Noxx said:
No, I'm gonna get a diesel car next summer (Volks probably) and run it on biodiesel.
Good choice Noxx, I purchased a Japanese gray market right hand drive 1991 Mitsubishi Pajero 4x4 diesel and run it on straight waste veggie oil. First start of the day on diesel - run for 5 minutes then switch over to the waste oil.
Last week found and purchased an Isuzu 4 cylinder diesel ($150.00 ) from a Thermo king reefer unit, this engine is going on my portable sawmill an easy swap as the mill is all hydraulic.
These Isuzu engines are a great find, no one really wants then because they have weird oil pans on them. The engines are rated at 27 hp @ 1800 rpm.
I have so much waste veggie oil I want another Isuzu engine to hook up to a 15 KW generator head.
For the house I have installed a Columbia waste oil boiler 350K BTU, use a liquid to air heat exchanger in the electric furnace plenum, then another liquid to liquid heat exchanger plumbed into my shop for heat.
I used the liquid/liquid exchanger so that I could use antifreeze in the shop circuit should I decide for some reason not to heat the shop area I do not have to worry about a freeze up.
I pick up waste oil from 4 restaurants, had a bit of competition once folks learned what I was doing with the oil. They soon gave up not knowing how to filter the oil.
The trick in filtering came about by shear luck, I had been collecting the oil for a year, as I needed to know how much oil I would have on a month to month basis before investing any hard earned cash.
The waste oil does not spoil and the garbage settles over time giving you a fairly clean top oil.
Next year the home foundry will also burn waste veggie oil.
My favorite cartoon is two vultures perched on a cactus one says to the other patience my ass I think I'll go kill something.