Loxd4
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Loxd4 said:The 1924 model Doble steam car could run for 1,500 miles on a 24-gallon tank (62.5 mpg for a 4300 lbs. automobile), had a flash boiler the could produce a working head of steam in one minute, and reach speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour, all in eerie silence. It was a luxury car that film stars and royalty were proud to own.
///////Why were the people put out of business? What wont people start making these car again? And who and why were the force out of business? And dose???And dose anyone have any more infomation on any of this cars???
Captain America said:Being a Stationary Engineer by trade....the thought of high pressure boilers travelling down the freeway at 70 MPH is a scary thought indeed.
Besides, the big oil lobby would never allow that to happen.
The big push for alternative fuels and lowering our oil dependance is just a bunch of Washington BS.
Can you imagine Mr. Bush or Mr. Cheney facing their big oil cronies when they return to the public secter AFTER they have eliminated our oil dependancy? Ain't gonna happen.
Stinger said:THEY aren't going to eliminate our oil dependecy, government can only delay the switch. THEY want to let the market dictate it, which it the best way to do it. One day we will have BP Hydrogen stations.
Stinger said:Your arguement is as silly as the old stories about GM having a carburator that could give you 80 mpg but were holding it back because the CEO played gold with the CEO of GM. Sheer folly.
H2 developement itself is a joke. You're now switching from high pressure steam running down the freeway (not flamable) to high pressure hydrogen (extreemly flammable). See the inevitability of a chain rxn on the 405 should a motorist get into an accident?Stinger said:Actually not, look at hydrogen technology development.
Hardly at all, what happened the very next day after this years state of the union address? White house goes to big oil to "reassure them". Mind you this is also the same administration that first denied global warming all together, then changed that argument now to "no human involvement"Stinger said:Your arguement is as silly as the old stories about GM having a carburator that could give you 80 mpg but were holding it back because the CEO played gold with the CEO of GM. Sheer folly.
Bergslagstroll said:Why is the market best?
Look at Europe with more govermental control. There almost 50 % of the cars are diesels that need 20/30 % less fuel?
Also why is it in Europe that have the most fuelefficient cars even if you count in the diffrence from the diesel use?
Captain America said:Perhaps. But we can put a man on the moon in '69 but here it is 2006 and we STILL don't have cars that can run on alternative fuels all over the freeway?
Kinda makes ya wanna say hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....don't it?
jfuh said:H2 developement itself is a joke.
You're now switching from high pressure steam running down the freeway
to high pressure hydrogen (extreemly flammable). See the inevitability of a chain rxn on the 405 should a motorist get into an accident?
Stinger said:Wouldn't go that far, but until we decide to go nuclear for electricity it is pretty much out of the question.
Yep that is one of the issues that will have to be dealt with, that tanks for holding hydrogen under pressure will have to be quite substantial to stand up to any accidents. Else we move to all electric cars which themselves have huge hurdles to overcome, first and foremost where does the electricity come from.
UtahBill said:Assuming we solve all the issues that battery operated cars present, and we converted just 20% of cars in metropolitan areas to battery, we would need a lot more power plants to do the recharging. Even if recharging was done only at night when electricity use is down, we will still be using more fossil fuels to make the electricity unless we, like you said, go nuclear, in a big way.
Stinger said:Did it require government to move from horse and buggy to automobiles? To airplanes? Nope.
Depends on thier horsepower.
They are no more fuel efficient than cars you can buy from American manufacturers and you can buy foreign cars right here. The market will make that decission when it wants more fuel efficiency. It will move in the most effieicent manner on it's own.
What are you talking about here?Stinger said:Wouldn't go that far, but until we decide to go nuclear for electricity it is pretty much out of the question.
