Who would like to see a boxer diesel in the FT-86?

[bigbcraig]

WOAH NOW

biodiesel is a fantastic biofuel, my next page-long post was going to be about how it really is good and does NOT have all of the problems that ethanol has (which unfairly gave biofuels in general a bad name).

But for now, I dont have the time - 6 page paper due tomorrow, 2 finals tomorrow, 2 tuesday

[Matador]

Originally Posted by RegisBou

Up in the Norway/Sweden area they are working on a cold fusion power source contained by gama shields...its actually a working project and it should be done by 2050. Powering the world with an earth made sun contained in a shield powered by the sun! LOL but yes, I am excited for this!

Another renewable diesel source would be HEMP. Sure bash all you want but the first diesel engine used hemp seed derived diesel fuel. Go figure :p

Hemp can also replace clear cutting for paper since it grows (lets say one acre) in 6 months the same amount of fiber required for paper as an acre of tree's would in 20 years O_o and it does not require near the same amount of nutrients from the soil and can grow pretty much anywhere other than the north and south poles LOL.

So yea I agree 100% with what you say, but the government needs to stick to what it did when George Washington was president...mandate every farmer to grow hemp on the side or get fined! The model T used hemp based bumpers, since they are 10 times more absorbant than steel in terms of impact...

Man the things I learn in college...as a bio major haha

sorry for the off topic post, but it is somewhat relative!

And yes, I would love to see a diesel in the ft-86! McDonald's would sponsor all the diesel drift cars :p

[RegisBou]

Originally Posted by MatadorRacing_F1

If only people could be more open minded. I mean George Washington was!

Feel the force! haha

If only diesels could rev past 7k...would be AMAZING. Talk about powerrrr

[mrtodd]

Originally Posted by RegisBou

If only diesels could rev past 7k...would be AMAZING. Talk about powerrrr

There are modified diesel engines out there that rev past 7k.....but, making real POWER past 7k is a different story. Hah. That stuff just burns way too slow compared to regular petrol/gasoline.

[Lexicon101]

Originally Posted by jay4prez

Well that sucks, I envisioned having a 13inch side exit exhausts with a gutted cat.



So does this mean I'll need to drive with a fish tank or something beneath my car?


On a more serious tip, I don't think I wana put any more h20 into the atmosphere than we already have, this rainy season is ruining my driving days I couldn't imagine it raining because tons of people are driving around in their water producing cars, and what next, airplanes? Can you imagine a jet flying overhead and creating scattered showers?

.... your problem with hfc's is that it'll get rainy? Ever heard of oceans? That's where the water goes back to... and that's where we'd probably get it from...
Some people would be GLAD to have some rain now and then.

Originally Posted by MatadorRacing_F1

There are some things fundamentally wrong with using a FOOD SOURCE as a fuel. I still wish I could slap the scientist & politicians that came up with that idea. Now I'm all for biodiesel made form woodchips, organic waste matter, cultured algae etc, but using corn and wheat (you know the stuff we use to eat, make bread, feed livestock etc etc etc) is just plain retarded.

I long to see a nuclear powered world. Nuclear plants providing all the grids power, nuclear powered trains, nuclear powered cargo ships/oil tankers (some container ships can use as much as 1,660 gallons per hour while an aircraft carrier refuels what? Once in 25 years w/ a 50 yr service life).

I dunno what fuel we will be using in the future, but what is certain is that automakers, energy and fuel companies, scientists and politicians need to sit down and work it out so there is some sort of standard and direction to head in.... which probably won't even happen in our kid's lifetime because there is just way too much money in fuel to give up.

Pretty sure when using corn and stuff it'd be more likely to use the stalks and husks and all that for fuel and stuff.

Originally Posted by RegisBou

I heard somewhere (not sure at all...prolly 60% credibility on this LOL) but I heard that the wankel engine (rotary duhhh) can combust hydrogen quite efficiently!

I've always wondered about that...

Hmmm. I may look into that. I've always liked Wankel engines. Nifty little machines. (literally, they're little.)

Originally Posted by RegisBou

Up in the Norway/Sweden area they are working on a cold fusion power source contained by gama shields...its actually a working project and it should be done by 2050. Powering the world with an earth made sun contained in a shield powered by the sun! LOL but yes, I am excited for this!

Another renewable diesel source would be HEMP. Sure bash all you want but the first diesel engine used hemp seed derived diesel fuel. Go figure :p

Hemp can also replace clear cutting for paper since it grows (lets say one acre) in 6 months the same amount of fiber required for paper as an acre of tree's would in 20 years O_o and it does not require near the same amount of nutrients from the soil and can grow pretty much anywhere other than the north and south poles LOL.

