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people have been using alcohol for energy for more than 100 years. “Alcohol makes a beautiful, clean and efficient fuel. Alcohol can be manufactured from corn stalks, and in fact from almost any vegetable matter capable of fermentation…We need never fear the exhaustion of our present fuel supplies so long as we can produce an annual cop of alcohol to any extent desired.” - Alexander Graham Bell. they used to use a mixture of camphene and alcohol to power lamps.
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Samuel Morey, the man who patented the internal combustion engine, used a mixture of turpintine and alcohol to power a small boat. he sailed the boat up the connecticut river.
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Nikolaus August Otto, the man credited with inventing the first automobile engine, used bio-fuel to power four stroke combustion engine for cars. he used it because it was plentiful and cheap.
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Rudolph Diesel demonstrated his first engine in 1900. he used pure peanut oil.
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in 1908 when the model t first came out all of them ran on pure biofuel. mostly ethanol.
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after the war gas became so unbelievably cheap that most cars started using gas instead of biofuels. biofuel virtually diapears until it comes back in 1970
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after the oil embargoes in 1970 biofuel became a lot more popular and more and more research was put into the concept of biofuel.
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today we are developing new ways to use biofuel. many scientists today use different types of algae for bifuels.
