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Old 30-01-2014, 07:42 PM   #82
JG34JA
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Default Re: Hydrogen .... Believe it or not.

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Originally Posted by blk6t View Post
The biggest problem for a change in vehicle energy is infrastructure. Oil / Gas infrastructure is heavily in place, at least in Australia. Nothing around for electric and can guarantee no solid plans for hydrogen.

It's like Australia is happy enough to hum along on the reliance of oil being shipped in everyday.

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Originally Posted by Big Damo
Maybe we should start using our farming land to make ethanol based fuels, since majority of the **** you buy in the supermarket tastes like crap and comes from overseas.

I believe some of the VE Commodores can run on E85 from factory?
With Aussie infrastructure set up for liquid fuels, there would be no loss in providing local, distributed methods to make liquid fuel ethanol throughout the countryside. Especially in light of our refineries being shut down and converted into import terminals that are dependent on other nations to supply product. In terms of converting current petrol cars to run on it, it is not impossible. Good posts.

VW produces ethanol only versions of their small 4's for the Brazilian market, as do other automakers. The amount of sunlight we get in Australia is ridiculous and research has shown you do not need to use prime farming land to produce algae - some of which produce oils (diesel), others being worked on for starch (ethanol). No need to convert current ICE technology. For the land, much more sensible than fracking it.
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