re,

..A Northamptonshire man destroyed his garage and badly injured himself at the weekend while attempting to make biodiesel ...

Anyone know if it was one of our members ?

regards
dva

It seems that he ignited methanol (I doubt very much that it was 'ethanol') vapour from a spark from an electric drill he was using as a mixer.

The story is here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/northamptonshire/7527630.stm