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so my biodiesel efforts will begin shortly. one of my good friends owns a few busy restaurants here including an irish pub and an american grill and they've agreed to provide me with their WVO at no cost. this coupled with our own restaurant would be enough WVO each week to fully replace the fuel in my truck fleet.

the plan is to start with 10 different liter sized batches based on the journey to forever plans to get the process down before i scale it up to a water heater sized processor.

the goal is to first gradually replace the diesel in my truck with biodiesel, will probably do something like 10% 30% 50% and then full on biodiesel should everything work out right. i'll time the increases in the ratio with scheduled truck maintenance so filters etc can be changed out when appropriate.

if that all goes to plan, it will lower my fuel cost by up to 8,000thb per month (275usd) over the next year (considering WVO is and continues to be free and without taking into account cost of home made processor) and if everything is ok after running the truck on that mix i'll then start replacing my other trucks with biodiesel and (hopefully) start replacing a portion of the diesel in my yachts with a biodiesel mix. i'm using anywhere from 5k-15kusd per month in petro diesel depending upon the season so it would be huge to even get a 30% reduction in fuel costs there. especially as there is always someone coming in trying to compete with me this would enable me to keep my prices stable but make more money which is of course the goal for anyone in business.

any thoughts?

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that sounds awesome, have you listened to wicked enzos podcast? He explains the process pretty well, he's also a member here, you should shoot him a pm. Hessian was had asked about producing it in a environment that hot and humid and if I remember correctly the biggest concern was air.

Do you have a design planned out already for the processor?

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no i haven't heard the podcast, still a podcast virgin haha. how do i find it?

no design planned yet for the processor, i'm the kind of person who would normally just wash my hands of it and buy something ready made but that doesn't always work so well here due to importation issues. that's why i want to make those liter batches first, already have my girls saving our cooking oil here at home.

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yeah it' what jeremy recommends is doing small batched first becuae you will screw up,better to do it on a small batch instead of making a 40 gallon bar of soap

http://thehomesteadi.....episode-5/

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