The valorization of waste animal fats into biodiesel has become an interesting option

[Captain Caveman]

I lit a tea light with a match and blew the match out. I dipped the burnt end in the melted wax, relit the end to burn the wax, blew it out and then repeated. Then it got me thinking.

I thought I heard a year or two ago that animal fat torches in castles etc.. produced little to no dangerous fumes, hence why used indoors. I don't know if that's right but this candle thing got me thinking and I Googled it.

But Google being Google jumps you onto climate change and -

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0973082622000916

Animal fats came up as a viable product to make biodiesel.

So is that a win win? Folk can eat meat and drive diesel cars as normal!!

 

[1srelluc]

You could run Atlanta for a week if Stacy Abrhams was rendered down.

 

[Mac-7]

I wonder how many taxpayer dollars have been poured into the idea of bio diesel?

 

[JGalt]

You could run Atlanta for a week if Stacy Abrhams was rendered down.

And she would be saving the environment too.

 

[1srelluc]

I wonder how many taxpayer dollars have been poured into the idea of bio diesel?

I seem to remember some big ranches that do it and run their ranch machinery off of it.

The units are quite compact.....The one below produces 250 gallons every 8 hours at max output.

Right around 13K....I suspect that cost is subsidized too.

 

[Darkwind]

Animal fat, particularly suet, is useful to render down for cooking and other skin care products.

There would not be much of a market for it if Americans actually ate a healthy diet that was high in fat, moderate in protein, and carb free.

 

[Mac-7]

I seem to remember some big ranches that do it and run their ranch machinery off of it.

The units are quite compact.....The one below produces 250 gallons every 8 hours at max output.

Right around 13K....I suspect that cost is subsidized too.

There is nothing wrong with bio diesel

But I dont want my tax dollars going for it

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

You could run Atlanta for a week if Stacy Abrhams was rendered down.

But imagine the Super Fund cleanup costs.

 

[ReinyDays]

The knock on making bio-diesel out of used vegetable oil from fast food joints is your exhaust smells like French fries ... so I figure the stuff make of animal fats will smell like a slaughter house ... ewwwwwwwwwwwww ...

I got a laugh out of the idea of using tallow for candles in the Middle Ages ... maybe you've been watching too many Frankenstein movies eh? ... folks had better things to do at night than fool with stinky messy tallow candles ... whales were hunted to near extinction because the nobility sure as hell wasn't using tallow ...

This all changed once we started processing crude oil ... paraffin wax is something of a waste product while processing heavy oils and kerosene ... that wax made candles both affordable, abundant and relatively stink-free ...

Whales are making a come back now ... eating up all the photoplankton in the oceans ... see how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is spiking because of that ... whales are trying to kill us ... do we fight back or just sit here boiling? ... what would Charlton Heston do? ...

 

[ding]

what would Charlton Heston do? ...

Nuke Iran? ...

 

[martybegan]

I lit a tea light with a match and blew the match out. I dipped the burnt end in the melted wax, relit the end to burn the wax, blew it out and then repeated. Then it got me thinking.

I thought I heard a year or two ago that animal fat torches in castles etc.. produced little to no dangerous fumes, hence why used indoors. I don't know if that's right but this candle thing got me thinking and I Googled it.

But Google being Google jumps you onto climate change and -

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0973082622000916

Animal fats came up as a viable product to make biodiesel.

So is that a win win? Folk can eat meat and drive diesel cars as normal!!

Its getting rid of the smell that's a big issue.

 

[ding]

This all changed once we started processing crude oil ... paraffin wax is something of a waste product while processing heavy oils and kerosene ... that wax made candles both affordable, abundant and relatively stink-free ..

And created the "hot oiling" service industry. Which has nothing whatsoever to do with hair or drilling.

 

[ReinyDays]

Nuke Iran? ...

Iran was our friend back then ... The Shah was a Harvard Business School grad ... pumping that oil to enrich himself and his Harvard Business School grad buddies ...

Why would Detective Robert Thorn care? ... or did you miss the literary reference? ...

 

[ding]

Iran was our friend back then ... The Shah was a Harvard Business School grad ... pumping that oil to enrich himself and his Harvard Business School grad buddies ...

Why would Detective Robert Thorn care? ... or did you miss the literary reference? ...

It's what Moses would do.

 

[Captain Caveman]

The knock on making bio-diesel out of used vegetable oil from fast food joints is your exhaust smells like French fries ... so I figure the stuff make of animal fats will smell like a slaughter house ... ewwwwwwwwwwwww ...

I got a laugh out of the idea of using tallow for candles in the Middle Ages ... maybe you've been watching too many Frankenstein movies eh? ... folks had better things to do at night than fool with stinky messy tallow candles ... whales were hunted to near extinction because the nobility sure as hell wasn't using tallow ...

This all changed once we started processing crude oil ... paraffin wax is something of a waste product while processing heavy oils and kerosene ... that wax made candles both affordable, abundant and relatively stink-free ...

Whales are making a come back now ... eating up all the photoplankton in the oceans ... see how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is spiking because of that ... whales are trying to kill us ... do we fight back or just sit here boiling? ... what would Charlton Heston do? ...

The Medieval period ran from 800 to 1500. Medieval lighting came from large central fireplaces, candles, rush lights, flaming torches or lanterns. Candles, which had been around since Roman times, were made from animal fat, or beeswax if you were wealthy. Rush lights were simply tapers of rush stalks dipped into melted fat whilst the torches would have been made from wood bound in rags and impregnated with fat and set into metal brackets. Medieval lanterns were simply candles in a metal frame. Primitive lamps were also a feature of later Medieval lighting and were either suspended from above on chains or sat on table tops. These oil lamps were simple in design for the poor, or more elaborate lights with heraldic decorations for the wealthy.

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[ReinyDays]

The Medieval period ran from 800 to 1500. Medieval lighting came from large central fireplaces, candles, rush lights, flaming torches or lanterns.

For the nobility ... I understand ... but common folk lived in one room shacks ... no "large central fireplace" ... it was a simple oven ... I know, Hollywood movies are faked ...

Lanterns for the commoners ... good grief ... these people were no better than slaves toiling in the fiefdom's fields until they died ...

 

[initforme]

There is nothing wrong with bio diesel

But I dont want my tax dollars going for it

I do t want my tax dollars going i to helping any industry.

 

[Captain Caveman]

For the nobility ... I understand ... but common folk lived in one room shacks ... no "large central fireplace" ... it was a simple oven ... I know, Hollywood movies are faked ...

Lanterns for the commoners ... good grief ... these people were no better than slaves toiling in the fiefdom's fields until they died ...

Yup, it was Socialism back then.

 

[ReinyDays]

Yup, it was Socialism back then.

Wow ... I don't mean to offend but that's one of the most ignorant things I've ever read on these boards ... feudalism as a form of socialism? ... good grief ... Karl Marx just turned over in his grave ...

Yeesh ... slavery is the opposite of socialism ... go back and finish Middle School ... common ownership among slaves, too funny ...

 

[Captain Caveman]

Wow ... I don't mean to offend but that's one of the most ignorant things I've ever read on these boards ... feudalism as a form of socialism? ... good grief ... Karl Marx just turned over in his grave ...

Yeesh ... slavery is the opposite of socialism ... go back and finish Middle School ... common ownership among slaves, too funny ...

It's great to see when folk don't grasp British humour/sarcasm, lol