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Written by Patrick Bigelbach   
Monday, 12 November 2007

Because of the raising fuel costs, I have decided to take a close look at fossil fuel alternatives specifically biofuels.  Being new to the BioFuel scene, I decided to dedicate a website to the pursuit of accurate and complete information on Biofuels and their uses.  I will be blogging my own experiences implementing and burning biofuels.  I will start by converting my 04 GMC Sierra 3500 to run both diesel or Vegetable Oil (VO) at the flick of a switch.  This way I will be able to determine and chart various statistics like fuel economy and performance.  I know there are VO conversions that either can switch automagiclly and some that do not need a switch at all, but for data collection purposes, I want to be able to switch between diesel and whatever I have in the Aux tank so deltas can be collected.

With this dual tank system it will also allow me test the difference between Straight Vegetable Oil (SVO) and Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO).  Or, I could disable the inline fuel heater used for running SVO/WVO and test the various blends of Biodiesel.  Or I could run diesel in the aux tank and evaluate what happens if it is pre-heated.

For more information please visit my biofuel website at http://biofuel.bigelbach.com 

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