the things this guy said were true?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3340274697167011147&q=energy+non+crisis&total=67&start=0&num=50&so=0&type=search&plindex=0 (http://"http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3340274697167011147&q=energy+non+crisis&total=67&start=0&num=50&so=0&type=search&plindex=0")
Thoughts?
I think were headed towards communism
There's nothing wrong with communism in my book. The only "communist" countries that we have seen have been dictatorships. Communism is great on paper, but people are too greedy and lazy to make it work as it should.
As for the video, I wouldn't be surprised if this was true. It doesn't dispute the fact that burning fuel is still bad for the air, so we should push for renewable energy that is cleaner. Have you seen photos from downtown Bejing? Without any major clean air policies, China has the worst air quality in the world and I don't want us to end up like them. Scandal or not, we do need to get away from crude oil.
Ethanol! 105 Octane, and makes the tree-huggers happy. I call that a win-win!
QFMFT. I gotta drive something that BURNS fuel in multiple (read: eight) cylinders until I'm old enough that they pull my license :hick: I've been a huge fan of biofuels ever since I heard of em.
There are a few problems with ethanol. Its high alcohol content will degrade plastics and rubber faster than normal gasoline. Secondly not all that many vehicles as of now are Ethanol receptive, my father had to replace his whole fuel delivery system after using ethanol in his 07 Focus (his stupid fault for not checking if it was compatible).
Here is the wiki on Ethanol if you wish to read up on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol
I know all about Ethanol/E85 (done a couple of college papers on it).
Bottom line is, it's MUCH easier to convert your fuel system to tolerate it and get renewable 105 Octane gas for cheap (my local E85 station is at $1.97/gal) then to drill for more oil or setup a Hydrogen network.
Corn FTMFW.
The problem there in lies that big oil controls our government and will never relinquish its grip it has on the USA. Believe me i wish i could run e85 in both my cougars because i would, E85 prices around here are about the same.
E85 affects food prices since it cuts into the corn supply. Demand goes up and so does price. It is subsidized, you get worse gas mileage and better power.
E85 costs about 10c less a gallon here than regular fuel. It has its draw backs of course but it is becoming a good alternative.
Problem is I don't think any puppiesanese manufactures offer a flex fuel vehicle and the government is afraid to make them.
To gain the better power you will almost always need larger injectors.
Well, you need to size the injectors to the needs of the engine. You start by multiplying by about 1.3.
I have no doubt that the government is telling us lies about the oil supplies available. I truly believe they get kick backs for dealing with Saudi Arabia.
There is no reason for our oil, gas, heating prices to be as high as they are. this country could be entirely self efficient if the government would just let it happen.
It costs less because it is subsidized. So it is costing you in taxes. I don't think it could stand on its own and it makes the price of our food go up.
That's not true. If the BTU content is greater you get more energy out of the same volume of gas.
Yeah, the real reason for bigger injectors is an air/fuel ratio of about 9.7:1 for E85 versus 14.7:1 for gasoline.
And if you didn't add the bigger injectors what would your A/F ratio be then? It'd be a problem....Hence the reason you need them for more power. Semantics, I know. ;)
That's fine and dandy,
but E85 has LESS BTU's per gallon than gasoline.
http://zfacts.com/p/436.html
http://www.domesticfuel.com/?p=3321
http://www.michigan.gov/dmb/0,1607,7-150-9141_13133_41641-146988--,00.html
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2006-02-01-ethanol_x.htm
To hell with it! I say we all run moonshine...
I have no trouble trusting this guy.
Its scary as hell.
forget it, a study by the US Geological Survey shows us is would only last 30 years at a fraction of the oil we use now...
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-0028-01/fs-0028-01.htm
shiznit, while were on the subject of E85.
I used my $450 '92 cavalier 2.2 5speed to guniea pig E85 on.
E85 INFACT made my car run better and more efficiently than premium did. I felt a gain in power over dinofuel. I miss that car now it got easily 25-27 mpg IN THE CITY light to light. 12 gallon tank. took me 2 and a half weeks to burn 3/4
thats where I stand on that. RIP alier.
Brazil is running their cars on Sugar ethanol at ~99 cents a gallon and Brazil is not a small country. Everyone down there drives flex-fuel cars, that's not a big concession figuring how cheap their ethanol is.
