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Replying to: hypnosis44 (Apr 14, 2007 1:59 pm) Actually you answered your own quote with another of your following posts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel You did post this? The potential exists for bio diesel from algae cultivation. The potential gals per acre is HUGE in comparison to the example (corn) you cite. You might wish to go to that article you posted about biodiesel and report what the figures actually are for corn (18 gals) vs algae (10,000 gals) per acre of cultivation. The point (utility) to me is "IF" there is a policy shift to bio diesel; bio diesel can be gotten literally from a myraid of sources, i.e., most of them NOT wanting to bring down civilization as WE know it. Indeed most of the ways we get unleaded regular is seen as environmentally unfriendly. Of course, the wide scale cultivation of algae from lands close to the sea (water, does limitless come to mind??) will probably be nix by the environmentalists... The environmentalists have long ago locked up the coasts, probably envisioning this most viable way of energy self sufficiency. You know those very same people that want to SAVE the planet from unleaded regular???? Very very strange bed fellows!!??....... |
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Replying to: hypnosis44 (Apr 14, 2007 4:20 pm) I do not think that the difference between American and European family vehicle fleets is nowadays as wide as it was in the past. This is anyway an opinion, not an estimate. Track fleets are different, I believe. Big tracks for merchandise transport have clean-diesel engines in Europe, with all the new developments such a common rail injection, filters, etc. You can drive in the middle of a gang of those trucks without coughing or getting a headache. On the other hand, I am not the average of European drivers for sure, but the average of my driving a 2004 BMW 530d for 38 months now is 41.63 miles per gallon (USA Units). This has been achieved through 73% of road driving and 27% of downtown sneaking. Some of my friends, also drivers of similar diesel cars, say this consume is higher than theirs. I am not sure, since they tend to underestimate their consume and overestimate their speed.  Regards from Spain, which is as European as Ireland, Jose |
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Replying to: jlbl (Apr 15, 2007 6:24 am) |
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Replying to: gagrice (Apr 15, 2007 7:12 am) Jose
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Replying to: jlbl (Apr 15, 2007 7:31 am) 
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Replying to: gagrice (Apr 15, 2007 7:12 am) ...Good to hear from you. Sounds like that 530d is a wonderful car. The sooner they are offered in the USA the better. A diesel X5 would get my attention for sure. Keep us posted on any new diesel developments. "... I was thinking this out loud, but I got to wondering what the regulators in the US have against "BIGGER" cars that actually get 41 mpg!!??? I also follow the Honda Civic (small car) Real World MPH, and the mpg is literally all over the place 16-43 mpg. I report what we get in a daily commute, 38-42 mpg and plenty of folks wax: " no way Jose"  (Actually much more gritty than that, but.....another subject.
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Replying to: houdini1 (Apr 15, 2007 7:36 am) As for the bulls, I tried to run them twice, when I was younger. But in fact I ran them keeping such a good excessive distance than I cannot say those runs were ortodoxe nor valiant  Regards, Jose |
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Replying to: ruking1 (Apr 15, 2007 8:31 am)  Regards, Jose |
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Replying to: hypnosis44 (Apr 14, 2007 8:34 pm) Hybrids in their present form are problematic. If there were to be a fuel crisis tomorrow, could you... 1. Could you run any gasser hybrid on anything more than E10 reliably without modifying any mechanical part in the engine? 2. Will a gasser hybrid maintain the same level of FE if the amount of ethanol in gasoline increases significantly(40 -60%)? 3. Since the majority of commuting in this country is more highway like than city like, diesel is king for that type of driving whereas hybrid is king for inner city stop and go driving. Add to this that this is a "Diesel" forum, why would hybrids even be part of the discussion? There are many of us here who have not dismissed hybrids but do see them as part of the solution to dependence to foreign oil. A good number of the posters here just happen to prefer diesel over hybrids, plain and simple.
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Replying to: winter2 (Apr 15, 2007 10:33 am)
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