The Water Powered Car
That was a misleading headline bandied about recently. Actually it's probably weirder than that - it's aluminium powered.
Schoolboy experiment NOT TO BE TRIED AT HOME - put some aluminium powder in a bottle, top up with water and an accelerator (perchlorate toilet cleaner will do), shake well and run away -hydrogen will fizz like mad, as the aluminium is oxidised. It packs a lot of punch as aluminium is highly reactive, a tankful of water and some powdered aluminium would get your car a long way - and you might even fly a plane with it (more safely than today's kerosene bombs). You would need to return the spent oxide to an aluminium smelter for recycling. There is plenty of bauxite out there to produce the necessary stock of aluminium in the first place. It is a very compact way to transport energy. Put you Al smelter next to the solar power station.
Downsides: takes a lot of electricity to smelt aluminium (14Mwh/ton), and its not pollution free (uses nasty fluorides in the process).
Thread for alternative energy, electric cars, new fuels, etc
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Re: Thread for alternative energy, electric cars, new fuels,
by Torchwood » Sun Apr 03, 2011 8:07 am
Pessimism is the soft option.
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Re: Thread for alternative energy, electric cars, new fuels,
by Torchwood » Mon Apr 04, 2011 9:43 pm
Pessimism is the soft option.
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Re: Thread for alternative energy, electric cars, new fuels,
by Colonel Sun » Sat Apr 09, 2011 10:21 pm
Never criticize anyone until you've walked several kilometres in their shoes.
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Re: Thread for alternative energy, electric cars, new fuels,
by Colonel Sun » Sat Apr 09, 2011 10:26 pm
Never criticize anyone until you've walked several kilometres in their shoes.
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Re: Thread for alternative energy, electric cars, new fuels,
by Colonel Sun » Wed Apr 20, 2011 7:46 pm
Never criticize anyone until you've walked several kilometres in their shoes.
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Re: Thread for alternative energy, electric cars, new fuels,
by Colonel Sun » Thu Jun 02, 2011 2:46 pm
Never criticize anyone until you've walked several kilometres in their shoes.
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Re: Thread for alternative energy, electric cars, new fuels,
by Colonel Sun » Sun Jun 12, 2011 4:51 pm
Never criticize anyone until you've walked several kilometres in their shoes.
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Re: Thread for alternative energy, electric cars, new fuels,
by Azrael » Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:34 pm
There are wind turbine designs that minimize risks to birds and bats and further research is being done in this area.
One factor that may affect risks is .
One factor that may affect risks is .
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Re: Thread for alternative energy, electric cars, new fuels,
by Colonel Sun » Sun Jun 26, 2011 5:07 am
Never criticize anyone until you've walked several kilometres in their shoes.
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Re: Thread for alternative energy, electric cars, new fuels,
by Azrael » Tue Jun 28, 2011 7:35 pm
Coal gas fuel cell technology sounds pretty awesome. There's definitely a huge demand for it.
Isn't the best carbon sequestration technology photosynthesis? I wonder if the CO2 could be pumped in to vessels with photobacteria, which could make biofuel.
Isn't the best carbon sequestration technology photosynthesis? I wonder if the CO2 could be pumped in to vessels with photobacteria, which could make biofuel.
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Fusion
by Azrael » Tue Jun 28, 2011 7:40 pm
Novel approach to
General Fusion’s approach is based on “magnetized target fusion” concepts first developed about 30 years ago. This approach is a hybrid of traditional “magnetic fusion” and “inertial
confinement fusion” methods, and involves first confining plasma in a magnetic field, and then compressing the confined plasma to thermonuclear conditions. General Fusion’s patent-pending fusion technology involves the equipment needed to contain and compress the plasma, and the systems needed to manage the process.
An interesting concept. I still think that nuclear fusion technology is thirty years away (or more); but it's definitely worth the effort to research.
General Fusion’s approach is based on “magnetized target fusion” concepts first developed about 30 years ago. This approach is a hybrid of traditional “magnetic fusion” and “inertial
confinement fusion” methods, and involves first confining plasma in a magnetic field, and then compressing the confined plasma to thermonuclear conditions. General Fusion’s patent-pending fusion technology involves the equipment needed to contain and compress the plasma, and the systems needed to manage the process.
An interesting concept. I still think that nuclear fusion technology is thirty years away (or more); but it's definitely worth the effort to research.
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Re: Thread for alternative energy, electric cars, new fuels,
by Colonel Sun » Wed Jun 29, 2011 11:29 pm
Never criticize anyone until you've walked several kilometres in their shoes.
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Re: Fusion
by Colonel Sun » Wed Jun 29, 2011 11:30 pm
Never criticize anyone until you've walked several kilometres in their shoes.
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Re: Thread for alternative energy, electric cars, new fuels,
by Sennacherib » Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:19 pm
Our aim is victory — victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
—Winston Churchill
—Winston Churchill
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Re: Thread for alternative energy, electric cars, new fuels,
by noddy » Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:46 am
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Re: Thread for alternative energy, electric cars, new fuels,
by Colonel Sun » Thu Jul 28, 2011 5:14 pm
Never criticize anyone until you've walked several kilometres in their shoes.
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Re: Thread for alternative energy, electric cars, new fuels,
by Tinker » Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:19 pm
The canary didn't die because this mine is dangerous, it died because it's lazy and wasn't raised with a proper work ethic.
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Japan discovers ENORMOUS Rare Earth reserves on Ocean Floor!
by HAL9000 » Wed Aug 03, 2011 4:20 am
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Re: Thread for alternative energy, electric cars, new fuels,
by Tinker » Sun Aug 07, 2011 2:55 am
Molycorp IPO
The canary didn't die because this mine is dangerous, it died because it's lazy and wasn't raised with a proper work ethic.
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Re: Thread for alternative energy, electric cars, new fuels,
by Colonel Sun » Wed Sep 07, 2011 2:55 am
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Re: Thread for alternative energy, electric cars, new fuels,
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Re: Thread for alternative energy, electric cars, new fuels,
by Azrael » Wed Sep 07, 2011 8:57 pm
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Re: Thread for alternative energy, electric cars, new fuels,
by Colonel Sun » Thu Sep 08, 2011 12:41 am
Torchwood has been advocating ammonia as fuel as long as I can remember.
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Re: Thread for alternative energy, electric cars, new fuels,
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Re: Thread for alternative energy, electric cars, new fuels,
by Azrael » Thu Sep 08, 2011 8:07 pm
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