I'll be running a Biodiesel workshop at my farm on April 21. It will start at 1 PM and go till every things done.
I'll be talking about the chemistry behind making biodiesel, construction of a home made design and its pro's and con's over a kit or complete bought system, safety measures, and legal concerns.
Location:
222 rt. 15 Lafayette, NJ
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q ... iwloc=addr
When:
April 21 at 1:00 PM
Admission:
Free
Biodiesel Workshop - 4/21
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Digger[NJLP]
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Look what I found on the web!
Make your own diesel
Hey your right up by my old Boy Scout Camp!
Ya know the original Camp Crystal Lake!
Make your own diesel
Hey your right up by my old Boy Scout Camp!
Ya know the original Camp Crystal Lake!
Bleh, Signatures mean nothing to me!
I can't tell you how much to disregard Journey to Forever. That site has unsafe and vague processor designs, inaccurate science and the guy running that site is completely full of himself. He claims credit for other peoples work, wont update his site with corrections, and has bad attitude when other people ask him for help. He acts like he invented biodiesel.
Heres a good resource for biodiesel information http://www.biodieselcommunity.org/. Theres some forums linked at the bottom of that page thats great when your looking for help. They sort of take a open source approach to making biodiesel.
DeManster ask me how much it cost to make biodiesel. It heavily depends on the cost of methanol (sold as high octane racing fuel). As you need 1 gallon of methanol to make 4 gallons of biodiesel. There is another option to use ethanol, but that process is much harder than using methanol. The last time I bough methanol it was $215.20 for a 55 gallon drum. So biodiesel cost me around $.97 per gallon.
Heres a good resource for biodiesel information http://www.biodieselcommunity.org/. Theres some forums linked at the bottom of that page thats great when your looking for help. They sort of take a open source approach to making biodiesel.
DeManster ask me how much it cost to make biodiesel. It heavily depends on the cost of methanol (sold as high octane racing fuel). As you need 1 gallon of methanol to make 4 gallons of biodiesel. There is another option to use ethanol, but that process is much harder than using methanol. The last time I bough methanol it was $215.20 for a 55 gallon drum. So biodiesel cost me around $.97 per gallon.
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BIO-Fuels not gooed???
Found this on Digg and wanted to see what Nill thinks..
BioFuel article
Rest of article here..PARIS (Reuters) - Biofuels, championed for reducing energy reliance, boosting farm revenues and helping fight climate change, may in fact hurt the environment and push up food prices, a study suggested on Tuesday.
BioFuel article
Bleh, Signatures mean nothing to me!
I don't use fresh oil for personal use. I only get it from dinners. As for form making it from food crop, I've never been for it to the point that food prices rise.
There has been research done in alga beds. Enclosed biospheres that is basically a swimming pool with a greenhouse lid on it. Put that out on the desert where the land has little ecological value(as compared to drilling in Alaska or raising the price of food). A biosphere like this could be used depending on the alga type to produce triglycerin, what biodiesel is derived from, methane(a no mod replacement for propane), or even hydrogen. Theres even research being done on fermenting the triglycerin directly to biodiesel.
Right now theres a major push in the "Fuel from Farm" mentality thats main driven by politicians trying to get the both the Agriculture vote and the Ecological vote.
As it is now if everybody replaced their car with either a VW TDI (50 mpg) or a Prius running ethanol there wouldn't be enough biomass to run it all.
On that note progress is moving right along on a car that would be a big help to the fuel situation were in.
http://www.njlanparty.com/wforum/viewto ... 500e5#2606
There has been research done in alga beds. Enclosed biospheres that is basically a swimming pool with a greenhouse lid on it. Put that out on the desert where the land has little ecological value(as compared to drilling in Alaska or raising the price of food). A biosphere like this could be used depending on the alga type to produce triglycerin, what biodiesel is derived from, methane(a no mod replacement for propane), or even hydrogen. Theres even research being done on fermenting the triglycerin directly to biodiesel.
Right now theres a major push in the "Fuel from Farm" mentality thats main driven by politicians trying to get the both the Agriculture vote and the Ecological vote.
As it is now if everybody replaced their car with either a VW TDI (50 mpg) or a Prius running ethanol there wouldn't be enough biomass to run it all.
On that note progress is moving right along on a car that would be a big help to the fuel situation were in.
http://www.njlanparty.com/wforum/viewto ... 500e5#2606