Why the Inventor of the Diesel Engine Mysteriously Disappeared

[@Learn_Something_New]

What do you think really happened to Rudolf Diesel? Competitors conspiring against an innovator that might have threatened their bottom line, governments worrying about the efficiency gains enemy powers might obtain on the eve of war, or a sad spiral of uncontrollable debts, poor investments, and tough business environments? Let me know!

[@dean828]

Diesel ⛽ was taken out by the NWO SHADOW POWER...

[@action4free369]

No its like you, the braindeads. people are the reson. It run with water. Now look how the people fight vs this. They cant understand. Never ever😂😂 good look to all

[@heerosanosyuy1173]

K*lled obvs

[@chevy6794]

8 seconds in and the America. Recognized it right away. It’s an interesting wreck.

[@garygerard4290]

at some soon coming point we will all be very surprised at how far off the truth is to what we've been told. here it comes

[@J_Beazy223]

In the mid 1850s seed oils were industrial waste production. Now its in most everything you eat.

[@slouchyjoe]

Thats wright folks, you have been conned into eating an industrial lubricant, now that is the real reason you have clogged up arteries and all sorts of other new and uncurable ailments physical and mental. But shh, secret!

[@ango586]

You can burn or grease with ghee or lard too

[@IIHydraII]

Make people fat/develop cancer > sell them the cure. Everything in the modern world has malicious intent behind it, with money always being the bottom line.

[@kirstinalphabet796]

Turns out seed oils MAY be the reason why so many young people are getting colon rectal cancer. Good old Dr Berg almost mentioned that just yesterday

[@iraqiimmigrant2908]

They are chemically unstable relative to saturated fats (coconut, butter, tallow) due to one or numerous double carbon to carbon bonds (see alkane vs alkynes as examples). Humans cells that use them for energy produce 21x AGEs (toxic byproducts) as glucose. They oxidize within tissue due to our warm body temperatures which polymerizes them on inter- and intracellular phospholipid membranes. This can cause nutrient transport issues and metabolic problems at the mitochondrial level due to the sensitivity of the physical mechanisms of the electron transport chain to chemical damage. It makes sense why they have an observed anti-thyroid and inflammatory action overall.

[@michaelmccotter4293]

Dont underestimate the ruthlessness of the Rockefeller family.

[@WickeD72]

Or the ruthlessness of a businessman that bought one of his engines and was refused a refund.

[@bromisovalum8417]

Fun fact: the archfather of the Rockefeller family, before they became rich and powerful, was a man named William Rockefeller, known to his contemporaries as "Devil Bill" as he openly was a devil worshipper. You can even read this on mainstream sources like Wikipedia.

[@bromisovalum8417]

Also a very strange coincidence that the financial magnates who staunchly opposed the creation of a federal reserve bank all were passengers of the Titanic. Also, in that area where the ship they boasted not even God could sink, since 1912 never again was an iceberg spotted in that area up until today. It is way too much south for drifting ice to be a common occurence if you look at the path they took. Then there this book called Titan, written decades before 1912, that described the construction of a mega-cruiser that people would boast is indestructible, but would sink by crashing into an iceberg. The name of the ship in that book was Titan.

[@Odin33356]

Imagine having rights when Jesus, Nikola Tesla, the inventor of nylon and the diesel engine did not.

[@Dennis-d1p]

​@@bromisovalum8417Astor blocked the federal reserve in congress. He was on the titanic, died: the bill passed immediately after his influence was gone. The ships captian was a radicalized catholic. Read a book that documented the pope ordered the captian to wreck the ship to kill Astor so they could get federal reserve passed in congress. So is the vatican secretly running the world's banks?

[@freemarketjoe9869]

Truly fascinating era. The ability to manufacture wheels 50 feet high back then staggers the imagination. We greatly underestimate the amazing brilliance of people from this time period, in my opinion. Genius.

[@turbopokey]

It's physically impossible for them to manufacture wheels and gears of that size back then... ...must be aliens. 👽😋😋😂 iz joke, yu laff iz funny!

[@TheDiner50]

@@SR-gs8zo Might be a joke. But the 50 feet high wheels referred to? It was not the wheels on a wagon or whatever. Rather the fly-wheels on the engines. Abandoned Steam Engine Brought Back to Life! - 1908 Industrial Time Capsule. Here on KZbin. 15 feet high wheel. Without unbalance weights or anything. Witch would make the machine vibrate itself to pieces? Today we have Ocean gate titan. Leon Musk, rediscovering rocket launching forces to the launch-pad. And self-driving cars in tunnels. Sure, there are still giant cargo-ships with massive diesel engines built. Yet to compare 2000s to 2100s? And not find it incredible how anything of this scales where built? Insane. And even more insane, that things build back then where made to last. Not like today, where reusable rockets, are not even reusable.

