I knew that the Wankel rotary engine could run on a variety of fuels, but I wasn't aware that the diesel could too. Question is, will this catch on.

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Wow that is very interesting. I am going to get a diesel truck over any other truck. Using olive oil is better than using liquid gold in your diesel car or truck (petrolium based fuel). This probably will save alot of money and more people need to be aware of things like this.

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http://www.greasecar.com/

Here's the link.

I suppose the most difficult part would be obtaining the vegtable oil on a road trip.

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http://www.mininggazette.com/news/story/10...new01-n1025.asp

News article.

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some countries in asia are now developing some possible alternate to gas and they are called biogas, I heard that they are made from coconut.

Same as other poster have mentioned, olive oil is pretty expensive in my place, (we cannot even use it normally for cooking purposes) so I guess this is not applicable on all area but a good thing to know and a great alternative for others

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That's interesting news... I don't like the idea of sparing cooking oil just to run a car, though... I don't think it'll be enough, and oil isn't really cheap...
Well, you can get mutiple uses for one item, that's good, but I think it's better when we start using alternative energy sources. Hydrogen powered cars are already being developed, and they run without a combustion engine, so that means more room. You don't need pedals, as everything is electronically controlled from a gamepad-like steering wheel. Plus, the chassi is small, so it can fit in any size of vehicle. General Motors is doing it, I think...

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I heard about that over the summer. The way things are going with gas and all they are going to need a lot more resources that can be used for gas. I saw the guy that uses olive oil on the news. In Conneticutt they have a gas station that is all ethanol so really an Ethanol Sation. Gas is less than a dollar per gallon. The guys that mix DNA to make new organisms are working on an organism that produces hydrogen to power a car. Some pretty interesting stuff. Hopefully they find something that there is a lot of so we don't use up all of our gas.

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As was mentioned, the idea of using oil means that it will be very expensive (as for the idea of using vegetable oil from restaurants, the oil will be contaminated by the fats that came out of the food that has been fried, and there would not be enough oil to be able to use the oil as a mass fuel), and that means that noone will use it. Concerning hydrogen cars, the current problem is that there currently isn't an efficient enough engine to make the burning/creation of hydrogren into a mobile power source. As for electric power, mentioned earlier, the problem, of course, is that electric motors use a lot of electricity, so in order to get enough power to move, one would need a gigantic battery, which would weigh down the car, as well as require hours to recharge.

Concerning water and wind electricity, true it's free and it's renewable, but it's not always avaliable (for winds die down and rivers dry up). The most world-widely efficient and free souce of energy would probably be conversion of the heat beneath the Earth's crust into useable energy (using a system similar to that currently used by fossil fuel/nuclear power plants; the heating of a boiler which then turns water into steam which then turns large turbines which produce electricity), but this would, of course, require a lot of time/money in order to develop the technology/build the plant.

 

 

 

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yeh i find that pretty cool just imagine goin down a moterway and the smell of burger comeing out of your exaust
ahhhh

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Hmm... Sounds like free gas to me. I wish I wasn't so lazy, or I'd try something like this out. I wonder what type of milage it gets.

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