Cleaner than clean energy.
Vegetable oil on solar panel.
Currently one whole high tunnel equipped with a solar panel for automatic opening and closing of side curtains and a clean burn furnace for heating with waste cooking oil is dedicated to growing several varieties of figs.
At this facility 100 of our excess oil is converted into biodiesel a distilled vegetable oil used for fueling vehicles which emits 74 less co2 than petroleum diesel fuel.
The crude oil was aged by through thermal treatments up to 210 c in galvanised steel and 316 l stainless steel reactors.
The burner has a small pre heating tank with level and temp control it comes with a 600w heater element but i changed mine to 150w heat rod as it is running from wind power most of the time.
Bacteria help solar panels beat cloudy days.
Vegetable oil diesel forum green energy other green energy like wind and solar pv and hw heat pumps etc.
This was step number one for me.
While cooking oil is not an abundant prep in most people s homes it can be used to make candles and lanterns.
After production the excess vegetable oil is stored in a tank and when enough accumulates it is picked up and taken to a biodiesel production facility.
And solar s low cost trajectory is likely to continue.
Fit the largest panel you can.
For any make panel ensure its monocrystalline.
I thought it best to create these candles as a scavenged item as.
Making a solar cell component without using fossil fuels.
Unlike oil gas and coal solar pv is a technology not a fuel meaning that its costs will continue to fall every year as research continues and technology improves.
The largest most vans have 150w but you can pick up ex domestic pv panel dirt cheap in comparison.
Better than poly crystalline.
Experimental studies show a solar absorption efficiency of 77 8 and 37 67 with clean canola oil and waste vegetable oil respectively can be achieved even at low solar irradiation conditions.
Biosolar creates new plastic backing for photovoltaic cells out of cotton and castor beans rather than.
Wind and solar plants rise in the shadow of fukushima s nuclear meltdown in japan.
Or is it all just shilling for oil companies.
Lard fat waste engine oil waste veg oil diesel kerosene hydraulic oil gear oil and axle grease i have even used the fat from the turkey at xmas.
It works quite well if you construct something like a vegetable oil lantern.
The fuel source was vegetable oil.