Answer, None !
125,000 BTU/gallon baby ! Beat that.
You know, I was having a discussion with a liberal friend of mine about fuel cell vehicles. He was touting them and saying that the only emission was water vapor.
I thought about that and responded, “Well, how is that any better for reducing global warming since water vapor is the most abundant greenhouse gas?” He said water vapor wasn’t the abundant greenhouse gas. I pointed him to a dozen reputable sources that show that is indeed the case. He had no response for me after that.
Facts...like Kryptonite to Libs.
The US electrical infrastructure cannot handle even a significant minority of the US auto fleet being electrified. It isn’t just a lack of generation capacity, there are significant constraints in transmission capacity as well.
I’ve been a proponent that the fastest way to achieve a significant increase in US auto fleet efficiency is to use modern diesel engines. The barriers are the idiots in Detroit and the environmentalist who stupidly believe that all diesel engines are exemplified by the soot-belching Detroit two-strokes in muni bus fleets.
Drill for our own oil and stop the idea that we depend totally on the middle east. One thing they don’t tell you is that oil is used for just about everything we use in everyday life..........not just for gas.
What about Mr. Fusion? By the way, oil doesn’t just make gasoline or power automobiles. It is made into over 1,000 products and powers, trains, planes, ships etc. It is the only versatile power source that exists in mass quantities. Global Warming is like Free Health Care, it’s all about control.
Whatever is next will cost more.
And yet the lawmakers keep flogging the automotive industry for more, more, more, more - trying to shave the eyebrows off a flea.
I smell bull exhaust.
That number keeps on going up and up and up. The author is saying that a mower engine emits about 2000 times as much exhaust / horsepower / hour?
I just got back from a trip to the UK where I rented a diesel VW Jetta. I'm very impressed. It was smooth, fast and quiet. As nice as my wife's Infinity I30. We drove it hard for two days solid and had nearly a half tank left when we returned it. I may have to buy one, if they ship anything similar to the US (with left hand drive, of course).
"When GM first announced their efforts of producing a hybrid system for their Troop Carrier class SUV’s the Chevy Tahoe and the GMC Yukon their estimates were for a modest 25 percent gain in fuel economy. After more testing it seems their modest estimates were too modest and that the real fuel savings has leapt to 50 percent. That would mean that this road behemoth would average around 21 mpg in the city; which is right there with the Camry. …Not so behemoth like."
"The complete EPA rating for the Tahoe/Yukon Hybrid will be 21 mpg in the city and 22 mpg on the highway. Those may not be the same average leaps found from other hybrid models, but when you consider the gasoline variant of those SUV’s gets 10 mpg in the city that is a colossal improvement. By comparison again to the Toyota Camry that 21 mpg in the city is 2 mpg better than the Camry V6 achieves."
http://www.ridelust.com/can-the-new-gm-yukontahoe-hybrid-really-match-the-camry-in-fuel-efficiency/
As a Northeast motorcyclist (Year round, at that) I can tell you that most people’s misery stems from their penchant to FLOOR IT whenever the light turns green.
The Full-Throttle SUV is connecticut’s state bird.
Commercial Hemp!
The article did not even mention using compressed natural gas or methane gas as an alternative.
One overlooked key to the whole thing is weight. Typical small cars in 1967 weighed 2000 lbs or less; today that’s more like 2600. A reasonable future for American technology should look increasingly like carbonfibre and other advanced materials, and decreasingly like steel.
Algae biomass....once cost and yields are changed.
bmflr
We must learn to harness the power of man.