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REFERENCE LINKS
Additional
Sustainable Montana Businesses
Montana Business Network
Reading List These are good starters for a realistic perspective on just where we are right
now.
The Oil Endgame by Amory
Lovins (free download)
Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawkin
and Amory Lovins (free download)
The End of Oil by Paul Roberts
The Party's Over
by Richard Heinberg
The End of the Oil Age by Dale Allen Pfeiffer
The Coming Oil Crisis by Colin J. Campbell
Blood and Oil
by Michael Klare
Biodiesel Websites
http://biodiesel.org/ National Biodiesel Board web site- the Official
Industry web site
http://biodiesel.grassroots.com/backersregistration/ Become a "Biodiesel
Backer "and receive the National Biodiesel Board's monthly email
newsletter!
http://www.wnbiodiesel.com/ Willy Nelson's Biodiesel
company website, promoting Truck Stop Bio Diesel availability across the country,
great designs of garage-scale Biodiesel production, as well as SVO
www.journeytoforever.org Detailed plans for using an old
electric water heater to make Bio Diesel (Note that there are 5 pages total
there)
http://www.veggieavenger.com/avengerboard/viewtopic.php?t=332&start=0
www.biodieselamerica.org General info and links
http://pmaa.org/ Technical question website
SAVE organization Helena, MT
Links Boulder Biodiesel Co-op's
page
http://www.b100fuel.com/ Great news on Biodiesel
http://www.nefrpc.org/AFVweb/case_study_6.htm School bus use, case
study and cost comparisons
http://www.geocities.com/biofuelstations/ Lists locations of
Biofuels available
around the country
Map Salt Lake City biodiesel: Del
Saglio Oil,
SVO Web Sites
www.greasecar.com
Most affordable kit out there and a long history of use
www.plantdrive.com Probably the most sophisticated kits
and parts, Berkeley
www.frybrid.com Another very high quality kit maker,
Seattle
http://biodiesel.infopop Forum with SVO conversion info and BD resources
http://vegoilconversions.netfirms.com/ Purchase sets of plans for SVO, BD, etc
click here Practical steps to converting, starting with WasteVO collection
click here Map with sources of vegoil while
traveling
http://www.geocities.com/biofuelstations/index.htmlForum with traveller's supply of SVO
www.biofuels.ca/ Heated lines and tanks (same as Plantdrive.com)
Renewable Energy Education
RETScreen Canadian Government
Website A wealth of information on wind, solar heating, solar
electric, biomass, heat pumps, micro-hydro
Acronyms
BD Biodiesel
DIY Do It Yourself
SVO Straight Vegetable Oil
WVO Waste Vegetable Oil (usually collected from restaurants with deep fat
fryers)
UVO Used Vegetable Oil
A Note on "WASTE" and how Europe defines it:
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:57:08 +0100
From: "John Nicholson" <jn@bio-power.co.uk>
Subject: RE: new member - have question about license
The disposal of used cooking oil as an
additive to animal feed has been banned in
all European nations, and this ban has been
implemented in the Republic of Ireland longer
than in the UK. Material only becomes a
'waste' when it has been disposed of by the
holder. If there is an alternative non-waste
pathway for any material outside the waste
stream then the holder does not need to
dispose of it. Material so collected as a
commodity for a specific purpose is not
regarded as a waste and therefore does not
fall to Waste Management Regulation. Even
though some waste materials are regarded as
controlled waste' they are not waste unless
and until they are disposed of.
Article three of the European Waste Framework
Directive sets out clearly the requirement
for all member nations to reduce the creation
of waste by creating markets for materials
that would otherwise become a waste disposal
problem and also by the development of new
technology less demanding of resources. What
we are doing in Bio-power in terms of
collecting quality used cooking oils fits in
with both of these requirements. We prevent
the unnecessary creation of a waste by
providing a non-waste pathway for quality
material. This encourages the better care of
used cooking oil, so fat users look after
their oil better, and change their oil more
regularly. We often sell oil to fat users
and so we benefit twice over if if they
change their fat more often. As part of this
process we also encourage the use of lower
cholesterol oils and even a percentage of
olive oil in cooking oil blends. Olive oil
is actually good for you.
John Nicholson.
Bio-power UK Ltd.
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