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Biodiesel Motorcycle

admin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:25:21 +0000

Improbably, yes. Useful in the future? Most definitely. This bulky motorcycle featuring a biodiesel engine was given a test drive in real traffic situations. At first it seemed a bit awkward getting it off the line, but it was fine ever after that.

Currently due to its size and weight it doesn’t look practical at all. However, as with most prototypes, it’s always a start. Most inventions do start this way, so we’ll see where this leads us. Any alternative fuel is better than gasoline at the moment. It’s great to see people like Michael attempting such projects. Hopefully this is one of many great biodiesel inventions to come in the future.

Making Biodiesel Fuel With Algae

admin — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:24:48 +0000

While most biodiesel kits are focused around your car re-using old oil, this technique involves making your own oil to fuel your car. The fuel is algae. When algae grows, it breaths C02 to not only live, but to thrive. This is perfect because when you car is burning the algae, the main chemical that is outputted is indeed, C02. This makes the car the fuel carbon neutral because future crops of algae will use that carbon to breathe, thus creating the cycle.

To even be considered as an alternative fuel, you’ll need to be making hundreds of millions of gallons of fuel to make a dent. By 2010 they hope to make up to 100,000,000 gallons of fuel using nothing but algae. This probably sounds a lot harder than it actually is because it only takes one acre of water to make 10,000 gallons of fuel. Hopefully they can produce great amounts of it, because the cost they aim to produce it for is only $1.00. Maybe those souring fuel prices will be stopped by none other than biodiesel in the future?

Biodiesel Kit

admin — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:30:28 +0000

Biodiesel kits can make your vehicle run on an alternative to fossil fuel. Biodiesel is usually obtained from animal fats, and vegetable oil from restaurants. It can be used power any car with a modern diesel engine, and can be combined with petrodiesel as well. Downsides to biodiesel include processing the fuel yourself, and it can clog fuel filters due to their high gel points, which are much higher than their fossil fuel counterparts. To combat this you can install a fuel heater, or mix the biodiesel with petrodiesel to create the correct blend. Biodiesel kits are easy to install, and require very little modifications. To install, all you need is special fuel lines that will allow the oil to flow in greater quantity to the engine. Kits are being sold that allow you to process and create pure biodiesel. When taken from restaurants, you simply put the raw oil in to your kit, and wait. Adding methanol to the batch will make the impurities sink to the bottom, and leave the top pure biodiesel that’s ready for use. Once the kit is paid for, the average gallon of biodiesel will cost you .50 cents per gallon. There are a lot of positives to biodiesel, such as gas mileage. Trucks are getting somewhere around 40 miles to the gallon with these fuels. On a 12 gallon tank, you can get as much as 480 miles. That alone helps ease some of the time consuming processing that goes along with using biodiesel. Along with good gas mileage, it’s environmentally safe, and your exhaust will smell like food oil, no poison.