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Saturday, November 26, 2011

5 Vehicles with 5 Alternative Fuels

Creativity to find alternative energy sources that could be the substitution of petroleum, continued to be pursued. The result, it turns out there are a number of raw materials are abundantly available in nature can be utilized to drive a motor vehicle engine. These findings are still in the process of research and development, but has great potential for commercialization. Five sources of energy that have been studied and used to run a car or motorcycle is:

1. Wind-Powered Motorcycle
Dean Benstead, a student at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) majoring in industrial design, Melbourne Australia, creating a wind-driven motorcycle. Compressor engine utilizing the technology to produce high-pressure air to run a motorcycle wheel.

The trial results showed that the motorcycle named O2 Pursuit, capable of driving up to a maximum speed of 100 km / hour. To move the wheels, air compressor engines utilizing Benstead DiPietro channeled into overdrive drive wheels. Benstead did not specify how much power and torque generated by the engine's compressor.
O2 Pursuit Wind-Powered Motorcycle. (Picture from: http://www.aglworld.com/)

2. Bio-Fueled Pickup
Six students Boise State University, Idaho, United States, able to process a mixture of cottonseed oil and sunflower as a fuel for propelling diesel pickup Chevrolet S-10. Cottonseed oil and sunflower in the U.S. is one of the ingredients for frying foods.
1998 Chevrolet S-10. (Picture from: http://www.boiseweekly.com/)
The student team converted a 1998 Chevrolet S-10 into a supreme vegetable oil guzzling road machine. (Picture from: http://www.boiseweekly.com/)
The results of this study produced findings that fantastic because the car was capable of driving up to speeds of 250 km / h in a test on El Mirage Dry Lake in Southern California USA, Chevrolet S-10 pickup became the fastest oil-fueled vehicles in the world today.

Dave Schenker, as leader of the team, who are also students Boise and the owner of the car, admitted an idea inspired by Rudolph Diesel (diesel engine creator), namely to create a fuel that can be produced from the farm.

3. Coffee Fueled Car
A group of engineers in the UK successfully developed fuel-based car coffee grounds. Uniquely, the car is called the Coffee Car MK2 was recorded in the Guinness World Record as motor vehicle fuel burn organic waste fastest in the world because it can shot up to 124.7 km / hr. 
Coffee Car MK2. (Picture from: http://www.caradvice.com.au/)
Coffee Car Mk2 is based on a Rover SD1 with a straight-six-cylinder engine. To run a car engine, the engineers were using a device called a gasifier to boil the coffee up to temperature of 700 degrees Celsius. That process produces a synthetic gas consisting of methane monoxide, hydrogen, and carbon gases. The third gas that plays an important role in the process of internal combustion engine combustion chamber for generating pressure up to 150 PSI and produces thrust with very high speed.

4. Nuclear Fueled Cars
Company research and development of Laser Power System, to develop fuel from nuclear to powered the car. The technology uses a turbine-driven electric generators of laser-based thorium (radioactive metal light with atomic weight 90).

The principle is quite simple. Thorium will be lased to produce heat, which then produces steam in a closed loop system. The steam will then power a generator to produce electricity. Because it only takes a thin sheet of aluminum foil to protect the world from the radiation is weak and the element thorium can not be weaponized, it’s thought to be perfect for the mobile power plant.
Prototype of a Nuclear-Powered EV. (Picture from: http://www.misselectric.com/)
Thorium is used to generate heat that produces steam in a closed cycle. Steam was then moving the power plant generators. Each gram of thorium has the energy equivalent to 28.390 liters of gasoline, so with 8 grams of thorium can run the car as far as 480,000 miles without stopping.

Cadillac introduced the thorium-powered World Thorium Fuel Concept at Chicago Auto Show 2009.

5. Chocolate-Powered Racing Car
It turned out that chocolate is not only used as base material for the manufacture of foodstuffs, beverages, and beauty, but also can be used as fuel. Are researchers from the University of Warwick, Britain, which utilizes waste chocolate from chocolate factories or stores disposed to be mixed with vegetable oils to produce biofuels. 
World First F3 Chocolate-powered race car. (Picture from: http://chocolateygurl.wordpress.com/)
This fuel is one alternative energy in overcoming the current global energy crisis. The result is a car that is filled brown waste fuel capable of driving fast enough to speed 100 km / hour. *** [OVI | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | PIKIRAN RAKYAT 25112011]
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