Jason James wrote:
> "Albm&ctd" <alb_mandctdNOWMD@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:MPG.2275268a9e4b307f989743@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> In article <bf0ef801-ebd8-4d7d-ae6f-
>> 3374f7b24c03@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, the_dawggie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> On Apr 17, 1:42 am, Diesel Damo <Diesel_...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> atec77 wrote:
>>>>> Might allow you to tinker and then decide if you have a small soft
> drink
>>>>> bottle
>>>>> http://www.brisbanebiodiesel.com/reactor-design.php
>>>> Love it! Especially this bit: "Typically the glycerine layer is about
>>>> the same or a bit more than the amount of methanol used."
>>>>
>>>> So far I hadn't been able to find out how much of everything is
>>>> actually produced at the end, so that little tidbit of info is very
>>>> welcome.
>>> Yup, overall volume stays more or less the same. A hot water
>>> system - I didn't think of that.
>>>
>> I don't think this method of producing fuel would help me or be cost
>> effective.
>> I mean.. for one, I'd have to go out and buy a stinking particulate
>> emitting diesel :-)
>>
>> I guess I could use it on an old bit of denim/cotton or screwed up
>> newspaper to start the charcoal BBQ.
>>
>> Flawed theory: Charcoal doesn't burn if you drop a match on it,
therefore
>> charcoal doesn't burn.
>
> Actually, if you remember an experiment in high-school science, you get
an
> empty coffee tin with removable lid. Place some dead wood in it,.replace
> lid, punch a couple of holes in the lid. Heat tin in a camp-fire,..then
> place a lighted match near the holes in lid and voila! A flame starts
> burning. When it stops, remove tin, open lid and there it is,.. coal.
> Lesson: it's the gas given off by heated wood that burns, not the wood
> itself.
>
> Jason
>
>
There was an even better one (which the school didn't condone) Take a
tobacco tin, Place a piece of carbide (small, grey, looks like a piece
of gravel) spit on it, after a minute or two place a lighted match to
the hole in the base of the tin, KABOOOOM lid goes one way tin the
other.
Whatever happened to carbide ??? it was fun
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