[@MakerBoyOldBoy]

Genius has always been a human gift. Consider all of the many thousands of years highly skilled carving and engineering of stone artifacts we can't reproduce today.

[@atrumluminarium]

Hs never intended the diesel engine to run anything on anything other than mineral oil. The peanut oil myth came about because when demonstrating the engine at a Paris expo someone asked him whether it would run on peanut oil and he basically replied with "idk let's try it" and ended up running it on peanut oil for the entire expo. Rockefeller had no reason to get rid of Diesel. The diesel fuel is basically the waste of crude oil refinement after LPG, petrol and kerosene are distilled out of it. With diesel engines, Rockefeller could actually sell people the waste that he was throwing away before.

[@Learn_Something_New]

I completely agree with your point that Rockefeller didn't really see Diesel as a threat. The Diesel engine in its inception and design was absolutely intended to use mineral oil, but while I agree with your point about him running the engine on peanut oil at the Paris Exposition, I found that afterward he did regularly entertain the idea that there could be alternative fuel mainstays for the engine. His initial ideas are said to lay the framework for future biodiesel innovations. It was more of a happy accident that diesel didn't intend for, and ultimately never took action on, but it does seem that he considered it a real possibility. Now, I don't think Rockefeller ever would have seen this as a threat as, at the time, he was already well established, and, if anything, the diesel engine helped his business. In the video, I only make the Rockefeller point because it's something newspapers of the time jumped on immediately following his disappearance.

[@twinscrollturbo-k5g]

Peanut oil I thought?

[@atrumluminarium]

@@twinscrollturbo-k5g you're right thanks for the correction :) Idk why I wrote veg in the first mention, fixed it now

[@jfu5222]

​@@atrumluminariumSince peanuts are a legume the oil they produce could be referred to as vegetable oil. Technically, you were right either way. Thank you for your insightful comments.

[@atrumluminarium]

@@Learn_Something_New I see, thank you for clarifying 😁

[@conmanumber1]

Don't forget to look at Frank Perkins of Peterborough U.K who founded the Perkins Engine company who took it one step ahead who invented the worlds first High speed diesel engine that we have today.

[@c.c.hiliner1065]

Or Clessie Cummins in the USA

[@bernhardzunk7402]

-The development of the High Speed Diesel is normally attributed to Robert Bosch who developed and introduced a production diesel injection pump starting in 1927. Up until then diesel engines used extremely high pressure compressed air. This method made the engine multifuel but also restricted its running speed. Bosch's pump made the high speed diesel possible and allowed it to be used in smaller engines such as that for cars, trucks and eventually aircraft. -I do not believe Perkins had precedence, but I have no doubt he developed the idea independently. -The English developer Herbert Akroyd Stuart developed the "Hot Bulb Engine" about 6 years before Diesels engine. It ran on 5:1 (ie 1/4 the compression ratio of a diesel) so it obtained ignition from spraying the fuel onto a preheated hot bulb in a prechamber. As a result it was popular and cheaper since it did not need a high pressure air compressor though it was only about 55% as efficient. Akroyd began developing his engine by increasing the compression ratio and was experimenting with ratios of 10:1 and even 15:1 so these were on the way to becoming mechanical injection diesels by another route.

[@kazparzyxzpenualt8111]

​@@bernhardzunk7402thanks

[@FishplateFilms]

The man was a legend IMO...I have been running Bio-Diesel for 25 years and think of Rudolf every time I make a batch. I still think he was murdered , but I guess we'll never know. Thanks for the video. Gregg.

[@JohnDoe-qz1ql]

Do you Really need solid proof?? Such accidents are paralleled even today. CEOs and billionaires dying in "freak accidents".

[@russellking9762]

I've been looking into going down that path. Can you tell me what you are making it from?

[@FishplateFilms]

@@russellking9762 I use waste vegetable oil . Usually canola or cotton seed. Gregg

[@jacobymast6652]

That would also be my guess

[@tadhgwright4345]

Very cool, man. For my 2 cents, I think he was either pushed or somehow fell overboard. I find it hard to believe that he'd just up and kill himself while on the way to a business meeting that could've turned his fortunes completely around. Does anyone else think it sus that hie son had the body just tossed back in? -Seems a good way to stop an autopsy....

[@Learn_Something_New]

Definitely some oddities around this one. You make some great points though. I saw one theory that said a body was never actually recovered. Whoever potentially killed him would have had access to the possessions he had with him, and they could have staged the whole "found his body, took the stuff, then returned it to the ocean" thing.

