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Auto Fuel
Efficiency Explained My lofty Goals with this
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My Pet Project: Hydrogen, Water, the Environment, and Energy Efficiency |
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Three years ago, I asked myself a simple
question: “Why do cars today get such terrible gas mileage?” Actual efficiency (Hybrids not included) of
vehicles today are only 1 MPG better than when I was a teenager nearly 30
years ago. A terrible fact to be sure! (Both the MPG part and the age
part…J) It seems a simple enough question that,
considering today’s technical prowess, should only be answered with:
“Because there is only enough energy in a gallon of gasoline to take
you “x” amount of miles per “x” amount of
weight.” A basic physics energy equation. Of course, what I found, was that this is
so incorrect I could hardly believe it. Thus began my first declaration:
“Although no internal combustion engine can never have a perfect
efficiency, we aren’t anywhere NEAR what is possible.” I say this
because of the research I have done and the results of other experimenters.
To ask and answer the question of why this is true is a topic all of
it’s own. I just wanted to start putting some of these things to work.
So I started reading patents – LOTS of them. From this, I started becoming fascinated
(again) with Hydrogen and it’s unique properties. It was probably the
results of all the research that made me get serious about Hydrogen,
it’s production, and the effects it can have on our energy landscape.
Scientists have solid camps around their arguments either “for”
or “against” a “Hydrogen Economy.” It’s all very
controversial and steeped in the math of physic’s heat equations. This
is all fine, but the more I learned, the more I began to see that there is a
lot of information that is being ignored by the greater science community.
And THAT made me even more curious and motivated to take things into my own
hands. Continue to
“What I have learned…” |
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