At 11:47 Tuesday, you wrote: >the building is only an 'outbuilding'- housing restrooms for the community >center >it gets year-round use in a very harsh climate, and needs to be comfortable >in a blizzard (and in the Plains 118 degree heat too!). The building >also serves some other uses, and in the future it might become a dwelling >instead, or something else we can't even predict right now. So we have to >plan it as a potential year-round dwelling, not just a restroom building >for an institution. > >The idea probably wouldn't work with >homemade biodiesel at the community center- we're dealing with a bunch of >elderly people and very young kids- but some kind of WVO heating option >would be entirely appropriate- they really got off on the idea of sending >the kids (teens) to wrangle grease at KFC with me one day
Have you considered the use of off-the-shelf waste oil burners being used in garages? These are using waste engine crankcase oil with the smaller units putting out 145KBTUs. Most garages like restaurants have to pay others to take away the waste oil. Most of the manufacturers will not knowingly sell these for residential use most likely due to liability threats while they will as space heaters for garages, workshops, and manufacturing plants full of working people. This is another source of inexpensive fuel AND the mechanisms to safely convert that fuel to heat. I suspect any room-temperature WVO may be equally useable as fuel for these shop furnances. Maybe the local 10-minute oil change place would be willing to donate your fuel supply? 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/
