[Stoves] Vegetable oil as fuel in India

[Richard Stanley]

Dear Otto and Crispin,
I don't know about your sources of information about biodiesel and the depletion of the tropical forests with clearing for palm oil etc.,  but here in little 'ole Ashland Oregon and the surrounding Rogue Valley of Southern Oregon,  our locally managed Rogue Biofuels produces biodiesel out of USED vegg oil from the restaurants . For some reason, the oil off Chinese restaurants is rumored to be  much favored. 
No matter how much a point you can try to make against biodiesel it is can well be locally  made here on a quite  sustainable basis. 

Perhaps its time to  presume less, the need for  large scale international who-ha corporate behavior as a given supplier of our energy and all the politics and corruption that implies, and move more into a local vernacular.  As the bumper sticker my oldest son bought for our VW Passat tdi says, Biodiesel, No war required…
Its just common sense think locally work in balanced with your own resouces… and for everything else get a 3d printer…

Happy solstice all, 
Richard Stanley
On Dec 21, 2011, at 4:43 AM, Otto Formo wrote:

> Dear Crispin,
> dont "forget" to mention that we are talking about waste vegoil..............after being utilized as food, first and formost
> 
> Regards
> Otto
> 
>> From: Crispin Pemberton-Pigott [crispinpigott at gmail.com]
>> Sent: 2011-12-20 21:48:56 MET
>> To: Stoves [stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org]
>> Subject: [Stoves] Vegetable oil as fuel in India
>> 
>> Dear Friends
>> 
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>> I found a reference to using vegetable oil as a fuel in India.
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>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Crispin
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>> Use of vegetable oil as fuel to improve the efficiency of cooking stove
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>> Natarajan, R.; Karthikeyan, N. S.; Agarwaal, Avinash [Energy Centre, School
>> of Mechanical and Building Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology
>> University, Vellore 632 014 (India)]; Sathiyanarayanan, K. [Chemistry
>> Division, School of Science and Humanities, Vellore Institute of Technology
>> University, Vellore 632 014 (India)]
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>> 2008-11-15
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>> In this study, an attempt has been made to use waste vegetable oil as a fuel
>> for a cooking stove. Suitable modifications have been made in the kerosene
>> stove for use with vegetable oil as fuel. The efficiency of the stove using
>> vegetable oil as fuel is observed to be as high as 48.9% as compared to
>> 34.9% with that of a conventional stove when a flat copper bottom vessel is
>> used. 
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>> Corresponding efficiency increase is also observed with other vessels.
>> (author) 
>> 
>> Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)
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>> https://www.etde.org/etdeweb/details.jsp?query_id=1
>> <https://www.etde.org/etdeweb/details.jsp?query_id=1&page=0&osti_id=21081601
>>> &page=0&osti_id=21081601
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