drohilm is a biologist expert with alternative energy resources, especially biodiesel. for more information visit his site: bio-diesel for all.
You probably know by now the hard condition of the Earth’s climate, and the rapid increase in oil prices, that will doom our society to devastating energy prices. It is also possible that you already heard about many solutions offered to this problem, by entering alternative energy, based on renewable resources to the equation.
If you are smart you most likely understand that most of these solutions are not achievable in the near future. The reason for that is that most alternatives, like solar power, wind energy or nuclear power, require a huge revolution in the entire energy market, that will take many years to realize. Nevertheless, let me introduce to you one alternative energy source that is already available, easy to get, and do not require an enormous change in today’s transportation or industry.
The new source is Biodiesel. this bombastic word is just a nick name to a new fuel that is based on vegetable oil that was cheaply chemically modified to be a cleaner, better replacement to diesel engines fuel.
Vegetable oil, that is easily manufactured from general crops, contain a large amount of fatty acids from biological (plant or animal) source, hence the word bio-diesel. In order to release the fatty acids from the oil, all you have to do is to react the oil with some chemical catalyst, to run a reaction called trans-esthrification (don’t worry – it is much easier than you think...) and then separate the product – fatty acids from the garbage – glycerol (that can also be used for other things as well...).
And that’s it! once you have the fatty acids, you can fuel diesel engine with it, and start driving. This amazing fuel, is more efficient, cleaner, and with today’s oil prices, can be even cheaper.
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