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Originally Posted by tamlin
What's the situation with Bio-fuels in the US? I seem to remember seeing an episode of "Mythbusters" where they ran a diesel car on used vegetable oil with no appreciable degradation in performance - maybe that's the future?
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while bio-fuels like bio-diesel are good idea... in practicality.. they fail. Not enough supply to make it viable solution. Its good as an alternative for those that have access to these used materials and willing to invest in a machine to process it as some have done but... its not a solution that is going to work for the masses of people in US. I have already heard of people stealing used grease from tanks at places that are currently using this from restaurants to power their company vehicles. People are stealing gas and grease now lol.
they looked at using corn also... great idea... however not enough supply there either... and would make cost of corn for consumers to "eat" outrageous.
I heard someone made it work with grass like in your yard... but seems like we would need vast sod fields everywhere to make it sensible and we are losing our farm lands quickly to residential developers as farmers find it harder and harder to earn a living.
bottom line is to supply the demand for fuel in US or anywhere else in world... you gotta have LOTS of it available and then it has to be something not already a commodity like corn. The only solution I see is air and water. Getting back to those hydrogen ideas is likely a better solution or solar. We just need to spend more money on R&D for these things... and it might happen if we can push the lobbyists aside