Quotes about Internal Combustion from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "In the area of transport, steamships gathered resources from the four corners of the world; the internal combustion engine made personal transport an affordable commodity; the airplane compressed weeks of travel time into hours.
Everything was accelerating: travel, communication, energy consumption, production, social development. We were constantly creating more change with less human effort.
Moreover, the rate of innovation was itself accelerating. In the early days of civilization, major breakthroughs were few and far between."- Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) |
 "In the course of the twentieth century technological innovations shifted industrial production from coal and steam, textiles, machine tools, glass, pre-Bessemer forged steel, and labor-intensive agriculture, to electricity, the internal combustion engine, organic chemistry, and large-scale manufacturing that was soon to grow beyond the borders of national states. The shift was intensified when in the latter part of the century the second industrial revolution replaced reliance on massive energy and raw material inputs with the intangible resource known as information."- Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) |
 "As gasoline is to the internal combustion engine, will power is to stress. Each time the car meets a headwind, it burns more fuel. The greater the resistance, the greater the fuel consumption. If a person is dissatisfied with her workplace—the hours, the lack of aptitude required, and the paycheck all become a source of discontentment. She will be required to "burn" will power to cope with her situation. Having to push herself to get through each workday, she will arrive home, her motivation exhausted. Even minor challenges will appear great. It's important to understand this."- Brendan Brazier, The Thrive Diet: The Whole Food Way to Lose Weight, Reduce Stress, and Stay Healthy for Life (Get the book.) |
 "I liked the feel and the quiet that, without an internal combustion engine, set in immediately. The car shifted imperceptibly from gas to electric.
"We're not like Toyota," he said. "They made the Prius to look the way it does so that it screams, 'Hey, I'm an environmentalist. Look at me! Look at what I am doing for the environment.' We didn't do that. We created the Escape to look like any other car. We did this on purpose."
I asked him if we could drive free form, but he told me, "Dearborn gave us a prescribed route we have to take."- David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (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.) |
 "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.) |
 "Sin and wickedness have been with us for much longer than the internal combustion engine. We doubt that they will disappear, even if the price of oil were to drop to zero.
And yet, to give him his due, who today can say without doubt that Friedman is wrong? Who can say for sure that parking a hybrid for free in a downtown lot in Des Moines won't be the "tipping point" that causes a collapse in oil prices . . . the little butterfly that flaps its wings and sets in motion a whole chain of airy events . . . leading to a tornado in downtown Tehran?"- William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.) |
 "It brings no more hogs to market, builds no more gadgets, improves no meals, nor does it increase the efficiency of the internal combustion engine. But the masses will believe anything; and after Bismarck and Garibaldi came to believe that this new world of assemblies, parliaments, and election fraud offered a better world, it then became the job of politicians to find a way to appeal to these fantasies. This they did, in nineteenth-century Italy as in twenty-first century America, by borrowing money—thus creating the illusion of spending power out of thin air."- William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.) |
 "Cecil built an internal combustion engine fueled by hydrogen. Later in the 1800s and during the 1900s, hydrogen engines became increasingly refined to the point that they have become operationally competitive with petroleum-fueled internal combustion engines. 1 Ironically, the use of hydrogen fuels predated the use of oil, which later took over with the invention of the carburator and because of ease of production, storage and fueling.
Hydrogen fuel cells are also playing an increasing role in electrical power generation for transportation and buildings. Sir William R."- Brian O'Leary, Reinheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions and Greater Truths (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.) |
 "Then, along came gasoline and the internal combustion engine and, voila, within a few years a couple of fairly ordinary young bicycle mechanics from Ohio made it happen. (If the Wright brothers even had an affectionate name for their pioneering aircraft it is lost to history; such was the scope of their imaginations. The banality of American exceptionalism is sometimes astounding.) Now, exactly a hundred years after the first powered flight at Kitty Hawk."- 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.) "Fuel cells can operate at efficiencies two to three times that of the internal combustion engine, and require no moving parts. In a kind of reverse electrolysis, hydrogen introduced through a catalytic metal membrane combines with oxygen to produce water vapor and an electric current, which then does useful work. In a fuel-cell car, for example, electricity from the fuel cell would power an electric motor and make the car go." - 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.) "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.) "As discussed in Chapter Three, replacing the current internal combustion car fleet with hydrogen-powered fuel-cell cars is unlikely to happen under the current laws of thermodynamics. Cars using regular electric motors are a better bet, though the battery problem limits their range, and to some extent their existence in any numbers is predicated on a renewed nuclear power effort. That in itself may be impossible to accomplish in a nation with an impotent central government." - 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.) |
 "Other inventions included a storage battery, an internal combustion engine and a flying machine. One of his dreams was to find a way to create rain by pumping warm air from the surface of the earth into the upper atmosphere, an original idea, but one that the U.S. Patent Office turned down.24 Complex and furtive as Astor was, he also had a reputation for eccentricity; he started writing his cryptic novel A Journey In Other Worlds in 1892, when he was only 28 years old.
