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Posted on 03/14/2007 9:08:48 AM PDT by APRPEH
"I'd laugh my ass off if it turned out to be somebody in Israel who invented something that made oil obsolete."
Me too. It should be their "Manhattan Project".
Damn, haven't seen that in ages .... thanks for doing a memory dredge.
First of all, you need to pre-scrub the emissions from such "beauties" as SO2, GeO2, As2O3 and particulates, or they will poison your pond faster than you could sneeze. [They called it "filtration"]. Secondly, a coal-fired plant of medium size exhausts something like 3000 tons CO2 a day. To absorb that much you would need the biopond of half a square mile size or bigger[doable] plus quite a system for pumping and sparging the exhaust gases through that pond [also doable, but $$$]. Plus, bioponds STINK. Harvesting kudzu vines would be cheaper - you don't need to filter them out of the pond, they already are concentrated nuisance. Now, if we could convert kudzu into moonshine fuel...
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By suppressing conventional gas combustion within the cylinder with a shot of ethanol, scientists are able to achieve fuel efficiency on par with that of diesel engines. An injection of ethanol will allow a higher compression ratio, the ratio between the volume of the chamber before and after combustion, allowing gas to expand more and release more energy per molecule. The current prototype would situate gasoline and ethanol in separate tanks, mixing ethanol with the gasoline at regular intervals throughout the combustion cycle.
The ethanol boost would also eliminate the loud knocking sound associated with the spontaneous combustion of diesel engines, allowing manufacturers to squeeze both more air and fuel into a cylinder at a given time. The results of which would be an engine that has the quietness and environmental cleanliness of unleaded motors, but the greater efficiency and output of diesel.
Such an ethanol-pumped engine would also cost significantly less to implement than current hybrid motors, giving significantly better fuel economy for a fraction of the cost. While gas-electric hybrid engines currently add between $3,000 and $5,000 to the cost of a car, the MIT motor would cost only about $1,000 more. MIT’s engine is also only about half the size and weight of a standard engine, increasing performance and leaving more flexibility for car manufacturers in the design process. Said Daniel Cohn, an engineer at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center:
Cohn, along with colleagues Leslie Bromberg and John Heywood, has formed Ethanol Boosting Systems, a company aimed at developing the new technology. Ethanol Boosting Systems is currently working alongside Ford to implement the ethanol-injection system in future models.
Via cnet news
This must be a misprint. Surely, it was some high tech Palestinian arab company that developed this technology. /s
This MIT engine design looks like it has possibilities....thanks for the link.
But it would require TWO SEPARATE FUEL TANKS!.............
Ethanol would be stored in its own tank or compartment and would be introduced by a separate direct-injection system. The ethanol would have to be replenished only once every few months, roughly as often as the oil is changed.
What they need to do is figure out a way to do this with Kudzu. (It can grow a foot a day.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1800606/posts
I would like to punch him!!!!Bob,that is!!!
"Plus, bioponds STINK."
My first thought while reading article:
Burning seaweed would smell like...uh...burning seaweed!
Someone seaweed-up the flux capacitor. ;)
I prefer seaweed as a salad. I'm not kidding. The BEST salad I ever had consisted of seaweed and tiny bits of octopus and shrimp.
No war for seaweed!
Burning is no big deal - the furnace would take care of it. I mean working biopond, like waste treatment plant one.
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