Synthetic Gasoline
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Topic: Synthetic Gasoline
Posted By: SSOK
Subject: Synthetic Gasoline
Date Posted: 29 January 2011 at 11:55am
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Interesting read...
http://news.discovery.com/tech/synthetic-gasoline-for-150gallon-and-no-emissions.html - http://news.discovery.com/tech/synthetic-gasoline-for-150gallon-and-no-emissions.html
I suspect that it wont hit the market due to cost or the micro-beads interfeering with fuel lines and carbureators. While people with lawnmowers/old cars with carbs will still use gas, if the beads clog the injectors on a 2009 Camry or rot the valves on a 2006 Mustang this product will never hit the market.
In addition, I think that the big evil petroleum companies are attempting to buy out this comany as we speak. If they dont succeed in buying out this comany, the patent, the scientists, or whatever means necessary to acquire the technology I suspect that OPEC will over produce until gas hits 50 cents a gallon. With a lower gas price the average consumer wont care, fill their Hummers to the brim, and Cella folds.
Supply and demand. Economics 101. ------------- 
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Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 29 January 2011 at 12:14pm
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You can't simplify the future of energy markets as simply supply and demand, but I would agree that like many alternative fuels it is highly unlikely that it will hit the market anytime soon. I think a lot of the reason that oil companies are buying up alternative energy companies is not simply to stifle competition right now, but also because they understand that they will be forced out of the energy market in the future and therefore need to start investing in other processes now. ------------- BU Engineering 2012 |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 29 January 2011 at 12:28pm
I've been saying this for years. ------------- ? |
ParielIsBack wrote:Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 29 January 2011 at 1:11pm
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I have always believed that Oil companies have been buying up alternative energry to stifle the competition so they can continue to produce billions of barrels of oil a year while they still can, then when the world suffocates from a depleted oil supply they can contine to be the energy czars.
FYI, you could buy a kit with the Model T to run it off of pure ethanol distilled in your own home... -------------
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Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 29 January 2011 at 2:28pm
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1. we develop research on synthetic gas 2. Oil baron's hear this 3. gas drops to $1.50 a gallon 4. we forget about the reasearch 5. gas goes back up to $3 6. Barons win again. ------------- http://www.anomationanodizing.com - My Site 
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Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 29 January 2011 at 2:38pm
While it's got some flaws, and I think some misguided arguments at times, the documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car?" touches on this idea quite a bit.
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Posted By: oldsoldier
Date Posted: 30 January 2011 at 12:23am
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Wait, in 1944 Germany ran thier war and economy on 75% synthetic gasoline in both auto and aviation grades. After the war America po-poed the whole concept with the now readily availablity of real oil, and the successful German synthetic fuel tech kinda died away.
The wartime German gasoline/parafin diesel replacement was more efficient than even real diesel oil fuels, that also died away after the war. Germany also played with efficient Hydrogen-Peroxide based fuel and it to worked quite well. Had a U-boat that ran on it, a sealed system that provided power for propulsion as well as oxygen for prolonged submerged time (the nuke boat of the time). ------------- 
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