Posted on 08/08/2017 10:43:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Both ways appear to work, so the people who were saying not possible apparently majored in gender studies or theater. My numbers were only meant to be approximate, and you can count on near 100% combustion because of catalytic converters
As a retired cal employee. I hope brown the omniscient doesn’t leave us out
I have no idea whether the author is correct or not, but the gas mixture which burns in the combustion chamber is made up partly of gasoline and partly of air.
-PJ
I think water is 8 pounds, gas I think is 6. It’s a good thing the Libs are the people who love science, cause they aren’t so good at math. How can you get 20 pounds of carbon out of 6 pounds of gas?
It really comes down to what is the likely worse case usage scenario for the car or how bad is the inconvenience going to be. There are hidden variables with these cars. In the midwest, the weather variable can be huge in the winter time. I wouldn’t buy an EV for a primary car for that reason alone. On a harsh winter day, that 200 mile EV becomes a ~100 mile EV.
And they don’t last that long
Right, which is 50 miles round-trip or a recharging stop along the way.
The bias here is that California doesn't have harsh winters, except near the Oregon border or the high Sierras. The policy-makers live in Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, where the weather is more temperate.
The problem is that people who live in Redding or the Auburn-Tahoe-Truckee corridor won't survive on EVs alone after California bans gasoline cars.
-PJ
So now we move from a gallon of gas burned in an internal combustion engine actually pumping 20 pounds of CO2 into the air to...
SO WHAT,WHO CARES?!
The ban the ICE people seem to operate on the assumption that ICE pollution can’t be improved and has hit a dead end. That is not how the world works. They need to ban it, because people won’t buy EV’s in the numbers TBTB want.
So what who cares.
Exactly. Certainly not me
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That’s easy, just carry a can of electricity in your electric car!
Low rider don’t use no gas now
Low rider don’t drive too fast
Good question...
Six pounds plus change per gallon... times three?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-weight-ratio-co2-fuel/
The energy content of hydrocarbon fuel is mostly tied up in the hydrogen. Energy released by burning hydrogen in oxygen versus the detonation of a military explosive, are about 27 to 1 in favor of the hydrogen for energy content on a weight basis.
The explosive detonation only appears to release more energy because of the brevity of the event—the shorter the time for application of a given amount of energy, the higher the peak power produced. Hydrogen has higher energy—an explosive produces higher power.
Actually not far off from one idea seen last week. A catalyst was found to allow water to react with aluminum, completely oxidizing the metal in only minutes. The hydrogen left over from the water (H2O)is available to produce electricity within a fuel cell.
This may not make financial sense as a way to power a car on a daily basis, but might make for a great emergency electrical backup system.
Should somebody tell this RETARD that a gallon of water weighs 8.43 pounds per gallon.
A gallon of gasoline only weighs a little over 6 pounds per gallon, so where does the other 14 pounds come from.
I understand the byproducts of combustion combine with other elements, but 14 pounds worth?
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