All of them are either too new in their technology curve, or they are too good to be true. Learn more of the advantages of your home made alternative fuels.
One of the very useful home made fuel additives is biodiesel. Main advantages of biodiesel are as follows, it burns cleaner, it has better lubricity, it is longer lasting and environmental friendly. Biodiesel produces better quality fuel compared to diesel and petrol because bio diesel is a non-toxic, biodegradable form of fuel that is made from biological components, rather than diesel. It is generally made from animal fats or vegetable fats from vegetable oil and cooking oil. This viable fuel from waste oils will speed up your vehicles by giving you more mileage without harming the environment.
Home made hydroxyl gas is another homemade fuel additive which is made from water. It has been proven that this powerful fuel additive not only increases miles per gallon but it also removes carbon buildup. An efficient homemade fuel cell can be made for less than it costs to fill a 20 gallon tank and the benefits far outweigh the initial costs. It is easy to make homemade hydroxy gas cells and the materials required are readily available. We can build an efficient hydroxy cell within a weekend with a decent set of plans. These cells basically work up water with electricity to produce a hydrogen blend (HHO hybrid hydrogen oxygen). The result from this is the added horsepower mileage and cleaner emissions.
Fuel oil additives can be used as an alternative to save our natural resources of energy. Fuel oil additive in Furnace Oil, LSHS Fuel, Light Diesel Oil and Naphtha Oil gives more benefits to the users. Some of its benefits are that it prevents sludge formation, it improves the atomization and combustion of fuel and it reduces stack temperature. The home made fuel additives are less expensive with maximum utility and also will reduce the cost and make our planet less polluted. It's like hitting two birds with one stone. Saving more money for you and saving the environment for future generations.
To know more, visit http://www.wvodesigns.com. The goal of this site is to provide detailed design information relating to the use of Waste Vegetable Oil as fuel. Designs include vehicle conversion, collection systems and processing equipment. They have also developed centrifuge for processing WVO, WMO and Bio-diesel.
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In a co-production with NOVA Science Now, QUEST explores the potential of algae once considered nothing more than pond scum to become the fuel of the future. Entrepreneurs from the Bay Area to LA are working to create the next generation of biofuels from algae. But will you ever be able to run your car off it? Video Rating: 5 / 5
Scientists at Cambridge University take a closer look at algae and examine its potential as a renewable source of energy. In the near future algae could be used as a sustainable, carbon neutral biofuel. Video Rating: 5 / 5
ncbionetwork.org Brunswick Community College's (BCC) Center for Aquaculture and Biotechnology (CAB) has implemented a Biofuels from Algae project as a joint effort between the departments of Aquaculture and Biotechnology. This included the design and construction of an 1800 gallon photobioreactor system during phase 1 of the project. Phase II focused on the downstream processing of oil extraction. BCC's CAB has a patent pending status on this process, which is purely mechanical, easily scalable and relatively cheap to implement. The final phase of the project (pending funding) will optimize and refine the oil extraction process, which will give us the opportunity to file a full patent, license the patent to industry or develop a trade secret with an industry partner, which will quickly move the process to commercialization. If the final phase is funded we will also obtain data on the yield of oil production, yield to biodiesel conversion, chemical composition of the extracted oil and determine the best species for use in the process developed at BCC. For more information, go online to http or ncbionetwork.org.
Michael Fischer Stanford University mfischer at stanford.edu Two major problems facing the physical world today can be broadly categorized into (1) how to increase the amount of consumable energy available for the worlds needs and (2) how to decrease the amount of greenhouse gases produced. Of course, these problems are negatively linked together inasmuch as, without further offsets, an increase in the production of carbon fuels leads to an increase in the amount of greenhouse gases produced when these fuels are consumed. In this video we shall look at a method that breaks this negative link by considering a project that increases the worlds supply of oil using biofuels and which at the same time decreases the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide used during its production. The resulting product is a sustainable biofuel whose carbon footprint is neutral inasmuch as the CO2 produced on consumption is essentially balanced by the CO2 used in its production. Video Rating: 4 / 5
Meet the Admiral. He'll show you the new RCB-X "mean, green riverine machine" that's run on 50 percent petroleum and 50 percent algae biofuel blend. Then, we'll take you on a journey to Hopewell, Virginia to show you all about the green stuff. It's a shipload of algae!
Each element of a hanging gardens photobioreactor is designed to follow the sun's rays, like the sunflower and other heliotropic plants, in order to optimise the use of light. No part of the culture is ever in the shade. This optimisation can increase natural light input by 10-15%.
