Archive for the ‘Jon's Work’ Category
Tickell Vs. Starbuck & Harper
Follow the instructions in this book and run a very serous risk of being poisoned, blinded, burned and even killed!
I loved Joshua Tickell’s book “From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank”, indeed back in about 2000 it it not an exaggeration to say that it did nothing short of change my life.
However as time has passed research has been done and methods perfected which make Joshua’s book extraordinarily dated. Even though Joshua has had several opportunities the rework the book it still contains, among other things, plans for a DIY biodiesel processor which expose the user a very serous risk of being poisoned, blinded, burned and even killed!
It is time From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank was either rewritten or removed from sale, it is dangerous!
Back in 2007 I and my friend Gavin set out to write an up to date book on running diesel engines on biofuels, biodiesel and vegetable oil.
The giant publishing house McGraw -Hill liked our pitch and bought our book. Run Your Diesel Vehicle on Biofuels was published in October 2008.
I am very proud of our book, it was an enormous undertaking and we both worked very hard to make it the best, most complete, most accurate, friendly and readable book on DIY biofuels, biodiesel and SWO on the market.
Buy this book, it is much better, much more accurate and much more up to date.
Nevertheless one year on our book is not selling half as well as Joshua’s one. Despite it being ten-years-old and ten-years-out-of-date, people still seem to prefer to buy Joshua’s book…. with something like ten-times as many people buying his book on Amazon.com… over ours.
If you are one of the folks who has bought a copy of my book then thank you! We would appreciate you taking the time to review it for us… preferably favourably, but not necessarily… even just a few lines is going to be very helpful.
Either send the review directly to us, or go on line and review it at www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com (depending on whether you are a US or UK coustomer, they don’t seem able to integrate these things) or at one of the thousands of other places you could review a book on diesel engines and biofuels.
The Hydrocharger, HHO scammers in the UK
[ More on Neil & Sam Prendergast's HHO scam sites here ]
I recently had my attention brought to an HHO, “run your car on water”, “water for fuel”, “water boost” scam in the UK. Hydrocharger used to clam all sorts of nonsense on their site, they used to claim to be able to reduce your fuel bill by 25% using a system which has been shown over and over to be a scam.
Hydrocharger’s address is in Bolton, UK, Samantha Jane Prendergast is the Managing Director with her husband Neil. Neil and Sam Prendergast were also the founders of an old US based HHO scam “Water Fuel Expert“, they are also responsible for two more UK based HHO scams WaterMotive Ltd and Water4GasUK.
Note I say “used to“; since originally writing this article and reporting Hydrocharger to Trading Standards, Hydrocharger have changed their website a lot, one key example is that they no longer claim a “25% saving” in fuel, now they simply say that “most drivers notice a marked improvement”. However there are still many false statements on the Hydrocharger site and Sam & Neil Prendergast ’s other sites still contain all the same old lies.
Greenpeace’s Rolling Sunlight Global Warming Story Tour
The last couple of weeks of July 2008 I am spending on board Greenpeace’s Rolling Sunlight for its The Global Warming Story Tour, I will be cruising up and down the West Coast of the US with some folks from Greenpeace for twenty days while they collect personal video stories about how global warming is affecting ordinary American’s and getting them to ask the Congress to legislate to stop global warming by not investing in dirty or dangerous technologies and instead to use the money in clean, safe renewable energy!
Wind Monitoring masts
Erecting and dismantling of several met-masts, weather monitoring masts for recording data for potential wind farm sites. It takes about a day to put up and may stay there for several years.
These three pictures are from a site in Cornwall, near Falmouth.
Why home wind power won’t work
Home micro wind turbines are rubbish
…and here is the evidence - all the data you could ever need
Working at Doug’s in France
Working on Eco-renovation at Doug’s in Saint Jean Le Thomas, NW France, in December 2006.
Among other things I was involved with rebuilding a roof, installing solar water heating and building hemp-and-lime walls.
