The industrial gas community can benefit the biofuels sector of the future, just as it is fundamental to our energy landscape of today. Rob Cockerill explains…
The use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today. But such oils may become, in the course of time, as important as petroleum and the coal tar products of the present time.”
Those are reportedly the words of Rudolph Diesel back in 1912, regarded as the ‘father’ of the diesel engine and clearly a visionary ahead of his time.
Another vehicle visionary, Henry Ford, was quoted in 1934 as saying, “I am convinced that we shall be able to get out of the yearly crops most of the basic materials which we now get from forest and mine. We shall grow annually many, if not most, of the substances needed in manufacturing.”
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