OK, now I have this question. Why is the price of diesel less then the price of premium gasoline for about the last two months? If it costs more to make, what happened? If it is taxed higher, what happened?
BTW, why hasn't the price of food and al...
Was the "low DC current" from the car's battery only? No one is saying that adding H2 and O2 gas to an engine won't work. What we are saying is that you can't get the power to take apart the H2O only from the car's battery and engine to get more p...
The only thing I can help with is your mortality. I teach Qigong as one of the things I now do to earn a living. My oldest master is 100 years old and still practices as an acupuncture physician, and still goes to the park every Sunday AM to spar ...
"Find me a field and full propane tank, a full gas tank and permission to blow them up and I will bring the CNG any day.". Sounds like something we need to send to Mythbusters.
Not full tanks. Not enough air. Tanks 5% to 10% full.
$20-$30K a year ...
Evidently you are 20 years from retirement. Put yourself in my place. I'm 61. My technical support engineer job was off-shored two years ago. I got a good fixed mortgage at a low rate 5 years ago and now my house is worth less than I owe. No equit...
How much does that 1" think tank cost over the tank used for propane?
How much does it weigh?
NG to diesel, no, but NG to propane or other gas that is easily compresses to a liquid would be better. I can see CNG being used to run generators rather...
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Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
I am inventor and have had a few ideas to better use alternative energy. I have a simple to make home solar water heater for warmer climates;
Trombe wall systems, Solar/Photovoltaic combinations; in ground. inexpensive solar pool heaters; the next generation hybrid vehicles.
What excites you about this campaign?
Wind is a good long term solution, especially if it can be more widely distributed. CNG, I'm not so sure of, propane seems to be a better fuel.
What do you want to do to help?
Anyone need somebody who can think out of the box? My job was off shored two years ago.
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an alternative is to build an adiabatic diesel using high temperature solid lubricants. I did my masters work at NASA in Cleveland and we had a contract with Cummins diesel to desing such an engine. It ran at high temperatures (that actual number i forget) to get the Carnot effiency up. It also had no need for oil or a radiator which combined take about 30% of the effiency out of the engine. This was in 1983 and i thought by now we would have these on the road. The estimated mpg was 90 for a 3000 lb car which at the time was like a Nova (gee that dates me, huh). Anyway a simpler engine with fewer parts.
Rob
You might contact Bruce Boardman at the Deere & Co Technical Center. Sorry, I don't have his phone number since they changed buildings several years ago.
It seems like everyone is getting their feet wet with their new website.. I’m excited about the member count because I know from experience that together we will have a strong voice. In the future my hopes will be to create groups and discussions but more importantly to mobilize our members. Just let me know if you have any ideas or new information. I’m here to help you and everyone else.
yes, i have been hunting high and low for used fleet vehicles, i found a site in Az. i'll repost the link when i find it again, few cars on ebay - type in ebay cng cars... I'll keep digging and let you know what else I find, Peace and power to the sheeples. Kurt
Many years ago, I had a need to generate some hot water in a rural area of NE PA. I started with a 4' X 8' sheet of plywood. I then took 2" X 4" and built a frame. I put a thin layer of foam insulation on the plywood, then put a copper sheeting layer on the insulation. I took copper pipe and s-curved it (3" radius) back and forth from the top to the bottom. I soldered it to the copper base. I painted all the copper with a dull black paint. I think I used radiator paint. Then I covered the top with clear plastic sheeting (acrylic). Water came in the top (4' side) snaked down to the bottom and on a sunny day, got quite warm. I later built another one and put them in series so the water was warm enough to take a shower. An upgrade would be to put a second piece of plastic or other sheeting with an air gap for more insulation and less heat loss.
Another system I though up was installed by a friend. He was replacing the patio around his pool. We took the water that would enter the pool from the filter, hooked up a splitter, and one end went to the regular inlet. The other end went to a plenum pipe that had four sections of hose attached. These hoses were put in the form for the concrete patio, over the reinforcing wire and lead back to another plenum, then to the splitter. When the sun was out, and the concrete would normally get so hot you could barely walk on it, the water from the pool was run through the pipes, cooling the patio and heating the pool. Today you could probable have a computer controlled system to regulate electronic valves.