Heating with oil? Green it up a bit. Several Connecticut heating oil companies are now offering heating oil mixed with biodiesel -- sometimes at no additional charge.
Greenleaf/Hale
Santa Energy
Devine Bioheat
others *Warning: this website is notoriously out of date.
Ethanol, another biofuel that can be mixed with gasoline, is often criticized for having a low energy yield -- somewhere around 1.3 units of energy yielded for every 1 unit of input [Download pdf]. Biodiesel, on the other hand, has been shown to have a yield of about 3.2. [Download this (big pdf) study sponsored by the USDA and USDOE to see for yourself.]
Ask your oil company to start supplying biofuel.
2 comments:
This is great news. I'd never considered this before, time to make some calls.
Great post, I don't know why the companies don't advertise this sort of thing.
Nice blog, I plan to link to it from mine. (blog.colinurban.com)
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