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How the Energy Bill Will Change the Car You Drive [HINT: Not for the better]
U.S.News & World Report ^ | Wednesday December 19, 11:01 am ET | Rick "Feel like a " Newman

Posted on 12/19/2007 5:42:22 PM PST by BenLurkin

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To: fabian; 1rudeboy; Mase; RockinRight; Larry Lucido; SAJ; groanup; Petronski
And at protium company, the amount of electricity is about what needed to operate the door locks...to make the hydrogen from water to run a car.

And burning the hydrogen moves the car and gives you the power to create more hydrogen? No need for gasoline?

You honestly don’t know what you are talking about and you don’t realize how silly you are sounding just content that I am wrong without even checking the new inventions out.

Yeah, those perpetual motion machines are cool.

141 posted on 12/23/2007 10:55:58 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot (What came first, the bad math or the goldbuggery?)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

While reading this thread it becomes clear why we have ethanol being sold to us as a viable alternative. What passes for education in science these days is pretty appalling. Public schooling in action.


142 posted on 12/24/2007 7:11:39 AM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: rockrr
You beat me by fifteen years,
But I did score a nice tri-power for my 390.
143 posted on 12/24/2007 7:36:08 AM PST by norton (deep down inside you know that Fred is your second choice)
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To: Mase; fabian
The only thing worse than public school math is public school science and fabian is the proof.
144 posted on 12/24/2007 8:01:09 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot (What came first, the bad math or the goldbuggery?)
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To: Mase

what’s appalling is your guy’s lack of knowledge about the new hydrogen technology. You would rather judge me as being dumb than researching the actual truth of what I am saying...http://www.protiumfuelsystems.com/products.html


145 posted on 12/24/2007 8:21:42 AM PST by fabian
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To: GovernmentShrinker
Note to Dr. Freud:

I bought my father's 60 when he got a newer car, the 53 was a father/son project when I go out of the army, the 65 was a gift to a step son who failed to finish it and gave it up. The 57 is a four door kiddie hauler (retired).

The Maverick is a street rocket and it is yellow, what's your analysis on that?

Over the years I've had three brandy-new cars total themselves on the rear bumper of my fragile little ego. Cost to me ranged from $2.95 to $900.00 at top end and including having to import parts from Arizona.

I've also watched as Nortet's Lexus rolled up into a knot when hit by a Caddie going about 20 and seen her '99 Ford scrapped for a crumpled radiator and deployed air bags. Oh, and then there was the $2000.00 grille replacement on her 2004.

What I've always questioned are the US citizens who for the past 40 or more years have gobbled up German and Japanese cars on the elitist doctrine that they must be better than home grown (back when they were pointedly NOT better & now when it's about a draw). Always seemed to me that Volkswagen and Toyota earned their market share as symbols of assumed sophistication while MB and BMW indicated that the owner was a VIP in his or her own mind.

Note also that
a) most SUVs I see on the freeway are driven by women,
b) 50MPG plus is already available if you're interested in convincing DOT to import the turbo-diesel cracker boxes I saw all over England,
c) the Toyota and Nissans I drove when overseas were crap on wheels,
d) in current terms, a paid for car can burn off $500 a month and still save you money.

146 posted on 12/24/2007 8:33:29 AM PST by norton (deep down inside you know that Fred is your second choice)
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To: Toddsterpatriot
The only thing perpetual about 'perpetual motion' is that it perpetually turns up anew, in different guises.

The free-lunch crowd jes' don' get it.

Merry Christmas, Toddy!

147 posted on 12/24/2007 9:10:58 AM PST by SAJ
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To: Disambiguator

1929 to follow.


148 posted on 12/24/2007 9:14:02 AM PST by Vaduz (and just think how clean the cities would become again.)
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To: SAJ
The free-lunch crowd jes' don' get it.

You'd understand, if you weren't hung up on the Laws of Thermodynamics!

Merry Christmas to you too!

149 posted on 12/24/2007 9:19:35 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot (What came first, the bad math or the goldbuggery?)
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To: Deut28
I will forever prize my ‘68 Fastback, and loathe the abominations that are the Mustang IIs.

Mustang IIs were ugly Pintos. Yes, it was possible to make a car uglier than a Pinto, and the Mustang II was it. FYI I think the ugliest cars ever made were AMCs (Hornet, Matador, Pacer).

150 posted on 12/24/2007 9:37:46 AM PST by Disambiguator (Political Correctness is criminal insanity writ large.)
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To: fabian
If I was you I'd re-mortgage my house and liquidate my retirement plan to invest every penny possible in 'protium fuel systems'.

Of course I'm not you. I actually took a physics course or two.

You are embarrassing yourself. Time to stop proving you are an idiot.

