Who needs petrol?

[journeyman Mick]

echnidna
Really not quite as easy as just using straight vegi oil although you can mix some into the ordinary diesel to extend it.

See BioDiesel

You can use straight vegie oil (filtered, used oil from a takeaway works fine), if it's heated up to make it thin enough for the injectors to atomise. Otherwise, in a warm climate you can add about 30% to diesel. I did this for about a year with my ute, it seemed to run better on the oil/diesel mix (and smelt like a barbecue). You can brew up biodiesel but it looks like a lot of messy and dangerous mucking around to me.

Mick

[DavidG]

journeyman Mick
You had beter watch out for the revenuers (?? spl) (tax man) as you really have to pay excise on you home brew fuel.

There is lots of discussion about this concept on a tractor forum I belong to.
Some say you can and some say you can not, use straight vegi oil.

The cost of diesel repairs means I will still buy mine from an appropriate source but the current prices are starting to make the investigation of alternates a real possibility.
It may be possible for me to grow my own oil source.

[journeyman Mick]

journeyman Mick
You had beter watch out for the revenuers (?? spl) (tax man) as you really have to pay excise on you home brew fuel.

Aaah, but I didn't brew up fuel, I merely put an "additive" in my tank besides, they'd have to catch me first

Mick

[savage]

Yeah!..I use additives!....when my fuel gauge shows it's low, I additive some more!....

savage.

[JackoH]

There was an article in a recent edition of ,I think, "Caravan World" about a bloke who converted an ex Sydney bus into a motor home and drove it round Australia. He pulled a trailer loaded with 44's and just called at the local fish and chipperies and hotels and took their used cooking oil. They were delightedf to get rid of it. He filtered it and put it straight into his fuel tank.
Went round "the block" for about $5 !

[jshaw]

I caught a programme late one night on BBC World about the Edible Oils Co. in Malta. Since the island's sewerage was having problems with all the waste oil finding its way down the pipes, the company decided to set up a recycling biodiesel project that seems to be working really well. They collect from restaurants, convert the waste oil and sell from servos. Some info here. How many chip shops and other deep fryers are there likely to be in each of our capital cities? Surely this should be the norm and not an exception!

[Termite]

Does this all mean that I can run my vehicle "as cheap as chips"?

[kiwigeo]

Of course, if it were shown to be possible to extract energy in a way that could rival oil, the oil companies would have the discoverer shot.
I once saw an Australian science show that reported on a bloke who had come up with a Radar that could detect America's new stealth planes. It was a revolutionary new radar and I never heard anything about it, or him again.

ExxonMobil not big into alternative energy and have outspoken opinions on the subject but alot of the other major players are investing in alternative energy technology. I believe BP is one of if not the biggest producer of solar cells and they are also big into hydrogen fuel cell technology. At least some of the oil companies are readying themselves for when the oil finally runs out.

As for the guy who developed that new radar...hes probably sitting on a beah in the Bahamas somewhere spending the big payout he got from the US military.

[savage]

Does this all mean that I can run my vehicle "as cheap as chips"?
Termite.

I don't know!.....But would you like fries with that?....

savage.

[savage]

Tried that cat fuel once and thought I'd blewup my motor, but thank goodness it was only a fur ball!....Ha!Ha!
savage.
P.S. exhuast smelt like cats p!$$, think I prefere BBQ smell!....

[echnidna]

Is this the ultimate alternative to petrol here :eek: :eek:

[AlexS]

Aaah, but I didn't brew up fuel, I merely put an "additive" in my tank besides, they'd have to catch me first

Mick

Just watch out for strangers looking for a BBQ

[RETIRED]

Is this the ultimate alternative to petrol here :eek: :eek:

Shades of Mythbusters past?

[echnidna]

Can't see the small pic of the fuel less engine properly but it could be a multi cylinder stirling engine.

But more likely a con job.

Think I'll go count all my fingers

[Clinton1]

I saw a bloke in Dili, Timor Leste that had rerouted his and his neighbours 'septic' (septic in that the line from the toilet originally ran to the open drain, which was used to grow the market veggies - its a poor place) to fill a composting tank. He had a sleeve/pipe over the pit slab and a weighted 'piston' on that. The weighted piston compressed the 'methane', which he piped off to his stove. His homemade gas plant was very old, and had been in the family for generations. The idea dates back to the Chinese aeons ago - and apparently they are common in rural China today. There is evidance of 'primus' bottles from 'ancient' China - bamboo filled with methane.
Anyway - I was impressed.
I intend to patent an idea for fuelling cars that relies on lentils, piping and a blast gate.... however I do need business financing and a 'test pilot'. Offers anyone?