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as discussed earlier, gasoline engines are terribly inefficient. Diesel engines on the other hand are extremely efficient in combustion. //a.// Check out this comparison! 1) Diesel Engine has the best thermal efficiency of any fueled prime mover a) Steam – 28% -Amt. of fuel (btu’s) connected to useful horsepower b) Gas Turbine – 19% c) Gas Car – 18% d) Outboard – 12% e) Diesel – 38% (i) Re-use Exhaust Gas & Jacket water – up to 45% 1. 900 ° F Exhaust Gas – used for “hotel steam” a. Galley b. Hot Water c. Ship’s Heating 2. 190 ° F Jacket Water (cooling water for engine)- 30% can be used for Evaporator The diesel engine is at least 38% efficient, and can be even more efficient if you reuse the 900 ° F exhaust gases to run an evaporator, hot water, ship's heating, etc. If Americans could drop the misconceptions they currently have about diesels being dirty, smelly, and unreliable, we could have a chance at drastically reducing our dependency on foreign oil. Toyota, Nissan, and Honda recently dropped plans for diesels in America, based on the fact that Americans aren't interested in diesel cars. Diesel cars are extremely rare in America, but if most Americans switched to diesel, we could nearly cut consumption of fossil fuels in half.
 * __Diesel Engine-__**


 * __Biodiesel from Algae-__**This is one of the best ideas in alternative energy.Algae is the fastest growing plant on the planet. According to Oilgae.com, Algae biodiesel is the one fuel that can completely replace fossil fuels. Biodiesel is the one fuel that we could potentially make enough of to cut off all ties with foreign oil. This is probably due to the fact that algae can double its cell mass every few hours. Algae biodiesel is very similar to #2 Diesel, but you can actually get more btu's per gallon out of Algae biodiesel than biodiesel from soy/corn, and even more than petroleum diesel. This would make it possible for injectors to use less fuel on every powerstroke, resulting in better fuel economy, or leaving the fuel settings the same and making engines slightly smaller and lighter. A huge advantage of using Algae biodiesel is when it burns, it doesn't add __any__ additional CO2 into the atmosphere.
 * __Algae Biodiesel vs. Corn, Palm, etc.-__**|| **1 Acre** || **Gallons of fuel produced per year** || |||| Corn || 18 || |||| Palm || 700-800 || |||| Algae || 20,000 (in a pond) || ||i media type="youtube" key="9cFobL3Gkp8" height="385" width="480"

Something people take for granted is the importance of high-quality oil in engines. They also don’t realize that the classic 3,000 mile oil change is a complete waste. Most people have been using petroleum based motor oil for years with no plan to switch. Synthetic oils are made in a lab in Amerca, and offer protection for 25,000 miles or 1 year. If America as a whole could adopt 100% synthetic oils and lubricants in all engines then we wouldn’t need petroleum for anything! This would reduce millions of gallons of waste oil every year.
 * The yields of oil and fuels from algae are much higher (10-100 times) than competing energy crops* Algae can grow practically anywhere, thus ensuring that there is no competition with food crops.* Algae are excellent bioremediation agents - they have the potential to absorb massive amounts of CO2 and can play an important role in sewage and wastewater treatment.* Algae are the only feedstock that have the potential to completely replace world's consumption of transportation fuels.* Algae are already being used in a wide variety of industries and applications, and many newer applications are being discovered. Such a wide range of end-uses enable companies to produce both fuels and non-fuel products from the same algae feedstock - //b. Oilgae.com> > -If we used 1/10 of New Mexico for algae production, we could meet **__ALL__** // the energy needs of the country. - //c. Algaefuels//>
 * __Synthetic Oil__**


 * __Summary__ If the American Auto Industry starts to adopt diesel engines and we produce 100% of our fuels from algae, we can reduce our carbon footprint to minimal. Also, if we run all of our powerplants off Algae Biodiesel and use only synthetic lubricants we can get our CO2 emissions very close to zero. The catastrophic Oil Spill that is going on right now should be the final straw that we are fed up with petroleum-based oils. We can keep jobs and a strong economy in America by producing our own fuels and lubricants so we can cut off all ties with foreign oil.

**//Sources: a. Wartsila-Sulzer Diesel, b. Oilgae.com, c. Algaefuel//