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BenzDieselTuner Date registered: Dec 1899 Location: Vehicle(s): | Re: Alternative Fuels Thread - BioDiesel - Veggie Oil WVO/SVO its the GOVERNMENT, what can one possibly expect....? | ||
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Woody Extreme Veteran Date registered: Feb 2007 Location: Bend, Ore. Vehicle(s): '84 280GE -> 300GD turbo, '84 300SD veg, 06 Navion Posts: 570 | RE: Alternative Fuels Thread - BioDiesel - Veggie Oil WVO/SVO Just lining their pockets - RUG is at $3.25 today and deisel is $3.40! | ||
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BenzDieselTuner Date registered: Dec 1899 Location: Vehicle(s): | Re: Alternative Fuels Thread - BioDiesel - Veggie Oil WVO/SVO diesel is up to 3.05 here in florida..... gas is 2.87....... | ||
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Dieselburns Expert Date registered: May 2006 Location: New York, Long Island Vehicle(s): 78' MB 300D 87 Chief Cherokee Posts: 2251 | Re: Alternative Fuels Thread - BioDiesel - Veggie Oil WVO/SVO $2.99 for diesel here in new york | ||
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lkchris Veteran Date registered: Nov 2006 Location: Albuquerque Vehicle(s): '07 GL320CDI, '06 E320CDI Posts: 144 | Re: Alternative Fuels Thread - BioDiesel - Veggie Oil WVO/SVO BenzDieselTuner - 4/24/2007 1:33 AM diesel is up to 3.05 here in florida..... gas is 2.87....... Always only compare diesel price to premium gasoline price. 1. Mercedes only makes premium gasoline cars. 2. Diesel contains more btu/gal than gasoline and is therefore a high performance fuel. In either case, the engine is benefitting from the efficiency of high compression. | ||
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BenzDieselTuner Date registered: Dec 1899 Location: Vehicle(s): | RE: Alternative Fuels Thread - BioDiesel - Veggie Oil WVO/SVO well, today i was in a hurry, and i stopped and threw 5 dollars of diesel in, at the BP..... 3.07 for the 15ppm Diesel the wanted 3.18 for Premium...... | ||
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BenzDieselTuner Date registered: Dec 1899 Location: Vehicle(s): | HempCar runs on pure hempseed oil HempCar visited Portland, Oregon on it's national tour to show how diesel engines can run on pure hempseed oil. They are traveling 10,000 miles through 48 cities in the US and Canada in a ninety day tour that has been covered by media across North America. Kellie & Grayson Sigler and Scott Furr are interviewed. Go to www.hempcar.org for more info and to support their tour. watch the 20 mintue video here : http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-852.html a good little writeup on Mercedes-Benz........ http://www.hempcar.org/benz.shtml | ||
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BenzDieselTuner Date registered: Dec 1899 Location: Vehicle(s): | Chevron goes into the Waste business Earlier this month, Green Progress News reported that Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX) was teaming up with the city of Rialto, California, in the construction of a system to take the greasy waste water and sludge generated by restaurants and transform it into a usable energy source. The team is using the impending necessity of waste-water treatment facility expansion for Rialto to take advantage of construction expense outlays that would have been expected anyway. Fats, oils, and grease that are routinely sent out as waste from restaurants, and that currently go directly to landfills will instead be deposited at the Chevron/Rialto facility, which shall be the recipient of the waste hauler's "tipping fees" also. Tipping fees are simply the haulers' cost for emptying their loads. Typically, all that restaurant waste, and the potential trapped within it, ferments in our landfills, creating methane gas, most of which ends up in our atmosphere unless it's burned off immediately. The Rialto/Chevron project will instead process these wastes utilizing an organic matter "digester," producing methane for conversion into hydrogen, which can then be used to generate electricity. The financial angles on this project will present some noticeable impact both in expenditure and returns. It is estimated it shall cost a bit over $15 million to build the system and bring it to operational status. When completed, the project will become eligible for a $4.05 million rebate on the fuel-cell plant cost from California's Self-Generation Incentive Program. The balance of the costs will reportedly be recovered through energy cost savings, and there are no expected taxpayer costs. Additionally, the system will be utilizing a bit less than 1,000 kilowatts of generating capacity to provide baseload power, which should assist in keeping consumer electricity costs stable. Grace Vargas, Rialto's mayor, has stated: "It's a 'win' for multiple stakeholders -- our city taxpayers, restaurants, grease haulers, and the environment." | ||
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BenzDieselTuner Date registered: Dec 1899 Location: Vehicle(s): | Biodiesel Banned in Texas! i spotted this while going through some search pages....... "Come December 31st, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) is set to effectively ban biodiesel in the state’s largest markets. The problem, they say, lies with the fuel’s nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions and their contribution to the formation of ground-level ozone in Texas’ eastern counties. According to the TCEQ, biodiesel does not meet the stricter NOx standards recently imposed on diesel and alternative diesel fuels under new regulations. Efforts to clean up the air, led the TCEQ in November 2005 to adopt Texas low emission diesel standards (TxLED) in an effort to reduce pollutants in the state’s smoggiest 110 counties. Texas’ biodiesel industry - the largest in the country - suddenly found itself essentially outlawed after the standards went into effect." HOWEVER, many business selling Biodiesel blends now will switch over to selling only B100, which the government there doesnt consider a motor fuel, and has NO authority over..... | ||
