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Re: What drives your car?
« Reply #14 on: August 16, 2004, 04:22:41 PM »
Super heated water  (Steam)

Use Methanol to achieve intial temp.  Then self generating with super condensors. (electric heaters)

No ??

Oh well ...Back to the drawing board.
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Re: What drives your car?
« Reply #15 on: August 17, 2004, 03:00:53 AM »
Greetings,

We all go back to our roots. A bike is always effiecient means of transportation. Most of the people in China uses it during the hieght of Communism. Till scooters came and 'Choked' them. :lol: What can I say. Progress?

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Re: What drives your car?
« Reply #16 on: August 17, 2004, 05:48:43 PM »
Wasn't Ford Working on a Hydrogen Fueled Car? I saw it on Tommorows World a few years ago, they said it's be ready in about 20 years :-) How about alcohol for a fuel (for cars)

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Re: What drives your car?
« Reply #17 on: August 17, 2004, 08:41:58 PM »
 :pint:

Hum,
perhaps you would then need a brewing licence?

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Re: What drives your car?
« Reply #18 on: August 17, 2004, 08:47:12 PM »
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Wasn't Ford Working on a Hydrogen Fueled Car? I saw it on Tommorows World a few years ago, they said it's be ready in about 20 years :-) How about alcohol for a fuel (for cars)

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Hydrogen has storage problems that need to be overcome, imagine filling up at a petrol station where the pump is a hundred below zero.  Not the place where you'd like to have a spill.  A hydrogen powered vehicle is more likely to be fuel cell powered as opposed to internal combustion.

Alcohol is a great fuel.  It burns much cleaner than gasoline, is less environmentally damaging in event of a spill - hell you can even drink the stuff!

Actually, I'm about 70% certain that the Germans used liquid oxygen and alcohol to fuel their V2 missiles during the final months of WW2...  Anyone care to put me straight on that?  

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Re: What drives your car?
« Reply #19 on: August 17, 2004, 08:59:23 PM »
Hum,
yeah,
alcohol 44% , lox 56% ...
though i do remember that they also used the monopropellant, Hydrogen peroxide with a catalyst to decompose it to power the turbine...

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Re: What drives your car?
« Reply #20 on: August 17, 2004, 09:30:38 PM »
Nice one Blob!

I think that Hydrogen Peroxide was also used in the Me 163 interceptor.  It used two different fuels that were extremely volatile when mixed, which resulted in spectacular performance (for 1944).

However the pilot had to be extremely careful upon landing as the vapours from seemingly empty tanks could be coerced into igniting on a rough touchdown - kind of a bummer when the Me 163 had no undercarriage and was only equipped with a metal skid.  The Hydrogen Peroxide fuel was also extremely corrosive and popular legend has it there were reports of pilots surviving a rough landing only to be partially dissolved in their seats.
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Re: What drives your car?
« Reply #21 on: August 17, 2004, 10:03:45 PM »
Rice, corn, and potatoes.

I have two fine legs, and I'm not ashamed to use them.  Usually I use them to walk, for medium distances I bicycle, for the odd long trip (ie. less than once per week) I will break down and use public transit.

While we're at it: my room is lit by two 9 W CF bulbs and I usually limit myself to a single 9 W reading lamp.  My usual form of entertainment is the radio and moderately energy efficient laptop computer, not an electricity guzzling television.  The house is kept cool by opening or closing the blinds at the right time of day, and through the judicious (ie. infrequent) use of fans, not an electricty guzzling air conditioner.  There is still a lot I can do, but it's not a shabby start.
 

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Re: What drives your car?
« Reply #22 on: August 18, 2004, 12:47:02 AM »
@macto

Cool...
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Re: What drives your car?
« Reply #23 on: August 18, 2004, 02:43:46 AM »
Petrol :P

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Re: What drives your car?
« Reply #24 on: August 18, 2004, 04:19:35 AM »
@ gizz72,

Not what, Who. Only Me.

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Re: What drives your car?
« Reply #25 on: August 18, 2004, 12:59:22 PM »
Hum,
I'm surprised that no one else has mentioned the nut that holds the wheel...

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Re: What drives your car?
« Reply #26 on: August 18, 2004, 04:10:44 PM »
@ blobrana,

"I'm surprised that no one else has mentioned the nut that holds the wheel..."

Umm, Thank you, Thank you very much.

Chris
 

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Re: What drives your car?
« Reply #27 on: August 18, 2004, 04:21:24 PM »
What drives your car?

Petrol. 98 octane unleaded. 2.4 litre engine & a Garret T3 with T60 compressor and an intercooler. Not exactly enviromentally friendly, but lot's of fun :-D

Only drive this car around 5000km per year, so my conscience is clean though...
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Re: What drives your car?
« Reply #28 on: August 19, 2004, 02:27:21 AM »
5.4L Triton V8
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Re: What drives your car?
« Reply #29 from previous page: August 19, 2004, 05:53:59 AM »

OK.. 2.0L turbo AWD.

Chris