Gas vs Diesel == off topic for this list.
Veggie or biodiesel or other biofuel vs Diesel == also off topic for this list.
While I’m a big advocate for biofuels (heat our home with B20 and have fueled my steamboat with B100 for years), there are literally dozens of user groups discussing these topics, so let’s leave it at that and simply say that it’s something folks can consider. But to your point about smell. Smell is probably not the driving factor in going with gas over diesel engine—on this list, folks have mentioned cost, noise, weight and volume requirements as the biggest objections to going with a diesel, at least with small boats.
Having said that, go biofuels, by all means.
-Moderator, ElectricBoats
From: electricboats@
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:09 AM
To: electricboats@
Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] Gas vs. Diesel
In the discussion about ICE generators I haven't seen any talk about running a diesel generator on vegetable oil. My 1989 F-250 PU has been using both new and recycled veggie oil for about 4 years now with no modifications to the fuel system. I do start it up with dino diesel and shut down also to make cold starting easy, in temperatures below 60F. One requirement though, is the type of injection pump, it can't be diesel lubricated, like the one on my boat's Westerbeke 4-91 main engine. Otherwise, I'd be running veggie in that too.
Wonder if the objections to diesel wouldn't be mostly bypassed if people were smelling the soy instead.
Sailonner
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