Environmental Steeler makes the 10 o'clock news

Rand Anderson · Post by **Rand Anderson** » 3 May 2005 7:55 am

Well all these people showed up my house. I thought it was the ATF, but it turned out to be a news crew. The clip was aired on the local Flagstaff news and the big Phoenix station.
http://www.freshlybaked.com/audio/mp3/Elijah/Movies/biofuel.wmv

Rick Alexander · Post by **Rick Alexander** » 3 May 2005 9:22 am

Hey Rand, that's awesome!
Kudos to you buddy, for actually doing something positive about the problem.

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Fred Shannon · Post by **Fred Shannon** » 3 May 2005 9:35 am

Rand, you want to be careful or you'll have Exxon and Mobil representatives on your door steps. They're worse than ATF. They take no prisoners, ask all the independents in the US ....

Good For you. Wish I was that intelligent, especially with $2.20 gallon gasoline.

Phred

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Mike Neer · Post by **Mike Neer** » 3 May 2005 10:05 am

I admire your position and commitment. Very cool.

Michael Breid · Post by **Michael Breid** » 3 May 2005 10:34 am

Kudos Rand. You have the right idea. Is it my computer or do both newscasters have a slight lisp? No offense, just wondered if my hearing was going on me. I know of a fellow who got beaucoup miles per gallon of gas on an engine he invented, but he says, "If the big Detroit people found out about it I would be "mysteriously dead" within a week". He may be right. I believe he destroyed the engine, but a friend of mine rode with him once across the state and back, and he only used about four gallons of gas. It can be done. Ya just gotta watch out for the "Gas Gestapo". They're out to crush the competition one way or another.

Smiley Roberts · Post by **Smiley Roberts** » 3 May 2005 10:54 am

Well,my windows media player came up,& played the audio,but no video. Anybody out there got an explanation for that? BTW,this has happened more than once,in the past. I'm on earthlink DSL.

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David Doggett · Post by **David Doggett** » 3 May 2005 10:59 am

Cool, Rand. Do you have an electic generator that runs on that stuff to power your amp?

Rand Anderson · Post by **Rand Anderson** » 3 May 2005 2:15 pm

thanks you all for such positive reinforcement.
it is a uphill climb, but alot of folks are coming out of the woodwork to help. power of the people, power to the people.

smiley,
when i encoded the windows media(this is also plausible with real media) i use a multi-bandwidth format. This allows for bandwidth negotiation. If your connection allows for DVD quality stream you will get it. It then throws out packets(ususally video as it is not as disturbing as broken choppy audio. So for someone with a dialup, most of the video is being discarded.

therefore you will notice other means of actually downloading the file (http and ftp).

just right click and save as.......

happy motoring
rand

Rand Anderson · Post by **Rand Anderson** » 3 May 2005 2:31 pm

yeah david that's the idea...
you can take a simple wind/power battery system and tie a diesel generator into it on the cloudy days. if i only had a soybean farm. the best technolgy of the century for this stuff comes from WWII hercules motors. they'll burn corn on the cob i've been told.

John Coffman · Post by **John Coffman** » 3 May 2005 3:27 pm

Most of that oil ends up in our landfills anyway. Might as well get a little extra out of it. I which the automotive industry would come out with a half ton truck with a small 6 cly that would get about 30 miles to the gallon.

Jim Ives · Post by **Jim Ives** » 3 May 2005 6:07 pm

Way to go, Rand!

Colm Chomicky · Post by **Colm Chomicky** » 3 May 2005 7:16 pm

I thought the definition of an Environmental Steeler was someone who "Push/Pulls" his vehicles.

Jerry Clardy · Post by **Jerry Clardy** » 3 May 2005 8:09 pm

Wow, Rand! That's a great practical step toward getting away from fossil fuel dependence. Thanks for sharing.

Jim Palenscar · Post by **Jim Palenscar** » 3 May 2005 8:46 pm

Way to go Rand! I still owe you a PSG magazine but not sure which one to send?

Russ Tkac · Post by **Russ Tkac** » 4 May 2005 4:19 am

Great job Rand! I've spent time on Greasecar.com and think this is a great idea. Just doing it takes time. Good for you!

Russ

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 4 May 2005 4:51 am

There was a recent article on local Tampa TV in the past week about several that are recycling used restaurant oils and using them in diesels.

One guy they interviewed joked about his exhaust smelling like french fries.

Jeff Heard · Post by **Jeff Heard** » 4 May 2005 11:10 am

Rand, I can't get the link to work; it's my old Mac, I'm sure. Anyway, I'll email you.
I'm in Prescott, and i'm really interested in going to biodiesel. Good for you!