[PW] Help with patrons question, please

[Doty, Fadia]

That was the only "real people" I remembered also, I was wondering how
patron could have gotten any kind of info from that show.  (Thanks for
clarifying that one.)

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Subject: Re: [PW] Help with patrons question, please


This is probably opening a whole gallon of worms... but basically 
it's gonna depend on the size of your still-- a 5 gallon still 
requires about 15 feet of copper coil, a 55 gallon drum takes more 
like 60 feet of condensing coil, but you produce alcohol fuels, not 
gasoline.  If you could produce gasoline in your back yard, all of 
our local meth cookers would be switching over to the more lucrative 
product--no news of that as yet.

"Real People" was on NBC from 1979-1984 (according to IMDB), but it 
seems to me it was mostly humor.

There are quite a few books, mostly dating from the 1970s, on "farm 
and home" fuel production.   One our most popular has been MAKING 
YOUR OWN MOTOR FUEL WITH HOME & FARM ALCOHOL STILLS by Fred Stetson, 
which goes into considerable detail on do-it-yourself distillery, 
including welding instructions and materials lists.

I have heard that the Canadians are way ahead of us on making fuel 
from plant materials, speeding up the rotting process with the same 
microorganisms which caused "jungle rot" in WWII materiel.


At 03:26 PM 6/21/2007, you wrote:
>I really need help with this - hopefully someone has come across a 
>similar inquiry.
>
>How long is the copper tube on a still used to make gasoline?  Patron 
>saw on a TV show the production of gasoline from plants.  Plants are 
>left to rot in an airtight tank for a few weeks.  Afterwards the tank 
>is heated and gas is distilled from the plants.  The process is the 
>same as for alcohol only you get gasoline. Supposedly the patron heard 
>of this on a television show 'decades' ago called "Real People".
>
>I have searched sources that take me to ethanol and the patron say "no,

>not ethanol".  The closest I have come is searching under MTBE which 
>describes an oxygenating additive to gasoline.  Thought about checking 
>uspto.gov since the information the patron wants has to do with the 
>process or processing of this 'gasoline'.
>
>
>Fadia Doty,
>Senior Library Asst.
>San Joaquin Valley Information Service
>(559) 488-3824
>
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