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BioDiesel / Alternative Fuel

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    ChipZilla
    Registered Users Posts: 954 ✭✭✭ChipZilla


    AFAIK in the UK, the Inland Revenue would tax you on the oil if you were using it as fuel. Are you wanting to do it to save money or the environment? Biodiesel is just a diesel/oil mix - 80%/20% usually. Your car shouldn't need any changes to run that. You can get more adventurous with the ratio once it runs ok at 80:20. If you have an older car, you should check your filters for a while when you start using it, cos it strips any gunk off the tank walls and fuel line. Best thing would be to buy an old sh*tbox and make sure you're happy with that before trying it on your shiny new '04 machine ;)


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    SocialReject71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭SocialReject71


    Thanks ChipZilla .. I was planning on using an old banger anyway. It's something I've been thinking about doing ever since I saw a program called "Coconut Revolution" where they were running diesel engines off coconut oil :D


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    K2
    Registered Users Posts: 376 ✭✭K2


    Would using cooking oil not cost as much as, or be as expensive as using diesel?

    The coconut oil sounds good, at least you wouldn't smell like a chipper van:D


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    ChipZilla
    Registered Users Posts: 954 ✭✭✭ChipZilla


    I'm not talking about going to Superquinn and buying every bottle of Mazola or Spry Crisp n Dry they've got. :) Any chipper would be delighted to let you take used cooking oil off their hands for free. Saves them getting rid of it.

    Any where are you going to get a steady supply of coconuts in Ireland? ;)

    BTW, Teagasc did some research into BioDiesel a few years ago - they reckoned it cost 32p a litre to clean up the waste cooking oil for fuel use .:dunno:

    http://www.teagasc.ie/research/reports/crops/4355/eopr-4355.htm


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    yoda01
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭yoda01


    Check out this link which shows How to make diesel from vegetable oil


    http://www.stewardwood.org/resources/DIYbiodiesel.htm


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    ChipZilla
    Registered Users Posts: 954 ✭✭✭ChipZilla


    Originally posted by yoda01
    Check out this link which shows How to make diesel from vegetable oil


    http://www.stewardwood.org/resources/DIYbiodiesel.htm

    The dummy that wrote that guide forgot to mention that methanol and ethanol are flammable. The calor gas heater he recommended isn't something you want to use around either of those...:eek: :eek: :eek:


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