[@muckle8]

Yep my guess is that he went incognito , probably racked up a load of debts experimenting/ living well etc and wanted to Walk away or maybe had some threats from gangsters trying to steal his life’s work etc?

[@donHooligan]

the guy who invented the 100 MPG carburetor "offed himself" after succeeding, too...

[@M33f3r]

A friend of mine actually has one of those or so he says.

[@JohnDoe-qz1ql]

@@muckle8 Except His debts were Much less than his earnings. $500K to $90 million is a drop in the bucket.

[@glennjames7107]

What makes you believe we have seen the final form of Diesel engines? Diesel technology has been steadily evolving, it still is today. We have yet to see the final form of Diesel's invention. It's light years more efficient today than anyone would have thought possible in Diesel's lifetime!

[@sidheshwarthakre1854]

​@@SR-gs8zo Just some rich people making profit ( 💸 ) out of this fossil fuels i.e. Capitalist People .

[@kazparzyxzpenualt8111]

​@@SR-gs8zoI can only think to add that some kind of design efficiency has improved longevity with minimal maintenance. Improvements somewhere along the line have exceeded my expectations.

[@Blitzmagee]

Vin Diesel has such a fascinating family legacy.

[@Schoolship.]

6:15 the most incredible part of the entire story, is the little note showing the horrors of fiat inflation

[@vinishshetty8055]

The best way to keep your invention secret is to not patent it.

[@chrisc9611]

Or build it

[@kazparzyxzpenualt8111]

Good inventions good intentions sadly a long difficult process. Best to sell it and move on at the first bite. One councilor advised. Make something even better with the proceeds. Keep it a secret as long as possible and plan a saturation campaign of product in parallel with the patent process to produce the original in sufficient quantity to out pace any copycats. Going the patent route has serious benefits you just have to have a war chest to stay ahead of the day to day unoriginal.

[@dirtfarmer7070]

His original intent was for it to run on coal dust, a dangerous industrial byproduct. He could never perfect the fuel delivery system for this. However, it ran good on seed oils.

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

I haven't looked recently, but there used to be a shop near here that would convert diesel cars to run completely on vegetable oil.

[@VictorianTimeTraveler]

I know making videos like this is a lot of hard work, thank you.

[@MegaDavyk]

Rudolf Diesel was designing an oil lubrication system for a steam engine and found when he shut the steam off the engine kept running on the lubrication oil. That how the Diesel engine was invented. Odd you didn't know that.

[@kazparzyxzpenualt8111]

Thanks!

[@cheekybastard99]

That's a popular and enduring myth.

[@glenndarragh4417]

I could well be wrong however I seem to recall that the engine explosion that nearly killed Mr Diesel occurred when he was experimenting with pulverized coal as a potential fuel.

[@joerivas9847]

I believe you are right, plus he was running too high of compression ratios too, that lead to reliability issues.

[@hodgheg]

The problem he had with smaller versions of his engine was the injector pump which needed to be powerful enough to force the fuel into the cylinder when it was already compressed to around 30 bar. Only a huge pump could do this until (I think) Robert Bosch invented a small reliable pump, lubricated by the fuel about to be burnt, which made his name and fortune.

[@bigsmiler5101]

EVERYONE forgets one of Diesel's brilliant ideas that was a bit ahead of its time. USING CARBON DUST as the fuel. It CAN be done with the right kind of Injection technique. Even Wheat Flour could run a Diesel.

[@mikevolante7663]

Correct

[@Alchemy2.0]

Conspiracy is an understatement....When you threaten trade deals worth billions you are expendable

[@old-gamer-01]

RUDOLPH DIESEL == THANK YOU FOR YOUR INVENTION! I LOVE DIESEL! ❤❤❤

[@youssefhakim1055]

Thank you for the well-done video and nice pictures.

[@NunyaBizness-z8f]

I ran my 1998 C230 SEL on used french fry (canola) oil for 2 years to no harmful effect. Had to filter it and it started slowly in the winter, I hear using a centrifuge works even better if you have the time and juice to spin it down.

[@mohabatkhanmalak1161]

It is odd, he was born in Bavaria, studied in Germany and did most of his business with France and Britain, who were at odds with the fatherland. And further to that, with the financial difficulties he was going through, why not simply license his patents out to companies in Germany who needed the power to run factories, ships etc. The Ruhr was a big industrial region that needed such a powerplant. And indeed in the period 1890 to 1914, several German companies were already manufacturing diesel engines for use in trucks and buses to tractors, mining and marine. But by then the patents would have expired and it was free to all. And the German manufacturers excelled in the type and quality of their engines. ☘

[@ddoherty5956]

Not odd at all, the British and French were very wealthy economies.

