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Waste Vegetable Oil / wvo thinned with ?
« on: December 16, 2007, 10:42:06 AM »
Have a guy on island that is blending wvo with 5 or 6 "secret" ingredients he got from some German website. Runs it straight in his diesel vehicle (2000km no problems).  Of course, since these are "secret" no one knows what they are.  Since WD40 makes such an excellent wvo solvent figure part of the formula is naphtha and mineral spirits; probably RUG also. Anyone have any experience lowering wvo viscosity with naphtha, mineral spirits, RUG etc.

Cheers, Fred

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Generators / Re: sell power back to utility
« on: December 16, 2007, 10:22:45 AM »
Chris is correct, you can't beat the economies of scale present in utility power - even with heat as a bi-product and paying yourself nothing for your work to process "free" fuel.

But there is something to be said for grid independence.  During lower power demand times, run the roid to heat and centrifuge wvo (doing that) AND run DC power into a grid-tied inverter/battery bank and sell excess back to the grid (working on this).  Instead of running the roid 7 days a week, might only have to run it 4 days and use your built up credit on the off days.

Still don't plan on ever saving any money. but brandishing  my digitus medius in the direction of the power company, priceless.

Cheers, Fred

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