Biodiesel: The afterlife of oil - Natascia Radice
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
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How could you dispose of your cooking oil when you're done cooking? The easiest thing to do might be to pour it down your drain -- but if you save it up and send it to a processing plant, it can gain useful new life as biodiesel, a biodegradable energy source which can run in diesel engines instead of refined petroleum. Natascia Radice describes the process of turning goop into good.
Lesson by Natascia Radice, animation by Lippy.
This is such a weird coincidence. I work at KFC. Today, as our cook was changing the oil, I saw him pumping the old oil into a big lug. I asked him about it and he said a truck comes whenever the lug is full and takes it away... Neither of us knew what they do with the oil. Then I get home and this video is recommended to me. Thanks, Universe, for giving me an answer so promptly.
okay buddy thank you
Some people might have been offended, but you took it cool and friendly. Good for you! =)
Send me a bucket of chicken for free pls.
Alyssa Topping yhhn
Alyssa Topping tell your cook the secret
I suppose in the future cooking oil will become the next thing we will recycle. This sounds good, seeing the benefits from such a recycling!
It's kinda too late to change. Global warming is already too far
@@ethanbaboon140 His comment was SIX YEARS ago :D
In Italy restaurants do it since I can remember.
Thats you say is guttering oil in china and its illegal to do it in china in china guttering oil and turn it back to cooking oil with chemicals
@@ethanbaboon140 according to the people who said that in 2000? 2008? 2012? 2020? They said it's too late?
WHY ARE WE ARE WE NOT FUNDING THIS ?
we are
+Jon Tay Petrolium companies are big and they are very intimate with the people who make laws.
Jon Tay: You do NOT speak for ME. If You want to fund this go right ahead. Don't rope me into doing something You think we should.
Jon Tay it doesnt generate enough money
Jon Tay Why would oil companies not push as hard as they can against this to secure a monopoly on the diesel business?
If you're looking for more info, please check out our current project to convert used cooking oil to run a boat. ua-cam.com/video/7PRuVw_IEgg/v-deo.html
Anybody remember homer simpsons brief escapade into the grease business?
Francis Lai h
Yeah
That was a good episode
Legendary
Yea
Very good video.
I'm actually a little bit surprised this sounds as new, judging by some comments I've read below. In Portugal there are small bins at most locations to collect cooking oil from residential use, for perhaps a decade. Let's keep on educating our young!
I agree to think that I used to pour my food away when dont eat it but the biogas are eating them
Oi
I just found out about this today. I live in a rural area where people cook with lots of oil and grease, yet we still have nothing like this here.
This will never catch on if they expect people to find out about this on their own and then look up where the next recycling station is and then walk there several times a month with their dirty oil that they could as well just have disposed of without hassle and less time consuming. No, this needs to get a push by law. If oil is recycled similarly to how many industrialized countries recycle paper, well then it might work. Until then it's nothing but a neat idea with massive unused potential.
***** The only problem I see with america is stated right in your ridiculously long rant " We don't need laws,we need to create a system that makes it economicly profitable to the individual."
I.E.
"Make the world a better place? Fuck that, I'd rather make money! Give me incentive to not leave the world worse off for my children" Great mindset gramps, go back to your rocking chair.
Urb4n0Ninj4
I thought something along those lines as well. I'm all for free market, but if regulations are the only thing that can stop companies from not giving a shit about A) the future, B) their employees, C) their customers (leaving us oblivious to what crap they use to extend our food) or D) the world we live in, then well, sometimes regulations are simply an inevitable necessity.
Every reasonable person should see that a completely deregulated market serves no one and is extremely unsustainable. It should be a nobrainer really.
***** I'm afraid to ask how *I* contradicted myself, because you might type out another 30 page essay.
+haiggoh Just like how I "never" take my used engine oil to an auto parts store for them to recycle it instead of dumping it on the ground. I'm not paid money for it.
Austin Lucas you are a responsible, informed citizen. But the majority isn't. And even of those who should know better there's too many who will always prefer convenience anyway.
Stuff like this should be on Television to help educate the public
I suppose one way to encourage people to return their used oil for processing would be to pay them, say, 50-80% of the current per-litre price of diesel for each litre of oil they bring in. Kind of like how some places have those "return your empty drink can for 10 cents" incentives.
This should be carried out on a larger scale - like along with the normal everyday recyclables! I remember learning in Geo that Tesco did this with old cooking oil but I never thought of it to be done a larger scale!
Beautiful. These needs momentum
Most people would be too lazy to put the effort into filling a carton with grease... This video needs more views!!!!
