The ramblings of g1powermac

I just came across a hand operated oil expeller on eBay built by Piteba.  An oil expeller is basically a press that will take any high oil content seed like sunflower seeds and extract the oil from the seeds.  So, how can this be an extremely green energy solution?  Well, lets say you grew a whole patch of black oil seed sunflowers.  You can take the tremendous amount of seeds the sunflowers produce, run them through the expeller, and get the oil from the seeds.  You can then take the oil, do the minimal refining needed to convert it to biodiesel, and pump it right into your diesel vehicle.  Any person who has the ability to do the biodiesel refining can literally grow their own biodiesel on their property.  It’s ingenious.

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