http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/ Engadget Comments for FuelPod2 converts excess cooking oil into biodiesel http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/Dec 5th 2007 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/
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To solve the energy crisis, we are enticing people to cook and eat fatty, oily foods so that they can convert their cooking sludge into bio diesel?

Well won't the people eating this type of food get bigger and fatter and thus require larger cars like SUV's which will therefore require MORE fuel - which will cause fat people to eat YET EVEN MORE? - thus requiring EVEN LARGER VEHICLES (like HUMMERS) which require EVEN MORE FUEL which....]]>Dec 5th 2007 9:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/Dec 5th 2007 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/
Someone needs to invent a fuel pod for human waste or urine. That right there is our solution. As disgusting as it sounds, it only makes sense.]]>Dec 5th 2007 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/
Typically, people who make their own biodiesel have ways of getting used cooking oil that doesn't include owning a fryer themselves. Restaurants have to get rid of this stuff and are actually more than willing to let you take it off their hands. How many restaurants are around your house with fryers? Get the picture?

So, we're just utilizing what fat america is already eating, not promoting more of it. It's a utilization of waste and turning it into something that not only helps the environment, but our dependence on foreign fuel.

Can you really argue with that? Now the price point of this device, that's another matter...]]>Dec 5th 2007 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/Dec 5th 2007 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/Dec 5th 2007 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/Dec 5th 2007 9:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/
The actual potential of this product is that anyone can take any kind of oil, and make viable fuel out of it!

Fx. if you live in africa and can grow crops to make the oil, then you don't need to import fuel from other places (but you'd need to import food, because you were growing fuel now instead). ]]>Dec 5th 2007 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/Dec 5th 2007 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/Dec 5th 2007 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070307/133704.shtml]]>Dec 5th 2007 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/
Biodiesel Tax Exemption

The retail sale, use, storage or consumption of alternative fuels is exempt from the state retail sales and use tax. (Reference North Carolina General Statutes 105-164.13)

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Biodiesel is quite simply the most ludicrous thing to emerge from this AWG myth, quite soon the world will realise what a backwards step it is.]]>Dec 5th 2007 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/
By the way - this AWG that you speak of - is that the American Wire Gauge standard or the Arctic Winter Games?]]>Dec 5th 2007 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/
It is both energy efficient AND good for the environment.

Now, if you really meant Ethanol, then we could start agreeing on something.]]>Dec 5th 2007 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/Dec 5th 2007 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/
(At the store)

"Shall I bake or fry? FRY!"]]>Dec 5th 2007 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/
This is a good solution for a few people but on a mass scale there just isn't enough used fry oil in the world.]]>Dec 5th 2007 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/Dec 5th 2007 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/
Also, here in the US, literally BILLIONS of dollars are spent subsidizing corn per year. Although it's not efficient now, creating biodiesel from corn oil is a definite possibility in the future. Maybe then we won't have as many problems weening Americans off of our high-fructose corn syrup addiction.]]>Dec 5th 2007 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/Dec 5th 2007 9:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/Dec 5th 2007 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/
as for finding a nearby restaurant that uses it. i really don't live near one. maybe four miles away from the nearest one. so i'd have to cart it back (with my said biodiesel car) and then make it to fill it up. to what? go out and get more.

kind of a false economy dear wouldn't you say?]]>Dec 5th 2007 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/
And that regular diesel sure doesnt get to gas stations by truck! Nope it just magically appears there...

I wonder how many of these posters come from: oil companies and OPEC nations... morons.]]>Dec 5th 2007 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/Dec 5th 2007 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/Dec 5th 2007 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/I have been trying to confirm this but no joy.
Anyone ??]]>Dec 5th 2007 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/
Biodiesel Tax Exemption

The retail sale, use, storage or consumption of alternative fuels is exempt from the state retail sales and use tax. (Reference North Carolina General Statutes 105-164.13)

]]>Dec 5th 2007 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/]]>Dec 5th 2007 11:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/Dec 5th 2007 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/Just because this device isn't appropriate for you, doesn't mean it's not useful to others.

@Lattyware,
I don't see how the taxman would get you on this if it is for personal use. If you are making it in large enough quantity to sell to others, that may be a different story.]]>Dec 5th 2007 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/
So regardless of how much fuel you make, even if you're not selling it, if you're using it on the roads that Caesar built, you need to pay Caesar!]]>Dec 5th 2007 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/Dec 5th 2007 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/Dec 5th 2007 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/
Unless you are running some sort of doughnut speakeasy... I don't think it would be a (literal) drop in the bucket compared to how much heating oil is in your house right now.]]>Dec 5th 2007 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/
First, concerning the energy crisis, I don't think that there is 1 great solution, but many solutions that should be used together (solar, hyrbid, hydrogen, diesel, biofuels - not all in the same car though). No silver bullet...more like silver buckshot.

Biodiesel is not Ethanol. 2 completely different things.

Biodiesel can be made from waste oil, or oil grown for the purpose of fuel.

Waste oil can be picked up from restaurants, usually for free. Restaurants usually have to pay to have their waste oil disposed of.

Biodiesel can be made with from a variety of sources. The most promising being algae. If you grow algae anywhere on the planet where you can get sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide (everywhere), you can produce a lot of oil per acre.

Diesel vehicles are decently clean nowadays due to advances in technology.

Diesel vehicles typically get significantly better mileage than their gas equivalents. My Jetta TDI regularly get 45 mpg mixed city/highway. (E85 on the other hand significantly REDUCES the mileage a vehicle gets).

This product essentially turns garbage into fuel. Why do people have a problem with that? (although I do wish it were cheaper).]]>Dec 6th 2007 12:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/fuelpod2-converts-excess-cooking-oil-into-biodiesel/
If it were me and I had a diesel car I would just put in a Straight Veggie Oil conversion kit. A SVO kit runs about $2500 (or less if it is DIY).

Here in Maui we had the first company to process waste cooking oil into a usable fuel.
I've met with the owners of Pacific Biodiesel http://www.biodiesel.com/ and have learned a lot from them. Originally they started up to divert the veggie oil away from our landfill because it was causing fires and really becoming a problem.

Now Pacific Biodiesel has built 8 plants around the company that are based off a small community based model that uses waste veggie oil or locally grown crops. Pacific Biodiesel and others have set up the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance http://www.sustainablebiodieselalliance.com/ to support community based energy production.

Biodiesel can't provide all the diesel fuel for the united states but it can provide a portion of our energy needs. Our future energy needs must be met by using a combination of technologies and of course we must focus on EFFICIENCY.



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