Making Biodiesel at Home

Why Make Biodiesel Fuel at Home?

Making your own biodiesel at home has alot of benefits, such as:

• Save Money. By making biodiesel fuel at home you can usually realize a savings of close to $2.00 a gallon. Imagine what they would mean to your home heating bill every month.
• Biodiesel is EASY to make. You can make biodiesel in your kitchen!. If you can mix bread, you can make biodiesel.
• Biodiesel provides excellent engine performance. Your diesel engine will run better, cleaner and last longer on biodiesel.
• The Production and use of biodiesel creates less carbon dioxide emissions compared to regular diesel. Causing less damage to the environment.
• The material for making biodiesel is renewable and biodegradable. You can make Biodiesel in your kitchen from vegetable oil such as palm oil, rapeseed oil, soy Oil, peanut oil, etc. You can even make it from used vegetable oil from restaurants.

Government Aids Making Biodiesel

US GovernmentMakes Making Biodiesel a Priority

The nation’s first comprehensive biofuels market development program is taking shape in Washington, thanks to the President’s directive for the department of Agriculture to agressively accelerate the investment in the production of biofuels.

The program is being formed by the USDA, Department of Energy and the EPA.

As biofuel production has slown down recently, many people fear that the US has become complacent in it’s movement to make biodiesel a viable source of energy that will release our dependence on foreign oil.

What this joint relationship in the government means is, expedited funding to biofuel producers as well as expedited funding to encourage biorefineries to replace the use of fossil fuels in plant operations by installing new biomass energy systems.

Making Your Own Biodiesel

Making Biodiesel in Rhode Island

Many people these days are looking into making their own biodiesel. But for five years now, Michael and Lee Ann Conway have been heating their home with a biodiesel blend, regular home heating oil mixed with the grease and oil from restaurant fryolators and other cooking appliances.

“Every gallon that goes into Mike’s house is a gallon that did not have to be pumped in from the Middle East, the revenue isn’t going to support countries that don’t much care for us and put us on the losing end of the biggest wealth transfer in history”, said U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse.

The Biodiesel Act

Making Biodiesel Brings Opportunities Around The World

The enactment of the Biofuels Act (Republic Act (RA) No. 9367) promises to bring about the production of clean, safe, efficient and cost-effective transport fuels and the creation of opportunities for livelihood to many throughout the world.

The Biofuels Act, touted to be the first legislation of its kind in Southeast Asia, aims to promote the use, exploration and development of biofuels as an alternative source of energy, with the broader goals of reducing dependence on imported fuels; promoting the protection of public health, the environment, and natural ecosystems; and expanding opportunities for livelihood consistent with ensuring sustainable economic growth.

Making Biodiesel for Small Towns

If a local city truck is watering down your street this summer, you might detect a smell of barbeque, popcorn, or French fries coming from its exhaust pipe.

This aroma is associated with many city vehicle’s use of B99 – or 99.9% biodiesel – in their vehicles during the warmer months. During colder months, more petroleum-based fuel is mixed in to prevent solidifying.

Making your own biodiesel has caught on in many towns across America. Besides being eco-friendly, making biodiesel is financially a smart decision as well for many local businesses.

Recipes for Making Biodiesel at Home

Can you really make biodiesel EASILY, QUICKLY and INEXPENSIVELY at home without a degree in molecular engineering?

Yes, you can! (This is not an Obama sponsored post.)

Researching biodiesel? Let me tell you about it. There’s nothing worse than spending hours researching a subject only to find out when you go to use it, that it’s completely useless and outdated. That all the hours of preparation were for nothing…

…Been There, Done That…

…Or worse yet, finding out that it was put together by someone who didn’t know what they were talking about to begin with.

Until now, that is exactly what people have been doing. For less than the price of a take home pizza David Sieg’s report will show you how to make your own biodiesel at home.

Biofuels a Hit in Swedish Town

Swedish Town Makes Transition to Greener Ways

As the US still doesn’t see a clear path to using renewable energy and making biofuels a normal part of life, one city in Sweden is setting a great example of how to live sustainably.

The city of Kalmar, Sweden is taking control of it’s fuel issues. It is on the verge of eliminating the use of fossil fuels, for good, and with minimal effect on its standard of living.
The city of 60,000 — and its surrounding 12-town region, with a quarter-million people — has traded in most of its oil, gas and electric furnaces for community “district heat,” produced at plants that burn sawdust and wood waste left by timber companies. Hydropower, nuclear power and windmills now provide more than 90 percent of the region’s electricity. Kalmar’s publicly owned cars and buses — and a growing share of its private and business vehicles — run on biogas made from waste wood and chicken manure, or an 85 percent ethanol blend from Brazil.

Biodiesel Trivia Challenge

In our last post titled “Biodiesel Back to the Future”, we ended with a question about making your own biodiesel.

Q: Which substance is the worst for making biodiesel?

A.) Chocolate

B.) Pig Poop

C.) Pond Scum

D.) Palm Oil

Biodiesel Past to Present

Back to the Future for Biodiesel

As the world looks to the future for biofuels to one day replace our dependence on petroleum-based fuels, we need only look back at our past to find the answer. Biodiesel was there from the beginning.

Isn’t it funny how we often overlook our past in our race towards the future? I mean, it’s pretty ironic that  Mr. Rudolph Diesel’s  first engine in the 1890s was designed to use the available local fuel sources such as vegetable oil and tallow. These fuels came from renewable feedstocks, easily accessible to the average person. 

Huh, sounds like what we’re trying to grapple with today doesn’t it?