Return of the 5.0 Mustang

[red05bullitgt]

One method of making liquid fuels from carbon based sources is called gasification and pyrolysis. The basic idea is taking a material and heating it up anywhere from 600 F to 2000 F without Oxygen or with so little oxygen that combustion is prevented. At these temperatures, most organic material is converted into gases such as CO, methane, H2, etc. You can use different technologies to convert these to liquid fuels such as Fisher Tropse (spelling is not right) or just look up liquidfaction. Germans used it in either WWI or WWII to convert coal to liquid fuels. People are researching and in some cases doing it converting things like garbage (plastics, food wastes, etc.) and agricultural wastes (animal manures, wood, etc.) to liquid fuels.

Just google gasification or liquidfaction or Fisher Tropse or waste to energy or gas to liquid fuels.

On the water vapor as a green house gas. There have been studies on how much water vapor exists and so far it has not changed that much, but one interesting note is when 9/11 happened and all planes were grounded it was noticed that the temperature dropped. The thought is that since jets fly so high that the water vapor helped form clouds instead of condensing back to earth like a lot of water vapor from cars and the decrease in water vapor from jets decreased the greenhouse effect enough to decrease the temperature. I will try and find more information on this.

I'd also really appreciate your thoughts on the possibility of making synthetic gasoline from 100% synthetic motor oils !

 

[stangdude2000]

I'm not sold on this.

I think the oil companies have higher margins than average corps.

Check out the SEC filings. People don't want to believe it, but its true. Oil industry had a profit margin of 7.6% last year. Compared to the rest of the manufacturing industry, that's below average if you don't count the "struggling automotive industry." Not counting automotive, the avg profit margin is 9.2% - count the auto industry, however, and average is 5.8%. Returns on equity are another story though...

http://www.usnews.com/articles/busi...xons-profits-measuring-a-record-windfall.html