The car of the future.
The car of the future.
I wonder how many miles to the bale/bucket you get??? And the engine is recyclable.
Annie
Can we run it on duckweed.
The photo is a little amusing, but it should tell us something.
Getting out in the car and going wherever, is one of the greatest freedoms we enjoy.
Unless our governments do something serious about getting us off oil dependence for our transport....The photo may well prove to be a very good idea before long.
I can see the possibility of "exhaust" becoming a bit of an issue.
We could be converting to ethanol with no economic impact at all. Modern cars will run on up to 50% ethanol with no conversion and no loss in power or mileage. Loads of ways to make it, but here is something wild. Over 70% of the corn grown is fed to cattle. Cattle can't digest the starch in corn, so most of it passes right through. It also produces load of cow toots that the environmentalist find so offensive. If the corn were malted first and the sugar produced were fermented, we'd get 2.5 US gallons of free fuel per bushel of corn (55 pounds). The spent grain could then be fed to cattle. Tests done prove that the cattle put on weight faster using the left over spent grain than they do fed the entire 55 pounds.
The one horsepower engine is looking more and more like a real alternative for the future.
As always population is the problem. Could you imagine the amount of grazing land or stock feed produced to support at least one horse for every household in Australia? I think it would have more of a negative impact on the environment than a car?
In my opinion the planet can only naturally support a certain amount of population, human or animal - if we keep the mindset that we must keep increasing populations then the only way forward is via the responsible use of modern technology - unfortunately traditional natural means of living just cant cope with the populations we are now dealing with
Hi,
Even if draught animals were the only viable transport option, horses would be well down the list when it comes to efficiency. They are extremely inefficient converters of feedstuff. In fact, if you had to buy their food, you'd find that you could run a lot of machines that could do a lot more work for a lot less.
Gary
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