If you can tell me something new about diesel, you win

[StrayGuitarist]

I will give an undisclosed prize to anyone who can teach me a new (true) fact about automotive diesel engines. Go.

 

[tech3475]

They don’t laugh at my jokes.

 

[Hayato213]

 

[StrayGuitarist]

They don’t laugh at my jokes.

They don't laugh at mine, either. NEEEXT

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This isn't a "new fact," this is a constant of the universe.

 

[AmandaRose]

The only fact I know is that the inventor of the diesel engine Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel also invented an engine that used peanut oil.

 

[StrayGuitarist]

The only fact I know is that the inventer of the diesel engine Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel also invented an engine that used peanut oil.

This is actually a really fun fact: This IS the Diesel engine! Even modern Diesel engines can use vegetable oil, kerosene, and even motor oil as a fuel in a pinch. This is typically.. not good for the engine long term, but if you're stuck somewhere and all you have is a liter or two of oil in your trunk, it can get you home in a diesel. There are kits to make the engines handle these alternative fuels much better.

Not to mention that biodiesel is useable in most modern diesel engines, and is just a mix of purified vegetable oil (typically recycled from a restaurant) and regular diesel.

You'll have to try harder next time!

 

[Hayato213]

This isn't a "new fact," this is a constant of the universe.

It is simple Vin said "No"

 

[Flame]

User @Flame and user diesel just have this thing between them. The heat is unbelievable....


Oh my!

 

[StrayGuitarist]

It is simple Vin said "No"

Precisely!

User @Flame and user diesel just have this thing between them. The heat is unbelievable....


Oh my!

Wow, the username @diesel actually hasn't been taken yet.. Flame is in love with the concept of absence!

 

[SylverReZ]

It's about family.

 

[StrayGuitarist]

It's about family.

This is maybe the 30 billionth time someone's made that joke to me. But, I appreciate your engagement!

 

[impeeza]

Here on my country nobody uses "Diesel fuel" on the Diesel motors, here we use A.C.P.M. (Aceite Combustible Para Motores) something like "Combustion Oil for Engines". Because the license to distillate Diesel fuel was extremely high, so the government put all the Universities together to find a replacement for Diesel which could be distillate in house with no license.

Even my university found a very good fuel made of corn, never used on my country but now used on some first world countries.

 

[StrayGuitarist]

Here on my country nobody uses "Diesel fuel" on the Diesel motors, here we use A.C.P.M. (Aceite Combustible Para Motores) something like "Combustion Oil for Engines". Because the license to distillate Diesel fuel was extremely high, so the government put all the Universities together to find a replacement for Diesel which could be distillate in house with no license.

Even my university found a very good fuel made of corn, never used on my country but now used on some first world countries.

I didn't know about that, actually - that's really interesting. They never used A.C.P.M out there, just exported it? I know I've ran corn-based fuels in my TDI Beetle when I still had it, but I didn't know where it came from.

 

[impeeza]

I didn't know about that, actually - that's really interesting. They never used A.C.P.M out there, just exported it? I know I've ran corn-based fuels in my TDI Beetle when I still had it, but I didn't know where it came from.

you are welcome

 

[StrayGuitarist]

you are welcome

I will now disclose the prize:

A picture of a really small ice cream cone I got a few weeks ago

 

[impeeza]

YUMMY!

 

[Veho]

here we use A.C.P.M. (Aceite Combustible Para Motores) something like "Combustion Oil for Engines".

I think that's biodiesel? Diesel replacement derived from plant oils?

 

[impeeza]

I think that's biodiesel? Diesel replacement derived from plant oils?

Exactly, on different countries have different names, some biodiesel are fuel from Corn.

A.C.P.M. is a distillate from OIL with different process to Diesel but it works fine on Diesel engines.

 

[SylverReZ]

I will now disclose the prize:

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A picture of a really small ice cream cone I got a few weeks ago

Comically small ice cream cone.

 

[StrayGuitarist]

Comically small ice cream cone.

It was free, so I'm not mad, but it is absolutely miniscule. I have pretty long fingers but I'm a pretty small gal all things considered and this is still a truly tiny ice cream cone