The same month that Tesla visited Bloomfield-Moore in Philadelphia, he also met with Astor."- Theo Paijmans, Free Energy Pioneer: John Worrell Keely (Get the book.) |
 "At the outset of the second (which was based on electricity and the internal combustion engine), England had lost half her agricultural population in a generation, 3 million acres of crops, even the meat and butter markets to refrigerated transport from the other side of the world. British investment in foreign railroads, ranches, and infrastructure comfortably exceeded investment in her own countryside. Even if free trade had been the correct response to the Irish Famine in 1845, it could never be the correct response forty, fifty years later."- Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.) |
 "While manufacturing and selling that engine, he designed a much improved four-stroke internal combustion engine (1876), which remains the basis of the most common type of engine today. Variations on Otto's engines were used in the first motorbikes and automobiles.
Ovid (Pulius Ovidius Naso) b. Sulmona, Italy, 43 B.C.; d. hy A.D. Roman poet. Although his father urged him to study law, Ovid was a natural poet. Even his earliest works, the Amores, notably The Art of Love, display extraordinary skill with meter and verse."- The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) |
| "Acid Rain By-product precipitates sulfur-dioxides/S02 oxidizes to sulfuric acid/H2 S 04 and nitrogens nitric-oxide/NO oxidizing to nitric acid/H N 03, from the internal combustion of hydrocarbons, burning fossil fuels (coal, and smelting sulfurous ores), and motor vehicles. The atmospheric oxidation of these precipitates are dependant upon sunlight intensity, and the amounts of heavy metals and ammonia present." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.) |
| "The engine used on most automobiles, small nonelectric machinery, and propeller-driven airplanes is called an internal combustion engine because an explosion of fuel inside the cylinder moves the piston. The first such engine, invented by Belgian engineer Jean-Joseph Lenoir (1822-1900), used an electric spark to explode coal gas. Because the piston movement consists of a compression stroke (which also draws fuel and air from the tank) followed by a combustion stroke (ignition from the spark plug), the Lenoir engine is the first example of a two-stroke engine." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (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.) |
 "It may come as a surprise to learn that these inventions in search of a use include most of the major technological breakthroughs of modern times, ranging from the airplane and automobile, through the internal combustion engine and electric light bulb, to the phonograph and transistor. Thus, invention is often the mother of necessity, rather than vice versa.
A good example is the history of Thomas Edison's phonograph, the most original invention of the greatest inventor of modern times."- Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.) |
| "In 1885, Benz built a three-wheeled vehicle that was the world's first practical automobile powered by an internal combustion engine. Benz & Company started manufacturing four-wheeled cars in 1893, and merged with Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft in 1926 to become Daimler-Benz, maker of Mercedes-Benz cars.
Berg, Alban, b. Vienna, 1885; d. 1935. Austrian composer. While embracing both atonality and the 12-tone method, Berg brought a welcome emotionality to what were often perceived as cold and calculating forms; he became one of the most influential composers of the early 20th century." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) |
| "Electricity and the internal combustion engine have done more to liberate men and women than any previous technical advance, and have been much more influential than any ideological movement or political party. If it were not for these forms of power, the position of the proletariat in a dictatorship such as that of the U.S.S.R. would be much nearer slavery than it is, and the liberation of women would be unlikely to have happened where it has." - Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.) |
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