You can do it that way, otherwise you’d just use a screen.
Beauty of it is when the screen gets clogged you can just burn it off since it’s so flammable.
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Seems they ran a 50/50 mix of 91 octane and turpentine. Maybe he was too afraid to run it 100%
I do know it works good as an additive to diesel to help prevent gelling.
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JO, Does the black or white turn to Swedish ‘‘red’’?? TomC
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Tom, the red paint we use is only a mud/sludge paint (ray flour based). You wouldn’t want it on anything you risk rub your pajama against.
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If you look at Marcus’s top sign ethanol is free gas.
There you go, showing off that pretty bed and cooling tubes again JO. I’m not buying fuel from you but $7.99 is what I paid for 10 lbs of seed potatoes yesterday. That would be 2.5 Kilos to you. Not exactly gas but it will be if I mix in some beans.
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And now they can add even more ethanol to the gasoline as the price will keep going even higher across the USA. This is more reasons to build a wood or charcoal gasifer to run your vehicles on.
For those who cannot build gasifers, then a cut back on their gasoline consumption, or that types of unnecessary driving they do.
Maybe vacations trip, RV’s, boat sales will decline, and instead EV sales will increase throughout the world. That is if you can afford one.
Bob
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Even EV people will be at the mercy of the dealer.
The Spark EV isn’t even that old of a car model.
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Lol, as I sit here shopping batteries for the eGeo.
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JO, My dad want to know if that is US Dollars or Swedish Krona?
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Tom, 10 pounds of potatoes. I think it’s close to 4.6 kg. That would cost me $11 here right now.
What I wanted to show is how much that bag of chunks is worth to me. The distance it will take me happens to equal about a gallon of gasoline.
Haha, USD of course. 10 times that in SEK 
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Kind of… The SparkEV only sold like 7k and it was only sold on the left coast. It wasn’t designed for the US market, and was built in Korea. It is really the forerunner of the Bolt, and they used multiple battery packs during the 3 year run. I BELIEVE they have the charge controller integrated into the main board so replacing the batteries with current tech isn’t easy.
The battery packs MSRP is 15k, the car was most likely sold at a loss. I have NOT heard if there is something like GM is buying them back, but it wouldn’t surprise me either. It is actually cheaper to buy them back then it is to redesign and upgrade the obsolete tech. especially when the Bolt battery pack has an msrp of 16k and is almost 4x larger. (17kwh vs 66kwh)
Part of the Bolt recall, I believe replaces separates the mainboard and the charge controller so it can be programmed for future compatibility with newer battery techs which is also getting slammed with the chip shortage.
Fords newer controller allows you to mix and match battery components. So if a section of cells is bad, you can replace it with a newer block with a different cell chemistry. You don’t have to replace the whole battery pack.
But that didn’t exist when they built the SparkEVs. The reality is it is demonstrative of how rapidly the tech has improved, and how much it has come down in price.
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Same with the Tesla batteries but they have them for a inflation prices now for replacement, waiting list on some vehicles. People just don’t think about the batteries life cycle and replacement cost when buying. That is big $$$$ at the Tesla batteries filling station when you old batteries running out of charging cycles or holding charging cycles. I still see Tesla cars running on diesel fuel, being hauled to the shop on a flatbed hauler for repairs.
Bob
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If they mandate electric vehicles one day, not that I think they could reasonably ban ICE vehicles in this century, you will see me riding a tuktuk powered by cordless drills before you see me buy a car.
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Just import a wuling huangkong mini ev. They are about the same thing, and AC is standard! I think the original is like a 5hp motor.
The Obama rules, the intent was to completely avoid a mandate or a discussion of a mandate. It was based around having a choice. The conservative goal was 80% new EV sales by 2040. If manufacturing catches up, it might be sooner. But there are way too many corner cases for ice vehicles, and commercial/industrial stuff that will still be in production for a long time. That being said a lot of manufacturing is currently sold out for the year.
We will see. In all honesty, they might hit the same sticker price goal by 2030, and manufacturing has caught up. I would guess north of 50% of the vehicles sold will be EVs.
I’m holding out against lithium. I don’t think we have enough resources to keep this up much longer. But I’m not a geologist.
I think a better stopgap would be a dynamo powered electric drivetrain. Like an Owens Magnetic. Very small battery used as a buffer for charging voltage, with an engine running at Stoich with a fixed RPM for best emissions and efficiency. I think the Volt did something sort of like that with their little 3 cylinder engine, or maybe it was more like the Prius with a synergic drivetrain.
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Still the best solar battery I have found is made from (Drum Roll Please) hard WOOD. Hard chunks of wood grown by nature. Dried to 18% or less moisture content. It is carbon neutral, good for the environment. And as the wood releases its gas energy in a wood gasifer it will run a IC engine. The Fuel of the past, present, and future is mostly free for the taking from hard wood fruit trees every year during pruning season.
Billions and Billions of BTU energy burned every year from orchards where I live in Central Washington State. What a waste.
Bob
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Bob I definitely need to find my local orchards. I want to say there’s at least two apple orchards in my county.
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