[Op-Ed] Diesel's day has arrived

[cpzilliacus]

Baltimore Sun: Diesel's day has arrived - 120 years after its invention, the diesel engine, with its increased fuel economy and lower maintenance costs, is coming into its own

One hundred and twenty years ago this summer – in 1893 – Rudolf Diesel fired up a single-cylinder engine attached to a flywheel. The contraption was fueled by peanut oil.

He must have been relieved as the engine sputtered to life because Diesel had worked for years on a new idea: that higher levels of compression within the engine could ignite the fuel, thus replacing the spark required by conventional internal combustion engines.

It is highly unlikely that Diesel – born in Paris in 1858 of German parents – could have possibly conceived how the engine bearing his name would revolutionize the world of transportation.

[Stephane Dumas]

That's a good news, and diesel will get the help of biodiesel and "Gdiesel", a blend of small pourcentage of natural gas blended with ULSD (Ultra low sulphur diesel)
http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2010/10/19/g-diesel-is-the-race-for-drop-in-parity-priced-low-emission-alt-fuels-over-just-as-it-begins/
http://news.pickuptrucks.com/2010/04/is-gdiesel-the-diesel-fuel-of-the-future-.html

Also, here videos about diesel and biodiesel

[cpzilliacus]

Thanks for sharing the videos. 

Diesel engines are not limited to using fuel refined from petroleum.  They can run on "pure" vegetable oil, as well as various blended forms of petroleum Diesel and other fuels.