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posted on April 15th, 2005 at 09:50 PM
Petrol is running out, Do U KNOW WHERE I CAN GET AN DIFFERENT ENGINE THAT DOESNT USE ANY OIL BASED FUEL. (IE: ETHANOL), (HYDROGEN ETC.) THAT STILL HAS GRUNT AND CAN ROAR!


Petrol is running out, Do U KNOW WHERE I CAN GET AN DIFFERENT ENGINE THAT DOESNT USE ANY OIL BASED FUEL. (IE: ETHANOL), (HYDROGEN ETC.) THAT STILL HAS GRUNT AND CAN ROAR!

I suppose if it is available, best to change them now.




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posted on April 15th, 2005 at 09:52 PM


there is an electric powered fasty for sale on here:thumb



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posted on April 15th, 2005 at 10:30 PM


Should have no trouble finding a cheepy here which relies on the Flintstone
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posted on April 15th, 2005 at 11:18 PM


start working out on your legs, those pushbikes are gonna be pretty handy in a few years:jesus



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posted on April 15th, 2005 at 11:44 PM


i'd like to see a 3 lane highway with go karts 10 a breast. like some of the asian countries and their scooters.
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posted on April 16th, 2005 at 12:05 AM


better 10 breasts a go cart

make everyone happy and you could runit on milk !!!!!!!




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posted on April 16th, 2005 at 12:06 AM


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better 10 breasts a go cart

make everyone happy and you could runit on milk !!!!!!!
what about when we eat all the cows!?




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posted on April 16th, 2005 at 01:12 AM


They made Beetles in Brazil that ran on Alcohol....

But You would always run out of alcohol on a friday night...

Would need a tank that You couldn't syphon from :):)

Not sure where the alcohol came from......??




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posted on April 16th, 2005 at 01:44 PM


I gotta website that details how to convert a Vw over to run on anywhere from 30-100% enthanol.



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posted on April 16th, 2005 at 01:46 PM


Quote:
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I gotta website that details how to convert a Vw over to run on anywhere from 30-100% enthanol.
can you put it up or u2u it?




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posted on April 16th, 2005 at 08:08 PM


everthing you ever wanted to know about biodiesel ... if you can get a diesel to go into your bug ;)

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posted on April 17th, 2005 at 08:28 PM


EA81-D, came in FHI Forklifts in the early 80s. Run the bitch on filtered cooking oil. Makes about 40hp and should return about 5 mpg...



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posted on April 18th, 2005 at 12:47 PM


What they said - convert to a diesel motor and run it on biodiesel to start and get it up to operating temperature then switch to straight vegie oil.
Plenty of info on how to do it.
Here's another article http://www.ata.org.au/articles/76veggieoil.pdf 
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posted on April 18th, 2005 at 07:52 PM


Hmm. Its a hard one. Ethanol sounds good though.



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posted on April 18th, 2005 at 08:16 PM


I thought I'd lost this link.

HOW TO MODIFY YOUR CAR

TO RUN ON ALCOHOL FUEL


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posted on April 18th, 2005 at 08:20 PM
theres oils and theres oils


How does 120h.p. sound running on my own backyard biodiesel. I can see T.D.I. engine conversions outnumbering subaru conversions when we hit $2 a litre. sssshhh just dont tell too many people your making your own fuel.
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posted on April 19th, 2005 at 12:41 PM


it used to be free last year, I should of copied it oh well it was a good read.



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posted on April 19th, 2005 at 01:06 PM


Yep, good discussion topic, but dont be seriously concerned about Oil (and hence Petrol) running out in your lifetime (unless you live to about 200).

1. R / P ratios (reserves to Production) of crude oil has sat static at approx 40 years since the early 80's. So for 20 years we have been discovering and producing new resvoirs at the rate that old ones are drying up + meeting global growth.

2. As time goes on, cars WILL become more fuel efficient (ie think hybrids like the Prius and Honda Civic), thus helping to offset the fact that there will be more of them around. This should help slow down demand growth.

3. Once conventional oil supply starts to dwindle, the price will rise. Once the price gets high enough, it then becomes economically viable to implement technologies such as refining Shale Oils (difficult due to the high solids contents and misplaced media / greenie angst), Gas to Liquids (GTL) technoliges (ie reforming natural gas to petrol size molecules) and Solids to Liquids (ie making petrol and diesel from Coal and nat gas / CO2). All of these techniques are proven technologies (at pilot plant level) that are simply still too expensive to fly economically while the price of oil is still $50 odd a BBL. Another good one (my personal favourite) is refining Canola oil to diesel - anyone know any farmers (I do !!)

Petrol wont ever 'run out'. It will simply get so expensive that you will be better off converting your bug to electric power and installing a static hydrogen fuel cell to power your home and recharge your car (and heat your water too).


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