I was going to point that out, but you did a good job!
Ford tried for years to adapt a turbine to cars and trucks, they even produced a couple of large trucks they ran over the road for testing. And they had a car are two. However, they were never able to solve the heat problem, Maybe this guy knows how to keep it from setting the pavement on fire. LOL
All those plastic bumpers would be melted all over the highway. It might help fill in the pot holes though.
I just finnished reading the rest of the article. it's so full of crap it's incredible. Stuff like:
"I can go next door to Ace Hardware and buy a DC electric motor, go out to my four-wheel-drive truck, remove the transmission and engine, bolt the electric motor onto the back of the transfer case, put a series of lead-acid batteries up to 240 volts in the back of the bed, and we're good to go. I guarantee you I could drive all around town and do whatever I need, go home at night, and hook up a couple of battery chargers, plug one into an outlet, and be good to go the next day."
Sure he can. His grade 7 "edukation" sure shines through.
Then there's a comment:
""It was an influence," concedes Hummer general manager Martin Walsh, of the EcoTrek vehicles. "We wanted to be environmentally responsible by having engines in Hummers that run on renewable fuels." But until I contacted Hummer for this story, GM didn't know that the man behind those machines was none other than Goodwin."
What B.S. and a slap in the face to the hundreds of people who have been playing around with bio diesel and developing the process of converting veggie oil so that it could run in near any diesel for the last 30 years now.
It certainly wasn't this Goodwin fellow who claims he can filter deep fryer grease though a pair of old blue jeans, pour it in the tank and drive off.
Oh it will work in a warm engine- for a while. But it won't be long before he destroys a very expensive injector pump and gums up a very expensive engine.
The article is so full of outrageous claims, it's pathetic, but I'm sure it will send more than a few back yard inventors running off to the hardware store for more supplies of wire, gardern hose, plastic pails etc. to rig up their own version of a deep fryer grease, hydrogen boosted volvo station wagons.
I predict new car sales are going to increase shortly...
I recall Volvo had a turbine-electric hybrid demo car a few years back. The idea was that the turbine was fairly small and would run for longish periods at its most efficient speed and throttle settings to turn a generator to feed the motors and send excess power to batteries. It wouldn’t make much sense to be constantly firing it up and shutting it down, since those are usually long, slow processes for turbines, and also are where they produce their worst emissions. And while at their most efficient turbines are more efficient than piston IC engines, I’m highly skeptical about reaching 60 mpg in a Hummer.