Efficient Vehicles- Never A Case For Jatropha!!!
Dear Nand Kumar,
I was testing your engineering knowledge and skill in this message. As I said, Jatropha is never be an alternative motor fuel.
Today I met Brazilian delegation at FICCI and there was presentation of Ethanol use as a petroleum alternative.
Brazil uses minimum 25% to 100% alcohol to run automobiles. This year 60% of all road vehicles manufactured in Brazil will be dual fuel.
I asked its
head of alcohol industry- and was informed that 7KL of alcohol is produced per hectare of farmland. This is at least 7 times better that Jatropha. And Gasohol is absolutely clean fuel. Why India promotes worst alternative that is also poisonous?
You have not read the articles carefully. The rate of energy use is less than 25W. My inverter produces 650W for 3 hours. Smaller battery and inverter could operate until fuel cells are perfected.
Automakers and petroleum companies are not sincerely promoting transport technologies and developing countries led by grossly incompetent leaders are working on weird ideas.
India’s development and progress is hindered by corruption and incompetence.
Ravinder Singh
"Nandkumar"
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Hello Ravinder,
Your information on Fuel Efficient Vehicles was very valuable to me as an Energy Consultant.
No technology is relevant unless it is economically viable.
It will take at least another 50 yrs. before the Hydrogen Fuelled cars will run on the roads of India.
Let us think of solutions for next ten years, and therefore, be happy with "Jatropha".
As far as poisonous nature of Jatropha is concerned, let me inform you that Castor Oil is also poisonous.
Besides I do not think that Jatropha will be an answer to petro-fuels, but certainly it will be a strong competitor to Castor Oil.
So, I welcome the entry of Jatropha as a "fuel", but ultimately it will be accepted as Industrial Oil in India.
This has happened in East African Countries.
Let me tell you that one man's poison is another man's food.
But, I do not think I can convince you till I die, and I am already 66 yrs. old!
With regards,
Nandkumar
Your information on Fuel Efficient Vehicles was very valuable to me as an Energy Consultant.
No technology is relevant unless it is economically viable.
It will take at least another 50 yrs. before the Hydrogen Fuelled cars will run on the roads of India.
Let us think of solutions for next ten years, and therefore, be happy with "Jatropha".
As far as poisonous nature of Jatropha is concerned, let me inform you that Castor Oil is also poisonous.
Besides I do not think that Jatropha will be an answer to petro-fuels, but certainly it will be a strong competitor to Castor Oil.
So, I welcome the entry of Jatropha as a "fuel", but ultimately it will be accepted as Industrial Oil in India.
This has happened in East African Countries.
Let me tell you that one man's poison is another man's food.
But, I do not think I can convince you till I die, and I am already 66 yrs. old!
With regards,
Nandkumar
ETH Zurich: Vehicle with the highest fuel efficiency
Zürich, 28.6.2005 / CC 44 /
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ETH Zurich has set a new world record for fuel efficiency. This now stands at 5385 kilometres per litre of petrol. The world-record holding PAC-Car operates on a hydrogen powered fuel cell.
ETH Zurich set itself a goal to construct a vehicle that used as little fuel as possible and provided the highest possible fuel efficiency. So they gave the so-called PAC-Car a fuel cell that produces
electrical energy from hydrogen and drives two electric motors. The only "emission" from PAC-Car is pure water. The car is lightweight, weighing in at only about 30 kilograms. And, PAC-Car has now achieved its goal: it finished the course at the Shell Eco-Marathon taking place on the Michelin test track at Ladoux, France, using only 1.02 grams of hydrogen. This converts to about 5385 kilometres per litre of petrol, a new world record in economical fuel consumption. This means that PAC-Car would only use eight litres to drive around the globe.
Student project
PAC-Car is a collaborative project of ETH Zurich and the Federal Office for Energy (financial support), the Paul Scherrer Institute, the University of Valenciennes, France and the industrial partners ESORO, RUAG and Tribecraft. About 20 ETH students worked on the project, most of them from the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering. The two drivers, both women, are also students at ETH Zurich.
Also a model for economical passenger cars.
The ETH engineers integrated current developments in fuel cell and propulsion technology, aerodynamics, lightweight construction, and control technology as well as other areas into PAC-Car. They tested the system intensively together with their partners from science and industry, which means there is a good chance that some of the ideas and applications from the project could be integrated into street vehicles in future. This should contribute to a reduction in fuel consumption and pollutant emissions from passenger vehicles.
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