This a very good/informative video. Only problem I foresee with this is that I believe that people aren't prepared to go out of their way to store and then properly dispose of the grease. This is a similar situation to recycling.
In Spain we cook with oil everyday and recycling oil has been a practice for long. We have “recycling points” at almost every mall and once a week a portable recycling point goes to the main square of every town or hood to collect oil bottles, batteries and special waste.
Wow that's pretty amazing. Hope more people see this! I never considered myself to be very environmental cautious, but this definitely was made in a great way :)
This is so important because many people want to help out and this is a free and non hassling way in which to do so
Ted ed has the best animations always:-)
1:44 whenever you see someone working with their eyes closed and confidence on their face, know that they are master in what they are doing. 😁👍
The visuals are amazing.
for another source of biodiesel other than food crops, there is algae vats that can cleanse city sewage. it would be using black water not drinking water and if used over salt water bays, will be killed off by the salinity and be just food for fish or oysters nearby if it was ruptured for some reason. when properly managed it could produce many times over what a food crop per year would have with the same area. check their site for the full info.
0:57 THE ENGINE IS NOT IN THE NOSE, ITS IN THE REAR
This _almost_ makes me feel bad for not cooking with lots of oil. I never encounter pools of oil to throw away.
Nice video :) The dinosaur claim is a bit misinformed, but I appreciated the image that accompanied it :D
I've never thought of that!
To everyone who is saying this is promising
How often do you think most people will do this? Even if it is on every block there is a very little chance of even 1% of people recycling.
My place don't even have those kind of factory to create it so I don't and can't recycle it.
You're awfully pessimistic for a communist
Their target is restaurants. And it really a good target
Well u betrayed that photo of yours
Well, it depends. How many people actually know about this? If we push our local governments to start recycling the oil into biodiesel, which I’m pretty sure can be at least be pushed forward by letters to our local representatives, we can start there. No offense, but I think it might be more promising than you think. If it becomes well known, and we as the public push for it, it is more likely to become reality. Especially with people being more wary about recycling and the environment. The fact that they can get rid of something they don’t want for free, and make it into something better for the environment and is less likely to absolutely wreck their plumbing? I think more people will be on board than you think.
I would love to point out that at 0:56 the location of the engine icon is grossly misplaced in the train locomotive. Whilst this looks to be an F7 locomotive, the engine in this series (and a majority of every other railroad locomotive) is actually located behind the cab, in-between the two sets of wheels (trucks), or in-between the two circular windows in the middle of the locomotive
Oh wow, this is really cool, I didn't know people could recycle cooking oil!
Great animation! :D
Thank you, Ryan.
-Lippy
Hello. This is my thesis and I am in the lab researching about it right now. You are welcome.
Awesome idea to prevent pollution in a way !!👏👏
Please make the next video on the other equally important biofuel, that is bioethanol.
Biodiesel is useful, if you're thinking of using it make sure it works in your car though. 2007 and later model year cars can only handle so much of a percentage, stock; though manufacturers have said running up to 20% (B20) is OK by their warranties. Older cars may be able to run 100%, just keep aware that various amounts actually gel up with B100 gelling up a bit higher than the freezing point.
Also, Biodiesel may loosen unburned fuel if you start using it. It may be a good idea to change the fuel filter before starting to use biodiesel.
When the fuel price rose in Germany, people went over to run their diesel cars on regular salat oil from the discounter because it was way cheaper. Since the discounter couldn't supply that much, they rose the price of salat oil pretty steep.
Finally someone else is trying to stop pollution.
de todas maneras hay que quemar ese biodiesel para que funcione en algún motor, añadiendo más gases de efecto invernadero a la atmósfera... no es la mejor solución hasta el momento :/
Libelibel what
I have a question. If Genetic Modified Organism, GMO, can make plants grow faster and a lot of people oppose it, why don't use GMOs for making Biodiesel instead? I mean, A LOT of people oppose it for use in foods. Unless you don't, then okay. But the point is, since you're not going to eat food with GMOs, why not just use it to power cars, or buses, or trains, or whatever machines needs oil. It can even make America free from foreign oil exchange. I mean, why buy other people's oil supply when we can make it ourselves? If anyone who is opposing this idea, needs to bring their A game to discredit this. Cause, as this video states, it's pretty good.
Decent idea, but there's a pretty fundamental flaw. Growing plants for fuel, even though we wouldn't be using it for food, still takes farmland. That land could be used to make food, and that's mostly what people are upset about when they complain about biofuels. We can make our biofuel plants more efficient by making GMOs, but until we invent vertical farming and advanced hydroponics, this will still take our precious farmland.
