Clean energy, running your car on aluminum

[Silver R/T]

http://www.3si.org/forum/showthread.php?t=375727
Interesting read, of course we won't see this happen. Government isn't going to let billions of dollars profits from gas just go away.

[Telvis]

A good viable idea is a good viable idea. There is no great conspiracy by the US government to keep us dependent on oil. I am sure the oil companies would not be happy but there are plenty of companies with big deep pockets that would love to take money from the oil companies. Not to mention if the oil companies could come up with another product to make more money with they would jump right on  it. If the whole aluminum thing is a good idea and potentially profitable, you can bet someone will find a way to bring it to market. My guess is that it is just hype and hollow promises. Time will tell. Start saving up aluminum cans! MMMMM more reason to drink beer! 

[Troy]

It seems to me that the big(ger) problem is the cost. If you can't compete with the price of gasoline people won't buy it. It really is that simple and I have no idea why some people just can't grasp the concept. The government could give them millions/billions in funding and remove any roadblocks but they still wouldn't have any customers. I'm interested in seeing how they contain the reaction in a vehicle. I'm sure the technology/safety will have to go through a lot of testing.

This quote is better:

"Remember that Einstein was a patent examiner and had no funding for his 1905 miracle year," Woodall added. "He did it on his own time. If he had been a professor at a university in the U.S. today and put in a proposal to develop the theory of special relativity it would have been summarily rejected.

"Likewise, since I won my National Medal of Technology for compound semiconductors and not making hydrogen, DOE does not recognize me as a member of the club." As evidence, Woodall said DOE last summer rejected two "pre-proposals" for funding, "i.e., I was not invited to send in full proposals on my work."

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Woodall said that his "bottom line" is that "it will take me a little longer to launch the revolution."

Troy

[bull]

I'm going to re-invent the black powder engine and put the oil companies and the Middle East out of business. And as a bonus every day will smell like the 4th of July!

[73dodge]

I'm going to re-invent the black powder engine and put the oil companies and the Middle East out of business. And as a bonus every day will smell like the 4th of July!

Sorry man they just did a mythbusters segment on three different designs of the black powder engine using the drawings from the inventors. They all failed miserably none of them worked or worked for one revolution and then could not continue for various reasons.

There is oil out there as soon as Canada gets finished ramping up productions in the oil sands in northern alberta gas will be back to 50cents a gallon.

They are working on it, I was just up there last week and they have 1.5 Trillion barrels of oil up there just waiting to scrape it off the ground.


Give them about 5 years and we'll be awash in oil again