From: G Shaw (mpmutt@mtaofnj.us)
Date: Mon Oct 03 2005 - 15:16:26 PDT
Sadly, for the biodiesel fans, the demand for used oil is SKYROCKETING and
in the not to distant future it will not be around for free. As it is the
stuff is selling for 75 cents a gallon to buy it from a restaurant (picked
up on site WITH the sludge on the bottom of the barrells) now in the Boston
area. That is what the renderers are paying now to be able to keep getting
the stuff before the home fuel makers can. Most of the restaurant owners
are liking the fact that instead of paying to get rid of the stuff they are
now expecting a check which helps offset the cost of the new oil for the
fryolators. So the 75 cents per gallon is another cost to be factored in
along with all the rest of the chemicals and equipment as well as your time
I guess.
Glenn
-----Original Message-----
From: mark@ehle.homelinux.org [mailto:mark@ehle.homelinux.org]
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 6:52 AM
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
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
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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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