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Ive seen on the net where people have had algae problems with diesel. I haven't had an issue with my f250 diesel or my other diesel tractors and vehicles in the 25 years I have been using them.

My F250 has 10 year old diesel in it now and runs fine when I crank it up from time to time.

That said I haven't ever run biodiesel or vegi oil in the f250 either.

I haven't cranked the mercedes in awhile and it is the main user of vegi oil of what I have.
I purchased the 2002 Duramax when I bought the hardside truck camper. Truck had 120K miles and the previous owner had just spent $5600 on injectors and pump at a highly respected diesel shop. It was a clean truck, always wintered in FL or TX.

It actually was in the shop having the pump replaced when I responded to the ad. He thought it was fixed, complaint was low power at times. I paid him for it and it was about 3 hours drive back home. About an hour from home, I happened to get my foot into it hard and it fell on it's face. I guess it wasn't fixed. I thought about it on the rest of the drive back and he had told me he never drove the truck in summer, just down to TX and back and used it while in TX. It would get parked in the shed all summer.

I hooked a scanner to it at the shop, put my foot into it hard on the highway and I could see it was starving for fuel. The pickup tube (there isn't a pump in the tank) was plugged solid with what is referred to as diesel algae but is really bacteria. He must have bought biodiesel and with the truck sitting all summer in a warm, dark humid environment, it was the perfect breeding ground for growth.

That was all that was wrong with the truck from the beginning, the diesel shop took him for $5600 when it only needed the tank cleaned and treated along with cleaning the fuel pickup.
 
Modern Gasoline not had much luck over 2 years.

If ethanol containing, you need sta-bil or startron to get 2 years out of it. Even without, it still works after two years, but it's just nasty and will start to gum up fuel system components.

To my shame, I let THREE vehicles sit for extended periods with unstabilized ethanol containing fuel. On TWO of the vehicles, I had to replace the fuel pumps TWICE. On the third vehicle, I needed the pump and the tank. Prior owners had let it sit for extended periods at low fuel levels - lotsa rust in the tank.
 
With the latest prediction of up to 7 inches in my area it has reached a peak of hysteria. Schools have closed ahead of the "storm". Many other places have also closed. The local news is non stop reporting on it all and not a single snow flake has sifted down yet. It is not like getting a snowfall in Winter is novel or unheard of.

The road crews are out pre-treating roads with a brine mixture to make eventual plowing easier and accelerate car replacement through corrosion. Lucky I do not have go out and subject my truck to it. Back when I lived in the Cascades growing up they never used salt and if the snow got to heavy they mandated chains or snow tires. Everyone learned how to get about with it and it was rarely a cause for closures.

The nice thing about snow coming in is the temperature has risen up to near freezing versus being in the teens and 20'sF. If it does snow the insulation value of it will reduce my heating needs in my abode. In a few days through it likely will be melted and gone.
When it snows here, the wind can pick up to 30 mph or even the 50 mph blizzard.

Makes for some nice hard drifts in winter. You learn to live with winter, it is just a part of a year. I spent one winter in Camp Lejeune, NC and from Jan 1st in Saudi Arabia. Really missed the winter.
 
If ethanol containing, you need sta-bil or startron to get 2 years out of it. Even without, it still works after two years, but it's just nasty and will start to gum up fuel system components.

To my shame, I let THREE vehicles sit for extended periods with unstabilized ethanol containing fuel. On TWO of the vehicles, I had to replace the fuel pumps TWICE. On the third vehicle, I needed the pump and the tank. Prior owners had let it sit for extended periods at low fuel levels - lotsa rust in the tank.
Yup. Had an old dump truck like that that only got used occasionally it was an old Ford 460 gas engine. Had to clean entire fuel path out as well as carbs.

We started turning off the fuel at the tank and running it dry but still had places with fuel in it.

Just a PITA.
 
Take a look at the before and After Videos/Pictures of Beijing.
They spent billions on enacting a Pollution reduction law. After 10 Years the difference is Amazing.
It's still crap air quality but at least it's not the thick pea soup crap it was 10 years ago.
To be fair, LA had the same issues. Going outside in 1975 in LA was hazardous to your health. They came up with draconian regs for cars, but cars were already improving. So we dealt with smog pumps and other stupidity to solve the issue, which was resolved later by tech improvements and unleaded fuel. The engineers kept telling the environmental movement, it was coming as they figured out how to improve fuel atomization and mixing, which lead to dramatic improvements in both fuel economy and emissions. Cars don't pollute much any more. The average car today produces less than 1/10th of the pollution of one from the 70's and 80's, without a smog pump.

