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Measuring fuel economy

A presidential mandate to improve truck fuel economy was accomplished with the stroke of a pen last month, but figuring out how to measure that improvement will be far more complicated. And if regulators aren’t careful, …

Publish Date: 06/14/2010 11:15

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Fuel Economy Two | Auto Transport Blog

However, it will not effect the fuel economy, besides a lot of motorcycles are getting 50 miles to the gallon, more or less, so a few minutes idling would not be the same as letting your V-8 sit for 5 minutes to get warm. …

Publish Date: 06/17/2010 20:56

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Panel – How to increase US fuel economy - Hybrid Cars and Plug-in …

According to a National Academy of Science Panel, many readily available technologies to improve fuel efficiency are not being utilized by automakers because the methodologies for determining fuel economy, particularly regarding CAFE, …

Publish Date: 06/03/2010 16:12

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Road Tripping, Tips For Saving Gas | The Best Motor Car

Wide-open windows, especially at highway speeds, increase aerodynamic drag and the result is up to a 10% decrease in fuel economy. If you want to have fresh air coming into the vehicle, run your climate system on “outside air”. …

Publish Date: 06/18/2010 4:42

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As the innovative hydrogen car kits are now entering the mainstream there is a horrendous amount of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) being flung around. Whether you are interested in purchasing such a system or not it’s really worth to know the facts:

Fake Fact Number 1:

Hydrogen car kits sellers say that these burn water. This is nonsense and thus this whole movement is just a hype movement.

Answer:

Hydrogen car kits do not burn water, because yes, that’s impossible. What they do is that they use the car battery to split the water into its components hydrogen and oxygen and use the resulting HHO gas or brown gas as it is called.

Fake Fact Number 2:

Hydrogen car kits can’t be useful. They spend more energy in splitting the water than they do from actually burning the resulting stuff. It’s basic physics.

Answer:

If this is what hydrogen car kits would be actually doing, you’d be right. However the hydrogen gas is used as an additive which greatly improves the efficiency of the gasoline burning process. Basically, the mix burns faster and thus a much smaller amount of energy is dissipated as heat and converted into useful energy.

Fake Fact Number 3:

If this hydrogen thing would be really working then the car manufacturers would’ve used it a long time ago.

Answer:

This is just blatantly false. Car manufacturers are very conservative in their designs. Diesel engines for example, which are much more efficient than standard ones have been with us almost for as long as cars themselves, yet they are still in minority. We don’t want to point any fingers here, but when these manufacturers compare the benefits of an improved design with the cost of modifying their assembly lines, the cost aware argument usually wins.

Fake Fact Number 4:

The price for the components of these hydrogen car kits must be huge.

Answer:

This is again blatantly false. These systems were invented by people just like you and me who were passionate about making a difference. This means that they had low budgets and they had access only to off the shelve components. This is a grassroots movement and the cost really does reflect this.

Fake Fact Number 5:

If these hydrogen car kits really are this good, wouldn’t the government support them? There is absolutely no help from the government in this direction, which means that these things are absolutely useless.

Answer:

You have reached a painful truth. Indeed, the government is not supporting such innovations, but not because these hydrogen car kits do not deserve, but rather because there are no huge corporate interests and lobbyists behind them. The only initiative of this type that the government is supporting is the ethanol fuel, which is not particularly efficient (especially in its corn variety), but which has the benefit of producing huge profits for the agribusiness establishment.

These are the pure, raw facts. If by any chance you have decided to try hydrogen car kits, you have our congratulations. A good place to find out more would be this: http://shorten.ws/Save-at-the-Pump

When looking for a ways on how to improved gas mileage for your car, truck or SUV, one of the latest technologies to best achieve improved gas mileage is by using a gas mileage additive. A gas mileage enhancer should provide a combination of both the immediate and the long-term benefits.

One way to accomplished this is by improved modification of the burn rate in the combustion chamber. This process provides a significant improvement in fuel economy and improved gas mileage. The more complete combustion of the fuel in the combustion chamber the better the fuel economy. The prevention and removal of combustion deposits and their subsequent migration into the engine lubrication system, reduces friction and provides an additional improvement in fuel economy and gas mileage.

The EnviroTabs -Green Technology is a combustion catalyst that does not react with or change the fuel itself in any way. The science behind this technology is known as Metallurgy. Unlike other fuel additives or mileage enhancers on the market, EnviroTabs is an organometallic engine conditioner that uses the fuel as a carrier and once inside the combustion chamber, allows the fuel to actually burn quicker and therefore more completely BEFORE the exhaust valve opens. As the fuel burns quicker, it creates more power during the down stroke of the piston. This increase in efficiency provides the engine more thrust with the same amount of fuel consumed.

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March 08, 2009

The 9 billion gallons of ethanol that Americans used last year helped drive down oil prices. For those of us who fuel our vehicles with gasoline, as much as 10 percent of that gasoline is ethanol. The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 requires that more biofuel be used every year until we reach 36 billion gallons by 2022.

Reduced oil prices are good. We can go from good to great, if we move past fuel from food and haste to fuels from wood and waste. Although the economics do not yet favor major production, pilot plants are taking wood and paper waste and converting it to fuel. Other cellulosic material is even more promising. Some grasses, energy crops, and hybrid poplar trees promise zero-emission fuel sources. These plants absorb CO2 and sequester it in the soil with their deep root systems. These plants often grow in marginal lands needing little irrigation and no fertilizers and pesticides, standing in sharp contrast to the industrial agriculture that produces much of our fuel.
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Shouldn’t Detroit be thinking “outside of the box” when it comes to developing new auto technologies? Well, software executive Shai Agassi’s company based in Palo Alto, Calif thinks so. Just think of your car as the Ipod of the future using renewable energy.

