Sustain Myself

A lot of my time has recently been consumed by thinking of ways I can boot my fossil fuel burning Subaru (Farewell, My Subaru?) and replace it with a 100% carbon neutral alternative.

I don’t want to have an electric car, I actually think that spending silly amounts of money developing electric power systems and electric recharge stations for cars is a backwards step. They still burn fossil fuels, just not directly. I wrote about Electric cars recently.

I am worried about getting an older diesel car to do a Bio Diesel conversion to it because, although there is a fuelling station for Bio Diesel in Sydney, it is across the other side of the city and I wouldn’t be able to get there very often to fill up. I did find this post on other filling stations in Sydney, but it is from almost 3 years ago. There is also a lot of information available on making your own Bio Diesel, but I simply do not have the space required to do it.

So, when I visited a link posted to Twitter by Sighmon (the recent winner of World Visions ‘learn about poverty’ competition) it got me a little excited. Making your own Ethanol ? Great idea!

35 Gallons (or ~140 litres) of Sugar-based ethanol per week! That’s about 120 litres more than we use at the moment. But this might also be used in my bike.  Unfortunately, there seems to be a distinct lack of information relating to the use of 100% ethanol in my vehicle.

The other option is an LPG conversion for my car which is around AUD $3500. LPG is cheaper to buy and burns much cleaner than petroleum based fuels. It is, however, still based on fossil fuels.

I am at a loss. We dont use much petrol, but I’d like us to use less. There is a lot of international and local support for the use of Bio Diesel and I think this will likely be the route that we decide to take, if we can make the room somewhere.

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