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Books
Sliding Home
by Ray Holan
From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank,
commonly referred to at FTFTTFT,
new edition on the way
Diesel Vehicles For Sale
Bozeman Daily Chronicle Classifieds
Mini Nickel
http://greasecar.com/clasi.cfm
great selection of diesels and some converted to SVO
www.cars.com Lists classified ads from all over
www.ebay.com diesel vehicles for sale
BD Web Sites
National Biodiesel Board web site,
the official industry web site
http://biodiesel.org/
Click here to become a Biodiesel
Backer and receive the National Biodiesel Board's monthly
email
newsletter!
http://biodiesel.grassroots.com/backersregistration/
Willy Nelson's Biodiesel web site and
company, promoting BD availability in truck stops
across the country
http://www.wnbiodiesel.com/
Great designs of garage-scale
biodiesel production, as well as SVO
www.journeytoforever.org
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Detailed plans for using an old
electric water heater to make BD.
Note that
there are 5 pages total there.
http://www.veggieavenger.com/avengerboard/viewtopic.php?t=332&start=0
General info and links
www.biodieselamerica.org
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Technical question website
http://pmaa.org/
Helena, MT
SAVE organization
Boulder Biodiesel Co-op's
Links
page
Great news on Biodiesel
http://www.b100fuel.com/
School bus use, case
study and cost comparisons
http://www.nefrpc.org/AFVweb/case_study_6.htm
Lists locations of biofuels available
around the country
http://www.geocities.com/biofuelstations/
Salt Lake City biodiesel: Del
Saglio Oil,
Map
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
Forum with SVO conversion info and BD resources
http://biodiesel.infopop
Purchase sets of plans for SVO, BD, etc
http://vegoilconversions.netfirms.com/
Practical steps to converting, starting with WasteVO collection
click here
Map with sources of vegoil while
traveling click here
Forum with traveller's supply of SVO
http://www.geocities.com/biofuelstations/index.html
Heated lines and tanks
www.biofuels.ca/ (same as plantdrive.com)
Reading List
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
These are good starters for a realistic perspective on just where we are right
now.
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
Local Gas Station phone numbers
Panda 587-6280
Me & Jan's 585-3449, 7th & Main
Cenex Livingston 222-7371
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.
Bringing Renewable Energy to Bozeman
and Southwest Montana
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