Each person in the family gets a free Segway from obie.
Posted on 05/21/2009 3:57:09 AM PDT by rellimpank
See post 160....
Go to the link below and read their technical description.
If we are making "X" amount of ethanol (and yes I have never been a fan) and can make a piston engine 25 to 30% more efficent, I'd say give it a shot. Not to mention , "what if" we can get the ethanol via a waste source in the near future.
http://www.ethanolboost.com/Technology%20and%20applications.htm#_Using_Ethanol_To_1
Not only that, it is also a fact that if every single acre of land used for agriculture in this country were converted over to nothing but Ethanol production, it would only provide less than 30% of our needs. The land cannot produce the demand. (We also have to eat, don't we?)
The technology you speak of is not cheap in any shape or form.
This ignorant notion that a barrel of oil is mostly, only fuel is quite annoying as well. Not one vehicle can or will be built without it. There is just no raw material on the planet that provides us with so many compounds, chemicals or manufacturing potentials as does oil. Just try building a car without it once, at the current demand, if you still think you have it all figured out.
Thanks, kiddo!
That made me feel good. I’m trying to do my small part. I even particpated in our FReepathon!
I’m listening to music now to prevent myself from jumping out of my first floor window, over the grim WH occupants.
Somehow an 8 ft. jump just doesn’t have the right drama, you know? LOL
LOL!! You’re right. We are in very frightening times.
(on an unrelated topic)
I did NOT throw myself on the tracks of an oncoming train when the Cavs lost tonight. Don’t think I didn’t consider it. I DID. But I’m no where near a train track and my family would kill me (yes, even if I were already dead. We’re Italian. It’s not like we’re sensible. sheesh)
I suffer with ALL my sports teams. It’s no accident that I sign my posts (on the sports boards) “longsufferingClevelandfan”
heh
Each person in the family gets a free Segway from obie.
I happened to see the published results of Ricardo's results as well on the web. Something like 722 lbs of torque out of an Euro V6 they converted to this system. Lets divorce ourselves from the metallurgy to make it happen for a moment. Those numbers spell "bye-bye" to diesels IMHO and quite possibly the survival of the pickup.
From these nice hand generators. Every family will get a $40 coupon to buy one to charge their free electric car.
Uh, buy a couple of F-250 Diesel SuperDuties as an investment in the future?
THAT doesn’t look like a flying unicorn that craps skittles!
WE WUZ ROBBED!
Looks like it has tandem dual Rear Wheels (DRW) and an Idaho (hedaho’?) plates. If one can afford to fool around with military surplus, one could move to super singles.
I can’t understand how a smaller, lighter truck will pull our gooseneck trailer full of horses or cows. I think these people are out of touch with most of America.
It’s not just ranchers and farmers that will have an issue- what about construction trades and all the people pulling camp trailers, boats, and what not? I guess hubby better train a team of horses to take over the work the truck now does- and this is progress?
No doubt anyone that drives a larger vehicle will be taxed for being greedy. Of course the important lefties will be exempt.
Lol...good sense of humor, too...;-) You are a welcome addition to the FReeper family already! ;-) God only KNOWS we could use all the humor we can get now that the living, walking, breathing joke of a Zer0 occupies the oval office...
Answer: Turbo Diesel with a higher compression ratio.
Bathroom methane collection.
NOOooo!, Don't do it!
Instead, get some friends together and go to the range on a regular basis.
How the heck am I supposed to carry my three kids around in that thing?
LOL!!
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