Cool Diesel stuff you may be interested in...

[cphilip]

This one they actualy run straight used (or unused) cooking oil right into the engine after only a simple filtration. The engine starts on regular Diesel and then after the engine heats up it switches over to run on all warmed used cooking oil. Will run on that all day long as long as its kept warm. then you switch off right before you cut the engine off to get all the Cooking oil out of the pump and lines so it will not congeal in there.

Griesel

Now here is a company that makes a system that you can actualy remove the waxy parts from the Cooking oil so you do not have to do the above switch over or keep it heated at all. The stuff you make with this seperation is run all the time. BioDiesel...

Biodeiselgear

Neat stuff huh? I may just invest in one of the later systems. The one that makes almost 40 gallons will fill my 39 gallon tank! I got plenty access to cooking oil from the Dinning halls and always people wanting me to get rid of it. Hmmmm.....

Update! So now I am going to buy one of the Model 40's and set it up here at the University as a test unit! Boss told me to go for it with dept money! To investigate the possibility of installing a larger unit to convert the dining halls on campus oil to fuel for our maintenance and farm fleet of Diesel trucks and tractors. The Boss's went "get one!" I got a paper to write too on this now.

[ShooterJM]

ok....thats cool. Might need to pick up an old diesel somewhere....

[rhetor22]

very interesting!

How much is cooking oil costing a gallon?

[Rooster]

I work in the agricultural industry, and while just recently gaining support, bio desiel has been around for some time. I've seen several engines with well over 100,000 miles in road vehicals (peanuts on a desiel, but proves the point that it does work).

[Rooster]

And the cooking oil vehicals work on used cooking oil which is significantly less expensive than fresh cooking oil.

[cphilip]

Yes, they been doing it for years. Since the 70's or even earlier I think.

Used cooking oil from our dining halls? Free!

Acceptabiltiy is the key. Timing is everything so it depends on if its the right time. With steep budget cuts looming it may be. Hense the need for a demo unit so they can see with thier own eyes.

[Miscue]

/me wants an ethanol vehicle... powered by corn.

[-J�ker-]

these alternate engines have been around for a long time...its just that the gas corps. bought that patents to most of them so they can con. to make billions and pollute the earth stupid corporate monsters!...

[kevdupuis]

Miscue, running a vehicle on corn could give new meaning to siphoning fuel from some ones tank.

[cphilip]

...did he mean Porn?

[-=Squid=-]

At my local field, when I ref we use diesel to lite the fire for the hotdogs, and they all taste reallly crappy. We call em diesel-dogs....nasty.

[CRiZO]

yeah joker, sucks doesn't it? I read the other day a guy had a car getting 400 miles to the gallon (thats not a typo)and some oil company bought his silence. Its amazing how truely corrupt the world is.

[cphilip]

LOL...no that is a common "urban legend". It resurfaces every few years.

[Schnitzel]

that's funny...i was talking to my neighbor about his mini-hummer he never seems to drive around. He said he was in the same business you just described, and that's what he fuels it with. it was pretty interesting to hear him describe it.