> --- In [email protected], "Nelson"
> <nelsonriddle2001@> wrote:
> > --- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <jpgillam@>
> > wrote:
> > > I've been researching the whole phenomenon of
> > > fueling a diesel vehicle on waste vegetable oil.
> > > Seeing as how Fairfield used to have more than
> > > its share of innovators and alternative lifestylers,
> > > I figured I should do a little networking here, as
> > > well as in forums dedicated to that topic. Anyone
> > > here doing it? Know anybody who is?
> > > Thanks.
> > +++ Tom Niedermeyer has a VW turbo diesel bus that smells like
> > french fries when it starts- a real laugh.
> > I helped him making an auxiliary tank so he could start on
> > regular fuel and then switch to cooking oil.
> > We put in a hot water loop in the tank to preheat the oil in
> > the colder weather as the oil doesen't have the usual additives
> > to prevent the large viscosity changes that otherwise take place.
> > There are a few others around but Tom's is the only one I've
> > seen up close.
> > I would wonder if the point wouldn't be reached soon where
> > more people are driving diesels than are eating french fries. N.
>
> Think this through...if the thing runs on used cooking
> oil, where would the fuel come from if people stopped
> eating French fries?
Use grass cuttings. (You MIU folk probably smoke yours).
These people are working on a method of distilling pure
ethanol from fermented grass cuttings, and using this
for heating or vehicles: http://tinyurl.com/gwo6o
Please ignore the "Safe domestic nuclear reactors" thread.
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