Natural Fuel around the house...?

Question

what could i burn in my 2 stroke weed eater? im currently trying rubbing alcohol but the cold weather makes in difficult. im also trying cooking oil as use for diesel but i dont know how to convert the engine to run on diesel and/or cooking oil. If you have any idea to help or you have any idea on different types of fuel please tell me .ohh im trying not to use anything with petroleum(fosil fuel) in it .

Answer 1

Try making your own hydrogen safely. I currently run 2 trucks, my home hot water heater, home stove and home generator on hydrogen. There are basically 3 safe ways to make and use it... chemically, electrically and molecularly, the first 2 being easier so I'll only discuss them here.

Chemically you'll need a 6inch x 1ft schedule 40 pvc pipe. With pvc cement glue a cap on the bottom and use a s***w on cap for the top. Drill a small hole (1/4inch or so) in the side close to the top, s******g in a small copper shut off valve. Place a few feet of stranded (food grade is good) flex hose to the valve and into the air intake of your weed eater's engine. Now crunch up a couple aluminum cans (beer cans, soda cans etc) and drop them into the pvc pipe, along with a couple cups of lye (Red Devil drain opener has lye in it, some Clorox and Drano's do to). Then simply add water, s***w on the top and wait a few minutes.

What happens in simplicity is that aluminum and lye don't really get along so they battle, and as always the innocent   civilians (water H2O) that the most casualties, by giving up it's hydrogen and oxygen. This then builds up in the void of the pipe and is ready to be vented into your engine, by opening the valve. You may need to start your engine on gas then switch it off after the hydrogen starts burning.

Electrical is a bit easier. Simply take a small solar panel 1.5 amps is what i use ($9 at harborfreight.com, connect the 2 wires to 2 conductors (carbon cores of batteries work well, just be careful removing it from the jacket), but any conductive material will work. Drop the wires into a water tank (I use 55gal drums), rig up a valve as described above and your good to go. That's it.

Tiny bubbles will form and rise off one conductor (that's hydrogen) and even smaller bubbles that just looks like foam will rise off the other (oxygen). I don't remember which likes the positive and which likes the neg hydrogen or the oxygen.

The third method is more complicated and is what i use for my vehicles. I have a step by step DIY guide available at http://www.agua-luna.com/hydrogen.html to walk you threw the process. It also covers the other 2 methods described in more detail.

Hope this helped, feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions,

Dan Martin

Retired Boeing Engineer now living 100% Off-the-Grid with my family, using Alternative Energy & loving every minute.

for more info visit www.agua-luna.com

Answer 2

How about traditional gasoline??  Aren't we getting a little carried away with all the 'green' nonsense?

Answer 3

You might use pure alcohol of one kind or another, but the typical rubbing alcohol is probably 70% isopropil alcohol and 30% water. And you know that filling your tank with 30% water ruins an engine, right?

100% pure alcohol, or even 99% pure, is hard to find. You will not find any in common products in your house. I think all that is needed to burn alcohol is different jets in the carburator or different fuel injection metering levels. Different types of alcohol would need different jets. Each type needs a different mixture ratio with air to burn well.