On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:10:00 +0000, Larry wrote:
Bruce in Bangkok wrote in
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It will get replaced before much longer and thus my inquiry. I can
build/buy a 6 KW water cooled diesel gen set and mount it where the
old air cooled unit is mounted which, with a proper warning and
shutdown systems can be run all the time, if necessary. But of course,
I was trying to get "something for nothing" by, maybe, replacing the
diesel unit with the Honda. For one thing the Honda would be lighter.
What does the used frying oil market look like in Thailand? We have it
running out our ears, here! I get a couple of calls a week from other
restaurants wanting me to come pick it up like I do my "favorite three".
It costs them a fortune to have it disposed of, normally. They are more
than happy to cooperate with putting it back in the boxes it comes
in...already prefiltered of the big stuff.
After you previous post about bio-diesel I investigated used cooking
oil in thailand and found that the big fast food chains, Mcdonalds,
KFC, etc., all have contracts to selling their used cooking oil - to
whom or for what they did not, would not, discuss.
The normal Thai/Chinese kitchen does not produce any appreciable
amount of used cooking oil as most dishes are prepared in a wok and
the oil becomes part of the food.
I also priced new palm oil and at the moment it is slightly higher in
price then diesel.
So, at least for now, there is no free lunch in thailand :-)
If you installed a diesel, you could have free power, forever, except for
maintenance and lube oil. I even tried recycling used lube oil into the
mix with good results in the Benz cars. Just keep the used oil clean
when you drain it and use about 5%, by volume, and the diesel doesn't
seem to be able to tell any difference. It gets rid of used oil, without
having to find some place to dispose of it. Hell, it's oil! BURN IT!
5% doesn't make my diesels smoke, noticably.
I saw an article in one of the boating magazines that talked about
pouring drained engine oil directly into the diesel tanks but I am not
convinced that is the way to go given that some injection pumps will
pump over 2,000 PSI in a piston pump with no seals I am a bit wary
about dumping used oil out of MY engines into the fuel.
If the Chinese 6KW diesel didn't weigh the same as a 8V92TA, I'd use it
on the truck and dump the Hondas I have to pay gas bills to run. I was
pondering, but never acted upon, just adding a big alternator (10KW
Harbor Freight importers sells for $299 bare) to my 6.5L Chevy V-8 diesel
mover in the shop. But, that would put excessive hours on a way-too-big-
and-expensive-to-overhaul drive engine. It wasn't economically feasible
if you factored in maintenance and overhauls on the big V-8. Gas for
Hondas are the cheapest alternative, still. But, as we pass $US3.50/US
gallon and head for $US5/USgallon soon, that may change. Gold passed
$800/oz, yesterday, making Federal Reserve fake banknotes more worthless
by the day. Even the stock markets can't keep up with the private
Federal Reserve banknote devaluation with their inflated prices any more.
We're heading into a tailspin, unless America comes to its senses and the
government starts printing real money and we hang all the banker
billionaires....which won't happen with all the bribe money floating
around.
Thai women wear 99% pure gold jewelry and my wife keeps reminding me
about how much I used to bitch about buying her a new neck chain or
bracelet and how much more they are worth today. she reckons we should
have bought more. However it is a somewhat one sided argument because
once she gets jewelry she won't sell it.
In the World's present economic situation, I'd stick with prime movers I
can, if conditions drop much further, run off alternative fuels I'm
capable of producing without wheelbarrows full of worthless banknotes.
Hope you see my point.
I see your point and have looked into converting the family gasoline
car to LPG. It is not a really costly conversion but the price of LPG
is following right along behind gasoline.
By the way, the Thais are now aggressively pushing gasohol but only
slightly cheaper then gasoline. From reading the newspaper it appears
that most, if not all of the alcohol is produced by one or two large
agro-industrial companies here, who have close political ties with the
major parties. You figure.
Here's the scariest website I know of:
http://kitco.com/LFgif/au1825nyb.gif
Sure glad I'm not dependent on money for fuel....
Larry
Bruce-in-Bangkok
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