[Red Badger]

Rest In Peace, old friend, your work is finished.....

If you want ON or OFF the DIESEL ”KnOcK” LIST just FReepmail me.....

This is a fairly HIGH VOLUME ping list on some days.....

AND A BIG HAT TIP TO Liberty2007!!!!..........

[fella]

Didn't they hang Andy Granatelli out to dry over gas-turbine engines?

[AZLiberty]

As I recall, he gets 60 miles per gallon of gasoline, but he uses a second fuel source — hydrogen — which he doesn’t account for. If he used hydrogen for 99% of the power, he might be able to claim 1,000 miles per gallon of gasoline. But then people would question his results.

[Rameumptom]

www.humvee.net/misc/phot.html

Personally i'm holding out for a tracked version.

[AZLiberty]

Oops, diesel, not gasoline. Here's the pertinent paragraph:

One of Kruger's systems induces hydrogen into the air intake of a diesel engine, producing a cascade of emissions-reducing and mileage-boosting effects. The hydrogen, ignited by the diesel combustion, burns extremely clean, producing only water as a by-product. It also displaces up to 50% of the diesel needed to fuel the car, effectively doubling the diesel's mileage and cutting emissions by at least half. Better yet, the water produced from the hydrogen combustion cools down the engine, so the diesel combustion generates fewer particulates--and thus fewer nitrogen-oxide emissions.

[Jack of all Trades]

The article sounds like a rehash of a popular mechanics article on Smokey Yunich's lean burn engine. A lot of anecdotal hype and extravagant claims without much empirical data. The part about "GM Engineers" asking "Is it running?" and saying "They said this wouldn't work." is especially laughable.

I'll say this though, IMHO, his long term plan is a good one: more diesels, diesel hybrids, and supplementary injection of a range of gaseous or liquid fuels. Ditch the battery electric clap trap and go hydro-pneumatic on the hybrid, and I give it two enthusiastic thumbs up.

[CSM]

“Detroit could do all this stuff overnight if it wanted to,” he adds.

OK, this guy’s idea had me intrigued, until he said this. He might be an “artist” with reworking cars, but I’d like to see him reconfigure an automotive assembly plant.

This is just another, “Detroit’s automaker’s suck” article.

[STONEWALLS]

“He charges $28,000 for a “basic H2 conversion to diesel—custom concept cars cost far more.”

....he just lost me....$28K is a lot of dough.....and BTW isn’t this just a rehash of the type stories you’d read down at the barbershop in Popular Mechanics magazines?....remember the ones like “The 50mpg Carburator That Detroit Won’t Let you Have”.

[Old Professer]

This is the biggest load of BS I have read since Bricklin hired his first PR group.

[Tribune7]

Thomas Edison was a home-schooled dropout

LOL. That's about as low as you can get :-)

[SunkenCiv]

Oh, MPG. I thought it said 60 MPH Hummer, and, well, never mind...

[fso301]

bump

[e_castillo]

Is that supposed to be a pic of the Turbine?