Neat biodiesel article

[Pandemic]

Its pretty cool... I dont know how much I believe, but I'll leave that up to you guys.
the article

[TheNextAZN]

do i smell a diesel cb7 in the making? .. oh no that's just french fries.. lol

That Goodwin guy is a badass!!

[deevergote]

"Think about it: a 5,000-pound vehicle that gets 60 miles to the gallon and does zero to 60 in five seconds!"

I've been dying to do a biodiesel conversion to something. Thought about it for my 86 Accord, almost bought a Jetta TDi... If I ever do it, it'll probably be to an old MB.

[Pandemic]

an old MB?

[Dirty Harry]

an old MB?

$0.25

[head4life]

$0.25

$20.00

[Pandemic]

but wtf is an old MB?

[texasvtak]

Merc.

[Pandemic]

ah right :P

[GreenMadness]

"Good ol' American know-how and ingenuity is alive and well, just not where we need it."

This is so true... I am going to school for mechanical engineering and many of the people i am in school with cant apply engineering to life. i learned like many on here about my car from forums such as this and others and from days of reading from about 10th grade till my senior year i had learned how to rebuild a whole car and then i learned how to make them better, so as i was going through classes i could slowly see WHY each uprgrade made the car better.

I tried to talk to one of my proffs about turbo apps. and cascade turbo systems... which is adapted from the refrigeration cycle. the proff was amazed that i could "understand" thermodynamics II enough to be on that level.... it ends up i saw the concept 3 months later at the detroit auto show, under BMW's new turbo system display...

it had nothing to do with my understanding but just i knew about cars and saw something that i could use...

this is a really long rant i guess but i just read that article and saw a really good point.
im one of like 6 people in my level that has real world understanding the other 40 are just people that can tell you if something will break by doing alot of math...

[deevergote]

There are some people that can use the tools education gives them and actually apply it. Engineering is an art, to a point. Without creativity and a mastery of the tools (knowledge), it's pointless to even learn it. It's situations like this that show the true potential of some engineers.