celeron_266

原帖由 angeldevil 於 2008-4-25 20:42 發表


I rmb I saw it on TV that some scientists/ mechanists are trying to invent cars that only use those olive oil (食用油) as fuel...

theoretically you can use filtered cooking oil to power up a car with a diesel engine....but will it kill your car in the long run i dont know....

it will be nice to have the smell of churches chicken/KFC in your car always hehe

celeron_266

原帖由 marimo 於 2008-4-25 23:55 發表


Olive oil (食用油)? Won't it be more expensive than gas? I don't know the exact price for cooking oil but I assume they cost at least two bucks for a bottle, even more for olive oil. This all brings ...

for cooking oil you use the used ones...like the ones in big pails outside restaurants...filter it then use it

celeron_266

原帖由 Traum 於 2008-5-3 14:21 發表

I thought there is more to just filtering? It isn't rocket science, but don't you have to do a bit of simple processing / mixing with other oils / stuff to get the right mixture?

I remember seeing a ...

its just filtering...THAT simple

of course you can add a bit of kerosene based solvent to improve it...but its not necessary

the problem with corn-based ethanol is that you actually need a lot of energy input to process the corn to make ethanol...which is actually not very environmentally friendly...

there is now a breakthrough of making gasoline-like liquid from cellulose...apparently you need little energy input...and of course...gasoline contains more energy than ethanol

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/gasoline-grow-trees,5161.html

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