[mortifiedpenguin]

Now, I don't know a lot about oil or what it's made of, but that doesn't sound like a bad idea. Assuming we had enough of what is needed to make oil, I think it would work.

[chris-h]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mortifiedpenguin', 'N')ow, I don't know a lot about oil or what it's made of, but that doesn't sound like a bad idea. Assuming we had enough of what is needed to make oil, I think it would work.

[Jack]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mortifiedpenguin', 'N')ow, I don't know a lot about oil or what it's made of, but that doesn't sound like a bad idea. Assuming we had enough of what is needed to make oil, I think it would work.

[dmtu]

MP,
I understand where you are comming from since you just found out about the situation. What you have to understand is that oil is the basic feed stock for alot of the chemicals used in industry today, let alone the use for fuel. Try this out http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic505.html

[rerere]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mortifiedpenguin', 'I') don't know a lot about oil or what it's made of.

[WebHubbleTelescope]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')Assuming we had enough of what is needed to make oil, I think it would work.

[duff_beer_dragon]

I remember doing cracking/fractional distillation in chemistry at school - showed us all the different -anes and -enes - basicly different levels of fuels that you can get from crude oil.

I loved that, I was thinking about it the other day and wondering what the hell happened to all the good stuff at school, and how come by the time I did some chemistry at uni. it didn't make any sense at all and they were always asking us to do things that they hadn't taught us about ( so how the fudge was i meant to know what to do.... )

What I thought reading thru this thread - what plants produce the most fatty-oils? Mentioned the solid-fuel-fat thing in the Peak Fat thread, candles for example are marvellous made with beeswax and they are made from lanolin too (which I think is from wool from sheep) - anyone ever used one of those big candles with multiple wicks to try heating a hotplate, see how easy it is to cook on?

Goat 'dung' is supposed to be a great fertiliser addition to composts for maximising oils produced by plants ; that might be only for essential oils and aromatics tho' - I read it years ago in an organic gardening book.

Another thing from chemistry days - soap and it's ionic and covalent molecular structure ; soap cleans oil because part of it absorbs the oil - is this used at all in extracting? sounds like it would be great for mopping up every drop, then you'd need to re-extract it of course.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mortifiedpenguin', 'N')ow, I don't know a lot about oil or what it's made of, but that doesn't sound like a bad idea. Assuming we had enough of what is needed to make oil, I think it would work.