Spider and other Truck Drivers

[Merlin]

Here is an additive that is being explored for diesel fuel. I was developed by a high-school student and it is based on sawdust.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2008/07/23/lee.oh.teen.alt.fuel.wews

Basically 20% of your fuel usage can be based on it and it costs about 80 cents a gallon. It isn't clear how far it is from the marketplace though.

[Dudeskey]

Good luck to that kid, I hope that sees the light of day. Right now I'm getting about 7.3 mpg in my truck, which is pretty good. But I have to drive about 62-63 mph to get those results.

I've wondered if some kind of diesel-electric concept like what the locomotives have is feasible.

[rugbythug]

They better never make that stuff. I have a hard enough time getting wood pellets as it is.

[Spider]

80 cents per gallon ....... I have 150 tanks .......... might be worth looking into , the 86 pete I am driving now gets 4.5 per gallon

[PaintballCLE]

Here is an additive that is being explored for diesel fuel. I was developed by a high-school student and it is based on sawdust.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2008/07/23/lee.oh.teen.alt.fuel.wews

Basically 20% of your fuel usage can be based on it and it costs about 80 cents a gallon. It isn't clear how far it is from the marketplace though.

lol no comment

[Merlin]

lol no comment
LOL

[Drek]

While this thread is open, any of you truckers ever try soy biodiesel? Some of the guys who've hauled waste on hazmat jobs I've done said they liked it a whole lot better than diesel with ethanol additive, what say you all?