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MacroP Regular Location: Binningup WA Registered: April 2004	Re: Biodiesel Fuels Mon, 19 September 2005 08:38 Ribfeast wrote on Mon, 19 September 2005 14:32 What about this: http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/new s/story.html?id=cfeb17de-d945-4db4-87a6-090911200e 96&page=1 The story lost all credit by me once I got 3/4 the way down the page. "Most internal combustion engines operate at about 35 per cent efficiency. This means that only 35 per cent of the fuel is fully burned. The rest either turns to carbon corroding the engine or goes out the exhaust pipe as greenhouse gases. The H2N-Gen increases burn efficiency to at least 97 per cent, Williams said. This saves fuel and greatly reduces emissions" This is infact bullshit. An IC piston engine may only be 35% efficent but that's the fault of the mechanical design. Most of the fuel IS burnt but unfortunately 65% of the released energy gets wasted by heat and friction losses. They then come out and say that Hydrogen increase the combustion percentage to 97% where as in fact regular petrol is around that number anyway. That's why cars have O2 sensors. Even on Hydrogen, the piston engine will still be only 35% or so efficent. AFAIK, modern petrol engines are pushing the 50% barrier these days. [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	Biodiesel Fuels	buck naked	Mon, 19 September 2005 03:26
	Re: Biodiesel Fuels	oldcorollas	Mon, 19 September 2005 03:29
	Re: Biodiesel Fuels	MS-75	Mon, 19 September 2005 05:01
	Re: Biodiesel Fuels	Ribfeast	Mon, 19 September 2005 06:32
	Re: Biodiesel Fuels	oldcorollas	Mon, 19 September 2005 07:51
	Re: Biodiesel Fuels	MacroP	Mon, 19 September 2005 08:38
	Re: Biodiesel Fuels	buck naked	Mon, 19 September 2005 08:11
	Re: Biodiesel Fuels	oldcorollas	Mon, 19 September 2005 08:15
	Re: Biodiesel Fuels	-=DV=-	Mon, 19 September 2005 08:55
	Re: Biodiesel Fuels	MacroP	Mon, 19 September 2005 09:14
	Re: Biodiesel Fuels	MS-75	Mon, 19 September 2005 10:29
	Re: Biodiesel Fuels	toof	Mon, 19 September 2005 08:43
	Re: Biodiesel Fuels	kingmick	Mon, 19 September 2005 09:39
	Re: Biodiesel Fuels	toof	Mon, 19 September 2005 11:14
	Re: Biodiesel Fuels	oldcorollas	Mon, 19 September 2005 11:19
	Re: Biodiesel Fuels	toof	Mon, 19 September 2005 11:36
	Re: Biodiesel Fuels	trevtrev	Tue, 20 September 2005 01:44
	Re: Biodiesel Fuels	hokey	Tue, 20 September 2005 02:14
	Re: Biodiesel Fuels	September_Squall	Tue, 20 September 2005 05:37

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