Race Day!

Today we raced our boat. Last night I was in a rush and didn't have time to glue my first boat together. So this morning I grabbed the simplest and lightest boat I made. Shown below

didn't have time to finish gluing

I thought our boat was going to be the slowest and was relieved to find out that was not true. That would be Dylan Kossl's boat. Shown below

After my first attempt I realized that my belief was drastically inaccurate, our boat was the fastest. My first run timed in at 12.1 seconds. I went again and timed in at 10.39 seconds.
I thought I didn't set my motor up right so I re raced unofficially with a new method. Mrs. Frank timed it at 8.95 seconds! She told us that was the fastest all day! The video is below.

Building of the Biodiesel Putt Putt Boat

A design I am considering

The biodiesel boat has been changing constantly. I've gone from a regular old boat to a racing boat. I have scraped a few designs because of the lack of speed, but 2 of them were actually very fast. I really want and need the extra credit so I am trying really hard for the boat to be light, aerodynamic, and capture the heat inside the chamber for the putt putt motor to be more efficient. I have tested in the bathtub and got an idea of what I might go with. So far this has been the most fun I have had in chemistry.

Another design I considered

Biodiesel Video

Biodiesel Bruh

We worked in the biodiesel project. I think I have a good thought out plan for our project. I thought we might start by bashing gasoline and making it seem like its critical we use biodiesel then we lead into the benefits of using it. Almost full proof, except that's all in theory. I think that we are going to run into some problems along the way. Anyway I think if Liesel and I make the video right then we will have a decent shot. The time given is a bit short though. I would have like to had at least 2 weeks to work on effects. Other than that I think its fun so far.

Green stuff going on