Oil solutions, Coal powered cars

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  1. aristootle Pragmatician, InfinityPhobic Registered Senior Member

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    There are many solutions to the current Oil "crisis". One that has much potential, yet goes largely unexplored are coal burning cars (CoalCar).


    http://paigepage.blogspot.com/2005/01/useful-idiot s-and-coal-burning-cars.html
    As this article points out, if you have electric car, you have a coal burning car (2nd derivative anyway). As the following article points out, Electric Vehicles, versus oil based cars is a push when it comes to overall pollution.
    http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~wilkins/writing /Samples/policy/voytishlong.html


    I propose coal burning cars (1st derivative).
    http://www.tnty.com/newsletter/futures/archive/v01 -02lifestyle.html

    There have been coal burning cars since 1938.


    Coal burning cars (CoalCar in AristotleSpeak) have several advantages over electric cars. For instance, The new industry of coal distribution to every household, good for the economy. Shovel and wheelbarrow sales will skyrocket. America has 100s of years of coal right here at home, so shortages are a thing of the past.

    And mostly, America could advance the CoalCar industry past those gas guzzling giants of old, and start exporting CoalCars (and Coal) to other countries, like Japan and Germany.
     
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  3. leopold Valued Senior Member

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    there are 3 major drawbacks to coal
    1. fly ash
    2. carbon monoxide and other greenhouse gases
    3. radioactive fallout
     
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  5. aristootle Pragmatician, InfinityPhobic Registered Senior Member

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    Coal fuel cells and solvents have solved problems 1 and 2.

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/05 02_060502_coal.html

    This article talks about the new clean burning coal technology created yesterday, probably because of the emminent creation of this thread

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    so, coal goes in to the CoalCar, carbon chunks come out the exhaust.
     
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  7. Dravyga ... Registered Senior Member

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    Where are you finding these links? All I see are 404 file not found.
     
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  9. Dravyga ... Registered Senior Member

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    Now it works. Damn, I think I did the wrong cut and paste before. Now I c.


    Anyway, I think the technology looks like an alternative.
     
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    Forget oil, forget coal... use dog power. A 12 dog power car will get you from A to B in town as fast as anything and the only pollution would be dog poo, that we're all used to anyway.
     
  12. leopold Valued Senior Member

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    as congested as some of our cities are a bicycle will also do the job.
     
  13. aristootle Pragmatician, InfinityPhobic Registered Senior Member

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    how are you going to bicycle a load of lumber from the forest to the lumber yard?

    How are you going to get the dogs to stop fighting, and chasing mailmen, and chasing their tail?

    Nope, coal power is the obvious long term solution, until 2053 at least
     
  14. leopold Valued Senior Member

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    whats 2053 got to do with anything?
     
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    2053 is the estimated Peak Coal date, assuming we start using CoalCar in the near future.

    So, in 2054, coal prices will rise enough to drive us to find another portable energy source.
     
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  17. aristootle Pragmatician, InfinityPhobic Registered Senior Member

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    Right tablariddim, but what are you going to do to the dogs?
     
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  20. aristootle Pragmatician, InfinityPhobic Registered Senior Member

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    i can see it now, walking your car uphill. No, pushing your 8000mph car uphill.

    nonsense.
     
  21. leopold Valued Senior Member

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    i seen a gizmo in an old science magazine that strapped on your back.
    it was powered by a 2 stroke single cylinder gas engine.
    it had 2 "arms" that strapped to the back of your thighs.
    when it was running the arms would move back and forth to simulate a walking motion.
    by varying the speed of the engine you could walk or run.
     
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    Coal is an unexceptable alternative fuel and the pressure is on for all countries - especially "Coal-Burning China" - to find a more "evironmentally-friendly" alternative. Why would you even post this as an "oil solution"? Even China, the coal burning capital of the world, is aggressively seeking out oil alternatives to eliminate the coal burning pollution problems it now has. And this is a major reason why our gas prices are accelerating.
     
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