Posted on 06/02/2007 8:10:55 AM PDT by kellynla
Anybody can make biodiesel. It's easy, you can make it in your kitchen -- and it's BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the big oil companies sell you. Your diesel motor will run better and last longer on your home-made fuel, and it's much cleaner -- better for the environment and better for health. If you make it from used cooking oil it's not only cheap but you'll be recycling a troublesome waste product. Best of all is the GREAT feeling of freedom, independence and empowerment it will give you. Here's how to do it -- everything you need to know.
Thanks for all the info.
I’ll check it out.
Semper Fi,
Kelly
May have been on the Discovery Channel where they showed a guy who made his own bio-deisel fuel. Seemed rather labor intensive and definatly not a kitchen counter project.
“I wonder how hard it would be to get a steady supply of used vegetable oil?”
If you, me, and a milion others began making our own fuel out of it....not hard at all. I am sure fast food and restaurant owners will be smart enough to sell it for 2 or 3 bucks a gallon.
Sounds like riding a motorcycle is the answer... lol
At the rate of illegal immigrants coming into the country from abroad and the growing Chinese goods market we will all be riding Flying Pigeon bicycles or scooters.
I’ve got a customer of mine who owns a rather famous hot dog stand in fairfield County CT.....all his used french fry oil goes into his Mercedes TD. He got all the info off of the internet (bought a kit to modify his car for a few hundred bucks out of a place in MA. if I’m not mistaken) and starts his car on diesel, flips a switch after the heater starts for the veggie oil...and runs 100% veggie oil. Been doing it for about 5 years now. He told me he burns about 30 tanks of veggie oil for every tankfuk of diesel. Look for an old mercedes TD to buy....
“I am sure fast food and restaurant owners will be smart enough to sell it for 2 or 3 bucks a gallon.”
Since most FF operations actually pay someone to cart it off....they will gladly give it away for free.
They will cease to give it away “free” once it becomes a sellable commodity. Any businessman with common sense would do so. The only reason they would pay someone to cart it off at this time is because no one wants it. That could change fast.
Ping
Forgot to link ya to this .....it’s a system a friend uses in New Mexico. He makes it for about 70 cents a gallon using red devil lye and methanol I think. His set up came from the link below.
http://www.freedomfuelamerica.com/
Stay safe !!
Not quite. He was fined almost $300,000 by the state of California. Custom builds are EPA exempt and exempt from most state regulations as well. CA is one of the fews states that doesn’t exempt custom builds.
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