home-brewing biodiesel

[FurloughedAgain]

I tend to agree with Dan. I have trouble performing my own oil-change so major modifications to my car are most likely out of the question.

But if I could come up with a small setup to create bio-deisel in my garage and then run it on a straight deisel car....thats a possibility.

 

[FurloughedAgain]

Check this out. I found a biodiesel processor for $249. All it needs is a used water heater and a few drums.

http://www.biodieselwarehouse.com/

 

[jarhead]

What if you went down to Sam's Club and picked up big jugs of vegetable oil? or went to a restaurant supply company and purchased oil?

I'm just wondering if buying what you need is not just easier than trying to store barrels and barrels of used restaurant oil.

This is definately intriguing though.

At Sam's club, a two liter bottle of Olive oil (a little over a half a gallon) runs about $7.00. That's about $13.00 a gallon. Hardly an incentive to avoid gasoline at $2.55 a gallon, unless you could get a hundred miles per gallon or more out of it. And if you could get that kind of mpg, supply and demand rules would kick in, and the price of veggie oil would go through the roof.

As far as collecting waste oil from Burger King, as soon as there was a big demand for it, they would start charging for it, and people would start getting shot for "drive offs" because they swiped French Fry oil.

 

[dash8driver]

Smells like burnt onion rings when he drives.

the next step is to sell advertisement space on the back of his car to the local onion ring joint.






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[FurloughedAgain]

unless you think that VW is going to come out with a Chicken-strip powered Jetta next year, I dont think supply and demand is a problem.

I'm sure i'm just daydreaming (was looking at a diesel jetta on Ebay going for $11,000) but sure seems like a neat idea.

hmmmm jet-fuel is essentially diesel...a french-fry powered learjet...

Seriously, the price of oil headed in the direction it is, at least SOMEONE is thinking of alternatives that may be commercially viable.

 

[Dan CFI/CFII]

The price of corn or veg oil at Sam's is hardly indicitave of the wholesale price of delivered SVO.

Currently, many eateries are paying $0.15 a gallon to have the WVO disposed of. And they get rid of lots of it. (at least, that's my understanding, I'm certaintly no expert on restraunting)

But yes, in a few years, the supply of WVO for home brewing will most likely be bought up by larger energy concerns for conversion to BioDiesel and commercial sale.

Even if I weren't planning to brew it myself, BioDiesel will only decrease in price. Around here B100 is now about 2.95 a gallon. And that price ISN'T going up, it's been on a steady decline. When it comes down to it, Bio will only get cheaper, dino will only get more expensive.

Dan