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Re: Anybody make their own biodiesel?
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Posted by jdemaris on March 26, 2006 at 09:21:40 from (66.218.17.63):
In Reply to: Anybody make their own biodiesel? posted by OliverGuy on March 26, 2006 at 06:32:07:
A diesel will run on filtered oil without any added ingredients. That includes waste motor oil, cooking grease, etc. It needs to be filtered, and kept thin enough in cold weather. I think thinning it is the biggest problem, usually requires some sort of pre-heater. The first diesel engine that Rudolph Diesel created was run on pure peanut oil - not petroleum. Some of these kits I see are kind of hyped up and make money only for the people selling them. Biggest problem I see with using such things as waste deep-fryer oil from McDonalds, is there are too many people talking it up - and thus making a good thing on a small scale, unavailable or too expensive to mess with when demand for it grows. In Europe, it is now illegal unless the fuel tax is figured in and paid. If too many people do it here, the same thing will happen. I've been dumping my waste motor oil into my diesel tank for years and not had any problems.
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