No, I'm not a tree hugger. 'Alternative' as in alternative to going broke just gassing up the car to get to town and back.
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Here's one of my latest adventures: Try to achieve stoichiometric combustion
of waste vegetable oil. This is like trying to burn something
efficiently that really would rather do other things besides burn.
Mission accomplished, however.
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Stoichiometric combustion of waste vegetable oil
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| There's a saying that goes, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull
boy." Well, just in case things were getting a bit dull in the
workshop, we decided to blow off $2 and some odd cents worth of a different
type of energy: Soda-borne carbon dioxide. Since Dan's Workshop
performs all projects in a very orderly and scientific fashion, below
you will find the details of this, umm, alternative energy method and
apparatus. |
Fun uses alternative energy too!
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| Children, you musn't play with fire. This is serious business. HEY!
Wipe that smirk off your face, this is for real. What we have here is a
truly vegetable oil powered vehicle. Not new oil of course, it's
premium quality used, rancid, and nasty canola oil. Otherwise known as
WVO, or waste vegetable oil. You know how a candle smells when you blow
it out? Nice! Well, this one smells like cat barf when you blow it out. |
Veggie oil powered toy!
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