(bigwords.com is converting a 60 foot long diesel powered metro bus to run on vegetable oil in one week, and we're writing about the experience)
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This page should serve as a reference to the current status of vegetable oil conversions and similar technologies, as of Fall 2004. If you have a project or know of a good article, send it to BIGWORDS through the link above, and we'll post it here.
Articles:
The NOLS bus: Good discussion of the benefits of straight veggy oil over biodiesel.
Project Bio Bus: An organization doing a similar bus tour this fall.
Sustainable Information Archive: an active, large bulletin board talking about this kind of stuff.
Recipe for Car Power: Heat Vegetable Oil, Flip Switch and Go by Chris Dixon, NY Times article reprinted on greasel.com.
Straight vegetable oil as diesel fuel: A very good article about the benefits and pitfalls of straight vegetable oil (SVO).
Straight Vegetable Oil: Article about building an SVO system.
http://www.oilpress.com/drive_your_diesel.htm: Diagrams and explanations of SVO systems.
Veggie Fuels Feed Bottom Line: Wired article.
Grassroots Biodiesel and Vegetable Oil Fuel Homepage: Information, links, and discussion board.
http://www.boulderbiodiesel.com/john/SVO/index.jsp: Article, information and links.
http://www.distributiondrive.com/products%20vegetable%20oil.html: An article about growing vegetable oil producing crops.
Companies:
greasel.com: one company that does vegetable oil conversions.
VegPowered Systems: Joel Woolf's Company in Ojai (web page under construction)