oatssi
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RE: Clean emissions races.....
andy21aa Wrote:oatssi Wrote:Got take a tank of hydrogen and shoot a hole in it. See what happens.
Nothing! Hydrogen, like petrol needs oxygen to burn, and as there is no oxygen inside the tank nothing will happen. However the hydrogen escaping from the hole will dissapate into the atmosphere (being lighter than air), whereas petrol will spill out creating a fire hazard and may end up polluting the ground around it.
Incidentally, when a carbon-based fuel like gasoline burns, glowing hot soot particles transfer the heat to its surroundings — potentially including you. But because hydrogen contains no carbon, it burns cleanly without a residue of hot soot, producing little radiant energy. This means that a victim would have to be practically in the flame in order to get burned.
OK, so if you mix hydrogen with oxygen and add a spark (such the situation in a crash) nothing will happen. Thanks for clarifying, look forward to not being there to witness the results.
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26-06-2008, 01:20 PM |
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FC
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26-06-2008, 03:41 PM |
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Jeff
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RE: Clean emissions races.....
Is it just me or is this the most crazy thing ever. A couple of things I have noticed about this -
1 The organisers seem to be a guy called Azair Hussien who I've never heard of and the IOM Environment Minister. I thought the Tourist Board were the organisers of the TT with something like a 20 or 25 year license to do so? Surely anything that takes place as part of the TT is up to them?
2 No mention of the ACU. Surely as the governing body they will be required to license anything that takes place?
I think it is a PR stunt by a business man and nothing to do with the 'real' TT organisers. I can smell a rat a mile away. Someone is trying to get rich probably!
What's the betting the 2009 TT comes with a pretty similar programme to this year, with a parade for Honda probably, and not an electric bike ridden and built by a student (blimin eck) in sight!
Jeff
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27-06-2008, 09:16 PM |
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30-06-2008, 01:02 PM |
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thewitch
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01-07-2008, 03:43 PM |
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Chris Maybury
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RE: Clean emissions races.....
I still believe that to avoid the nasty Hydro-Carbon Petroleum fuels, the bikes could be modified to run on the good old renewable METHANOL. True the calorific value is lower than that of petrol so you need more of it to release the same power. Fuel tanks could be bigger or more fuel stops planned.
The best bit is that the bikes could be set up to run on Carstrol R only, yet another naturally grown raw material.
All ok just so long as the farmers don't reduce the output of essential foods such as hops and barley.
Some useful amounts of fuel could be distilled (using solar power, of course) from the natural waste products leaving the bogs of the Bushys Beer Tent, etc.
All that and a green Francis Beart Manx Norton, -------
***A Balanced Meal is a FULL PINT in Each Hand***
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02-07-2008, 08:03 AM |
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thewitch
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RE: Clean emissions races.....
Sounds like we'd all need to drink more beer to make this work. Personally, I am prepared to make the sacrifices required, and will start the process this Sunday in the Sidings in Castletown, in the company of many environmentally aware sidecar people.
Save the planet! Drink more real beer (especially Dark Island)!
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