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Jatropa Curcas or locally known as Tuba in our country has been used by our ancestors as a folkloric medicine for rheumatic pains, snake bites and also insecticide. The leaves are used as medicine for muscle ailments like rheumatic pains. Simply by applying oil on the leaves and heated by flames and then applied to the skin on where the ailments are. Although it has medicinal properties, the fruit and seed is not edible and poisonous when ingested. The leaves have anti-inflammatory properties but toxic when excessively used internally. The pounded leaves when pounded and made into a poultice can be used to aid in snakebites and also effective as an insecticide.
This shrub is erect and the leaves have a usually somewhat rounded at the base, pointed at the tip and toothed at the margins. Distributed though out the Philippines and neighboring Asian countries.
Although this is an important addition to the many medicinal herbs (which you can also find some Philippine medical plants in my site on the resource box link below), it is now been discovered as a good bio diesel alternative or additive. Very cost effective and very close the properties of (fossil) diesel fuel we are using today. Unlike the coconut oil or alcohol additive, which are expensive to produce, Jatropa curcas or tuba is much cheaper. A liter of pure coco bio diesel would cost over P120 or US.50, which is why only small amounts of it can be mixed with regular diesel fuel to produce a competitively priced alternative.
Since there are no much demand for tuba, and very easy to propagate the plants, it is cost effective. And imagine you can extract 1 liter of oil from 3 kilos of seeds. There are no complicated processes of extracting oil from the seeds unlike coconut oil and alcohol bio diesel. Seeds are sun dried and grounded to extract oil from it.
India now leads in the development of Jatropa curcas bio diesel fuel and now people in our country are becoming aware with the help of media. And hoping that the government will push through in promoting this bio diesel fuel. Research on jatropha biodiesel production in the Philippines is being undertaken by the research and development facility in Diliman, Quezon City, of PNOC Energy Development Corp.
In India they are talking about planting jatropha in as much as 33 million hectares of wasteland. The proponents envision plantations that can produce enough oil seeds from which biodiesel could be extracted to meet India's current diesel fuel requirement of 40 million tons annually. Five tons of jatropha oil seeds can produce two tons of biodiesel.
The Indian proponents of jatropha biodiesel point out, among others, that the plants "grow on poor degraded soils and are able to ensure a reasonable production of seeds with very little inputs. [They are] not grazed by animals [and are] highly pest and disease resistant."
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About the author: Manolito Montala is a webmaster and one of his interests is collecting local medicinal plants information which can be found in Filipino Herbs Healing Wonders. You can visit his site in http://www.filipinoherbshealingwonders.filipinovegetarianrecipe.com/
Robert Henrikson and Mark Edwards introduce the 2011 International Algae Competition 1) design landscapes that integrate algae production systems. 2) develop working models of algae production systems and microfarms. 3) create new algae foods and algae food products. The movie overviews what you need to know how you can become an algae visionary. www.algae competition.com Video Rating: 5 / 5
For many people, the mention of biomass as a fuel source was a new concept. Little did they realize they have already been putting it into their cars. Nope, that isn't your dad's gas anymore.
There are Plants in My Gasoline?
In his State of the Union speech, President Bush made much of the alternative fuel sources available these days. While he should be commended for promoting their use, he perhaps was a bit vague in regard to how far along we are in using biofuels for cars. Most people don't realize that most government vehicles are already using bioethanol and have been doing so for a number of years. Yep, the government has already switched to bioethanol to improve vehicle performance and reduce air pollution. Now, how often does that occur?
Ethanol is the most widely used biomass fuel for cars these days. In excess of 2.8 BILLION gallons of bio ethanol were used as a gasoline additive in the U.S in 2003. Ethanol is a form of alcohol. It is produced through a process strikingly similar to the beer you find in your local tavern or store. Cellulosic biomass [plant pulp] is turned to mush. The mush is converted to base sugars and those sugars are fermented just like wine and beer. The ethanol is then separated from the sugars giving you instant fuel. This process is considered a biomass production because the starting point is a plant. , and most is made using a process similar to brewing beer where starch crops are converted into sugars, the sugars are fermented into ethanol, and then the ethanol is distilled into its final form.
In 1990, numerous cities and states were suffering massive pollution problems. Politics being what it is, nobody at the state level was doing much about the problem. Enter the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. These acts included language mandating the sale of oxygenated to cut down on carbon monoxide emissions from cars. The oxygenation was produced by adding bioethanol to the gasoline.
When you're filling up your car, have you ever notice the patch on the pump with oxygenation language? If so, you were using gasoline with bioethanol in it. And they didn't even tell you.
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