MAKING BIODIESEL: CREATING NEW OPPORTUNITIES

One of the most intriguing aspects of bio fuel is the possibility of independence not only from foreign oil but potentially from oil all together. At least, insofar as it is needed for driving vehicles. Diesel motor powered vehicles more specifically. Mixing biodiesel w/ diesel is not a purest approach but any petroleum diesel not burned is helpful. - Fewer greenhouse carbons released into the atmosphere. Straight vegetable oil (SVO) distinct from waste vegetable oil (WVO) is too viscous, unheated, to use in most diesel engines. Mixing it down with petrol diesel at various ratios depending on temperature, engine specs and how much of a purest one is, does produce a cleaner burning fuel that can flow through the fuel system. But to be a true purest, one must convert SVO and/or WVO into Biodiesel itself. This requires some chemistry wherewithal and certainly some work space depending on scale of production. Also one must determine what vegetable oil to use. Further, one must determine what type of alcohol (methanol, ethanol) to use. But the chemicals needed for the process itself are all common and accessible, and recipes are circulating in the public domain, see more on making biodiesel: www.journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_make.html

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