Alright! For the sake of humanity, I will counter debate your debate! Because I believe this will benefit everyone! Also if there's anyone who's extremely patriotic about America, if this plan works, you might just have something else to boast about in the next coming years. Alexander, get ready to have your mind blown! Making Biodiesel from plants won't take much farmland. Why? Human cleverness! Because science found a by to grow plants without sunlight, therefore eliminating the need for open fields, which means, the plants grown for fuel can be grown indoors. By LED lights or HID lights or any other lights Scientists have discovered! Their research found and concluded that plants might grow faster if certain light waves is absorbed by the plants. Or something like that, you'll have to research that yourselves to get the statistics, but you get the idea. And with the help of GMOs, it might grow even faster! Not only that, the building housing the plants could be a tower, a facility or an underground plantation. The lights can even be environmental friendly! Just by using the rivers or streams to power the lights, or make a man made cannel instead. Imagine what that will do! Not only is the plan good for the economy for the U.S, meaning exports, America can finally cut trade with foreign oil traders, since why buy oil when we can make them ourselves, and it's going to be a steady supply of money heading to the capitalists' wallets! I mean seriously, if all the U.S oil companies banded together to work on this project, not only will the people love them for this, but the environmental group with start warming up to them too! And before we continue, yes, it will be expensive, but think of all the bragging rights! Also, if they are thinking of making such a plantation, it will need ALOT of people to maintain the place, therefore it will immediately create a ton of jobs! A ton is an understatement towards how many jobs I'm currently imagining right now. And you know why I am confident why this industry will succeed. America has a lot of cars. That is also an understatement towards how many people drives in the U.S. I want the people who dares to take risks! A risk for this! If humanity wants to stop it's quest for fracking for limited oil, someone has to start somewhere. And I mean a HUGE start. Someone who dares to pour all their money into this project. Cause they will know honor for generations to come! Now that I think about it, as science progresses, this biofuel thing will probably get better, but again, someone has to start somewhere. I would happily do that, except I'm not a billionaire that has a lot of money to throw around. Again, understatement. However, I want someone to do that! We all know how good biodiesel is, why not take the effort to do it? And maybe profit a hell lot out of it? For the sake of not see those jokes about America runs on oil anymore. And for the sake of the environment and capitalism. Now for your guys counter arguments! Bring your A game to discredit this now! But no seriously, I want to see your opinions about this.
+JokerReaperComedy If we really needed the extra farmland, we have two long mountain chains we can utilize for farming by using terraced farming. Also, with an increased production of biofuel, maybe we can actually start exporting oil instead of importing it, which would give us a bigger budget with which to pay off our Chinese loans. Combine that with the removal of the penny and decreased military spending, and we may just stop accumulating debt altogether. World opinion about the U.S. would also be highly likely to dramatically change, because we wouldn't be looking for oil sources anymore. It also takes away a crucial bargaining chip from OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) because if they did cut off any imports of oil (which may be nonexistent) we wouldn't give two shits. There are more benefits than meets the eye, my friend.
All the while the lackluster American economy will boom from all the jobs you described as well as the massive profits corporations, or even individual people could theoretically make from this better alternative to a popular fuel source already!
And laws will begin to regulate this new industry and new equipment for mass production of this oil could begin to be developed. And better yet, you can make the refineries self sufficient by making them run off of the biofuel.
6 years passed, and nothing commercial on this concept!
Please make a video about oil production activities in Middle East. I need it
oi, muito bom o seu canal, :) amei, sou nerd e quero saber de tudo e esse canal me ajudou muito
Great video
This is a sound & recommended technology for the heavy vehicle/excavation/transport/ & farm equipment industry.
".....Which comes from dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals......". No. None of it is from dinosaurs. Most is from plankton from the carboniforus era.
+Seonbin Song Its just so misleading that they had said that
Exactly what I was going to point out. Thank you!
Yes fossil fuels are not from dinosaurs and oil is mostly comprised of the remains of photosynthesizing marine organisms but the term Carboniferous (Latin for coal-bearing) refers specifically to the layers of coal not oil that formed from land plant matter in the wetlands that dominated the planet at the time from the end of the Devonian Period 358.9 million years ago, to the beginning of the Permian Period, 298.9 million years ago (60 million year period).
TheOneWhoSaysMeep I think you're missing the point...
TheOneWhoSaysMeep
" And any other ancient organism"
Word of this will get out. My class is educating people about things like this.
