I'm sure he's now reflecting, from his bed in the burns unit of Stoke Mandeville, that using an electric drill to mix alcohol and caustic soda into waste cooking oil might not have been a terribly good idea.....
Given the number of ad-hoc fuel factories now mushrooming everywhere; this may be only the first of many. I've heard of one with a stack of 20ltr drums of methanol stored in a garage under some flats....
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I looked in to making biodiesel at home from waste vegetable oil but the safety aspects put me off. This is not unusual, home brewers seem to be blowing stuff up quite a lot. There are some very dangerous 'biodiesel factories' up for sale on eBay.
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once dealt with an incident whereby a chap had taken out the back seat of his sister's written off Corsa so that he could access the petrol tank and extract the fuel via an electric pump (not recently either when fuel prices have gone sky high)
the subsequent explosion and fire was quite dramatic, took out the Corsa and the parent's car on the driveway and gave him enough serious burns that 3 days later he sadly died
the sister had been pleading with him not to as she thought it was dangerous..whatever was going through his head?
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higher fuel prices are not so much of an issue to me
but some people must be really struggling; maybe like this guy
Without going off the rails here the fuel increases and now up to 22% in gas / 17% elec.; some families are really going to struggle and thats a shame because i bet a good portion probably work really hard too.
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well the greenies didnt really think about the effect of carbon emmissions from garage fires when they proclaimed bio-diesel as a clean fuel did they :-)
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>>well the greenies didnt really think about the effect of carbon emmissions from
>>garage fires when they proclaimed bio-diesel as a clean fuel did they :-)
That misses the point - for it is all current carbon. Fossil fuels are historic carbon.
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I worked in the past for the R&E dept of a major motor maker and oneday,an "INVENTOR" turned up with a replacement for our carburetor system-basically it went back to the 1900's and part of the system ran the exhaust pipe thro' the fuel tank-there were some other peculiarities as well.We told him to get it off the premises as quick as possible-fearing an explosion.We later received a letter from a member of the Royal Family regretting that we had not shown more interest in the man's invention.
Edited by jc2 on 28/07/2008 at 18:22
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Ahh; so that's what happened to Windsor Castle.....
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A thought that crossed my mind as well.
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