Fish Oil as Fuel for Car Engines 1927
COMING: THE FISH-OIL MOTOR
The possibility of farming the sea for motor-fuel, after all the oil and gasoline are gone, is indicated by studies of the use of fish oils and other animal oils as motor fuels reported to the French Academy of Sciences, in Paris, by Messrs. Georges Lumet and Henri Marcelet. Says Dr. E. E. Free’s Week’s Science (New York):
“Using engines of Diesel or semi-Diesel type, which run ordinarily with one kind or another of petroleum oil, the French investigators were able to obtain quite successful operation using several kinds of oil from fish. In addition, they determined the heating value of definite volumes of these oils and discovered them to be not seriously inferior to mineral oils. Not even any bad smell is produced by the use of fish oil in the engine, a happening which might well be expected when one remembers the unpleasant odors of the oils themselves. The fishy smell of the oil is evidently destroyed during the combustion in the engine. Altho engines of these Diesel types are not now made in small enough sizes to be used in automobiles, this is a development confidently expected within a few years. When such small Diesel engines have become available, oil from the enormous numbers of fish which might be caught in the world’s oceans may constitute a useful addition to mankind’s supply of fuel.”
Source: The Literary Digest for October 29, 1927
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