This has been on my list. Take a vw tdi and convert it to biodiesel. Then get old oil from restaurants and refine it. Trouble is having the space to refine it with the equipment.
This won't catch on because there are too many steps to get usable fuel, and each step is rather costly as opposed to just digging it out of the ground.
After we run out of easily available fuel then we'd look towards the cheapest plants to make fuel from. Its good to research and fund research exploring these things so when we do make the switch it'll work.
The fossil fuel isn't just "dug out og the ground", it is raffined before it can be used, through heating it up and then sorting the different types of oil and gas, before sorting them out more accurate since some of the different types get mixed under the raffination(might not be the english word, my 1st language isnt english). Also when the oil is drained from the oil platforms it gets sent via ships, some of the ships leak oil causing big damage to plant and animal life. If the fuel is dug from land, then that is not a problem, but nevertheless it is also a cost to transport the oil.
So, the fossil fuel isn't just "dug out of the ground". ;)
corckyboy Yes I understand the concept of refining the oil, I have family running refineries in the USA, an uncle is a CEO, Its still cheaper, and with existing infrastructure to maintain the current posture. Though its mostly political in nature. But the shift won't happen until people start losing their jobs. Fossil Fuels are just "dug out" they exist in a state which is retrieved from the earth. They might not be usable in that state, but really there are factories that exist now that show how cheap a barrel gas, plastic, asphalt, oil, etc are. If Biodisal plants pop up and churn out the same resources for less cost props for them. However that has yet to be a proven case.
corckyboy not trying to sound like a grammar nazi but
*refined
People start losing their jobs well don't worry it will happened in around possibly 100 years but that's a guess but it will happened if programs and robots etc. comes in fruitation and BAM WE GOT EVERYTHING COVER FROM THERE.
Generic Scout Pollution, anyone?
Perfect Ending!
In here South Korea, we purchase recycled oil soap bar. It perfectly works for cleaning dirt on rugs or clothes.
Best knowledge source
i made bio for my car, but i found out its easier to just burn the vegetable oil straight instead of turning it into bio. cheaper too. saved me about $10,000 in one year, and that includes maintenance.
its the 1984 Turbo-Diesel 300d
Pretty pretty slick 👌
this video should've had atleast 30 millio views, we need to do this
How amazing! Transforming a goop into gold.
I wonder what the difference on the toxicity of the exhaust is between the two
You should not Forget that BIO-Diesel can not be stored as liong as normal Diesel. In Germany we say ''Diesel-Pest'' (Diesel-Plague). The Biodiesel can Damage Engins, if stored to Long in the Tank of the Vehicles
biodiesel is way more energy-intensive than normal diesel. and most biodiesel is made from new plants which makes factory farming(monoculture) profitable. henceforth making it a lets not break the sewers, but pollute the air type of deal, and the air seems a lot more destructible than a few sewer clogs.
My master project is about biodiesel usage in diesel engine comparing it with diesel and a blend of both as well.
I've tried collecting grease after browning ground beef, but I don't cook ground beef or use enough cooking oil to half-fill a small salsa jar before it begins to mold. Other options?
Make it profitable for people who are spending their time collecting and dropping off the oil and you have yourself a deal. Otherwise, it will not catch on.
or install an oil disposal system like drains
More people need to watch this.
"Monstrous greasy blockages" GOOD VOCABULARY
Petroleum is a fossil fuel derived from ancient fossilized organic materials, such as zooplankton and algae; not dinosaurs.
It's made out of any living organisms that died and was conserved under specific circumstances.
The 'not dinosaurs' part was because of the "educational" video @~1:00 "Petroleum comes from long dead dinosaurs and other fossils." - I think its misleading. The oil we have today is mostly from zooplankton and algae. But yes my gasoline may contain traces of dinosaur; just like my granola may contain traces of peanuts.
Then it's extra delicious!
I have a biodiesel Mercedes and I'm all for this
I got a kick out of the little diesel engine in the locomotive restroom. ;)
Incidentally, that “react the triglycerides to get glycerol and esters” reaction is the exact same one that makes soap.
I love this video....the cartoon is really beautiful...
I love this idea! Why didn't this happen sooner? BUT are there any 'cons' to this? None that I can think of really. .. but there has to be something...
Ikr. Sounds too good to be true, which usually means it is…
Petroleum from dinosaurs ? Really ??? I trusted you ted...
Coal is made from plants... i guess where you made mistake.
Coal from plant and oil from dead plankton and algae that accumulated in seabed. Think about it no way there is enough land animal in one place to make oil it was propaganda in the past to make oil price higher.