[@BasementEngineer]

Istr that Diesel was born in Paris France of German parents.

[@mikevolante7663]

Not all great engineers and scientists are great business men.

[@BasementEngineer]

@@mikevolante7663 That's a fact; but Diesel made out OK.

[@gregoryballestero4369]

Gotta love how a less refined fuel suddenly became much more expensive than gasoline, I remember noticing this as a kid and I was born in 85' so it's not even that long ago

[@mattpipes5106]

As an aside and as someone who has run their diesel on vegetable oil based fuels for many years… there are great benefits to using them in diesel engines, they are both a solvent and a lubricant for example… it’s too bad that Diesel was not able to see this adoption in his lifetime and that it is still relatively uncommon.

[@darkfoxbill9657]

98% chance it was Rockefeller.

[@mizan-mq3me]

Maybe not , Rockefeller got a lot of money from selling diesel fuel , which considered as waste at the time Even cheaper than vegetables oil

[@EssenceofPureFlavor]

On what basis?

[@MarkBerg-tk8js]

They loaned the Merit bros half what they needed!😢

[@MrQuick999]

We can already use veg oil for engines.. You can go on youtube right now and watch engines running on it. Veg oil + Lye(From hardwood ash) mix, mix slowly to prevent pressure from rising too fast in container, set it in the Sun or warm until sludge goes to bottom, and drain until just Diesel. The oil we are pumping from the ground, we can make the same fuels with it as we can with Algae. Because ITS CAVE ALGAE that got naturally processed. There are Algae that require no light to grow and much Algae gets washed into caves that eventually goes down for natural processing. Use the KEYS and it VOIDS the lies. - Deist

[@MrQuick999]

*Points at frequency filters on ultrasound we already blast through you when scanning with medical devices and points at Microsoft resonance database* Add frequencies for germs hurting people. No? Why? Because what is intelligence to majority of ALL OF YOU but a game to say something isn't possible because your TINY MINDS say so together as what BRED THE FASTEST.

[@KrupyFren]

This is what already biodiesel refineries already do. They convert the fats (glycerides of fatty acids) into methyl esters of fatty acids. You know that you can convey in text sound and reasonable ideas and concepts without sounding like a quack.

[@MrQuick999]

​@@KrupyFren Quack? Don't ask why both sides elites are meeting Pope. The sound you heard was you reading. We're about to wash all your fams from Earth btw.. That's why elites both sides meet Pope and people think they can vote to save their worthless DNA. Call me Quack.. Your fams don't exist, its FATE.

[@MrQuick999]

@@KrupyFren The sound you heard was you reading. Have you read the Bible yet? There is a verse in it that my family members who serve the Pope are using to dump others on your fams specifically to make you easier to REMOVE FROM HUMANITY. You aren't calling them Quacks and they own the oil industry. HMM..

[@MrQuick999]

​@@KrupyFren The sound you heard was you reading. Have you read the Bible yet? Oh yeah most of you THINGS don't know anything that's why Pope ordered us to put you all where you belong. *Points at your young and points at the Africans being dumped in* Quack? No pity..

[@helmutsandner6964]

Thanks for your very interesting and informative video presentation.

[@CAROLDDISCOVER-2025]

Very interesting

[@winstonelston5743]

Packard Motor Car company built Diesel engines intended for use in aircraft. I have read that some did fly, but ultimately proved less feasible than gasoline.

[@jeffrey1312]

Diesel aircraft engines are a thing. Until recently the pilot of a gasoline engine airplane had to continuously adjust the air/fuel ratio as his altitude changed to avoid running lean and over heating the cylinders. Diesel engines don't need that adjustment so they were easier to fly. Around 1990 I worked on a diesel aircraft project for a short while.

[@EliteRock]

There are quite a few diesel aero engines now, they burn jet fuel (kerosene/paraffin) rather than oil. Apparently very efficient and reliable, considerably more so than spark-ignition petrol engines. Check out the Diamond DA42 for example.

[@mikeportjogger1]

I recently had a flight in a light aircraft fitted with a diesel engine adapted from the one in a Mercedes A Class. Seemed to do the job very well.

[@ekbergiw]

5:09 possibly the first ever footage of a younger sibling letting the intrusive thoughts win

[@benjaminjones5029]

Your gold dust has been gathered good sir 😂

[@deadtreebark]

Sad story, he tried, thats all we can do😢

[@HighSpeedNoDrag]

All we can do? One must wonder astray from the beaten path and strive. So don't "be safe" you may Die. Be aggressive and Stay Alive.