So yea I agree 100% with what you say, but the government needs to stick to what it did when George Washington was president...mandate every farmer to grow hemp on the side or get fined! The model T used hemp based bumpers, since they are 10 times more absorbant than steel in terms of impact...

Man the things I learn in college...as a bio major haha

sorry for the off topic post, but it is somewhat relative!

And yes, I would love to see a diesel in the ft-86! McDonald's would sponsor all the diesel drift cars :p

Pretty sure I don't know anyone with a legitimate argument against the legalization of mary j. (Not saying there isn't one. Just that I haven't found it.) It's damn useful, and if the government regulated and sold it, it'd be less expensive and safer, wouldn't require so much spending from the government to catch dealers and growers and stuff.. and would probably get less cool anyway, so use wouldn't be as prolific.

Anyway, about the cold fusion business.. That's some fuckin' cool shit. Leave it to Scandinavians to do brilliant shit like that.
I doubt, if they've got it as far as you make it sound, that it'd take until 2050. Technology gets twice as advanced every two years or something, right? Or does that just apply to transistors?
Anyway, the more technologically advanced we get, the faster technology grows, one way or another.. it might take us 40 years to get there at our current level, but ten years from now, it might be "will be completed in ten years" or something along those lines..

[Matador]

Originally Posted by Lexicon101

Pretty sure when using corn and stuff it'd be more likely to use the stalks and husks and all that for fuel and stuff.


Pretty sure I don't know anyone with a legitimate argument against the legalization of mary j. (Not saying there isn't one. Just that I haven't found it.) It's damn useful, and if the government regulated and sold it, it'd be less expensive and safer, wouldn't require so much spending from the government to catch dealers and growers and stuff.. and would probably get less cool anyway, so use wouldn't be as prolific.

Ok.
A) That is the problem. The stalks and husks are what are used to feed cows, pigs, chickens etc... i.e. Meat, Dairy and Egg supply.

B) While I agree with you totally about MJ, I think one should note that what they use to produce all that neat stuff is pretty useless to smoke. Same CSL, but one has no buds (and useless amounts of THC)

[Lexicon101]

Originally Posted by MatadorRacing_F1

Ok.
A) That is the problem. The stalks and husks are what are used to feed cows, pigs, chickens etc... i.e. Meat, Dairy and Egg supply.

B) While I agree with you totally about MJ, I think one should note that what they use to produce all that neat stuff is pretty useless to smoke. Same CSL, but one has no buds (and useless amounts of THC)

Didn't know that's what we used to feed cows and stuff.
K. You're right.

[[es vi: eks]]

Originally Posted by MatadorRacing_F1

There are some things fundamentally wrong with using a FOOD SOURCE as a fuel. I still wish I could slap the scientist & politicians that came up with that idea. Now I'm all for biodiesel made form woodchips, organic waste matter, cultured algae etc, but using corn and wheat (you know the stuff we use to eat, make bread, feed livestock etc etc etc) is just plain retarded.

I agree.
Food growing land should stay as food source.
In my country we have china companys trying to buy up our Dairy Farms to supply china with milk.
At the moment they are trying to buy up the biggest Dairy Farm in NZ. It supplys 1% of NZ milk
Eventually food is going to become very scarse and very exspensive
Get fuel some other way.

[mrtodd]

Originally Posted by [es vi: eks]

Eventually food is going to become very scarse and very expensive
Get fuel some other way.

Well said.

[Matador]

Originally Posted by mrtodd

Well said.

+1 :happy0180:

[Lexicon101]

Originally Posted by [es vi: eks]

I agree.
Food growing land should stay as food source.
In my country we have china companys trying to buy up our Dairy Farms to supply china with milk.
At the moment they are trying to buy up the biggest Dairy Farm in NZ. It supplys 1% of NZ milk
Eventually food is going to become very scarse and very exspensive
Get fuel some other way.

How about this?

[Matador]

Originally Posted by Lexicon101

How about this?

[zigzagz94]

Mr. Fusion is great and all but from that picture it looks like Doc Brown is wasting a perfectly good Miller High Life. You know that's the champagne of beers right, lol.

And I totally agree about hemp being a good source for bio-diesel. U.S. anti drug regulations are retarded

[Lexicon101]

Originally Posted by zigzagz94

Mr. Fusion is great and all but from that picture it looks like Doc Brown is wasting a perfectly good Miller High Life. You know that's the champagne of beers right, lol.

And I totally agree about hemp being a good source for bio-diesel. U.S. anti drug regulations are retarded

It's pronounced ruh-tard.


EDIT: Oh, and Matador... I'm glad you approve.