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Old 07-12-2009, 06:39 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by alohaspirit View Post
petro diesel is unthinkable at this point

Ideally hybrid diesels would open the door for biodiesel or svo

creating another truly green vehicle
Bad... Bad.

SVO and WVO are both not very good for people... well, the exhaust from them isn't.

You're burning glycerin and triglycerides, which only burn completely at very high temperatures... higher than your engine gets them. You end up expelling very dangerous gasses, and for the time you spend with WVO filtering and blahblahblah playing with it, it's the same time you'd spend making BioDiesel out of it, at only slightly more expense, but ending up with a much higher quality fuel.

AAMOF, it's technically illegal to use WVO or SVO in cars on the road... the fine is the same as using HHO (Home Heating Oil, not that other crap) for fuel, because it's not been mandated for on-road use by the EPA or NHTSA.
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