[@brianbice1427]

he developed the engine to run on vegetable oils to help the market in the country, what is interesting is after his death his patent ended up in the hands of oil magnates who modified tohe engine to run on a oil by product that became deisel oil. like a long list of others who died when they had patents that would upset the oil industry.

[@mizan-mq3me]

It's better to use oil byproduct because it's cheap and nobody used it(as far i remember)and it will be bad if it's just dumped ,so it's a good way to use diesel and better run by diesel fuel not vegetables oils for cost effective in the future

[@alphafox400]

Perhaps you have not heard the rumors that the New York Attorney General is planning to indict the former president for throwing diesel overboard.

[@HeathenDance]

He wasn't alive then.

[@alphafox400]

@@HeathenDance Doesn’t matter, in New York he is to blame for everything past, present and future.

[@markrindt8730]

6:09.. I just love it when talking about old tech, being re-discovered, you show an old world building.. fascinating.

[@stevenross6088]

Back in the Midwest the farmers run their diesel equipment on heating oil. Sells for a fraction of the diesel price. They put a dye in it to try to go after people doing it.

[@mikevolante7663]

You are referring to Gas Oil and Road diesel. In the UK there is an underground industry to strip the tax markers out. For those worried about the exchequer losing a few quid in taxes, get real. Banksters, large companies, the City, and wealthy dudes, avoid infinity more taxes, by fair or foul.

[@NotGrimman]

​@@SR-gs8zoand income tax was supposed to make up for losses during war but here it still is

[@NionXenion-gh7rf]

He worked at Deutz factory by Cologne there first gas engine was invented, by Otto...

[@aniksamiurrahman6365]

Why ud one take his own life just before the deal that can bail him outta every financial woes?

[@Weazyl003]

youre framing the question wrong, WHO would do that? nobody, double or nothing he was murdered cos he was about to cause a total overhaul in the engine tech industry

[@aniksamiurrahman6365]

@@Weazyl003 The overhaul happened nonetheless.

[@Weazyl003]

@@aniksamiurrahman6365 it happened anyway, and as happy as i am for it i know that whoever invents a truly renewable energy vehicle will meet the same fate

[@amped5234]

Another great video.

[@Hope_Boat]

The first car was invented by Nicolas Joseph Cugnot in 1769. Almost a hundred years before the birth of Rudolf Diesel.

[@rexxbailey2764]

OOOOH! OK! NOW DIDN'T KNOW THAT!! DEFINITELY A VIDEO NEEDS TO BE MADE ON THAT ONE!!! 😯☝

[@Hope_Boat]

@@rexxbailey2764 Typically French. ✔️Invents things a hundred years before it's even a thing. ❌Fails to turn it into a business. Photography, airships, vaccines, chemistry, genetics, high tension current, digital communication, radioactivity, X-rays, iron warships, turret tanks, personal computers you named it.

[@graemekeeley4497]

Whilst Nicolas Joseph Cugnot may have built the world's first self-propelled road vehicle in 1769, calling it a car is a bit of a stretch It was a huge tractor-like vehicle built for the military to haul artillery at a whopping 21/2 mph on only three wheels. The Monster even had to stop every ten to fifteen minutes to build up steam power The steam engine and boiler were separate from the rest of the vehicle and placed in the front. The vehicle also gave him the distinct honour of being the first person to get into a self-propelled vehicle accident, when Cugnot drove the vehicle into a stone wall,

[@Hope_Boat]

@@graemekeeley4497 I can call it how I want since the category 'car' didn't exist yet and therefore the fardier is the first predecessors of all cars. Fardier means heavy load truck but that's not the point. The point is that it's the first self powered vehicle aka a car. You can as well argue it lacked proper number plates and therefore was not a car. Anachronistic.

[@JerryRussell-cv6ng]

Diesel design the engine to run on vegetable oil, and mineral oil.

[@Learn_Something_New]

He did! When he would show off the engine in front of crowds that was one of his go to talking points about it.

[@avlifesavers]

Rockefeller would see that as a threat to his oil empire.

[@kuronoch.1441]

​@@avlifesaversNot really, since what ended up using the Diesel engine was some of the leftovers from extracting gasoline and kerosene.

[@dieselscience]

No, just mineral oil. ORIGINALLY from coal dust slurry.

[@mizan-mq3me]

​@@avlifesaversno , Rockefeller will enjoy money from selling waste crap with cheap cost

[@chrisblood7395]

I would love to have seen his face as he watched the Audi and Renault prototype diesel cars at Le Mans...

