Re: [DMCForum] Re: Hybrid question for Dr. Dave - Paging Dr. Dave...

[Martin Gutkowski <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bernie wrote:

> The plug in car is a fantasy, you still have to pay for electricity to
> charge the batteries.  So no matter what you do you are going to use at
> least a little bit of fossil fuel.  Every electric company in this
> nation buys and sells power from someone else.  And most are fossil
> fueled plants.
>
> Until someone comes up with a viable fuel cell car, we are all
> handcuffed to petroleum based fuels.  


No we're not. That's where biodiesel comes in. Yes, it emits the same 
(well, not quite) crap, but crucially it's crap tht was in the 
atmosphere/soil the year before when the plants that made the oil in the 
first place grew. ispo facto, no imbalance.

In fact, modern diesels have catalysts, so I can't help but wonder if 
running biodiesel through a catalyst is effectively scrubbing the 
environment?

There're easy to build designs out there for domestic boilers (for 
example) that run on waste cooking oil

Martin

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