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Getbig Main Boards => Politics and Political Issues Board => Topic started by: blacken700 on January 27, 2011, 02:12:10 PM
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UK-based Cella Energy has developed a synthetic fuel that could lead to US$1.50 per gallon gasoline. Apart from promising a future transportation fuel with a stable price regardless of oil prices, the fuel is hydrogen based and produces no carbon emissions when burned. The technology is based on complex hydrides, and has been developed over a four year top secret program at the prestigious Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford. Early indications are that the fuel can be used in existing internal combustion engined vehicles without engine modification.
According to Stephen Voller CEO at Cella Energy, the technology was developed using advanced materials science, taking high energy materials and encapsulating them using a nanostructuring technique called coaxial electrospraying.
“We have developed new micro-beads that can be used in an existing gasoline or petrol vehicle to replace oil-based fuels,” said Voller. “Early indications are that the micro-beads can be used in existing vehicles without engine modification.”
“The materials are hydrogen-based, and so when used produce no carbon emissions at the point of use, in a similar way to electric vehicles”, said Voller.
The technology has been developed over a four-year top secret programme at the prestigious Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford, UK.
The development team is led by Professor Stephen Bennington in collaboration with scientists from University College London and Oxford University.
Professor Bennington, Chief Scientific Officer at Cella Energy said, “our technology is based on materials called complex hydrides that contain hydrogen. When encapsulated using our unique patented process, they are safer to handle than regular gasoline.”
would be nice if true
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What is the energy density?...How much energy in a gallon?...for instance a car running on liquid hydrogen needs a tank 3.5 times bigger than a gasoline tank to get similar range.
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What is the energy density?...How much energy in a gallon?...for instance a car running on liquid hydrogen needs a tank 3.5 times bigger than a gasoline tank to get similar range.
Correct, same with CNG. But the trade off is cheaper cost at the pump, more availability and decreased use of foreign oil. Doubt it's true, but it has caught my attention.
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What does BP have to say about this?
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They've been able to use a lot of different experiments to run cars. So far electric and hybrid have been the only financially doable technologies. For this technology to catch on oil needs to continue to increase in price. $150-$200 a barrel and investment in this goes through the roof. Until then it's a pipe dream.
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They've been able to use a lot of different experiments to run cars. So far electric and hybrid have been the only financially doable technologies. For this technology to catch on oil needs to continue to increase in price. $150-$200 a barrel and investment in this goes through the roof. Until then it's a pipe dream.
Correct. Just look at what happened to consumption and car buying trends when gas crossed $4.
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What is the energy density?...How much energy in a gallon?...for instance a car running on liquid hydrogen needs a tank 3.5 times bigger than a gasoline tank to get similar range.
so basically i need 3.5 times the amount of regular gasoline to go the same distance?
so 1.5x3.5 = 5.25 a gallon and thats an improvement?
i like the concept but the idea is to get cheaper
the whole problem with green energy is that the market it wrong...the majority of ppl dont care about the enviroment enough to make a decision that hurts their pocket books
they need to bill it as a cheaper source of energy and ppl will begin to move toward it b/c it costs less not b/c it saves the world
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so basically i need 3.5 times the amount of regular gasoline to go the same distance?
so 1.5x3.5 = 5.25 a gallon and thats an improvement?
i like the concept but the idea is to get cheaper
the whole problem with green energy is that the market it wrong...the majority of ppl dont care about the enviroment enough to make a decision that hurts their pocket books
they need to bill it as a cheaper source of energy and ppl will begin to move toward it b/c it costs less not b/c it saves the world
My years marketing FFi products have taught me that your statement is very applicable, ...in the USA.
Around the rest of the world, ...they care about saving the world and improving the environment, not cost.
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My years marketing FFi products have taught me that your statement is very applicable, ...in the USA.
Around the rest of the world, ...they care about saving the world and improving the environment, not cost.
it took you years to figure that out?
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/env_co2_emi_percap-environment-co2-emissions-per-capita
http://www.photius.com/rankings/carbon_footprint_of_countries_per_capita_1980_2005.html
by the way the US isnt all that bad seeing as the size of our population...guess the rest of the world doesnt care that much :-\
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it took you years to figure that out?
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/env_co2_emi_percap-environment-co2-emissions-per-capita
http://www.photius.com/rankings/carbon_footprint_of_countries_per_capita_1980_2005.html
by the way the US isnt all that bad seeing as the size of our population...guess the rest of the world doesnt care that much :-\
No, I learned that pretty quickly. :)
I don't think it's because the US population is inherently greedier than the rest of the world or has a bigger 'sense of entitlement', ...although I'm sure that has something to do with it. I just think it is because the rest of the world had grown accustomed to high gas prices, whereas the US population experienced a real shock.
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No, I learned that pretty quickly. :)
I don't think it's because the US population is inherently greedier than the rest of the world or has a bigger 'sense of entitlement', ...although I'm sure that has something to do with it. I just think it is because the rest of the world had grown accustomed to high gas prices, whereas the US population experienced a real shock.
LOL woman you need to look at some of the european countries before you talk about americans and their sense of entitlement...
they rioted b/c they had to pay 5000 dollars for college...LMFAO
I agree with you though about the high gas prices, when green energy becomes cheaper than oil on a regular basis it will boom here in the US