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New uses for veggie oil

Well, they're new uses for me. Before this I hadn't any use for old restaurant oil. My dream is to someday convert a diesel vehicle to run on the stuff. Maybe even heat the house. But man, is that sludge hard to burn!

This is a shot of my current prototype burner. It ain't rocket science. Meet the humble tea light, the kind your wife gets at the store to put under her potpourri burner. This an empty tea light can, refilled with premium used waste vegetable oil from a restaurant, and supercharged with 6 wicks instead of just one.

Grease Powered Toy Jeep

I had this idea rolling around in my head till I couldn't take it anymore. I went to the store, purchased a toy radio controlled Jeep for $10, and proceeded to turn it into a grease car. More...

Coke vs Mentos, CO2 Power

Alright, what's all the buzz about Mentos and Coke?! Here's a backyard (or wait, isn't it the front yard?) experiment conducted by Dan's Workshop. I didn't come up with this idea myself, let's just say I'm doing a "peer review" of other scientific studies. There really is science behind it, as this page shows. More...

Stoichiometric Combustion of WVO

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