Vigil StarGazer Posted February 24, 2005 Report Posted February 24, 2005 Have you ever had this feeling when someone told you some scientific breakthrough theories about how things work or innovative ideas, you realized that you have thought of it years before, but didn't bother to write it down? I swear I had a few, but i can't name any on top of my head.... but as i was driving to work today I had another ohe of these "moments" where a blinding flash of light just hit my brain with an another idea. Here goes: "The current situtution of the world's energy supplies is that we are running on non-replenishable power source, namely oil. Actually current techology has been stuck because big corporations has been over-relying on oil and gasoline so much that any change would shattered the economy. It's easy to place the blame on big corporations such as Shell/Dutch Royal or the Big Three car manufacturers for not building cars that run on things other then gasoline (Ford has the patten for a liquid alcholo car, which they bought from the inventor for 30 mil, and they promptly wraps it up underneath a shell somewhere) but ofcourse none of us here who owns a car would like to scrap their old car which generates enought Co2 to smog up the atmosphere and shell up say, another 20 grand for a clean and enviromental friendly powercell crap car. But what if that's to change? The best scenrio would be a slow and progressive transition from gasoline to some other stuff? Easily said but hardly done. One thing for sure is that the substitute for gasoline would have to be compatable to be use on a gasoline run engine. Secondly it has to mix pretty well with gasoline in between the transition... plus another few technicalities in the mix makes it sounds also impossible... Or it is? Think about an amazing synethic oil... the mixture of gasoline with alcholo plus millions of chemicals all amazing and strange added and then be sold as preium gas that's advertised to boost engin performance. Now everyone knows the problem of using Alcholo as fuel, the combustion rate is that much more powerful to that of gasoline and alone the combustion is unstable making it non-ideal to be used as fuel. The car's cylinder will take on more stress and down goes the lifespan of an engine. But the car manufactures wanted it that way... how else are they going to get people to buy more cars? " In the end everybody wins. Car manufactures get people to buy more cars, the oil companies' gain might not be so oblvious: but they don't want the OPEC thing happens again in the 1970, government would takes less legistiations on the oil giants; the world generally wins... i think. Instead of excessive Co2 we got excessive something else that hovers around the atmosphere, but the lifespan of this world will increase by a few centuries or so. Do the consumers win? Not really, but well oblivious is bliss. If you have come this far to my rant you've realized that I've once again screwed up. The fuel substition idea has once again, already been taken. We got synethic oil and commerical gasoline got alcholo already added to the mix. We can also assume that engines are built slowly to adapt to the increase in alcholo portion in the fuel, or at least i hope. Here's my 2 cents, VS out.
Peredhil Posted February 24, 2005 Report Posted February 24, 2005 *nods* I grew up listening to my Dad rants on issues - and provide possible solutions. And then years later see it on the market. Bio-Diesel would be my bid for the fuel of the future. Translating the power of sunlight through plantlife (such as algae) into fuel. Bio-diesel is an already ready technology which runs in existing diesel engines without modification - and is cleaner because it lacks the sulfur of petroleum distillate. You have my sympathy for seeing your ideas manifest without you, but as my Mom kept telling my Dad - don't just think it. Team up with someone who can translate your ideas into reality.
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