Imagine having the choice to run your car on gasoline one day and 100% pure biodiesel the next. Better yet, imagine having such fuel options for a generator engine like the one used in the Chevy Volt to charge the batteries for extended-range driving. It would be the best of all green and semi-green worlds.
Fact is, the Cyclone Engine by Cyclone Power Technologies enables consumers with the option to use fuels that are less expensive, more plentiful and locally produced. That has to be better for our economy, national security as well as the global environment.
Who is the nutcase that wrote this?
This is who:
About Frank Sherosky: After 39 years in the auto industry as a design engineer, Frank is a writer and author of articles, books and ebooks. Aside from his duties as Detroit Automotive Technology Examiner, he also writes as the Detroit Day Trader Examiner.
As any dang fool knows, engineers have the imagination of a squid.
That is as opposed to the scientific geniuses at FoxNews who are not encumbered by laws of physics, biology, intelligence or morality.
Dawn of the corpse-eating robots?
Now I am not a scientist, and I'm concerned that the EATR will be steam-powered, but thankfully there are people at Fox News who seem to understand these things.
May I therefore pass on their speculation that this creation will be able to gorge on corpses?
Why certainly you may. Liberal bloggers, at least purportedly liberal bloggers, immediately picked up the threat posed by the EATR (Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot):
They failed to note that the EATR could digest live people just as well as dead people since FoxNews failed to inform.
This sent DARPA, the defense research agency that created a monster like the internet even before Al Gore invented it, into a tizzy.
"We will give the EATR a brain," promised DARPA, "so it will not be a people eater." Isaac Asimov would have been so pleased.
Unfortunately Mark Twain saw the future long before unlettered pedants like Isaac Asmimov tried to imagine it.
As the first railroads were constructed in North Africa during the 19th century, mummies with a high content of petroleum-based bitumen were also supposedly sometimes substituted for coal in engines of the then-new locomotives. Mark Twain claimed to witnessed the practice firsthand in his 1869 travelogue, The Innocents Abroad, writing, "[The] fuel they use...is composed of mummies three thousand years old, purchased by the ton or by the graveyard for that purpose."
There's that petroleum again but it is not necessary.
As you perhaps know, The Claw below is mouse-powered:
Better yet, these guys are powered by hay:
And the mummy mobile racing car could be fueled into space, inner or outer, by moden fuel:
Moden Fuel, a monopropellant able to burn in the complete absence of air, was originally developed by James R. Moden, Inc. of Richmond, RI, to power US Navy torpedoes.
But even before the mummy mobile racing car takes out the British landspeed record in Utah, probably on termite food, or flies into inner or outer space on moden fuel, it is likely to be generating electricity fueled by waste heat.
Who needs petroleum-soaked mummies?
Why aren't we building such cars?
Whatever would BP and Chevron do? What would environmentalist bloggers do with all their time if the ice caps stopped melting?
Best, Terry