Biodiesel - Journey To Forever
Biodiesel - Journey To Forever
Biodiesel - Journey To Forever
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Biofuels
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Biofuels supplies and
suppliers
Biodiesel
Make your own
biodiesel
Mike Pelly's recipe
Two-stage biodiesel
process
FOOLPROOF
biodiesel process
Biodiesel processors
Biodiesel in Hong
Kong
Nitrogen Oxide
emissions
Glycerine
Biodiesel resources
on the Web
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Do diesels have a
future?
Vegetable oil yields
and characteristics
Washing
Biodiesel and your
vehicle
Food or fuel?
Straight vegetable oil
as diesel fuel
Heaters, burners,
stoves
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Ethanol
Ethanol resources on
the Web
Is ethanol energyefficient?
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Biogas
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Rural development
Fixing what's broken
City farms
Edible cities
Organic gardening
Everyone can grow their
own food
Composting
The Wheel of Life
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"And it works! Amazing! Last night we put the stuff in Midori's old
diesel Land Rover and it ran like a dream and smelt like a bunch of
roses! Well, French fried roses anyway. Now it runs clean, on waste
Big Mac residues we brewed up in a bucket in the kitchen, and we're
very tickled!"
Free
heating
Roger
Sanders
has
updated
his
Start here Follow the instructions, step by step. Forget anything popular i
else you've read. Study everything on that page and the next page and the Moth
waste oil
at the links in the text. It tells you everything you need to know.
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new optio
It's not just us who say so, it's largely the result of a collaborative
effort over 10 years involving thousands of people worldwide, it's
This was
what works.
all the pr
Thousands of ordinary people have done this without any other help, the origin
and so can you. Do it yourself, you'll be just fine.
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reliable and easy
Biodiesel is made from vegetable oil or animal fat (triglycerides)
uses no e
reacted with methanol or ethanol and a catalyst (lye), yielding
to light, e
biodiesel (fatty acid methyl or ethyl esters) and glycerin as a
easy to co
by-product.
heat rang
waste veg
It can be used in any diesel engine without modifications diesel
engines run better and last longer with biodiesel. And it can easily be just as we
engine oi
made from a common waste product: used cooking oil.
thousand
heating b
Biodiesel is a much cleaner fuel than conventional fossil-fuel
petroleum diesel ("dinodiesel").
The Seco
available
price $22
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Small farms
The way forward
Biofuels
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Appropriate technology
What works and fits
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Introduction
Biofuels
Solar box cookers
Backpack stove
PicoTurbine
Low-tech radio
What to do with a
cardboard carton
Sisters of silk
Silkworms in a
shoebox
School gardens
School composting
Trees and forests
The Beach House fish
pond
HOMeR
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Eco-footprint
School and youth
programs on the Web
Education resources
on the Web
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Human-caused global warming is one of the greatest and most urgent challenge
and life on earth today.
The main culprit is the enormous amount of the potent greenhouse gas carbon d
released into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels (petroleum, coal, natu
Burning fossil fuels releases more than 6 billion tons of CO2 per year, twice as m
biosphere can absorb. The excess CO2 is clogging the atmosphere, with the resu
is reflected away, more heat reaches the earth's surface, and global temperatures
Using vegetable oils or animal fats as fuel for motor vehicles is in effect running
energy.
All biofuels (including fuel ethanol) depend on the conversion of sunlight to ene
that takes place in the green leaves of plants.
Plants use water and CO2 from the atmosphere as the raw materials for making
Burning plant (or animal) products in an engine releases the CO2 back into the a
taken up again by other plants. The CO2 is recycled.
Natural mechanisms work to hold the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere at a sta
maintaining a balance between the CO2 removed from the atmosphere to be "fix
organic matter and the CO2 released back into the atmosphere when the organic
and decays. The net amount of CO2 in the atmosphere stays the same.
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For a range of small-scale oilseed presses see Oilseed presses at our Biofuels su
suppliers page.
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Rapeseed (Brassica napus), or canola, produces about 2,000 pounds of seed per
100 gallons of vegetable oil for fuel, as well as 1,200 pounds of high-protein me
can be used for livestock feed, or composted, or added to a biogas digester to pr
cooking and heating, or used to make ethanol.
