Alternative car fuels

Winter is almost over on the northern hemisphere, so you probably experience increasing temperatures. Biodiesel gelling is a serious concern in cold climate, or during cold winter months. (more…)

by Daniel Roshard

In todays society, Researchers in the United States and around the world are searching for ways to develop alternate forms of fuel. With the ever-rising fuel costs, developing alternate energy is a priority. Bio diesel was developed to combat the high gas and oil prices. It is especially made for use in bio diesel cars and trucks. Bio diesel is made from all naturalfoods that produce oil. Oils such as vegetable, canola, peanut, rapeseed, palm and olive oil can be used as bio diesel fuel. (more…)

by Susan Banks Sr

Biomass burning has an overall impact on the atmospheric chemistry as well as the climate. When there is a fire in the savannas, or tropical forests, or like the recent California fire, large quantities of particulate matter and trace gases are released.

Biomass fuel is also known as Bio-fuel. Bio-fuel is defined as liquid, solid or gaseous fuel that consists of biomass. Biomass fuels can be used for generating power and also for heating purposes. (more…)

Here’s another interesting video on making biodiesel. One image is said to be worth thousand words, so I guess the value of moving images with spoken comments is worth a thousand articles. As you’ll see in the video, making biodiesel is simple and doesn’t require any special devices… You’ll se a step-by-step guide to making biodiesel and all the equipment and feedstock needed to produce this fuel. (more…)

If you ever thought about using biodiesel as an engine fuel, you might thought also what conversion do you need to use this fuel safely. This article answers your question - if it’s required to convert your car to biodiesel and how to do it! (more…)

I read today a nice article about 15 Unexpected Uses for Biodiesel. While I was surprised that biodiesel can be used for so many different purposes, I must say that some of them IMHO don’t make sense… (more…)

This is a copy of article from Wikipedia. It’s automatically downloaded from Wikipedia, so it updates itself when the original article is altered.

I put this article as a reference for future articles on natural gas.   (more…)

If you’d like to use vegetable oil as fuel for your diesel engine-powered car, you should consider modifying it. This will ensure that vegetable oil will not damage any of engine’s parts. (more…)

This article is a description of biodiesel making process. It will answer a very common question: how to make biodiesel fuel?

Biodiesel is made of vegetable oil. It can be a straight vegetable oil, found on a shelf in your local supermarket. It also can be a waste vegetable oil, used for frying fries. You can easily purchase full set of devices and tanks required for producing a biodiesel fuel. (more…)

When Otto invented his first internal combustion engine in 1872, people didn’t know how to refine (distillate) crude oil. Because of that, no petroleum-derived fuel were available at that moment. So Otto used spirit (90-95% alcohol, or 180-190 proof) as a fuel for his engine. Ford T’s engine was able to work on gasoline, spirit or any mixture of those two substances. Even now, alcohol is quite a good fuel for spark ignition or even compression ignition (diesel) engines. (more…)