2006-10-29 18:01:19 · 4 answers · asked by ron1770 1 in Environment
YES,
Rudolf Diesel designed his engine to run on peanut oil.
Recently many forms of vegetable or plant oil have been converted to fuel to determine the effectiveness of each and the overall cost to bring to market.
I said yes based on the premise that several articles I read indicated the diesel could be made to run on any plant oil. It would need to be filtered and possibly treated to remove something called esthers but I am certain it would work.
Plants and other items already being converted to diesel are:
Soybeans
Jatropha
sunflower seeds
waste oil from processing fish
Even some forms of algea are looking promising.
Olive oil
any of the veggie oils used for cooking would work.
Who knows what the future might hold?
I bet the exhaust from the eucalyptus would clear the sinuses of anyone following behind!!!
2006-10-29 19:42:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If eucalyptus oil burns like diesel, then why not?
Don't do it just cuz i said though.
2006-10-29 18:09:35 · answer #2 · answered by Wocka wocka 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
diesel engines will run on any organic oil
2006-10-29 18:11:31 · answer #3 · answered by iberius 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
holy s.h.i.t man .. where'd u come up with tht man !!
but still i dont think so unless u do something with eucalyptus oil so tht it can act like diesel ..
2006-10-29 18:11:50 · answer #4 · answered by <(UnSpOkEn)> 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