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Comment on 911 not gonna come coz they ran out of gas... and they want to take guns away, lol

The solution I've been looking into is buying a diesel car/truck. The process to make diesel fuel from vegetable oil is specific but not overly complex, and you don't need super fancy hardware or chemicals to do it.

If you can grow a few acres of rapeseed (AKA canola if you're sensitive), then you've got renewable diesel and transportation! It's just a dream of mine right now, 'cause I have a gas car and if I can't buy gas then it's useless.

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iamtanmay@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
you can easily make gas with two stove pipes, and a covered pot. If you fill the pipes with water, it filters all the nasty stuff from the burning wood:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfznunVzKY

This clean gas works in 2 stroke/4 stroke engines. I've seen videos of people compressing it for bigger storage. WW II era 10 kg wood would get 100 km range for trucks

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- SirAleric@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  Wow, only 10KG of wood enables a truck to travel ~60 miles? That's pretty darn good! I'd heard of wood gasification before but never knew it was this feasible.
  
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iamtanmay@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
There are big hurdles - the vegetable oil. I have been trying to figure out how to get oils on my own. Rapeseed has to be crushed to get the oil... have you seen how its done ? Google it. Its really labour intensive. Imagine the work to get 1 gallon of oil. Not to mention work in preparing, tilling, harvesting and sorting chaff.

The second part - the biodiesel generator requires alcohol and other chemicals. Alcohol requires its own process, where you have to grow a ton of grain, potatoes or fruit. Again, the preparing, tilling, harvesting and sorting, then the Alcohol brewing process which is a time consuming job.

None of this work can be automated... because you don't have gas to run combines and tractors. It will be with horse or human power, like the Amish

...I just don't see how to do this practically in a reasonable amount of time

My proposal is to use woodgas. You need a closed pot to burn wood, a pot with wood chips to catch tar and particulates and an old radiator to cool the gas. Then it can be connected via hose to a 2 stroke/4 stroke. There's a lot of DIY videos. Wood is easy to get, no planting, harvest etc required

Either that or solar and an electric car, or a bicycle

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- squashkin@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  used to be able to get free used cooking oil grease from places, have you tried to source grease locally from any places?
  
  I think they have to send it off to a recycler so would probably be happy to give it out for free
  
  there's a biodiesel sub
  
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  - iamtanmay@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    ah.... I was thinking of prepping for doomsday kind of scenario. Obviously if I could buy stuff, I would just do that
    
    But if you are going to be fully independent, then vegetable oil for cooking will require a lot of work, I would just harvest grass/hay and make animal lard instead
    
    If I had to run a vegetable oil to bio diesel system... its way too much. The amount of farming for a gas tank of diesel just won't make sense.... maybe if you have some horses to help you work the land it could be easier. Still a shitload of work.
    
    Solar or wood gas is just so much easier... and wood literally grows on trees, lol
    
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masterofballs@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Interesting idea, although it might be more economical to go Tesla and solar panels to be energy independent.

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- iamtanmay@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  Try farming without any of the big machines... its literal backbreaking labor
  
  My grandpa was a poor serf whose back was totally curved from all the bending. He tilled the farm with some bulls. Their village hut was surrounded by hay from the chaffing process. They didn't have electricity or petrol, a well in the ground for water, another for pooping.
  
  If everyone had to grow all the food they eat manually, we wouldn't be here online anymore. There would be no time left in the day
  
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squashkin@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
I've looked in to biodiesel before and it looks interesting

would enjoy hearing of your experience with it or if you've tried it

most I can figure out is that I could make light out of them with a simple candle (some piece of cloth immersed in a container of oils - usually the cooking oil grease)

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