Hi Jan,
Totally cool! I enjoyed looking through your web site. My friend and mentor
David Rousseau brews his own biodiesel, collected from restaurants on Cortez
Island, BC, where he lives. The problem is availability right now. Standard
diesel is still smelly, and there's only one place to buy reclaimed
biodiesel (that I know of) here in Seattle, and it's in the north end, and
we're in the south. Very appealing idea though.
You might talk to Robert Bolman in Eugene about your building ideas. You can
probably find him through the Green Pages in the Northwest EcoBuilding
Guild. <http://ecobuilding.org/> He's done a lot of work with cob and straw
bale, and may have some experience with gunnite. His work is closer on the
scale to true sustainability than mine is. (We all have our ecological
niches.)
Keep up the good work!
Rob
On 1/7/05 7:07 PM, "Jan Steinman" <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> From: Rob Harrison <robhar@xxxxxx>
>>
>> The
>> Passat TDI wagon looks promising, if I can find a used one in our price
>> range. Biodiesel is available here in crunchy Seattle. (The exhaust
>> will
>> smell like french fries!) The Prius is another good possibility for us,
>> though doesn't feel as solid as the VW.
>
> Hold out for the TDI and biodiesel! When gasoline is $10/gallon, you'll
> be able to make biodiesel from used restaurant grease for a fraction of
> that. Gasoline is going away sooner than y'all think.
>
> Plus, that TDI will last at least twice as long as a gas engine.
>
> See link below for a vehicle that runs on waste restaurant grease
> WITHOUT converting it to biodiesel first.
>
> Requisite on-topic stuff: the painting on the side of the van came from
> an eleven-shot panorama I did with an OM-4ti and Zuiko 180/2.8.
>
> :::: Given an infinite source of energy, population growth still
> produces an inescapable problem. The problem of the acquisition of
> energy is replaced by the problem of its dissipation. -- Garrett Hardin
> :::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesmiths.com/Van>
>
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