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"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease."
- Thomas Edison

Biodiesel from algae offers unlimited fuel with zero greenhouse gasses.

Automotive X Prize seeks 100-mpg car.

New automotive technologies coming 1, 2. "Among the companies that have announced programs for using ultracapacitors in vehicle powertrains include such big names as BMW, VW, Audi, Honda, Nissan and Toyota, along with many others, some still at concept stage and others ready to go into production."

150 mpg prototype

Electric car drives around the world. Watch the videos.

Automobile emissions and urban air pollutants contain a great variety of known carcinogens. - Epstein, page 26

Every gallon of gas you burn releases 21 pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere.

Every liter of gas you burn releases 2.5 kilograms of CO2 into the atmosphere.

Average CO2 produced per year:
SUV - 6 tons
car - 4 tons
hybrid - 2 tons

  CO2 is a "greenhouse" gas and is contributing to planetary warming.

Atmospheric CO2 is now higher than it has been for the past 60 million years.

Global-Warming Gases Set to Rise 57 Percent by 2030 - IEA

Predictions of climate change may be absurdly optimistic. 1, 2.

Global warming happening faster.

Increased atmospheric CO2 is making the oceans more acidic. 1, 2.

The oceans are heating up. Increased heat and acidity in the oceans is damaging the phytoplankton at the basis of the oceans’ food web, putting the entire biosphere in jeopardy.

Arctic ice is melting quickly. Record loss in 2007. 1, 2, 3.

Antarctic ice melt accelerating. 1, 2.

 

Gas-electric hybrid cars can significantly reduce urban air pollution. Follow the example of environmentalist Dr. David Suzuki and make your next car a gas-electric hybrid!


Toyota Prius -- World's First Production Hybrid Vehicle -- Makes North American Debut

Orlando, Florida - Dec. 11, 1997 - Toyota Motor Sales showed the Prius hybrid electric vehicle for the first time in North America during a press conference held here today in conjunction with EVS-14, the largest alternative-fuel vehicle show in the world.

Toyota Prius. 1997.Prius incorporates all the safety, comfort, drivability, and performance of a conventional compact sedan, while offering high mileage and extremely low exhaust emissions. Powered by the revolutionary Toyota Hybrid System (THS) incorporating both a gasoline engine and an electric motor, the Prius went on sale in Japan earlier this month and is the first mass-produced hybrid vehicle in the world to be offered for public sale.

The highlight of the Prius is the THS, incorporating the technologies of a clean- burning, high-efficiency internal combustion (IC) engine with a silent and efficient electric vehicle (EV) power system. By using a newly developed advanced transmission and precision power and engine management controls, Toyota has developed a vehicle that bridges both IC and EV systems, combining the best of each. In testing in Japan, Prius delivered fuel economy of 66 mpg and emission reductions of 50% for carbon dioxide and 90% for carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxide.

Learn more about the Prius:  http://www.toyota.com/prius/

Learn how hybrid cars work: http://www.howstuffworks.com/hybrid-car.htm 

US Environmental Protection Agency 2007 list of most fuel efficient cars http://www.epa.gov/fueleconomy/overall-high.htm


 
Hybrid Cars (automatic transmission)Miles per U.S. Gallon
(2008 EPA Estimate)
Toyota Prius (midsize) 48 city / 45 highway / 46 combined
Honda Civic (compact)40 city / 45 highway / 42 combined
Nissan Altima (midsize) 35 city / 33 highway / 34 combined
Toyota Camry (midsize) 33 city / 34 highway / 34 combined
Lexus RX 400h (compact) 27 city / 24 highway / 25 combined
Chevrolet Malibu 24 city / 32 highway / 27 combined
Saturn Aura (midsize) 24 city / 32 highway / 27 combined
Lexus GS 450h 22 city / 25 highway / 23 combined
Lexus LS 600h 20 city / 22 highway / 21 combined
  
Hybrid SUVs(2008 EPA Estimate)
Ford Escape34 city / 30 highway / 32 combined
Mazda Tribute 34 city / 30 highway / 32 combined
Mercury Mariner34 city / 30 highway / 32 combined
Toyota Highlander 27 city / 25 highway / 26 combined
  
Hybrid Trucks(2007 EPA Estimate Trucks)
Chevrolet Sierra 18 city / 21 highway / 19 combined
GM Silverado 18 city / 21 highway / 19 combined

The average new vehicle sold in the United States gets 20 miles per gallon. The average SUV gets 17 miles per gallon. In Europe, automakers have agreed to voluntary increases in fuel-economy standards that in 2008 will lift the average to 44.2 miles per gallon. Toyota plans to make all of its cars hybrids by 2012.

