On May 2, 2:47?am, "RCE" wrote:


I think Wayne is correct, although the coal dust approach didn't work out.

http://www.dieselpage.com/tipshis.htm

Eisboch


We can agree that "exploding" is a decent indicator that something
didn't work out. :-)

When Diesel introduced his functioning engine at the Paris Exposition
in 1900, it was fueled by peanut oil. Good image of that original
engine at this site, by the way;

http://www.dieselveg.com/rudolf_diesel.htm


By 1900, Diesel felt that the primary market for his engine was
probably going to be agriculture. One of the benefits of the vegetable
oil engine was that many farmers would be able to "grow their own
fuel". There was an abundance of crude oil available back then and no
clear idea of exactly what could or should be done to use it
profitably. Particularly after Diesel's mysterious death, the emphasis
switched from using vegetable products to using crude oil when firing
diesel engines

Fast forward 107 years. Using a renewable resource, like vegetable
oil, now begins to make more sense than buying scarce crude oil from
sources increasingly controlled by governments that are somehwat
unstable or hostile toward the US.