vegetable oil for home heating

Vegetable oil can be used for fuel in two basic forms: (1) biodiesel and (2) what is often known as straight vegetable oil (SVO). Biodiesel is derived through a chemical reaction that begins with straight vegetable oil. Straight vegetable oil is often derived as waste from restaurants (waste vegetable oil WVO) or other sources. The question is what information is available on the web about the use of straight vegetable oil as a home heating fuel. There is information about using biodiesel. I have had a hard time digging up information about the use of straight vegetable oil for home heating. The kind of information that would be useful would be about the kinds of oil heaters that work or don%26#39;t work; any supplementary equipment that is needed to make the straight vegetable oil work properly in the system (e.g. pre-heaters); any information about the sources of oil that are better for the process, etc.; any information about recommended blending; arguments why biodiesel is superior, etc. Thanks. The information would be useful to me in the series of links categorized by the problem or issue they are responsive to. Short summaries after each link would also facilitate the research. If there are no results, then some kind of explanation of how thorough the research was to give me confidence that nothing is out there on the web on the topic.
Don%26#39;t know if this will help or not, but SVO can be used in diesel engines and is used a lot in diesel generators to generate electricity. It just has to be pre-heated first. I sell a book on how to generate your own electricity that has a lot of info on biodiesel. The book also has some info on methane that can be used to heat a home. And... of course solar home heating. You can get a free biodiesel book at www.electricitybook.com. Here are the resources I have listed in my book on biodiesel... http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_make.html http://www.kelseyville.com/biodsl/ http://www.biodieselnow.com/ www.biodiesel.org www.biodiesel.com www.veggievan.org Bill
Since I don%26#39;t know how to submit an answer, I settle for a comment. This is what I am going to do and have done. I have tried an oil burner/heater with using 100% biodiesel, and the problem is lighting it with electronic ignition spark. Biodiesel doesn%26#39;t atomize like diesel does b/c of the viscosity. So I have read B20 should work fine, but haven%26#39;t confirmed. What does work is lighting the spray with a torch by hand, once the combustion chamber of the oil furnace is hot, it will lite, and continues to stay hot, and it will relite if the chamber stays hot. The same goes with WVO, its just thicker than biodiesel. So to say if you where using a regular oil burner, the oil would need to be preheated, and added air compression would needed to be added to the mix before the nozzle, so to get a good atomization to it out of the nozzle. These guys at waste oil heat have a great system going, but the burner costs aprox $2600USD, but they claim it works with WVO, and any other thick viscous fuels. You have to look for burners that will burn used car oil. Same theory applies to that type of fuel. http://wasteoilheat.com/inov8/waste-oil-burners.shtml I plan on buying one here before winter, and installing it in a bioler, and using an air handler (raditor or heat exchanger) put into the existing furnace fan system to heat the home. I have pretty good confidence the burner works, b/c it uses a compressor, and preheats the fuel before the nozzle. In short if you got the money get the INOV8 Burner, and find a boiler to put it in. Otherwise you can use a babington burner setup for viscous fluid atomization. But you will have to make your own system there. Have fun chewing on that, Brandon