I highly recommend greasecar.com. I got and installed the kit after reading a/. article about them two years ago. I've got thousands of miles on my greasecar and it still runs great.
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Read one of the best books ont he subject, "From the Frier to the Fuel Tank". Just recycling current used grease could fuel 10-20% of current US diesel usage. But the real key to making this work on a larger scale is water algea farms which produces massive amounts of vegitable oil. It could be possible to produce more oil then we burn a year in diesel on not that many miles of farming.
But really diversity is the key to a more balanced enviroment. The fact of the matter is this is waste that could be recycled and the method can sustain a lot more people then currently do it. I know, as I'm a grease burner.:)
Actually. I converted a car using the GreaseCar kit after the/. article last year. Every restuarant I talk to jumps at the chance to give away grease. They pay about $1 a gallon to get it picked up!
Hey, last summer around this time you guys posted an article that was almost like this except it was for the other grease car conversion kit company GreaseCar. Anyway I started doing some research on the subject and became sold! Thanks somewhat in part to/. I've got a mint condition 1975 Mercedes Benz (bought on eBay) running on grease for almost a year now! I highly recommend doing this. The conversion was easy and the power of grease is amazing!
Roblimo takes a "business trip" to FL in December to write a "story." Sure seems like a nice way to get a few days in the FL sun written off as a business expense...
I saw this device at ComDex 99 and thought it was one of the best things at the show. The company making it was looking for venture capital at the time to be able to produce them in scale. I tried to get as much information as I could but no one at the booth spoke english real well.
It isn't a violation of rights. The college owns the network and as such they have the right to ban anything they don't see as fitting into the academic mission of the college. Because we _could_ ban Napster does this mean we _should_? This is the more difficult question. The reason Napster is so powerful is it sets up users who would not normally serve out information to do so. This drastically increases the amount of people serving information clogging network lines. Before Napster, mp3 servers where so few and high volume they stuck out and were easily found and corrected. What we as admins of a college network have decided to do is scan our network for napster servers and email users educating them as to the bandwith and legal concerns with running the software. This alone has drasticaly reduced usage. I was shocked to find most people did not actually know many of these issues. The next step is to look at top bandwith users and put bandwith caps on machines. This is a very time consuming process on a large network and something that costs a decent amount of time and money. Most Univeristies merely block napster because they would rather spend their time dealing with improving services rather then become the copyright/bandwith police. Although I understand this view many new napster clone programs have begun to emerge and it seems important to attack a bandwith concern by limiting bandwith abusers not all users of a program (be it questionably legal or not). I just don't see it as a violation of rights. The college pays the internet line bills and owns the network, they can do what they want with it. It is important to keep in mind that college internet services are provided for academic purposes, it is NOT a right.
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I highly recommend greasecar.com. I got and installed the kit after reading a /. article about them two years ago. I've got thousands of miles on my greasecar and it still runs great.
Read one of the best books ont he subject, "From the Frier to the Fuel Tank". Just recycling current used grease could fuel 10-20% of current US diesel usage. But the real key to making this work on a larger scale is water algea farms which produces massive amounts of vegitable oil. It could be possible to produce more oil then we burn a year in diesel on not that many miles of farming.
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But really diversity is the key to a more balanced enviroment. The fact of the matter is this is waste that could be recycled and the method can sustain a lot more people then currently do it. I know, as I'm a grease burner.
Actually. I converted a car using the GreaseCar kit after the /. article last year. Every restuarant I talk to jumps at the chance to give away grease. They pay about $1 a gallon to get it picked up!
Hey, last summer around this time you guys posted an article that was almost like this except it was for the other grease car conversion kit company GreaseCar. Anyway I started doing some research on the subject and became sold! Thanks somewhat in part to /. I've got a mint condition 1975 Mercedes Benz (bought on eBay) running on grease for almost a year now! I highly recommend doing this. The conversion was easy and the power of grease is amazing!
Roblimo takes a "business trip" to FL in December to write a "story." Sure seems like a nice way to get a few days in the FL sun written off as a business expense...
I saw this device at ComDex 99 and thought it was one of the best things at the show. The company making it was looking for venture capital at the time to be able to produce them in scale. I tried to get as much information as I could but no one at the booth spoke english real well.
It isn't a violation of rights. The college owns the network and as such they have the right to ban anything they don't see as fitting into the academic mission of the college. Because we _could_ ban Napster does this mean we _should_? This is the more difficult question. The reason Napster is so powerful is it sets up users who would not normally serve out information to do so. This drastically increases the amount of people serving information clogging network lines. Before Napster, mp3 servers where so few and high volume they stuck out and were easily found and corrected. What we as admins of a college network have decided to do is scan our network for napster servers and email users educating them as to the bandwith and legal concerns with running the software. This alone has drasticaly reduced usage. I was shocked to find most people did not actually know many of these issues. The next step is to look at top bandwith users and put bandwith caps on machines. This is a very time consuming process on a large network and something that costs a decent amount of time and money. Most Univeristies merely block napster because they would rather spend their time dealing with improving services rather then become the copyright/bandwith police. Although I understand this view many new napster clone programs have begun to emerge and it seems important to attack a bandwith concern by limiting bandwith abusers not all users of a program (be it questionably legal or not). I just don't see it as a violation of rights. The college pays the internet line bills and owns the network, they can do what they want with it. It is important to keep in mind that college internet services are provided for academic purposes, it is NOT a right.