Company cars for Walmart Canada managers are hybrids. All new cars leased by the government of British Columbia are hybrids.

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Electric Vehicles Available Now

 

Electric Cars

Tesla Motors offers a two seat sports car with 200 miles per charge and a top speed of 130 miles per hour. Price is approximately $92,500.

Hybrid Technologies is an American company that is re-equipping a variety of standard vehicles with an electric motor and lithium ion batteries. These include electric versions of the Smart Car, PT Cruiser, Mini Cooper, Chrysler Crossfire, motorcycles, scooters, ATVs, and more. These electric cars are capable of highway speeds and driving distances in excess of 100 miles. Hybrid Technologies is looking for distributors nation-wide.

 

Low Speed Vehicles (LSV) / Neighborhood Electric Vehicles

The Zero Emission No Noise (ZENN) neighborhood electric vehicle is now in production. Made in Quebc, Canada, the ZENN retails for about US$12,750. The ZENN can travel 35 miles at 25 miles per hour. Watch the videos at http://www.zenncars.com. Left hand and right hand drive models are available.

Dynasty company's IT neighborhood electric vehicle is made in British Columbia, Canada. The IT retails for about US$19,000. The IT can travel 30 miles at 25 miles per hour. The cost to give the batteries a full charge is about 50 cents. See http://www.itiselectric.com/.

REVA electric car is made in India and is presently available in 12 countries. It offers about 40 miles per charge and a top speed of about 40 mph. Sold in the UK under the name of G-Wiz at a cost of £6,999.

Global Electric Motorcars (GEM) is a division of Daimler Chrysler. The GEM car offers a 30 mile range and a top speed of 25 mph.

Meyers NMG is a 3 wheel vehicle that seats one person, it can reach a top speed of 70 - 75 mph and travel 30 miles on a charge. Costs $24,900.

ZAP Xebra is a three wheeled electric vehicle that offers a 25 mile range at speeds of up to 40 mph. Price is about $10,500.

Commutercar Tango can reach 130 miles per hour and has an 80 mile range. Price ranges from $18,700 to $108,000.

Venturi Fetish has a range of 50 km at a speed of 50 km/hr. Batteries are charged by onboard solar cells which can provide 7 km per day of travel. A wind turbine can be connected to the car and can provide power for an additional 15 km of travel. When plugged in, a full charge takes 5 hours. Price is 24,000 Euros.

 

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Compressed Air Car

The Air Car being developed by Guy Nègre in France has a range of 200 - 300 km (124 miles) and a top speed of 110 km/h (68 mph). The cost of electricity to run the compressor to fill the tank with compressed air is about $2. The vehicle produces zero pollution.

The compressed air car seats 5 people and will be available in a variety of formats including sedan, van, taxi, and pick-up. Maximum load is 500 KG. A public transportation (bus) version is also in development.

To refill the compressed air tank takes two to three minutes at an "air station", or 3 to 4 hours using the built-in compressor and plugged into a source of electricity to run the compressor.

The engine requires no cooling system because the compressed air fuel is at ambient temperature. Since there is no "controlled explosion" as happens in gasoline engines, the compressed air engine can be made from light weight aluminum. The total weight of the vehicle is 750 KG.

Prototypes of the vehicle have been made and tested. A modular turnkey factory has been designed. Production licenses have been sold for many countries around the world including U.S.A., France, Mexico, India, and South Africa. Development of the car is being financed through sale of production licenses. The technology is protected by more than 30 patents.

The Air Car will be marketed as a low cost city car. The first cars are expected to be sold in 2005 for a price in the range of $8,000 - $10,000 for the basic vehicle.

The company has a compression system available for sale to filling stations. In the future, compressed air and this new engine technology may be used to store energy and generate electricity for home use. There is also a marine version being developed.

Learn about the compressed air car at http://www.theaircar.com/index.html. This technology has recently been licensed by Tata Motors of India.

 

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Earth's ice cover is melting at an astonishing rate. - Worldwatch Institute

Global warming is now unavoidable.

The melting of glaciers around the world is accelerating. 1, 2.

12 of the past 13 years were the warmest since records began. 2005 was the hottest year on record.

The Greenland ice sheet is now melting at twice the rate of 5 years ago.

Coming soon to a theatre near you:

Who Killed The Electric Car?

