How to transform a caravan to an Eco-van

How to transform a caravan to an Eco-van

It is possible to reduce our carbon footprint by using renewable resources both for fuel and for electricity. We used the sun shining above us and waste oil instead of fossil fuels while travelling by caravan to emit less carbon to nature and to prevent the disasters caused by (coal plants, dams, wind turbines) our energy consumption. Waste Oil Conversion It’s possible for all diesel vehicles without electronic sections to install the waste oil conversion system. After filtering, we use the waste oil, previously used for cooking, directly in the engine with a separate fuel tank. In contrast to bio-diesel, the oil doesn’t pass through a chemical process; it is just filtered in accordance with the tolerance of the engine. Re-using waste oil in this way not only prevents opening of new mono-culture farming areas just for producing bio-diesel, but also obviates the problem of water pollution caused by waste oil that couldn’t be eliminated. To use waste oil in the vehicle, a yacht type fuel tank (20-40 liters), a conversion kit, optionally with an electronic heat indicator, including connection cables, a fuel pump and a couple of oil filters in different intensity is needed. We fill the oil tank with waste oil, gathered from restaurants on our way, after getting rid of big particles using a piece of pervious cloth and filtering the oil in accordance with the engine oil filter (ours is 5 microns). The vehicle is started with diesel fuel first, then the second tank is activated when the engine reaches a certain temperature. To clean the oil residues in the motor (just like the stickiness in...
Preparation Process Vol.1

Preparation Process Vol.1

              Approximately 2 years have passed since we have decided to set for the journey and started to make savings. It has been approximately 3 months since we left our jobs and 1 month since we have closed our home.  But “the last preparations”  stage didn’t come to an end yet, maybe it will never end. We knew that we wouldn’t start this journey like preparing our back packs and going for a holiday, but we hadn’t expected that it would be such a long process. Now we are counting days restively to leave auto-industries and step into the nature.               While were dreaming to simplify our lives, we have spent a lot of money and energy to buy a caravan, even it is a very simple caravan, and it’s never ending maintenance expenses because of its age. There are a lot of people asking us why we didn’t buy a better caravan. We would be working for 2 years more for it and postpone our dreams. Maybe we would have new health problems in this process and our trip would be postponed more and more. Yes, it is not easy to realize their dreams for people like us, who don’t live in material wealth. But it doesn’t have to be easy, it’s enough not be impossible. Even the difficulties we have now and we will have while travelling are exhausting, they gives pleasure and experience that you can’t buy with pieces of paper. We will remember them with a smile while telling it to our grandchildren,...
Hello!

Hello!

Greetings from Seeds on Wheels! While spring is coming to the northern hemisphere of our planet and the nature is waking, we are excited about the beginning of our journey and our first blog writing. Since we met our caravan who will come along with us in our trip  that we have dreamed of, we were trying to be adapted to the  vehicle while arranging to leave Istanbul. While leaving the life we got used to, the first steps of beginning an indefinite and  exciting new life were like the steps we took when we  were infants. First we quit our jobs, commended Badem, our cat, to safe hands and then we left our home. We have spent the last days before  saying goodbye to the megalopolis with our friends and trying to know our 35 years old  caravan better. To examine the waste oil kit produced by ATG and marketed by Karaerler in Turkey, we drove to Ankara first. After our meeting, we have departed towards Akçay where we are going to stay for 2 weeks. During these weeks, we will be doing small changes like sunshade and closets for our home on wheels while trying to explore the vehicle to be able to solve technical problems that we can face with in our trip. We will be publishing the last events on blog whenever we can. With the hope the renewal brought by spring spread...