Is E85 different than the ethinol top fuel dragsters use? because someone said that they produce lass hoursepower, but it has been my experience that alcahol drasters produce more hoursepower than the race fuel drasters. I could be wrong.
BMW made the first hydrogen/gas powered car, and because it needs to be tuned to use both fuel sources both MPG are down, but if it could be tuned to use strictly hydrogen than it get better gas miles. I am glad to see mazda getting in the mix of burning hydrogen.
It is my understanding that energy is neither created nor destroyed. So theroeticly when you burn gas the output is heat and the expolsion power used to turn the motor. We loose alot of that convertion into heat. Thats why its not efficient as converting one thing to another.
Now, this is a theory I have. Call me a loon, but don't bash me. Its just a theory. Keep in mind I do nto know how the earth goes about producing oil. I know its a fosil fuel, but other than that I don't know. Everyone firmiliar with the tar sands in Canada? Have you ever noticed that it seems like oil is found in areas of high sand content? Atleast to my knowledge anyways. Remember I'm just thinking outloud. I know that it has been said that trees and plants clean the air and help remove polution. Although no where in a plants respriation does it use the polutants from the air. Atleast thats not what I learned in Bio. So now I ask myself if plants don't realy filter out the bad stuff in the air then what does? I know polution has been on the increase, but some has to be removed or we would have overwhelmed ourselves already. All the forest fires and other things burning since the begining of time should have accumulated over time and we should have been overwhelmed by now. So not to get to my theory and point of this ramble. What if all those byproducts of oil some how accumulate in the sandy area of the world and over time pool into the pockets of oil we are now collecting. What if they somehow convert from the gass byproducts back into the oil they were once? I duno it could be far fetched, but I was just thinking outside the box. If atoms never get destroyed but they just recombine, unless we split an atom, but then don;t those components recombine after the reaction?
I know just enough to eb dangerous, but not enough to know really what I am talking about.
What about if someone built a hybred that when the engine was running it had 2 or 3 alternators running on the exuast lines generating more elestricity while the engine was running. It might help the engine run less to recharge the batteries. Just a thought.
Here is another, and I planned on building it, but EVERYONE says it will not work. You know the whole idea of can't get energy for free. What I have thought about doing was having an enetric motor funning a large pully or maybe a planitary gear or something where for every rotation of the motor pully you get Many rotations of the output gear. That ourput gear would then turn 2 or 3 alternators that are pretty free spinning. Now the motor would be running off 3 to 12 batteries in parrallel (parrallel would keep it a 12 volt system right?), and then the alternators would be recharging those batteries. I would think that the one motor running the 2 or 3 alternators would use less energy than the alternators were producing therefore, having a surplus of energy to be used to power something. I also thought about using a 6 volt motor to power the system, and charge the 12 volt batteries. Just had to find a 6 volt motor strong enough to run the system without sucking to much energy. Now I don't have the funds to impliment such an idea, and everyone I share this with tells me that it wouldn't work. The energy needed t oturn the alternators would accualy be more than the alternators would produce this that and the other. I just think that that is not the case if a high efficency motor was used and high output alternators were used. You know tha 190 amp big boys. Or even bigger if they make them, but they would have to be free spinning to reduce drag on the electric motor. I know the laws of physics says it will not work, but my twisted thinking outside the box tells me it will work. If I ever get the funds to make it, and I am able to get the system to power my car stereo for an extended period of time, then I would consider it a success.