Comments on: Your fuel alternatives

By: Anxiety Depression

Anxiety Depression — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:47:44 +0000

lithium batteries are still the lightest battery that we have but it is quite expensive`.:

By: Arthritis Remedy

Arthritis Remedy — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:59:02 +0000

wind generators are not very efficient but they are clean sources of energy;,,

By: Peter Sen

Peter Sen — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:17:54 +0000

To Noel Silvester. I too have a 1998 EL Falcon and have looked into this hydroxy gas, browns gas, thing and have wanted to talk and meet someone that has done this successfully. Would like to contact you and have a natter and see this for myself. Especially the part about having to overide the MAF and MAP sensors for the economy. I live in western Sydney. My email is nesp50@yahoo.com.au. Please contact.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:02:34 +0000

This link has cars that can and cant use E10/E5 petrol.
http://www.fcai.com.au/publications/all/all/all/3/capability-of-vehicles-to-satisfactorily-operate-on-ethanol-blend-petrol.
hope its helpful

By: jimma

jimma — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:32:03 +0000

I grow weary of closed minded experts. We have to be open to all options no matter how unlikely. Our best energy solutions are likely to come from small r&d companies or even out of someone’s garage workshop.

By: Morgasshk

Morgasshk — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:50:26 +0000

AAARRGHH!! @ GLENN CAMPBELL

PLease tell us all where you got your information on Hybrid cars and batteries? PLease, do share? Have you owned one? Have you spoken to a SINGLE hybrid owner that replaced their battery withint 2-3years? It DOES NOT HAPPEN!

Toyota Motor Corp australia have replaced 2 batteries… That’s right, two, and these were for vehicles 4 and 5 years old that were taxi-cabs – With 400,000 and 650,000klms on the clock respecively. And not ONLY that, TMCA have a comprehensive, 100% recycling program for ALL Hybrid parts, batteries included. Get your facts straight.

All this information is available from TMCA, Dealerships etc. And wait, you guessed it, on the net too!

I don’t mean this to be a personal dig, it is just frustrating that these un-truths are STILL being perpetuated.

Thanks,

Morgasshk

By: vetha.yuvaraj

vetha.yuvaraj — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:05:23 +0000

Sir,
we want to convert our car to “water fuel ” technologies. So, we need the manufacturer of the kit or seller for it. Pls advice us.
thanks with regards
v,yuvaraj

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:48:28 +0000

Re Noel Silvester’s electrolyzer, the energy required to split water to oxygen and hydrogen is the same as is available from their reaction back to water. If the energy is from the alternator, the energy must be robbed from the motor to electrolyze the water. This sounds like a ‘perpetual motion machine’ to me!

By: Noel Moore

Noel Moore — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:31:06 +0000

I think it is useful to consider the oil debate in an historic perspective. As a young graduate engineer in 1973, and immediately after that years oil shock, I was asked to present a series of lectures to the transport industry on the Australian Bureau of Transport Economics research into oil and transportation. One fact I found interesting was that through out the 20th century the known reserves of world oil had consistently been approx. 30 years.

I have just Googled, and read a very detailed article in Wikipedia. In 30 years time there is a high probability we will be saying there is 30 years of world oil left! They also make the comment that “In many countries (particularly OPEC producers) the estimates may involve a great deal of political influence.”

While at University I filled my Holden for $2. With the 1973 oil shock it was $4+. This week I had little change out of $100. While at university (1968-71) the Mechanical Engineering Department was working on a hybrid car, and steam and hydrogen cars were under active consideration. Our lecturers were telling us that fosil fuels would lead to global warming. The debate is not new!

Hybrids may be a small part of the future, but I suspect that the fact with most certainty is that petrol prices will increase in the next 30 years at the same rate as the past 30; with a similar series of ‘shocks’ a decade apart, connected by simar periods of limited activity.

By: Noel Silvester

Noel Silvester — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:18:02 +0000

I have successfully built an electrolyzer for my 1998 EL Falcon which produces hydrogen and oxygen from water and it is fed into the intake side of the engine. I think it is a big improvement to economy, exhaust emission and performance.
I challenge the NRMA to do some testing on this car to see if my claims are justified. I would be prepared to make the car available at an appointed time for exhaust analysis etc.

Noel