A gem
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Every so often, you’re handed a gem. Yesterday, at my son’s behest, I was watching “Mythbusters” on the Discovery Channel. During one of the episodes, they tested different equipment that claimed to improve your fuel economy. They tested various devices including some deal with magnets, a deal with acetone, a super carburator of some kind and a contraption that claimed to turn water into hyrdogen and oxygen which would give you umpteen miles per gallon.
I was chomping at the bit. Had any of those devices worked even moderately, I would’ve signed up to be an affiliate for one of those devices and promptly put an “As Seen on Mythbusters” stamp on it. Not a single one of the devices lived up to their promised performance.
Out of all of the things they tested, the only true “alternative” fuel, was vegetable oil. They had an old school Mercedes Benz 300 turbo diesel, which they ran on discarded vegetable oil. They made no modifications to the vehicle and the only processing they did to the oil was that they filtered out the particulates suspended in it. When they tested the fuel efficiency of the vegetable oil versus diesel fuel, they found that you only lost about %20 efficiency using the vegetable oil. That fuel efficiency puts it on par with using ethanol in your regular gasoline powered car.
I think there may be a business in there somewhere. You’d collect all the oil from the grease traps in restaurants, filter it and then sell it to people to put in their diesel vehicles. You’d collect the oil for free from restaurants, then sell it to people for a couple of dollars a gallon. It’s a win-win all the way around. Any one want to JV with me on something like that?
Rafael
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