Mr Biodiesel Redux
Feb. 2nd, 2008 09:11 pmI finally got around to filling up at the local small recycled-restaurant-oil-into-biodiesel place today: www.trybiodiesel.co.uk. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ravenbait, it's in the unit which used to be occupied by the only garage who would look at the ambulance. Everyone else: it's in a bog-standard rural small-business unit :)
Anyhoo, the stuff costs 96p a litre compared to petrodiesel at 110 a litre, so that's a no-brainer. And green credentials-wise it's recycled oil, so the issue of provenance of virgin oil (which is what stopped me using virgin oil, at least until that is resolved) is sorted. The chap can sell as much as he can make: currently he's making 4500 litres (1200 US gal) a week and he's scaling up to 7000 litres (1850 US gal) by the end of the month, with a staff of four including his full-time buyer, who scavenges the area to take away waste oil.
I mentioned the FuelPod2 to him and it turns out that his kit is basically the FuelPod's big daddy - a GreenFuels monster pipe-spider sucking oil and methanol from pallet-containers and pouring its efforts into tanks. Lovely job, and he's promised me a factory tour next time I fill up.
The biodiesel runs nicely, by the way. Did a lot of driving today.
ravenbait, it's in the unit which used to be occupied by the only garage who would look at the ambulance. Everyone else: it's in a bog-standard rural small-business unit :)Anyhoo, the stuff costs 96p a litre compared to petrodiesel at 110 a litre, so that's a no-brainer. And green credentials-wise it's recycled oil, so the issue of provenance of virgin oil (which is what stopped me using virgin oil, at least until that is resolved) is sorted. The chap can sell as much as he can make: currently he's making 4500 litres (1200 US gal) a week and he's scaling up to 7000 litres (1850 US gal) by the end of the month, with a staff of four including his full-time buyer, who scavenges the area to take away waste oil.
I mentioned the FuelPod2 to him and it turns out that his kit is basically the FuelPod's big daddy - a GreenFuels monster pipe-spider sucking oil and methanol from pallet-containers and pouring its efforts into tanks. Lovely job, and he's promised me a factory tour next time I fill up.
The biodiesel runs nicely, by the way. Did a lot of driving today.
