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RE: Cheap fuel - 1800 miles on vegetable oil. Life saver?

in #life • 6 years ago

Hum , Diesel invented his engine on and for hemp oil .
Ford didn't make him come to America for the oil industry .
Diesel never arrived , he mysteriously disappeared during the journey at open sea .
If i in the Netherlands make my car run on home made fuel or sunflower oil from the supermarkets the government will tax me to death if they would catch me doing it . Tax fraud they call it . ;-)

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    What country you in? Even the UK you can use a certain amount tax free via veggie oil. And according to Mr diesel himself, he states as fact it was designed for peanut oil so not sure where you get the hemp part from.

    It was in the year 1893 that he was successful in putting out the first model that was able to run with its own power and with an efficiency of approximately 26%. This was more than double the efficiency of the steam engines of that time and was a great stride for the efficient engine and a great start to the engines of today.

    It was in February of 1897 that he accomplished a great achievement and produced a diesel engine that ran at 75% efficiency. This was the first one of its kind that was deemed suitable for practical use and was demonstrated at the Exhibition fair in France in the year 1898. This engine in particular was run on peanut oil and in Diesel's vision was great for the small business owners as well as farmers as it used an economical fuel source that was a biomass fuel. It was his use of a biomass fuel that continued until the 1920's and is starting again today. Source

    The idea was so that farmers and rural communities could make their own oils.


    And yes the mystery death, I plan to write about that one day soon.

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    I live in the Netherlands , only true a monopolized structure you can run a car on biofuel . Your profit on doing so will diminish by high tax and Expensive certified company's that where allowed to use this thech . For me only swapping an engine of other quality and performance makes me commit crime . To get it legal i would have to spend twice the cost on a engine swap true taxes legislation and registration . It's not illegal to build your own transport , but it's made impossible for the common man .
    Still they do ;-) , because a 94 Civic is so mush more fun with a 2ltr turbo a plasma ignition and a H2o bubbler . 300+ hp that can be as cheep in use as a Prius . Big toe driving , a friend of mine calls it .

    Well peanuts it is then , as the connection with Henry Ford points more to hemp , it must have confused me . Then again , i am Dutch , on hemp we sailed the golden age (1700) , i probable have hemp strains in my DNA ;-)

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      Yes Henry Ford was big on hemp, he even made a car from it, and the first electric cars, he abandoned both for the same people, big oil!

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      I saw a article about turning hemp in to graphene to make batteries .
      Less pollution when fabricating batteries was the main goal .
      The structure hemp turns in to is almost ready for use they claim .

      There was never need to drain the planet from lubricant , let's hope it did or dos no damage to the whole system ;-) . No lube means friction means heat building up ,... there you have the problem , i just solved global warming . Put the damn oil back and give me a Nobel prize ;-)

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