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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