manna Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 G'Day Folks 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted February 19, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 19, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, newbryford said: At the risk of dragging this thread off politically (please don't) Rather like this: https://www.ecowatch.com/ammonia-fuel-shipping-industry-2645192985.html Power ship's engines from Ammonia, totally carbon free. But producing Ammonia accounts for roughly the same amount of CO2 as would be saved from using the ammonia in ship's engines! Scientists are hoping to find a way of producing ammonia without producing CO2 emissions. This however makes interesting reading: https://smarterbusiness.co.uk/blogs/uk-renewable-energy-percentage-2018/ Edited February 19, 2020 by melmerby 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 11 hours ago, newbryford said: At the risk of dragging this thread off politically (please don't) Ahem 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted February 20, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 20, 2020 7 hours ago, luckymucklebackit said: Ahem Hope the blue flashing lights are LEDs 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Vistisen Posted February 20, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 20, 2020 58 minutes ago, melmerby said: Hope the blue flashing lights are LEDs So if you get chased you only have to drive max 200 miles before they have to stop and charge up 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted February 20, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 20, 2020 Youtube auto subtitles . . Building a what Colin? 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PannierTanker14 Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 (edited) On the subject of Diesel engines; correct me if I’m wrong (which is likely) but I’m sure the original Diesel engine was never initially designed for fossil fuels and won a Gran Prix by running on Peanut oil! Only after Rudolf Diesel died suspiciously on a ship did the engine run on fossil fuel. so with this information we could return diesels back to the peanut oil days instead of deleting them from as a power source. i would quite like to see a Class 40 running on peanut oil Edited February 20, 2020 by PannierTanker14 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 Just now, PannierTanker14 said: On the subject of Diesel engines; correct me if I’m wrong but I’m sure the original Diesel engine was never designed for fossil fuels and won a Gran Prix by running on Peanut oil! Only after Rudolf Diesel died suspiciously on a ship did the engine run on fossil fuel. so with this information we could return diesels back to the peanut oil days instead of deleting them from as a power source. i would quite like to see a Class 40 running on peanut oil. I had an older diesel some yeras ago, it ran quite happily on vegatable oil, but once vegatable oil became a similar price to fossil fuel there was no advantage. Did help it pass the MOT on emissions though 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted February 20, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 20, 2020 (edited) 11 minutes ago, PannierTanker14 said: On the subject of Diesel engines; correct me if I’m wrong (which is likely) but I’m sure the original Diesel engine was never initially designed for fossil fuels and won a Gran Prix by running on Peanut oil! Only after Rudolf Diesel died suspiciously on a ship did the engine run on fossil fuel. so with this information we could return diesels back to the peanut oil days instead of deleting them from as a power source. i would quite like to see a Class 40 running on peanut oil Unfortunately burning Peanut Oil still creates CO2 Nice smell though! Edited February 20, 2020 by melmerby 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted February 20, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 20, 2020 8 minutes ago, melmerby said: Unfortunately burning Peanut Oil still creates CO2 Nice smell though! But wouldn't it trigger allergies in various people as it (car/train) went along? 3 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billbedford Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 50 minutes ago, melmerby said: Unfortunately burning Peanut Oil still creates CO2 ...but only as much as would have been produce if the peanuts had been eaten. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted February 20, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 20, 2020 2 minutes ago, billbedford said: ...but only as much as would have been produce if the peanuts had been eaten. But wouldn't the human digestive system create lots of methane from it? Methane is many times worse than CO2 as a greenhouse gas, hence the problem of emissions from herbivorous farm animals. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterfgf Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 1 hour ago, melmerby said: Unfortunately burning Peanut Oil still creates CO2 Nice smell though! The original engine was intended to burn pulverised coal using air-blast injection. The air-blast injection was continued with fuel oil, much to dismay of that generation of marine engineers who had to keep the beasts running. Incidentally, the engines that Diesel eventually got to run departed from his design thermodynamic cycle (can't remember the details offhand) and his patents may have thus been invalid - perhaps not unrelated being pursued by creditors and to his disappearance. Peterfgf 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billbedford Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 1 hour ago, melmerby said: But wouldn't the human digestive system create lots of methane from it? Methane is many times worse than CO2 as a greenhouse gas, hence the problem of emissions from herbivorous farm animals. All biological methane is produced by decomposing plant material, and that has been part of the natural cycle of life since plants first started to use photosynthesis. Methane that has been taken from geological deposits may, or may not, be a problem. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium dale159 Posted February 20, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 20, 2020 2 hours ago, PaulRhB said: Youtube auto subtitles . . Building a what Colin? Had similar a few weeks ago The 2 guys running this channel being from Leeds and Manchester both with appropriate strong local accents. Dale 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Vistisen Posted February 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 21, 2020 22 hours ago, melmerby said: Unfortunately burning Peanut Oil still creates CO2 Nice smell though! "warning this engine may contain traces of nuts" 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted February 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 21, 2020 2 hours ago, Vistisen said: "warning this engine may contain traces of nuts" And the steering wheel also has a nut holding it. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Steamport Southport Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 One of my mates thought that MacGyver was a made up thing on The Simpsons. He didn't know it was a real TV programme until finding it on daytime TV recently. Jason 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 3 hours ago, Steamport Southport said: One of my mates thought that MacGyver was a made up thing on The Simpsons. He didn't know it was a real TV programme until finding it on daytime TV recently. Jason The ultimate is the use of footage from the Italian Job, complete with chicken theft! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB-AU Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 9 hours ago, Steamport Southport said: One of my mates thought that MacGyver was a made up thing on The Simpsons. He didn't know it was a real TV programme until finding it on daytime TV recently. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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