World's First Air-Powered Car: Zero Emissions by Next Summer

[SLCPUNK]

I was going to convert a diesel this summer to biofuel, but don't have the time yet. Never seem to have time.......or a big enough garage for all my projects.

My dad has a biofuel 2005 Jetta. He gets over 50mpg. I keep trying to convivce him to just run 90% used vegetable oil as the car will start and run with it. Though mpg would probably be in the 35-45mpg range, but it will run.


Ethonal will probably be the new gasoline if they can figure out a way to mass produce it. Has extremely low emissions. But it is hard to make in bulk.

The other problem with Ethanol is that it actually reduces the overall MPG on the car.

Yea, diesels can run on just about anything. I understand his concern since the Jetta is relatively new. I am looking at an older diesel that I can convert to run on veggie oil only, fill 'er up at the restaurant of my choice.

[C0ma]

Bio Diesel may be the way to go, but E85 doesn't seem to be:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050329132436.htm

[GNRreunioneventually]

O M G i bet Exxon, BP, and Shell are shitty themselves

btw how much power this thing have? next to nothin is what i'm betting on

untill they come out with something that can match my truck i'll stick to my gas guseler................ ohh who am i kidding wheres the exchange office?

[Gordon Gekko]

Biofuel brews up higher German beer prices

Farmers abandoning barley for crops that produce ethanol

Updated: 1:41 p.m. ET May 30, 2007

AYING, Germany - Like most Germans, brewer Helmut Erdmann is all for the fight against global warming. Unless, that is, it drives up the price of his beer.

And that is exactly what is happening to Erdmann and other German brewers as farmers abandon barley ? the raw material for the national beverage ? to plant other, subsidized crops for sale as environmentally friendly biofuels.

"Beer prices are a very emotional issue in Germany ? people expect it to be as inexpensive as other basic staples like eggs, bread and milk," said Erdmann, director of the family-owned Ayinger brewery in Aying, an idyllic village nestled between Bavaria's rolling hills and dark forests with the towering Alps on the far horizon.

"With the current spike in barley prices, we won't be able to avoid a price increase of our beer any longer," Erdmann said, stopping to sample his freshly brewed, golden product right from the steel fermentation kettle.

In the last two years, the price of barley has doubled to $271 per ton as farmers plant more crops such as rapeseed and corn that can be turned into ethanol or biodiesel, a fuel made from vegetable oil.

As a result, the price for the key ingredient in beer ? barley malt, or barley that has been allowed to germinate ? has soared by more than 40 percent, to around 385 euros or $522 per ton, from around 270 euros a ton two years ago, according to the Bavarian Brewers' Association.

[freedom78]

Biofuel brews up higher German beer prices

I recently saw a similar article about tequila, where agave fields are being planted with biodiesel crops, instead.

Rather stupid, considering all those farmers who are paid to NOT grow, so as to artificially raise prices.

[stolat]

Oh, I get off on car fumes.....

[25]

Oh, I get off on car fumes.....

You must love the smell of napalm in the morning.

[stolat]

Shit. Still in Saigon.....

Hey 1007 posts! Shaken but not stirred!

[25]

As for the charges against me, I am unconcerned. I am beyond their timid lying morality, and so I am beyond caring.

[stolat]

As for the charges against me, I am unconcerned. I am beyond their timid lying morality, and so I am beyond caring.

First toke of the day?

Or your name wouldn't happen to end in Hicks would it!

[25]

First toke of the day?

Or your name wouldn't happen to end in Hicks would it!

I'm not a stoner (anymore), I am fueled by pure boredom. But I do love Bill.

[stolat]

First toke of the day?

Or your name wouldn't happen to end in Hicks would it!

I'm not a stoner (anymore), I am fueled by pure boredom. But I do love Bill.

That's David Hicks you idiot!

[meanmachine73]

Like most recently released forms of technology that involve cutting out the oil industry.

Their business and intellectual property will be purchased by guess who?   Yep you guessed it one of the big oil companies or a collaboration of companies.

[25]

That's David Hicks you idiot!

No, the only Hicks is Bill Hicks. I refuse to acknowledge any other Hicks.