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Submitted: Wednesday, Dec 04, 2002 at 00:00

jono

Anyone see the doco on National Geographic about the Bouganville Island rebels making their own diesel from coconuts??

Reckon they get twice the economy and it burns cleaner!!!

Solves all my problems on my next Cape York trip!!
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AnswerID: 9319   Submitted: Wednesday, Dec 04, 2002 at 00:00

Member - Nigel replied:

Yeah - wasn't it a great story - different from the one we get from mainstream media.
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AnswerID: 9321   Submitted: Wednesday, Dec 04, 2002 at 00:00

OziExplorer replied:

No way they would get twice the economy. The Cetane value of cocnut oil is higher than diesel, but not sufficient to get twice the economy. Because of the nature of coconut oil, you are basically forced to blend it with diesel or kerosane.
Here is an informative website on vege oils:
http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_yield.html
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FollowupID: 4686   Submitted: Wednesday, Dec 04, 2002 at 00:00

Axel + Karen posted:

They more than probably get twice the economy, mainly because WE send cr-p diesel to our SUPPOSED freinds, ;)
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FollowupID: 4689   Submitted: Wednesday, Dec 04, 2002 at 00:00

Oziexplorer posted:

Will be interesting to see when the new clean much improved world standard diesel comes in 01 January, 2003
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FollowupID: 4690   Submitted: Wednesday, Dec 04, 2002 at 00:00

Oziexplorer posted:

Will be interesting to see when the new clean much improved world standard diesel comes in 01 January, 2003
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FollowupID: 4698   Submitted: Thursday, Dec 05, 2002 at 00:00

Oziexplorer posted:

Here is a link for the new improved diesel:
http://www.bp.com.au/products/fuels/bp_ecoultra/eco.asp
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FollowupID: 4745   Submitted: Friday, Dec 06, 2002 at 00:00

Rox posted:

Thanks OziExplorer I have been looking for stuf like this .
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