Make your own biodiesel: Journey to Forever. The first two methods sound easiest, but, as so often in life, it's not quite that simple.
Vegetable oil is much more viscous (thicker) than either petro-diesel or biodiesel. The purpose of mixing or blending straight vegetable oil (SVO) with other fuels and solvents is to lower the viscosity to make it thinner, so that it flows more freely through the fuel system into the combustion chamber. If you're mixing SVO with petro-diesel you're still using fossil-fuel -- cleaner than most, but still not clean enough, many would say.
Still, for every gallon of SVO you use, that's one gallon of fossil-fuel saved, and that much less climate-changing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. People use various mixes, ranging from 10% SVO and 90% petro-diesel to 90% SVO and 10% petro-diesel. You might get away with it in summer time with something like an older '80s Mercedes 5-cylinder IDI diesel, which is a very tough and tolerant motor -- it won't like it but you probably won't wreck it. To each his own. ECOFLOAT » Launch Gallery. UK straw bale building and training experts. The Global Calculator. CoeLux. How To Build a Gravity-Based PVC Aquaponic Garden Very Easily. Posted Categories: Green If you haven't been introduced to Aquaponics, the idea is simple.
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How to make old homes energy efficient. Thirty five years ago I bought a row of 350-year-old Welsh half-timbered industrial workers’ cottages.
Good move, except for the several kinds of damp, the beetles, woodworm, rotting windows, multicoloured moulds, doors that did not fit and a resident cat. Over the years, nearly everything has been repaired and re-repaired, new bitshave been added, and other bits have dropped off. The cat has long gone and today it’s like so many of Britain’s other 400,000 listed buildings – hungry, expensive to maintain, and a mix of styles, materials and ages. I love it. But until the ‘Green Police’ – the head of environmental practices at the National Trust, a leading historic buildings adviser and a researcher at the Centre for sustainable energy in Bristol – descended on it recently I did not realise how much energy I was wasting and what could be done.
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