Archive for the tag 'vegetable oil'

Feb 18 2006

Using Vegetable Oil In A Diesel Engine

Published by Jody under consumer

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.
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Jan 09 2006

Cooling A Computer With Oil

Published by Jody under internet & computers

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. [...]

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