[@philliprobinson7724]

Hi. Diesel's business was in trouble, and he had debts, so the most obvious cause of his death is suicide. He'd previously given a sealed bag to his wife Martha with instructions not to open it for two weeks. It contained a large sum of cash, very likely an "off the business records" gift to tide his wife over any bankruptcy proceedings. Also, his jacket and hat were found neatly folded by the ships' railing, which could not have happened had his death been an accident or murder. His personal effects in his cabin were also neatly arranged, all this being strong circumstantial evidence that Rudolph was in control of events all through, and no other parties were involved. Diesel was hoping to secure a contract with the British, but tensions between Germany and Britain were high and he may have become depressed about his prospects. There's no need for a conspiracy theory, the facts are sadly clear. Cheers, P.R.

[@philliprobinson7724]

Hi L.S.N. Thanks. All those hours watching the TV program "Accident? Suicide? Murder?" pay off at last. Cheers, P.R.

[@deesmith6363]

I personally blame the Jews.

[@jourdanbetsch5073]

One day the algorith will pick up these great vids :] keep it up.

[@DaveTex2375]

How did I see this then? Algorithms?

[@rdt1104]

who ended up with the patent / licensing rights ?

[@CensorshipGenesis]

Traditionally mechanical patents expire after 25 years, leaving their protected object under the public domain. ;-)

[@l0I0I0I0]

Excellent! Ty!

[@davidhakes3884]

Do you know what "sparked" The idea of the diesel engine? THE FIRE PISTON.

[@MrT01582]

My land rover discovery loved running on vegetable oil ....much cheaper than pump fuel until the supermarkets upped their prices

[@mikevolante7663]

Not long ago rapeseed oil was 43ppl in Lidl, then it doubled and the rest is history. That's when I decided not to venture into biodiesel

[@CharlesNewkirk-lb6uh]

Amazing!

[@ashadowawhisper]

Captain: “The enemy is close… I can smell them…” “Does he mean that figuratively or???” “Yeah he means literally, he just follows the warm salty smell of French fried…”

[@joekulik999]

I saw a report on 60 Minutes Australia a few years ago that revealed that 1 passenger per month on average falls off a cruise ship somewhere in the World. SO the Simplest and Most OBVIOUS explanation here is that Diesel accidentally fell off that ship which would have easy if he had a few drinks and if the ship was swaying with along with the heavy waves. . Believe it or NOT, Coincidences do Happen. 😮

[@Learn_Something_New]

To add to your comment, the mortality rate for people that fall off cruise ships is way higher than you would expect, even when the crew are immediately made aware of it.

[@joekulik999]

@@Learn_Something_New Having 4 or 5 Martinis will do that to you.

[@Model3GenerativeANdroid]

Jack Petrol pushed Rudolph Diesel off the ship.

[@redline1916]

Now that waste is more than fucking gas for literally no reason at all.

[@HighSpeedNoDrag]

What reason does life Exist?

[@RomoloGessi31]

At the time Diesel invented the engine, the oil industry had a huge problem of overproduction of medium-heavy distillate fractions. The only use at that time was as a raw material for gasification for the production of town gas together with coal. Diesel's invention allowed the valorization of a waste product allowing huge profits to the oil industry. Anyone who has dealt with vegetable oils knows that there is no commercial competition with mineral oils because the production costs of vegetable oils are incompressible, while diesel fuel can be sold at the price of a waste without affecting the profitability of the main business.

[@danielsee1]

Captured by Captain Nemo.

[@johnburns4017]

I wish some would do some meaningful research. The official name for a _Diesel_ engine is the _compression ignition_ engine. Akroyd Stuart invented the compression ignition engine in England. Look it up.

[@schinderiapraemeturus6239]

Cool story, i did not know all the details. Foul play would not surprise me at all. I would love to find an old Lister engine, or build one to run a low rpm generator. The one really interesting vegetable oil as possible fuel or conversion to biodiesel is castor oil, it does not gel nearly as easily in cold temps and has the highest saponification value of all veg oils. Now- what if you run an HHO cell, from a solar panel array, and aspirate veg oil or biodiesel with the gas to feed a simple diesel engine? What generally nit understood unfortunately about true Brown's Gas is the difference between mono -atomic oxygen versus its diatomic state, and the difference between simple DC electrolysis versus capacitative discharge using pulse width modulation. But you need trace hydrocarbons in your fuel to provide carbon lubricant and keep flame temperature moderated. Old school engine tech could serve well with a hybrid fuel concept.

[@dirtfarmer7070]

You can still purchase lister engines

[@cisvaughan6937]

@schinderaepraemeturus2839 Which country are you in? In UK, it's easy to pick up old Listers at the stationary engine shows, off eBay or RealDiesels co. Starting at about £140 for the D series. If you like hybrid fuel arrangements, note that the petrol-paraffin version will run just fine on diesel if you add half a pint of petrol to 5 gals of diesel to bump up the octane, average (bit less in summer, bit more in winter)

[@buzzedalldrink9131]

I am surprised they didn’t change the name and call it something else after murdering him.

