Date:         Mon, 16 Jul 2001 06:52:44 -0500
Reply-To:     wilden1@JUNO.COM
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From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: biodiesel (long)
Comments: To: drcory@IGLIDE.NET
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Back in the early sixties Chrysler had turbines that were prototypes of
future cars, they had about twenty or so on the streets for several years
and they ran everything from olive oil and vegitable to alcohol. Every
year Universities around the world build and test new vehicle fuels on a
wide variety of engines. Check back issues of Mechanics Illustrated
you'll find a bunch of them.
I've heard of burning pine logs and using the vapors to run small 1
cylinder pump engines. Burning pine cones and using the vapors to light
street lights. Burning combustible trash to power electric plants.
Burning SOY oil in test vehicles and of course you've heard of Ethanol,
dual diesel and electric powered trains, dual LP and gasoline vehicles.
Methane and Hydrogen have also been used.
You can pretty well accept that an internal combustion engine will run on
anything that is combustible if you can meter it into the combustion
chamber and control the explosion.
I've never seen a BioDiesel but I wouldn't know one if I saw it at a red
light.
A friend of mine has been working on a perpetual motion machine for about
twenty years and his one pound version shows promise but his 100 pound
version is a failure, he's tried to get NASA to test it in zero gravity
but lets face it greed by the petroleum companies shuts out almost any
alternative fuel that you can't make at home from your trash.
If we could capture and convert all of the TV, Microwave, Radio waves
into a useable magnetic source we'd all be breathing cleaner air but our
ears would probably be ringing all the time from the high pitch of
electric engines, inaudible in most cases but there none the less.

Stan Wilder
83 Westfalia Air Cooled


On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 22:39:55 -0600 DrCory <drcory@IGLIDE.NET> writes:
> I'd swear I saw a report several years ago where Volvo developed a
> diesel.
> The poured vegetable oil directly into the tank! NO refining.
> anybody else
> see anything like that before?
>
> Cory

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