Almost any video worth watching on YouTube, no longer runs fast enough to watch. Google is turning into a crap version of Microsoft.
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This is exactly why Obama’s CNG cars are a catastrophe waiting to happen. Highly compressed flammable gases are extremely dangerous high explosives. No sane person would put their family in a CNG car, and Obama wants them to completely replace gasoline cars.
He is an extremely dangerous moron, which is why the press loves him so much.
For what it is worth, I hardly ever have any issues watching YouTube videos, including the one included above.
Incidentally, that’s a scary video. Move over, Cloverfield.
It is working now, but half an hour ago it was unwatchable
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Probably too many hits at once. It sucked down the bandwidth Google is dedicating to that channel.
I download the HD versions with Videodownloadhelper and play them with VLC.
There is a wealth of experience with CNG fueled transportation in the Netherlands we can learn from. The increased risks of the use of CNG are not included. Conclusion: CNG sucks. The arguments: Contrary to LPG (a mix of butane and propane, CNG requires a high pressure system. This means it takes a lot of power to compress the gas and a lot of wear and tear of the pumps but also the valves. Besides that, It takes a long time to fuel up a car (at least 10 minutes) and the range with CNG is limited (comparable with the range of a modern electric car (electric cars suck too) Operators in the public transport sector have concluded CNG is only viable for busses (fueling up during the night) and trucks used for local operations. Taxi companies participated in the test programs rejected CNG as a viable solution. They lost to much time during the fueling procedures and they were confronted with technical problems with the cars (the valves I mentioned earlier). Because any taxi operator makes his money on the road, CNG is not a good alternative and when the professionals conclude the concept of CNG is not practical we know it won’t work for the average joe driving the roads either. Besides that, just like the imagined property of CO2 driving temperatures, peak oil is a hoax too, so there s no reason to look for alternative fuels. Gasoline and diesel pack the most calories possible and the infrastructure is already available. Just remove all the eco taxes, restore the trampled image of these wonderful fuels with the general public and stop lying about the future availability of carbon fuels because we have at least 10.000 years of reserves. And please keep the “we know everything better” governments out of our markets because they don’t.
P.S. The latest trend taken off the shelf again (this time by the good for nothing wind mill lobby using the windmills to generate hydrogen by the process of electrolysis)) is the use of hydrogen gas to create the hydrogen economy where hydrogen gas is used to generate electricity and fueling our cars either through direct burning or generating electricity by a chemical reaction in a fuel cell. This fuel is a disaster too. Many car builders like BMW, Vplvo, Mazda and Toyota have developed hydrogen propelled cars, tanks, fuel systems etc. The first (affordable) fuel tank that is able to hold a batch of hydrogen for a period of at least three weeks still has to be invented.
There is no way hydrogen ever will be viable solution let alone we will ever see “the hydrogen economy”. On a technological level everything is possible but on an economic level the hydrogen economy is a pipe dream. That said I am not against new technologies. There are niche markets for fuel cells like the chlorine plants where in the process huge amounts of hydrogen are released. In such a process chain fuel cell stack have been a reliable source of electricity generation, see NedStack website: http://www.nedstack.com/ However, without vast amounts of tax payer money and an army of people brainwashed with the idea that “We HAVE TO CUT OU CO2 EMISSIONS IN ORDER TO SAVE THE PLANET” there is no economic basis to introduce these technologies outside the niche markets.
I’m still stuck at the airport eight hours later. I was talking to someone about that. He asked what I thought we should replace gasoline with, and I said “nothing”
He said “That never occurred to me”
They have most people completely brainwashed.
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R.de Haan,
I read an article in a modern science type magazine a few years ago (don’t remember which one) about a nano glass cube filled with holes (tubes) so tiny that hydrogen atoms could only pass through in single file. The cube would prevent accidental explosions even under extreme crash conditions. The beauty of it was that the flow would increase with external heat providing a simple and controllable fuel to an engine. I have no idea where the technology stands at the moment, but it sounded like an elegant solution for a tricky problem.
At one stage NZ had the World’s highest number of CNG powered cars on the road. Around 120,000 vehicles. Now a virtual dead duck here. LPG is still used.
Yes, LPG is a great fuel, high octane, clean burning, increasing the service life of the engine if a good installation is installed. An Lpi (Liquid Injection) system even increases the power of the engine compared to gasoline.
By the way, it looks like the fertilizer factory accident that went sky high in Texas was triggered by a bleve of the tank of a LNG installation.
Steven, great times to get your own plane and fly yourself: http://www.aso.com/listings/spec/ViewAd.aspx?id=142950
This Glasair is only USD 29.000 but I have seen them for even less like USD 15.000 with a little work. With such a plane and some planning you can go anywhere. Some flight schools now offer flight training 50% off.
Here you see a youtube of the same plane for sale a few years ago for USD 54.000,- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1mV6DcuEMU A friend of mine has one and when he needed a new engine he put in an 8 cylinder Chevy LS1 series with 350 hp, almost twice the power of his first engine. You can do this with experimental aircraft. He already flew over a thousand hours with this engine burning car fuel without any problem. The current “crises” and the shrinking population of licensed pilots in the USA result in a surplus of perfectly good aircraft for small prices. Here you have some info about the operating costs of such an engine compared to a certified aircraft engine: http://v8seabee.com/conversion-kits/operating-costs.html
There is absolutely no fun in waiting at an airport to catch a plane so you understand I am just feeding you stuff for entertainment while you’re waiting for your flight. Did you know by the way that a pensioned air line pilot made a non stop flight with a single engine Lancair IV, also an experimental (home build) air plane, flying from Guam to Florida covering 7000 Nm this year?
http://www.eaa.org/news/2013/2013-03-05_long-distance-lancair.asp
He is now flying over Antarctica.
Here is some nice aerobatics with a glasair III: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nplK5ZoUxu4
lol @ guy parked outside burning fertilizer plant with his kid in the car. bonus points if it had been a cng car. :-p
@ R. de Haan. All resources/technologies have killer-app niche opportunities, but the eco-tards ruin it for everyone when they start spreading their delusions culture-wide.
Wine could adversely impact the China’s endangered Panda population.
http://www.theworld.org/2013/04/fastest-growing-wine-producing-region-in-the-world/
And Grizzly Bears too
http://www.edf.org/blog/2013/04/18/climate-change-pits-wine-grape-growers-against-grizzly-bears
But it would be great for the Dutch wine drinkers.
And about the airport problem. Are there no tsa agents you could give a hard time?
No way the Dutch would drink wine made in China. Hell they even refuse to drink wine from a bottle with a plastic cork, most common in Australia and New Zealand right now. Wine from Europe, California, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand has become an accepted tradition but only because the core of the wine farmers in these regions have a “Dutch” read “trusted” origin, which is a great help if you want to market a product, any product to the Cheese Heads. But the Dutch are extremely careful with food, beverages or wine for that matter from China, especially after the milk scandal. The Chinese screw around with everything they make. Besides that, perfectly good French wines go for extremely low prices right now because there is surplus production in the market. So price won’t be an argument either. I’m afraid the Chinese will have to drink their ChateauX MigraineX all by themselves. The only risk is someone creative re-labeling the bottles in a grand scale. The Chinese have direct access as they already bought a number of French wine estates.
“…no longer runs fast enough to watch. Google is turning into a crap version…
It’s all that subliminal advertising they’ve got to fit in. 😉
Another light aircraft video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAPsAJ5nnpI
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