Feb
18
2006
Vegetable Oil as Vehicle Fuel:
Using vegetable oil as fuel in diesel engines isn’t a new idea. Rudolf Diesel’s first engines were built to run on peanut oil for the developing world, which had no petrochemicals industry. Running your modern diesel car or van on veg is just going back to what the designer intended.
An ordinary [...]
Tags: diesel, fuel, oil, vegetable oil
Jan
09
2006
Strip Out The Fans, Add 8 Gallons of Cooking Oil:
Common sense dictates that submerging your high-end PC in cooking oil is not a good idea. But, of course, engineering feats and science breakthroughs were made possible by those who dared to explore the realms of the non-conventional.
They recommend motor oil, although they used vegetable oil. [...]
Tags: computers, hardware, vegetable oil