That’s a glimpse into my local veggie co-op. To some, the term “co-op” inaccurately describes a group where one person does all the work. Fortunately with our group, the term co-op accurately describes how we function. Not everyone does the exact same amount of work, but no one is working too hard and there has [...]
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Wade Mahoney from Sunsational Oils sent us some of his Sunflower Cooking oil as a thankyou for providing him with a Beast Centrifuge that he modified to be food grade. He grows, harvests and presses his sunflowers at his farm in Ohio. He then lets the oil settle for a few days before running it [...]
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The most widely discussed and important variable with running waste oil is temperature. With the change in season comes some rather significant changes in temperature. The significant change will happen when temperatures drop below the cloud point of the vegetable oil. Cloud point is when dissolved or “melted” solids in the oil, such [...]
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While some might say we’ve seen “Peak Waste Vegetable Oil”, there is still plenty of oil out there to be had. Sure, the days are gone where individuals randomly poach a restaurant’s waste oil by offering free collection, but when folks can offer 10 cents a gallon to secure a restaurant into a contract, then [...]
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Ok, let’s hear your stories of 2011 road trips. How many greasy miles did you go? Did you bring your fuel with you or dumpster dive? Any breakdowns or other fun tales? I’ll start it off. Back in March, my fiance and I took a 500+ mile round trip to Burney falls to celebrate [...]
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There are some major oil stains on my driveway. There’s vegetable oil from bad fill up attempts and filter changes. Even more plentiful are the scores of little dots and one large black tar pool from elusive motor oil leaks. I’ll admit, my 79 300SD is one leaky [...]
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Happy 4th of July, or Independence Day America! 235 years ago this nation declared independence from the rule of Imperial Britain. Religious, economic and personal freedom was the alluring promise of this “new land”. Liberty of spirit is a very powerful and desirable thing. Thus, the collective thinking and might of the people was to [...]
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I thought I knew what I was doing. I needed fittings for coolant and veggie oil. To save on shipping, and to be tantalized by a large selection of fittings, I went down to the local hydraulic fittings “Superstore”. Naively thinking the store would have aisles and rows of steel, brass, aluminum, titanium, kryptonite etc [...]
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With radiation once again poisoning Japan, this time from nuclear power plants, the news is abuzz with facts, figures and questions about Nuclear Power. It’s not hard to spot out the “white knights” from the nuclear industry, flown in special to explain how safe nuclear power is and how much we need it. I agree [...]
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“It’s all about the oil”, goes the old WVO saying. If there’s no vegetable oil, then there is nothing for our centrifuges to clean, nothing for our heat exchangers to heat and nothing good to smell coming out of our tailpipes. Our ingenious cleaning/filtering, heating and switching mechanisms will be rendered useless without the “liquid [...]
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