It would have occurred without the regs, though this likely pushed things forward a bit faster. The problem is now 'dust' is counted as pollution, and the bar get's set to a point that cannot be obtained, so the powers that be get to keep their bureaucracies for things like smog tests for cars. Just stupid.
 
When it snows here, the wind can pick up to 30 mph or even the 50 mph blizzard.

Makes for some nice hard drifts in winter. You learn to live with winter, it is just a part of a year. I spent one winter in Camp Lejeune, NC and from Jan 1st in Saudi Arabia. Really missed the winter.
Back when I lived in Montana I got introduce to hard drifts of snow. Fine snow would blow and pack such that it was hard enough to stand on with out sinking in (until you suddenly did and had a heck of a time freeing your legs). There is a big difference between wet and dry snow falls.
 
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For the average person, there is no way to understand or discuss the climate issues - it is far too complicated with some factors adding and some subtracting, some affecting certain areas more than others.
What is simple to understand for anyone is: humans have dug up, drilled, extracted millions of tons of hydro-carbons that were not part of the atmopheric carbon cycles for hundreds of millions of years, but during a period of only 200 years - we released all this sequestered material back into the active atmospheric carbon cycle, changing the CO2 levels from 280ppm to 420ppm in the blink of an eye. This is a fact , is undisputed and is undeniable.
To pretend changes to the chemisty of the atmosphere should have "no impact at all' is naive.

The problem is assuming the impact is going to have a deleterious effect, and that the entire difference is due to fossil fuels. CO2 is generally healthy for plants, and the earth has gotten greener, likely in part because of this. I would be more afraid if we had released something in the air that dropped it from 280 to 140. That would be catastrophic and food production would be impacted. Something to keep an eye on, looking for actual impact, not blaming volcano eruptions on CO2. It gets a little silly. Build multi-billions of dollars worth of housing on the coast, then claim that hurricanes are much worse because of CO2 because they've never done a billion dollars worth of damage in the past. While it is true the damage is much greater in terms of tearing up buildings, the same storm 50 years ago would never have had the opportunity to destroy buildings that did not exist. It's propaganda and fallacy.
 
To be fair, LA had the same issues. Going outside in 1975 in LA was hazardous to your health. They came up with draconian regs for cars, but cars were already improving. So we dealt with smog pumps and other stupidity to solve the issue, which was resolved later by tech improvements and unleaded fuel. The engineers kept telling the environmental movement, it was coming as they figured out how to improve fuel atomization and mixing, which lead to dramatic improvements in both fuel economy and emissions. Cars don't pollute much any more. The average car today produces less than 1/10th of the pollution of one from the 70's and 80's, without a smog pump.

It would have occurred without the regs, though this likely pushed things forward a bit faster. The problem is now 'dust' is counted as pollution, and the bar get's set to a point that cannot be obtained, so the powers that be get to keep their bureaucracies for things like smog tests for cars. Just stupid.
I’d wager no on road diesel would have a DPF or urea system out of the kindness of the manufactures hearts. It was the regulations that forced current emissions equipment.

The emissions reg system did force better diesel systems, 20k psi common rail fuel injectors alone clean up half of the emissions, the after treatment takes care of the rest.
 
I'm not denying that. I am questioning whether that parts per million can really have the impact claimed. Or if rather, you know, a multitude of other factors are the bigger players and the CO2 ppm is only a tiny fraction of the story.

Given historical data of global temps vs CO2 levels and how they don't correlate with each other all that well for the most part, and the fact the earth had been on average warmer in the past than it is now, makes me highly suspect that our CO2 output has about squat all effect on global temps. But plants love them some extra CO2 so there is the green for ya 😁
One of the problems with global temps is heat islands. The phoenix airport temp is used as one of the numbers for figuring this global delta. In 1960, it was a tiny facility in the middle of the desert, with 1/2 dozen flights day, a couple of small buildings swamp coolers and an AC or two. Now it's huge facility roofs filled with HVAC units, surrounded by concrete, asphalt, and thousands upon thousands of other structures for miles. Everything else being equal, would it really be that surprising to find that the average temps are up a few degrees?

It seems to me that back in the 80's the powers that be were looking for some major environmental bandwagon to climb on. Global cooling when I was a kid, then when it didn't get colder, they jumped on global warming. I will just say this. The earth's climate changes. Always has, always will for a much longer time than our grandchildren will live. I think we'll al be just fine without crippling industry and the economy.
 
Hubis is thinking you know more than folks who study this every day. Ignoring the science doesn't change the facts.

No, most of life doesn't carry on ... 98% of all species that ever existed are extinct, whether you want to believe it or not. And some day we will be extinct too. I say burn it all down. I don't care ... I got mine.
That's true. After all "climate" scientists have no agenda, and don't get continuous funding based on their findings. In the 50's studies were funded that showed smoking tobacco is good for you.

