Re: Used cooking oil into aviation fuel.

by 2cent Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:56 pm

HawkTheSlayer wrote:Soul food cooking oil smells like chicken.

Tastes just like it, too!

by JMWinPR Thu Jan 12, 2023 7:40 pm

It gets cold up there. Home heating oil will turn to jelly. You must add kerosene to it.
As for JP5, or civvie JetA those are different animals. Diesel fuel has cetane, it does the opposite of octane, making it more "explosive". Something you don't want in a turbine engine.
The Navy tried this several years ago, they were paying on the order of $50 a gallon for veggie oil of some sort. That of course is way less than the $192/gallon for sesame oil, I use on occasion.

by Casey Jones Thu Jan 12, 2023 9:00 pm

Crusader wrote:I knew a guy who used restaurant grease to make his diesel fuel. He used to put it in his VW Beetle and would get 53 mpg. It sounded pretty simple to make. He ran it through 2 different filters to filter out the impurities. Next he would add 1/4 of the volume of store bought diesel and a smaller amount of premium gasoline for the detergents. His fuel cost about 1/4 of the current price of diesel fuel to make with used restaurant grease.

His name was Don and if you closed your eyes and listened to him, he sounds just like Larry the Cable Guy.

Biggest cost in motor fuels is...wait for it...TAXES.

If/when cooking oil as fuel takes off, you'll see the Fibbies/IRS start arresting the owners of jalopies using it.

by RV Sat Jan 14, 2023 9:24 am

Yeah, we have to find a way to fuel those private jets...

by HawkTheSlayer Sat Jan 14, 2023 9:32 am

RV wrote:Yeah, we have to find a way to fuel those private jets...

I was watching Butt-a-plug pontificate about the gas stoves yesterday.

Right after he flew on a carbon spewing private jet to be a guest on a radio talk show.

by RV Sun Jan 15, 2023 8:17 am

HawkTheSlayer wrote:
RV wrote:Yeah, we have to find a way to fuel those private jets...

I was watching Butt-a-plug pontificate about the gas stoves yesterday.

Right after he flew on a carbon spewing private jet to be a guest on a radio talk show.

Yeah, "WE'RE supposed to cut back our carbon footprint" so the Democrat elite can fly around in their private jets and claim that they are "cutting" carbon emissions "for the environment"...

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