151 posted on 12/24/2007 9:54:04 AM PST by Dinsdale
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To: Dinsdale
Come on, you just don't understand the new hydrogen technology. LOL!
152 posted on 12/24/2007 11:05:07 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot (What came first, the bad math or the goldbuggery?)
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To: Dinsdale

that’s interesting...protium has many satisfied customers getting 50-100% more mpg’s using their hydrogen supplemental system. You can call me an idiot all you want, that doesn’t change the fact of their wonderful invention. Some of you guys think you know so much but really know very little. And when the facts prove you wrong, you just call names. Quite immature and not very conservative of you.


153 posted on 12/24/2007 7:58:56 PM PST by fabian
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To: fabian

Like I said: liquidate all the assets you can find and invest in them.

There’s lot of money to be made violating the laws of physics (seriously, if they can pull it off you’ll be infinitely rich).


154 posted on 12/26/2007 2:11:14 PM PST by Dinsdale
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To: fabian; Dinsdale
Quite immature and not very conservative of you.

Conservatives are based in reality. Believing you can violate the laws of physics makes you a liberal.

155 posted on 12/27/2007 7:44:13 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot (What came first, the bad math or the goldbuggery?)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

really, I don’t think you understand what inventors and mavericks are all about. Inventors are already getting much more energy out of splitting water molecules than they put into the process. You are in bad denial about that...I provided you the site where that is happening and they have many happy customers. So I am not quite sure which laws of physics you are thinking of. If they are breaking a law, then it is simply wrong. Why is it so hard for you to get out of your minds box and see that. It’s happening! It’s liberal to deny truth that is right in front of you.


156 posted on 12/27/2007 9:59:05 AM PST by fabian
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To: fabian
Inventors are already getting much more energy out of splitting water molecules than they put into the process.

No, they aren't.

You are in bad denial about that...

Yeah, that whole understanding physics and reality keeps me from believing the impossible.

So I am not quite sure which laws of physics you are thinking of.

Because you never took a class.

The first law of thermodynamics is often called the Law of Conservation of Energy. This law suggests that energy can be transferred from one system to another in many forms. Also, it can not be created or destroyed.

Why is it so hard for you to get out of your minds box and see that.

Why? Reality.

It’s happening!

Yeah, that's why GE is selling a perpetual generator. Just fill the tank of water, once and get an unlimited amount of power. No need to add more water or energy, because the hydrogen generates electricity and the electricity generates hydrogen and the hydrogen generates electricity.....just pull the extra electricity out to power the world.

157 posted on 12/27/2007 10:14:59 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot (What came first, the bad math or the goldbuggery?)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

you misconstrue what I am saying...did you even check out the protium website? If I am so dumb, why are they selling alot of units and getting 50-100% more mpg’s using water and their small reactors with a very small amount of current from the generator. Why don’t you call them and tell them that they don’t know what they are talking about...o brother...and who ever said they are creating energy out of nothing? You are so busy trying to be right that you are missing a really neat invention.


158 posted on 12/27/2007 9:37:18 PM PST by fabian
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To: fabian
you misconstrue what I am saying...

You're not saying that you can get more energy out of burning hydrogen than the energy you put into splitting the water?

If I am so dumb, why are they selling alot of units

There are a lot of people who, like you, never took a physics class.

getting 50-100% more mpg’s using water and their small reactors with a very small amount of current from the generator.

If the generator splits water using only current generated by the ICE, they are not getting extra energy for nothing, they are not getting extra MPG. If there is some chemical added to the water that splits the water without using current generated by the ICE, again, they aren't getting extra energy for nothing, you have to take into account the energy used to make the chemical.

...and who ever said they are creating energy out of nothing?

You did. Post #156, " Inventors are already getting much more energy out of splitting water molecules than they put into the process"

You again, Post #136, "Their patented device uses about as much electricy from the car as it takes to use the auto door locks. Guess what, much more energy on output than input!"

You, Post #105, "I haven’t made any wrong statements and you are simply wrong that it takes more energy to get hydrogen than what we get from it. That is not the case anymore"

You, Post #103, "Obviously the hydrogen energy I spoke of needs to be released by splitting the h20 molecule, but that doen’t deny my statement. The energy is dormant but ready to be released"

You again, Post #90, " So the amount of energy needed to extract the gas is miniscule and the amount of energy gotten is great"

I'm glad we straightened that out.

You are so busy trying to be right that you are missing a really neat invention.

You still think that when you look at all the inputs and all the power released by the burned hydrogen that you're getting more energy out of the water that the energy used? If you took a physics class, you'd already know the answer.

159 posted on 12/28/2007 7:22:17 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot (What came first, the bad math or the goldbuggery?)
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To: MediaMole
A properly designed system that stops the motor when ever you are stopped would save a ton of gas for people with stop and go commutes. It might be hard on the engine and require bigger batteries, but it would be one effective way to reduce gas comsumption and pollution.

Or you can raise the speed limit on the freeway. My Mercedes sedan gets its best mpg at around 100 mph, (as has been repeatedly tested from Idaho to Seatle.)

160 posted on 12/28/2007 9:01:43 AM PST by D Rider
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