Proof the big motor companies are sitting on better technology...

[wolfwings]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/17/eveningnews/main1329941.shtml

A decent-looking sports car that goes from 0-60 in four seconds, and still gets 50mpg.

On pure soy-bean oil bio-diesel.

Made by a group of high school drop-outs and no-accounts out of West Philly in their spare time.

Comments

Re: To answer your questions honestly...

[spikedpunch.livejournal.com]

My reply to you was part valid point(s) and part humor.

I see the need for an infrastructure to produce and distribute the fuel because I do not see Mr and Ms Joe Six-Pack making thier own bio diesel in their own homes. If so many of the customers I work with on a daily basis can not even grasp the simplest of concepts when presented with illustrated diagrams and basic questions, even to just get off their asses to fix their own problem, then I am struggling to see these same people making a routine chore of brewing and pumping on their own. They are going to insist on someone else doing all the messy work for them.

And a kid built a breeder reactor (http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html) in his backyard too. Any one can do anything if they put thier mind to it. They can also blow themselves up along the way too, but that is a side point.

And being covered in boiling oil was a joke. Laugh damn you!!

And I doubt we will see a BD car in any show room soon, but it has started me to think about how something similar could be done.

Re: To answer your questions honestly...

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

Sorry. =^.^= Subtle = Over my head. That, and I've actually heard people give that as a reason why they'd never get a car that "might have bio-diesel in it" so they avoid getting any diesel car at all because of that. The whole 'covered in boiling grease' thing, specifically.

Re: To answer your questions honestly...

[spikedpunch.livejournal.com]

It's ok. Humor does not always carry over in text very well.


As much of a technophile as I am, and hopeful about new ideas/technology, I am skeptical about this vehicle. I would like to see the readings from the tests they have done on the road and track with it.
I could say that I get 60 miles to the gallon, and 0-90 in 2.3 seconds in my PT Cruiser, but it is more believable when you actually see it do such feats.

Re: To answer your questions honestly...

[dennisthetiger.livejournal.com]

Another interesting point here - it's *almost* as easy as making a cup of coffee, but there's a certain level of complexity to it. All instructions I've seen on line require the addition of sodium hydroxide - and while Joe Six-Pack and company understand that this is not something you can eat, there are going to be some interesting issues with this. Home chem is fun and all, but it can be a bit dangerous....

Re: To answer your questions honestly...

[spikedpunch.livejournal.com]

I just see too much potential for Joe Six-Pack doing something stupid with it, or just not being able/willing to do it on their own. Like Smashwolf pointed out, I know he is more than capable of making it himself, but he does not have the time to do it. And I can see someone who is running late for work, and then having to "brew" up a batch of fuel to get them to work.