History channel

[powerboatr]

Anyone watch the modern marvels last night about Sugar?
Brazil is on track to be non dependendt on foriegn oil real soon.
they make 83% of their car fuel from SUGAR
ethanol is 129 a gallon vice 240 something for gas
when will our goverment get onboard?
wheat stalks and other plants have been shown to be bio Diesel fuel producing plants???
GM has a plant down there building cars with great HP on ethanol
plus some that use gas to start then switch over to ethanol when its cold.

just venting

 

[JohnBoyToo]

I watched some of it (since I be from da sugar cane capital of da states - Losing-Annie)

but hasn't it been shown that you actual use MORE energy to make ethanol than you get out of it ??????

Granted, if you are using sugar to make the energy supply used to make the ethanol.... u WOULD catch up....

but that's the argument I've heard for a while....

what energy source do you use to PRODUCE the ethanol ?
Electricity, diesel, coal, ????

 

[powerboatr]

johnboy
I think they were making money in the processing.
they were stillgettting sugar for domestic purposes of food prep and rum and the left overs were converted into ethanol.
no waste even the stalks were used.
and last night the dirty jobs guy had a bio diesel guy on and they really made it look easy he was making some large batches.

 

[DaveBen]

That Dirty Jobs segment on Bio Diesel was about the cleanest job Mike has done. It was very informative. I thought they did a good job showing the entire process in a few minutes to the general public.

Dave

 

[powerboatr]

me toy
he made it look socially acceptable.
thet guy had quite teh set up with those large poly tanks double stacked

when i run peanut oil i smell like a big turkey

 

[95_stroker]

I watched that last night too. It was a pretty informative segment. Does anybody know the guy? He was from Bellingham I believe?

 

[powerboatr]

I may try the history channel .com
it did look like he was up in the pacific north area
the grill was pretty DIRTY, i hope my moms carney trailer never looks like that

the guy had all the right tools, they will probably rerun it soon the show is falling off fast, I guess viewership is not were they wanted it to be.
good shows never last
I have been toying the wvo system like the fry bird that heats it up
be easier to fill up on the road when we are traveling

OH SHI%
it was discovery channel not history
Show Title: Bio-Diesel Man
Dirty Jobs: cobb home builder, bee man, bio-diesel man
Premiere: Oct. 25, 2005

own it on dvd for 21.95

http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/dirtyjobs/application2.html
link to see if you have a dirty job
the questionaire is pretty indepth

 

[yamahonda41]

Hi,

I saw that Dirty Jobs episode. I'm new to BD and this site. I have a question about that show. He was inside the restaurant scraping all the crap from the cooking equipment. Is this something people who collect WVO actually do? I thought you would just pick up the oil and drive away with the jugs of used WVO. Am I missing something here?

 

[sagebel]

I don't clean anything, they put the waste oil into my barrel and I pick it up.

Scott

 

[Bowhunter]

Hi,

I saw that Dirty Jobs episode. I'm new to BD and this site. I have a question about that show. He was inside the restaurant scraping all the crap from the cooking equipment. Is this something people who collect WVO actually do? I thought you would just pick up the oil and drive away with the jugs of used WVO. Am I missing something here?

I think that was for dramatic effect. He had to get dirty somehow.