Could someone post some info about experiences using biodiesel or SVO for home heating oil? I know that this topic has probably been covered in the past, but it doesn't get as much attention as the use of biodiesel in vehicles does and as I don't use home heating oil I haven't been paying attention, so apologies for any redundancy.
I've been doing a bunch of work this month at a sort of 'community center' (www.centerpolefoundation.org) at the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana- it's insanely cold here in the winter, and though plenty of rich ranchers next door do drive newer diesels with all the gadgets and modifications for cold-weather operation, the people here on the reservation are incredibly poor and don't have too many (more expensive than gasoline cars here in the US) diesel vehicles anyway. The cold weather operation issues might be too much for some of the people here to deal with. But oil and kerosene heating is common and the furnaces and equipment are available used. People I've been working with are very interested in my biodiesel truck and the cost savings of my homemade fuel use, but for some of the people, it is just not the right technology at this time. I'm spending a lot of time with old folks who don't have the physical wherewithall to be making fuel, a lot of people who would need more of a 'turnkey' system due to skills or materials availability, and, most of all, the information about making this stuff, getting past the learning curve, and other troubleshooting is just not as available to poor people without a great grasp of English and who don't spend time learning things from books and certainly not from the Internet. I am working here with a group of other builder friends and we are coming back next year to put up an outbuilding. It is small, and is primarily to be used for housing some composting toilets for the place (and also as the place is right by the Battle of Little Bighorn site, it is to be used to house an , um, 'exhibit' about Custer, and all the different things the Native AMericans called him, so you can be sure to think about Custer as you do your business in the bathrooms). The building is something like 400 square feet and strawbale, and we're doing the design for it right now. It seems like a small oil or kerosene burner would be perfect for this situation, operating either on SVO (ideal?) or on biodiesel that some homebrew bootlegger could supply once a year (though I'm a bit worried about longterm storage/algae growth issues too). It would have low fuel consumption as the heater would not run all day and night as in an ordinary house. I am looking for information about how well biodiesel actually works in a kerosene or home heating oil application, looking for actual experiences people have had with it- and for info about specifics- specific equipment, etc. I am also interested in any information about whether SVO use is possible in this situation. Thanks, Mark --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? New! SBC Yahoo! Dial - 1st Month Free & unlimited access [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Free $5 Love Reading Risk Free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/TPvn8A/PfREAA/Ey.GAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
