Zelandeth wrote: 28 Oct 2017, 17:48The chemicals involved were truly nasty in themselves - never mind the potential for things to go wrong in truly interesting and exciting ways when being used together...
Yes, sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) is some nasty old stuff and so is methanol. Those two used together in bio-diesel manufacture they do indeed present some rather significant dangers...
There are other chemicals you can use but they're hardly inert and free of issues either...