[@Grggeorge]

Refunds for engines that didn’t run good but you buy vehicles now that break down or bad service at repair shops they tell you to get lost no refunds

[@billysmith6284]

I watched the myth busters drive a diesel Mercedes on some kind of vegetable oil and it ran perfectly.. who knew..

[@JohnAllen-b7l]

I think he was assassinated.

[@222Krzycho]

Definitely. As manny others inventors.

[@hoboonwheels9289]

Vegetable seed oil is "biodiesel" not food.

[@congerthomas1812]

Alcohol carbs had the same problems!!

[@rollingthunder4599]

Diesel's diesel engines were not made to run on diesel fuel, but on used vegatable oil.

[@FictionCautious]

Funny thing. We tend to forget the people who help the progress of world civilization while at the same time worshipping those who destroy it.

[@darrinbunston5932]

If you read the Rudolf Diesel book about Rudolf Diesel and diesel engines it says that Adolphus bush killed him

[@kennestler3414]

In 1910 he chemical company Procter & Gamble discovered that seed oils could be converted to a solid fat. Which then propelled them into society as a viable food source. Prior to that they were not really considered fit for human consumption. Seed oils were considered a waste product of which only a small amount was used for industrial lubrication. Truth is they're not really fit for human consumption and probably responsible for a lot of modern health problems. It would have been so great if all these seed oils would have went into making energy instead of slowly ruining our health.

[@terryroxburgh3276]

Diesel fuel was much cheaper back then as it didn't have to be refined as much, now it's on a parity with petrol. Why? Would it be profiteering as there are so many diesel vehicles used currently?

[@KyleSSamuelson]

7:00. Video starts

[@dieselscience]

*LET'S KILL DISINFORMATION* I'm from Germany, I used to build diesel engine injectors and I'm now an engineer. Rudolph Diesel _NEVER_ designed his engines to work on vegetable oil. His FIRST intent was to fuel it with coal dust slurry. That was too powerful, the engines exploded. At that time Germany WAS producing mineral based oil from both wells and coal feedstock (Fischer-Tropsch process.) That is MUCH more efficient than using vegetable oil. At a world expo a bystander asked "Can it run with peanut oil?" Diesel responded "It can." That does NOT MEAN he designed it to run on peanut or other vegetable oils. MY experience with it is vegetable oil causes damage in the long run. Diesel suffered manic depression (called bipolar today) and sometimes manic depressives kill themselves. Sad but true.

[@KevinMaxwell-o3t]

Thank you for the TRUE story. You are absolutely right.

[@Learn_Something_New]

Welcome to the channel! Happy to have experts come in and give context on the technical side. I'm no engineer, and while I do try my best to get the science right, it's always helpful to get a discussion going in the comments in case there was something I accidentally misrepresented in the video. Chiefly, I never meant to imply that the diesel engine as we see it today was designed to run on vegetable oil. In my sources (especially the science direct one- it's where I got most of the technical info for the video), which I've linked in the video description, I too came to the conclusion that vegetable oil wasn't only not ideal for the engine, but it could also damage it. But throughout my research, I did come across the fact that after testing peanut oil on the engine, Diesel began to legitimately believe that it was possible to design an engine specifically for vegetable oil, as opposed to mineral oil. Yet, as far as I could tell in my research, this design would never come to fruition in his lifetime, forever staying an unfinished side project that would fuel conspiracies about his death but would also lay some of the groundwork for biodiesel's invention much later. While I'm not an engineer, the last thing I want to do is obfuscate the truth, so I appreciate your comment for clarification. As for his death, I completely agree. I believe he took his own life.

[@BenjaminStewart-u9j]

My family and I recently read a book called "The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel" by Douglas Brunt. In it, Brunt proposes the theory that the British government staged Diesel's murder so that he could help them develop their own diesel engines in secret.

[@oteliogarcia1562]

The patent drawings for the diesel engine still exist, don't they? What's stopping the vegetable oil/seed oil champs from building their own and running them on "renewable fuel"?

[@GenXican84]

Farmers organizing into coops to make their own fuel poses a problem to large corps.

[@pincermovement72]

My money is on Rockefeller.

[@privantomas]

You forgot to mention that many other engeneers at that time didn't believed that there was a material which could stand the explosion force in the cylinder. So I believe that he was murdered. He never took his life nor was the reason financially since further licensed caused income for sure was in sight. Another aspect is that for sure some military powers were clear that much faster and compact ships without a tenths of miles wide black smoke signsture as well as compact submarines which could not had been realized with a steam engine would have decided the outcome of any war if this land was dependent on a water way for being supplied...like England. So ... the direction is pointing towards a naval powered country....correct me if I might be totally wrong with it.

