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Subject: Re: Any recommendations on spark plugs? by bogus on 2022/8/16 19:17:50 that's great news!!!! Why do they call it E90 when it is ethanol free? E90 sounds like 90% ethanol! I know that E85 is 85% ethanol... Just trying to get some clarity! I agree, if you can find ethanol free gas, that's the shit. Also, I read recently where Formula 1 is aiming at a 100% carbon neutral fuel within the next 3 years. Get this, this stuff will be 100% compatible with all cars, not just modern ones built for it. I then watched the last episode of Top Gear (UK version) and learned that Paddy Lowe, an F1 engineer and overall genius has proven you can make a liquid fuel that is carbon neutral. It uses CO2, harvested from the atmosphere, mixed with hydrogen to create a liquid fuel that is 100% synthetic. Because it is recycling CO2, it is effectively reburning existing CO2, not adding anymore. In my thinking, that would also reduce, effectively, the CO2 in the atmosphere. Think about it, to produce enough liquid fuel in advance, there would always be a drop in atmospheric CO2 to prime this new liquid fuel. Bastet44 (my wife) figures this would kill off the electric car in minutes. The internal combustion engine would live on and be improved. We would not have to depend on foreign oil or Russian lithium. And all the mess of dealing with mining crap for batteries or a clean method of recycling would be mitigated. We could then focus clean energies on fixing our grid and not on powering our cars. At this time, the fuel costs about 10 UK Pounds per litre, and that proves it is not impossible. If this works out, it would be an epic game changer. I also see this being the basis for a JP8 type of fuel, too. Figure that kerosene, diesel, JP8 and #2 home heating oil are super close on the cracker scale. The US Military lives on JP8 - trucks, tanks, planes, ships all run on it. It seems to me that starting with a gas fuel, mixing in some vegetable oil and a little more science and we have a JP8 replacement. Keeping my eyes on this project. F1 has provided so many tech advances... ABS braking systems, modern EFI engine control systems, active suspension, turbo engine tech, performance tires... did you know that the Goodyear Eagle Gatorbacks, introduced on the 1984 Corvette, were the son of the Goodyear Eagle F1 wet weather tire? If this works, F1 will save the automobile. Just in time when our existing oil based refinery systems are in dire need of upgrade. Consider this tech would not be married to coastal regions, at least in theory, it would open up all sorts of remote areas to new refinery locations... more remote, with wind and solar power? All we would need are some water pipelines... damn... |
