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William Longyard William  Longyard is offline
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Default Most People Will Never Know About Biodiesel

My friend has over a year of Mercedes 300 SD driving under his belt on
french fry grease. FOR FREE. I've done one vehicle conversion, and am
about to do another on my 82 VW Rabbit pickup. I can also power my
whole-house diesel generator on FF grease. Next will be my boat. It's
simple: Filter down to 2 microns (filter bags available on eBay), and then
boil the water out. Duh. Less than 5 cents per gallon costs. My
equipment/conversion costs for the vehicle are about $250. (Automatic
transmission cooler to put in extra fuel tank as heat exchanger; 2 micron
spin-on fuel filter; 6 port Pollak valve; associated hoses, wires, and
clamps.)

Bill Longyard


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Lifecycle studies of biodiesel production
show that for every unit of fossil energy it takes to manufacture ...


Unnecessary. All that needs to be done is redesign the injection system
for a heavier oil...vegetable oil. Until that happens, there's Frybrid.

www.frybrid.com

My stepvan cost me $1600 in equipment (overkill I later found out for SC)
and around $1000 installation by my garage mechanics. Last month,
starting it burned around 5 gallons of diesel fuel. The rest of the 1600
miles was all on free frying oil from 3 Chinese restaurants. We have 3
members. I gather in the truck, George stores in his warehouse and Mike
does the filtering. Three restaurants have us swimming in old frying
oil. There's around 950 gallons, tonight, settling out in the warehouse
plus another 80 gallons or so already filtered for use.

The feeling of driving around WITHOUT PAYING THEM A DIME is PRICELESS.

Larry
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Democracy is when two wolves and a sheep vote on who's for dinner.
Liberty is when the sheep has his own gun.