Grow it, eat it, leave the leftovers for the internal combustor.
Vegeteblearian improves the health of the tastebuds ?
Cannot get more eco-friendly !

Any potato vodka ? As a fuel line cleaner, but vonly a sip for the eco-driver.

solar panels? this just keeps getting better and better.
ps… Is Brian wearing a youngblood gallery teeshirt?

Cody,

After watching your interview with the gentleman who makes his own biodiesel, I couldn’t help but wonder what it’s costing him per gallon to produce it. Is it just a hobby, or is he actually saving money over what he would pay for diesel fuel at the pump?

GE claims “If you covered 7 percent of Arizona with solar panels, it would be sufficient to power the entire U.S.” Some panels 32% efficient. Now, if you put solar panels on the propellers of wind turbines, grow algae off the reflected, raise the albedo, slurp it all. Earth disappears in the visible spectrum, just Dyson Sphere Radiation !

Tow a 100 Kw sized billboard trailer behind, with some batteries for steep hills..
Throw on front wheel hub motors, for eco-pirate speeding

Want to find fuel? Try http://www.eere.energy.gov/afdc/stations/find_station.php

Good luck gentlemen,
If you make it to NJ come chk out my ‘73 hot rod Scout. Yu can see it here:
http://jimpascale.myphotoalbum.com/view_album.php?set_albumName=album98
Regards,
Jim

JW, don’t know about his production costs, but a gallon of Wesson Veggie oil at the market is $9 as of a couple months ago here. The small scale costs to a hobbyist are obviously going to be a lot smaller, but hobbyists tend to ignore the upstream supply chain things like the cost needed to grow, harvest and process the original plants, transport it, etc. They figure they get it for free from McD so none of that counts.

Kind of like me when I cut down a tree to make some furniture. I already own the forest, so I don’t charge myself for materials that I don’t actually buy, even tho there is a harvesting and processing cost that I incur. But you can bet that I roll those costs into everything I sell, so the customer does pay for it.

Interested in the truth of making your own biodiesel?
Visit http://www.biodieselcommunity.org/ for factual tutorials.
A lot of individual brewers and some small-scale plants are using waste vegetable oil, recycling an already used product. Like all commodities, there is a price for this feedstock. Very small producers that have good connections with local independent restaurants MAY be able to get used oil for free. Also see http://www.biodieselnow.com/

Shame on you Jim… Why would your replace a perfectly good International engine with that…thing.
Great bodywork though, she’s a beaut.

Very interesting project. Maybe I can get my work to pay for me to travel cross country on a solar-powered unicycle. And greetings to you, Broam Jardu!

Greater internet reporting is warranted !
Analog dollars stealing from internet cents ?
Brian and Cody save yourselves from swimming in the hurricane tidal swell reporting. Do a good job on the internet and get a secretary with an algea bikini.

Get several inexpensive cameras,
Cody and Brian to snaap away. A driver and a navigator laptop uploader.