You are probably among those billions of people worldwide, who are feeling increasingly guilty about the environmental pollution caused by us, human beings. You may begin with small adjustments such as, setting your computer to hibernating stage when not at your desk, using porcelain mugs instead of paper coffee cups or re-using the back sides of used paper documents to take down rough notes. These are the first steps to become more responsible towards yourself, your future generation and Earth as a whole. However if somebody asks you what is the most major source of pollution that you use, the first thing that will come to your mind will probably be an image of your car or two wheeler emitting dark black smoke that fades into the air instantly

It was as early as in 1900, which a visionary inventor displayed how cars can run on peanut oil and declared vegetable oil to be the future of automobile fuel. The name of this inventor was Rudolph Diesel, the person who engineered world’s first diesel engine. As the sources of conventional fuels such as petroleum and gasoline are in the danger of getting exhausted, more and more people are convinced that instead of looking for new sources of fossil fuels, we should invest further into the researches on alternative fuels. One alternative fuel, which is of late, making headlines due to its cost-effectiveness and fuel efficiency, is biodiesel.

Even though environmental scientist love it and governments of many nations are actively promoting it, biodiesel is still not getting produced at a rate at which it can at least compete with conventional fuels, let alone replace it completely. Many fuel companies give excuses such as, the lack of demand for biodiesel, in order to avoid producing biodiesel in their plants. Many fuel consumers, on the other hand, do not buy biodiesel because the supply is extremely limited. This goes on like a vicious circle. In order to break this circle, we can produce our own biodiesel at home. When a lot of people start doing this, the oil companies will know that they are losing out on a vast amount of revenue and will start producing biodiesel for their own good.

In order to prepare biodiesel at home, you will need a modular or an automated biodiesel processor. This is simple equipment, which you can even build at your home using various Internet resources available.