Yields from soybeans are about 60 gallons per acre, from coconuts more than 20
and from oil palms more than 500 gallons per acre. (See Vegetable oil yields.)
On the small scale, one bushel of rapeseed (canola) produces about 3 gallons of
The Sunflower Seed Huller and Oil Press -- by Jeff Cox (from Organic G
1979, Rodale Press): Vegetable oils used to be one of those items you just HAD
how to make your own. In 2,500 square feet, a family of four can grow each yea
seed to produce three gallons of homemade vegetable oil suitable for salads or c
pounds of nutritious, dehulled seed -- with enough broken seeds left over to feed
birds. Online at the Journey to Forever Biofuels Library.
Briquette Presses for Alternate Fuel Use, by Jason Dahlman with
Charlie Forst, 2001 -- Design for a simple briquette press that can also be used
as an oil press for seeds. Acrobat file, 2.8Mb
http://www.echotech.org/technical/
technotes/Briquete.pdf
"The Manual Screw Press for Small-Scale Oil
Extraction" by Kathryn H. Potts, Keith MacHell, 1993,
Practical Action, ISBN 1853391980
Manual oil extraction from peanuts or other soft oilseeds can
be a viable enterprise for small businesses. Describes small-sca
extraction for use in rural areas, as well as ways to market and d
Buy at Amazon.com: The Manual Screw Press for Small-Scale
"Small-scale Vegetable Oil Extraction", S W Head, A A Swetman, T W
Hammonds, A Gordon, K H Southwell and R V Harris, Natural Resources Insti
1994, ISBN 0 85954 387-0 -- Covers a basic understanding of the science and
composition of oils and economic and marketing considerations, principles of o
extraction, basic oilseed processing methods, the major oil sources with specific
small and intermediate technologies for each. Results from actual third world
situations are used. For example, the discussion of obtaining oil from sesame se
covers a hot water flotation method used in Uganda and Sudan, the bridge press
(laboratory only), the ram press in Tanzania, the ghani process in Sudan, and a s
in the Gambia. Technical details for each are summarized in a few paragraphs, i
Includes many drawings that are helpful in understanding each process, with a 1
listing suppliers of small-scale equipment. Coconuts, groundnuts, oil palm, palm
rapeseed/mustard seed, sesame, shea nuts, soya, sunflower seed, minor oilseeds
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Complete book free online at CD3WD 3rd World Development online library:
http://www.cd3wd.com/cd3wd_40/cd3wd/
foodproc/nr18se/en/b981.htm
Oil Extraction, Food Cycle Technology Source Book No.
Technology Development Group, United Nations Developm
Women (UNIFEM), 1987. Raw materials, traditional extrac
improved technologies, Appropriate Technology approach f
countries, illustrated, focus on opportunities for women. Do
CD3WD online 3rd World library (5.8Mb pdf):
http://www.fastonline.org/CD3WD_40/JF/417/06-298.pdf
Understanding Pressure Extraction of Vegetable Oils, VITA Technical
VITA Volunteers James William Casten and Harry E. Snyder. Full text online at
Development online library:
http://www.cd3wd.com/cd3wd_40/vita/vegoilex/en/vegoilex.htm
Understanding Solvent Extraction of Vegetable Oils, VITA Technical P
Volunteer Nathan Kessler. Full text online at CD3WD 3rd World Development
http://www.cd3wd.com/cd3wd_40/vita/vegoilse/en/vegoilse.htm
Small-Scale Oil Extraction from Groundnuts and Copra (ILO - WEP,
text online at CD3WD 3rd World Development online library:
http://www.cd3wd.com/cd3wd_40/
cd3wd/foodproc/h2384e/en/b989.htm
"Small-scale Oilseed Processing" by Janet Bachmann, NCAT Agriculture
Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas (ATTRA) -- Basic processes i
small-scale oilseed processing, includes a low-tech method for raw material pre
sunflower seeds as an example; information on methods and equipment used for
on clarification, packaging, and storage. Sources for additional information and
material.
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Journey to Forever has been at the forefront of the development of cheap, effect
small-scale production methods that produce high-quality fuel and that anyone c
Worldwide, many thousands of small, independent, local operations are now pro
millions and millions of gallons of biodiesel a year, with millions of dollars in p
to ExxonMobil & Co.
