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to understand the inherent difference between diesel and gasoline, the analogy i like to use is comparing oil and alcohol.91 Honda Accord at 3500 rpm going 80 MPH on the freeway?
You can cook with vegetable oil
You can cook with vodka.
Vegetable oil is the diesel
Gasonline is the vodka
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If you have a hot wok @ 300 degrees on your stove, and you throw in a cup of vodka, you might get a flash of FIRE.
Vegetable oil, it'll just start simmering.
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Diesel is about releasing 'compressed' energy through burning.
Gasoline is about releasing potential energy through explosions.
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Diesel is named such because it was the surname of the man who invented the engine design. The fuel itself is only called "diesel" because it indicates the type of engine for which it is designed. I.e. it took the name of it's intended use. It'd be like calling jello "stomach"
The interesting thing about the original diesel engine was that it was -NOT- designed to run on a petroleum based fuel, but in fact, on peanut oil. The ORIGINAL engine that he built, STILL RUNS (100 years later).
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This is why so many owners of diesel vehicles (myself included) are converting their systems to handle not only "D2 - DIESEL FUEL" but vegetable oil burning. My car runs 4 different fuels, in fact.
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"Diesel" - regular stuff that's been around for 50+ years.
"BioDiesel" - vegetable based product nearly identical to "Diesel"
SVO - Straight Vegetable Oil. - Yes, that stuff you see at the supermarket
WVO - Waste Vegetable Oil - Yes, that stuff that mcdonalds throws out.
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I get 45+ mpg, and have a 1300+ mile range.
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My cost to fill BOTH tanks (diesel + veggie) is about $50
So..
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One mile costs me about 3 cents.
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A 30MPG gasoline car (with fuel @ 2.40 a gallon) costs about 8 cents a mile to operate.
a long time ago a man named Diesel invented an internal combustion engine tha ran on peanut oil. They called it the Diesel engine. Later on someone refined crude oil burn in a Diesel engine. They called it Diesel fuel.
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Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (1858-1913), inventor of the diesel engine.Diesel or diesel fuel is a specific fractional distillate of fuel oil (mostly petroleum) that is used as fuel in a diesel engine invented by German engineer Rudolf Diesel. The term typically refers to fuel that has been processed from petroleum, but increasingly, alternatives such as biodiesel or biomass to liquid (BTL) or gas to liquid (GTL) diesel that are not derived from petroleum are being developed and adopted.
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The sad thing was Mr Diesel never reaped the rewards of his invention. He committed suicide in 1913where is the starter located on a 93 mercury cougar?
In a nutshell, diesel is a compression fuel and gas is a ignition based fuel, basicaly saying it takes a spark to ignite gasoline rather on the other hand it takes compression and heat to make diesil to ignite. notice that diesel engines have glow plugs and gasoline engines have spark plugs.1986 Monte Carlo SS dash/tach?
long time ago a man named Diesel invented an internal combustion engine tha ran on peanut oil. They called it the Diesel engine. Later on someone refined crude oil burn in a Diesel engine. They called it Diesel fuel.More Questions & Answers ...
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