Comments on: Run Your Car off of Used Vegetable Oil!

By: Johnny

Johnny — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:11:31 +0000

Where can I buy a conversion kit for my diesel? I want to be able to run off french fry oil.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 23:46:35 +0000

yo Joz!
This may be odd, but is there is anyway to pull my cell phone number from this post? I am still getting calls from people who search ‘greasel’ and want me to tell them how to convert their car! Even if I didn’t mind these calls, I don’t really know much about it because I merely set it up for a friend. Thanks.
Matt

By: BDPedia

BDPedia — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 20:17:17 +0000

Used or Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO) is one of the cool options for biodiesel…some really exciting new feedstocks are also opening up for biodiesel…as mentioned above, WVO can at best be a niche market, because of its small size/volumes…some ideas like making biodiesel from algae might be in a position to provide biodiesel at volumes that can replace petro-diesel mostly or even completely

Let’s hope for all our sake that such interesting experiments do work out

Ec @ Plant Oils Database

By: cybele

cybele — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:00:00 +0000

Howard, you also might want to check out commerically available biodiesel - http://www.biodiesel.org/buyingbiodiesel/distributors/default.shtm. There are lots of folks who both make their own and supplement with the stuff at the pump.

While recycled biodiesel is a great fringe thing, it’ll never be able to sustain more than about 10% of the consumer diesel vehicles. Unless we start eating more donuts and tempura.

It’s cleaner than regular diesel but still adds quite a bit more nitrogen and particulates than a clean running car like a SULEV.

By: Blogging.LA

Blogging.LA — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:15:11 +0000

Run Your Car off of Used Vegetable!

For real! (written by Joz’s friend professoreric) Shameless family plug time� My cousin David is in town doing a lecture on converting your car to guzzle french-fry oil instead of evil fossil fuel� —-…

By: kaydee

kaydee — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:32:41 +0000

nope, howard. the real biodiesel is derived mainly from soybean oil (u.s.) or rapeseed oil (europe).

By: Howard (AiYahh)

Howard (AiYahh) — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:17:37 +0000

i’m really interested in this. someone was selling their mercedes 300D, it was converted so that it will run on biodiesel fuel and i was thinking about buying it.

problem is, i’m not automotively inclined. how much of a grease monkey do i have to be for something like this? Do i need to use “used” oil or can i guy a gallon of peanut oil from costco and be ok with that?

By: missbrookline

missbrookline — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:56:56 +0000

I listened fascinated at dinner last week as Dave told me all about converting cars and all that. it was awesome. definitely go if you can!
Dave’s Cousin and Professoreric’s Sister Missbrookline

By: professoreric

professoreric — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:38:42 +0000

ok, will do, thanks for your interest. let me know if you have any ideas on who would want to fly him out to do a lecture there… if you know of someone i will pass the word along to him. thanks Hed. -proferic

By: Hed

Hed — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 20:53:14 +0000

Man, I would so go to that if I wasn’t so dad burn far away! Everyone thinks I’m crazy for wanting to do that, telling me that it sounds like way too much work. It may be at first, but I would consider it to be far more convenient once you got things going, and a lot of places will pay you for taking the used oil!

But then… I’m all for a little more elbow grease over supporting the fossil fuel industry, or really anything that hurts the planet.

Let me know if he comes to Portland! I will definitely be there if he does!

-H