Somehow it’s appropriate that my first link to Daily Kos in quite some time would happen on Halloween. But Kos did find a cool story about a guy who’s doubling gas mileage of cars while increasing their horsepower.
Now, not being that mechanically inclined, my main concern about citing this guy as a superhero is that I don’t know how many bio-diesel cars our country could support. Obviously we have the capacity to support a lot more than are on the roads now, but at some point we’re going to reach the point where supply of biofuel is maxed out, and that’s going to happen a lot sooner than we run out of potential drivers.
Still, the idea of biofuel has always intrigued me in a low-level sort of way. And if nothing else, Kos is right that ingenuity is still alive and well in America.
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That will take more research on my part, but here are a couple of my thoughts:
1. They guy stops at a hotel in Denver that just happens to have 20 GM engineers staying there? (If it had been Detroit, that wouldn’t have been so surprising to me.)
2. Increased horsepower from 250 to 800? That seems a little extreme considering the fuel.
3. He was concerned the grease from the Chinese restaurant might have solidified in the cool temperatures. While the story doesn’t say what the temperature was, I do know that ordinary diesel needs to be “winterized” by mixing in #1 diesel (kerosene) to keep the fuel from turning into a gel. If one were filling up at a restaurant, how would one winterize one’s fuel?
4. Even in Oklahoma City, where the economy would head South in a hurry if anything ever happened to the “dine out” atmosphere (meaning we have a lot of restaurants), it wouldn’t take long to run out of restaurant grease if biofuels were put into very many vehicles. Plus, how much grease can one get from one restaurant?