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Re: Biofuel
« Reply #25 on: July 14, 2010, 08:09:08 PM »

i have used my man and thankfully on old style engines .....but have seen some bad things

the only real thing that dont sit well with me is is it a good thing to grow fuel on the land that would otherwise grow food with so much hunger in the world
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Re: Biofuel
« Reply #26 on: July 14, 2010, 08:15:46 PM »

A mate doing a PHD at bangor is doing some clever shit with plankton into diesel, at the end of the day oil is compressed plankton, grow plankton in sea water, eats C02, compress, make diesel...no loss of growing space.


Or maybe he was bullshitting me and using sea water from the gulf of mexico  :hysterical:
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Re: Biofuel
« Reply #27 on: July 14, 2010, 09:11:29 PM »

Our company will be building a bio-diesel plant to provide for our fleet of lorries.

Since one of our by products is tallow (animal fat), I assume we will be processing that.  We have been using tallow as a substitute for heavy oil in our boilers (and pay duty to the government  :icon_rolleyes:) since 1996.  It is only logical to refine it and use it to power our vehicles.  Unfortunately, it won't be a staff perk  :010:
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Re: Biofuel
« Reply #28 on: July 15, 2010, 08:03:57 PM »

there anre many companys in the EU that are now running on bio diesel.

mcdonalds and asda/walmart run on bio collected from there outlets,many bus companies are turning to bio,stagecoach are on bio and firstgroup have used it, as the emissions are super low on this stuff it ideal for citys where local councils are red hot on emissions.

also if a company has a low carbon footprint there is massive gains to be had with regards to tax and not getting fines.

its the way forward,as long as we can get the balance right,but i do think to myself why they have not redesigned the diesel engine do handle heavier oils like pure veg,it can be done,they just dont want to because they are hand in pocket with the oil companies it plain to see.......the first diesel engines ran on peanut oil

food for thought
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Re: Biofuel
« Reply #29 on: May 03, 2011, 04:46:47 PM »

just bought in 120 ltrs of used filtered veg oil,£60.00 am a happy chappy

next week i take 100 ltrs for £0.25 per ltr unfiltered from another supplier.

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