The vegetable oil 4WD

When Dad first told me of people using fish ‘n’ chip waste oil to fuel their cars, I really thought he had finally gone mad. Note I say *finally*, love you Dad but seriously sometimes you have some pretty wacky ideas!

But it seems he wasn’t losing his grip on reality, people really are converting their vehicles to run on waste vegetable oil from fish and chip shops.

Civil engineer, Gerard Mimmo from Australia and his wife, Rachel are embarking on a trek around Australia in their converted 4WD using waste vegetable oil. Their plan is to travel 30,000 km’s having so far completed over 1,000 km’s. BTW, this is actually their honeymoon, much credit guys..great to see!

Their vehicle can use either diesel or vegetable and as Gerard explained it a solenoid switches between the diesel and the oil. A cold engine starts with the diesel but once it’s up to a running temperature they can switch it over.

They are using oil donated by truck stops and fish and chip stores and hope to complete a carbon-neutral journey.

You can track their progress by visiting their site: www.ozonabatteredfish.blogspot.com/

I realise Gerard and Rachel are on the road but if you happen across our blog, we would love to hear from you!

Very cool indeed. And Dad, I apologise for ever doubting your obvious brilliance

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GPS may ‘lead thieves’ to your home

An article from theage.com.au warns motorists that thieves who steal a GPS unit from their vehicle can then use the device to find out where the car owner lives and rob their home as well.

This article rang true for me as I recalled about two months ago visiting a large camping store. We were looking at the many GPS units on display and while playing around, I entered my home address to see how quick the unit responded. After playing around for a short while, I went to walk off when my partner enquired as to whether our address would be stored on the unit. After quickly checking, I found our address along with probably 10-15 other addresses from customers who had done the exact same thing.

Needless to say, I deleted our details immediately!

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Electric Motorcycle Conversion

This is a pretty cool video showing a conversion from a petrol run motorcycle to an electric one.

A Honda Rebel motorcycle is converted to a zero emissions electric chopper. Made the Gomi way, with mostly found and scavenged materials, we make a street legal commuter bike perfect for San Francisco.