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Posted by Piccolo Pete on July 6, 2008, 1:48 am
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> 13:54:10 -0400, Piccolo Pete, not@home.com wrote:
>>
>> So a lot of the alternative fuel people are lying to us about peanut oil
>> being the original fuel of design for diesels and alcohol being the same
>> for
>> present gasoline motors?
>>
>> I've read some very interesting articles on how Henry Ford originally
>> intended his internal combustion engine to run on alcohol from farmers,
>> but
>> Rockefeller paid big bucks to the prohibition movement to outlaw alcohol
>> and
>> destroy his competition. It all made perfect sense to me at the time,
>> but
>> if that isn't true, then shame on those people propagating such fairy
>> tales...
>
> From http://www.worldaudit.org/Hugh%20Downs%20re%20Hemp.htm
> (Transcript of Hugh Downs commentary on hemp, for ABC News, NY, 11/90:)
>
> ...
> At one time marijuana seemed to have a promising future as a
> cornerstone of industry. When Rudolph Diesel produced his famous engine
> in 1896, he assumed that the diesel engine would be powered by a variety
> of fuels, especially vegetable and seed oils. Rudolph Diesel, like most
> engineers then, believed vegetable fuels were superior to petroleum.
> Hemp is the most efficient vegetable.
>
> In the 1930s the Ford Motor Company also saw a future in biomass
> fuels. Ford operated a successful biomass conversion plant, that
> included hemp, at their Iron Mountain facility in Michigan. Ford
> engineers extracted methanol, charcoal fuel, tar, pitch, ethyl-acetate
> and creosote. All fundamental ingredients for modern industry and now
> supplied by oil-related industries.[2]
Um, well, yeah, I've cleaned out my share of pipes.... Burns well the
second time around.
> The difference is that the vegetable source is renewable, cheap and
> clean, and the petroleum or coal sources are limited, expensive and
> dirty. By volume, 30% of the hemp seed contains oil suitable for
> high-grade diesel fuel as well as aircraft engine and precision machine
> oil.
>
> Henry Ford's experiments with methanol promised cheap, readily
> renewable fuel. And if you think methanol means compromise, you should
> know that many modern race cars run on methanol.
Excellent post in my opinion. Might also explain why hemp is illegal to
grow in the US.
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