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« BackNews: The Strangest Alternative Fuels That Powered Cars

The Strangest Alternative Fuels That Powered Cars

Petrol, diesel and liquid petroleum gas have been for the longest time the primary way that most transportation has been undertaken, and many infrastructural elements such as tanks with pressure relief valves and long oil pipelines have been designed with these fossil fuel needs in mind.

However, concerns about climate change and the potential for fossil fuels to run out have led to quite a few attempts to find alternative fuels that can help meet the world’s needs alongside biofuels, electric power and hydrogen fuel cells.

Some have been largely marketing gimmicks, others have been exceptionally controversial but ultimately all of these alternative fuels have worked on some level.

Coffee

For a lot of commuters, coffee is their main morning fuel to get through the day, but one enterprising engineer also made it the fuel for their car as well.

Martin Bacon set a Guinness World Record in his “Bean Machine” Ford P100 pick-up truck fitted with a gasifier that somehow managed to reach 65 mph.

Basically how it works is that coffee waste is burned on a charcoal fire, producing hydrogen and carbon monoxide, the former of which is then burned using the engine.

It works as an alternative fuel but would require significant refinement to be less polluting than conventional petrol engines.

Deceased Felines

A controversial alternative fuel source for several reasons, inventor Christian Koch claimed that he had a patent for a system that could turn waste into high-quality fuel, but whilst the inventor was making the press rounds, it was claimed that it used 20 dead cats to fill up a fuel tank.

This led to complaints from animal rights groups but can be explained through a somewhat leading question from the infamous German tabloid Bild, which asked him whether dead cats could, in theory, be used to produce fuel using this method.

Mr Koch said it could, but after that became the story he categorically denied that it was used for this purpose.