Biofuel

[eppie]

But, I'd say good luck to anyone trying to find an 'eppie' from the Netherlands who is a chemist and works somewhere in Europe.

Well we don't do any oaths when we graduate or get a PhD so technically I will be fine. But I believe meat is a parent so an extra reason t be careful.
If continuing he might want to look up something on safety regarding his compounds, and think likes explosion limits of solvents. There are just many little things you don't think about when you don't have experience handling chemicals. Such as static discharge from your body on a cold winters day, explosion limits, flash points, things to never mix, heat generation during reactions or when dissolving compounds, what containers store solvents or strong acids and bases.
In many countries (in europe at least) it is very hard to buy chemicals. Of course gasoline is also highly flamable, and some acids and bases can be bought in your supermarket, but in general you can only purchase this stuff if you are registerd as a company that works in the (some kind of) business and that has a good reason for it. And i general in many companies chemical safety precautions are much more strict than what you would be able to do as a consumer.

All in all I think the costs of getting a safe reaction vessel etc. and the risk make it better not to try something like this. And no I am not some boring old person that is whining about everything....... I did a jump out of an airplane once.:)