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Gasoline Automobile Reality
Gasoline and the automobile: made travel causal, food more abundant, promoting growth and industry. Oil is used in numerous products, such as plastics, tar, and roofing materials. The scope of oil in our daily lives is hard to quantify. Practically every aspect of our life from birth to death depends on gasoline (e.g. gas prices, food distribution, etc.). The automobile solved many problems; paralleled by a whole new set of unforeseen hazards.The gasoline-powered automotive
infrastructure was built over more than 100 years, the overall effort
and cost was enormous. Alternate forms of energy/transportation
will also take decades to mature.The full potential of gasoline has not been achieved, we are however making steady progress. With funding running on empty and battery technology not yet even close to meeting demands; why not set our goal to improve fuel efficiency by 20 percent. Great improvements in fuel economy and pollution control is well within the reach of our generation.
Gasoline Batteries Alternatives
Many of the so-called "alternatives" tested are not able to match the performance (pound for pound-energy potential) of gasoline. Technologies like all-electric cars require unreasonably heavy battery banks and charge times to compete with gasoline.For example ethanol produces about 10% less power per gallon than gasoline. Comparison by fuel/power source The Tesla Roadster(advanced electric car) requires a 992 lb battery pack and 3.5 hours charge time to go 244 miles. A typical gasoline-powered car goes that far on less than one tank and refuels in less than 5 minutes(10 min if you go in and get a hot dog).
Forgotten Developments Turbines
Turbine engines reduce weight and possibly cost, in addition they readily burn alternate fuels. STP Oil Treatment Special four-wheel drive turbine-powered Indy car was a marvel of innovation.
The first commercial gas turbine powered hybrid vehicle (limited
production) was the 1993 General Motors EV-1 series hybrid. GM also
pioneered many advancements that would latter be incorporated into all
modern automobiles. The original Firebird was a series of
turbine-powered concept cars developed between 1953-1959. In 2006 GM
and Jay Leno built the Ecojet turbine-powered super car.Chrysler produced prototype turbine-powered cars in the early 1950s. The engine had only 60 moving parts compared to the 150 or more of a piston engine. From the early 1950s to the early 1980s Chrysler continued research and development of turbine powered cars.
Ford
Ford also considered a nuclear-powered truck, however; reactor design, weight and obvious safety issues were to restricting. Nuclear cars would solve our energy dependency problem, imagine "filling up" once every ten years!
In the USA electric carriages once shared the roads with the horse and buggy. Of the many paths mankind could have taken, gasoline became the dominant automotive fuel. All energy options have limitations and draw backs, the same goes for solar and batteries. We will be burning gasoline for at least the next 50-100 years, so we should learn to use it more wisely.
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