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Originally Posted by wickydude
This forum has "eco" in its name, so I was assuming it had something to do with the environment as well. A 40mpg car beats a 10 mpg car in that respect.
Hence my comment. But I may have misunderstood.
Added to that is my personal opinion that says that burning all kinds of waste products can't easily result in very clean emissions.
But by all means, anyone who wants to smash big money on a hobby, go ahead.
I'll unsubscribe for now.
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They run on used vegetable oil. I dare you to do the work I do with your 40 mpg car. You CAN'T! You can't tow a several ton trailer to an unimproved "off road job site" with your car. I can. And my Cummins and Mercedes diesels have done so for 20+ years. Your 40 mpg car will be a rust heap in that time period and will have used more fossil fuel in a year than I use in a decade. Developing a way to net a 10% fuel efficiency gain in a 10 mpg truck is far more effective in helping the environment than adding 10% to your 40 mpg car. Why don't you go and trash sheppard777's thread. He just spent years and 10's of thousands of dollars on a class 8 truck that just about doubled comparable truck mileage.
And yes, you have no idea what the OP is talking about. Once waste oils are turned into syngas, the engine emissions are akin to running on CNG. I consider that an "ECO win".