Has anyone else "suspended their disbelief" long enough to look into some of this "Water For Fuel" business? The last one I looked at talked about 'using your battery to seperate the water into "HHO" which is THREE times more powerful than gasoline' I mean - I've been told I shoot ideas down before trying them - (physics classes aside) but does anyone actually believe you can get a net gain from recombining H2 and O after applying the energy to split them apart? Is this recombination in concert with gasoline supposed to make it feasible? I've even seen news reports about 'some great new inventor' using water for fuel. I think these reporters are amazingly not smart and gullible. I'd like to see some response to what others think about this hooey... -WaV
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Terry Holsinger <tr...@sprynet.com> wrote: > VW Diesels have been on the US roads since about 1981 and getting around > 40-45mpg the whole time. They have not been "popular" with the masses mostly > because they are diesels (i.e. they smell, are noisy, vibrate, hard to find > fuel, cost more, and are slow). In the recent years VW (and Daimler) have > come out with electronic injection for these cars and they have seen good > improvements on the acceleration end of non-turbo versions of these cars > (and trucks) as well as improvements in emissions. The noise and vibration > has been fixed (as it has in many newer cars and trucks) by general > improvements in automotive built quality. > > As for caver folks driving these diesels, here in Austin, Walt Olneck > drives an old 80's VW Rabbit, one of the San Antonio caver's has a new > Passat station wagon. > > Also one of my relatives living in California has a diesel motor home > (slide out wall and such) by Daimler and is getting just over 30 mpg in it, > of course it does not have the over sized diesel like is found in US built > trucks. > > Terry H. > > > Fritz Holt wrote: > >> I am switching this string to OT as Bill Steele reminded that it is a >> stretch to consider this topic caving related. >> >> The "linear" savings is a little deep for me but there may be a non-hybrid >> car or two that averages 40 mpg city and highway. >> I seem to have read recently that VW produced a small sedan, I believe a >> Jetta, with a small diesel engine that averaged at least 40mpg. How about >> it, David, am I remembering correctly? I don't consider a Smart for two a >> real automobile. >> Fritz >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Give this to a friend: ot-subscr...@texascavers.com > To unsubscribe, e-mail: ot-unsubscr...@texascavers.com > For additional commands, e-mail: ot-h...@texascavers.com > >
