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bio-diesel hybrid future
I still wonder about the programmed combustion engine, as in the Ford
Proco research. Diesel fuels still need to have a sufficient cetane rating, which I understand takes careful refining. Existing spark ignition engines take a high octane rating. Supposedly the proco engine- a hybrid between the diesel and the SI engine, would run on a wider cut- less refining- than either motor diesel fuels or gasoline. Sounds like an ideal solution to me. It was basically a diesel cycle, but had a spark plug to ignite the mixture rather than rely on CI. Anyone have any idea on why it failed. max wrote: > I would like to present to you the (near) future of transportation... > > Diesel hybrid cars (full two-mode plug-in hybrids) > Diesel for motorcycles > Diesel (probably 2-stroke) engines for general aviation (including > rotorcraft) > Extensive use of bio-diesel > > Hybrid cars (gasoline)are in production > Diesel hybrid trucks and busses are in production > Diesel motorcycles are / will be in production soon > Diesel aviation engines are in production...more are coming > > Very soon we will see the first diesel hybrid passenger car in > production > > Diesel for aviation or motorcycles...they have been around for some > time. Think of Junkers "Jumo" 205. Decades ago there were several > Diesel aircraft engines built by Guiberson, Packard, Rolls-Royce, > Clerget, Fiat and others. Royal Enfield (India) has had a diesel > motorcycle in production for some time. I believe it is now > discontinued. > > Some diesel hybrid car prototypes... > > GM's Ope Astra diesel hybrid > Citroen Berlingo diesel hybrid > VW Golf diesel hybrid (so I hear) > > Some diesel aviation engine prototypes... > > SMA Morane Renault MR 200 www.smaengines.com > Teledyne Continental Motors CSD-283 www.teledyne.com (Nasa GAP) > DeltaHawk V-4 www.deltahawkengines.com > Zoche 01A www.zoche.de > Diesel Air Ltd. DAIR-100 www.dair.co.uk > > Some (gasoline) hybrid cars in production... > > Toyota's Prius and Lexus > Ford's Escape Hybrid > > Some diesel motorcycle prototypes... > > Diesel Kawasaki M1030 M1 (KLR 650) F1 Engineering / Hayes Diversified > Technologies (HDT) > > For third world countries a diesel motorcycle could be ideal. It is > probably very dependable and durable and relatively easy to fix. It > could be bi-fuel, meaning it could use diesel, Jet A, light heater oil > and most importantly... bio-diesel and even straight vegetable oil > (SVO). It could ne equipped with a small (max 200kg) 2-wheel trailer > and a power take-out (PTO). The PTO would mostly be for a generator > and/or (water) pump. > > Picture this. In a third world country, a motorcycle travels 100km @ > 80kmh with 2 litres vegetable oil that they have made themselves. It > then pumps (with a pump attached at the PTO) from a deep dwell 150 > litres of fresh water into a tank that's on the trailer, drives back > and delivers the fresh water to the families in the village. Later at > night, it runs to provide electricity (with a generator attached to the > PTO) for many houses in the village and to recharge the batteries. This > motorcycle and its accessories the families in the village have bought > together, with some help from some organisation like the UN. > > Of note: Of course the best way to produce electricity in these often > sunny third world countries is solar panels!! > |
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On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 18:35:24 +0200, shakiro wrote:
>So, for 2.4 kWh daily energy, which is equivalent to 2.4 kWh / 24 hours = >100 W continuous, one would need about 7 m^2 of solar panel on the roof. >It's not too difficult to do this. where will you get the light during ALL the 24 hours when the sun does not shine? #m -- The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. -- Nathaniel Borenstein |
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shakiro wrote:
> > It is not impossible to generate this energy on a daily basis by replacing > the roof materials of family houses by solar panels with a high > efficiency. In The Netherlands for instance, a 150 W peak power solar > panel (about 1 m^2 in size, generates on average about 15 W power > continuously. So, for 2.4 kWh daily energy, which is equivalent to 2.4 kWh > / 24 hours = 100 W continuous, one would need about 7 m^2 of solar panel > on the roof. It's not too difficult to do this. > The difficult part is getting the sun on it for 24 hours each day! ;-) You might want to recompute with some more realistic daylight hours. Also efficiency drops off a lot in morning and evening and I'm not sure your "average" figures take that into account. John |
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The earth is a huge dynamo. Need to figure out how to harvest the ionosphere...still solar but more electromagnetic than photonic... |
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Oracle > wrote:
> Hemp >requires no pesticides to grow; as it's naturally resistant, making it >that much cheaper to grow. Corn requires pesticides, which adds to its >costs. Furthermore, hemp can typically yield three times as much >convertable crop as corn. This means, if given a chance, hemp could Wow Didn't know all this |
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On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 23:49:04 +0000, Blueskies wrote:
> > The earth is a huge dynamo. Need to figure out how to harvest the ionosphere...still solar but more electromagnetic than > photonic... To what are you exactly replying? shakiro |
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On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:26:29 +0200, Martin Hotze wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 18:35:24 +0200, shakiro wrote: > >>So, for 2.4 kWh daily energy, which is equivalent to 2.4 kWh / 24 hours = >>100 W continuous, one would need about 7 m^2 of solar panel on the roof. >>It's not too difficult to do this. > > where will you get the light during ALL the 24 hours when the sun does not > shine? Some energy storage? Maybe hydrogen? shakiro > #m |
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On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 19:09:06 +0000, UltraJohn wrote:
> shakiro wrote: > >> >> It is not impossible to generate this energy on a daily basis by replacing >> the roof materials of family houses by solar panels with a high >> efficiency. In The Netherlands for instance, a 150 W peak power solar >> panel (about 1 m^2 in size, generates on average about 15 W power >> continuously. So, for 2.4 kWh daily energy, which is equivalent to 2.4 kWh >> / 24 hours = 100 W continuous, one would need about 7 m^2 of solar panel >> on the roof. It's not too difficult to do this. >> > > The difficult part is getting the sun on it for 24 hours each day! ;-) > You might want to recompute with some more realistic daylight hours. Also > efficiency drops off a lot in morning and evening and I'm not sure your > "average" figures take that into account. I'm sorry to have to inform you that in this calculation already the averages are taken as an assumption. Probably you are confused by the word 'peak power' (actually 2 words . It means that if you have a solar panel that is able to generate a peak power of 150 W at full sun, in The Netherlands such a panel produces, averaged over one year, a continuous power of almost 15 W. And if you want to nitpick about decimal numbers be my guest, but not with me please, in that case please put 8 m^2 on your roof. shakiro > John |
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