Posted on 04/30/2005 6:10:42 AM PDT by grania
Here's link to a press to extract oil from seed crops.
http://www.oilpress.com/typ40a.htm
The price is around $3,000 in Sweden. That's one of the smaller units.
If you pay attention to the difficulty trying to get energy legislation through Congress, I think you will conclude that it is politics that gets in the way of implementing new solutions to energy needs. Proposals for wind, algae in deserts, and Anwar shift major economic power from populous NE blue states to less populated red states. Therefore, they cannot get approved. Ethanol and biodeisel do not have retail distribution systems and that is all tied up now in the boutique formulations demanded by the EPA. The problem is government, not the oil companies. The later are all invested in R&D for alternatives.
I use vegetable oil to clean off car engine grease and
"yecch" from my hands while working around the engine of
my car... like they said in chemistry class...
"like dissolves like"...
I use vegetable oil to clean off car engine grease and
"yecch" from my hands while working around the engine of
my car... like they said in chemistry class...
"like dissolves like"...
Use vegetable oils as fuel; eat only natural animal fats! Solve the Middle East problem and the national health crisis all in one fell swoop. Not a bad idea.
Not to mention the benefit to our economy by keeping all those TRILLIONS here, rather than sending them to the camel drivers to kill us with.
That is not a problem. Diesel engines are typically fitted with a heating unit for cold weather starting, one can also go in the fuel.
With dual tanks, you could start the engine on biodiesel; when the engine is warm, you switch to a vegoil tank. The vegoil has to be heated until it is liquid enough to squirt through the injectors.
Many Bambi's have been through my meat grinder... :o)
They'd bitch. They would. I know it. It's not about conservation, it's not about the environment, it's about people having control over their lives.
What would they bitch about? Well, that's simple. They'd show some African kid, probably in Zimbabwe, who didn't have enough food, and then would say that if we all drove 10% less or something, we could feed all those kids. They'd bitch because driving would now somehow deprive third worlders of food. Or prices of corn and soybeans would increase, and this would be hard on the third world and domestic poor people. Mark my words, they'll bitch about it. That's all they do.
Using SVO and the two tank method is ok for warmer climates, but a pain in the @ss and just not practical in colder ones. Coking is always a problem, and it only needs to happen ONCE and you'd never, ever try that again!.
Plus, you just don't get as much power using straight SVO, you're burning up the bad stuff as well.
All around, prcessing the veggie oil into pure BIO-diesel is the best way to go, requires none of this two tank nonsense and requires no modifications to any diesel engine, other than making sure there is no rubber in the fuel system.
Even bio- diesel has low temp starting troubles when it gets more than 10 degrees below freezing, but at least you don't have to worry about gumming up the whole engine, which results in a complete tear down.(Expensive if your not mechanicly inclined)
Try running this stuff in Northern MN, the Dakotas or the UP between September 15 and March 30.
There are already pour and cloud depressants for diesel fuel. No doubt an additive will be developed to get this stuff to flow at 20 below, too.
There is, it's called winter diesel, LoL! Just mix it half and half with Bio diesel and there's no winter problems.
I didn't catch that Jonathon Richman was mentioned, that it's his vehicle using bio diesel. Roadrunner, roadrunner
Going faster miles an hour
Gonna drive past the Stop 'n' Shop
With the radio on
Because they are Marxists and are totally clueless about economics.
Assuming the weight of D[iesel] = B[iodiesel], and you're running B, you're hauling excess weight in the form
of more expensive/less efficient fuel, you're making more fueling stops, etc.
Whether the alleged maintenance savings can make up for it, I'm not that knowledgeable about it.
Maybe it has a use in metro areas, adding less pollution to congested areas, and the truck is fueled once a day as
a matter of practice.
Any way, I just think it's being pushed regardless of the economics of it. It's great that alternatives are
available in the market.
But, in the end, you're paying more for less.
(Like shrinking candy bars and "half" gallons of icecream.)
You can already buy soy diesel, so it's not necessary to go to fast-food joints begging for old french fry grease.
You can already buy soy diesel.....
I wonder how much petroleum was used to grow that soy and get the oil from it.
To run SVO one should start on bio-diesel until the engine is hot, then switch to SVO that is preheated in the fuel line heaters.
Shouldn't this avoid the 'coking' that you refer to?
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