An Inconvenient Truth

A Great Warming

A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash

Avoiding dangerous climate change requires very deep cuts in
CO2 emissions in the long term, something like 85% of
business-as-usual averaged over the coming century.

Gore calls for 90% reduction in CO2. Scientists call for zero CO2 emissions.

The challenge for each nation, state, city, company and individual is to reduce personal greenhouse gas emissions to zero. Become "carbon neutral" or even "carbon negative".

The arctic and antarctic ice caps are melting. These ice caps help keep the earth cool by reflecting sunlight back into space. Without the icecaps, global warming will accelerate.

The melting of the Siberian tundra is a "tipping point" for global warming, because the permafrost which has been frozen for the last 11,000 years is releasing hundreds of millions of tons of methane. Methane is 20 times worse than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. 1, 2.

Feedback loops such as the melting of the ice caps and release of methane could create runaway global warming beyond human expectations or control. A similar event happened 251 million years ago, resulting in the extinction of 95% of all species.

Global warming is disrupting ocean currents. The North Atlantic Current which helps keep Europe warm has weakened by a third in the past decade. The result may be a cooler Europe and hotter water in the tropics, resulting in more intense hurricanes. Watch the movie Day After Tomorrow.

Ice age sea level was 400 feet (125 meters) below present day sea level. If all the remaining ice melts, sea levels could rise as much as 260 feet (80 meters).

The water in the ocean will expand as it warms up ("thermal expansion of sea water"), raising sea levels an additional 50% beyond what melting ice will do.

One third of the land mass of the planet may be desert by 2100.

Spirulena is highly nutritious, does not require topsoil, and grows well in deserts.

As the world burns.

A secret Pentagon study warns of possible imminent catastrophic climate change with significant national security implications.

Read about Iceland's progress towards becoming the world's first hydrogen economy

The world's first hydrogen filling station for cars and buses was shipped from Fredrikstad, Norway, to Reykjavik, Iceland March 2003.

 

 


 

California Drives Change to Hydrogen Highways

California's governor wants to turn his state into the first with a true network of "Hydrogen Highways," with 200 hydrogen filling stations lining the roads.

The cash-strapped state can afford to pursue hydrogen filling stations during its budget crisis because companies have agreed to help build some of the fueling stations and to shoulder most of the early costs, said Terry Tamminen, the governor's environmental secretary.

No money was in this year's budget for the proposal, the Los Angeles Times reported.

"This is not, in my view, anything close to pie in the sky," Tamminen said.

"What we are talking about is aggregating a number of projects that are already underway. The car companies fought the whole electric vehicle mandate tooth and nail, and invested close to nothing.

Hydrogen is different. They are investing in this technology, and believe it can work."

Most big automakers have a hydrogen fueled car program, and demonstration fleets are set for a 2006 launch.

Carmakers say they are pouring billions into research on the new technology. In Tokyo, fuel cell minivans are being used already. Toyota, Nissan and Honda have pledged to put 50,000 of the cars on the road by 2010.
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Copyright 2004 by United Press International.
All rights reserved.

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Magnegas is a clean burning fuel produced from liquid waste such as sewage sludge. See www.magnegas.com

Hydrogen is so light it is difficult to store enough to drive a car any distance without energy consuming compression or liquifaction. However, there is now a way to create a large molecule containing 99.2% hydrogen, yet its specific weight is 7.7 times that of conventional hydrogen, perhaps the perfect fuel for cars. See http://www.i-b-r.org/docs/magneh.pdf

100 miles Per Gallon of Gas

There is an explosion in your car every time a cylinder fires. These controlled explosions power your car. The military knows that there are two types of explosion: incendiary and percussion. Incendiary takes more time and generates more heat. Percussion is a quick sharp explosion generating very little heat.

Conventional gasolines are a mix of hydrocarbons, each with a different boiling point. Gas must vaporize before it will burn. The hydrocarbons with the lowest boiling point (about 130°F or 54°C) burn first, and the heat they generate ignites the hydrocarbons with the next higher boiling point and so on until the hydrocarbons with the highest boiling point (about 430°F or 221°C) are consumed. This sequential explosion is slow and generates a lot of heat. It is INCENDIARY. The lower boiling point hydrocarbons power the cylinder, the higher boiling point hydrocarbons continue burning in the car's exhaust manifold, and the highest boiling point hydrocarbons are burned in the catalytic converter.

