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Originally posted by TomJ
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No petroleum products in ANY of the BD I've ever made. Methoxide (methanol+sodium hydroxide) and WVO/SVO do not contain ANY petroleum products of any kind or sort?....
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Unless you are buying your methanol from a supplier that guarantees his stuff is not manufactured by the petroleum industry then..... it probably is a petroleum product. From what I read most non drinking alcohol production in the word is produced from a petroleum byproduct by the petroleum industry. Guess this means probably ALL of the biodiesel you have made contains a % of petroleum product.
Probably the only way to avoid petroleum-connected methanol is to buy stuff listed as "wood alcohol". Your price for methanol will triple I suspect.
For me another reason I choose not to go w/ making biodiesel. is because the closest cost effective supplier for methanol is several hundred miles away. Not worth it.
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Last edited by coachgeo; 06-13-2004 at 12:52 PM.
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