Cool videos: MIT ethanol injection hybrid, Japanese hydrogen water engine
Do you think the future of green engines is just flex-fuels, hybrids or fuel cells? Can you imagine a future with engines that have ethanol turbo-like injection or use steam super-heated by hydrogen? These engines are in the lab today. The video above is a look at a hybrid ethanol injection engine developed at MIT and it could improve mileage by 30 percent.
Below the fold is video of a water-powered car. "Oh, no, not another water car," you say? No, this one is different because it uses a H.A.W or "hydrogen air water" mix and involves super-heating steam to move a piston, says this web page. According to one translation of the video, the Japanese government is looking into it.
[Source: YouTube and tipster Brien]
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A.Brien 12:07PM (1/19/2008)
This should be the best water engine there is. The
other ones i saw didn't have water injection and
backfires was not controlled very good. Japan, germany, u.s.a can save a lot of money by adopting this technology.
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MARK SMYTH 11:11PM (1/19/2008)
So many experts are full of crap. I have been using a fuel for 26 years in commercial vehicles in Toronto that bruns 4 times faster than diesel and is about 2/3 cleaner than gasoline. It costs about half as much as gasoline at the pumps and it ia 100% Canadian. We don't get any of it from OPEC terror countries like the gasoline in your Prius or Echo's. It contains 18% hydrogen as it comes out of the ground and needs no refining. It is just seperated form other fuels. What is it? LPG of course or liquid petroleum gas. It gets about 2% better power than gasoline in the same engine because it has an octane rating of 105. Propane is the only sensible fuel as it gets much better MPG than CNG or compressed natural gas. You can convert you car or truck and leave the gasoline system in place and only use it when you run out of LPG. The past 6 years, LPG fuel injection systems have been installed for best performace and mileage. I only ran out of propane about 3 times in 26 years as there are over 40 stations in Toronto that sell it. It even smells nice. There are over 80 stations in Michigan and about 30 in NY state.
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