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https://www.northeastbiodiesel.com/...

So it does exist, requires no retrofit up to 20% biodiesel, and with minor retrofit can go to pure BD, but it congeals around 45°f so some amount of petroleum as a stabilizer is required for winter heating. Apparently ethanol from corn does not produce more energy than is required to create it, but biodiesel already being partly made for another purpose and otherwise wasted brings its creation energy down a lot.

Yea, the company page I linked basically says the same. Ethanol from corn has so many more energy inputs, it doesn't wind up being very efficient. But saving fryer oil from the waste steam and mixing it with standard #2 heating oil with no burner modifications seems like a thing we should just do wholesale.

CounterBass, take a subwoofer and an audio track of randomly scattered bass throbs. Will ruin their listening experience.

What kills me if in America, especially in New England, is we still have tons of people, if not a majority a huge percentage, burning #2 heating oil during the winter. It used to be so cheap as to hardly think about filling the tank before winter, but it's almost as much as gasoline now. My thought is "how hard can it be to convert those burners to biofuel, either reclaimed vegetable oil like diesel or with a mix of ethanol from corn to lower the cost." Because if there's one thing America has the capacity to produce a shitload of, it's ethanol.

If somebody with a better grasp of the subject has an answer for that I would be very grateful.

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That's one hell of a paragraph...

It's cool that you had liquid based heating a heat pump could tie into, but most of new England is heated by forced hot air systems that don't tie in the same way. Most heat pump installs around here, and there are a lot, are mostly for cooling and supplemental heating. Having to install an interior unit usually winds them up near the ceiling so the more expensive cooling can fall and cool more efficiently, at the decrease of heating efficiency because it rises. Also, until pretty recently a heat pump was basically no good below zero °f, lots of people still have those units and still need heat in the winter. I resolutely think B20 (20% biodiesel mix) is a great solution for current heating prices, and think a state sponsored program to install the necessary upgrades to burn B50 and get production up to scale would be a really good investment. Big changes are great if you can afford them, but those aren't the folks I'm talking about. I'm talking about folks using HEAP benefits, people who scrounge up the $450 for a 100 gallon minimum delivery and keep a couple jugs of off-road diesel on hand in case the tank runs dry on a cold day. People that know how to bleed and reignite their furnace without calling the guy, because they've had to do it 5 times a winter because keeping oil in the tank means not eating and the stove burns propane, which is already paid for and makes heat too.

Sorry, I've had some pretty fucking desperate Maine winters in my years up here.

Likewise

There's a nut right behind it, I'm sure.

I think he was making a joke...

Do you want to like, maybe, rebutt what they posted?

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/...

Idk about all that anymore. At least my state uses paper ballots.

Hey u/smcf, come tell this person they were raped

Yea, that tends to be how being stupid works.

Sorry, did you write something there?

No, go fuck yourself

You're deliberately blurring a distinction between a legal definition and an societal issue to paint me as a pervert. It's obviously disingenuous. You're also removing the agency of the victim, and further more diluting the difference between rape, where one party absolutely does not have an interest, and one where despite the legality, both parties retain agency and mutually enter into an illegal situation. There is a reason statutory rape and rape are different charges, and it isn't because rockstars fucking kids isn't gross. Now go away

It's glorious how little I care about your overblown reactionary opinion. Have a pleasant day

Yea but it's easier to join a dog pile than it is to think critically.

I didn't disagree with that, just answering why I think it's less scrutinized. The other commenter really had a meltdown.

I feel icky saying it but I think a lot has to do with the consenting nature of said 14 year olds. I don't think riding the tour bus to the next state was really looked at like trafficking, and they weren't coerced into attending the concert. It doesn't make it right, but it feels different when a popular known sex icon rock star does it than a creepy, overweight real estate mogul and his super rich friends literally steals girls away from their lives with (sometimes) false promises of being a model.