What is biodiesel?
Biodiesel is a clean burning alternative fuel, produced from domestic, renewable resources such as Hemp, Corn, soy, palm, flax seed, etc. However the best in my opinion to use is used cooking oil from fast food restaurants. 100% Biodiesel contains no petroleum, but it can be blended at any level with petroleum diesel to create a biodiesel blend. It can be used in compression-ignition (diesel) engines with little or no modifications. Biodiesel is simple to use, biodegradable, nontoxic, and essentially free of sulfur and aromatics, and smells like French fries out of the tail pipe..
Biodiesel is a clean burning alternative fuel, produced from domestic, renewable resources such as Hemp, Corn, soy, palm, flax seed, etc. However the best in my opinion to use is used cooking oil from fast food restaurants. 100% Biodiesel contains no petroleum, but it can be blended at any level with petroleum diesel to create a biodiesel blend. It can be used in compression-ignition (diesel) engines with little or no modifications. Biodiesel is simple to use, biodegradable, nontoxic, and essentially free of sulfur and aromatics, and smells like French fries out of the tail pipe..
Hemp
Cannabis sativa L, or Industrial Hemp is the worlds most versitile plant.
Industrial Hemp is grown all around the world, in a relatively short time; and products are produced in many countries around the world. Major producers include Canada, France, and China.
There are many uses for this amazing plant. There are many uses for Hemp. Everything from textiles, clothing, rope and nets, beauty and skin products, building products such as insulation, fiber board, hempcrete, bio fuels, oils, plastics, animal bedding, and nutritious foods.
However for the purposes of this site, Hemp can be bred to produce oil. From this oil it can be made into bio diesel, which can run cars and generators. Also the stalks can be taken and used for bio mass.
Cannabis seeds, often discarded, contain the plant’s oils that can be turned into fuel. At the University of Connecticut, researchers found industrial hemp to contain viable qualities for producing biodiesel. Hemp biodiesel produced by graduate students at the school had a 97 percent conversion efficiency. It will be interesting to see the university’s role in this alternative fuel source, since it owns a patent on a biodiesel reactor system that can make fuel out of various inputs, including hemp.
At least as far back as the 10th century BC, methane gas captured from animal waste was used for heating bath water in Assyria. Through the years, additional energy sources have been developed to heat our water. But the use of methane gas captured from animal waste (biogas) continues, and is now occurring on a scale that the ancients could only have imagined. In Nebraska, with thousands of livestock operations, the potential use of manure for energy production and other value-added products is a natural extension of the operations and a possible new source of revenue.
Hydrogen is the simplest element. An atom of hydrogen consists of only one proton and one electron. It's also the most plentiful element in the universe. Despite its simplicity and abundance, hydrogen doesn't occur naturally as a gas on the Earth - it's always combined with other elements. Water, for example, is a combination of hydrogen and oxygen (H2O).
Hydrogen is also found in many organic compounds, notably the hydrocarbons that make up many of our fuels, such as gasoline, natural gas, methanol, and propane. Hydrogen can be separated from hydrocarbons through the application of heat - a process known as reforming. Currently, most hydrogen is made this way from natural gas. An electrical current can also be used to separate water into its components of oxygen and hydrogen. This process is known aselectrolysis. Some algae and bacteria, using sunlight as their energy source, even give off hydrogen under certain conditions.
NASA uses hydrogen fuel to launch the space shuttles. Hydrogen is high in energy, yet an engine that burns pure hydrogen produces almost no pollution. NASA has used liquid hydrogen since the 1970s to propel the space shuttle and other rockets into orbit. Hydrogen fuel cells power the shuttle's electrical systems, producing a clean byproduct -pure water, which the crew drinks.
Fuel cells are run off of hydrogen to produce electricity. See the Alternative Energy page to read more about Fuel Cells.
Hydrogen is also found in many organic compounds, notably the hydrocarbons that make up many of our fuels, such as gasoline, natural gas, methanol, and propane. Hydrogen can be separated from hydrocarbons through the application of heat - a process known as reforming. Currently, most hydrogen is made this way from natural gas. An electrical current can also be used to separate water into its components of oxygen and hydrogen. This process is known aselectrolysis. Some algae and bacteria, using sunlight as their energy source, even give off hydrogen under certain conditions.
NASA uses hydrogen fuel to launch the space shuttles. Hydrogen is high in energy, yet an engine that burns pure hydrogen produces almost no pollution. NASA has used liquid hydrogen since the 1970s to propel the space shuttle and other rockets into orbit. Hydrogen fuel cells power the shuttle's electrical systems, producing a clean byproduct -pure water, which the crew drinks.
Fuel cells are run off of hydrogen to produce electricity. See the Alternative Energy page to read more about Fuel Cells.
The term "biomass" refers to organic matter that has stored energy through the process of photosynthesis. It exists in one form as plants and may be transferred through the food chain to animals' bodies and their wastes, all of which can be converted for everyday human use through processes such as combustion, which releases the carbon dioxide stored in the plant material. Many of the biomass fuels used today come in the form of wood products, dried vegetation, crop residues, and aquatic plants. Biomass has become one of the most commonly used renewable sources of energy in the last two decades, second only to hydropower in the generation of electricity. It is such a widely utilized source of energy, probably due to its low cost and indigenous nature, that it accounts for almost 15% of the world's total energy supply and as much as 35% in developing countries, mostly for cooking and heating. http://www.altenergy.org/renewables/biomass.html
Hemp is a valuable, viable source of woody biomass. One acre of hemp is approximately 75 percent cellulose, whereas one acre of trees is only 60 percent – hemp can give two crops per year whereas trees give one crop every 20-30 years. Hemp stalk can be converted into 500 gallons of methanol/acre.
http://harbay.net/biomass.html
Compressed AIR
I for now, am talking about compressed air for vehicles. A compressed air car is a compressed air vehicle that uses a motor powered by compressed air.
How can compressed air fuel a car? The laws of physics dictate that uncontained gases will fill any given space. The easiest way to see this in action is to inflate a balloon. The elastic skin of the balloon holds the air tightly inside, but the moment you use a pin to create a hole in the balloon’s surface, the air expands outward with so much energy that the balloon explodes. Compressing a gas into a small space is a way to store energy. When the gas expands again, that energy is released to do work. This principle is the basis behind what makes an air car run.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_air_car
http://zeropollutionmotors.us/technology/
I for now, am talking about compressed air for vehicles. A compressed air car is a compressed air vehicle that uses a motor powered by compressed air.
How can compressed air fuel a car? The laws of physics dictate that uncontained gases will fill any given space. The easiest way to see this in action is to inflate a balloon. The elastic skin of the balloon holds the air tightly inside, but the moment you use a pin to create a hole in the balloon’s surface, the air expands outward with so much energy that the balloon explodes. Compressing a gas into a small space is a way to store energy. When the gas expands again, that energy is released to do work. This principle is the basis behind what makes an air car run.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_air_car
http://zeropollutionmotors.us/technology/
