Happy National Biodiesel Day

Well today is Rudolph Christian Karl Diesel's Birthday and is also National Biodiesel Day. worth noting since I still run into people who have no idea who invented the "Diesel" engine.

Otherwise interesting and noteworthy

"Clessie Cummins" Father of the American truck diesel, 33 U.S. Patents.

"Magokichi Yamaoka", a student of Rudolf Diesel and invented the first practical small diesel engine 5hp. "Yanmar Diesel"

In 1912 Rudolph Diesel said,

‘the use of vegetable oil 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’