International Biodiesel Day
June 9th, 2008 SammyAccording to Wikepedia, August 10th has been declared “International Biodiesel Day”.
Transesterification of a vegetable oil was conducted as early as 1853 by scientists E. Duffy and J. Patrick, many years before the first diesel engine became functional. Rudolf Diesel’s prime model, a single 10 ft (3 m) iron cylinder with a flywheel at its base, ran on its own power for the first time in Augsburg, Germany, on August 10, 1893.
I guess if we’re going to make special days for just about everything, heck, why not biodiesel?








