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Post by crestfa11en on Jul 15, 2008 22:59:21 GMT -5
USE YOUR TACHOMETER ("RPM GAUGE")For a V4 (4-cylinder engine) try to keep the RPMs under 3,000. For a V6, under 2,000. For a V8 (like my Silverado) under 1,500. Basically what this equates to is slow accelerations. Don't gas it. Woah, by that rule, you must accelerate ridiculously slow!
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Post by billyneverdies on Jul 17, 2008 10:44:45 GMT -5
It's not REALLY slow. My truck has a 5.3 liter V8 and you have to really push that pedal down to get it past, say, 2,000.
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Post by Atheo on Jul 17, 2008 15:46:35 GMT -5
We're well and truly f**ked in terms of oil. I was reading an article on it in New Scientist today, and our dependence on it is shocking. When we run out, the world dies.
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Post by Fyacin on Jul 17, 2008 15:49:34 GMT -5
I'm sure we will find something new before we run out. Hydrogen, coal to oil, nuclear, who knows.
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Post by Atheo on Jul 17, 2008 16:27:21 GMT -5
Bush is in power in the US until January, and that's the worst country for oil consumption. What are the odds that America is going to do much until someone new steps in? And even then, we've just seen (not for the first time) that G8 meetings are a joke. Countries simply can't cooperate.
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Post by Jeremy on Jul 17, 2008 19:42:54 GMT -5
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Post by jupiter on Jul 17, 2008 20:55:40 GMT -5
I'm sure we will find something new before we run out. Hydrogen, coal to oil, nuclear, who knows. You should read The Party's Over. Its a really good book on the subject. Basically, there are alternatives, and we will use them but so far no individual alternative or feasible combination of available alternatives matches the EI/EO (energy in to energy out) that oil has. If we don't work on post oil infrastructure now, its really going to hurt when peak oil hits, and it really doesn't have to.
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Post by Atheo on Jul 18, 2008 0:07:04 GMT -5
It's debatable whether peak oil hasn't hit.
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Post by jupiter on Jul 20, 2008 21:43:13 GMT -5
Thats true, since it could be years between us hitting it and us realizing we've hit it. Basically the point we need to prepare for though is the time when we feel the effects of peak oil.
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Post by lordconsumeme on Sept 15, 2008 2:59:38 GMT -5
i ride my bike 10 miles to work (one way) in 120+ degree weather. I pretty much havent drove my car in over two months.
My uncle toured with Megedeth and said that (i think it was iceland) while he was over sea's there was a place where the busses ran on hydrogene pills and instead of toxic fumes coming out of the exhaust it was steam?
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Post by Psychotarded on Sept 20, 2008 1:21:53 GMT -5
Hydrogen vehicles in general produce water of some sort. There's also motors now that convert water to HHO (or was it OOH) and burn it. and supposedly the water doesn't have to be very pure either. As for saving gas in standard engines. Get a hotter spark, get better air flow in and out of the engine, and lighten the drive train if possible. (carbon fiber drive shafts etc.) There's also natural gas cars. I want one badly. (if natural gas is as cheap as I've heard)
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Post by billyneverdies on Nov 7, 2008 20:09:10 GMT -5
God, there are so many dense posts in this thread.
Hydrogen is bulls**t. It takes far more energy to produce it than can be used by vehicles. Your "hydrogen pill-running" bus probably consumed tons of fuel to produce those pills.
Ethanol is terrible. Feed prices (and the price for food as well) are going up because ethanol corporations can buy corn at much better prices than farmers. Using all of our farmland just for ethanol wouldn't even produce a fraction of our fuel needs.
Plug in vehicles are equally retarded. So you're getting your energy from a coal plant instead of from gasoline in your tank. So what?
People need to start researching these topics before they banter like they no everything about them. I just took a semester of Environmental/Energy studies. We're f**ked.
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Post by amoyensis on Nov 7, 2008 22:12:46 GMT -5
we're "f**ked" if you think that maintaining our wasteful lifestyles are a necessity. but they're not.
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Post by Psychotarded on Nov 11, 2008 1:30:56 GMT -5
It would also actually reduce our ability to survive. (If we ran extremely low on energy or out of it.)
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