Mike <mikeloveschampagneandrugby@googlemail.com> wrote in news:h56urs
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> Waste vegoil may be 'free' but what about tax? Not sure about in the
US
> but here in the UK if you use it to drive a car you need to declare it
> and duty is levied. Obviously way cheaper than commercial diesel but
> not free. Then of course there is the time and trouble and if you
don't
> pay the duty you risk the wrath of the taxman.
There's no tax on free oil in SC. They'd never make money collecting it
because so few are using it. The idea of using mineral spirits to thin
the used oil came from Jeremy Clarkson's "Top Gear" on BBC! This is the
show that told me what to try:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOFbsaNeZps
They do give you the cost of 29p/litre with the UK taxes added in.
That's not applicable here in America. I asked before doing all that
and the SC DOT bureaucrats looked at me like I was crazy....(c;]
Crazy like a fox. We've been running it like that since March of 2007
in both the 220D's little 4 cylinder, 57hp and 300TD estate wagon's 3L
turbodiesel. The exhaust is actually CLEANER with LESS carbon and
borescoping cylinders through the injector holes show the interior of
the precombustion chambers has no deposits at all! After all, I AM
pouring in a SOLVENT, you know...(c;]
>
> Commercial biodiesel has been blamed for food shortages as farmers
give
> over land to growing the new cash crop rather than food. This may be
> scaremongering but if oil supplies start to run dry and the price
rises
> we may well see farmers opting to grow 'money' over food with
inevitable
> consequences.
Germany nearly won a war against the rest of us with biodiesel like
this. Rudy Diesel had no intention of running his compression engines
on refined fuel oil. The original fuel of his diesel engines was
vegetable oil, so this is nothing new.
>
> New diesel engines are less likely to tolerate vegoil, they are more
> refined, powerful, economical and a far more pleasant to use than the
> oil burners of old and as a consequence are less likely to tolerate
> straight vegoil. I remember driving a ford fiesta (very small car)
1.8
> diesel, it had the acceleration of suet pudding towing a caravan. I
> have driven three different 1.9 diesel injections over the last 10
> years, all way bigger and heavier than the fiesta and all had 0-60
times
> around the 10 sec mark and better pulled strongly between the gears.
> Not quiet as economical but the size of the car is probably the key,
my
> current audi is prob twice the weight!
When one has a 1973 Mercedes 220D sedan, designed for taxi service as
they all were and run 24/7 idling away to keep the car warm in Germany,
one ANTICIPATES being the last in line, the slowest 57hp away-from-the-
line car of the lot. My 220D has the 4-speed automatic, a huge
American-made 2-cylinder R-12 refridgeration pump for its air
conditioner probably draining 8-10hp off the 57 limit, so it's never
going to set any land speed records.
What it HAS done is run from 1973 to 1994 with only oil changes and two
of its massive, slow-heating glow plugs. In 1994, having noted its
compression wasn't enough to start it in winter without considerable
glow plugging, I had a local Mercedes shop run by two Germans, Axel and
Stephan Reinhart of Star Motor Service, do a complete overhaul. I saved
a souvenir piston with its perfectly polished, completely unworn piston
pin sticking out of it where they forced it out of the connecting rod.
The journals could have gone back in the engine as they were well within
tolerance as was its double-row roller chain that drives the overhead
camshaft, that didn't need turning, and the injection pump, vacuum pump,
and primary fuel pump. Even the fiber shoe that tensions the chain was
in perfect condition after around 300K miles of service. I told them to
replace it all, which was done with shaking heads. The new pistons,
whos aluminum ring slots were worn, and, of course, the worn rings were
set into the newly honed, but not bored out cast iron sleeves in the
block. Now she cranks, on vegoil, with only initial preheat in the
morning. If I could just get the damned windscreen and rear window
rubbers to quit leaking and rotting out the floor!...it's major flaw.
Change oil at 3000 miles and she's ready for a trip anywhere....
>
> Battery powered cars may not be commercially viable YET but they will
be
> within my lifetime I'm sure but not until the oil starts to run dry.
>
> Mike
>
>
I don't think "batteries" are ever going to be the answer. I think
barium titanate capacitors will be:
http://bariumtitanate.blogspot.com/
Keep an eye on this blog. Keep an eye on the heavy funders who are VERY
interested in it, including DoD, Michael Dell, huge defense contractors,
and Zenn Electric cars of Canada.
A capacitor that doesn't leak off its high voltage charge so we can't
use it and has MASSIVE plate surfaces to directly store electrons,
WITHOUT the inefficiency of a chemical reaction sucking off the power
into heat is MOST INTERESTING! EEStor will be worth billions if this
technology can be cheaply made to work. BT caps would never require
replacement as there is nothing consumed in the charge/discharge cycle
like any kind of chemical battery. Zenn is betting the farm on it to
power a highway electric car that WON'T have a $20,000 chemical monster
in it.
Did I mention the only limit to how fast you can charge the capacitor is
how much AC power you can deliver to the charging system at once by how
big a cable? There'll be no 30 minute charging at the charging station.
A few thousand amps for a minute and you'll be on your way. Maybe
there'll be a giant slot car track next to the gas pumps embedded into
the pavement. You drive over it, a motor presses down your massive
conductors after the system reads the barcode under the front bumper to
"charge" your account...(c;] There's a scary arcing as you make contact
and an LED on your dash lights telling you the car computer will let you
go now...all charged up in seconds, much to the dismay of the local
power grid, I'd think.
I hope noone thinks we're gonna get "peak rate" electric rates like
this....hee hee.
--
Larry
How are they gonna blame my capacitor car for the pollution from the jet
airliners, then?!
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