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I just posted this on our site, Coil Pack 4 u | News / Blog Blog
But I am reposting it here just to save you the trip if you are pressed for time:
Liquid Natural Gas Hybrids are really the ultimate coming technology, even though Diesel Hybrids are interesting for the moment. Gasoline is just a very poor source of fuel for several reasons.
The reason that gaseous fuels will eventually become the best option rests with what we are doing. LNG simply allows fuel optimization in ways that oil and gasoline cannot possibly do. When the rubber finally meets the road (and it is coming), we will be easily able to squeeze many times what we presently do with any liquid fuel. In fact, fuel use will cease to be a big concern. My vision is that we will refuel when we go in for services such as an oil change.
Of course, for LNG to become our fuel of choice, we will need some infrastructure to support it, but not as much as you would with electricity. When you can run many times as far between fill-ups as you can with any other fuel, the problem is no longer so pressing. Nevertheless, on cross-country trips, you will need to refuel.
Electricity on the grid will always be an expensive and relatively dirty end-use fuel because of its high transmission losses. However, off-grid, it will always be a very interesting on-board conversion fuel because the components are light weight.
Hydraulic motors are interesting too, but the components tend to be heavy, which is why electrical power steering has become popular. Nevertheless, we could use hydraulics in large horizontal flywheels to stabilize cars, creating gyro effects, and at the same time store energy to run ancillary motors. I have always wondered why we have not done this, but the industry is very set in its ways.
Our basic vehicle systems today are over 100 years old and today’s sophisticated technologies are designed to minimize the problems that they introduce. Considering those problems, we have done well. Cars have become docile and very useful tools even if they destroy the planet in some ways. However, we must turn this old technology around and in some cases, totally rethink it. Our present hybrid cars barely scratch the surface and really solve very little, while causing problems like battery disposal considerations.
While our present Coilpck4U, when used with gasoline cars, is excellent by today’s standards, LNG engines are far, far better suited for our purpose even though they share the basic characteristis of gasoline engines. The problems come with the computer and fuel injection needed. It is just too difficult to reduce the particles of fuel down to easily to controlled sizes. So this sophisticated new fuel handling technology is overkill and LNG can reduce the need for it to almost nothing while matching well to our needs with the CoilPack4U.
Another very obvious problem down the road is that engines using our CoilPack4U’s thrive on cold temperatures, yet we use thermostatic controls to warm the occupants as we have since their introduction. Once we go to LNG, we must heat the interior with gas or electric heaters and keep engine temps optimized just for performance.
Finally, when we get our system optimized, our cars will be a useful and far cheaper method of powering your house electrically. Instead of hooking your car up to your house current to charge your car as some do now, you will hook your house up to your car to power the house possibly spinning the generator on the gyro. Thus, the common 90% transmission losses that we have now at conventional power plants will become a thing of the past. Right now, engines on our system simply do not wear out in conventional terms. When done correctly, they do not heat up significantly (our running RX-7 test car never indicated above 120 degrees F as measured at the oil or water). Therefore, you will not need to shut them off… and the pollution rates are so low (especially compared to how we generate electricity today) that they do not matter.
Also, adding to the above, if you never shut off your car, batteries in general become a very secondary component. While they are currently a huge issue, especially with hybrids, even though very few have thought this all through. Toyota, with the Prius, warrants them for 100,000 miles or ten years. Today, it not uncommon to drive cars for two or three times that distance with no major repairs, yet the Prius battery costs $3,000 and where will they go? You guessed it, the land fill. Even though some will be recycled, how is this green?
But I am reposting it here just to save you the trip if you are pressed for time:
Liquid Natural Gas Hybrids are really the ultimate coming technology, even though Diesel Hybrids are interesting for the moment. Gasoline is just a very poor source of fuel for several reasons.
The reason that gaseous fuels will eventually become the best option rests with what we are doing. LNG simply allows fuel optimization in ways that oil and gasoline cannot possibly do. When the rubber finally meets the road (and it is coming), we will be easily able to squeeze many times what we presently do with any liquid fuel. In fact, fuel use will cease to be a big concern. My vision is that we will refuel when we go in for services such as an oil change.
Of course, for LNG to become our fuel of choice, we will need some infrastructure to support it, but not as much as you would with electricity. When you can run many times as far between fill-ups as you can with any other fuel, the problem is no longer so pressing. Nevertheless, on cross-country trips, you will need to refuel.
Electricity on the grid will always be an expensive and relatively dirty end-use fuel because of its high transmission losses. However, off-grid, it will always be a very interesting on-board conversion fuel because the components are light weight.
Hydraulic motors are interesting too, but the components tend to be heavy, which is why electrical power steering has become popular. Nevertheless, we could use hydraulics in large horizontal flywheels to stabilize cars, creating gyro effects, and at the same time store energy to run ancillary motors. I have always wondered why we have not done this, but the industry is very set in its ways.
Our basic vehicle systems today are over 100 years old and today’s sophisticated technologies are designed to minimize the problems that they introduce. Considering those problems, we have done well. Cars have become docile and very useful tools even if they destroy the planet in some ways. However, we must turn this old technology around and in some cases, totally rethink it. Our present hybrid cars barely scratch the surface and really solve very little, while causing problems like battery disposal considerations.
While our present Coilpck4U, when used with gasoline cars, is excellent by today’s standards, LNG engines are far, far better suited for our purpose even though they share the basic characteristis of gasoline engines. The problems come with the computer and fuel injection needed. It is just too difficult to reduce the particles of fuel down to easily to controlled sizes. So this sophisticated new fuel handling technology is overkill and LNG can reduce the need for it to almost nothing while matching well to our needs with the CoilPack4U.
Another very obvious problem down the road is that engines using our CoilPack4U’s thrive on cold temperatures, yet we use thermostatic controls to warm the occupants as we have since their introduction. Once we go to LNG, we must heat the interior with gas or electric heaters and keep engine temps optimized just for performance.
Finally, when we get our system optimized, our cars will be a useful and far cheaper method of powering your house electrically. Instead of hooking your car up to your house current to charge your car as some do now, you will hook your house up to your car to power the house possibly spinning the generator on the gyro. Thus, the common 90% transmission losses that we have now at conventional power plants will become a thing of the past. Right now, engines on our system simply do not wear out in conventional terms. When done correctly, they do not heat up significantly (our running RX-7 test car never indicated above 120 degrees F as measured at the oil or water). Therefore, you will not need to shut them off… and the pollution rates are so low (especially compared to how we generate electricity today) that they do not matter.
Also, adding to the above, if you never shut off your car, batteries in general become a very secondary component. While they are currently a huge issue, especially with hybrids, even though very few have thought this all through. Toyota, with the Prius, warrants them for 100,000 miles or ten years. Today, it not uncommon to drive cars for two or three times that distance with no major repairs, yet the Prius battery costs $3,000 and where will they go? You guessed it, the land fill. Even though some will be recycled, how is this green?
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