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Re: Anybody make their own biodiesel?
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Posted by barnrat on March 26, 2006 at 15:46:50 from (12.39.89.157):
In Reply to: Anybody make their own biodiesel? posted by OliverGuy on March 26, 2006 at 06:32:07:
My neighbor runs all his tractors/truck off processed biodiesel that he makes himself. In the summer he runs b100 and b70 with kerosene in the winter. He makes his biodiesel from waste vegatable oil and canola(rapeseed) that he grows and presses himself(the left over cake he feeds to his organic dairy cows) He uses what they call the Appleseed method. A used 80 gallon electric hot water heater being the major component of his processor. I'm in the process of building my own biodiesel processor I'm just lacking the used electric hot water heater, most hot water heaters around hear run on natural gas so a used electric one is hard to come by.
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