What in the World?

Increase Your Masonry Fireplace’s Efficiency with a Wood Stove Insert

Scott — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:51:17 +0000

When the temperature drops, our heating bills will inevitably go up. To help offset the cost of our heating bill this winter, I got a wood stove from my uncle to retro fit into our old masonry fireplace. Old open masonry fireplaces aren’t as efficient as a wood stove where you can control the amount of air getting to the fire. By reducing the amount of oxygen the fire can consume, you can increase the burn time of the wood in the stove and therefore get more bang for your buck. Some wood stoves have better efficiency ratings than many furnaces. I haven’t got this beauty installed yet and she needs some cleaning up first.

If and when I get this project done I’ll let you all know how she worked! Either way, if you have an old masonry fireplace that tears through wood in the winter time, think about getting a wood stove or wood stove insert to increase your fireplace’s efficiency.

Ever run a car on Solid Lard? We did :)

Scott — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:58:37 +0000

Ok ok, so it wasn’t solid lard, but it was solid Palm Oil. At room temperature Palm Oil is in a fairly solid state, kind of like the way bacon grease gets after it’s cooled down. Surprisingly, it can burn in your diesel engine, so long as you let your straight vegetable oil system warm it up beyond its melting point. The trick is getting it into your tank when it’s solid like butter :) The trick, cut it into small manageable chunks and RAM it into the fill port of your heated veggie tank!

As you can see in the photos HERE, we used a bucket heater and heated the oil past it’s melting point and turned it into nice burnable liquid oil. We did this to demonstrate what’s happening inside the heated vegetable oil tank of a diesel vehicle that’s been modified to burn straight vegetable oil.

Remember that same solid bacon grease you were just imagining a minute ago? What happens to it when you heat it back up on the stove? That’s right it turns back into a liquid. The same goes for the solid Palm oil when it’s been placed into your heated vegetable oil tank. Once the oils heated up and in a liquid state and at the right temperature, you flip a switch on your dash and your diesel starts humming down the road on vegetable oil. The best part about it all is your diesel can’t tell the difference! Put that in your veggie tank and burn it!

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Win a FREE DVD on powering your vehicle on SVO!

Scott — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:42:22 +0000

Well, as with anything just starting out, plans change. Our original plan was to award one lucky YouTube subscriber a Free DVD on powering your vehicle on SVO (straight vegetable oil). Since we have more facebook subscribers than YouTube subscribers so far, we’re changing the rules. Share our facebook page with 5 of your friends and then head back to our page and leave us a comment letting us know you’ve completed the task. We’ll choose a random winner from those that completed the task. The lucky winner will receive a FREE DVD on powering your vehicle on SVO (Straight Vegetable Oil) courtesy of Golden Fuel Systems.

Don’t forget to head on over to YouTube and click the subscribe button above the video.

What in the World? – Episode 2: Chena Hot Springs Geothermal Power Generation Trip

Scott — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:36:41 +0000

Geothermal Generators running on the coolest water in the world and a veggie conversion that needs to be done by morning, can the guys get it all done? Stay tuned because you never know where we’ll be or What in the World we’ll discover next?

Head on over to YouTube and click the subscribe button above the video for your chance to win a FREE 3 DVD Box set on powering your vehicle on SVO (Straight Vegetable Oil) courtesy of Golden Fuel Systems. We’ll choose one lucky subscriber every few weeks so stay tuned for our next episode and your next chance to win!

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What in the World? – Episode 1: Chena Hot Springs Geothermal Power Generation Trip

Scott — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:53:21 +0000

Charlie, Scott and Matt head north to Chena Hot Springs Resort to document the grand unveiling of a new geothermal generator producing electricity using the lowest temperature water possibly in the world. Before their trip begins, they head down to their home town of Homer to visit family and have some fun. After their visit, they hit the road and enjoy the ride as they head to this one of a kind resort nestled in the heart of Alaska.

Special thanks to Hobo Jim for letting us use his song in our show! And thanks to Brad Josephs for the shot of the Moose and Bear!

The Day Has Finally Arrived!

Scott — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 06:55:26 +0000

Well, I don’t know if Charlie and I ever thought this day would come, but we’re finally ready to debut What in the World? Charlie and I have filmed countless hours of footage from our adventures over the years.We never knew what medium we would use to share our footage with everyone, but we always knew we wanted to share our love for sustainable living and travel with our friends and family. Today we’re going to take our first small step and start by posting our first episodes online for everyone to enjoy.

In the following weeks and months you’ll hopefully see more exciting episodes which will include:

1) Traveling to Chena Hot Springs Resort in Alaska. Charlie, my brother Matt and I document a geothermal power plant going into production for the first time. We also explore the other incredible sustainable projects they’re working on to make the resort as Green as possible.
2) Taking a 5000 mile family road trip with Charlie, his wife Dawnette, their 4 kids, our Grandma Edna and myself as we make a trip around the Great Lakes, into Canada and back. We travel the entire trip in Charlie’s Ford Excursion powered by free vegetable oil we collect from restaurants along the way.
3) Charlie and I are once again joined by my brother as we travel to Japan. We’re there to see all of the SVO (straight vegetable oil) related projects his Japanese dealer and friend Ryu Kagoshima has going on over there.
4) Charlie and I travel to Erfurt Germany for the first annual Plant Oil Congress where he’s been invited to represent the USA and speak on SVO (Straight Vegetable Oil) as fuel. We also hop in a diesel powered Volkswagen and hit the road, traveling through Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Italy and France.
5) Charlie, his wife, his 4 kids, my wife (girlfriend at the time) and I, travel over 4000 miles from Missouri to Alaska and back in his Ford Excursion powered by free vegetable oil we collect from restaurants along the way.

Hopefully throughout our show, you’ll not only be entertained but learn a little bit about some of the different environmentally sustainable technologies available today to go green and save green in the process! Thanks again for visiting our website and for watching our episodes! We hope you’ll come back again soon to see our latest episodes, blog posts on sustainable living and to participate in our contests! :)

- Scott Turkington

Hello Everyone!

Scott — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 06:51:12 +0000

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Hello Everyone!

Scott — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 06:44:57 +0000

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