Most of it goes right under the official radar. Nobody has any clear idea of quite
are or how much fuel they produce, mainly because the individual quantities are
considered insignificant. But the grassroots biodiesel movement is growing fast
weed, it's suitably out of control.
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And it's not destroying rainforests and forcing up food prices so poor people can
industrialised "agrofuels" production that does that -- true biofuels production is
eco-friendly and sustainable.
"Small is beautifuel." (Prof. Pagandai Pannirselvam, Brazil.)
"An engine that Rudolf Diesel showed at the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris ran
said The Economist in an article on biofuels. -- Stirrings in the corn fields, May
pdf):
http://www.greenfuels.org/biodiesel/economist120505.pdf
George Monbiot said the same thing in The Guardian: "This, in fact, was how R
expected his invention to be used. When he demonstrated his engine at the Worl
1900, he ran it on peanut oil." -- "Fuel for nought", November 23, 2004
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The US National Biodiesel Board (NBB) says Diesel "originally designed the d
late 19th Century to run on peanut oil."
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Almost every website on biodiesel or Straight Vegetable Oil fuel says the same,
Washington Post and The New York Times, which said Diesel had "demonstrated
chugged along on peanut oil".
But he didn't do it, it wasn't him. (And there wasn't any tractor.)
Vegetable oil rated only a few lines in Diesel's book "The Development of the D
which he wrote in 1913. He says it was not him but the French Otto Company th
engines on peanut oil at the 1900 Paris World Fair, at the request of the French g
"The engine was built for crude oil and was used without any modification on p
smoothly that only a few insiders were aware of it," Diesel wrote.
Diesel said the work had not been continued in France, but he'd started trials wi
a few months previously, and provided some figures on fuel consumption and p
successful experiments had also been made in St. Petersburg with castor oil, he
"This oil is almost as effective as the natural mineral oils, and as it can also be u
oil, the whole work can be carried out with a single kind of oil produced directly
this engine becomes a really independent engine for the tropics," he wrote.
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"The use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today but suc
in the course of time, as important as petroleum and the coal-tar products of the
"In any case, they make it certain that motor power can still be produced from th
which is always available for agricultural purposes, even when all our natural st
liquid fuels are exhausted." (Diesel, Rudolf. 1913. "Die Entstehung des Dieselm
Braun, Hans-Joachim (Ed). 1984. Moers: Steiger. Page 115.)
Very prophetic -- it's nearly a hundred years later, and a lot of people are seeing
Modern research and development of biodiesel fuel started in South Africa (whi
embargo at the time), and in Austria (which bought South Africa's research).
The idea that ordinary people could make it in their kitchens came a little later.
The man who started the do-it-yourself biodiesel movement, Dr. Thomas B. R
got the idea of making biodiesel from waste cooking oil ("McDiesel") in 1989, a
do it. This was the only information we had when we started making biodiesel.
ways of doing it, but it's all thanks to Tom Reed. See McDiesel Also see Tom's
Foundation site:
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Fat of The Land -- In 1994 four women from the California Bay Area
travelled 3,000 miles around the US on biodiesel in their Fat Mobile diesel
van on an educational tour. They made their biodiesel as they went along,
usually in the parking lots of fast-food restaurants, and filmed a
groundbreaking video documentary while they were at it.
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Today, anyone can learn how to make their own top-quality biodiesel, safely, rel
Start here: Where do I start? Follow the instructions, step by step. It tells you e
to know.
Biofuels
En espaol -- Biocombustibles, biodiesel
Biofuels Library
Biofuels supplies and suppliers
Biodiesel
Make your own biodiesel
Mike Pelly's recipe
Two-stage biodiesel process
FOOLPROOF biodiesel process
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Biodiesel processors
Biodiesel in Hong Kong
Nitrogen Oxide emissions
Glycerine
Biodiesel resources on the Web
Do diesels have a future?
Vegetable oil yields and characteristics
Washing
Biodiesel and your vehicle
Food or fuel?
Straight vegetable oil as diesel fuel
Ethanol
Ethanol resources on the Web
Is ethanol energy-efficient?
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