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Who said there's legal issue with that?!! You simply collect the blow-by oil. You simply leave the PCV system as it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by AGman
Keyboard isn't obeying your orders?!! ;) :DQuote:
Originally Posted by MB
Another article by Allan Whiting, I didn't read it through this time but there is info there about catch cans for your reading pleasure.Quote:
Originally Posted by dom14
http://www.outbacktravelaustralia.co...&ObjectType=35
Interesting, even though just about every diesel mechanic I've spoken to, read an article from, or have been interviewed, has said that can-cans are a critical piece of gear for all modern diesels fitted with the current pollution controls.
I honestly believe that governments and 4wd manufactures don't care about the longevity or reliability of current diesel vehicles. They just care about ensuring their vehicles meet the ever-changing emissions requirements to be able to continue selling vehicles.
The only way this will end or improve is if falling sales impact the economy.
You are right on the money I reckon. Gov's hold these companies to ransom to please the green lobby.Quote:
Originally Posted by bazzaboy
What is the carbon foot print to scrap, rebuild or make a replacement vehicle after a short service life. That doesn't seem to be on the agenda.
I would not like to be making or selling large caravans in near future as there will be no suitable vehicle to tow them any reasonable distance. Same for off road campers etc.
As electric vehicles take over, petrol and diesel will be more expensive as volumes decrease, especially in the cities.
Imo were a long way off from diverting to a different fuel sorce..
What I can't understand is why manufacturers aren't looking into combining fuel sorces..
Imagine a td42 turbo with a nitrogen injection?
That'll solve power and emissions problems..
And it's water..............
Personally I think solar is an awesome tech.
We just need to refine the efficiency and reliability..
An electronic 4x4 car would love the aus outback. No shortage of sun light.
But the capacity would be the killer.. 300k a day would make for a slow trek but very relaxing holiday..
"Many 4WD owners are tempted to blank off EGR valves and fit catch cans to trap crankcase oil mist before it can coke up turbos and inlet manifolds, but we’ve covered the illegality and perils of that route in our story: ‘Leave your common rail diesel engine alone’."Quote:
Originally Posted by dom14
I think, if you leave the PCV system alone and simply fit a well designed catch can to reduce the amount of oil getting sucked into the intake, that should be ok. The idea is to collect the oil mist without affecting the fine tuned PCV system. I guess with a simple old school 4wd like mine(RB30 carby), catch can isn't a bad idea.Quote:
Originally Posted by macca
Electric vehicles wont' take over that quick, unless we develop a good solar panel system to charge the batteries on the fly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wizard52
Regardless of heavy pollution & greenhouse effect, heavy diesel vehicles will continue, unless we develop newer technologies quicker. This is something we should've poured lot of money into to develop technologies, some fifty or more years ago.
We knew that we can't keep using fossil fuel forever, even in the early 1900's.
There has been some amazing technologies emerge but the oil companies buy the patent and bury it so they can sell more oil. Simple as that :)
One minor problem with this @dom14 I suspect is that the sun only spits out about 1kW per square metre (1.3 to upper atmosphere at best) so to power mine, I'd need 70m2 of panels whilst driving. @Winnie would need 120m2, maybe more with the new pump!Quote:
Originally Posted by dom14
Batteries are the answer to large m2 solar - but you'd have to be stationary to charge them - meaning all your driving would have to be done at night!
Even then, if you carry 10m2 of panels and charge for 12 hrs that'd only get you 120kWh, enough for an hour or two of gentle night driving - and that's assuming you get 100% conversion from the panels - which I think actual is less than 50%, if memory serves.
Which means liquid fuel is here to stay for a while. Biofuels will have to substitute for remote area driving once earthly sources are drained - or earlier if we work it out...
Correct @Nisshead. The thing Big Oil fears most is innovation... Perhaps that's why the political donations system is in place???😉Quote:
Originally Posted by Nisshead
Abso-damn-lutely!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Nisshead
What governs our life(style), whether it's productive or destructive, IS the economic model(namely the extreme capitalism). In that model, large corporations & billionaires dictate how we live(and how we end), not the "politicians", scientists or philosophers or average Joe hard workers.