Niels Bohr set physics back a bit because "science" decided electrons "orbit" the nucleus of an atom. See also the "Atomic" symbols with a ball in the middle and orbiting electrons... Oopsie!

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As a scientist myself, I do have to object to this - you can't tar everyone with the same brush.
It doesn't take "everyone" to create a problem, and someone is paying for you, and everyone does have bias. There are different kinds of sciences as well. The scientific method we all learned in high school, hypothesis, experiment, analysis, conclusion. The problem is the experiment must have solid underpinnings, and be repeatable. The analysis must not have any inherent bias. Small problems and experiments of very narrow scope are much easier to analyze to a logical conclusion. Extrapolating very narrowly scoped experiments to fit huge models is not very scientific to draw big conclusions.
 
imagine the fuel to run a typical generator 8 hours - loads cycle on and off.
Compare with charging the battery bank a few hours with the same generator and let the battery/inverter quietly run everything for 24 hours, repeat and that same volume of fuel lasts a very long time.
I'm glad you mentioned this. There was another thread about buying an oversized genny that would run everything. Generators generally have an optimal point where they are the most efficient. To your point i think it makes more sense just to find that spot and charge your batteries to some threshold, then cycle off. On balance I think that will likely cost the least eliminating waste output.
 
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I'm actually Belgian, but I moved to Finland over 20 years ago. If you do that, we might just go for a beer.
That explains a lot.
Most fins, even our domesticated Canadian variant do not make small talk lol

My local public library has Fin section, my wife learned fin growing up in the Fin part of town here.
There was a woman on my street who could not even speak English after living here thirty years...
Very quite people, and good neighbours.
 
Prove to me that the complexities of life happened by sheer accidental randomness, all at the right time, with all their interdependencies.

Never seen a good explanation for that one.
it is not "accidental randomness" and each positive trait which are often tiny changes to an existing one, is reinforced by adding to survival of the individuals with that trait.
don't think of 'suddenley a big tooth appears' - consider millions of small incrimental changes, some beneficial, and some not, the beneficial ones carry into the next generation - reinforced, - while the negative ones are less likely to carry forward. It makes perfect sense. And continues today. The famous case of grey moths in London during the early industrial revolution, which deposited black coal soot on local trees, making them dark and the moths stood out being grey. Those moths adapted to become the colour of the soot. All on their own. Adaptations are underway at all times in all environments.
 
I purchased the 2002 Duramax when I bought the hardside truck camper. Truck had 120K miles and the previous owner had just spent $5600 on injectors and pump at a highly respected diesel shop. It was a clean truck, always wintered in FL or TX.

It actually was in the shop having the pump replaced when I responded to the ad. He thought it was fixed, complaint was low power at times. I paid him for it and it was about 3 hours drive back home. About an hour from home, I happened to get my foot into it hard and it fell on it's face. I guess it wasn't fixed. I thought about it on the rest of the drive back and he had told me he never drove the truck in summer, just down to TX and back and used it while in TX. It would get parked in the shed all summer.

I hooked a scanner to it at the shop, put my foot into it hard on the highway and I could see it was starving for fuel. The pickup tube (there isn't a pump in the tank) was plugged solid with what is referred to as diesel algae but is really bacteria. He must have bought biodiesel and with the truck sitting all summer in a warm, dark humid environment, it was the perfect breeding ground for growth.

That was all that was wrong with the truck from the beginning, the diesel shop took him for $5600 when it only needed the tank cleaned and treated along with cleaning the fuel pickup.

Can the pump get damaged when it's starved for fuel?

Those pumps had a 200k mile warranty due to factory issues.

Good find on your part though. The only thing I have found that tackles that diesel algae/bacteria goop is acetone.
 
I’d wager no on road diesel would have a DPF or urea system out of the kindness of the manufactures hearts. It was the regulations that forced current emissions equipment.

The emissions reg system did force better diesel systems, 20k psi common rail fuel injectors alone clean up half of the emissions, the after treatment takes care of the rest.

Believe it or not, a diesel that smokes less actually more NOx. Today's diesel engines are fighting to control two pollutants that require combustion conditions that are the exact opposite of each other.

NOx is the result of high combustion temperature.

High combustion temps are good for combustion and thermal efficiency.

To keep it short, the EPA finally allowed the use of SCR which requires the use of DEF. This way engine manufacturers can meet to Nox spec and still have an efficient running engine. I.E. they are able to treat the pollutant after it forms rather than trying to keep it from forming in the first place.
 

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