Nice to know.
I use my empted plastic laundry detergent bottle after I drill 2 small holes into the lid.
Actually, most of the petroleoum is not dinosaur but plant matter like trees and algae. Sorry, you're actually using plantmatter to power your car.
Sir Francis Plankton aren't plants
No, petroleum is mostly from animal origin mostly those who lived in sea bottoms, coal is what is produced by plants....
Phytoplankton while not in the kingdom of plants (Plantae) do photosynthesize and produce around half of the Earths oxygen.
Petrol is produced when sediments comprising the remains of marine organisms such as algae, zoo/phytoplankton are compressed and heated underground. Most marine biomass are microscopic photosynthesizes such as phytoplankton comprised of micro-algae and cyanobacteria. Thus most fossil fuel marine sediments are majority plant based. However, sediments containing greater amounts of plant material are more likely to form natural gas under high temperatures. Coal is produced by buried and compressed plants in ancient wetlands. The majority of deposits date from the Carboniferous (Latin for 'coal-bearing') when these environments dominated the planet from the end of the Devonian Period 358.9 million years ago, to the beginning of the Permian Period, 298.9 million years ago (60 million year period).
Francis Lai
So if. I burn some plants is that plant matter?
Diesel powered cars are pretty normal here in Norway, i dont really know about the rest of euorpe though
Okay but why does that goop look like a Scooby-Doo villain?
Nice
Racoons: nooo you can't just make grease into diesel
Humans: haha grease go diesel now
Oil does not come from dinosaurs, they come from plankton
mega oil coop: NO! SHUT UP! YOU'RE RUINING MY BUSINESS
Ted ed I have a question for you. In your video you said that in the transformation proces from deisel to biodeisel a molecule is created called glycerol and that is removed at the end of the proces, my question is: what happens to the glycerol, what do they do with it?
It makes soap
Parents when they see a child about to dump leftover cooking grease:
"WAIT DON'T THAT'LL CLOG THE SYSTEM AND COST US HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS TO FIX!"
"Instead, recycle it to make a business and give us Rolexes for our hard-working wrists"
Timeless entertainment and education
But that is about emmisions? Is biodiesel when burned produse less emmisions? Does it not cause cancer as regular diesel does?
Imagine, one day, all of our Diesel Locomotives riding on the rails powered by Biodiesel. A perfect and sustainable future.
Also, Alcohol could work too.
this is helpful
Ted-Ed : "SOME cars burn diese-"
Car companies : I'm gonna stop you right there.
Did you mean:
Ridiculous "green" government initiatives: I'm going to stop you right there.
Diesel is better than gas, 'green' laws and programs have made it worse.
Id just use algae farms and drain them however that technology is not mastered and the fuel isnt quite dense enough for most engines but if we were to use the engines that can work with it and loose like 2mph, we couod produce ridiculous amounts of this stuff
I hope Indonesia is already know and is taking action for generating biodiesel.
Is it eco friendly post use in engines?
I was gathering it from fast foods and restaurants and not only we dispose of there are many property but actually paid them
I think I was 30 cents per liter.. Don't remember.. But you can use it in dog food and drink metal that connect or move
Fuel network in place of food network GENIUS
But there some drawbacks, though! For example, as we make room for growing the plants that work well in the biodiesel converting process, we must chop down many other trees, which means deforestation or erosion later on! That's just my idea, please share yours! Thank you
Which is why their stance is to use less crops and more kitchen waste.
Why doesn’t this have more views.
I understand it immediately without thinking
Biodiesel sounds like a really cool band name.
only down side of this is i change my diet so i dont make waste oil. I cook on butter and lard and if there is some waste (from lard) i feed that to my chickens, wild birds and animals. Only oil i use is syntetic and automotive oil
Cool! Maybe one day we’ll be using Biodiesel to power our cars. 🤞😎
Ok lets say i want to store used oil in old milk container
Where i can sell it?
Oil never came from dinosaurs. The term Fossil Fuels was picked to entice customers with the scarcity from the start by Standard Oil Co.
Well, even if others don’t do this, I will. Lead by example
Oil made from dinosaurs that's where I turned it off
I usually dispose oil in the combustible garbage. Are there any bad effects?
+lana yes, wildfires, explosions. but not to worry they wont know its you...lol
i don't think it's available in my country yet .-.
What? You’re not supposed to put it down the drain, I learned that when I first started cooking!
fun fact: Diesel wanted his engine to work on plants, but he died and people misunderstood the engine, discovered what we now call diesel and said: "that work, lets use that"
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