[Vwdiesel] Human fat to biodiesel

[Terry Briggs]

True enough, the chemical treating of the waste would kill any and all 
bugs, the problem lays with getting a hazardous materials permit to 
handle the raw material prior to being treated, then there is the issue 
of the hazmat endorsement for transport, storage prior to treating etc. 
For the little guy like us, those permits would be a very limiting 
factor, they are not cheap. I mean really, the dentist wouldn't even 
let me keep the tooth he yanked out last month because they class it as 
a bio hazard, even though it was mine to begin with.
On Dec 14, 2006, at 9:02 AM, Kurt Nolte wrote:

> Terry Briggs wrote:
>> Never happen, human waste is classified as a bio hazard, infectious
>> waste etc.
>>
> True, but... I believe the ruling is that incineration is an approved
> method of disposing of human wastes, and the transesterification 
> process
> is a method of allowing safe handling of the substance until such a 
> time
> as it is incinerated.
>
> And even if it was only used in industrial applications, that would
> still free up fuel sources (And alternative fuel sources) for 
> automotive
> consumption and utilize a presently wasted source of BTUs without
> requiring every driver of a diesel to have a hazardous waste
> certification. Deliver it in drums, handled only by HazMat certified
> fuelling staff, that sort of thing. Power companies could now claim 
> that
> they are "Powered by Fat" :p
>
>
> And for the person who has already invoked Godwin's Law with the Nazi
> reference... I don't see how you're finding the comparison. I mean,
> nobody in that article is talking about forcibly "harvesting" the fat
> from people for fuel; it's merely utilization of a "waste" product that
> is generated voluntarily by vain people anyway, and at present is
> incinerated with no benefit from the release of thermal energy. Isn't
> this "use all your resources and become energy independent as a nation"
> kinda core to the biodiesel movement? Why would we waste what everyone
> in the world has pretty much agreed we have an overabundance of (IE 
> fat)?
>
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