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Show Make Fuel From Soybeans In January, Volkswagen of Brazil reported completion of more than a year of tests of a new motor fuel. It's almost identical with today's diesel fuel, but made from soybeans. THE NEWS is good for Brazil, Bra-zil, which has huge soybean crops. The U.S. is also a sizeable size-able grower of soybeans. Volkswagen found its new fuel comparable in quality to diesel. In fact, the two fuels could be interchanged with only a minor adjustment of fuel injection nozzles. It burns cleanly and gives off only a slight odor similar to that of oil sizzling in a frying pan. HOW LONG will it take for soybean fuel to reach markets? It's estimated that the commercial com-mercial product will be available avail-able in less than a decade. Volkswagen researchers think their new refining process pro-cess is simple as well as practical, prac-tical, and that any country with modern facilities can produce soybean fuel. THE IDEA, in fact, of utilizing utiliz-ing vegetable oil for motor fuel is not new. Some nations ex- perimented with this process as early as in World War II. What Volkswagen engineers achieved in Brazil was to refine re-fine the oil to a degree that clogging of engines with sediment sedi-ment and impurities was eliminated. eli-minated. Whether or not this new fuel is utilized in this country depends de-pends on whether the refining process proves practical from an economical standpoint. Whether it is or not today, the process offers the U.S. a future fu-ture source of oil and lessens the nation's dependence on OPEC and Mideast producers. |
