The tragic story of the man who invented diesel - and why he would turn in his grave | BBC Ideas 

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What van? I've got a merc vito and want to try it but I don't know if an old transit would be better.

It will work fine if you do a 70%veg oil 30%disel mix I did it for years in a passat the old smile will run on old engine oil any oil you can get your hands on those things are tanks

in the fight for greed they killed him

and that why the world is fcked! For the greed of a few men

and epstein didn't kill himself lol.

Well you weren't there Patrick and neither was I but the theory just might be plausible. The story goes that he was on his way to England to negotiate a deal whereby his engines would be used on British Royal Navy submarines, which of course Germany wasn't to happy about as the two navies were bitter rivals.

@@arahant69 Epstein was swapped out. That body was not his.

The modern turbodiesel needs to be in more cars, they're excellent, efficient pieces of machinery, and a single manufacturer taking cost cutting measures shouldn't destroy an entire engine type's reputation.

@@marcopolo8584 Well said. I do believe however that it shouldn't be all that difficult to get vegetable oil to run modern diesel car engines. Even without a turbocharger diesel engines are still more efficient than gasoline.

Saw that but figured it was the fuel being injected in right before TDC and igniting @ TDC.

I noticed that too

Japanese are way ahead than the whole western hemisphere as a whole

If you dig about the all story, you find the real version of that motor, was a Citroen invention, and Diesel had big issues to get the patent, is all in the History, not on Ekipédia,,LOL

When you realize that diesel engine was found by Jan Nadrowskiego from Poland, And Rudolf diesel only patended engine.

Inspired by the fire piston his buddy got in Malaysia to light a cigar lol

@@jonasperes7998bruh Polish guy made it and diesel stolen it from him

nice larp bro

'Franco- German'

Your kidding, Rudolf Diesel isn't a French name?

Murder 100%. Same shitstain family/foundation who via the club of Rome, dreamed up the IPCC who now get to dictate the terms on the NEXT $our$e of energy and that WE are to blame for the current situation. (They also monopolised pharma. It’s petrochemical muck.)

Yeah sure thing

His death was no mystery. His innovations threatened the status-quo, and thus he needed to be removed

@@SpartanJ113 every invention by definition does imo

If only his newspapers were more widely read, what a different world it would be.

Peanuts aren't free, and we would not be in a much better position. Think of how much land it would take to grow enough Peanut 🛢 oil. I'll add that Henry Ford was forward thinking and I believe he used some plant based composite like a plastic. I forget if it was Soy based, or Peanut based. But basically there are drawbacks to everything, and we should look at efficiency overall, not elimination

True. It would have changed history, but not necessarily for the better.@@richtomlinson7090

How would history change? They'd both have been killed instead of just R. Diesel.

Patents or parents

If that’s the case, he backed the wrong horse. JD Rockefeller’s oil monopoly was the reason he invented it.

@@knutz7 110% INCORRECT!!! Mr. Diesel was very adamant that his engines were to NEVER run on petroleum! There was no reason to use petroleum then or now. All fuels can be made from plant materials. The Diesel engine ran primarily on peanut oil! Learn a little history before posting nonsense! It is scumbags like JD Rockefeller and the other oil barons that killed Planet Earth.

@@robertmitton3584 learn history.? rockefeller had a monopoly on oil so diesel perfected the engine to run on biofuel, he "fell" over the side of a ferry and Rockefeller magically discovered distillate and called it dieseline in order to get on top of that monopoly as well. when he was fined for the oil monoploly amongst others, he was ordered to break them up, as a measure of "philanthropy" and as a way to get his reputation back plus sell his petrochemical pharma drugs, he hijacked the medical laboratories in universities at the expense of thousands of years of combined natural cures. he also created the american cancer society so as to control that narrative as well, now i read all about that topic over three decades ago. he was also a founding member of the club or rome, who's brainchild is the IPCC and "global warming/climate change". rockefeller foundation also wrote the script for sarscov2/pandemic scenario, titled "lockstep" back ijn 2012. anything else you feel that i need to "educate" myself on Sir.?

@@knutz7 there isn't anything stopping you from running a diesel on bio fuel, except for the land needed to grow enough plant based oils. Deforestation would skyrocket, and people would complain about Big Peanut.

How do you "exactly" how he died? Are you an eyewitness? What's your source?

He drowned cause he thought jump out of the ship wouldn't kill him and he can't know how to swim.

@@watchdothink6657 least obvious Fed

@@watchdothink6657 he was killed by banking mafias

Tell me, Tell me. Inquiring minds want to know.

The Truth is that we would be complaining about BIG PEANUT, and the control they have.

Более того на угольной пыли Дизель потерпел фиаско, это были основные надежды Ефрейтора Художника который перекрашивал карту ...

Maybe you should take your own advice and research the topic. First, he wanted it called the Akroyd engine. Second, the principles on which engines operate are different. Stuarts engine used a secondary chamber to combust the vaporized mixture of oil and air. Diesels engine operates purely by compression.

It still isn't free, and never would be. We would simply be complaining about BIG PEANUT!!!!

Still can, buy an older Perkins.

Everyone would be complaining about Big Potatoe.

by burning it duh

He's German 😏 just born in Paris

That many generations would've gone back to the 1700s, and not the late 1800s

@@richtomlinson7090 lmao idk how many greats exactly idc what anyone thinks iv seen it with my eyes my grandpa showed me.

Yea and McAfee

apsih ntot

"suicide"

Failure ? Are you serious? It was the best engine going at the time, sold who knows how many of them to make him a millionaire. Standards oil monopoly’s JD Rockefeller had a LOT to lose & co-incidentally invented “diesoline”.? Murder.