Tonight, I watched the Imax movie, Arabia, at the Fernbank Museum and enjoyed the history lesson in the Two Golden Ages of Arabia. The first was led by the Nabataean culture and the natural resource that created their empire was frankincense and other spices. The Roman Empire’s polytheistic worship drove the insatiable demand for the [...]
This title is a little misleading if you have read my post on “Using Biodiesel in your Vehicle.” In reality, I’m going to provide information on how you can prepare your VW TDI to run on biodiesel. In general, there are two issues to overcome when running a vehicle on biodiesel: Biodiesel degrades some soft [...]
As part of my “no nonsense” series on bio and alternative fuels, I covered biodiesel and straight vegetable oil (SVO) and waste vegetable oil (WVO) diesel conversions. Since I believe in experimenting first-hand with topics I discuss, a few years ago, I worked with a local company to convert a restored 1970 Mercedes 220D to [...]
Any diesel engine can run on biodiesel. Is that a true statement? Are there any issues to deal with or do you just dump the “biodiesel” into the engine? What is biodiesel anyway? There are lots of questions that should be answered when you begin to peel back the onion on running your vehicle on [...]
