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March 2007

Energy

Make your own Biodiesel Processor

Biodiesel processor
Biodiesel while you sleep

This unit will take lye and methanol, react it with vegetable oil, and produce a direct substitute for diesel fuel, to be used in any diesel engine, with no changes or modifications to the engine or fuel system. From tractors to trucks, cars to generators, even your boat, if you have a diesel engine, you can make your own fuel, no fumes, no fuss.
We start with a standard electric water heater from our local Sears store, and a conversion kit from Biodiesel Warehouse. After removing the cold water inlet tube, we remove the bottom drain, and attach the valve “T” assembly. The pump then bolts on to the “T”, attaching the fuel transfer manifold to the top of the pump.

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Energy

Wind Rush in the USA

A new bill introduced into Congress might provide a federal tax credit of $1,500 per � kilowatt of capacity to purchasers of small wind systems nationwide. This five-year credit would apply to all wind systems with capacities of under 100 kW used to power individual homes, farms, or small businesses. This amounts to a subsidy to go off-grid.

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Community

You heard it here first

Off-Grid scoop that Britain’s Prince William will marry and get off-grid is confirmed. Soon the media will be all over his engagement present – an off-grid mansion.

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Land

High-tech sustainable house

A house being built at Florida State University incorporates hydrogen, solar and fuel cell technology and is set to be wholly off-grid.

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Land

Room at the top

Each day carpenter and aspiring writer Salim Hossen Gaus, aged 25, winches himself 30 metres (100 feet) in a precarious home-made pulley to a small wooden platform he has built at the top of a palm tree.

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Energy

Making Biofuel Pay

In the US and Canada, the race to find a way of producing biofuel cost-effectively is hotting up. It�s no wonder companies like Virgin are jumping on the bandwagon, hoping to invest in the next big thing. But, with so many new technologies emerging, it could be tough to decide which is worthy of your household investment. We may have to make that choice soon. This article covers six legitimate and successful products that are close to launch.

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Community

Paradise needs a re-think

Hornby Island is set to host the Housing Solutions for Small Communities conference on April 11th-13th, 2007. Its a community of under 1000 residents on the Northern Gulf of BC, Canada, mainly American draft dodgers from the Vietnam War. The island’s primary source of income is tourism , with its population quadrupling in the summer. Healthy for the economy – but not for the island’s natural resources.

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Mobile

Wanna ride my electric car?

Edward Norton is impenetrable, says the London Times newspaper, quoting approvingly a line he was once allegedly overheard whispering to a lap-dancer in a bar: �I want you to come for a ride in my new electric car.� The London Daily Mirror reported this incident while Norton was still going out with Selma Hayek

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