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28 Feb 08 06:40, TOM WALKER wrote to BOB ACKLEY:
BA>> BA>>> Heating oil is up $.40 in the past week or so.
It's now about
BA>> BA>>> $3.35/gallon. Dunno what I'm going to do next winter.
BA>> RW>> Start collecting used deep fry oil from the fast food
BA>> RW>> joints...there's a method to clean and thin it so it should
BA>> work.
BA>> TW> For a Diesel Car that may work but it is Hardly practical
BA>> concidering
BA>> TW> the Usage rate for House Heating.
BA>> Yesterday I helped install an industrial garage door (14wx13h),
BA>> replacing th one that was there. The garage is heated, apparently
BA>> with waste motor oil. The guy there said they went through about
BA>> 5,700 gallons of it over a winter. Note that (a) it's a big garage
BA>> - four bays, each about 35 feet deep with 16 foot ceilings and (b)
BA>> he kept the inside at 72F. There was a huge tank of waste oil on
BA>> one wa it must have been six feet in diameter and fifteen feet long.
TW> OK there are soem Stats. HOW many fast food restruantsa would need to
TW> get 570 GALONS of Oil??
TW> Now waste oil is FAR more practical. But still there is a finate
TW> limit to how many could heat their home.
TW> As a side note here in California it is ILLEGAL to Burn Waste Oil
TW> because of the toxic metals that go up the stack.
The welders at the back of my shop used a waste oil burning hot pot that
was formerly used to keep the frost off of orchard trees on cold nights.
One of those took the morning chill off of a 30x80x16 foot tall, concrete
slabbed building. c1987-1999.
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