Sounds all well and good, but I have a few reservations about buying into this guy's " this fuel delivers no cost" sales pitch. Nobody is moving used cooking oil, processing and blending it for free. Home Heating Oil in Connecticut Will Now Be Blended With Biodiesel – NBC Connecticut
I guess that wouldn't be a huge deal for people with tanks in their basements like I have, but for people with tanks in the ground outside it could be trouble. Then again if they're blending it with standard HHO it may not matter. I have doubts there's enough of a supply of used cooking oil in the first place to use it as a substitute on a large scale. Factor in making it into biofuel, paying a few people along the way before the end user gets it, and it could be a wash (cost wise).
Here's a more in-depth article to give a better scope of what's happening in CT: New heating oil laws kick in July 1st in Conn.
Biodiesel is also less energy dense so less btu's per gallon than regular old HHO. The fuel company won't charge less per gallon for bio blended HHO either. On a single delivery it won't be consequential but with less energy per gallon delivered at every household in the state that adds up to a lot less energy for your dollar for consumers as a whole.
Hard on filters too from what I’ve heard. It does make your diesel exhaust smell like French fries though! Not a popular product around here at all.
i had a whole fleet of trucks from a local tree co gel up around 30° and dont quote me on this but if i remember right it was only like 20% bio....lots of folks still have a 275 gallon HHO tank in a unheated situation such as a shed or lean to or garage
We've had biodiesel for HHO available around here but the prices I've seen were a little bit more than regular HHO. Supposedly a home boiler/furnace shouldn'[t have any problems with it. Maybe the value of restaurant used oil will go up enough that the temptation to dump it down the drain will decrease. It doesn't seem to happen often but every now and then they bust someplace for dumping it.
I always wondered why the places that generate all this used cooking oil don't have a furnace and/or generator that runs on the stuff? I have no idea how much they generate in a day so maybe it isn't worth it. Maybe the big tater chip factories do it and I just don't know.
Our SIL used to collect it from restaurants to burn in his Diesel ram truck. They made a trip across Canada and back just using it from restaurants along the way. Most places just gave it to them. Unfortunately the truck died. They are working on a generator for the house that will burn used cooking oil.
