Anybody brew their own BioDiesel?
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Anybody brew their own BioDiesel?
Hey! I've been thinking about getting set up to brew my own biodiesel over here in Clearwater. I want to help out some of the guys in my neighborhood who are getting clobbered by the cost of petrodiesel lately.
My question is, is it as hard as I'm thinking it will be to get my hands on old Vegtable oil by now - I mean it seems to by now me every restaurant around here would have been contacted about this same thing...either by big service companies or gitter dones like myself. Are they still just happy to get rid of it somewhere anywhere by anybody? Or am I gonna have to pay my way in? How much is a fair price to offer for old oil? If any?
My question is, is it as hard as I'm thinking it will be to get my hands on old Vegtable oil by now - I mean it seems to by now me every restaurant around here would have been contacted about this same thing...either by big service companies or gitter dones like myself. Are they still just happy to get rid of it somewhere anywhere by anybody? Or am I gonna have to pay my way in? How much is a fair price to offer for old oil? If any?
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there's other ways too. my grampa has long time been a farmer since he was a child and we own 120 acres about 45 miles north of tampa and hes thinking about planting an 80 acre plot of jatropha plant. its a native plant to africa thats highly poisonous but it grows during the rainy and dry seasons and it grows in poor or good soil. basically its really versatile. you put the seeds it produces through a advances refining processs involving high pressure crushing, steaming, and filtering and you get one of the most efficient bio-diesel oils. they are hard to come buy and it take 2 years for the plant to star producing seed but they are 75% sure they would work well in floridas climate. if he does this then you can bet im selling my 240sx and buying a turbo diesel vw.
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Just ask. They don't get alot for the used oil. I take care of a bunch of places up here and have been asking...by the time the restuarant pays to have the oil trucked off, and the oil company pays them for it, my Outback owner up here told me he gets a check for 11.00 a quarter from the oil...so if I don't make a mess I could fill a 55g barrel for all he cares. I have a tacobell holding 2 fryers worth now, just got to go pick it up. If you take it out of the container in the back Griffin or whoever is gonna get pissy, if the rest gives it to you before then your good.
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Which brewing kit are you thinking about getting?
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it is the soldier, not the poet who has given us the freedom of speech,
it is the soldier, not the campus organizer who gives us the freedom to demonstrate,
it is the soldier, who saluted the flag, who serves under the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag,who allows the protester to burn the flag.
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Thanks for posting! Since the whole thing seems pretty simple I was thinking about just plumbing it up myself. Or if I can't find the tanks at a reasonable cost, I'd go with one from Beach Bio Inc. - they're here in town and have some cool filter gizmo that looks like it really does a nice job clearing it up. I'd want to have some good looking product to offer so it doesn't look like I'm just going half assed about it.
And that's what I was going to do, just ask some of these smaller places around here. Within a 5 min drive I have 7 places that look like prime candidates. I thought about the late night thing but that just isn't my style. When I was a bartender I always remember the ktichen mgr bitching about the guys to come and empty the tank out back - so I wondered if this was still the case. Help the restaurants for one, help my neighbors another - and me too with a couple bucks to cover costs and the pita factor...
There's my lawn guy and a couple others that would consider me king if I could cut their fuel bill in half. Probably like 100 gals a week. Just trying to help out and I think it would be cool. I used to brew my own beer so it's sort of a similar pride in creation type thing for me...
And that's what I was going to do, just ask some of these smaller places around here. Within a 5 min drive I have 7 places that look like prime candidates. I thought about the late night thing but that just isn't my style. When I was a bartender I always remember the ktichen mgr bitching about the guys to come and empty the tank out back - so I wondered if this was still the case. Help the restaurants for one, help my neighbors another - and me too with a couple bucks to cover costs and the pita factor...
There's my lawn guy and a couple others that would consider me king if I could cut their fuel bill in half. Probably like 100 gals a week. Just trying to help out and I think it would be cool. I used to brew my own beer so it's sort of a similar pride in creation type thing for me...
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One of the reasons my customers will fuck their grease guy over for me is he always makes a mess.
I have 2 big full service restaurant's and a couple fast food joints that will let me have as much as i can take, trying to decide now if I want to convert the car to run straight grease, or convert the grease to bio-d. my brother in law has a tdi as well, so if I get a system to make the bio-d I'm going to be able to split some costs.
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opinions?
I have 2 big full service restaurant's and a couple fast food joints that will let me have as much as i can take, trying to decide now if I want to convert the car to run straight grease, or convert the grease to bio-d. my brother in law has a tdi as well, so if I get a system to make the bio-d I'm going to be able to split some costs.
<flame suit on>
opinions?
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it is the soldier, not the reporter who has given us the freedom of the press,
it is the soldier, not the poet who has given us the freedom of speech,
it is the soldier, not the campus organizer who gives us the freedom to demonstrate,
it is the soldier, who saluted the flag, who serves under the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag,who allows the protester to burn the flag.
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it is the soldier, not the reporter who has given us the freedom of the press,
it is the soldier, not the poet who has given us the freedom of speech,
it is the soldier, not the campus organizer who gives us the freedom to demonstrate,
it is the soldier, who saluted the flag, who serves under the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag,who allows the protester to burn the flag.
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