Adding blending content

[Jhananda]

Also, I do not believe blending should be a sub under VO.  I believe it should be represented as a third category under biofuels making it separate, but equal to Biodiesel and SVO.  So, I recommend presenting three separate, but equal, aspects of biofuels-diesel as: Biodiesel, SVO and Blending.  After all, Blending has been treated as the bastard child of biofuels-diesel all along, and really deserves being treated as yet another, but different method than Biodiesel and SVO.

[Julian]

Jeff ...

I can understand the importance you put on blending.  However, general opinion seems to be that it's an operation to facilitate the use of WVO and hence should therefore be housed within the veg oil section.

Certainly no one on the forum or the wiki has treated it as a "bastard child", in fact, from everything I've read, you and your valued experience have been welcomed with open arms .

Keep up the good work, it's interesting and useful stuff.

[Tony]

Also, I do not believe blending should be a sub under VO.  I believe it should be represented as a third category under biofuels making it separate, but equal to Biodiesel and SVO.  So, I recommend presenting three separate, but equal, aspects of biofuels-diesel as: Biodiesel, SVO and Blending.  After all, Blending has been treated as the bastard child of biofuels-diesel all along, and really deserves being treated as yet another, but different method than Biodiesel and SVO.

I understand where you're coming from but at the moment we don't have many pages on blending.  We've discussed this at some length behind the scenes, and make the editorial decision is that wiki catagories are the way to group blending pages:

http://www.biopowered.co.uk/wiki/Category:Blending

(it's rather lonely in there at the moment!)

For the time being we would rather this category remains a sub-category of vegetable oil.  The negativity associated with blending does not belong here, and it should be treated as any other mechanism for using vegetable oil unconverted in an engine.  Many VO users blend without really thinking that what they are doing is "blending"; that is, using diesel or RUG to thin vegetable oil, particularly over the UK winter.

Also, biodiesel users blend as well, adding RUG during the winter months.  Eventually we may need pages on that topic as a sub-topic of biodiesel category too.

Of course the current arrangement is by no means final; using wiki categories allows us, should we wish to in the future, to seperate blending from Vegetable Oil and add a link on the left menu to the subcategory directly - it's just that right now there is not enough content to warrant this.

[Jhananda]

I recently transferred my content from here to Wikipedia and added considerably more content, then had the page hacked apart the next day, so I am bringing that added content back here where it will survive.  I have some research references to add, but wiki UK does not seem to have the same language for sources. So, can someone help me here with that?

[Julian]

At a quick glance the problem seems to lie in the way references are linked to the list at the bottom of the page.  If you look at the state tables for Biodiesel processors, they do a similar thing.

So you need to link the text like this ... [[#Ref1|Mercedes-Benz 300D owner's manual]]

And then put the following code the specific reference in the reference section ... <div id="Ref1"></div>