Nanoil is the first organic synthetic oil, made from biodiesel byproducts
If there was ever a post that is could be the raison d'être for our high-resolution gallery images, this is it. Behold the giant bottle of motor oil. In all seriousness, let's talk about that two-cycle engine you're running and want to make more green. Nano Chemical Systems Holdings, Inc. thinks you should try NanOil, a two-cycle engine oil that performs as a "moly" oil and can be made from by-products of one type of Green Palm Biodiesel production. NanOil is the first commercially offered organic synthetic oil, according to the company. Thanks to an agreement reached yesterday, NanOil will be marketed by Marketiquette, Inc. to automotive aftermarket distribution network, places like AutoZone, Advance Auto Parts, Pep Boys, NAPA, Carquest, Costco and Wal-Mart.
So, what is NanOil? It's made from organic materials instead of petroleum, the aforementioned biodiesel byproducts. As for how it works, Nano Chemical Systems Holdings tell us,
"NanOil(TM) patent pending process immerses nano-sized molybdenum metal ball bearings to support the oil made from the byproducts of one type of the Palm Bio-diesel production process. Implementing nano-technology to make nano-sized ball bearings allows the use of only trace amounts of "moly" to achieve or exceed performance specifications because the performance is dependent on the surface area of the ball bearings and not on the total weight of "moly" where a nano-meter size ball has 2,000 times as much surface area per unit weight as a 10,000 times larger micron sized ball."
And that's why it deserves a 1,280-pixel-wide image (or it's just because I can't quite believe they sent out such a huge promo photo of a plastic bottle).
[Source: Nano Chemical Systems Holdings, Inc.]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Howard Lee Harkness 11:22AM (3/01/2007)
I find it a bit odd that a "green auto" site would be concerned with 2-stroke engine oil. 2-stroke engines are not used in automobiles, because they can't pass pollution standards.
They are used primarily in lawnmowers, snowmobiles, leaf-blowers, and other applications where the emission standards are weak. However, the 2-stroke design has not significantly changed in the last 40 years. A 2-stroke engine emits about 30 times the pollution of a (properly maintained) 4-stroke, including about 1/4 of the input fuel, unburned. Looking at overall exhaust, 2-stroke engines are responsible for 32% of all of the mobile source hydrocarbons! (cite: Sierra Club)
Reply
bob loblaw 1:32PM (3/01/2007)
scooters
Reply
pdx 12:07PM (3/01/2007)
2 strokes are used in a lot of older scooters too.
However, this potentially is NOT a green product. It uses Palm-oil as it's base. Palm oil production is destroying rain-forests at an alarming rate.
Reply
bc 7:26PM (3/01/2007)
"...organic synthetic oil..."
That pretty much tells it all right there. What the hell is both organic and synthetic at the same time? Green Wash perhaps?
So let's take some organic material, apply extreme pressure and heat to extract the oil and we can use it to lubricate our engines. Oh wait...mother nature did that for us already and we have crude oil...billions of years of "organic" material.
There is no free lunch in nature, all you're doing is moving mass and energy around from one form/place to another...stop doing that and we can live sustainably.
Reply