What is Homebrew Biodiesel?
The homebrew biodiesel recipe as we know it in the USA was devised by Dr Thomas Reed at Colorado School of Mines around 1989. He introduced his “MCDIESEL” to a guy by the name of Agua Das who got enthused about the political implications of do-it-yourself, community controlled fuel. Agua Das knew of an independent filmmaker Nicole Cusino and told her and her team about this technology. In 1994 the women filmmakers took a trip across the country in a GMC diesel van, making biodiesel along the way and created a documentary film about the process. This cross country trip raised questions about energy, about the mainstream future and sustainability of biodiesel and visited various biodiesel pioneers. The result is the film Fat of the Land www.lardcar.com which is really quite a must-see for anyone interested in the subject and features some early experimenters in the film. The film interviews Agua Das and Dr Reed, hinting at things like biodiesel co-ops and local, community scale, distribu
