Re: [Biofuel] Company is buying WVO

2008-06-05 Thread Doug Younker
I doubt that higher petroleum prices would mean, an appreciable increase in amount waste oil is recycled, but higher prices may increase the demand for what of what waste oil is collected. I would love to have a transport tanker full of it to sell at the crude oil reclaiming plant a mile Sou

Re: [Biofuel] Company is buying WVO

2008-05-25 Thread Erik Lane
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Erik > > I don't understand what you're saying. That's probably because I misunderstood what you were saying in the first place. I think you're starting at the > wrong end. Did you read my whole message? The bit you've ex

Re: [Biofuel] Company is buying WVO

2008-05-25 Thread Keith Addison
Erik I don't understand what you're saying. I think you're starting at the wrong end. Did you read my whole message? The bit you've excerpted, as it says, concerns uncollected oil, so I don't understand your point about the collectors' role, there isn't one, it isn't collected. Much of the WVO

Re: [Biofuel] Company is buying WVO

2008-05-25 Thread Erik Lane
> > This is at JtF: > > "Only about 10% of the waste vegetable oil (WVO) produced in the > industrialised countries is collected, billions of gallons a year > aren't collected. Apart from the waste oil produced by restaurants > and food outlets and food processors, an estimated 1.5 million US > gal

Re: [Biofuel] Company is buying WVO

2008-05-24 Thread Chris Burck
omg. . . . On 5/24/08, Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Doug > >>Hey Keith, >> >> Isn't that what they call the free market? :) > > It's free if you own it. :-) > >>I suspect the auto repair >>shops will wise up and find buyers that will pay more than 20 cents per >>for the oil,

Re: [Biofuel] Company is buying WVO

2008-05-24 Thread Keith Addison
>miles from me. While BD is not available at the pump, home heating oil >suppliers offer B20 now. Diesel fuel at $5/gal might be making BD production >profitable even if the producer must pay for WVO collected from 100 or more >miles away. > > I just came back from sunny Florida (US) w

Re: [Biofuel] Company is buying WVO

2008-05-24 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Doug >Hey Keith, > > Isn't that what they call the free market? :) It's free if you own it. :-) >I suspect the auto repair >shops will wise up and find buyers that will pay more than 20 cents per >for the oil, that carry any required liability insurance. Assuming the >truck buyer isn't

Re: [Biofuel] Company is buying WVO

2008-05-23 Thread Doug Younker
Hey Keith, Isn't that what they call the free market? :) I suspect the auto repair shops will wise up and find buyers that will pay more than 20 cents per for the oil, that carry any required liability insurance. Assuming the truck buyer isn't full of it, I suspect he is. In the event

Re: [Biofuel] Company is buying WVO

2008-05-21 Thread Keith Addison
Received from someone who uses waste motor oil for space heating, not WVO: >The recent run-up in oil prices has distorted the waste oil market. Now >instead of auto repair shops having to pay to have their waste oil removed, >a truck comes around and pays them 20 cents per gallon. > >As you would

Re: [Biofuel] Company is buying WVO

2008-05-21 Thread William Kroll @PD
age - From: "Zeke Yewdall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 9:28 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Company is buying WVO > It means that the economy is starting to value stuff that used to be > regarded as a waste product (a concept that does not exist in

Re: [Biofuel] Company is buying WVO

2008-05-21 Thread Jonathan Schearer
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Re: [Biofuel] Company is buying WVO

2008-05-18 Thread kelly coleman
ts.org> Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 19:30:19 +> Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Company is buying WVO> > as i understand it , the wood boilers burn cooler because of the water jacket and this produces a more incomplete combustion> -- Original message --&

Re: [Biofuel] Company is buying WVO

2008-05-18 Thread John Ferree
below are links to external wood boilers that differ from the usual pig iron fire box with the thermostat controlled flue. they offer complete, high temp combustion instead of making the fire smolder (smoke people have issues with), and have a much larger thermal storage capacity. in my climate

Re: [Biofuel] Company is buying WVO

2008-05-18 Thread fresheggs141
-- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 11:37 AM > Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Company is buying WVO > > > >a neighbor wanted me too install theirs. the problem was it was a non > >pressurized system and vented. he had a 2 story house m

Re: [Biofuel] Company is buying WVO

2008-05-18 Thread Thomas Kelly
age - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 11:37 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Company is buying WVO >a neighbor wanted me too install theirs. the problem was it was a non >pressurized system and vented. he had a 2 story house meaning the water >pressure from

Re: [Biofuel] Company is buying WVO

2008-05-18 Thread kelly coleman
> Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 07:47:07 -0600> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org> Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Company > is buying WVO> > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Thomas Kelly <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]>> wrote:> > >&g

Re: [Biofuel] Company is buying WVO

2008-05-18 Thread fresheggs141
o diesels and run them on veg oil rather than BD. > Heating the house may be a problem. Anybody know about outdoor > wood-fired boilers? > Best to All, > Tom > - Original Message - > From: "

Re: [Biofuel] Company is buying WVO

2008-05-18 Thread Zeke Yewdall
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Thomas Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Heating the house may be a problem. Anybody know about outdoor > wood-fired boilers? > Best to All, >Tom > I've seen one

Re: [Biofuel] Company is buying WVO

2008-05-18 Thread Thomas Kelly
e - From: "Zeke Yewdall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 9:28 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Company is buying WVO > It means that the economy is starting to value stuff that used to be > regarded as a waste product (a concept that does not exist in na

Re: [Biofuel] Company is buying WVO

2008-05-17 Thread Zeke Yewdall
It means that the economy is starting to value stuff that used to be regarded as a waste product (a concept that does not exist in nature). It's good that the economy is coming more in line with reality. Though perhaps not for you in this case. What is it being used for? Mostly additives to ani

[Biofuel] Company is buying WVO

2008-05-17 Thread Thomas Kelly
Hello All, A restaurant that has been happily giving me their WVO for the past three years received a letter from the company that they used to pay used to pick up their WVO. The company is offering to pay them them $0.35/pound for their WVO 4.5 gal (17.7L) "cubies" of WVO going for m