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  • Re: Thoughts on Mr. Heater Buddy?
    Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
    Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:02:07 -0800
    ...Just by breathing we produce CO2, not CO (Carbon Dioxide vs Carbon Monoxide). The danger is from CO, not CO2. CO binds with the...
  • Platinum Cat heater
    Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
    Mon, 27 Mar 2000 15:40:24 EST
    ...It vents combustion by-products (carbon dioxide and water vapor) to the outside. This has an advantage over the non-vented types and interior...
  • Re: fridge problems-LEAST IMPACT TO THE EARTH
    Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
    Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:44:13 -0800
    If you really want to be eco-responsible, figure out the carbon footprint of your Vanagon (require content) and your other carbon dioxide producing...
  • Subject: Re: Cold-weather camping/propane heater
    Historical mailing list - Scott LeGear
    Wed, 31 Oct 2001 12:17:24 -0700
    ...Catalytic heaters give off two combustion waste products, carbon dioxide and water vapor. I use catalytic heaters in my RV which is my full...
  • Re: Air recirculator
    Historical mailing list
    Sat, 2 Feb 2019 14:20:22 +0000
    ...the reason is (as they say) the carbon dioxide (CO2) form our breathing could make us drowsy and less alert on a long drive...
  • Re: Fire Suppression Solutions
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Wed, 4 Aug 2004 16:30:18 -0500
    ...We were told that for fires above floor/ground-level, > carbon dioxide flows down and this often allows the fire to reignite. >
  • Re: fridge light question and fridge on propane
    Historical mailing list - Michael Diehr
    Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:32:35 -0700
    ...The fridge would be putting out quite a bit of CO2, maybe that misdirects them? "Mosquitoes use carbon dioxide (CO2) and 1-octen-3...
  • Re: � � � Re: Fire Extinguishers
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Fri, 30 Aug 2002 05:14:39 -0500
    ...A burning magnesium strip, when thrust into a pure carbon dioxide atmosphere - one which would extinguish most flames - simply strips away the O2 molecules...
  • Re: Friday: Dumb way to start a fire, Friday or any day
    Historical mailing list - JRodgers
    Fri, 25 Oct 2013 20:07:46 -0500
    ...It separates the Oxygen from the Carbon dioxide to burn, and leaves behind a heavy carbon soot.It is so active it will burn...
  • Re: 84 Vanagon: Would you fix if it yourself (if you were me?)
    Historical mailing list
    Tue, 22 Oct 1996 20:46:13 -0700
    ...high hydro carbon emissions readings > 4. high carbon dioxide emissions readings > 5. very bad gas mileage. > > >> > Me thinks your problem is a bad O2...
  • Re: Platinum Cat Heater
    Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
    Wed, 10 Oct 2001 04:25:28 EDT
    ...There are also trace hazardous elements, and carbon dioxide. So, lot's of ventilation is need to keep this to a minimum when using...
  • Re: OT Hurricanes--really an accident? A fryeday tale- not
    Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
    Sat, 24 Sep 2005 11:16:05 +1200
    ...Saturn or one of those big >planets have atmospheres made of carbon dioxide >and suplhuric acid and temperatures over 200 F. Venus, runaway greenhouse...
  • Re: Idiots for Clunkers
    Historical mailing list - Peter T. Owsianowski
    Wed, 5 Aug 2009 19:46:42 -0400
    *As a carbon dioxide policy, this is a terribly wasteful thing to do."* - *Henry Jacoby,* Professor of Managenment and Co-Director of the Joint...
  • Re: Water Powered Cows
    Historical mailing list - Pensioner
    Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:41:41 -0800
    ...The byproduct of anaerobic digestion is methane gas.There is sixty percent methane, along with carbon dioxide and a small amount of hydrogen sulfide...
  • Followup to last month's "Thar I was"
    Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
    Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:25:09 -0800
    ...Catalytic heaters don't generate carbon monoxide though they do consume oxygen and create carbon dioxide. "Crack your window," is the advice given if...
  • Re: Catalytic Heaters.
