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This story begins with a 41-year-old Series Land Rover
and its apparent non-eco-friendly statement. While Addison claims this
isn’t a website or a newsletter but instead, an email discussion group,
we found this website to be pretty interesting, informative, thorough,
and basically objective on the subject of biofuels. The information is
up-to-date with a fairly bipartisan approach to educating folks and
filled with a ton of references. Even the question and answer section
was a good read. Additionally, just when we thought we weren’t going to
find a link to a do-it-yourself recipe for making a biofuel, we found
the following references to making your own biofuels. All pages are
lengthy and informative. Have a good read.
- Biofuels: - how to make your own clean-burning
biofuel, biodiesel from cooking oil, fuel alcohol, renewable energy,
glycerin, soap making -
Biofuels
- Composting: organic garden - how to turn wastes
into clean, healthy food, making compost, compost bin, composting
indoors, worm -
Compost
- Make your own biodiesel page 1 and 2:
Make
Biodiesel 1 and
Make
Biodiesel 2
- Forced-air biofuel heater:
Ethanol Mother Earth
- Mother Earth Alcohol Fuel: Chapter 5 - Making
mash -
Ethanol Chapter 5
- Schools participation: Hong Kong to Cape Town
Overland - join us on the Internet, online adventure, collaboration,
school projects -
Education
- Appropriate technology: technology that fits,
small is beautiful, blacksmiths, wood fires that fit, improved wood
stoves, charcoal -
Appropriate Tech
- Solar box cookers: - how free solar energy is
saving lives, saving trees, fighting poverty and hunger in the Third
World, how to make a -
Solar Cookers
- Biodiesel and your vehicle:
Biodiesel Vehicle
Veggie Power: Running
the Farm On Organic Oil. Gardner, L. 2003. BackHome Magazine. 64:31-31.
(Magazine article)
In a simple, one page pitch for the use of vegetable
oil in vehicles, this article describes the conversion necessary for
using Straight Vegetable Oil (SVO) in your diesel engine.
SVO engines need a warm up period, unlike gas-powered
vehicles, using a modern electronic ignition system. Waiting for the
warm up period is an unattractive feature for most folks. An option for
simplifying start-up of SVO-powered vehicles is to run off a tank with
standard diesel, and to have a second gas tank containing biodiesel to
switch over once the engine warms up. The article also provides
references to other authoritative material on organic oils, including
the book From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank by Joshua Tickell.
Grassroots Gas Goes
Big League. 2004. Sustainable Industries Journal. 21:3. (Journal
article)
In this article it’s not enough to be using biodiesel
unless you get it local or the transportation costs outweigh the
sustainability. Good news, local sources exist for those of us living in
Portland. Currently, the oils that go into biodiesel come from the
breadbasket region, east of the Cascades, and many fuel companies in
Portland sell biodiesel (one of our editors uses it to fire up an
80-year-old oil-burning boiler system). Every day, one Northwest
supplier, Seattle Biodiesel, processes 3,000 gallons of locally made
vegetable oil into biodiesel. If you are interested in supporting the
local economy while simultaneously reducing air pollution emissions, you
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