Rudolf Diesel Quotes
The Diesel engine can be fed with vegetable oils and would help considerably in the development of agriculture of the countries which use it.
Almost a century later dirty vegetable oils from fast food restaurants were used in Diesel truck and tractor engines very effectively and efficiently.
Rudolf Diesel, 1858–1913, German inventor & inventor of the Diesel engine., 1911
Sourced by: Eigen's Political and Historical Quotations
This was an amazingly prescient view of the future.
The notion of a hydrogen transportation economy appeals to most scientists, environmentalists, engineers, and many ordinary citizens. But the vested interests of the oil industry and the American automobile industry were lined up against it and when this statement was made 6 years into the administration of George W. Bush there had been very little done by the Government to facilitate any of the elements Bodman stated were so important. See {585492} for a similar quotation by Bodman, also with no government action.
His assertion that wind energy is less expensive than the fossil fuel alternative is not accurate if one accounts for the costs on the basis of conventional accounting methods. It was at that time more expensive which is why it’s use was limited. However, the existing methods of accounting did not charge the fossil fuels for the environmental degregation that they cause and the cost to society to overcome these or live with them. More important there is no charge to the cost of fossil fuels for the deleterious health effects that their extraction and use cause. Global warming / climate change is not considered at all in the economic analysis.
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was a German inventor and mechanical engineer, famous for the invention of the Diesel engine, and for his suspicious death at sea. Diesel was the namesake of the 1942 film Diesel.
