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  • Corn can produce diesel

    Although corn is normally converted to sugars and then fermented to make ethanol, it can also be gasified to produce syngas, which then is converted to synthetic fuels. These synthetic fuels include diesel.The standard gasification process that is still used today was developed in Germany in 1913, improved upon in the 1920's by Franz Fischer ...
    Posted to Green Room by regrouping on November 14, 2008

  • What about "flex-fuel diesel"?

    If a fraction of what is being spent on E85 cars and hybrid cars were spent on what I call ''flex-fuel diesel,'' we would be able to run diesel engines on anything from waste vegetable oil, right out of the restaurant, to home-brew corn likker. Rudolph Diesel originally designed his engine to free the small businessman from the tyranny of the ...
    Posted to Green Room by Bytesmiths on November 12, 2008

  • Obama needs to reframe his Energy Plan

    This energy debate is getting ridiculous. John McCain is going nuts with that ''inflate your tires'' thing and it seems like it might be working. Obama is kinda struggling to define his energy plan on McCain's terms. He needs to stop doing that. McCain is kinda starting to own this debate by making it about ''increasing America's oil ...
    Posted to Trailhead by Carnivorous Santa on August 8, 2008

  • Hybrids, not as good a move as you think

    Before you go out and buy a hybrid you may want to look into turning your current vehicle into a hybrid. In recent years many advances have been made towards using hydrogen in conventional gas burning engines. While some ideas seem to have been made by crack pot hippies or your neighbor experimenting in his garage some ideas will actually work. ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by allanmain on July 8, 2008

  • Iran's Arsenal is Really Financial not Nuclear

    The US isn't afraid of Iran's ''Nuclear Arsenal'' but rather their ''Finacial Arsenal''... Iran has begun an ''Oil Bank'' that has let the air out of the Dollar, creating the first steps of a finacial freefall for the US and anyone sticking to the Dollar as ''Oil Currency''; not my opinion, fact!!! Read the Tehran newspapers... Can you see the ...
    Posted to Moneybox by blueybrink on June 10, 2008

  • Re: Not exactly right

    I think many variables are missed here. Such as load,temperature,age of engine. A Toyota Corolla has a 10.5to1 ratio engine. You would think that premium would be rquired. But it is not. In fact the computer cannot take advantage of the premium. Same goes for Honda Civic's and Ford's Focus. Their engines all use a compression ratio of 10.5 to1. ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by jescott418 on February 25, 2008