How is more CO2 a good thing?

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99 E300 TURBODIESEL Astral Silver 282K - AMG brakes, suspension, monoblocks, speedo & interior - Full Load Maxed on IP by custom Speed Tuning USA Chip - T3/T4 Garrett - EGR/MAF delete
98 E300 TURBODIESEL Alexandrite Green on black leather 289K
95 E300 DIESEL Green Queen 267K SOLD
84 300D 216k SOLD
87 300D 299K #22 head - intercooler - full load adj. - 8sec 0-60mph - SOLD
76 300D 214K SOLD

A warmer climate means flourishing life. Plants use CO2, more CO2 means more and healthier plants.

I'm with Paul. And whats the worst, I have to disaasemble the IP and have my guy drop a thou or two of chrome plating on the inside so we can rebuild it!? I do bio.

I have a feeling you are just trying to stir things up, but there is a lot wrong with this statement. The stability of the climate is a very delicate thing, and it doesn't work this simply. I will leave it at that.

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Good. That is more of an OD topic.

Yes I do make my own. Once you have built and operated the processor, it is very easy to make a batch. I've never made a "bad" batch of bio, but I have made some fuel that is not well converted and has residual glycerides in it. I was actually running B100 with this batch last week when the temperature dropped and it immediately coated my prefilter with greasy crap. Swapped the filter and it was good the rest of the week, andnow I'm running B80 with a better-converted fuel - the same stuff I'm running at B30 in my Liberty CRD.

I've also gelled up a couple of times in extremely cold weather. In one case a filter swap got me home and in the other topping off with diesel and anti-gel cured the symptoms of imminent filter plugging.

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'83 240D with 617.952 and 2.88
'01 VW Beetle TDI
'05 Jeep Liberty CRD
'89 Toyota 4x4, needs 2L-T
'78 280Z with L28ET - 12.86@110
Oil Burner Kartel #35

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b1...oD/bioclip.jpg

I thought plants are only able to take care of so much. My understanding is that CO2 concentrations are rising to the highest it has ever been in millions of years of history. I was under the impression that it is because the plants are not able to keep up. Not to mention the rainforest is disappearing.

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99 E300 TURBODIESEL Astral Silver 282K - AMG brakes, suspension, monoblocks, speedo & interior - Full Load Maxed on IP by custom Speed Tuning USA Chip - T3/T4 Garrett - EGR/MAF delete
98 E300 TURBODIESEL Alexandrite Green on black leather 289K
95 E300 DIESEL Green Queen 267K SOLD
84 300D 216k SOLD
87 300D 299K #22 head - intercooler - full load adj. - 8sec 0-60mph - SOLD
76 300D 214K SOLD

Your gimmick is getting very old

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1983 240D AT, 163K running on VO, "The Patience Tester"

All doom and gloom. We can't even produce the equivalent CO2 of a drop in a bucket in a years time.

The world ain't gonna end folks! You can climb out from under your desks now.

Old300D, Where do you get your alcohol for the transesterification? Do you use methanol, or ethanol? How much of the alcohol can you recover and re-use?
So far I've been happy running SVO, but my '98 is probably in the last generation of cars that I'll be able to convert, considering the trend towards common rail injection and electronic injectors. I imagine these systems are less tolerant of... ummm, how was it phrased... "cold slimy waste oil" than the mechanical IP's and injectors of 10 years ago. Hence, a biodiesel reactor might be in my future.

I'd better start getting my wife used to the idea now. I bet it will take a few years to wear her down enough to get clearance for this one...

Thanks,
Paul

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1998 E300D 1-tank Elsbett Veggie system
1986 190D 2-tank Veggie system -Sold

One has to wonder why just about every other MB diesel for sale on Ebay has one of these veggie conversions. My guess is that something goes wrong mechanically, or people just get tired of looking for filthy grease and filtering it. I think in 10 or 20 years we'll be looking back at all this as a silly fad, especially once 2nd generation biofuels are commonly available. Even today's biodiesel will probably look primitive by then.

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2004 VW Jetta TDI (manual)

Past MB's: '96 E300D, '83 240D, '82 300D, '87 300D, '87 420SEL

My bet is that most of them are taking advantage of the naive newbies just to make a major profit.

OLD300D,

Do you have a website or know of a really good website with a knowledgable person who built their equipment/process from scratch? I've looked a some sites before but you never know how good they are or how simple it could be.

Thanks,
Jay

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1998 E300 Turbodiesel 190,000 Elsbett Conversion
(Sold) 1992 300D over 251,000 Greasecar Conversion
Over 70 K of veggie miles total.
Follow link below to see the conversions and instructions.
http://www.geocities.com/jaycimini/MainNavigationPage.html

Jason,

Sorry for taking that long in getting back to you!

I have now some 20 000 miles on veggie done with the 92. Troublefree in terms of veggie. My problems are electric and No boost issues. I will soon go with the pressure wastegate swap from gsxr.

100% custom built with common SVO kit components like switchover valve and backflush valve, heated aluminum tank....

For now, I only do small batches of biodiesel. The limited mileage put on the 98 doesn't justify any conversion for now. But if I do a conversion one day, it will be based on this guy's project:Jake Palmer's conversion

Bye,

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'98 E300 Turbodiesel 244 000km
RIP '92 300D 2,5 Turbo 632 859,4km due to engine failure