Biodiesel? Veggie Diesel? Frequently Asked Questions

Planet Green:

What is biodiesel, anyway?
Biodiesel, the common name for fatty acid alkyl esters, is a biological-based fuel that can substitute petroleum fuels in diesel engines. It can be made from virgin vegetable oil, animal fats, algae, or from recycled oils like those used by restaurants for deep-frying. Biodiesel burns cleaner than fossil fuel diesel and has less carbon monoxide, aromatic hydrocarbons, and particulate matter (soot). It does, however, release more nitrous oxide than regular diesel, a factor in smog. Biodiesel is often called a carbon neutral fuel because while it does release carbon dioxide, it is the same carbon absorbed by the plant (or animal) source from which the fuel came. Fossil fuels, on the other hand, release carbon dioxide that could otherwise remain sequestered below the earth's surface, out of the atmosphere.

And what's veggie oil?
Diesel engines can also run on straight vegetable oil (SVO), but modifications are most often required. Since vegetable oil has a higher viscosity (is thicker), it needs to be heated before it can flow properly. A veggie oil conversion is a system that, in one of several ways, heats the vegetable oil to the appropriate temperature before burning it in the engine.

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Comments

[leduck]

i'm gonna puke
i just went to my bio and it bizzarely says i'm a fan of darthdarcy
how 'bout rule o flaw?
why not add that idiot too....
how do i fix that junk?
i have a serious bone to pick with this blog

oh god

[darthdarcy]

Hemp is the number one bio mass plant of Earth...

It yields 10 tons of bio mass per acre and renews every 4 months..

We can get bio diesel from the seeds and ethanol from the stalks...

Also it eats CO2 like crazy and pits out oxygen...so growing it will also reduce CO2 levels as well as burning it reduce CO2 now created from fossil fuels...

It can grow in every state and be refined or distilled regionally which will be an advantage from damage in natural disasters and even attack by a foreign power while now our refineries are largely clumped in regions in the gulf northeast and west coast...

This is industrial Hemp not what you smoke to get high...

Of course there also also so many other uses from paper production 1 acre of hemp creates as much paper pulp as 4.1 acres of trees..or clothing and of course rope..many other uses animal feed among them so this will reduce and address the food shortage being caused by the use of King corn...

Hemp...is one of the ways we can become energy independent...I know T. Boone Pickens agrees..!

[KillTheMessenger]

And if you look at the reality for hemp the average production is not 10 tons per acre but only 3.5 or so. In addition, the first hemp growers will not sell the plant to make energy bit to make fiber because they can get a lot more money for that. They might as well put the lumber industry out of business, but they sure as hell won't do a thing to the oil industry.

Economics 101 sucks. It always throws a wrench into your monkey.

:-)

[darthdarcy]

You are like some broken record of wrong and disinforma­tion...KTM you are almost always wrong about everything...

[leduck]

and major frank burns also wants to legalize medical marijuana i suppose
look darthdaffy, i don't care if you want to smoke a bowl
i couldn't care less....
but ganja is not going to save the world