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By Amy Silver
Special to the Rappahannock News
When Dr. Rudolf Diesel showed his new invention at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900, the engine ran on 100 percent pure peanut oil.
Dr. Diesel said, “The use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today. But such oils may become in course of time as important as petroleum and the coal tar products of the present time.”
To participants in last week’s “Grow Your Own Fuel” workshop, that time is now.
Jointly sponsored by Hearthstone School, Sunnyside Institute and the Captain Planet Foundation, the workshop was free and open to all ages.
A group including local students, farmers, and interns, under the guidance of instructor Amos Blanton, converted Hearthstone School’s diesel-engine tractor so that it will run on straight vegetable oil (SVO) recycled from local restaurants. Blanton runs his converted Jetta on recycled oil from Amissville’s E-COW restaurant.
“I wanted to do the workshop because when I get a car I want to convert it to run on vegetable oil,” said 10th grader Anna Oehser of Washington, who attends Hearthstone School.
“It’s better for the environment and we’re using recycled oil. Plus I learned more about engines than I knew before”
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