re: Run on recycled cooking oil!

[Joe Elliott <jee@domain.elided>]

This idea really is as good as it sounds--I know a professor who runs 
his old Volvo on the stuff every day and has driven it across the 
country a few times.  We have a lab here that prepares it for him. 
There are also more extensive tests being conducted that I'm not at 
liberty to talk about, but the most interesting thing is that last 
time I talked to this prof, he said to forget about "biodiesel," (as 
they call the cooking oil fuel) that he was running his car on 
unmodified sunflower oil now, right off-the-shelf from the grocery 
store!!

Joe Elliott

At 10:57 PM +0000 2/5/03, alfa-digest wrote:

> Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 14:06:22 +0000
> From: Darryl N Davis <d.n.davis@domain.elided>
> Subject: Run on recycled cooking oil!
>
> hi
>  further to the alternatives to gasoline
>  nice article on Top Gear (uk bbc motor program) last year
>   on running diesel engines on cooking oil
>   Take gallons of "used" cooking oil, filter out crud, add 5cc white
> spirit to litre of oil
>     and it will run diesel powered vehicl
>     Works out about 1/10 of uk diersel prices
>    They used volvo estate.and got MORE power than with diesel
>   Added advantage is car SMELLs of your favourite restuarrant
>     so we can use recycled Olive oil in alfa deisels and they smell like
>     your favourite ristorante! (alfa content)
>     or your mexican etc etc etc
>   Good for famers too as they produce thr raw materials (oil bearing crops!)
> - -- dd
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