I love how passionate some of you get. This whole discussion is absolutely hilarious in it's drama, and ultimately great entertainment.
I definitely have a few things to learn before I can call myself an expert at this, but I have a passion for alternative energy through which I am slowly boosting the mileage of my Delica while many of you squabble about whether this stuff works, or even if it's worth the effort. I say go ahead and pour your money into petrol all you want, into polluting this magnificent awe-inspiring planet... and enjoy the ever increasing prices. I'll be enjoying a vehicle that purrs like a kitten and just goes and goes on one tank.
For those that have less to prove and fewer judgment calls to make (especially without knowing from experience)... for those who simply enjoy helping rather than bashing or insinuating that someone is stupid for trying something new or unheard of... I have a few questions, and I actually hope I'm wrong on some of them so that I can make sense of the arguments that our seemingly more technologically intelligent friends are making:
Does not every engine waste tons of energy in it's operation? Is not a high percentage of fuel in any combustion engine unused in the combustion cycle and spat out as pollution? Doesn't an alternator (generally speaking) create an excess of electrical energy in it's operation (this one I could be wrong on as I am an infant in my knowledge on alternators) which is thus wasted as well? If most of what I have asked above is true, than why am I and many like me ridiculed for making our own devices (made from cheap and readily available parts) that simply helps make use of wasted energy? It's not a matter of trying to get more out of what was put in. It's a matter of making the most of what was put in, no? Think of solar panel technology.
Take the Sun for example. This massive Hydrogen generator, constantly humming along without interruption is continuously powering our whole solar system, with it's light, heat and it's vast gravitational field (among other things)... and we, the ever so lucky inhabitants of the Earth are blessed everyday with just a small smigent of power from this colossal Hydrogen machine (which is apparently quite small compared to the Sun's of many other solar systems) ... and look around you. Look at your planet and all it's wonder, all thanks to the smallest percentile of energy extracted from that massive light orb. Amazing.
And symbolic... I simply believe that what we think is a small amount of energy, like a liter of gasoline for example, is far more energy than we realize. Another example is food. You could function on one meal a day if you had to or chose to. Consider all the functions of your body, both voluntary and automatic. I'd say it takes an incredible amount of energy to do what we do everyday, and it all comes from what little food we eat and drink and absorb all around us.
Fossil fuel is essentially trapped sunlight. We use sunlight, indirectly, to power our vehicles, to power our bodies... and I bet you there is a lot more out of that stored sunlight (petrol) that we can make use of if we put our minds to it. If we cannot stifle our oil addiction, we can at least moderate it and stretch each drop as far as it will go. I say make use of the excess energy wasted, of the abundance leaking through the cracks... and why not do it ourselves, out of our own homes and on our own land and be empowered instead of trapped by the massive corporate machine. It's high time we make our own power, our own food, and teach other's to do it as well.
For more education on such things, for more self-empowerment, I bid the still open-minded yet healthy skeptics to research just one site of many that I could present. This will be the third time I've posted this during this discussion:
http://eagle-research.com/
Cheers, and thanks to those who remain positive and encouraging. I love your neutrality loki. And I especially enjoyed your message Sean. Keep it coming. Keep me laughing at least as I watch ego's enjoy their own dramatic performances on screen ;-]
. The fact that it was an obvious scam, violating the first law of thermodynamics, is not as bad as the fact that he duped investors and car dealers who had bought in. Either he was an amazing salesman himself or the investors were a little slow off the mark.
"I could be just around the corner from heaven, or a mile from hell." -- Jackson Browne, "The road and the sky".