    Historical mailing list - davidson
    Thu, 5 Nov 1998 19:16:34 -0800
    ...camper, the propane stove does the same thing -- think of the flames > you see as hot carbon dioxide and steam -- mostly steam! > > Malcolm H. >
  • Re: oil plug woes
    Historical mailing list - Donald Baxter
    Tue, 3 Jul 2001 12:25:12 -0500
    ...i'd suggest 'dry > ice' (carbon > dioxide in solid form) ... a lot colder. that could > work. > > > 2. shop mechanic: $40-50 to drill it...
  • Re: Platinum Cat Heater
    Historical mailing list - Charles McGehee
    Wed, 10 Oct 2001 08:13:02 -0700
    ...of the catalytic combustion. > >There are also trace hazardous elements, and carbon dioxide. >So, lot's of ventilation is need to keep this to...
  • Re: gutted catalyctic
    Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
    Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:22:35 -0700
    ...I've also heard (on the evening news) that although cats do remove NOx, they replace with sulphur dioxide, which is/may be worse...
  • Re: 84 Vanagon: Would you fix if it yourself (if you were me?)
    Historical mailing list
    Tue, 22 Oct 1996 23:06:39 -0400
    ...high hydro carbon emissions readings 4. high carbon dioxide emissions readings 5. very bad gas mileage. Dealer stated that it'll cost $320 total...
  • Re: Catalytic Heaters.
    Historical mailing list - Blue Eyes
    Tue, 3 Nov 1998 00:07:27 -0600
    ...They are both vented in the sense that eventually the carbon dioxide they produce goes outside one way or the other. But in the...
  • Re: Followup to last month's "Thar I was"
    Historical mailing list - John C...
    Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:33:06 +0000
    ...Catalytic heaters don't generate carbon monoxide though they do > consume oxygen and create carbon dioxide. "Crack your window," is the > advice given if...
  • Re: Water tank
    Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
    Tue, 17 May 2011 11:59:40 -0500
    ...The carbon dioxide released displaces air from the area. The browning would be the Maillard reaction. How sodium bicarbonate helps with that, hmmmmmmmmmmm . Could...
  • types of fire extinguishing agents:
    Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
    Fri, 10 Nov 2000 19:27:59 -0800
    From the West Marine Catalogue: (p.718 of 2000 master catalogue) "Carbon Dioxide (CO2) - good for Class B and Class C fires. No clean...
  • Re: oil plug woes
    Historical mailing list - Tony
    Tue, 3 Jul 2001 07:53:35 -0700
    ...i'd suggest 'dry > ice' (carbon > dioxide in solid form) ... a lot colder. that could > work. > > > 2. shop mechanic: $40-50 to drill it...
  • Re: Air recirculator
    Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
    Sat, 2 Feb 2019 11:39:49 -0500
    ...the reason is (as > they say) the carbon dioxide (CO2) form our breathing could make us drowsy > and less alert on a long drive...
  • VW Hybrid Coming Out Soon
    Historical mailing list - Robert Stewart
    Mon, 7 Apr 2008 19:43:59 -0400
    ...According to Auto Bild, the hybrid Golf will get 69.9 mpg and emit 90 g/km of carbon dioxide. An earlier report by...
  • Re: Interior heater
    Historical mailing list - "Robert KeezerHolen Sie mehr aus dem Web. Unter http://explorer.msn.de/intl.asp#de gibt es einen KOSTENLOSEN Download von MSN Explorer."
    Tue, 30 Jul 2002 18:13:28 -0700
    ...H2O and carbon dioxide, the stuff you exhale, are the by-products of combustion. The important thing is to remember is that combustion can...
  • =?US-ASCII?Q?RE:_______Re:_Fire_Extinguishers?=
    Historical mailing list - Steven Dodson
    Fri, 30 Aug 2002 10:17:14 -0700
    ...A burning magnesium strip, when thrust into a pure carbon dioxide atmosphere - one which would extinguish most flames - simply strips away the O2 molecules...
  • Re: fridge problems-LEAST IMPACT TO THE EARTH
    Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
    Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:40:43 -0800
    ...In so-called global warming , the culprit is carbon dioxide. So it does make you wonder of carbonated beverages are a major contributor of...
  • Re: OT Hurricanes--really an accident? A fryeday tale- not
    Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
    Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:42:10 -0700
    You forgot to blame Bush! I think Jupiter or Saturn or one of those big planets have atmospheres made of carbon dioxide and suplhuric...
