I have made much progress on my plans.
(On a side note: I recently converted my truck to WVO. I had to drive to Oaklahoma this weekend and the 650 mile trip from Houston cost me literally $29 in diesel for start up, purges and the last bit of miledge on diesel whan I ran out of oil on the return home. Pretty cool...)
So, in a short response, I think I am getting a 30HP lister, 20 KW gen set because my state allows 50kw of backfeed for net-metering. A 20KW gen set will make about 15-17kw of cointinous I believe. I use about 4500KW a month, or about 6.25kw an hour a day on a peak August hot day.
Therefore I seek to spin the meter in reverse...I do not intend to make money, but rather seek to "zero" out the bill each month. I have a 4800 square foot home with duel air and plan on adding the pool this spring. This will make my bill in Houston at 16.8 cents per, a whopping $950-1050 per month. Thats right, a month. (I have three real offices in here and two secretaries with computers, copy machines etc.) We are at about $800/month now without the pool and equiptment!
I have secured two locations that make about 300 gallons a week of pure golden fuel, I am currentky picking it up in my NEV (neighborhood electronic vehicle, pictures later) that runs on pure electricity which will be charged on the battery back ups...so maintenance, pick up etc. are also free (for the most part).
My filtering and gatering system in my NEV took me literally 38 minutes last sunday for 50 gallons INTO my tank...time is money true, but I do it when I have down time like a weekend and i get bored sitting around. Helping the environment not with standing...Its all a good thing and and in "all" will save me $17-20k next year alone. (car fuel, pool heeating from the exhaust, and home ecectricity fuel)
I have a non-profit foundation to help kids who have been injured or illness,
www.fantasykids.com, and I will create a fundraising situation where a resturant will donate their oil to a represenative of FK, that will help kids and the environment, the rep will send a tokan like $0.05 cents a gallon to FK, 100 gallons $5 bux, which will be a tax deduction to the oil gatherer since hes paying a non-profit for ther oil. This will make the resturant LOVE donating the oil far longer, this will let an oil gatherer maintain a good source far longer (people in Houston are now being paid for their oil) and it makes a win /win/ win for all invilved.
Trust me, I will make this happen....it will save money and be fun...now I am off to pick up my used 400 gallon steal tub fore the resturant to pour their hot oil into!
Flydoctor from Houston