This thread is for those would like to explore how you can easily make alcohol and other bio-fuels to run internal combustion motors, cook with and heating systems etc, the possibilities are endless.
Also the use of waste oils for the same purpose.
I have been a bio-diesel producer and user for over 6 years and have made all my own processor and bio diesel making equipment from scrap junk, a few pipe fittings and hardware parts were bought new. But the over all costs were low being I have a well equipped shop with much welding equipment and tools. The techniques for making bio-diesel I use are not as of yet been revealed on the internet to my knowledge. The technique is much easier I believer as it eliminates the need for pretesting the oil for proper oil to methanol/hydroxy ratios. I have made lierally thousands of gallons to date and have put on over 100,000 additional miles on a 96 Dodge 1 ton duely with the Cummins turbo diesel engine and running 100% biodiesel.
In the quest to make bio-diesel cheaper by recovering some of the alcohol from the glycerin biproducts I came up with a novel Idea for a simple alcohol still made from steel drums. These stills could also make ethanol or ethyl alcohol from funky wine you can brew from all sorts of stuff including some garbage.
My newest still is currently in the process of being completed and is made from a used 300 gallon diesel fuel tank. I am at the final stages of the build making the babington style burner to fire it with waste oil or glycerin, glycerin being the more difficult to burn. May have to use a combo burn head with waste oil and glycerin both being used on separate babington burner heads side by side. My drum stills use propane fired burners used for cooking deep fried turkeys. These were purchased on sale for 20 bucks each new. I made 3 drum stills that hold 30 gallons each and three turkey cooker stands. These three stills were then daisy chained together for the cooling copper coils. I will post some pics of the drum style stills anyone can build for under $100.00 USD. in future posts.
Alcohol production is the worlds 2nd oldest profession and is a well known science and easy for anyone to do.
In this post I will be quoting David Blume from his book "Alcohol Can Be A Gas" one of the USA's leading authority on this subject. David is a Bio systmatist and permaculture system expert. I highly recommend his book and companion DVD for anyone wanting to gain their energy independence. There is nothing to reinvent and or try and duplicate of some mysterious nature which can lead to much money expended on research and experimentation, these are all fine if you have deep pockets. These technologies here you can do NOW and are easy to do with a little help from someone like me who is doing it. I will be happy to assist anyone who is interested in going in this direction. With these systems you can light much more then a couple of LEDS or a CFL, I am talking serious amounts of real power in any quantity you wish to produce by just scaling up or down your system using renewable resources all around you. This is NOT free energy but does help bring one closer to self sufficiency TODAY, so that you can get away from your dependence from the big tit gas pump you been sucking from. There is a time when babies need to be weened and that time is NOW if we are to bring the powers that be into check mate. Take it from me one who has not bought fuel at the pump for over 6 years now, If I could do it so can you.
Please let me know by responding to this post if your interested in this thread, if I don't get enough response will not waste my valuable time, will instead make a video and sell the information as some people believe unless you buy it it must be worthless.
The Bio-diesel process I use and equipment I built is capable of making 25 gallons of bio-diesel every 15 minutes, using very few components to do it. I also have a method of separation of glycerin from the bio-diesel product that used to take 8 hours for the initial settling and now I do this in less then 5 minutes. This is done using a neon transformer and some resistors between the ground lead and the case to then transfer 7000 volts through Stainless Steel rods into the solution, will post pics of this and more later.
Let me know if there is any interest here and we will continue soon if there is.
Good Day!!!...24Seven