And that's why they crushed all the EV-1's made by GM, without allowing anybody to keep them. I'm sure there are myriad other "technical" reasons they've had invented to explain that "crime".Quote:
Originally Posted by UncleFrosty
Ohhh. Another political thread:)
These guys are onto something. They could use solar powered manufacturing process to cook the stuff.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/christop.../#7b7442187245
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJq2Hc_mXFI And this old Gem.
All I know, is my next vehicle will not be a diesel
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Originally Posted by Clunk
I can just see Clunk hitting the power-lines in a steam powered GQ...lol
P.S.Quote:
Originally Posted by dom14
I forgot to mentions "artists" above. That is a serious shortage of insight on my part. :D
I have an idea to convert my GQ to run on firewood. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Nisshead
No, no. We're discussing highly technical stuff here. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by mudnut
Political discussions are prohibited here. ;)
Just fit a few washing machine motors and run a pantograph to the power lines.
Interesting!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by mudnut
I thought back in ancient 1970's they were riding horse carts and bullock carts. ;) :D
Melbourne wasn't that different back then. :D
BTW, bio petroleum won't be a solution, 'cos we still have the emission issue.
Bio petroleum would've been a solution if some fifty years ago petroleum ran out.
The emissions are absorbed by the growing algae and as the article says, the solids are good as fertiliser.
I picked up a running old Simpson washing machine from the side of the road with the idea of turning that into a "free energy electricity generator". The project has never come of the ground. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by mudnut
I might whack one of these EmDrive engines into the Patrol...
http://www.news.com.au/technology/sc...9264e60b3a9d2f
Hmmm... couldn't find article saying that.Quote:
Originally Posted by mudnut
To match the equation will be lot harder in the real world, than in a laboratory.
The produced emissions need to be reabsorbed back into algae(or similar method) in all or else the fossil fuel emission problem continues with bio fuel as well.
Countries like Brazil apparently produces their own bio fuel(some 50% of their fuel) using corn, sugarcane, etc.
I'm not sure how energy efficient or "green" it is to clear up the virgin rain forest to grow sugarcane and then turn that to ethanol.
Same challenge will be there to produce bio fuel out of algae.
You need to use energy to produce the heat and pressure to produce bio fuel.
The existing ground petroleum was made by earth's natural process of heat and pressure over millions of years.
We do that in big plants means we have to inject our own energy into it.
And that energy has to come from somewhere.
I'm skeptical, 'cos the math doesn't add up to positive numbers, afaics.
I hope I'm wrong.
The ability to use solids as fertilizer is a good outcome for sure.
The problem is to grow this algae in vast quantities without causing anymore environmental disasters than we already have.
That would be a challenge as well.
I do like the idea of turning our poo into petroleum though.
We just have to make sure poo petroleum doesn't cost more energy to produce it and than the energy it produces.
The original diesel engine in late 1800's were made to run on vegetable oil, peanut oil, etc, 'cos fossil fuel diesel did not exist back then. Bio fuel for internal combustion engine is not a modern concept.
Imagine not having fossil fuel at all and we produce all the diesel, petrol out of bio material as above, which means vast amounts of land turned into vegetable oil growing farms, algae farms, sugarcane, corn, etc farms.
Can that end us with less emissions issues than we have now with fossil fuels?!
Can the fossil fuel triggered industrial revolution be the same with far less emissions had we've done that?!!
That's an important question we need to ask.
Physicists, engineers and environmentalists need to work out the math behind it and come up with a solid answer.
Self propelled on methane mateQuote:
Originally Posted by Nisshead
So that's how you squeeze the GQ slider through them crazy nooks that Stropp pointed out;-)
With the help of a good slathering of vaselineQuote:
Originally Posted by MB
Not a bad idea. We're opening up all the trapped methane into the atmosphere as we speak anyway, so it might be a good ideaQuote:
Originally Posted by Clunk
to use as much of it as we can. :)
You might have to stick around another century or so... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Nisshead