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According to experts, in the next 5 years the population of China and India will skyrocket so much that those 2 countries alone will consume 50% of the worlds oil reserves, resulting in exremely high oil prices....like the gas crunch of the 70's. Also right now we consume 3 barrels of oil for ever new one we find. Basically guys our supply of fuel is gonna go bye-bye in a short time.
We do have options other than those boring fuel cells or electric cars:
1. Ethanol/Methanol: Ethanol comes from corn and Methanol from wood. What's great about these 2 forms of alcohol is that it doesn't take much to convert a gas motor to run on alky, as alcohol funny cars, dragsters and pulling tractors have been around for years. This is probably our best solution as it's cheap and easy to make and we can burn it in our rides with little modification. Best part is if we run out of fuel we just grow more corn!!
2. Biodiesel: It's made from soybeans and can burn in any diesel engine without modifications. It gives just as much power as regular diesel but it's renewable and cleaner burning. Both my father's John Deere tractors burn it as does our lawnmower without any problems. (Btw our John Deere lawnmower has a 20hp Yanmar diesel......so my lawnmower is JDM tight
3. Liquid Hydrogen: Expensive and hard to make but the only emissions are from oil burnoff in the engine. Other than that it emits water vapor from the tailpipe. Hydrogen can also used to almost double the mileage of gas-powered vehicles by injecting small amounts of hydrogen into the engine and mixing it with gasoline. Like Alcohol, our current gasoline-powered rides can be converted to hydrogen with ease, but you'll have a high pressure tank sitting behind you.......which isn't the best thing in collisions.
We'll eventually run out of oil, and most likely fuel-cells and electricty will power the bulk of vehicles, so if we want to keep our beloved piston and rotary engines then the aftermarket needs to get on the ball and start making some alcohol converstion kits. And it'd be a great thing if we could clean up the planet but still keep our loud, great sounding Internal Combustion engines around for fun.
We do have options other than those boring fuel cells or electric cars:
1. Ethanol/Methanol: Ethanol comes from corn and Methanol from wood. What's great about these 2 forms of alcohol is that it doesn't take much to convert a gas motor to run on alky, as alcohol funny cars, dragsters and pulling tractors have been around for years. This is probably our best solution as it's cheap and easy to make and we can burn it in our rides with little modification. Best part is if we run out of fuel we just grow more corn!!
2. Biodiesel: It's made from soybeans and can burn in any diesel engine without modifications. It gives just as much power as regular diesel but it's renewable and cleaner burning. Both my father's John Deere tractors burn it as does our lawnmower without any problems. (Btw our John Deere lawnmower has a 20hp Yanmar diesel......so my lawnmower is JDM tight
3. Liquid Hydrogen: Expensive and hard to make but the only emissions are from oil burnoff in the engine. Other than that it emits water vapor from the tailpipe. Hydrogen can also used to almost double the mileage of gas-powered vehicles by injecting small amounts of hydrogen into the engine and mixing it with gasoline. Like Alcohol, our current gasoline-powered rides can be converted to hydrogen with ease, but you'll have a high pressure tank sitting behind you.......which isn't the best thing in collisions.
We'll eventually run out of oil, and most likely fuel-cells and electricty will power the bulk of vehicles, so if we want to keep our beloved piston and rotary engines then the aftermarket needs to get on the ball and start making some alcohol converstion kits. And it'd be a great thing if we could clean up the planet but still keep our loud, great sounding Internal Combustion engines around for fun.
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