OT Want fries with that?

I wonder if the exhaust smells like french fries.

I'm still thinking of building a still and making my own alcohol. Most of my cars & tractors should run fine on that with carb adjustments.

Bio fuel has been experimented with for quite a while:

Remco

Yeah, I just thought it was interesting that the conversion kit was only $840 and so readily available. Not sure what size tank that car has, but suppose it's a 14 gallon tank. Gas prices around here are touching $2.60/gallon for regular (and I think diesel is actually more expensive than that) now so that's at least $36.40 to fill up. $840/$36.4~=23. That car probably gets 40 mpg or so on regular diesel fuel, so someone could get 550 or so miles out of a tank.

we are set up to do veggy oil convertions at the shop . there are a few different cars running around here running on veggyoil now and the next conversion is on a diesel Benz.

And yes you will get hungry if you smell the exhaust.

There was a few links to people running veggie oil(McDonnald etc. residues) in their VW aircooleds a few years back, in between all my "puter" changes I have lost the links. (Actually they are sitting in a hard drive in an external enclosure, not all agreeing with my Mac.) That said I can axsess most my files, just hard to import bookmarks from Opera Win style to Opera Mac flavor.

There was this geezer running veggie in a T2 , the preheat and filter was the only drawback I could see....

J.

Maybe one day we'll be able to fill up at a McDonalds drive through. "One Big mac, Mcfries and one McGas, please..".

Oh, McDonalds has been giving me McGas for years.

You people still eat that garbage????

Gave that up about 8 or 10 years ago..........unless of course it's the only food for miles around.

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The Peacemaking Meeting scheduled for today has been cancelled due to a conflict.

Recently I watched a cable car show called "TopGear" -- they converted minure into gas that could be used in a car and it actually worked. The conversion process is cost prohibitive, until now:

You might have stumbled onto something: McGas could save the free world... :)

oil fueled aircooled gasoline engine?

how so?

Randy - How many acres have you got? That's an awful lot of alcohol - what? - about 4x as much alcohol as gasoline? Been awhile since I played with methanol.

s*it! if manure can be turned into fuel, half of usenet replys could be considered fossil fuels!

Not nearly enough where we are currently living but we're looking for a larger farm down in missouri. Hope to be moved this fall.

I hear ya - if stupidity could be used as an alternative fuel source, we wouldn't need cold fusion either. :)

It was done in Finland (I don't know if I should be proud of this one or not) a farmer converted his old Volvo station wagon to run on cow manure. Or to be more exact, it runs on the "natural gas" (uh huh) that is extracted from the manure during a contained recycling process. Burn product is very clean, water and carbon dioxide. Don't know what it smells like though.

No, they do not load the trunk full of poop and head for groceries downtown. :)

Jan

Funkie wrote:

It's called Methane. Here are a couple links:

Neil