good morning, A little off topic, but if anyone is interested, the current issue of walrus has an interesting aeticle about how Iceland is progress down the...
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Hakan Falk
hakan_falk
Dec 1, 2005 1:54 pm
Jim, Just to put this with Iceland in perspective, because I find that it get a lot of press and people who read it could belive that they were general...
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HYDRO
nando37@...
Dec 1, 2005 3:03 pm
How do we find out about the article, any URL to visit and read the article ?. Nando ... From: "jim philip" <jimz51@...> To: <WoodGas@yahoogroups.com> ...
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pgtdrz400
Dec 1, 2005 3:12 pm
I notice some designs omit the 4 holes at the bottom side wall of the burner? Are these required or is omitting them an improvement? I would think they would...
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larencorie
Dec 1, 2005 3:28 pm
"pgtdrz400" <pgtdrz400@...> ... No. It is only necessary to have a lot of opening at the bottom. ... It is only necessary that there is adequate opening....
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Mark S.
throaway
Dec 1, 2005 3:31 pm
Its not a general example now, but perhaps could be if we directed our research that way. Maybe it would be wiser to spend research dollars to learn how to...
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Joe Greene
jdg1112001
Dec 1, 2005 3:48 pm
Well - as mentioned before - we in the U.S. have an enormous supervolcano under Yellow Stone National Park that has huge potential as a geothermal energy...
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pgtdrz400
Dec 1, 2005 4:15 pm
Thanks, you have been very helpful. What is the purpose of the stove top (tuna can). Is it just for a top surface? Or is the additional sleave (between the...
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pgtdrz400
Dec 1, 2005 7:37 pm
"No. All of the flow is into them not out of them. They are combustion air vents" Question....then were does the gas come from the exits the secondary vents?...
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larencorie
Dec 1, 2005 8:14 pm
"pgtdrz400" <pgtdrz400@...> ... Hi; That is heated air mixing with the unburned gas rising off the oxygen deprived combustion in the lower burner. We are...
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pgtdrz400
Dec 1, 2005 8:43 pm
Ahh......thanks again....
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mycotyrant
Dec 1, 2005 11:41 pm
In the U.S. only untaxed petroleum products are illegal to use for highway use, such as kerosene or agricultural (off-road) diesel. These have a dye in them to...
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hillmannfamily
Dec 1, 2005 11:46 pm
are you shure about that I find it hard to veliece that the us govt wouldn't try to enforce some sort of tax law on biofules, they shure like to tax the hell...
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Joe Greene
jdg1112001
Dec 2, 2005 12:00 am
It is complicated. The many thousands of 'homebrew' biodieselers are not monitored much because there are just not enough 'revenuers' to check them out. It...
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keith ford
kf4tap
Dec 2, 2005 12:50 am
Probably in a few years when / if enough people are producing there own fuel the feds will come in with some sort of law to collect road taxes. Keith ...
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Joe Greene
jdg1112001
Dec 2, 2005 2:18 am
That is all well and good - for personal choice. Eat what you choose, live life how you choose - off grid, vegan - it is just fine. It only becomes a problem...
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hillmannfamily
Dec 2, 2005 2:27 am
Has anyone tried to run vegtable oil in a gasoline engine I have a steam injector on my truck for summer cooling it uses copper tube wraped around the exhaust...
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Joe Greene
jdg1112001
Dec 2, 2005 2:40 am
Try this site below. You will find lots of experienced people from the U.K., Canada and the U.S. These folks have tons of experience in outfitting vehicles...
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keith ford
kf4tap
Dec 2, 2005 3:52 am
My granddad told me back in WW2 that gas was rationed to 3-5 gallons a week. Kerosene was plentiful. He would start his tractor on gas and once the engine...
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Arthur C Noll
arthurcnoll
Dec 2, 2005 8:37 am
Geothermal is interesting but it has more problems than "loudmouth Greens". There are technical problems, it can be done but not everywhere. Drilling such...
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Edward Maglott
maglott
Dec 2, 2005 3:38 pm
I recently built a little midge. Using the smaller cans design. a regular 15oz soup can for the burner. I found that my burner cap left about 1/4" gap over...
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jmarkwalker
Dec 2, 2005 3:39 pm
Sorry for these questions, as I know this will have been discussed at length on this group, but I have only just joined and there are nearly 4000 posts to...
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pgtdrz400
Dec 2, 2005 3:54 pm
So your secondary air came from the gap between burner and cap? Probably much better to have the gas/air mix IN the burner where is hotter? Not on top of...
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Joe Greene
jdg1112001
Dec 2, 2005 4:21 pm
Arthur, your outdated information helps make my point. Such drilling could be done today. New drilling technologies have been developed and/or perfected in...
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Arthur C Noll
arthurcnoll
Dec 2, 2005 5:51 pm
I don't know if you can get too much air with the MIDGE design. If you have some draft, even that from another length of can, it is possible to have too much...
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Wes Jones
wesjones21
Dec 2, 2005 6:40 pm
On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 03:18:24 -0500, jmarkwalker <j.mark.walker@...> ... It is pretty simple. Propane liquifies at the pressures it's stored at where the...
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pgtdrz400
Dec 2, 2005 6:47 pm
Is there a color the flame should be (or not be) to indicate proper combustion? ... you ... possible to ... the air ... flame did ... that didn't ... goal is ...
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George Clay
gbclayjr
Dec 2, 2005 8:23 pm
I am working on a variant of the "tall" midge. I have had problems with it in the past. I have guessed that my "midge" stove has been working as a woodstove...
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larencorie
Dec 2, 2005 9:04 pm
"pgtdrz400" <pgtdrz400@...> ... As blue as possible. It might not be visible outdoors, in all the blue light of the sky, but you should be able to see...
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wootres4
Dec 2, 2005 9:25 pm
Hello all, The gap size (between the cap and cowling) doesn't make all that much diffence because the air that is entering the secondary jets (for want of a...
