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At 15p a litre, home-brew biodiesel is fuel of the future | Environment | The Guardian
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May 11, 7:07pm
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At 15p a litre, home-brew biodiesel is fuel of the future
Drivers spurn forecourt for the pub restaurant when they need to fill their tanks
From the page: "Every few weeks Gordon Elliott drives 22 miles to the Hare and Hounds pub in Marple, Cheshire, collects a barrel of waste cooking oil from his stepdaughter and takes it back to his personal oil refinery in his garage in Leigh, near Bolton. The retired construction site manager then decants the liquid into a machine and adds a few chemicals.
Twenty-four hours later the waste oil has been purified, filtered and refined and is ready to be used in one of his family's two diesel cars. Instead of paying £1.25p a litre at the local supermarket, he has paid 15p to make his own biodiesel. He says he is saving nearly £100 a month - as well as 90% of the greenhouse gases he would normally emit from driving. The cars perform perfectly, the equipment will be paid for within a year and the pleasure of making his own fuel is intense. "It's the principle. I do it for the environment and to spite the exchequer," he said."
This is very good news in deed. And will remain so, till the government intrudes. It hates any activity that earns a shilling it can't get half of. In any event, there is potential business in this. For example, it is estimated that 50.000 tonnes of waste oil finds its way into the Adriatic - in Croatia. Then there's the waste oil from innumerable restaurants and booths. These oils could be reclaimed and used.
This is not my original idea. There is, in my opinion, an Einstein of biofuels and waste recycling, that resides in Zagreb, Croatia with a full blown plan for doing this and more. I've read it; brilliant. And his planned operational facility would be nearly 100% self-sufficient. The last we spoke, he was seeking investment.
This same gentleman had a land reclamation project that, when the Americans saw it, thought it was brilliant, good enough to implement in the U.S. He acquired investment on this project.
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