An ideally formulated automotive fuel would have a single low boiling point so it would quickly vaporize and detonate in a quick PERCUSSION explosion. All the power in the fuel would be used to move the cylinder, very little heat would be generated (the car might not require a radiator or cooling system), very little pollution would be created (the car would not require a catalytic converter), the inside of the motor would remain clean because there would be no unburned hydrocarbons, and the motor would last much longer.

Liquid gasoline is relatively safe to use, but is more complex and has a higher boiling point than the ideal fuel. The ideal carburetor would contain a catalyst to split the complex hydrocarbons of the liquid fuel into simple hydrocarbons like methane CH4 and methanol CH3OH. Such a carburetor would use the same way to crack the fuel as is commonly used to crack heavier hydrocarbons to make gasoline - by means of heat and a catalyst (Thermal Catalytic Cracking - TCC). The fuel efficiency of the gasoline would also be enhanced by incorporating up to 80% water during the cracking process. For example (approximately): C8H16 + H2O => CH4 + CH3OH. The heat is provided by the exhaust system, plus supplementary electric heat. The smaller the molecule, the higher the octane rating. The more uniformly sized small hydrocarbon molecules provide a percussion explosion.

Liquid fuel is efficient to transport, but to burn it must first be vaporized. Methane is gaseous at room temperature. Liquid fuel heated and converted to methane and methanol by means of a Thermal Catalytic Carburator will be completely vaporized. With conventional carburetors, despite mixing the fuel with air, much of the fuel remains in liquid form as it enters the cylinder. The fully vaporized fuel from the TCC carburetor is yet another reason why superior combustion and fuel efficiency will result.

Due to the incorporation of so much water into the resulting fuel, Mr. McBurney believes that fuel produced in this manner will be much cheaper even than natural gas delivered by pipe to homes, helping to reduce the cost of heating and generating electricity for homes.

The above process has been known and suppressed by petrochemical and automotive companies since the 1930's. Many inventors around the world have created super carburetors, only to have them purchased and shelved by these companies. The inventors who refused to sell were either jailed on trumped up charges or killed.

Gasoline additives such as lead, varnishes, and detergents have as their primary purpose the interference with super carburetors. These additives coat the catalyst used to crack the hydrocarbons, rendering it ineffective.

For more information see the publication "The Secret Super High Mileage Report" by J. Bruce McBurney available from http://www.himacresearch.com/books. Mr. McBurney suggests that there are several ways to solve the problem of gasoline additives. Filtering the fuel through activated carbon should help. Also, an economical and disposable catalyst could be used (Mr. McBurney uses iron for the catalyst). The catalyst could also be layered so that the more quickly contaminated section could be disposed of more frequently.

100 miles Per Gallon of Water

Water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen. Split water into its component gases and you have a wonderful fuel. The problem is that it takes more energy to split water using conventional electrolysis than you get back as energy in the resulting fuel.

What if you could reduce the amount of energy needed to split the water molecule? If you could split the water with LESS energy than contained in the resulting fuel then you would have some energy left over to do useful work. That is, you could operate a motor and use part of the motor's output to split the water that fuels the motor, and part of the output to do work.

This may actually be possible using FREQUENCY. A certain frequency stimulates water's decomposition. By combining electrolysis of water with the appropriate voltage and voltage pulse frequency within a "resonant cavity", the result is the creation of hydrogen and oxygen gases for a fraction of the amount of energy contained in the resulting fuel.

See the short videos 1, 2, and 3. You can left click on these video files to watch them, or you can right click and "Save Target As" to copy them to your hard drive and watch them from there.

The inventor was murdered and all his notes and prototype stolen shortly after these videos were broadcast. However, some of his notes survived the theft and they are available in a two volume publication called "The Water Fuel Cell" by Stanley A. Meyer available from http://www.himacresearch.com/books.

Patents received by Mr. Meyer during development of this process include:

United States patents3,970,070
4,265,224
4,275,950
4,389,981
4,421,474
4,465,455
4,613,304
4,613,779
4,798,661
4,826,581
4,936,961
5,149,407
Canadian patents1,213,671
1,227,094
1,228,833
1,231,872
1,233,379
1,234,773
1,234,774
1,235,669
Japanese patents1,577,992
1,584,224
1,694,782
European patents0101761
0086439

Other patents were pending at the time of his death.

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Another inventor has come up with a way to use salt water as fuel. See the video. It remains to be discovered whether or not his invention can produce a surplus of energy, but this certainly verifies Mr. Meyer's idea that frequency makes a big difference in the efficiency of electrolysis. 

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Water fuel car unveiled in Japan. - Reuters June 15, 2008. See video.