The physical instability of Hydrogen itself as well as the incredible volume to energy ratio required for Hydrogen just makes it completely impractical. Even if you stored hydrogen in its liquid form it still will not have enough mass to power your vehicle. There just isn't enough energy in small volumes for a compact, midsize sedan or truck.Stinger said:Yep that is one of the issues that will have to be dealt with, that tanks for holding hydrogen under pressure will have to be quite substantial to stand up to any accidents. Else we move to all electric cars which themselves have huge hurdles to overcome, first and foremost where does the electricity come from.
Bergslagstroll said:Well capitalism doesn't invented the wheel, so that is your point?
Why is it then american car manufactures have really tough time economically?
European have it a bit better.
And the japanese that also promote fueleffice is going excellente?
It just seem that car companies from countries that don't rely on the market is going better...
jfuh said:What are you talking about here?
H2, hydrogen. You said it was a joke. We will use hydrogen fuel cells in the future, but not until we have nuclear power from which to get the energy to produce H2.
The physical instability of Hydrogen itself as well as the incredible volume to energy ratio required for Hydrogen just makes it completely impractical. Even if you stored hydrogen in its liquid form it still will not have enough mass to power your vehicle. There just isn't enough energy in small volumes for a compact, midsize sedan or truck.
They've already produce the cars that run on it. It's getting the hydrogen that's the problem.
The only high energy stored fuel still remains liquid carbon based fuels - hence alternatives such as alcohols which are completely renewable are the only way to go. Everything else is just lip service.
Unfortunatily alcohol doesn't offer near the bang for the buck that gasoline does and it self is very flammable and dangerous compared to gasoline. AND it will take a hugh amount of land to grow enough corn to produce the alcohol we need.
It will end up being a mix.
The other incredible problem with hydrogen is infrastructure.
The market will handle it.
The entire transportation and production infrastructure that exists today would have to be completely rebuilt to accomidate a hydrogen run economy.
What do you think happend when we went from horses to automobiles, from steam trains to electric/desiel.
Then finally how do you generate hydrogen in the first place?
Nuclear power, using natural gas or sea water.
THe only alternative to gasoline is alcohols.
It's one of the alternatives that we will go to eventually. It won't be one or the other.
Stinger said:Well it certainly wasn't government. It was some poor old caveman who, acting in his own self-interest, decided to find a better way to get his work done. A good description of basic capitalism.
Most of thier cars are pretty lousey and the unions make thier labor cost prohibitive to being successful.
Not much, Volkswagon is hurting.
They, and the Koreans, build better cars, yes more power per gallon which is what the market wants, safer and do so more effieciently.
The Hyundai, Honda, and Nissan plants in Alabama and Mississippi are big customers of mine.
What on earth are you saying. They ABSOLUTELY rely on the market, they know it better, the react to it better, they supply what it wants better. They also know better what the labor market wants and are keeping the unions from getting in. I call on unionized plants in other industries and the realations between them and the non-unionized car plants are amazing. The Americans CANNOT survive with the current union situation. Some of the Delphi workers were making $65 an hour plus unbelievable retirement benifits. Many if not most of the workers in the car plants here came from unionized industries, textiles, pulp and paper, woodproducts, they want nothing to do with them again because they know what benifits they get will be short term and the working environments are lousey.
http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/global_gasprices/nation.html#tableBergslagstroll said:Sorry I didn't explain that I meant very well. I just though it was intersting was that countries that meddle in the price of gas and rasied it over the "market price" seems to have better car industries: http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/global_gasprices/nation.html#table
But that I you talkning keeping the unions out? I may be partly true for the asian countries. But europe have much stronger unions then america.
But yes it is a problem that you don't have a strong national unions that enrolle most of the workers.
Because that and also a lack of a welfare system may lead to the unions have more to fight for the short term intersest of the workers in a specific branch.
Personally I think you have more "problems with unions" there unions are weak on a national and branch wide level then there are strong. Even if it's sound silly to you.
IT very much is a joke. Just for the very reasons that I've posted previously. Try reading, stop :spin:Stinger said:H2, hydrogen. You said it was a joke. We will use hydrogen fuel cells in the future, but not until we have nuclear power from which to get the energy to produce H2.
