Has anyone heard of FlexTek? (www.flextek.com) It is a system that allows you to run e85 or gas. Has anyone heard anything (good or bad) about this or similar systems? I didn't even know they existed. Has anyone put them on an HCH?

 

Never heard. But e85 gets worse economy. I know its green but we'd need some numbers to compare how much fuel you'd use gas vs e85 mix.

Plus they don't offer e85 in CT....despite all the "flex fuel" Chevy's I see on the roads.

 

Unless you can find something with a much higher sugar content than corn, or produce it using far less intensive processes, ethanol's a sham. Don't buy into the hype.

 

1. Not EPA approved
2. Could ruin your car's fuel system
3. Could land you a warranty headache
4. Doesn't support the Civic anyways

You might want to read this as well.

 

Unfortuately the process to create Ethanol causes more emmisions than regular gas. Conversely, the NiMH batteries in our car cause more environmental impact due to how they are manufactured, where they are manufactured and disposal of spent batteries.....

There really isn't a true clean way for us to save our environment unless we all use public transportation and public transportation switches to solar/hybrid technology.

Even Hydrogen based cars aren't the cleaness cars out there.. The process to create Hydrogen is also enviromentally stressing.

Hopefully we can find "Earth 2.0" soon we will need it!!

 

I'm all for the "Red Planet" idea.

Lets terra form mars

 

Terra form Mars.

We need to setup a new 10 million dollar prize for the first privately held / non government based group to build a space ship, Orbital Space Station, Long range Microwave Antenna array, Modular landing Pod, and Robotic equipment to perform transformation.

We will never really see Mars if we leave it up to any government.

 

I agree. Imagine a private company doing space travel. It would be like how UPS or DHL is to the USPS.
Are there any companies like that?

 

Ethanol is a total hype. First of all the amount of arable land required and secured by deforestation for massive amounts of corn we would need to sustain this source of energy would totally offset the slightly lower Co2 emissions from Ethanol.

The amount of energy required to cultivate the corn would be more than the energy we would get from it, with fertilizers, irrigation, harvesting and transportation of the corn to and from facilities in which it would be converted into ethanol.

This is a combination of GM's last ditch effort to save itself from bankruptcy, also attempting to change its image into a more eco-friendly one amidst the Hummer, Corvette, and Escalade line.

The federal govt is definetely interested in creating technology that other countries may adopt and then rely on the U.S., the bread basket of the world, for energy to utilize those technologies.

The real deal is were running out of oil, we hit peak and we got until 2030 until were completely out. Now really take a moment and realize what this means.

This is why were in Afghanistan and Iraq, this is why we not only let the events of 911 happen as we needed another "pearl harbor" to get us there, and this is why we havent pulled out of there even though %70 of the citizens of this country want us out, even as the cost of this war approaches $600,000,000,000.

 

I would question the report that puts the cost that high?

Regardless the US would not be sole power in an ethanol world. Canada as well as Ukraine would give the US a run for the title as breadbasket. Others like Brazil with its sugarcane would sell their crop as another way to produce mass amounts of the stuff.

I guess the only difference would be rather than being a primary importer we would become an exporter in an ethanol driven planet. Might help to reverse the years of corrupt establishment policy from both parties. Might help increase the value of the dollar abroad as well!

Ethanol might not be planet saving but it would save the US dollar and our economy. We might become a nation with a strong production economy rather than a service one.