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bio-diesel hybrid future
I think bio-diesel is overblown. The premise of this stuff is to use
recycled cooking oil. Even if every resturaunt in the world recycled its cooking oil, there simply isn't enough to meet the demand if that method were to become poplar. |
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Hafta eat out more often. I'm willing to do my part!
"John T" wrote in message ... I think bio-diesel is overblown. The premise of this stuff is to use recycled cooking oil. Even if every resturaunt in the world recycled its cooking oil, there simply isn't enough to meet the demand if that method were to become poplar. |
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John T writes:
I think bio-diesel is overblown. The premise of this stuff is to use recycled cooking oil. Yes, if you can only imagine fuels that are discarded from restaurants, biodiesel has very limited potential. The future obviously belongs to cardboard-powered cars. --kyler |
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John T wrote:
I think bio-diesel is overblown. The premise of this stuff is to use recycled cooking oil. Even if every resturaunt in the world recycled its cooking oil, there simply isn't enough to meet the demand if that method were to become poplar. Actually, that's for home brewers. Factory made biodiesel is made from virgin plant oils, of many kinds. The end goal would not necessarily be total replacement of diesel fuel, but supplementing the supply of DF by using B5 (5% biodiesel, 95% petrodiesel) up to B25. Herb |
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John T wrote:
I think bio-diesel is overblown. I think that the problem with this statement is the "I think". The premise of this stuff is to use recycled cooking oil. First error. Biodiosel has nothing to do with used cooking oil. That is a way to recycle oils for cooking but it is more about recycling than about biodiesel. Even if every resturaunt in the world recycled its cooking oil, there simply isn't enough to meet the demand if that method were to become poplar. Which is why biodiesel is about growing oil plants for fuel. http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_yield.html Some, such as jojoba/jatropha are desert plants that can be grown in moderate desert climates ( Sonoron desert gets 12-18", which is enough ) that are underutilised and get much larger yields times as much oil per acre as crops such as corn or safflower. "In 2003, Germany, France, Austria and Italy produced over two billion litres of biodiesel, and in Germany and Austria, around 1700 service stations now sell biodiesel." "In the U.S., a blend of 20% biodiesel with 80% petro-diesel (referred to as B20) is quite widely used, and 15 states have passed legislation favourable to biodiesel. " Note: A blend of up to 20% biodiesel has a disproportionate effect on reducing diesel emissions, up to two or three times the level of input. |
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You can certainly recycle cooking oil, and other kinds of oil, but most
biodiesel will be made from soybeans. -- "Don't be misled, bad company corrupts good character." www.LCTPaintball.com www.LCTProducts.com "John T" wrote in message ... I think bio-diesel is overblown. The premise of this stuff is to use recycled cooking oil. Even if every resturaunt in the world recycled its cooking oil, there simply isn't enough to meet the demand if that method were to become poplar. |
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On 2005-08-27, John T wrote:
I think bio-diesel is overblown. The premise of this stuff is to use recycled cooking oil. Biodiesel isn't JUST recycled cooking oil (that's only a tiny part of it). Biodiesel can be made from diverse things from algae (which can be grown in a process that is more industrial than agricultural, and can make use of industrial wasteland) to farm waste such as the offal discarded at the abbatoir. The point is fuels like biodiesel are carbon neutral and can help tide us over whilst better alternatives are sought by reducing the amount of oil required. It also runs *today* with the infrustructure we have right now and the cars, truck, trains and buses we have right now. At the moment, hydrogen solves nothing and creates many problems - the only economical way of making it is with fossil fuels. Then there's no good solution to actually storing it in a way the general public can make use of it. That's not to say it won't ever be viable (it probably will) but we're decades away from it. Biodiesel is practical today. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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You can grow your own by using algae.
http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html "John T" wrote in message ... I think bio-diesel is overblown. The premise of this stuff is to use recycled cooking oil. Even if every resturaunt in the world recycled its cooking oil, there simply isn't enough to meet the demand if that method were to become poplar. |
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"John T" wrote in message ... I think bio-diesel is overblown. The premise of this stuff is to use recycled cooking oil. Even if every resturaunt in the world recycled its cooking oil, there simply isn't enough to meet the demand if that method were to become poplar. John, rape-seed is being produces in SE Ireland for producing Bio-diesel. It gives farmers another crop to grow. -- .. .. Cheers, Jonathan Lowe, Rallye 100 EI-BFR |
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Jonathan Lowe wrote:
"John T" wrote in message ... I think bio-diesel is overblown. The premise of this stuff is to use recycled cooking oil. Even if every resturaunt in the world recycled its cooking oil, there simply isn't enough to meet the demand if that method were to become poplar. John, rape-seed is being produces in SE Ireland for producing Bio-diesel. It gives farmers another crop to grow. In the UK, it is generally grown for the subsidy (at least, that used to be the case). James |
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