Comments on: Free Manual On Home-brewing Biodiesel.

By: adam donaldson

adam donaldson — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:11:23 +0000

has anyone out there have a downloaded copy of the free biodiesel manual? I need some help. thanks

By: Hans Huth

Hans Huth — Fri, 15 May 2009 06:30:14 +0000

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By: James Towner

James Towner — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:36:43 +0000

ack! it looks like the biod101 site is gone. I’ll see if the manual is available somewhere else and fix the links.

By: adam donaldson

adam donaldson — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:01:27 +0000

any attempt to bring up the free manual at http://www.biod101.com results in a coca cola website?

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The crazy world of fuel prices | AzSustainably.com — Wed, 28 May 2008 03:38:14 +0000

[...] it is time to start home-brewing biodiesel like I suggested in a earlier article on this site, but be sure you have a secure source of free or cheap used oil. It seems that demand for this [...]

By: Tracy Perkins

Tracy Perkins — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:44:55 +0000

I really like the idea of home-brewing our own bio, especially with the obscene fuel prices right now and the unavailability of commercial waste veggie oil (WVO) biodiesel. This looks like a really handy resource, thanks!

By: James Towner

James Towner — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:15:50 +0000

Making biofuels from food crops is definitely a concern and a lot of people generally think it’s a bad idea. There’s quite a bit of debate about if the current food crisis is purely based on energy prices or if biofuels are also playing a role. I’d think they’d have to be because a lot of crop land has been changed from growing food to biofuel crops.
This really isn’t a issue with home-brewing biodiesel though. Home-brewers make biofuel from Waste Vegetable Oil which is a waste product of the restaurant industry. This isn’t diverting anything from being used as food as it was already used to fry food. Making this into biofuel is a really good use of a waste product.

By: Monica Surfaro Spigelman

Monica Surfaro Spigelman — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:57:35 +0000

Hi, I see James on Twitter – I’m a Tucsonan (from NYC) also interested in sustainability here in the West. Anyway, I read an article in Seattle PI about potential for biofuel to divert food sources from the table to the fuel tank…article also mentioned question about how “green” biofuels really are. Thought of your site and wondered about your take on this, from Arizona perspective. The article: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/361634_biodiesel03.html