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2006-05-20 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by ryuge 2006-05-20 00:18|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Iran is very cynically using the reliance of Japan on Iran for oil...

Wouldn't be the first time. Iran used Japanese flagged tankers to ship out crude to other customers during its spat with Iraq.

Posted by Pappy 2006-05-20 01:42|| 2006-05-20 01:42|| Front Page Top

#2 You know, 9-11 gave us a chance to develop a truly alternative energy policy that could have driven the price of oil down by 50 percent. It would have been costly, but the alternative -- funding Wahabi Islam the world over -- is not exactly cheap. Bush blew it, then, and continues to blow it now. Happy Memorial Day, how far ya drivin?

Posted by Perfessor 2006-05-20 11:00|| 2006-05-20 11:00|| Front Page Top

#3 but, but that wouldnt be in accord with the secret talks Cheney had with the Energy Co.'s early in his tenure.

Posted by bk 2006-05-20 11:15|| 2006-05-20 11:15|| Front Page Top

#4 I wish we could develop some new tech...rethink the engine altogether. A HS kid invented a lawnmower, using graphite instead of the traditional oil engine, and powered by compressed air. How about nano-tech to supercompress it? Or hydrogen cells, leaving only water as a by-product. Japan is actively researching new technology, out of necessity, and a little encouragement and investment to speed it up makes us all closer to energy independence, leaving these A-holes without a market and their resources totally obsolete. My husband used to joke about turning sand into gold long before Silicon Valley hit it big, and he thinks the graphite engine could revolutionize the world.

Posted by Danielle 2006-05-20 14:14|| 2006-05-20 14:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Bush blew it, then, and continues to blow it now. Happy Memorial Day, how far ya drivin?

Yeah. Thank God for Teddy and Harry. They've been right on it for as long as I can remember...gosh, ever since Chapaquiddick ol' Teddy's been pushing ethanol based ~~liquors~~ fuels.

Posted by 2b 2006-05-20 18:22|| 2006-05-20 18:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Sorry, compressed air is a really lousy energy storage medium.
For many years there have been various plans for some type of Air Engine, the most promising being one "Fueled" by allowing liquid nitrogen to expand to ambient.

All have major hurdles that render them uneconomic, primarily that when air (Nitrogen Etc) expands it's very cold, causing a severe loss of pressure (Huge effeciency loss) a few use the idea of using the ambient air to provide the needed heat while the gasses expand, it works, but very poorly, you have an additional loss due to the fans and radiators (High pressure expanders) the motors to blow ambient air, the extra weight you have to haul around, and the fact that they tend to freeze up and quit working, they work poorly and not at all when the weather is cool, below freezing forget it, it simply does not expand enough to provide the needed pressures.

Losses render the whole idea worthless. But you do get free air conditionong in your car, want it or not.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-05-20 19:16|| 2006-05-20 19:16|| Front Page Top

#7 wouldn't it be great if the next great fuel was made from liquified islamists?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-05-20 19:55|| 2006-05-20 19:55|| Front Page Top

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