"They've" also produced aircraft that run on nukes. There is no problem with obtaining hydrogen. It's storing enough hydrogen in a passenger vehicle, the infrastructure needed transport hydrogen, the saftey standards neccessary.Stinger said:They've already produce the cars that run on it. It's getting the hydrogen that's the problem.
Lol, and hydrogen does? DO you know of the energy variance between alcohol and hydrogen? More :spin:Stinger said:Unfortunatily alcohol doesn't offer near the bang for the buck that gasoline does and it self is very flammable and dangerous compared to gasoline. AND it will take a hugh amount of land to grow enough corn to produce the alcohol we need.
a mix of what?Stinger said:It will end up being a mix.
Stinger said:The market will handle it.[/QUTOE] That's your answer to everything I know. It's also known as burying your head in the ground.
THere was infrastructure for horses?Stinger said:What do you think happend when we went from horses to automobiles, from steam trains to electric/desiel.
Steam to desiel is simple as trains are highly centralized. More :spin:
Nuke power, yes. Natural gas? You've got to be kidding, that takes out excess greenhouse gases how?Stinger said:Nuclear power, using natural gas or sea water.
Sea water is energetic? Interesting.
jfuh said:IT very much is a joke. Just for the very reasons that I've posted previously. Try reading, stop :spin:
"They've" also produced aircraft that run on nukes. There is no problem with obtaining hydrogen. It's storing enough hydrogen in a passenger vehicle, the infrastructure needed transport hydrogen, the saftey standards neccessary.
Next, you do not need to use the fruiting body of a plant to make alcohols, use the waste corn stalks instead of the corn itself.
THat's how. There's plenty of biomass that you could use to convert, not just corn itself, wheat stalks, corn stalks, grass clippings, ect ect.
a mix of what?
Stinger said:The market will handle it.[/QUTOE]That's your answer to everything I know. It's also known as burying your head in the ground.
Because it is the most effiecient means to do it, if you believe government can accomplish it then you are sticking you head some where else.
THere was infrastructure for horses?
ROFL Yes. And we moved from it to one of a petroleum based system without the "benifit" of government, the market handle it quite well thank-you.
Steam to desiel is simple as trains are highly centralized. More :spin:
Not at the time they were our major means of mass transportation and when the switch was made from coal fired to diesel it was the market that did it not the government.
Nuke power, yes. Natural gas? You've got to be kidding, that takes out excess greenhouse gases how?
Takes out what greenhouse gases, what on earth are you talking about?
Sea water is energetic? Interesting.
Didn't say it was energetic did I, Interesting. But as a source for hydrogen..........
Wait wait wait, am I reading this right? H2 powered car that uses an internal combustion engine? You do know that that's been around since the end of WWI right? It's nothing new. But same as the hindenberg that arrived decades later, it was a catastrophic "hydrogen bomb".Stinger said:Well tell that to Ford, they have a H2 power car, using an internal combustion engine, that has a 300 mile range already. But for as far as we can possible see in the future they will be shorter range vehicles.
How many times do I have to repeat myself to you. There is absolutely no method of overcoming the physical instability of Hydrogen gas itself. The physical property of Hydrogen is itself a level 4 fire hazard, extreemly flammable. Literally the static shock you get when dismounting your vehicle would be plenty sufficient in some rare cases to ignite gasoline much less hydrogen gas which has an much much lower activation energy.Stinger said:See above, yes there are hurdles but not insurmountable.
Precisely, finally listening.Stinger said:So you are claiming we can replace all of our gasoline usage with the left overs of our corn crops.