  • Re: disconnect 02 sensor
    Historical mailing list
    Tue, 18 Feb 1997 14:51:14 -0800
    ...High CO and HCs will react in the catalytic converter to come out as water and carbon dioxide and a lot of heat. If...
  • Re: Use this for fire safetey... AND eliminate the fire hazard...
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Thu, 5 Aug 2004 11:55:01 -0500
    ...3) Magnesium will burn in a pure carbon dioxide environment, so CO2 extinguishers will do little good. Magnesium burns so hot, and at burning...
  • Re: it's Friday, she blew the microwave up
    Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
    Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:54:43 -0500
    ...chemically dissolve -- and without the assistance of chemically dissolved substances like carbon dioxide to render it acidic, chemical weathering would be even slower than...
  • Re: automatic extiguisher wasRe: Yesterday's Engine Fire in Rockefeller Center NYC
    Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
    Sat, 20 Dec 2003 19:46:27 +1300
    ...Best would be a combination dry powder/carbon-dioxide; the gas is the best extinguisher, but as it's heavy it tends to sink...
  • Re: types of fire extinguishing agents:
    Historical mailing list - Larry Hamm
    Fri, 10 Nov 2000 23:48:54 -0700
    Bill Davidson wrote: > > >From the West Marine Catalogue: (p.718 of 2000 master catalogue) > > "Carbon Dioxide (CO2) - good for Class B and Class C...
  • Re: [Syncro] BUG repellant
    Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
    Thu, 8 Apr 2004 15:11:32 -0500
    ...worked by masking the odor of the human body (and the carbon dioxide > given off.) It's perhaps not as nasty as DEET, but...
  • Re: 84 Vanagon: Would you fix if it yourself (if you were me?)
    Historical mailing list
    Tue, 22 Oct 1996 06:55:25 +0000
    ...high hydro carbon emissions readings > 4. high carbon dioxide emissions readings > 5. very bad gas mileage. First, off this sounds like possible O2 sensor...
  • Re: Cut you spark plugs
    Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
    Thu, 27 Dec 2001 13:45:29 -0600
    ...the time -- put in oxygen and > hydrocarbon > > fuel (gasoline), get out carbon dioxide and water. Lots of it. > One > > reason > > that hydrogen is an...
  • Another long diatribe, was Re: gas prices- a canadian perspective
    Historical mailing list - Marc Perdue
    Sun, 6 Mar 2005 18:05:32 -0500
    ...Is it released as carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide? What is the impact that these have on the environment? How easily can our ecosystems...
  • Re: distilled water & wbx reliabilty
    Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
    Tue, 19 Feb 2002 00:56:31 EST
    ...Teflon, silicon dioxide, silicon nitride, silicon carbide, hafnium nitride, etc., etc. Ultraclean water is literally free of ions (sub-picomolar), carbon residues (sub ppb...
  • Re: SAVE THIS BUS
    Historical mailing list
    Fri, 7 Apr 1995 12:07:13 GMT
    ...hydrocarbons 700 ppm max carbon monoxide 6 % max idle rpm 1100 rpm max carbon dioxide no standard, but typically under 10% oxygen no standard...
  • Re: Fryeday - Bio-Diesel Exhaust/Emissions
    Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
    Fri, 25 Sep 2015 14:32:18 -0500
    ...too rich a mixture, so that the conversion from hydrocarbon to carbon dioxide is incomplete. Proper tuning and fuel mixture are supposed to eliminate...
  • Re: condensation, knocking was: Uh oh!
    Historical mailing list - Malcolm Holser
    Mon, 26 Oct 1998 15:16:02 -0800
    ...the propane (C3H8?) turns into quite a bit of water when it burns -- the flame you see is glowing carbon/carbon dioxide and lots...
  • Re: "green" cars (NVC)
    Historical mailing list - robyn rudisill
    Mon, 16 Feb 2004 09:56:05 -0800
    ...We then factor in greenhouse gases (such as carbon dioxide) and combine the emissions estimates into a Green Score that runs on a scale...
