Malaysia to Switch to Bio-Diesel
Filed in: Malaysia, Technology — November 18th, 2005
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia will switch to bio-diesel next year — a year ahead of schedule — with government vehicles slated to start using the palm oil-laced fuel to cushion the impact of rising fuel prices, a news report said Wednesday.
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Bio-diel is a mixture of diesel and palm oil used for cooking.
My two cents
Sorry, but it sounds like mixing water with oil to me. I guess it will only be used for government diesel powered vehicles.
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November 18th, 2005 at 10:33 am
I think it’ll work though… Disel engines aren’t as sensitive as Petrol engines…
November 18th, 2005 at 10:36 am
Will it becomes “less power” ?
November 18th, 2005 at 11:13 am
Merc did a collaborative research with MPOB to test their biodiesel on merc diesel engine.
I am very certain, users will switch to diesel engine in the next 50 years, as petrol spiral up to like RM20/litre or so.
November 18th, 2005 at 4:09 pm
I think biodiesel is not as helpful as it seem to be. First of all. However diesel vehicles are there on the street? second of all biodiesel is meant to be mixed in a mixture of 10% biodiesel and 90% diesel.
So boys and girls. We’re still using a shit load of fossil fuel? Who’s to gain? Palm oil plantations. Whose seeking for a side stabil source income. And oil companies. Who continues to supply fossil fuels.
Brazil’s options is a better one. flex fuel vehicles. Cars that can run on a mixture, and pure version of petrol and alcohol. However there’s impossible to implement because the oil companies control the distribution neighbour.
anyways this is my 2 cents
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November 18th, 2005 at 5:16 pm
10% may be small when looking at the numbers alone. But 10% of the total Disel usage might boost the palm oil industry. And if many country adops biodisel, Malaysia can export a large amount of palm oil.
It also means 10% cleaner as fossil feul needs to be filtered while palm oil is clean when extracted.
But it’s still true that it does not satisfy future needs. The government and petroleum resellers should encourage people to switch to hybird cars which saves plenty of feul and also switch to NGV which is more enviromental friendly.
November 18th, 2005 at 6:18 pm
It is likely oil companies will buy into biodiesel companies. But we will see…
November 19th, 2005 at 6:02 pm
Good that you brought this sort of topic in your blog.
However, we have more information in one of our posts about Bio-Diesel.
November 20th, 2005 at 1:44 am
I don’t think it’s mixing water with oil. In fact, Diesel produces 30% more power than normal fuel. That’s why large vehicle like lorries and bus use Diesel.
In fact, when Rudolf Diesel invented the world’s first Diesel engine, it used peanut oil to burn.
(you can read about it at http://www.cyberlipid.org/glycer/biodiesel.htm)
About it’s fuel efficiency, kindly read this
http://www.biodiesel.org/pdf_files/fuelfactsheets/Performance.PDF
December 4th, 2005 at 3:47 pm
It is more like 30% of “torque” (measured by Nm) than “power” (measured by kilowatts) for diesel engines, and that is exactly the reason diesel engines are good for towing and heavily loaded vehicles.
Diesel engines are actually very efficient — looking at all those turbo diesel European cars. Torque kicks in at very low RPM so they are easy to drive, and can be very economical for highway drivings — even beats hybrid in some cases.
They are getting more popular here in Australia, and if I am doing more long distance driving, I’ll definitely consider a turbo-diesel for my next car.