Antique Green Machine runs on renewable fuel

[marchesarosa]

Thanks to Chiefio for the link.

[skeptic]

As Howard Hughes showed with steam vehicles, in a crash you have superheated steam to deal with. It will peel the flesh off of your bones.

I was in New Zealand in 1986 when a gas powered car developed a leak and they shut off a busy intersection for over an hour till the gas finished venting.

An article in a British newspaper last week said that there were more charging points in England for electric cars than there were electric cars.

But maybe there is a future in hydrogen?


www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-breakthrough-hydrogen-fuel-cells-chemists.html


and not forgetting biofuel:


www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-cellulose-biofuels-future.html

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[principled]

Skeptic

An article in a British newspaper last week said that there were more charging points in England for electric cars than there were electric cars.

A classic example of the effect a dogmatic policy made by technologically illiterate politicians. Everyone in the motor industry knows that the breakthrough in high energy battery storage is years (maybe decades) away, but those same companies know they must pay lip service to the politicians' dreams.
The whole energy debate and the policies that flow from it have been skewed to appease the green movement. We're left with a mishmash of policies that are neither good for the environment nor for the economy.
Don't get me wrong, battery powered, short distance town cars are perfectly feasible. The trouble is that they are charged from generating plants that use coal or gas, so the CO2 saving is - at best- 10%.
If our politicians had had the guts to develop a proper energy policy, those cars would be fed by nuclear plants giving a genuine CO2 reduction.
One other fact that no politician seems to have grasped is that if we all changed to electric cars, the electrical grid would collapse!

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[marchesarosa]

Well put, principled. You have it in a nutshell.

[marchesarosa]

The Indians have designed a compressed air vehicle. www.caradvice.com.au/141944/tata-motors-mini-cat-air-car-to-debut-in-2012/
Apparently compressed air can be pretty "explosive", too.

But then, so is petrol, or so I hear.