

The red giant is looking to "go green"





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RE: Turbines Eat Anything
By Phoenix7 on 10/24/2012 9:07:42 PM , Rating: 2
Forgive me for being a noob, but is there any key reason why cars would be less flexible with fuel sources; in terms of what type of oil can be burned?

RE: Turbines Eat Anything
By Shig on 10/25/2012 12:58:32 AM , Rating: 2
Lower grade fuels tend to be more corrosive to engine components. You'd need to invest in higher strength and higher durability components.

We always hear about hybrids, electric cars, and hydrogen cars, but I've read that converting a car to run on Methanol (widely available and easy to make) would only cost in the area of hundreds of dollars.

Sorry got a little off topic. On topic -> Jet Engine car pls XD

RE: Turbines Eat Anything
By freedom4556 on 10/25/2012 2:25:38 AM , Rating: 3
It has to do with a combination of factors like octane, viscosity, stoichiometric ratio of the fuel, how corrosive it is, and how cleanly it burns that determines whether or not a piston-based ICE can run on it. Jet engines are more flexible on several of those factors and the combustion temperatures can get much higher and they're much more volumetrically efficient, etc. The army does have motorcycles and the like that can run on any hydrocarbon in a certain molecular weight range from gas, diesel, LPG, CNG, butane, kerosene, etc. It's not that piston engines can't do it, it's just easier with better results with jet engines.

