My Car Runs on Used Cooking Oil!!

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: illusion88

Originally posted by: rgwalt

Originally posted by: Ziptar
Emmissions wise currently there isn't real hard data, that is beter / worse than petro-diesel. It's safe to say however environmentaly there are benefits.

Vegoil Soot lacks black hydrocarbons for one.

The other being that I am basically burning food.. How bad can that be?? Would you want fries that were cooked in Diesel Fuel?

There is also the pollution that is not aparent....

It is a renewable resource that does not does require drilling and damaging an eco system. Un-Like Crude oil or Petro-Diesel, It is Non-Toxic and Bio-Degradable, If it spills on the ground it will decompose (I have poured some on my grass, it never even turned brown.). Plants grown for oil production help scrub CO2 from the atmosphere... I am sure there are more but, there is less danger and more benefit than crude oil.. At least I think so, not being that much of an environmentalist I could be wrong.


There is also the $$$ factor... Money spent on supplying the nations fuel habits could go to the American (at least for me, insert your country of residence here if you so wish) Farmer. Instead of being exported to forgien oil producers over seas. Farmers earn a living, economy is strong.... Again i could be wrong.... I am about as much an economist as I am an environmentalist....

It simply comes down to this... By running on VegOil you are not adding any new carbon back into the carbon cycle. When you burn fossil fuels (gas/diesel) you are taking carbon that previously wasn't in the carbon cycle (sequestered in underground reserves) and reintroducing back into the cycle by buring the fuel and releasing the emissions into the atmosphere. The new carbon will then, over time, partion amongst the various carbon sinks (atmosphere, deep ocean, shallow ocean, land biota, sediments, etc). Some of the carbon will end up in the atmosphere as CO2, and will aid in blocking the heat that the earth radiates back into space.

Ryan

So you are saying that we are going to die.

Hahaha. 😀

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Ziptar
Emmissions wise currently there isn't real hard data, that is beter / worse than petro-diesel. It's safe to say however environmentaly there are benefits.

Vegoil Soot lacks black hydrocarbons for one.

The other being that I am basically burning food.. How bad can that be?? Would you want fries that were cooked in Diesel Fuel?

There is also the pollution that is not aparent....

It is a renewable resource that does not does require drilling and damaging an eco system. Un-Like Crude oil or Petro-Diesel, It is Non-Toxic and Bio-Degradable, If it spills on the ground it will decompose (I have poured some on my grass, it never even turned brown.). Plants grown for oil production help scrub CO2 from the atmosphere... I am sure there are more but, there is less danger and more benefit than crude oil.. At least I think so, not being that much of an environmentalist I could be wrong.


There is also the $$$ factor... Money spent on supplying the nations fuel habits could go to the American (at least for me, insert your country of residence here if you so wish) Farmer. Instead of being exported to forgien oil producers over seas. Farmers earn a living, economy is strong.... Again i could be wrong.... I am about as much an economist as I am an environmentalist....

while its a nice hobby, you must remember it means nothing to the big picture. it cannot scale. there simply is not enough biodesiel to make even a tiny dent in the energy problem. and growing plants for oil production takes about as much oil to make as it yields😛 you'd have to cover the nation in fields of corn and we still wouldn't have enough.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: Ziptar
Emmissions wise currently there isn't real hard data, that is beter / worse than petro-diesel. It's safe to say however environmentaly there are benefits.

Vegoil Soot lacks black hydrocarbons for one.

The other being that I am basically burning food.. How bad can that be?? Would you want fries that were cooked in Diesel Fuel?

There is also the pollution that is not aparent....

It is a renewable resource that does not does require drilling and damaging an eco system. Un-Like Crude oil or Petro-Diesel, It is Non-Toxic and Bio-Degradable, If it spills on the ground it will decompose (I have poured some on my grass, it never even turned brown.). Plants grown for oil production help scrub CO2 from the atmosphere... I am sure there are more but, there is less danger and more benefit than crude oil.. At least I think so, not being that much of an environmentalist I could be wrong.


There is also the $$$ factor... Money spent on supplying the nations fuel habits could go to the American (at least for me, insert your country of residence here if you so wish) Farmer. Instead of being exported to forgien oil producers over seas. Farmers earn a living, economy is strong.... Again i could be wrong.... I am about as much an economist as I am an environmentalist....

while its a nice hobby, you must remember it means nothing to the big picture. it cannot scale. there simply is not enough biodesiel to make even a tiny dent in the energy problem. and growing plants for oil production takes about as much oil to make as it yields😛 you'd have to cover the nation in fields of corn and we still wouldn't have enough.

While this is true, the bolded is not.

Plants create their own energy. All we have to do is make sure the fields are fertile. We do expend energy harvesting, though..


But yeah, unless we find some new supercorn or something, even covering the whole united states wouldn't yield enough energy. That's how much we use....

 

[Oger]

Good for you Ziptar 😀

Is cooking oil high octane?

Gasoline is rated by the octane level, diesel is rated by it's cetane level, raising or lowering the cetane level in a turbo diesel engine does not have the same effect as rasing or lowering the octane level in gasoline, what is important is the B.T.U. per pound of fuel ratio.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: Ziptar
Emmissions wise currently there isn't real hard data, that is beter / worse than petro-diesel. It's safe to say however environmentaly there are benefits.

Vegoil Soot lacks black hydrocarbons for one.

The other being that I am basically burning food.. How bad can that be?? Would you want fries that were cooked in Diesel Fuel?

There is also the pollution that is not aparent....

It is a renewable resource that does not does require drilling and damaging an eco system. Un-Like Crude oil or Petro-Diesel, It is Non-Toxic and Bio-Degradable, If it spills on the ground it will decompose (I have poured some on my grass, it never even turned brown.). Plants grown for oil production help scrub CO2 from the atmosphere... I am sure there are more but, there is less danger and more benefit than crude oil.. At least I think so, not being that much of an environmentalist I could be wrong.


There is also the $$$ factor... Money spent on supplying the nations fuel habits could go to the American (at least for me, insert your country of residence here if you so wish) Farmer. Instead of being exported to forgien oil producers over seas. Farmers earn a living, economy is strong.... Again i could be wrong.... I am about as much an economist as I am an environmentalist....

while its a nice hobby, you must remember it means nothing to the big picture. it cannot scale. there simply is not enough biodesiel to make even a tiny dent in the energy problem. and growing plants for oil production takes about as much oil to make as it yields😛 you'd have to cover the nation in fields of corn and we still wouldn't have enough.

While this is true, the bolded is not.

Plants create their own energy. All we have to do is make sure the fields are fertile. We do expend energy harvesting, though..


But yeah, unless we find some new supercorn or something, even covering the whole united states wouldn't yield enough energy. That's how much we use....

well not exactly, you have to consider that the fertilizers used are derived from fossil fuel. add the costly use of pesticides, machinery etc and it really adds up. going organic lowers your yield so that goes out the door.

 

[Batti]

There are other methods beside corn that have great promise. Algae, for one.

Read this study