Michael Foster asks.
"Anyway, I've always wondered if an internal combustion engine could be devised based on thisprinciple, using some sort of cellulose flour made from garbage and agricultural waste. Notlikely, I guess."
Based on catastrophic grain elevator dust explosions a "biomass
The "Baron's" article on biodiesel shows just how
misleading things can get if one relies on businessmen, civil servants and
community big wigs to assess the value of any project, such as that sketched out
for soy-diesel andbio-ethanol. No knowledgeable environmentalist would
support such
Michael Foster asked if running Diesel engines on sugar-water or (gelatinized) corn starch
had been tried?
I don't know, but I think precooked corn meal mush (without the raisins) would
offer enough lubrication to work okay.
According to this URL 36 bushels of corn $90.00 would produce 18
Since we're speculating on biomass engines, here's one I've actually had some
experience with. When I was a little kid, people still had those galvanized steel
garbage cans. We would acquire two such cans of slightly different diameters. The
smaller would stand upright and the larger would
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