Solar roads!

[mrsleeve]

s, and I am so sick of hearing about CO2 capture. It's fucking rediculous, you need to put at least the same amount of energy back into CO2 that you got from burning the hydrocarbon. Where are you going to store it? Your ass?

In many cases its pumped into oil and gas fields (tight shale fields mostly) to help break the resource away from the parent rock. and push it to the well points.

Then all that CO2 is sequestered in that field. Also many old abandoned oil and gas fields that have no more recoverable resource that are not being used for NG storage are being used for CO2 sequestration.

But yes I do agree with you, in the regards of capturing CO2 just for the sake of capture and sequester and not as a means to enhance resource production is just an exercise in futility, and just a waste of time and energy to be put to use for other shit.

[Fusion]

Where are you going to store it? Your ass?

Nope, already full

http://www.greendiary.com/entry/cow-emissions-far-more-responsible-than-co2-from-cars-in-global-warming/

It's all bullshit (no pun intended).

Find out about Tesla's ideas on free energy. That's awesome stuff.

[ortholithiation]

Blah blah hp vs tq blah blah wankel blah turbo .

Wankel engines are amazing but have shitty reliability, apex seals blow constantly. Everything is a trade off, cost, efficiency, torque, reliability and cost. We have really pushed the limited of internal combustion engines already. F1 engines, nitro funny cars have huge output, for one race only. The more power, the more heat, the more stress.


Mr. Sleeve is right, you need low end torque to drive otherwise you are going to transfer the stress onto the driveline. You think revving shit out of parts make them last longer. Everything is a trade off.

You may laugh but the next generation of car will be electric. Battery technology is almost there to support E bikes, and I think we may live to see moto gp being electric. That being said, current E cars are garbage mainly because the batt tech sucks, very wasteful, heavy, slow to charge. That could change in a decade.

Still energy is energy, it doesn’t come from nowhere. When we tap oil/gas reserves we are literally taking the remnants of millions of years of photosynthesis (energy storage).
Where do we get our hydrogen from?? Almost completely from dehydrogenation of oil/gas. You can’t break the laws of thermodynamics, and I am so sick of hearing about CO2 capture. It's fucking rediculous, you need to put at least the same amount of energy back into CO2 that you got from burning the hydrocarbon. Where are you going to store it? Your ass?

[ForcedFirebird]

I think you're a little confused about the difference between torque and HP still.. if you want some quick examples of high HP/RPM and low torque applications look at motorcycles and Formula 1 cars making 750hp and 200 lb-ft at 19,000rpm.

But even regardless of that, the MYT currently makes no horsepower because a working prototype of it has still never been built. Dreams are fine and dandy on paper but won't get you very far.

Right, but have you ever seen a Formula engine in a BMW?

and :rofl: so true.

[Raxe]

Because you said the MYT engine would have no torque, but at a high enough RPM, torque is present. The MYT engine makes an amazing amount of HP, therefore at a high RPM, it would also have torque.

I think you're a little confused about the difference between torque and HP still.. if you want some quick examples of high HP/RPM and low torque applications look at motorcycles and Formula 1 cars making 750hp and 200 lb-ft at 19,000rpm.

But even regardless of that, the MYT currently makes no horsepower because a working prototype of it has still never been built. Dreams are fine and dandy on paper but won't get you very far.

[Wiglaf]

To be fair the linear tq "curve" of a wankel is desireable in certain applications, it's mainly been a failure because it has poor emmissions, poor fuel economy, and poor HP given it's size/fuel usage.

I fall into the 1.3L rotaries are actually 2.6L engines.

not to burst your mostly accurate bubble, but one of the wankel's biggest advantages is being very small/light for the power it puts out.

[u3b3rg33k]

I'm most definitely not confusing wankel with radial engines.

As for MYT, I'm intrigued by it.

[mrsleeve]

Wankels were used in anything more than ultra lights????? I was unaware or are you getting rotary engines=wankels confused with Radial engines. Not the same thing. Most HiPo small aircraft engines are turbo flat 6's or even 4's. Any bigger than that they are radial or turbine. A big wankel would be hard to keep air cooled, this is why the artic cat snowmobile wankel engines failed all the time in the 70's and early 80's over heating

And I did mention where a MYT may work as a Plane power plant due to the long runs at High RPM at peek power production.

and Danny :rofl:

[u3b3rg33k]

There is one more issue:

The energy needs to be stored before it gets used. ...
For all these green energy stuff nobody thinks of costs of disposal of used stuff, and the only way for it to be cost effective and non-polluting energy would be to direct it straight to the mains bypassing the storage.

In case you're still wondering, most multi kW solar systems are grid tie only.

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

I assumed, just wanted to be sure lol. and that comment is just why a MYT would not work even if they tried it. Why do you think the Wankel is has been a dismal failure and only HAS 1 production manufacturer, even arctic cat abandoned them way back in the 70's

I guess you forgot about the airplane market? They're more popular where lift:weight is more important.

[Danny]

I am really starting to like you more and more

[z31maniac]

To be fair the linear tq "curve" of a wankel is desireable in certain applications, it's mainly been a failure because it has poor emmissions, poor fuel economy, and poor HP given it's size/fuel usage.

I fall into the 1.3L rotaries are actually 2.6L engines.

[mrsleeve]

Question is: if you were to almost get in a mean crash, but had to abruptly drift your way out of the bad situation, would it work?
Someone please contact the bearded guy, can the solar panel be drifted?!?!

I am really starting to like you more and more

[Fusion]

Question is: if you were to almost get in a mean crash, but had to abruptly drift your way out of the bad situation, would it work?
Someone please contact the bearded guy, can the solar panel be drifted?!?!

[mrsleeve]

No boy genius ahead of you.

"At a high enough RPM torque is present"

lol

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

I assumed, just wanted to be sure lol. and that comment is just why a MYT would not work even if they tried it. Why do you think the Wankel is has been a dismal failure and only HAS 1 production manufacturer, even arctic cat abandoned them way back in the 70's

[z31maniac]

me ??????????????????

No boy genius ahead of you.

"At a high enough RPM torque is present"

lol