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To: Clappy who wrote (44872)7/8/2005 10:32:46 PM
From: Bill on the Hill  Read Replies (2) of 104155
 
I am making deals with the local slaughter house and fast food restaurants to collect there waste oil and fat. The fast food restaurants are harder to deal with because many of them are corporations and cannot make decisions on a local level.

Oil and fats are collected in a closed tight container. Using solar heating which is easy to build you can collect animal fats and vegetable oils which are easily converted to biodiesel.

A small trailer mounted biodiesel generator can create 40 gallons of fuel efficiently per day.

Now, I am not concerned with the diesel fuel. I can make my own. But these small trailers. Most folks could make their own fuel but do not have the ability to make their own trailer biodiesel generators.

With fuel at $4 a gallon a trailer to make your own would be very popular. At $3500 per plant ($1100 to make) a person could make a solid living producing these.

This type of cottage industry is what can guarantee survival in hard times. There are hundreds of others of ideas.

Create one. What do we do best. What do we know best.
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