Renewable diesel?

[Cody]

http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news4.3.08d.html

 

[Bart]

I sure hope that is true.

 

[Skylinerider]

That's pretty cool.

 

[RockMonkey]

Diesel trees! Cool! Too bad it takes 15-20 years for for a tree to start producing.

 

[Tacoma]

Huh. That's pretty neat!

At first I was thinking "April Fool's", but then I googled the scientific name. It's legit!

http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Copaifera_langsdorfii.html

 

[SAMI]

that is really cool

 

[Paul R]

That would be really cool especially if they can figure out a way to stabilize it for longer than 3 months...

 

[Dominic]

I wonder if it burns any cleaner. I can't imagine the fuel would be as rich in sulfer.

 

[dieslcruisrhead]

probably burns much much cleaner with none of the pollutants from petroleum based diesel. All that stuff in the fuel combines with oxygen to make a slew of pollution elements and particulate matter.

 

[Cody]

does cleaner = more effecient and does more efficient = more power?

I guess you would need to know the amount of potential engergy in the fuel to answer that huh

 

[dieslcruisrhead]

it is actually carbon content purely in all automotive fuels that = power. So the more carbon, the more power and the more that ends up as CO2 in the atmosphere (aka greenhouse gas), but that is why diesel gets better mileage (more carbon in the fuel than gasoline) combined with the slightly more efficient nature of diesels.

The rest is mostly contaminents and pollution. CO2 is not much of a pollutant (a global warming fanatic would chop my head off with that statement as they sell it as a "pollutant"). All it is the same stuff we are breathing out of our bodies. It does lead to real issues related to global warming though but that is its only real negative, or might have some inversion aspects but in an open air environment (like a normal city) it would have little negative issues. CO2 affects atmospheric issues not local so it does not produce smog in non-valley areas, that I am aware of.

There is cetane and octane, a lot of peope think this equals power but it does not, it is the speed at which the fuel burns. Higher cetane (or octane for gasoline vehicles) burns faster.

Most natural fuels have much higher cetane but lower overall carbon content than petroleum fuels. So this is why 100% biodiesel is about 7% less power than diesel even though biodiesel has much higher cetane...

 

[GOAT]

There is cetane and octane, a lot of peope think this equals power but it does not, it is the speed at which the fuel burns. Higher cetane (or octane for gasoline vehicles) burns faster.

Note sure about cetane, but higher octane fuel burns slower.

 

[Greg]

I need some land!!

 

[Cody]

ya, plant a few acres of these bad boys and in 30 years when diesel is obsolete, you'll be able to fuel all the old school classic truck guys who have the motors....

 

[Dominic]

Plant these and make diesel when oil is gone , stockpile bottled water when there is no more, and put air in ziplock bags and charge people to breathe. We could be rich I tell ya RICH!

 

[Greg]

ya, plant a few acres of these bad boys and in 30 years when diesel is obsolete, you'll be able to fuel all the old school classic truck guys who have the motors....

I'd make a killing! :freak:

 

[Cody]

agreed. worst case scenerio, you have a pretty forest to retire into.

wait, what do these trees look like?

 

[I Lean]

agreed. worst case scenerio, you have a pretty forest to retire into.

wait, what do these trees look like?

Like this:

 

[Dominic]

Na like this

 

[SAMI]

is that the Money Tree that i've heard about?