Restaurants can
claim they use healthy organic oil which is unsaturated, patrons get a
healthier fried food, Everdale benefits 3 ways, the rental revenue
stream, the seed cake, and in the end the biofuel. The environment
benefits too. Awesome.
Update June 6, 2006
I am now concentrating on the next
stage of
the project which is upscaling the reactor to a 100 litre size
tank. Due to complexities associated with adding the heater
interlock to the 36 litre size system, I have decided to go with the
larger size system for the course I am going to teach. The larger
size will be more serviceable to the average needs of the fuel consumer
anyways and will likely be the system on which the cooperative moves
forward. For information purposes I am looking into the
possibility of demonstrating a batch process on the research size
reactor in parallel with the reactor build course. This is
possible due to the fact that the process requires attention only
intermittently and we can take breaks from the course and visit the
reaction in progress from time to time over the weekend. I am awaiting
confirmation from Everdale to see if this is possible.
What's the Point?
This website was created to promote and
kick-start local biofuel
production. I am developing a reliable and consistent biodiesel reactor
which I am personally using.
The reactor was designed to make biodiesel production simple enough for
the average person to convert waste vegetable oil into high quality
fuel consistently and easily. The goal is to setup a few of these
reactors so that members of a cooperative can manufacture their own
fuel at cost similar to the way home made wine is produced. Using
this approach 90 liters of fuel can be made per batch. As
interest and
participation grows within the community more batch reactors can be
added or if necessary the reactor size can be increased. If you
are interested in
getting involved use the email link on this page to join the yahoo
group and keep up to date with what is going on.
Currently any food vendor using oil
must pay to have it disposed of.
With a
bit of additional work and chemicals that can be converted into diesel
fuel for
a fraction of the cost of diesel oil. This process is not difficult and
a good reactor design makes it easy to do reliably and
safely.
Equipment.
I have completed a small 30 liter
reactor for the purpose of gaining
knowledge with the idea of scalability in mind for the future. I
have reacted several batches throughout the summer of 2005 but progress
was relatively slow since it was such a good flying season! Now
that winter is approaching, the focus is returning to the biofuel
project. One area of the endeavour which had an obvious need for
some sort of organization and standardization was the setup used for
doing titrations. I have developed a kit that makes titrations
easy and repeatable even in the field, by incorporating a small heater
and magnetic stirring capability in a small portable low
cost unit
which is described here.
Update: The
reactor is working very well now and I am getting consistent
results. I have learned a lot and feel confident about scaling up
to the large size.
What is Biodiesel?
Biodiesel is a fuel made from waste
that can be burned in a regular
diesel engine without any
modification.
Biodiesel has better lubrication
properties than commercial low
sulfur diesel fuel and actually extends the life of your engine and
fuel pump.
Biodiesel has drastically reduced
emissions and does not produce
many cancer causing emissions like fossil fuels do.
Biodiesel does not add greenhouse gases
to the atmosphere, it
simply re-releases part of the CO2 that plants which made the oil
recently took out
of the atmosphere. Fossil fuels release gases that have been trapped
underground since prehistoric times.
Biodiesel is a renewable resource and
makes usable fuel from waste
oil.
Biodiesel is simply made by mixing a
fat or oil with an alcohol
and
lye. Biodiesel is
up to 92% of the final product with the rest being glycerin which is
itself a useful product commonly used in cosmetics. The waste from this
process is basically soapy water and is not environmentally harmful.
The
oil can
be cooking oils, or oilseed crops such as soybeans, canola, cotton and
mustard seed or even tallow or animal fat.
Biodiesel is safe - it's as
biodegradable as sugar, 10x less
toxic than table salt and has a flash point of 125C compared to diesel
oil which is
55C which makes it extremely safe as a fuel since it does not produce
explosive vapors when stored at room temperature.
Biodiesel is considered an "alternate
fuel" by the US government and
has been
rigorously tested. It has been used in Europe since at least the 1980's.
Biodiesel Benefits
- 47% less particulate matter - really nasty health hazard from
diesel fuel
- 80% less PAH (Polycyclic
Aromatic Hydrocarbons) - Cancer causing compounds.
- 90% less nPAH - Cancer causing compounds.
- 50% less ozone potential (damage to ozone)
- 67% less unburnt hydrocarbons
- 48% less carbon monoxide
- NO sulfates
Acknowledgments
My thanks to the University of
Waterloo for hosting this domain and Erick Engelke for getting the DNS
set up and Eric Praetzel for graciously offering the space on his
server. Future life forms are indebted to you. Also I would like
to thank Rose Vogt of the Graduate House for donating oil for the
cause!
From small seeds grow large
trees - Lao Tzu
Biodiesel Links
Links
about the future of
petroleum based energy and our future as a species.
News worthy of paying attention to?
Aside from the standard subservient
mouthpieces like the CBC, Al Jazeera, CNN etc, which are fun for
getting the latest brainwashing spin....here are some alternatives you
might want to check.
Other
Kewl links
Essential stuff for maintaining sanity.
Check
out my political
protest song: Dubya
Lies
- Thanks to Rx for the
inspiration and computer music for the tools.
Some
of my other Hobbies:
Philosophy:
My critique of Robert M. Pirsig's
theory of ethics.
Hang Gliding:
This is where I hang around on the weekends.
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