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how to win at "i'm so punk..."

es_de_bah — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 17:25:21 -0800

Piebald's van runs on used cooking oil. Mostly thanks to this guy. (flash in second link)

By: wilful

wilful — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 17:45:34 -0800

And?

By: fire&wings

fire&wings — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 17:49:02 -0800

Running cars on vegetable oil reached semi-epidemic proportions recently in the UK. The government issued scary print ads about what was in store for anyone caught. They had people patrolling the roads with vegetable oil detection kits.

By: aaronetc

aaronetc — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 17:50:00 -0800

Piebald is awesome (as a band -- this is good, but doesn't quite reach the level of awesome). Hopefully this will help them continue to be solvent on tour.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 17:56:44 -0800

Vegetable oil detection kits?

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 17:57:22 -0800

biodiesel is worth a mention.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 17:59:15 -0800

Vegetable oil detection kits?

Their equipment could pinpoint a french fry at 400 yards! And the Vanagon, being such a large vehicle, was a piece of cake. ... OK, I guess I'm done here.

By: jeanpoole

jeanpoole — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 18:25:37 -0800

Check out Combat Wombat - a way excellent Australian hip hop crew who have travelled the country numerous times over with their vegetable oil converted diesel van - which also doubles as a fully equipped mobile studio running off solar panels on the van's roof. ( They used this to record their recent album Unsound System )

By: snsranch

snsranch — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 18:32:20 -0800

es_de_bah, this isn't new, however, I Love it! I dug pretty deeply into the second link, and it was really good. Anyone with some basic mechanical skills can do this. Is it actually a viable new resource for the masses? No. Is it great witnessing regular guys with day-jobs trying to revolutionize fuel and the way it is used? Hell yea! Pretty much anything that will burn in an aerosol state will run those high compression diesel engines. I'm still trying to figure out how to bio-engineer bugs that eat radioactive waste. Nuclear might be the way to go in the future, if we can eliminate or re-use the excess waste.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 18:38:30 -0800

"I'm still trying to figure out how to bio-engineer bugs that eat radioactive waste." Ewww, why do I not think that's a good idea?

By: snsranch

snsranch — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 18:44:11 -0800

mr_crash_davis! I knew that was coming. Since we have organisms that help clean up oil spills, I thought it logical to have some that clean up nuclear waste products. Perhaps Mothra is our friend after all.

By: willns

willns — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 19:10:31 -0800

come crash on my shore!

By: VanRoosta

VanRoosta — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 19:23:55 -0800

Cool.

By: phyrewerx

phyrewerx — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 19:44:46 -0800

Fire&wings, what's the basis for UK's crackdown on grease powered cars? Safety? Pollution? The dangers of having the roads smelling like yesterday's tempura? No, really, this is new to me. With the gas not grease site, this seems like a brilliant pollution minimizing solution. What am I missing?

By: phyrewerx

phyrewerx — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 19:45:35 -0800

I meant grease not gas. Stupid sleep depravation.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 19:47:46 -0800

They had people patrolling the roads with vegetable oil detection kits. It's to support ~~the BBC~~ BP.

By: RustyBrooks

RustyBrooks — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 19:52:47 -0800

phyrewerx: the UK (and many other countries) place large taxes on fuel. Vegetable oil is not taxed, though. So people are basically (for right or wrong) technically skirting british law by using vegetable oil for fuel, and not paying fuel tax.

By: snsranch

snsranch — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 20:22:33 -0800

Necessity is the mother of invention. It is necessary to not pay taxes whenever possible, especially if they are there to support the BP or any other corporation.

By: timory

timory — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 22:12:12 -0800

neat, some kids at my school did this recently.

By: interrobang

interrobang — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 23:01:59 -0800

Everyone should do this.

By: crabcakes

crabcakes — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 23:38:02 -0800

live in boulder, we've been running some buses off biodiesel for some time, at least at the university, after some students experimented with this a few years back...

By: flameproof

flameproof — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 05:28:22 -0800

snsranch, sorry if you're aware, but fuel taxes don't fund BP. BP's just another oil company these days. the government attempt to justify high taxes on fuel as enviromentally sound, but basically they tax us on fuel because they can.

By: i_cola

i_cola — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 05:54:11 -0800

Repeat from other biodiesel thread: B.I.O. Tour Since June of 2003, we have logged over 25,000 miles criss-crossing the US in our vegetable oil-powered bus, with a solar-powered sound system, teaching people how to use vegetable oil for fuel, hosting workshops, distributing information and organizing in support of clean, renewable, peaceful energy. I went to Burning Man '98 in an converted (normal petrol) school bus in a group that included one of the guys now running B.I.O. Tour.

By: ackeber

ackeber — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:22:40 -0800

Maybe if their new cd didn't suck I'd go see them.