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Rudolph Diesel demonstrated his engine at the Exhibition Fair in
Paris, France in 1898. This engine stood
as an example of Diesel's vision because it was fueled by peanut oil. He
thought that the utilization of a biomass fuel was the real future of his
engine. He hoped that it would provide a way for the smaller industries,
farmers, and "common folk" a means of competing with the
monopolizing industries, which controlled all energy production at that time,
as well as serve as an alternative for the inefficient fuel consumption of
the steam engine. As a result of Diesel's vision, compression ignited engines
were powered by a biomass fuel, vegetable oil, until the 1920's and are being
powered again, today, by vegetable oil.
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