The US government claims that we can't do it, but I think that's BS. If they really wanted to and didn't have oil corporations breathing down their necks, we'd all be driving flex fuel cars and paying .99 a gallon too. That's just my :2c: :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel_in_Brazil
The thing is that it is much more efficient to make ethanol out of sugar than it is to make it out of corn. While corn ethanol holds slightly more energy than it takes to produce (making it efficient) this efficiency must improve before corn ethanol (or a locally produced alternative) can survive without the need for a subsidy.
If all the farm land in the country were used to grow corn, you still could not make enough ethenol to replace oil.
Of course we would all starve to death if we tried it.
Sorry, but I didn't study hard, earn two master's degrees, jump jobs when opportunity knocked, save my money, invest wisely, and otherwise climb the ladder so my disposable wages can go to someone who didn't put in the work. Someone who tries to prevent me from enjoying the fruits of my labors is in for a serious fight. :mad: :beatyoass:
GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!
So since he already said it,, ill add.
Go to town and pick up your "house for sale" free paper. Down here in WV, TONS of farms are for sale. People are not farmers anymore. They are a dieing breed and they are not getting replaced. WHY? because all the younguns up and coming dont know what its like to break a good 9 hour day sweat. Yep,, farming sounds like work. All of you out there who can flip the palm of thier hand up and see pretty skin are guilty. Our children are fat, parents are fat,, people are laying waste to the pride those retired have given us and it me off. Farming and providing food should have never been outsourced but even our food is coming from over seas.
I really dont think our country has enough land mass to ""Guarantee"" a
sure crop each year to met the consumer demands that oil provides. I wish weather did not effect crops but it does. There is one other form of propulsion that no one ever talks about and its prinl was proven back in 1904 with no fuel. Too bad we decided to go with piston power instead.
Sometime in the next few months ill be bolting something to an old CVT transmission and see how much work i can produce out of it based on the same prinl. The reason why i took an old Hull Effect assembly apart asking questions on here plays an important role in this system.
Biofuels from soybeans/corn is a joke. Hell, a brand new biodiesel plant in my hometown had to shut down due to a record high closing in soybeans this season (with high yields). When you start using these crops for fuel, the price per bushel skyrockets. Have you noticed prices at the grocery store over the past few years?
Biodiesel is a step in the right direction, but not from soybeans. Theoretically you can get 5000 times the biodiesel from an acre of algae than soybeans. It's relatively new stuff, but quite interesting.
But what does if matter if we have a 200+ year supply of oil on our turf?
Do any of you realize that we have the technology to make cars run on water? Or what about electric cars?
There is no reason for all of us to have to use gas for cars anymore.
water run cars (http://"http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/watercar/h20car2.htm")
How to convert your engine to run on water (http://"http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/feb2/carplans_doc.htm")
Thanks, I needed a good laugh!
So is the Aqua-Cougar running strong then?
It wasn't meant to be funny.
There are serious things that can be done to help this country concerning fuel/ oil.
Why is it so hard to believe that a car could run using water?
Ever heard of steam engines??? (trains)
We're engineers - we know what it takes to run alternate fuels - and it ain't black magic.
You have to make the steam with fuel in a boiler. Efficiency of steam engines is worse than IC engines.
The water engines I think you are referring to burn hydrogen. This theory sucks because it takes three times the energy to make the H2 than the H2 to would create in a spark ignited engine.
Here's the real test of H2 cars. If it made sense the private industry would have already embraced and invested in it.
Natural gas engines I think are the best bet. Even though the infrastructure isn't fully developed, the engines run well, have lower emissions. And you can buy a compressor and hook it into the NG supply at your house and fill up over night.
Here's a quick google search to what my father was telling me about. I thought it was interesting. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18700750/
Yes I have. Steam engine locomotives went the way of the dinosaur due to more powerful fossil fuel and electrical fuel variants.
Which is exactly why they were phased out by the auto industry.
This means you are losing $0.20/gallon because Ethanol has 30% less energy than gasoline. I'd go for it if it was available here but with gasoline here at $3.29 average then I'd have to see E85 at $2.50 or so for it to make sense economically for a break even cost of fuel.
Right now GM is the largest builder of flex fuel vehicles. Of course all I have are Fords.
Add 350lbs to your car and that doesn't include the water you add to create the hydrogen. Then you have to get the tank pressure to 3000 psia to flow enough hydrogen vapor to run a vehicle. How do you do that? Add a compressor and separate tank?
Then how often do you have to change your tank full of pellets? And with a tank full of pellets, there's no room for water, so how many miles would you get out of it?
I respect him for trying but this sounds like he's trying to promote his program.
Oh, BTW H2 injectors are about $50-60 a piece and get stuck closed after about 100 hours of operation.