Rest In Peace, old friend, your work is finished.......
If you want on or off the DIESEL "KnOcK" LIST just FReepmail me........
This is a fairly HIGH VOLUME ping list on some days......
Posted on 06/08/2007 1:08:55 PM PDT by Red Badger
Rest In Peace, old friend, your work is finished.......
If you want on or off the DIESEL "KnOcK" LIST just FReepmail me........
This is a fairly HIGH VOLUME ping list on some days......
What’s wrong with doing both? The one proposal would seem to require everyone to buy hybrids just to make it work...wouldnt it?
Note that they are showing the GASOLINE figures and are ignoring the DIESEL fuels altogether.........
Does this study ignore the use of Bio-Diesel? It seems to me that would reduce the dependence on foreign oil and cut down on coal emissions at the same time.
Apparently they are ignoring it as fast as they can.........
Hybrids like the new Venture vehicles and Bio diesel would be a winner.
http://www.venturevehicles.com/
I’ve seen that website before. I don’t think it’s really practical for a “family” sedan.........Single guys would love it, though.......
The funny thing about bio-diesel is that it is only economical if there is no demand. If you are willing to collect refuse cooking oil and process it in your garage, keep quiet. As soon as it becomes popular, restaurants will quit giving it away.
Large electric power plants are the only way to reduce CO2 and meet our energy needs. People wish it weren’t so, but that’s where physical laws take us.
Hopefully more studies like this one will point our policy makers in the right direction.
So rather than using Liquid coal cars, they would use power from a Coal power plant to power their cars.
I’m lost again.
This is why I had to leave the enviormental movement.
Most bio-diesel is currently being made from food crops.
That’s bad. Using edible fats to power vehicles just makes no sense to me. You can’t feed petroleum or coal to people, so let’s reserve the food crops for feeding people and animals, eh ?
What gets me about the whole electric vehicle and plug-in hybrid vehicle vs. CTL is that nobody ever questions the ultimate end point. You can’t fly fighter jets, bombers, or even passenger jets on electricity yet, but you could on CTL. Not sure about bio-diesel in jets, but I don’t like the idea of burning edibles anyway.
Electric jets ? I didn’t know that was possible. Please tell me more ! Or maybe the Repulsine electric flying saucer will replace all our fighters, bombers, and airliners ?
Did you forget that our military strength, airline industry, etc. do not have electric alternatives yet ? They are kind of important to us as a nation.
Sure, but it's FedGov money or Calif or some other Gov't money, not real money. How about that Energy Dept? What are they now? $15 billion a year?
Although it works quite well making coal into liquid gasoline to run automobiles, you can also use coal as a solid to run cars.
This was done in Stanley Steamers as well as in the gunpowder motors of the 1910’s that used gravity to draw gunpowder into a combustion chamber.
Well, coal (even in solid form) can likewise be directly used for combustion.
Electric fighters jets (sub-orbital and orbital versions for that matter) are quite possible with existing on-board nuclear power.
Electric fighter jets (sub-orbital and orbital versions for that matter) are quite possible with existing on-board nuclear power.
As GM finally admitted after teasing the Volt, they don’t have a battery to use. Been the problem all along, and will likely remain for the near future. Battery energy density is too low, or costs are way too high.
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