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How to make ethanol fuel

Processing your raw biomaterial
Gather old fruits and vegetables to use for fermenting
Fill a barrel or similar container with your rotten fruits and veggies
Mash the fruits and vegetables thoroughly with a blunt object
Fermenting your biomaterial
Mix 1-2 packets of distiller's yeast in with your biomaterial
Add clean water to the top of the mixture
Cover your fermenting container securely
Allow your biomaterial to ferment for at least 1 week
Use a hydrometer to check the sugar contents of your biomaterial daily
Distilling and blending your ethanol with gasoline
Transfer your biomaterial to a reflux still for distilling
Heat the biomaterial in your still to separate the water from the ethanol
Combine 85% purified ethanol with 15% gasoline to make fuel

DIY Home Biodiesel Production: make your own fuel

https://motherearthnews.com/sustainable-living/green-transportation/home-biodiesel-production-zm0z15aszmar
Homemade biodiesel helps you speed past the gas station toward fuel independence. Our expert outlines processing used cooking oil in a small DIY plant.

Make "biodiesel"? Diesel vs Biodiesel, Used motor oil, Vegetable oil, MPG

I bought a diesel engine for testing different alternative fuels
We'll see how it runs on straight diesel, used motor oil with 10% gasoline, biodiesel, vegetable oil, and hydrodiesel
https://youtube.com/watch?v=FwpKA7oBmWY

Introduction to Black Diesel - Alternative fuels - Waste oil - WMO - Nearly free fuel

I would not suggest running alternative Diesel in engines newer than 2003
I would avoid any emissions regulated engines
Diesels are "oil burning engines"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Sp2IHBsyoek

Can you run a diesel heater on waste oil? YES. Should you? Maybe NO

Here in Scotland, burning of waste oil is illegal
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qg2TKwwKQOo

Make fuel at home with portable DIY Refinery

https://wired.com/2008/05/make-your-own-e
People were making ethanol at home long before there were cars. They called it moonshine.
With gas prices going through the roof and everyone worried about global warming, a California company is betting people will jump at the chance to use the same technology to turn sugar into fuel for less than a buck a gallon.

Replacing petrol with vegetable oil 2000

https://rte.ie/archives/2020/0910/1164379-alternatives-to-fossil-fuels
With more cars than ever on our roads, the dependence on fossil fuels to get about is greater than ever.
More cars than ever on our roads, 1.1 million and all bar a few depend on fossil fuels to get about.
Green Party leader Trevor Sargent believes that we are coming to an end to “an oil type society” and believes that we need to look to alternatives to fossil fuels.

Highly polluting solid fuels to be banned in Ireland

https://rte.ie/news/ireland/2021/0907/1245091-solid-fuels
Posted 7 Sep 2021