Are you considering buying a diesel vehicle for better fuel efficiency and potentially using biofuels? If you already know about the different diesel fuel types, here is a quick ranking from the easiest to the most complex fuel source. This should help you weigh the risks of using the different types of fuels: Diesel Fuel [...]
I was contacted a few weeks back from a friend in the Biodiesel community about a great resource on the web for Everything Biodiesel. A while ago, this used to be a site known as the Collaborative Biodiesel Tutorial. Unfortunately, the domain name was not renewed and the site went away.
Today, President Barack Obama spoke to students at Georgetown University to challenge the next generation to meet the challenge of reducing our dependence on foreign oil. He put forth a plan to reduce our daily import of foreign oil by a third by 2020 by:
In our quest to find sources of energy to replace petroleum, it is hard not to look at other fossil-based resources that haven’t been over-utilized and are abundant in the United States and the Americas. Natural gas definitely fits the bill. Natural gas is an excellent energy carrier and is available domestically. However, transporting the [...]
Before you go to the voting booth this year, make sure you do a little research on the candidates and understand where they stand on reducing our dependence on petroleum. If asked, all candidates will answer, “I support reducing our nation’s dependence on oil.” However, you need to look at a more granular level to [...]
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:
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 [...]
