DIY Biodiesel
July 23rd, 2005
Terrific eco-products vendor Real Goods sells (among many other fun and useful eco-products), a homebrew biodiesel kit that will turn out 40 gallons of “clean-burning” biodiesel in 48 hours, using mainly your used cooking oil. I’m assuming that you’d have to collect your cooking oil for a while to make a full batch. Listed price? $2999. Oh well.
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July 24th, 2005 at 8:39 am
Willie Nelson opened up a couple of biodiesel stations and plans to open up a chain, sorry i can’t look up links to it but my cuddly evil precious demented adorable kitty is cheatin at milk bottle cap hockey
July 25th, 2005 at 10:28 am
Actually, unless you run a fryer regularly, the best way to get used vegetable oil would probably be from restaurants. Used vegetable oil requires special disposal, and often restaurants have to pay to have it hauled away anyhow, so they are more than happy to let you take it home.
July 26th, 2005 at 1:52 am
we were discussing possible actual applications- a small restaurant might do well with this, and it might even pay itself off – lets see:
40 gallons x $2.62/gal for gas (palo alto unleaded prices)
=$104.8
that means you’d have to do around 30 batches to pay it off, right? And if you’re a restaurant, you might save by not paying for oil disposal as well. This’d be on a year-timescale, not a month one, but still good.