I have started making a little biodiesel lately. For years I have been burning straight used vegetable oil in my diesel trucks but now I have graduated to bio. Anyone else going in these directions?
Steve
Hard to find used oil. I do work for a lot of restaurants and they get a check 4 times a year for their old oil. They lock it up here until the pump truck comes.
I haven't tried Biodiesel, but I have tried water. :-D
As in the Stanly Meyer water fuel cell. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Meyer%27s_water_fuel_cell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Meyer%27s_water_fuel_cell)
I run Biodiesel for a year. It worked flawlessly. Then I run out of free veggie oil. In fact I moved to NY and last time I checked they wanted over 2 bucks a gallon of used veggie oil. It costs generally around 1.30 per gallon to make bio diesel. So i stopped making it and went back to the pump.
Good for those that can get their hands on free veggie oil
I had a contract with the county school system. They generated more than I could use. This year they stopped serving fried foods and now bake everything. My free oil source is about to dry up. It was good while it lasted. ( five years)
Steve
The way our government is going, pretty soon, you won,t be allowed to buy fried foods. So there will not be any vegetable oil available.
Jim
Jim that is sad, but I think you are correct.
I had 2 mercedes 300D's running on used vegi. About 2 years ago my free oil disappeared. With the time and labor required to collect the oil it wasn't worth it anymore to pay for the vegi oil.