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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Centuryby James Howard Kunstler |
| The indictment of suburbia and the car culture that the author presented in The Geography of Nowhere turns apocalyptic in this vigorous, if overwrought, jeremiad. Kunstler notes signs that global oil production has peaked and will soon dwindle, and argues in an eye-opening, although not entirely convincing, analysis that alternative energy sources cannot fill the gap, especially in transportation. The result will be a Dark Age in which "the center does not hold" and "all bets are off about civilization's future." | |
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From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank: The Complete Guide to Using Vegetable Oil as an Alternative Fuelby Joshua Tickell, Kaia Tickell, Kaia Roman |
| From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank is the first and only book that details all aspects of running diesel engines on vegetable oil. Includes information on biodiesel, the diesel fuel substitute made from new or used vegetable as well as information on running any diesel engine on straight vegetable oil (SVO). This book is packed with history, information, instructions, photos, diagrams and resources. If you want to stop supporting Mid-East Petroleum oil, you must get this book. | |
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Biodiesel Basics and Beyond : A Comprehensive Guide to Production and Use for the Home and Farmby William H. Kemp |
| Using vegetable oils as a fuel for
home heating and transportation is a hundred years old: Rudolf Diesel's
original engine was operated on plant oils due to the lack of fossil
fuels. Later, plant and animal oils were converted into a petrodiesel-compatible
fuel known as biodiesel: a clean, low-carbon fuel. In the early 1980s, home brewers discovered they could transform waste restaurant fryer oils into crude biodiesel and use it in automobiles at 100% concentrations at one quarter the cost of petrodiesel. Yet automotive and engine manufacturers insist that late-model vehicles may be damaged when run on high concentrations of biodiesel and may not honor engine warranties where biodiesel fuel has been used. Biodiesel Basics and Beyond aims to separate fact from fiction and to educate potential home, farm and cooperative manufacturers on the economic production of quality biodiesel from both waste and virgin oil feedstock. |