The Better Place electric car charging system involves generating electrons from as much renewable energy — such as wind and solar — as possible and then feeding those clean electrons into a national electric car charging infrastructure. This consists of electricity charging spots with plug-in outlets — the first pilots were opened in Israel this week — plus battery-exchange stations all over the respective country. The whole system is then coordinated by a service control center that integrates and does the billing.

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BRADENTON, FL — There’s good news from the run-your-car-on-water set at the HHO Games & Exposition: Unlike at the last expo, no one’s hydrogen fuel generator blew its lid on the drive to the event.

That’s a sign of progress for a fledgling industry fighting for acceptance. True believers say it’s not the only one.

“This is going to change the way you drive your car,” said Joe Shea, who organized the expo Saturday, Sunday and today at the Manatee Technical Institute. “It will restore the freedom you lost when gas went up to $4 a gallon.”

At the most basic level, hydrogen fuel enthusiasts talk of using items found under the kitchen sink — a glass jar, distilled water and baking soda — to make a gadget they say improves gas mileage by 30 percent or more.

At the same time, a growing cadre of entrepreneurs is using more sophisticated materials and designs in their hydrogen fuel, or HHO, generators.

“Today, kits are far smaller, far more productive and in some cases less expensive,” said Shea, 62, of Bradenton.

HHO advocates use a process known as electrolysis to run an electric current through water and break apart its molecules.

Hydrogen and oxygen bubble up from the water and are fed into the engine. There, advocates say, they produce a leaner, cleaner and more efficient fuel combustion.

But the leaner fuel mix can fool modern automotive computers into injecting more fuel into the engine.

To get around that, many HHO advocates install electronic devices that allow drivers to adjust the fuel injection themselves. Others reprogram their cars’ computers.

Over the weekend, inventors from all over the country showed off hydrogen production kits in cars, pickup trucks, motorcycles, heavy commercial trucks, a dune buggy, and even a lawn mower.

James Edwards of Lakeland let a friend install an HHO generator on his Century Freightliner semitrailer truck at the expo. Depending on what it’s hauling, the truck gets 6 to 11 miles to the gallon.

“If I can get 2 more miles to the gallon out of it on a 150,000-gallon year, that’s a big difference,” Edwards said.

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With the early onset of the 2009 Winter, I was wondering. If we suffer extented and more sever winter temperatures, won’t the cost of travel, doing business and keeping warm require more fuel?  So, then we’ll need more oil again (after the sharp declines in consumption due to NOBODY has a job anymore to go to), won’t we see increased consumption again? Higher prices would then again be passed on to everyone driving. And OPEC wants to also reduce production. So, enjoy your Christmas gift at the pump while it lasts.  And I also wouldn’t count on seeing  $1.00/ gal for New Year’s either. 

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October 22, 2008

OPEC Ponders Choices as Oil Prices Plummet

By JAD MOUAWAD

At the beginning of the year, OPEC producers felt confident that strong economic growth and tight supplies would keep oil prices high. When oil crossed the $100-a-barrel threshold in February, the cartel’s president blamed speculators and said there was not much OPEC could do.

But now, panic is gripping producers as prices drop. Oil is down by half since July, and the speed of the decline has stunned oil-rich governments that have become dependent on high prices.

As the global economy continues to weaken, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries faces its toughest test in years.

The problem for the oil exporters, who meet for an emergency session in Vienna on Friday, is to find a way to stop the price drop at a time when oil consumption is falling markedly in industrialized countries. Even the Chinese economy, long the biggest engine of growth for oil demand, seems to be cooling.

Most analysts expect the group to announce a production cut of at least a million barrels a day, which would be more than 1 percent of the world oil supply. Chakib Khelil, OPEC’s president, said last week that an output cut was “obvious” and suggested the group might meet often in coming months for further adjustments.

History suggests that OPEC will face a tough time propping up prices as oil consumption slows and the world teeters on the edge of a global recession, analysts said. Some experts warn that if the cartel took too much oil off the market, it could push prices up so much as to worsen the global economic crisis.

“OPEC’s problem is they don’t know how much demand is falling,” said Jan Stuart, an energy economist at UBS. “So the risk they run is either they don’t do enough, or they do too much. That’s a tough choice.”

Nobuo Tanaka, the executive director of the International Energy Agency, said a cut in production could harm consumers and delay an economic recovery. “The slowdown may be prolonged,” Mr. Tanaka told reporters on Monday in Paris, where the energy agency, which advises industrialized countries, is based.

The biggest question is what price the cartel is prepared to defend. In 2000, producers adopted a price band of $22 to $28 a barrel, and adjusted production levels accordingly. The mechanism was imperfect, and many producers felt it constrained them, but it basically worked to ensure stability in oil markets.

But defending a price requires spare capacity, so that production can be raised if prices get too high, as well as discipline on the part of OPEC members, so that production can be lowered when prices fall. OPEC abandoned its price band when its spare capacity virtually disappeared in 2005 amid rapidly rising global oil demand.

Now, with consumption growth slowing sharply and new oil projects coming online, some spare capacity has become available.