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BenzDieselTuner Date registered: Dec 1899 Location: Vehicle(s): | Biofuel from Wine Up to 510 million litres of this year's surplus wine will be made into bioethanol that can only be used as biofuel or industrial alcohol, the European Commission announced on Wednesday. French winemakers have been given a quota of 150m hectolitres of table wine and 150m of quality wine, while Italians can sell 250m of quality and 10m litres of table wine for what the EU calls "crisis distillation." Greek and Spanish winemakers have also asked the EU to to buy their unwanted wine, and are awaiting a response. Turning quality wine into bioethanol may not be the cheapest way of producing biofuel, but it makes use of some of the excess wine that would otherwise go to waste. | ||
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DUTCH Administrator Doppelgänger Date registered: Apr 2006 Location: US, GA, Atlanta Vehicle(s): 2015 Audi Q7 3.0 TDI,2018 Sprinter Posts: 9963 | RE: Biofuel from Wine BenzDieselTuner - 5/22/2007 1:34 AM Up to 510 million litres of this year's surplus wine will be made into bioethanol that can only be used as biofuel or industrial alcohol, the European Commission announced on Wednesday. French winemakers have been given a quota of 150m hectolitres of table wine and 150m of quality wine, while Italians can sell 250m of quality and 10m litres of table wine for what the EU calls "crisis distillation." Greek and Spanish winemakers have also asked the EU to to buy their unwanted wine, and are awaiting a response. Turning quality wine into bioethanol may not be the cheapest way of producing biofuel, but it makes use of some of the excess wine that would otherwise go to waste. You do know that we have a winemaker forum member in G-Class. | ||
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BenzDieselTuner Date registered: Dec 1899 Location: Vehicle(s): | RE: Biofuel from Wine neat! maybe he can figure out how to process his excess wine himself, on all his equipment, and make his own gas substitute!! | ||
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thefryingdutchman Date registered: Dec 1899 Location: Vehicle(s): | RE: Alternative Fuels Thread - BioDiesel - Veggie Oil WVO/SVO i just took receipt of my converted 2004 freightliner sprinter with 33000 miles that ow runs on wvo. Very sophisticated elsbett system | ||
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BenzDieselTuner Date registered: Dec 1899 Location: Vehicle(s): | RE: Alternative Fuels Thread - BioDiesel - Veggie Oil WVO/SVO WVO in your CDI huh? i know they guys are gonna wanna hear more about that.......... how does your system function exactly? it pre-heats? how does she perform mileage and power-wise? | ||
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Woody Extreme Veteran Date registered: Feb 2007 Location: Bend, Ore. Vehicle(s): '84 280GE -> 300GD turbo, '84 300SD veg, 06 Navion Posts: 570 | RE: Alternative Fuels Thread - BioDiesel - Veggie Oil WVO/SVO True dat BDT! I wanna know more since I have a Sprinter. Like- where's the extra tank mounted, if it has one, and is it a switcheroo system? | ||
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curious Date registered: Dec 1899 Location: Vehicle(s): | RE: Alternative Fuels Thread - BioDiesel - Veggie Oil WVO/SVO I am interested in converting a mercedes benz or vw to biodiesel, and I live in Washington dc. I was wondering if VW Bus man 1 has any advice or can recommend a good mechanic. thanks, chris chris(dot)milmoe(at)gmail(dot)org | ||
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BenzDieselTuner Date registered: Dec 1899 Location: Vehicle(s): | RE: Alternative Fuels Thread - BioDiesel - Veggie Oil WVO/SVO he isnt online here very often, but we can help you out with any specific questions you may have.......... | ||
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simp Date registered: Dec 1899 Location: Vehicle(s): | RE: Alternative Fuels Thread Trying to be sure I understand everything involved with switching a 1980 GD300 over to veggie oil. What system can get you started? Is this engine ready for it? Can I just start with a mixture? Plans thus far - install new gas tank, run the (hot) radiator hose down the length of the fuel line, insulated.. mix up batch and see what happens? Would appreciate some feedback from someone experienced. Way excited for this and would like to just get it done. | ||
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ForcedInduction Regular Date registered: Sep 2006 Location: Federal Heights, CO Vehicle(s): 1980 240D 3.0VNT Posts: 89 | RE: Alternative Fuels Thread simp - 2/4/2008 10:19 AM switching a 1980 GD300 over to veggie oil
Thats just pure abuse. I wish I could save that rare truck from you. | ||
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Otiswesty Administrator Date registered: Jun 2007 Location: Portland, Oregon Vehicle(s): 463.241, 461.213 Posts: 3002 | RE: HempCar runs on pure hempseed oil BenzDieselTuner - 5/20/2007 1:33 AM HempCar visited Portland, Oregon on it's national tour to show how diesel engines can run on pure hempseed oil. They are traveling 10,000 miles through 48 cities in the US and Canada in a ninety day tour that has been covered by media across North America. Kellie & Grayson Sigler and Scott Furr are interviewed. Go to www.hempcar.org for more info and to support their tour. watch the 20 mintue video here : http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-852.html a good little writeup on Mercedes-Benz........ http://www.hempcar.org/benz.shtml If driving behind a WVO McDonalds powered car smells like french fries, driving behind the HempCar must smell like a "trip" down to Veneta in the Summer | ||
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