A couple weeks ago the French were complaining their wine is only good for fuel.
And your exhaust smells like french fries!
BTTT
Diesel has a HIGH! HIGH! pollutant output compared to the refine octane of the common ICE vehicle. The manipulation of information that comes with the hypocricy of "bio diesel" is worthy of ridicule.
Diesel produces more CO2, diesel engines (that aren't 3 inches thick) require more maintenance, and the Bio-Diesel has a by product, I forget which one, but it is either a major caustic compound, or a major acid. The same people who say that coal is killing the world (despite the advances in degassification) are gonna say it is okay to polute the world with these side affects.
I'm working off of faulty memory, can someone who knows a thing about chemistry support me please?
Keep in mind that Capone went to prison for tax evasion.
Eastman Chemical Co announced last week the production of Biodiedel fuel from Arkansas soybeans. Their inplant diesel trucks already run on the fuel.
They did a cost per mile test here in the UK with a variety of fuels, from compressed natural gas, to petrol, to standard diesel, to vegetable oil. Vegetable oil was by far the cheapest.
Regards, Ivan
Vegetable oil is not all that cheap or abundant, that it could completely replace the petroleum-derived Diesel fuel.
But what could be a major player as a source of Diesel fuel in coming years is to send methane, a fraction of natural gas, through a "reforming" process, that converts the methane molecule, CH4, into long-chain hydrocarbons, say like C10H22, decane, which is a clear, sulfur-free, rather non-volatile organic compound, which with almost no particulate matter (soot) at all. What particulate does escape the combustion chamber could be burned in an afterburner that adds O2 to the exhaust stream.
WHy not. -I- pretty much run on cooking grease.
"While no one likes the New Jersey Turnpike ambiance of an idling diesel engine,..."
I always liked the smell of a diesel engine. : )
At 50 - 55 mpg on ol' #2, I'll stick with diesel.
20 million barrels of oil a day. That's a lot of rancid cooking grease.
Wouldn't work in Alaska or other areas that get brutal cold temperatures during the winter. That oil would turn to frozen sludge.
During the Japanese occupation people in the Philippines used to run diesels on coconut oil without modifying the engines, as was often pointed out back in the energy crisis days.
In the short history of this mighty nation, we've come up with inventions, innovations, substitutes and new applications almost like clockwork......and when needed.
I also feel that some Arab oil potentates are tossing around in their silken-sheeted beds at night, counting Franklins, Edisons, Fultons, Fermis, Marconis, Bells, Salks, Fords, Einsteins, Carvers and De Bakeys jumping over red, white and blue fences.
Leni
Great stuff if...
you ain't where it gets cold
you want to change the all the seals in the engine
you are satisified with less power
Hell... Mercedes won't go with soybean oil... only rape oil. Cat says they are nut. Who knows? I doubt if they do. BUT... the answer is quit heating/cooling homes and water with fossel fuel and then... guess what.... there will be plenty of cheap diesel. AND... if i'm not mistaken (which there is very little chance of)... Mr. Diesel was trying to get his engine to run on coal dust in the beginning.
And 'shine will work, too.......
Now we know were the food smells, in the middle of nowhere, are coming from!