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domwild
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Posted: 10:53pm 10 Feb 2012
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First approval for a new nuclear power station in the USA since 1978.

Other news:

In Hungary volunteer organisations are saving money by getting free briquetts from the central bank, these are briquettes made out of old and shredded Forint bank notes. Staff there wear clothes without pockets!

A whale was stranded along the Belgian coast near Knokke, this whale is made out of fat for half of its weight, after the museum takes the skeleton a Belgian co., which specializes in processing animal wastes is converting this whale into biofuel! One fuel co. used to advertise its fuel by urging customers to "put a tiger into your tank", now the slogan could be: "Put a whale into your tank!".
Taxation as a means of achieving prosperity is like a man standing inside a bucket trying to lift himself up.

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VK4AYQ
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Posted: 05:20am 11 Feb 2012
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Hi Dom

An old friend of mine was an engineer on a Norwegian fishing vessel after ww2 and he told me they rendered down the fish fat using a pressure cooker run off the exhaust pipe off the engine and used the oil to power the motor, it was a glow head diesel, he did tell me the brand but I forgot.

Not sure of how much fuel was from fishes compared to distillate but I was under the impression it was most. Some other marine types may have heard of the practice.

On the farm just after the war my uncle used animal fat and butter fat to run the tractor and the milking machine diesel, I recycle fat and used cooking oil and mix with 50% distillate, smells like a fish and chip shop but the old engine is happy to run on it it seems to have more power than distillate.

All the best

Bob
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domwild
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Posted: 10:00pm 12 Feb 2012
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Great stuff! On one Pacific island they use coconut oil instead of diesel and the exhaust gases then smell of coconut!

After the war a lot of trucks uses to run on gases given off by wood burners.
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