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Originally Posted by TroyH  Why don't you contact the Fuel and Energy group at the ATO and see about getting an excise permit to make your own ethanol? You just need to be able to tell them exactly where is it and where it is going at all times, and need a premises with a dangerous goods license iirc.
They are quite friendly people and will go out of their way to try and help you in my experience. The only hard part is trying to find the right person to talk to, and explaining exactly what you intend to do. |
Eureka!!!! I’ve just thought of a way to solved all my ethanol AND biodiesel production problem with one stroke of genus!
If I follow my idea I could forget about the ATO, distilling ethanol or/and making biodiesel.
On the 6/3/07 I was rushed in to hospital with a massive heart attack and it seems I have now joined an exclusive group of people who are very susceptible to another heart attack which may be fatal, stroke, diabetes and what not, anyway this morning I was offered a decent price for my 96 Fairlane by a mate, the Fairlane is MPFI and I was going to use the Fairlane for 100% ethanol fuel trials…but now with my idea (I’m no spring chicken…more like an old goat)… my problems would disappeared like that puff of smoke from a TDI Disco when you first fire it up!
I could sell my Fairlane to my mate but keep my TDI Disco. From some of the proceeds from the sale of my Fairlane I’ll buy a bike, so I can use the bike for a bit of local shopping and getting around locally, (it will also help me keep fit) and for getting out the bush on fishing and gold fossicking trips, I have the Disco! So between the bike for getting around locally and the Disco TDI for my bush trips, I’ll only be filling-up with diesel about once every month or six weeks! Beauty!
If I sold my Fairlane and buy a bike, I could also sell the plans and the manual plus all the copper for building the Charles 803 Reflux Still that was going to be used for distilling ethanol! I can also sell the manual, plans and the 250L Rheem hot water service I was setting-up as my biodiesel reactor and… I can also sell the manual and the plans for generating your own electricity to run your home on! The manual consists of four books in one which are:
Volume 1: Electricity – Make it, Don’t Buy it! Volume 2: Methane! Volume 3: Free Energy Notes! Volume 4: Passive & Active Solar!
My stint in hospital put me well behind on the various projects I had in hand, like repairing the very large filter in my water-garden set-up, (this is important as the lives of many fish depend on the operation of that filter) and the large bird-room/aviary I’m building and now it’s sitting there half finished. My stint in hospital also made me realise that I’m not as young as I thought I was and now I can no longer do the things I once did…well I can…it’s just that it takes me so much longer to do! Anyway, as I use so little fuel (diesel or petrol) perhaps I would be wasting my time and money by building a biodiesel reactor or/and a reflux still. I’ve got to be realistic about things and face the fact that I’m not as young and indestructible as I once thought I was
…What do you think, should I sell my Fairlane, all my biodiesel/ethanol plans and manuals, the copper and other gear and buy a bike?
My wife says I should sell the Ford and all the ethanol/biodiesel gear, use the money to buy a bike and get someone in to finish the bird-room/avairy but…what do you lot think?
Cheers,
Bill