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 "Advanced engine technologies developed by Japanese automakers, Toyota and Honda, have produced hybrid vehicles that are far more fuel-efficient than those with traditional internal combustion engines. Toyota's Prius is so popular that there is a six-month waiting list. Another step toward the Right-Side Up world is the fact that enterprising inventors have taken these hybrids, reworked the design, and achieved 250 miles per gallon, proving that major fuel efficiency can be had if the desire is there."- David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) |
 "Early Otto engines ran on coal gas, but in 1893 German inventor Wilhelm Maybach (1846-1929) developed a carburetor that mixed gasoline with air, leading to internal combustion engines that burn gasoline. Many modern engines use fuel injection just outside the cylinder instead of a carburetor.
Not all internal combustion engines run on gasoline. In 1892 the French-German engineer Rudolf Diesel (1858-1913) patented an engine in which the compression of air creates a temperature high enough to ignite less volatile oils than gasoline; some diesel engines, for example, run on cooking oil."- The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) |
 "The abundance of internal combustion engines in vehicles poses the most immediate air-quality threat in urban centers. On a broader scale, inefficient food production and the transportation of this food is the biggest threat to air quality and environmental health as a whole. I discuss food production and the environment in detail in Chapter 3.
Psychological stress accounts for about 20 percent of total uncomplementary stress. This kind of stress is generally self-imposed, and some people are more prone to it than others."- Brendan Brazier, The Thrive Diet: The Whole Food Way to Lose Weight, Reduce Stress, and Stay Healthy for Life (Get the book.) |
 "Today, we know that where there are combustion engines, either in harbors or on roads, we are likely to find PAHs. These environmental contaminants are especially prevalent in heavily industrialized inland waterways, estuaries, and bays where contaminated fmfish and shellfish are harvested both for commerce and by recreational and subsistence fishers. Not only are several PAHs known to be potent inducers of breast cancer in rodents, they exert profound estrogenic effects.12
As early as 1962, T. L."- David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "To this end, BMW produced the world's first fleet of hydrogen-powered combustion engines (BMW 750hLs). BMW also embraces two additional concepts?Design for Recycling" and "Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)" for the integration of environmental and recycling requirements. Design for Recycling ensures that after its useful lifetime a BMW Group vehicle can be recycled simply and economically. To achieve this, recycling requirements are taken into account in the product development process. The result is that current BMW Group vehicles can be recycled economically and almost completely." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) |
 "Researchers and automakers are looking to electrify the drivetrain, powering vehicles only with electricity and motors, rather than with petroleum fuel and combustion engines. Several years ago, most people would have said that hydrogen-powered cars were the only solution—and exciting new developments from manufacturers like Honda have restored faith not only in hydrogen cars but also in a future hydrogen economy. However, hydrogen development is more challenging than had originally been anticipated, and will clearly be slow to yield workable results."- Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Stirling engines are "external combustion engines" whose cranks are pushed not by explosions in their chambers, but by the expansion of a gas that's heated from the outside of the engine. The gas itself stays in a closed loop, continually being heated, expanding, using up its energy to push a piston, and condensing again. The external heat source can be anything; the Stirling Energy Systems's product Dish Stirling uses sunlight focused by a parabolic mirror array. Stirling has been working on solar-power generation for twenty years." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "There are a few challenges, of course, such as the current limitations in the kinds of energy storage (batteries, ultracapacitors) that would be necessary for providing enough power and driving range (the distance the car can be driven before it must be recharged) to substitute for combustion engines. And anytime electricity is involved we have to consider the source of the power and the environmental impact of producing that electricity. mm Diesel-electric Hypercars A startup company in Carlsbad, California, has designed what could be called the anti-SUV." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
| "Not all internal combustion engines run on gasoline. In 1892 the French-German engineer Rudolf Diesel (1858-1913) patented an engine in which the compression of air creates a temperature high enough to ignite less volatile oils than gasoline; some diesel engines, for example, run on cooking oil. No spark plug is needed, but air must be much more compressed than in a gasoline engine. Diesel engines can be either four-stroke (used in some automobiles and trucks) or two-stroke (used in trains and large ships)." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) |
 "This has been the case classically with perpetual motion devices and other claimed fantastic inventions such as internal combustion engines that can run on water and special carburetors that will allow an ordinary car to get two hundred miles per gallon. For now, ZPE seems to fall into that category. But who knows? One might have said the same thing about atomic energy in 1893. (2) If there is anything to ZPE, it is not likely to see practical development before the world finds itself in deep trouble over depleting hydrocarbon resources, if ever."- James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) |
 "Carbon Dioxide A waste by-product of animal metabol ism exhalant from our lungs and internal combustion engines; 75 trees are needed to absorb one human's dai ly C02 exudate, and to produce 24 hours worth of Oxygen. Atmospheric C02 level increased 10% from 1900 to 1986. Blood hemoglobin affinity for C02 is 200 times greater than for Oxygen.
Carbon Monoxide Carboxy hemoglobin (COHb) blood saturation increases 3 times near cars; causes heart damage, accelerates atherosclerosis. 75,000 trees are needed to absorb the pollution of one New York to Los Angelesjetliner."- Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.) |
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