Is it for real?
Lemme is God!!
Oh wait, this isn't a heavy metal thread is it.....OOPS
If he can find a way to make it sound like a big-block, I’m in!
If these figures are true, it should be mandated that all large city bus operations retrofit their fleets first.
That isn't bio diesel, it's grease. Everyone who uses a deep fryer regularly knows how they get gummed up with thick hard baked on grease that results in the deep fryer being tossed into the landfill if it's not cleaned regularly.
The same thing happens inside an engine if this stuff is burned without first being filtered, and put through an esterfication process to remove this goop and convert this deep fryer oil, chicken fat, beef fat, potato starch, and what ever else finds it way into the deep fryer greese, into proper bio diesel that will burn in a diesel engine without destroying it.
See:
making biodiesel
"Conservatively," Goodwin muses, scratching his chin, "it'll get 60 miles to the gallon. With 2,000 foot-pounds of torque. You'll be able to smoke the tires. And it's going to be superefficient."
Uh huh. That will take about a 1000 Hp engine, that gets 60 mpg. (snicker)
Whenever the truck's juice runs low, the turbine will roar into action for a few seconds, powering a generator with such gusto that it'll recharge a set of "supercapacitor" batteries in seconds."
The problem with capacitors, is that the discharge just as fast. Good luck trying to get any amperage out of them. They aren't used as batteries for good reason.
"Is it for real?"
Yep, just like Star trek's star ship voyager...
The short answer is no. There are so many inconsistencies and errors in this article, it's hard to know where to start. There is, however, enough accurate information in the article, that anyone that wants to believe it, will believe it.
Here are a few starters:
The H1 has always been diesel
Bio-diesel fuels get too thick to flow at warm enough temperatures that most drivers will encounter them often.
Chicken grease is even worse.
Emission requirements make some of these schemes illegal.
Where do you fill the Hydrogen tank?
There isn't enough restaurant grease in all the world to even dent the fuel supply requirements.
The problem in kalifornia is you have to get your car smogged every other year. The smog nazi’s won’t let you alter your car. So how can you get your registration renewed?
Yeah.
Turbines just love being fired up for a few seconds and shut off. They last much longer that way, not to mention the gain in efficiency and reduced emissions when that happens.
Morans.