 

Create Your Own Hybrid Car

With surplus electricity from your car's alternator or generator, you can use electrolysis to create a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen from water. Use an electrolyte (battery acid, baking soda, or hydrogen peroxide)  to improve hydrogen and oxygen production. Send the hydrogen and oxygen through a tube into your air filter and you now have a gasoline/hydrogen hybrid car.

This simple system costs about $50 to build. Claims of increased gas mileage range between 0% and  200%. It is also suggested your engine will create less pollution and will burn cooler, resulting in longer engine life.

Complete instructions for doing this are available in the publication called "Hydro-Boost" by Lee Brewer available from http://www.himacresearch.com/books.

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Research in Spain indicates that hydrogen production can be increased by the presence of a catalyst made of the metal molybdenum. Heat is also a catalyst, increasing the speed of all chemical reactions.

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There is a device called the "Condensator" that was tested on nine US navy fleet vehicles. The improvement in fuel efficiency ranged from 4% to nearly 28%, with the average being over 15%. Exhaust emissions were reduced by about 75%. You can purchase a Condensator from http://www.agsint.com/cond.htm, or in Canada from J. Bruce McBurney at http://www.himacresearch.com (US$109.00, CDN$139.00). Alternatively, you can learn how to make one for about $14 in the above Hydro-Boost publication.

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Young people like tinkering with cars. Usually they just want them to go faster. However, perhaps it would be an interesting project for them to explore ways to increase fuel efficiency and reduce pollution.

 

Fuel cells that require hydrocarbons as their source of hydrogen energy are not useful except in the very short term, because  the supply of hydrocarbons is limited (see www.dieoff.org).

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The world may run out of oil sooner than expected. A Swedish study found that 80% of reported reserves do not exist. Global oil production is peaking now and is predicted to begin declining starting 2011. Read more at Peak Oil.

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In Brazil, ethanol now constitutes 40 percent of all automobile fuel; 80 percent of new cars are flexible fueled cars, capable of using any proportion of ethanol and gasoline.

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Farmers may find it beneficial to begin manufacturing their own fuel. Possible fuels for farm tractors include methane from the anaerobic digestion of organic farm wastes, biodiesel from oily crops, alcohol from sugary crops, and hydrogen generated by electricity from wind turbines. We would prefer to avoid diverting food crops.

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Dream Farm 2 runs entirely without fossil fuels. See 1, 2.

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"Many people in North America don't understand, or don't believe in, the ethanol revolution. But I think that's mostly because their views are molded by the ethanol industry in the U.S.

The difference is that America's ethanol, made from corn, takes too much energy to produce. It drives up the price of food and feed. It requires never-ending government subsidies.

Brazil's ethanol, made from sugar cane, is another matter entirely. It's clean. It's cheap. And it has reduced Brazil's dependence on imported oil to zero."  - Dr. Martin Weiss, Aug. 6, 2007.

 

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If we are a contributor to our planetary demise, then cancer or other diseases may be the interest on our investment. - Bethany Argisle 

 

 

The Worldwatch Institute is offering free online access to its feature articles on climate change, which appeared in the Worldwatch magazine's November/December 2000 issue.

"The Hydrogen Experiment" examines Iceland's grand experiment that may end the country's - and the world's - reliance on fossil fuels forever.

"The Oceans Are Coming Ashore"  focuses on how in this century increases in sea levels of just one meter could displace up to one billion people and cause countless ecological tragedies around the world. This article addresses global aspects of the climate change problem and why governments have been slow to act on this disaster waiting to happen.
 
"The Hydrogen Experiment" and  "The Oceans Are Coming Ashore" are available for free download from the Worldwatch website: http://www.worldwatch.org.

"The paleoclimate record also shows that climate doesn't necessarily change slowly over hundreds or thousands of years. In some cases, major increases or decreases in precipitation and/or temperature can occur in periods less than a decade."
- NOAA

The Greenland ice sheet contains 2.6 million cubic kilometers of ice. The Antarctic ice sheet contains about 26 million cubic kilometers of ice, which is 90% of the world's ice. Total ice on the planet is about 30 million cubic kilometers.

U.S. fossil-fuel related emissions were 5.88 billion metric tons in 2006.

Greatness requires a measure of self-sufficiency. The interdependence fostered by trade is fine up to a point, but to stake one's life on it and to give up self-sufficiency for the essentials of life makes one vulnerable and is a sign of weakness. This principle applies to all levels of society from individuals to nations.
- Editor, Alkalize For Health


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