We cannot drill our way out of this oil crisis. Since 2000, oil companies working in the U.S. have doubled the number of wells drilled per year.
Although increased drilling has added new oil to the nation's supply, it has not done so fast enough to offset the terminal decline of existing fields.
We are going to have to import more of our oil. Period.
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:43 pm Post subject: Re: Ask The Experts: Intro.
Please forward the following for the scrutiny of the experts,
(Thanks.)
Please consider the concept here as food for thought since I am not a PhD in physics, math, or the english language, don’t let an ‘I’ that isn’t crossed or a‘t’ that isn’t dotted or numbers that don’t quite add up take away from your thinking and reasoning in terms of the potential of the concept….and with that here is the posting;
The Waste
The first thing that comes to my mind is the question that I have about most hydrocarbon combustion. Why so much waste?
Although the following example uses diesel fuel (because it and heating fuel are nearly the same thing), I see the problem as universal and it applies to any vehicle/ home heating fuel used today, including gasoline, methanol, natural gas, propane, etc. and even hydrogen.
In both a diesel engine and home heating furnace, 50% (plus or minus) of the fuel energy is wasted, on a continuous basis.
In the engine, the explosive power of the fuel is used and the heat is discarded, while in the furnace, the heat is used and the torque producing explosive power is defeated.
The specific purpose for which the fuel energy is purchased to accomplish in the one application, is discarded as worthless in the other, and vice versa, is it not?
In terms of efficiency then what is needed is a method to capitalize on the heat to produce additional torque in the vehicle which would increase fuel mileage, and alternately a method that would make use of the torque production potential defeated in the furnace to produce heat, and would increase its heating fuel efficiency also, right?
This will not resolve our Peak Oil predicament, only increase our 'interm' fuel efficiency and buy us more time. With a near immediate start by reducing GHG emissions and Acid Rain production on the very vehicle you use every day, and/or on the furnace that heats your home!
Concepts
"Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities,' etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors." - Einstein
Engineering
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
Freeman Dyson (b. 1923), British-born U.S. physicist, author. Disturbing the Universe, pt. 1, ch. 10 (1979).13
Cheers,
Tawny Bill. _________________ "It takes but a fool to make a simple thing complex,
It takes ingenuity, to make the complex seem simple"
Tawny Bill.
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