Mr Biodiesel

[andygates]

Here's an interesting new product: GreenFuels' FuelPod2. 

It's a sort of Mr Biodiesel which you feed with waste oil and methanol and it chugs away making a 50 litre batch of fuel. Kinda like a bread machine for recycling fuel. This sort of consumer-grade processor's a great idea and I think it will have a big market.

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[thudthwacker.livejournal.com]

Wow. That, right there, is awesome. I know I could just follow the link, but that feels like a lot of effort just now -- I've finally come down with whatever has been making the rounds here, and my head hurts even more if I try to think too hard (I am, even now, ditching my leg workout, and no matter how crappy I feel, I always feel like a slacker if I do that; never mind the fact that, with the current state of my sinuses, a set of heavy squats could possibly cause my head to explode and take out anyone unfortunate enough to be on the incline bench at the time). Anyway: what does one of those cost?

Between this sort of thing and the recent improvements in solar, I'm beginning to wonder very seriously whether, in 20 years, homes that *don't* have mostly self-contained power generation will be in the minority. And that's even considering that the power industry is doing its level best to avoid that (example: in the state of New Jersey where I reside, you get fined for feeding too much back into the power grid, and are therefore required to pony up large wampum to hire a licensed specialist to investigate your power usage and recommend a system that will allow you to just barely squeak by; I somehow doubt that this is the kind of law that gets passed because the folks who live in the state think it's a good idea).

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

And of course, finally, at least in Scotland, small scale fuel production from waste oil comes under a Waste Management Licensing Regulations exemption (Schedule 3, Paragraph 5) that doesn't cost anything to register.

Just occasionally we manage to do something right with the legislation.