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Originally Posted by troit
I was watching this show on the History Channel about two weeks ago about old cutting-edge car technology. One was the Chrystler Turbine, a turboshaft-powered car. It was a great car that ran on just about any fuel you could put into it, and the one major moving part (the turbine) made the mechanism simple and reliable. BUT, being all turbo, the turbo-lag found in all turbo-enhanced cars applied to this one in a big way, so it was sluggish getting off the line.
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I dont think thats accurate, from what I understand turbine engines are'nt 'sluggish' off the line, they're slow to respond to any change in fuel... You press the pedal, and you're gonna be waiting a second or two for it to start producing power.
I could be wrong tho.
The army made it work for the Abrams tank, but from what I understand that has two settings, off and on, it uses the same amount of fuel wether at top speed or just 'idling'.
Diesel is really popular out here in Montana for multiple reasons and my next veichle will most likely be a diesel.
The bio-diesel producing algae looks really promising, especially since they will still work in salinated water. How hard would it be to pump salt water out to some huge vats in the desert?
They're also building a Coal to gas plant somewhere around Roundup Montana. This will turn coal into Diesel fuel, and the C02 by-products will be stored underground. This looks really promising to me.