[@c.e.anderson558]

There is a company in california that goes around to restaurants and vacuums out their used up oil They them purify it or strain it and run their diesel trucks using it as fuel.

[@fderty4]

The inventor of the Diesel engine was also named Diesel. What are the chance ? 🤯

[@Learn_Something_New]

Sometimes things just work out that way...

[@DinoAlberini]

So who prevents you from using vegetable oil?

[@Learn_Something_New]

Nobody, but since diesel engines have been fine tuned to run on diesel fuel it'll likely be less efficient and cause damage to the engine in the long run so I really wouldn't advise it.

[@DinoAlberini]

@@Learn_Something_New this is maybe true for modern engines, but in Rudolph’s time it didn’t make a difference.

[@WickeD72]

Maybe vegetable oil has a use afterall.

[@murb2586]

Wasn't Henry Ford threatened for proposing corn alcohol fuel engines for his future vehicles as well hemp fiber resin bodies

[@bingowashisnameo80]

The guy had lasting vision problems from lasting vision problems.

[@gailsmith9835]

Imagine an engine to run on vegetable oil running on hemp oil...strawberry fields forever.

[@rubiks6]

I don't believe the suicide story for a moment. He was an inventor who was seeing widespread success and implementation of his ideas. Few things in life are as exhilarating as that. Regardless of any personality flaws, this would have been one of the happiest times of his life.

[@markgigiel2722]

At one point he thought he could make a 100% efficient engine even though he was familiar with the laws of thermodynamics?

[@Matt-d8m]

Diesel > Otto

[@baldbastardo]

I'm not knowledgeable enough to speak intelligently on this topic but one there's one thing I know for sure. Many of those with power and influence would do anything to further their power and influence. Military industrial complex, big lumber and oil, the pharma industry and even those selling the food on our tables have been proven over and over again to intentionally do harm in order to keep their customer base.

[@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391]

Hornsby Ackroyd ?

[@stuartgmk]

👍

[@rubiks6]

(04:42) 26% efficiency is fantastic!

[@jonnywagner8472]

So it seems that he was chosen to be a presenter of ancient science…

[@PravdaSeed]

💙 Thanks 💙 💚Wemissyou💚 Rudolf 💚

[@vikingvisigoth4384]

It was peanut oil.

[@lukecronquist6003]

Well that was fkn depressing. Planet earth sucks.

[@terrypikaart4394]

That happens to anyone with a ground breaking invention, dead and gone long before there time.. Go figure..

[@nielserikstrup]

05:08 is not a russian ship. This is Selandia from 1911, built in Copenhagen. Notice the ship's lack of a funnel.

[@fredcdobbs823]

Henry Ford colluded with George Washington Carver because he intended to run his cars on peanut oil

[@falkpatt]

If all shipping ran on vegetable oil (ie., the fuel for planes, trains, ships, and trucks) I wonder how that would affect global food prices...hmmmmm

[@petersampson4635]

"For a Russian oil company........" WWII Russian tanks were...........diesel!!! German tanks were petrol/gas. Hmmmmmm......me wonders,.........

[@scottsuttan2123]

German tanks were diesel ....american were gas aka German tanks smolder ...american tanks burnt like a fireball

[@73Datsun180B]

@@scottsuttan2123 German ww2 tanks ran on petrol via the Maybach v12!

[@uncrunch398]

@@scottsuttan2123 Which is worse? Is one more survivable than the other? Would the German operators be fine if they put on a gas mask? I also wonder the viability of a tank that runs on motorized tracks electrified by a small diesel generator. Don't bother making it fast because that only makes it more vulnerable to fuel shortages when supplies are cutoff by burning through it excessively. Add better armor and defenses with the weight savings of a smaller engine.

[@scottsuttan2123]

@@uncrunch398 it's what happens when industry is like whinny little children fighting for the same dolly ...as generals who fight for superiority but don't really know any tactics ......like now in the US ha

[@uncrunch398]

@@scottsuttan2123 I still wouldn't design a tank unless it's my job. Would just ask people involved with this tech to test the viability.

[@chrishart8548]

I ran my diesel on new vegetable oil when it was 54p a litre.

[@tomg6284]

NO SUCH THING AS VEGATABLE OIL. They are seed oils.

[@thurlravenscroft2572]

I used to love diesel when diesel fuel was $0.50 a gallon. Now, it’s six in one hand, half a dozen in the other. Unless you own a 3/4+ ton truck and delete all the emissions crap.