Maybe we should render a few of the fatcats into lard and put that in our tanks... :twisted:Charlou wrote:Yep.I vaguely recall that the petroleum giants keep putting up legal arguments to block this from happening, tho. Selfish bastids.
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Re: Veggie Oil as Substitute for Diesel
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Re: Veggie Oil as Substitute for Diesel
This is all well and good in principle. But if all the veggie oil is used up fueling cars, who the hell is going to want to cook their food in diesel?
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Pappa wrote:This is all well and good in principle. But if all the veggie oil is used up fueling cars, who the hell is going to want to cook their food in diesel?
WASTE veggie oil! And I just picked up another 170 liters today. My veranda and my office are both filling up. I gotta start driving more or something. Maybe I could drive to Scotland...hmmm...
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"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
Re: Veggie Oil as Substitute for Diesel
FBM wrote:Pappa wrote:This is all well and good in principle. But if all the veggie oil is used up fueling cars, who the hell is going to want to cook their food in diesel?
Maybe I could drive to Scotland...hmmm...
can you make ANFOS from veggie oil ?
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Re: Veggie Oil as Substitute for Diesel
Is the laughter related to the ANFOS question?mrenutt4 wrote:
Anyway, that's a very interesting question. I've never thought of that before...I'm going to have to do some
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Re: Veggie Oil as Substitute for Diesel
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Upgraded filtering procedure: (Still trying to keep it as simple as possible by using a gravity-fed supply line)
I have 20-litre bottles of unfiltered WVO, a hand-pumped siphon, clear tubing, a very large truck oil filter and collection recepticles.
The siphon and tubing are pretty straightforward. To prep the oil filter, I drilled a hole in the bottom and used JB Weld to affix the tubing over the hole. On the other end, I sealed the peripheral holes (they would just let the oil flow through without getting filtered) and left the central hole open. The central hole is where the filtered oil comes out.
So I connect the tubing to the siphon, which has the intake submerged in the unfiltered WVO, give it a few pumps, and so far, there's a steady flow of nicely filtered oil coming out. I have more tube than is absolutely necessary, so I drape it over this and that so that it has a couple of points that act as s-traps, where most of the larger particles settle, without going into the filter at all. So far so good. Of course, it's only been about 10 minutes...
Upgraded filtering procedure: (Still trying to keep it as simple as possible by using a gravity-fed supply line)
I have 20-litre bottles of unfiltered WVO, a hand-pumped siphon, clear tubing, a very large truck oil filter and collection recepticles.
The siphon and tubing are pretty straightforward. To prep the oil filter, I drilled a hole in the bottom and used JB Weld to affix the tubing over the hole. On the other end, I sealed the peripheral holes (they would just let the oil flow through without getting filtered) and left the central hole open. The central hole is where the filtered oil comes out.
So I connect the tubing to the siphon, which has the intake submerged in the unfiltered WVO, give it a few pumps, and so far, there's a steady flow of nicely filtered oil coming out. I have more tube than is absolutely necessary, so I drape it over this and that so that it has a couple of points that act as s-traps, where most of the larger particles settle, without going into the filter at all. So far so good. Of course, it's only been about 10 minutes...
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Re: Veggie Oil as Substitute for Diesel
Just got my siphoning system slapped together and running:
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By the time it's dumped into the final jug, it's been through the large truck oil filter, which I'm hoping is good enough to put into the tank. We'll find out soon enough.
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"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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Looks like I'm getting 1 liter in about 3~4 minutes. First sample to be sent to the lab, where they'll use a microscope to measure the particles:
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"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
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Bump for newbies.
How the hell did that last pic get here? I just took it a couple of weeks ago...
How the hell did that last pic get here? I just took it a couple of weeks ago...
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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yep You made a right pigs ear of itFBM wrote:Bump for newbies.
How the hell did that last pic get here? I just took it a couple of weeks ago...
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Hell, I sure didn't put it there. I haven't even thought about this thread in months. Neither has anyone else, AFAICT.
I did delete some old photos from my hard drive...maybe the tags matched and now it's reading the new photo from my HD? I'm no tekkie...
Those look like lefties, anyway.
I did delete some old photos from my hard drive...maybe the tags matched and now it's reading the new photo from my HD? I'm no tekkie...
Those look like lefties, anyway.
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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Filename overlap. The curse of digital cameras.FBM wrote:Hell, I sure didn't put it there. I haven't even thought about this thread in months. Neither has anyone else, AFAICT.
I did delete some old photos from my hard drive...maybe the tags matched and now it's reading the new photo from my HD? I'm no tekkie...
Those look like lefties, anyway.
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Yeah, that's what I was trying to say. Filename overlap.Gawdzilla wrote:Filename overlap. The curse of digital cameras.FBM wrote:Hell, I sure didn't put it there. I haven't even thought about this thread in months. Neither has anyone else, AFAICT.
I did delete some old photos from my hard drive...maybe the tags matched and now it's reading the new photo from my HD? I'm no tekkie...
Those look like lefties, anyway.
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"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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Re: Veggie Oil as Substitute for Diesel
I just insert the date in from of each filename when I import them. Copy-and-paste after the first one. It helps when I'll looking for something and I have a vague idea of the date. If I'm wanting it bad enough to hunt for it I clone the pix and give it a meaningful name along with the date. (If that hasn't confused you let me know and I'll finish the job.)FBM wrote:Yeah, that's what I was trying to say. Filename overlap.Gawdzilla wrote:Filename overlap. The curse of digital cameras.FBM wrote:Hell, I sure didn't put it there. I haven't even thought about this thread in months. Neither has anyone else, AFAICT.
I did delete some old photos from my hard drive...maybe the tags matched and now it's reading the new photo from my HD? I'm no tekkie...
Those look like lefties, anyway.
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