  • Re: distilled water & wbx reliabilty
    Historical mailing list - Ed DeBolt
    Mon, 18 Feb 2002 22:10:34 -0800
    ...Teflon, silicon >dioxide, silicon nitride, silicon carbide, hafnium nitride, etc., etc. >Ultraclean water is literally free of ions (sub-picomolar), carbon residues >(sub ppb...
  • an interesting article on climate change ... dare i suppose even some truth in it .. indeed
    Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
    Fri, 6 Jun 2008 19:15:47 -0700
    ...Most important, they cannot be set at any level that would actually achieve a drastic reduction in carbon dioxide emissions without decimating economies. We...
  • OT Hurricanes--really an accident? A fryeday tale- not
    Historical mailing list - Don Spence
    Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:16:16 -0600
    ...The plants did this by capturing atmospheric carbon dioxide in their cells and then falling down dead on each other. Sometimes they would fall...
  • Was: Optima Batteries, now hydrogen
    Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
    Thu, 23 Mar 2000 10:46:47 -0800
    ...No greenhouse gasses like carbon dioxide or nitrogen oxides are formed either. It is the perfect fuel, but there is little economic incentive to...
  • Re: OT Hurricanes--really an accident? A fryeday tale- not
    Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
    Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:27:01 -0700
    ...life > appeared and began the arduous task of bringing the atmospheric carbon > dioxide level down to a point where the atmosphere held enough of...
  • Re: Air recirculator
    Historical mailing list
    Tue, 5 Feb 2019 13:35:01 +0000
    ...the reason is (as they say) the carbon dioxide (CO2) form our breathing could make us drowsy and less alert on a long drive...
  • Re: OT Hurricanes--really an accident? A fryeday tale- not
    Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
    Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:29:43 -0500
    ...Saturn or one of those big > planets have atmospheres made of carbon dioxide > and suplhuric acid and temperatures over 200 F. > > It makes me...
  • Re: Emissions Testing
    Historical mailing list - David McNeely
    Sun, 19 Sep 2021 21:05:08 -0700
    ...It is better environmentally in other respects, because farming for the ethanol produces more carbon dioxide and other pollutants than the ethanol saves when...
  • Re: Use this for fire safetey... AND eliminate the fire hazard...
    Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
    Thu, 5 Aug 2004 13:35:31 -0400
    ...will do > little good. > > 3) Magnesium will burn in a pure carbon dioxide environment, so CO2 > extinguishers will do little good. Magnesium burns so...
  • The test...
    Historical mailing list - Richard Bias
    Wed, 20 Mar 2002 06:41:44 -0500
    ...The dye is a brilliant blue and he stated that it would turn instantly bright yellow in the presence of hydrocarbons or carbon dioxide...
  • Re: Gas went up $0.13 a gal overnight what's up?
    Historical mailing list - MDC Vanagon
    Wed, 20 Mar 2002 10:18:35 -0800
    ...Recent, reputable studies have documented an alarming increase in the level of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere. Dr. James E. Hansen, head...
  • Re: Use this for fire safetey... AND eliminate the fire hazard...
    Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
    Thu, 5 Aug 2004 14:02:53 -0500
    ...will do > little good. > > 3) Magnesium will burn in a pure carbon dioxide environment, so CO2 > extinguishers will do little good. Magnesium burns so...
  • Carbon Monoxide (CO) & Carbon Dioxide (CO2) - OFF TOPIC
    Historical mailing list - Marty Wallace
    Sun, 15 Nov 1998 21:41:27 -0800
    ============================== From: "Robert A. Alexander" <satcong@VOL.COM> Subject: Re: CO vs CO2 One's poisonous, the other's not. Per - Contrary to what the...
  • Re: Use this for fire safetey... AND eliminate the fire hazard...
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Thu, 5 Aug 2004 14:22:24 -0500
    ...will do >>little good. >> >>3) Magnesium will burn in a pure carbon dioxide environment, so CO2 >>extinguishers will do little good. Magnesium burns so...
  • Re: Frozen Windshield Washer Fluid Tip
    Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
    Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:32:07 -0600
    ...do it, as almost all of the sugar is converted to carbon dioxide, water, and ethanol. DMc ---- Mike <mbucchino@CHARTER.NET> wrote: > Dave, > > FYI...