Plastic barrels, fishing gear and nets, and one full barrel of used diesel oil were also among the items collected.
Last month, the MS Nordkapp cruise ship hit rocks near Deception Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula, spilling diesel oil into the bay.
He insisted on replacing income tax with a new 1% financial-transactions tax, and on freezing the price of diesel oil, a useful revenue-earner.
Today the Bergius method lives on in the work being done in South Africa and Qatar to turn natural gas into diesel oil.
"Here we have power steering fluid, some diesel oil and some dirty old crankcase oil, " he says, creating a mess on a paper plate.
At a high temperature and pressure, gasification converts coal, or other carbon fuels, into synthesis gas that is either burned in a turbine to produce electricity, as in Summit's case, or turned into other products, like diesel oil, fertilizer and pipeline-quality natural gas.
It carried out an 18-month investigation into the price of petrol, diesel, heating oil and marine diesel.
Lithuania also has several hydro-electric plants in Kaunas along the Neman River and a diesel-oil fueled electricity plant tied into the northwest region of electrical production for the Soviet Union.
He gets 48 to 50 miles per gallon whether running diesel or cooking oil.
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Quad bikes came second, followed by fuel such as diesel and heating oil.
In fact, German engineer Rudolph Diesel used peanut oil to demonstrate his invention at the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris.
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Today, that sector is almost entirely dependent on products (gasoline and diesel) derived from oil.
It gets 48 miles per gallon and can switch at any time between using veggie oil or diesel for fuel.
The Israeli government said this afternoon that it did not expect any interruption of electricity supplies as the country has gas in storage and can also switch to other fuels like oil and diesel.
In the past several days, Moscow has threatened to cut off Estonia's energy supplies in response to the small country's decision to remove a Soviet-era memorial of a Red Army soldier, saying oil, diesel and natural gas deliveries "may be disrupted" starting May 1.
The proposed act focuses on the central impediment to energy security: Our transportation sector is virtually entirely powered by oil-derived products (gasoline and diesel fuels) and consumes two-thirds of the oil we use in this country.
This increases the demand for gasoline and diesel, creating opportunities for oil refiners.
The OFT said there was very little evidence that petrol and diesel prices rise quickly when oil prices go up, but are slow to fall when prices drop.
It said there was very little evidence that petrol and diesel prices rise quickly when oil prices go up, but are slow to fall when prices drop.
Washington also released 2 million barrels a day of diesel from the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve, bound for New York and New Jersey.
Right now, biodiesel is a growing industry but hasn't made an appreciable dent on the global dependence on heavy crude oil, from which diesel fuel is processed.
Some ideas are simple (a rusty colander becoming a hanging garden planter), while others are downright feats (how to convert an old diesel car to run on vegetable oil).
If it is true that we may expect a decline in the availability of cheap crude oil, and hence diesel and petrol fuels, upon which essentially all world transportation, manufacture and the production and transportation of food, and thus global growth depend, the news on the CO2 emission front must be good.
The very first engine that Rudolf Diesel built in 1893 ran on peanut oil.
The very first diesel engine that Rudolf Diesel built in 1893 ran on peanut oil.
Each reactor is expected to produce 165 thousand barrels of oil per day, including diesel, gasoline and petrochemical feedstock.
The most likely cause of a future increase in world oil prices, and thus diesel fuel prices, is stronger growth of the global economy.
Historically, gasoline has cost more than diesel, which is a byproduct of the oil refining process.
The supply vessel was carrying 45, 000 litres of red diesel and 78, 000 litres of lubricating oil on board.
Most recycled cooking oil today is used to power diesel trucks or mixed with home heating fuel, a simpler conversion process.
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