Do you have to modify a diesel engine to run it on vegetable oil?
Vanessa's car can run on diesel, straight vegetable oil and biodiesel, or any combination of the three.
Dear Vanessa,
Here’s the catch: SVO will burn in a diesel engine but only if its viscosity (the thickness of a liquid) is brought down to a level similar to petro-diesel. Think about the leftovers in your fridge: the grease coagulates fairly quickly and doesn’t liquefy again unless it is heated. Running on SVO without making some modification can lead to some very sticky problems, literally.Comments
dear vanessa
is there any ratio of mixing between a biodiesel and gasoline needed to run a motorcycle gasoline engine on a biodiesel or SVO?
The real problem is heat pollution. All energy creation and use releases heat into the environment. With seven billion people on the earth all using increasing amounts of energy in one form or another, the real problem is over population.
Even if everything ran on electricity created from wind, solar, and hydro sources, heat would be releases in making and using that electricity. wind and water generators get hot while working. Electric motors release heat when running. Making solar.... More
Well said, James. My friend, MAO, knew best how to control population. If we apply his great leap forward, and cause a similar famine - worldwide - we can surpass his 76M dead citizens of the world. Yes, James, and then with forced sterilization and abortions...maybe some birth control added to the world's water supply... Oh think of it! We can give this planet back to nature and destroy ALL of the humans in no time. Won't it be grand?
I think it's just fine that people have been using biodeisel to run their cars. And If this stays small scale this too I find just fine.
But large scale biodeisel usage will cause hunger. And this is true even if the plant grown cannot be eaten or is grown in land that cannot grow food. Fertilizer or any other effort to grow this stuff will mean there will be less growing of stuff for food.
Again, there won't be much interference with food if this stays small scale, but if.... More
Canadian mines use "Scrubbers" on their diesels underground, making even the most offensive two stroke turboed Dietz diesels safe for all. Can the 40 % efficiency improvement in the high compression diesels form Europe, be exploited, to save our economy, or are we stuck with the cancer causing gasoline, low compression, low efficiency monsters of our times?
