Reply #77: Petro diesel gels at a much, much lower temperature [View All]

[jeff47]

meaning it works "right out of the pump" for almost everywhere. Additives are only needed in particularly extreme locations, such as Alaska. And the additives for petro diesel won't work for bio diesel. The fuels are different chemicals.

As for block heaters run by batteries, I severely doubt the trucking industry is going to want to reduce their load by several thousand pounds in order to haul sufficient battery power. And trucks are nowhere near large enough to have a working solar array on them. You're proposing something the trucker would have to set up while stopped. And that would not work at night.

As for algae, it still takes land to grow it. You've got to put the tanks somewhere. And if it's a boon crop for farmers, then they'd be switching to it instead of food crops, which would raise food prices.