No you do not. Since you seem to have studied up on hydrogen fuel cells, have you read up on alcohol fuel cells? The amount of energy contained within a single molecule of alcohol is nearly 200times that of a single molecule of hydrogen. Fuel cells allow for nearly complete transfer of the oxidation energy of the "fuel" into electrical energy. It is inevitable that the internal combustion engine will be replaced by "electric" vehicles. Alcohols allow for a very simple change that utilizes the current pipline infrastructure that exists nearly around the world (as well as tanker ships). The best part about alcohols is the bonus it gives to agriculture through the fermentation of the waste stalk in contrast to the current wasteful methodology of using the fruting bodies (very expensive).Stinger said:Now that's :spin:It's still going to take a massive increase in argiculture, which is a bonus to us since we have a very effiecient agricultural system.
That's the current popularist thought in the mainstream media, however in the scientific community that is not the case.Stinger said:But will only supply a a fraction of what we need as far as our total enegy needs.
Fusion yes it will be used. However hydrogen no. For the saftey reasons I've mentioned over and over again.Stinger said:Sigh, what we are talking about ALL the various forms of energy. We will be using a mix not just one of them.
Stinger said:The market will handle it.[/QUTOE] Eventually, however in the current case of various global warming trends governmental incentive is a good option.
I've never said that government should ever take over and push for products as all such centralized forms of control have resulted in a complete waste of tax dollars and utter failure. I'm speaking of incentives and phasing in. Just as analog TV sets will be completely phased out by Feb 2009.Stinger said:Because it is the most effiecient means to do it, if you believe government can accomplish it then you are sticking you head some where else.
Certainly, you're right, there were massive piplines, I mean trains? that transported horses as well as continuous flows of water lines to quench thier thirst. Sweepers nationwide to take care of their droppings. Yep, there certainly was a massive nationwide infrastructure for horses.Stinger said:ROFL Yes. And we moved from it to one of a petroleum based system without the "benifit" of government, the market handle it quite well thank-you.
Trains were not centralized? You're kidding right, there were only a handful of companies that owned rail lines. Diesel was immediately implemented by various companies because it eliminated the "fireman" as well as various maintainances required on a external combustion boiler on wheels. It had nothing to do with market driving the incentive, it was simple cost vs benefits. Bad example on your part.Stinger said:Not at the time they were our major means of mass transportation and when the switch was made from coal fired to diesel it was the market that did it not the government.
Why use hydrogen at all if you're not utilizing a fuel that is environmentally friendly. If you're simply using hydrogen for "efficiency" means then by all standards stick with gasoline, it's much simpler.Stinger said:Takes out what greenhouse gases, what on earth are you talking about?
No you didn't say it was, however you set it up with nuke, and natural gas, both are currently used to produce hydrogen through electrolysis though NG is also used directly as a H2 source. Your exact quote in response to my question was:Stinger said:Didn't say it was energetic did I, Interesting. But as a source for hydrogen..........
jfuh said:Then finally how do you generate hydrogen in the first place?I asked you how it's generated, thus your method of answering seems to imply that you see sea water as capable of generating H2.Stinger said:Nuclear power, using natural gas or sea water.
To have properly answered that question would be: Using nuke plants to electrolize NG or sea water to generate H2.
jfuh said:Wait wait wait, am I reading this right? H2 powered car that uses an internal combustion engine? You do know that that's been around since the end of WWI right? It's nothing new.
How many times do I have to repeat myself to you. There is absolutely no method of overcoming the physical instability of Hydrogen gas itself.
I asked you how it's generated, thus your method of answering seems to imply that you see sea water as capable of generating H2.
To have properly answered that question would be: Using nuke plants to electrolize NG or sea water to generate H2.
So what? You speak of it as if it's some new kind of technology.Stinger said:So what?
No, they are not, no manufacturer has been able to overcome the physical instability associated with the utilization of hydrogen outside of the highly controlled labratory.Stinger said:How many times do I have to repeat myself, they are doing it now.
Oh, I see, so this is how it is? So it's faith that you have in H2?Stinger said:I understand you have no faith in a hydrogen powered vehicle. OH well.
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