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Flavored fuel--Culver's owner dips into waste oil to run vehicle
The Country Today ^ | 6-26-05 | Sara Bredesen

Posted on 06/26/2005 8:41:02 AM PDT by SJackson

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To: Oberon

I would worry about particulate matter (i.e. french fry fragments). Filtering sounds like a pain. If it really works tho, great.


41 posted on 06/27/2005 10:00:33 AM PDT by eartotheground (now that someone has read the autopsy report, perhaps the MSM will change their stories? NAAH)
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Oh, the whole bio-diesel question is another matter...I was just talking about the availability of diesel motorcycles in post 39.


42 posted on 06/27/2005 10:09:00 AM PDT by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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To: fso301
Check out what these guys are doing. They're making the bio-diesel in a washing machine with glycerine.

I've also read that mustard greens have the best concentrations of oil. A pretty significant difference from soy IIRC.

43 posted on 06/27/2005 10:22:00 AM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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I've been reading up on this for the past week or so. Here's a chart that lists the amount of oil that can be produced from one acre of various crops:

http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_yield.html

44 posted on 06/29/2005 2:14:55 AM PDT by SWake (Curator of West Wackistan)
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