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Offline Speed55

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Oil dependancy may be a thing of the past....
« on: April 07, 2008, 04:33:37 PM »
...Well sometime in the near future hopefully.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ybmDNrd-OI

Water powered car.
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Offline Barnes828

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Re: Oil dependancy may be a thing of the past....
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2008, 04:55:59 PM »
isnt HHO H20?
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Offline C(Sea)Bass

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Re: Oil dependancy may be a thing of the past....
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2008, 05:47:59 PM »
It can't replace oil. It takes so much electricity in the process that you lose energy.
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Offline Jackal1

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Re: Oil dependancy may be a thing of the past....
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2008, 06:13:09 PM »
Phfffffffffffffffffffffffffff ffffffffttttttttttttttttttttt !
Not likely.
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Re: Oil dependancy may be a thing of the past....
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2008, 06:14:00 PM »
Quote from: C(Sea)Bass on April 07, 2008, 05:47:59 PM
It can't replace oil. It takes so much electricity in the process that you lose energy.

You always lose energy.
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Re: Oil dependancy may be a thing of the past....
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2008, 06:44:10 PM »
Its not just about losing or gaining energy, its about the costs involved on both sides of the equation.

If you can produce electricity from say solar or wind cheap enough, then using that electricity for electrolosis of water to produce hydrogen to run cars would work, even though you are losing energy in the process. What you are achieving is transforming energy from a non usable form to a usable form. ie it would not make sense to run a car on wind power, but using wind power to make electricity to split water so a car could burn hydrogen to run would make sense, if, and its a big if, if it is economical to do so.
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Offline Jackal1

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Re: Oil dependancy may be a thing of the past....
« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2008, 07:02:27 AM »
My vehicles all run just fine on gas.......................but thanks anyway.
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Offline Angus

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Re: Oil dependancy may be a thing of the past....
« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2008, 07:11:18 AM »
They'll run fine untill there is no more gas :D
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Re: Oil dependancy may be a thing of the past....
« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2008, 08:40:46 AM »
Quote from: Angus on April 08, 2008, 07:11:18 AM
They'll run fine untill there is no more gas :D

If the gas station closes, I`ll just go to another Angus. No biggie.

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Offline Napoleon II

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Re: Oil dependancy may be a thing of the past....
« Reply #9 on: April 08, 2008, 04:35:32 PM »
LOL, sure go to the next gas station. The problem won't be finding gas, but finding gas that you can afford!

In 2005, the price of crude oil passed $70 a barrel (29 August). Just this year (17 March) it peaked at $111.80 a barrel. That's an increase of 60% in 2 years 7 months.

I'm noticing guys in other threads dumping the guzzlers and considering alternative cars/fuels. Not hard to see why. Guess it's not so cool to guzzle gas after all.
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Re: Oil dependancy may be a thing of the past....
« Reply #10 on: April 08, 2008, 07:30:47 PM »
Quote from: Napoleon II on April 08, 2008, 04:35:32 PM
LOL, sure go to the next gas station. The problem won't be finding gas, but finding gas that you can afford!

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Offline Speed55

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Re: Oil dependancy may be a thing of the past....
« Reply #11 on: April 08, 2008, 07:36:49 PM »
By near future, i'm thinking maybe the next 20 years.  In all honesty i'm not going to stop driving my car, and there's nothing like the sound of a 440 six pack, but hey if they find a cheap way to make real power, i'm all for it.   :rock
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Offline Napoleon II

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Re: Oil dependancy may be a thing of the past....
« Reply #12 on: April 09, 2008, 02:50:19 AM »
In times past, it has levelled out - demand has reduced.

But this time, even if America & Europe reduce demand, we've now got China/India making heavy demands and keeping the price high. We've never had that before.

I'm not worried either. My car can do 150mph, and yesterday I drove 300 miles in it. Still ended up with 42+ mpg. :D

I feel sorry for the guys stuck with 9mpg vehicles tho. Oh wait, I don't really! :lol
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Offline superpug1

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Re: Oil dependancy may be a thing of the past....
« Reply #13 on: April 09, 2008, 03:33:54 AM »
? wasnt there a movie about this a long time ago when like some guy tried to make water power stuff but it ended up exploding and taking out a city or something? either way i think that its pretty cool.
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Offline Angus

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Re: Oil dependancy may be a thing of the past....
« Reply #14 on: April 09, 2008, 04:10:45 AM »
Ah, jacka1, when people have taken all they can, it will level.....
Yes indeed. You will run your cars on a sail, and use the bike a lot, for the level will leave little gas on a high price....like 100$ for the pint  :devil
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