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(November 1, 2007) President Bush promised to expand American biofuel production, but the result has been worse than nothing. Corn is a poor source for energy, but growing it and other staples as fuel has caused food prices worldwide to explode - even as the scarcity of flex-fuel vehicles means no significant increase in U.S. biofuel use.

Now the U.N. is worried about rising food costs, while environmentalists see entire regions torn up to grow fuel crops. The great ethanol boom of 2007 goes bust, this week on Global Pulse.

SOURCES: Once Noticias, Latinoamerica News, Mexico; BBC, U.K.; Fox News, NBC News, ABC News, U.S.

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biodiesel D.I.Y.

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Is Biodiesel Safe to Make at Home? YES! Parleys Diesel Performance and Graydon Blair of Utah Biodiesel Supply team up to answer the question, Is Making Biodiesel at Home Safe? As you can see here it clearly is if you have any further questions on bio diesel or biodiesel production visit www.imagine-believe-achieve.com/biodiesel or call us at 972-875-2642. biodiesel biofuel environmentally friendly reduce carbon footprint global warming 

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http://www.parleysdieselperformance.com/ The guys at Parley’s Diesel Performance got together with Graydon Blair of http://www.utahbiodieselsupply.com/ for a tour of his personal bio diesel refinery. Graydon was kind enough to show us how to brew biodiesel at home on a large level.

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ขบวนการแปรสภาพน้ำมันใช้แล้วให้เป็น biofuel ที่ไม่ต้องใช้สารเคมีใดๆ สามารถผสม 50 %ดีเซล ใช้กับรถคอมมอนเรลได้ ที่วัดเสือ ศรีปะจันต์ สุพรรณบุรี

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John Hamilton is a film executive who makes biodiesel in his parents’ garage. He runs his Volkswagen GTI on it and wonders why the biodiesel trend has yet to hit Quebec. Follow him to his parents’ house to see how he makes it and then take a spin in his biodiesel-fuelled car through town.

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Oil hit $100/barrel today, my oil bill was outrageous (I live in the Northeast) before the price was this high. Since home heating oil is essentially diesel, and you can run Biodiesel/refined vegetable oil in a diesel powered automobile with virtually no modifications. Would it be possible to heat your home with these?

As long as the system is set up to burn it, no problem. Fuel oil is about the same viscosity, so I doubt that ther would be a lot of changes, if any. Consult a home-heating company, or better yet, ask a company that sells biodiesel if they know what adjustments you need to make, and if they do them. You may have to have your fuel tank emptied and cleaned, again ask the biodiesel company.

Currently, rainforests are being destroyed to grow sugar to make biofuel. Corn is being grown to make ethanol. Why? Biofuel can be made from cooking oil.

A compression ignition engine (diesel) can run best on long chain hydrocarbons (12-20) because of their lubricating properties (diesel, biodiesel, cooking oil, kerosene.)

A spark ignition engine (gasoline powered car) requires the air and fuel be mixed and vaporized on the intake and compression stroke, therefore the fuel must be a hydrocarbon of less than 10 chains long so it vaporizes quickly (gasoline C8H18, methane CH4, ethanol C2H5OH, propane C3H8, natural gas (95% methane)

Therefore only diesels can use cooking oil. And there just isn't enough waste oil to even supply all that are out there now.

I agree with you, cutting down rainforests to plant sugarcane in brazil to make ethanol is defeating the purpose.

When the correct enzymes are inexpensive enough to make ethanol out of wood fibers, farmers can "mow" fields of naturally growing grasses to make ethanol.

Best thing about cellulose ethanol is that

1- farmers don't need to plant it (prarie grass is natural)
2- farmers dont need to irrigate it - saves water and energy
3- farmers don't need to use petroleum based fertilizers
4- farmers don't need to spray petroleum based pesticides
5- Its prennial - It will regrow itself every year on its own

Taking out the energy intensive steps required by farmers to make corn ethanol will save a lot of energy and money and make ethanol less energy intensive to produce and therefore less expensive at the pump and better for the environment.

We're almost there.

There has been concern expressed that the demand for alcohol (ethanol) used is the production of biofuel will result in an increase in the price of food staples in less developed nations. In America, methanol, instead of ethanol, is chiefly used in the production of biofuels. Will the increase demand for methanol significantly drive up the price for certain food stables used to produce it? If it does, would government regulations capping the price be a viable way to ensure cheap renable energy?

It won't actually have much effect. There is a large amount of 'capacity' that is not being used in the american food staples production. Land that is not being farmed. An increase in demand would be met by more farming, particularly if agricultural subsidy policies are changed in the US to encourage the production of crops that are usable in the biofuels market.

I need to decrease the viscosity of B-99.9 biodiesel with common alcohols/surfactants. I've tried isopropyl rubbing alcohol, and it works well. Everything else, however has too high of a water content to mix with the fuel.

find some methanol from a chemistry source, usually about 99 percent pure, where as rubbing alcohol is about 70%

or find 190 proof everclear