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I'm seriously considering buying a school bus.Or moving to South America (things are a lot cheaper down there, like art school for one) and flying up here to work…or both! Desperation you say? Au contraire! Well maybe a little bit. But realistically, I want to see things and have a home and still make money. I would convert the bus to bio-diesel and try and fit a stripping pole in it (for practice of course and uber hot cam shows!) and maybe an herb garden next to the windows… Pros: More room (about 45 feet more), ability to travel (major plus), adventures as inspiration for writing/blogging material, meeting other people on the road (I need friends!) Cons: Living in another rectangular space (which I hate), being a little illegal, costly start up? 17 comments to I'm seriously considering buying a school bus. |
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Hey not to knock bio-diesel. but here are my experiences with the product. we tried to run two of our large single speed diesel generators on the stuff at one of the parks I worked in. after following the best tech for the conversion we found seals, gaskets, filters and hose failing. basicly any product made with a natural material. The trouble is that pure bio-diesel is made with three things sodium hydroxide, (drain cleaner) oil and alcohol. it is the sodium hydroxide that kills the natural produces used in the gaskets and hoses, that is why it works on the hair clogs in your drain. most “bio-diesel” used now is a mixture of 85% diesel and 15% pure bio-diesel. this way less expensive gaskets and hoses can be used. you might think about a large gas engine that is rated for dual fuel. this means it will run on any mix of gasoline to straight alcohol. But then you have the impact of creating the alcohol. but, the bus idea sound great let me know and i will come down next winter and help
I wasn’t going to use bio-diesel from a store or gas station I was going to make it myself, check out http://www.enchantedgypsy.blogspot.com/ they have a biodiesel/solar powered bus and they’ve gotten around just fine.
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Looked at the what was on there site. I can duplicate it. It would be interesting to do. I would want to disasemble the engine mic ever thing then let you run it for a few 10,000 miles and then disasemble it and mic it again. they are using a heaver oil than the engine is designed for by heating the oil to thin it. the engine runs on conventional diesel till it is up to temperature then switches to the heavier oil. would be a fun project. the solar system is straight forward. Look at home power journal for a good primer on these types of installations. do you use AC at your place? would you want it in the bus?
OH you could take it one step further, get a portable satellite system so you can be on the web most any where. I use that system when I am at Isle Royale. you can do VOIP on it as well. your clients just have to deal with the lag. the signal goes 40,000 miles round trip.
Robert: My understanding is that biodiesel only degrades gaskets and the like in older engines with pure rubber parts, and pure biodiesel isn’t a problem in engines made since the 90′s or so.
Sequoia: First, check out this site:
http://journeytoforever.org/
It’s a hugely useful resource on sustainability in general, but it’s also got an awful lot of great information about biodiesel specifically. It will dispel many myths about it that some other internet sources tend to propagate.
If you do end up with a diesel vehicle, you may want to convert it to run on straight vegetable oil (SVO) rather than biodiesel. It doesn’t take much. There’s a German company called Elsbett that produces conversion kits that are supposedly some of the best out there. They started doing this back in the 70′s during the oil crisis in those days and they never stopped. Here’s a link:
http://www.elsbett.com/us/elsbett-conversion-technology/fundamentals.html
Running on SVO means you only have to carefully filter your oil before using it as fuel. No potentially dangerous chemistry is involved. The down-side of vegetable oil is a greater sensitivity to cold temperatures. If you want to live somewhere cold, you may need engine block heaters and stuff like that, or to run at least partly on petro-diesel (you can mix it with SVO) in the winter.
Like Robert said, it sounds like you’re thinking of SVO rather than biodiesel. I lived in a schoolbus and my girlfriend and I converted it to SVO but it broke a lot. In retrospect, we should have paid someone to do it for us.
I vote you do whatever you want. But if you move into a bus I vote you drive it up here!
Bus living, being a lot like van living, is, in my mind, very cool. Why spend every waking moment working to provide funds necessary to live in a place that you don’t like? That only serves as a place to sleep so you can keep on working and making money for other people? No fun. Be free.
Suprisingly – the wikipedia entry for ‘biodiesel’ is quite informative and seems to cover the major issues you’ll face (including the fact there is still an environmental impact in that the majority of feedstocks are from food crops – though that doesn’t need to be the case and much more efficient methods are in development and deployment – I’d guess that this is something that you would consider in your decision making process?)
Seriously: Good luck!
(Though I suspect that you’ll be adding diesel engine maintainance and fault-finding to your portfolio of skills despite older engines being more amenable to modification!)
Redd,
Don’t get a bus, get a vintage airstream trailer. I have one that is almost 50 years old and it is way cool….they can be bought very cheap also! Take care….love your site…Tom
This an interesting idea. I hope whatever you decide it is what you want and not what we want. I love your garden at the camp though. KISSES
I commend you and hope that you do what makes you comfortable and joyful. I feel very encouraged by you and would like to join your Meetup Group.
Tulu
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