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Think about the last time you were stuck in traffic behind a big diesel truck rig, gas leak in your car, you do GAG Now imagine that instead of a smell of toxic gases, you felt fries or popcorn Imagine how much more enjoyable your reader would be if you were behind a biodiesel truck that is exactly what you feel.
Although it seems something far-fetched or as a children's book, biodiesel is becoming more common organizations ranging from a coffee company in the northwest to the school districts of the coast East are chucking their diesel oil for biodiesel Even the United States military is a big consumer of biodiesel.
So what is biodiesel, and why does it smell so good Biodiesel is an alternative fuel that can be a result of anything organic canola oil to the cooking fat used Burger King is manufactured from plant products, non-fossil fuel, meaning that it is renewable Unlike gasoline, which is processed from oil that is pumped from the ground from a limited supply, biodiesel is processed from vegetable oils or biodiesel soy is literally the fuel that you can grow it must not be drilled in the field, we not fight wars in Iraq for permission to drill, and we must not tear parks national Alaska for fuel can be grown here in your backyard, and it feels a bit like what you make out.
The change process of vegetable oil into biodiesel is a relatively simple scientific process that strips glycerol oil which can be used soap after that Ester is left and processed to make biodiesel Surprisingly, the process can be done in your own home.
In a fall 2003 interview with RiseUp Radio New Paltz New York City mayor and member of the Green Biodiesel Jason West Party discussed He spoke of how in New York and elsewhere, we can have biodiesel instead of petroleum diesel and support this new technology that is cleaner fuel Mayor West is right to emphasize that biodiesel is a cleaner burning, but it is wrong to say it is a new technology, biodiesel is not new but it has been around nearly a century.
When Rudolph Diesel originally designed the internal combustion engine, it was made to run on peanut oil fords of origin, starting with the Model T in 1908, ran for another ethanol biofuel He was not t until the 1920s, when car engines have been modified to use fossil fuels gasoline base, which was sold at prices cheaper than biodiesel.
Things are beginning to close the loop with the people back to the basics of biodiesel The current biodiesel movement is larger and more biodiesel is revived by people from all over the political and environmental spectrum of those affected by the environment the genetically modified soybean industry in search of greater profit, people are increasingly trying to get biodiesel in cooperatives of use have emerged throughout the country and more and more people are learning on the alternative product.
I would say there are two or three biodiesel movements occurring in that country; the movement of the small producer and the interests of the industry, says Johanna Shultz, director of environmental and social policy Thanksgiving Coffee northern California A small independent company, Thanksgiving has used biodiesel in their trucks for a year and is one of the many things they do to reduce their emissions, we have started to use biodiesel just around when the uS from bombing Iraq last year and were overjoyed that there sa renewable fuel that can be produced nationally by small businesses to power our fleet, and we can support a solution such as biodiesel.
Thanksgiving is the biodiesel movement being led by small producers at the other end of the business spectrum are large enterprises According Schultz, the National Biodiesel Board calls for biodiesel Their directors board of directors is composed almost entirely of the pro-GMO agency soybean genetically modified interests Since biodiesel can be made from soybeans, soybean industry could greatly benefit from increased use of biodiesel Although the movements and motivations are, the various small businesses, environmental activists, and large companies all have the same goal for biodiesel use.
Dave Williamson of the Ecology Center in Berkeley taking a bit of biodiesel.
For all the benefits of being renewable and cleaner combustion, biodiesel, like everything else, has a drawback in fact four first is the cost depending on where you get your equipment or if you buy from a dealer biodiesel is usually 80 cents more per gallon, according to Dave Williamson of the ecology Center in Berkeley, California organization has been using biodiesel in recycling long trucks and recently oversaw the transition to execution all diesel vehicles on biodiesel Berkeley, including emergency vehicles, it is a bit more expensive, but companies and districts can get tax breaks and subsidies.
Another drawback is that biodiesel, according to Williamson, gets 17 miles per gallon less than gasoline cars The big problem with biodiesel, however, is the release of nitric oxide, which is a part of the pollution or vehicles smog biodiesel placed on a little more nitrogen oxide than normal fans diesel biodiesel claim that they are compensated for by the absence of other toxic chemicals and the absence of problems Williamson pointed normal diesel as biodiesel, there is no oil refinery, oil fields, oil slicks and oil Like Schultz war puts 100 biodiesel is ten times less toxic than table salt, 80 less carbon dioxide than petroleum diesel and 44 less carbon monoxide emissions.
Even with these relatively minor disadvantages, the thing that seems to turn most people off is that biodiesel is used in diesel cars You can not fill your 1997 Taurus with fat fryer, but you can fill this new Beetle turbo diesel in the street with biodiesel for use biodiesel, your car must have a diesel engine.
Although people come into contact with diesel every day, they do not seem to get if they drive cars fueled with gasoline when people hear for the first time or to understand for the first time biodiesel is only diesel engines and not for gas engines - which is what most people have - they just turn off t they make the connection that all the food they buy in a supermarket was brought there by using diesel engines, which could run on biodiesel that their waste is always taken with diesel technology not gas technology, says Bauer Jon or Berkeley biodiesel collective.
Just because you can not fill your own car on biodiesel does not mean you should forget you can be part of obtaining biodiesel in use - even if you do not use it directly - by pushing your city or district to be implemented in their biodiesel bus fleets fleets, trucks and agricultural machines are the biggest consumers of diesel fuel, and push them to use biodiesel significantly reduce the amount of diesel fuel used.
Biodiesel Fuel pumps Like the idea of biodiesel, but you do not want to do it yourself biodiesel is much more pumps and more available abound For a list of stations to pump your big Smelling, causing biodiesel non- war, or try.
Although biodiesel is a good solution, there are other choices of alternative fuels that are introduced to consumers everywhere you look there are advertisements for hybrid cars, gas and electric vehicles that are smooth and elegant the Toyota Prius and Honda Insight and Civic, have all done well in the market.
Is biodiesel a better alternative Well, it depends on who you ask Shultz believes biodiesel is better because there is nothing about Although most automakers are focusing on power, there are still batteries which must be eliminated, thus generating more waste Biodiesel can be made either more or recycling the used vegetable oil - nothing is wasted Even the byproduct of the manufacturing process can be turned into products such as soap.
Williamson seems to see problems both in the future, we will have all kinds of fuels biodiesel, ethanol, biogas, electricity from solar energy and solar hydrogen None can completely replace oil by itself even they should not we need to get more productivity of our energy resources and making intelligent transport decisions bike Walk take a train.
Cities, schools and adults get the virus biodiesel, but what about the younger generation What about high school students who are getting their first car and their first taste to buy their own fuel are my people age grow up with impending problems such as major environmental instabilities and climate change unless something is done, we will have even bigger problems, and it is our generation that will have to be the backbone of the change in the near future, we will be no oil or very little oil future generations lamenting that we burned everything instead of doing something good and lasting, says Williamson.
I was at a recent event biodiesel at Berkeley and was surprised by the variety of cars, but frustrated by the diversity of drivers Everyone was an adult Where is my generation in this movement Young people grow up and learn to drive in a pivotal in the history we have much choice now about how to fuel our cars Why not choose what is best course for our planet, we can live with the mistakes of our parents' generation, but we must not continue with them we can make a difference biodiesel is obviously not going to change everything - it may not even be the ideal fuel - but it is a start and an important step.
What you can do for biodiesel Look in your diesel car.
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