"Bugalugs" <bugalugs67@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> 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
That sounds too much like fun for a school science lab experiment. The one
which I did like, fill lab sink (at each desk IIRC),..insert gas hose
under
water,.turn gas on, ignite gas bubbling up to the surface. Turn gas off
when
science teacher approaching,..otherwise more time as "cane-fodder"
standing
in the hallway for the science master,..bastard.
Jason
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