From: mark@ehle.homelinux.org
Date: Mon Oct 03 2005 - 06:39:40 PDT
Yes - In a complete reaction, that is exactly what it does.
Quoting "Hutterer, John (MPAU)" <john.hutterer@smiths-medical.com>:
>
>
> Mark,
>
> Just a point of curiosity. If the methoxide is so toxic and dangerous,
> what do you do with it once you have made your fuel? Does it break down
> somehow in the reaction, or is it a toxic by-product that has to be
> disposed of?
>
> John
>
>
> John Hutterer
> Sr. Eng. Lab Tech.
> Smiths-Medical (Deltec)
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> Subject: Re: [MV] Diesel & cooking oil
>
> Also, when lye is mixed with methanol, the resulting chemical,
> methoxide, is exeedingly caustic and can eat your skin without you
> knowing it, because it quickly kills nerve endings. Nasty stuff. It'
> already eched the glass in my blender after just two test batches.
>
> A good many biodiesel sites recommend that you build your processor in
> such a way that you never come into contact with methoxide, including
> the vapor.
>
> I am currently building a 50-gallon biodiesel processor out of an
> ancient electric water heater to make fuel for my home oil furnace, and
> maybe for my M35. As I understand it, biodiesel does not have to be as
> clean for use in a furnace as it does in an engine. My plan is just to
> make it and store it in my current heating oil tank, along with what the
> oil company pumps in there. They are supposed to be compatable in any
> ratio.
>
> My only worry is that after I get good at it, the government (spurred on
> by the petroleum industry) will decide to make used cooking oil a
> hazardous chemical, and require that all restuarants hire only licensed
> waste haulers to dispose of it.
>
> Mark
>
> --------------
> Quoting Ryan Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com>:
>
> > At 5:43 PM -0500 10/2/05, MV wrote:
> > >Unless I'm mistaken, the only way you can blind=20 or kill yourself
> > >with methanol is to drink it.
> >
> > Or breathe the vapors or absorb it through your=20 skin. We're talking
>
> > pure, methanol here, not a=20 solution of methanol and water.
> >
> >
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