arkjarhead
Veteran Expediter
I was talking to my little brother this weekend and he was telling me his ffa at school is making biofuel in the shop. for those of you who don't know ffa is future farmers of america. anyway they get used cooking oil from local resteraunts clean it and mix it with a certain % of methanol. I'm not clear on how the whole process works but it takes about 24 hours to make 40 gallons. the school uses it to put in thier old ford tractor that they use in keeping up the school grounds. they say the tractor has never run better than what it does on the homemade biofuel. it costs them 99 cents a gallon to produce this stuff. so far they are the only ffa chapter in the country to be making it and they are getting a trip to the national conference in Indy to debut thier process. just thought it was pretty interesting and thought i'd pass it along. plus think about it one teacher and a few high school students put something like this together on a small scale what is holding back all of this engineers and "educated" people who are supposedly working to make more biofuel a reality?