ALT-6 Alternative Fuel Sources
Alternatives to current fossil fuels in this day and age are a hot topic in the light of climate change and environmental awareness. My family are heavy users of both diesel and regular gasoline, or petrol, so alternatives sources of fuel are a topic of great importance to us.
Living in a household of five drivers of differing ages with four vehicles I feel we are a good representation and fair cross section of the driving public. Two cars run on diesel and the other two on gasoline. It is my two younger brothers that drive the the gasoline/petrol cars and their choice was heavily influenced by the difference in performance that it offers. Being aged 20 and 24 they typically respond more positively to the value of speed over the value of miles per gallon. I know this fascination with speed, and therefore gasoline over diesel, will eventually die off for them, especially with the prospect of 'Bio-Diesel' becoming more widespread and more readily available.
Diesel is my choice now because I rate achieving a greater MPG higher than the very slight improvement in performance. I'm also extremely excited and interested in the development of bio-diesel, in which the use of is becoming more popular day by day.
Bio-diesel can be made from simple waste cooking oil. The cooking oil can be recycled through a system resembling an advanced home brewing kit. Detailed pictures and instructions in how to carry out this conversion are readily available on the Internet which is spreading the word of bio-diesel, enabling more use of it and sharing the knowledge is allowing increasing numbers of motorists to learn of its existence. At first many motorists are skeptical that old cooking oil can be adapted with the finished product being capable of filling up their diesel engined vehicle without the need for any engine modification. This being the case, it is important to keep spreading the word of bio-diesel.
I am myself keenly interested in setting up my own bio-diesel system and consider it to be a fuel of the future. It is created from a waste product which restaurants are usually more than happy to be rid of, as restaurants with large usage have to follow an awkward and strict process to ensure the safe disposal of their used oil, making its use in the conversion to bio-diesel beneficial to them too.
Bio-diesel must be the future as it's one of the greenest of all fuels. As it's a recycled use of a bi-product of vegetables, no environmentalist could attempt to reason or argue against it. Also, no argument, environmental or otherwise, will ever arise convincing enough that will stop or even reduce the human race cooking in oil, making it a resource abundantly available. After all, we all have to eat and even vegetarians enjoy fried food.
