it may be hard on some of y'all for me to leave, but i'm about done here. y'all have reached an all-time scum level

Sire silverado.boy

what do you think about the EV Silverado???

i f**king hate it ngl

i hate all full-electric vehicles

Dang

I think some of em are cool but they should make a renewable gas with no emissions

we already have renewable fuels but they're not very efficient. now diesel being made directly from crude oil, diesel is very efficient, has low burning temperature, and has a LOT of fire power

but what they say abt there being 53 years of petroleum remaining is false. dinosaurs die over time, not all at once. while petroleum ain't renewable, there's more than enough. like the tribulation will have came before the oil runs dry. we looking at a good 1000 years

But the problem with gas such as diesel, while it may be longer lasting, it still gives off lots of emissions and harmful gasses

And since most electricity comes from coal plants, everybody switching to EV's would cause more greenhouse gasses and would further pollute the environment

Someday in the future, I bet there will be a water-powered engine that produces more power, and is more efficient, and is cheaper than modern-day gas prices

And the faster we switch over to better fuel sources, the longer that petrol will last

actually, diesel is not as harmful as ppl think. there's less carbon monoxide but the particulates are like black fog. dirty but not as toxic as invisible or almost invisible gasoline emissions. aviation is WAY more toxic but electric planes can't fly long enough due to the power requirements to fly 30K feet in the air

between a 1970s chevy 454 and the 6.2 detroit, the detroit was less toxic but had HUMONGOUS amounts of thick, foggy smoke. 454 had barely visible but much more harmful carbon monoxide. today most fossil fuels are cheaper and nowhere near as toxic, due to lack of lead dissolved in fuels and catalytic converters

in fact, just 300 out of 5000 of the world's ocean liners make up WAY more emissions than all 1.5 billion automobiles in the world. 300 is just tears on a river to 1.5 billion (1,500,000,000) on a 1:1 ratio of ocean liner to car, electric cars really have no effect, if anything they're more polluting bc they use recycled materials, which requires fossil fuels, usually very dirty burning types of fuel. CO2 is not the toxic thing to worry about, it's CO1

CO2=you literally exhale this
CO1/CO=common suicide method/extremely toxic and invisible gas

the catalytic converter actually kills carbon monoxide so the smoke is just burnt fuel particles, diesel makes almost no smoke, but earlier 2000s diesels had little emissions despite having nothing more than a catalytic converter and a muffler. muffler is just to make exhaust quieter and in cases, modified for performance. now we have DEF on new diesels which acts like a washing machine for the exhaust filter, but it still clogs exhaust up (main reason why ford super duty ends up in a repair shop). Gasoline doesn't have any exhaust filter, just a catalytic converter for emissions, but is also less powerful and less efficient due to higher burning point.

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more cars should switch to diesel, bc some cars can't use diesel bc octane levels is regular gasoline

i feel extremely educated

But yeah, ig diesel gives off the appearance of dirtyness(idk)

But tbh water-powered cars would be cool

just imagine shooting water out of your exhaust system

and I'm not talking about something like the Toyota Mirai, a hydrogen-powered that drips some water out of the exhaust pipes, I'm talking massive jet blasts of water

Basically forced induction like a turbocharger or something, but instead of flames it's water

diesel has cetane not octane but ok. and yes it does APPEAR dirty since it's basically like black steam, but invisible exhaust is scarier bc you don't know where it's at

ohh

I meant octane in other cars, bc if your car runs on regular, premium, etc., the octane levels are different and would weird out the fuel system

Cars that run on gasoline w/ octane (probably) wouldn't be able to run on diesel, right?

nope, you can not run diesel on gasoline motor and vice versa

diesel engines have no spark plugs, as temperatures are naturally generated by the compression of the air and fuel itself, kinda like those little snappy-boi's that you throw on the ground that make a loud pop. in order to cold start, there are glow plugs that heat up the fuel during a cold start, then the engine will gain up some naturally generated heat and run like normal. Chevy has built in block, intake, and even fuel heaters for the winter. as long as those heaters are plugged, the fuel tank won't freeze the liquid fuel, the intake can help with combustion a bit, and the block heater keeps the block warm so thyat way you don't damage the block, because cast iron can shatter with specific heat conditions, just like glass.

gasoline engines do have spark plugs and it's quite simple about the ignition. anything carbureted like on old school vehicles or lawn mowers, you better keep the block warm enough or you'll take like 3 hours to cold start it. in Texas it usually stays warm so no worries for me

snappy-boi's lmbo

Yee yee

you really think abt it, the water powered thing??

i've seen nuclear reactors so small that they can only power a small LED bulb, like TINY nuclear reactor

nuclear reactors are the most powerful energy, but are extremely toxic. if you survive a mutation by some God-given miracle, your dong will be like 3 feet long and you may have 2 heads. besides waste, the amount of cooling systems is like 5 or 6 radiators on one fission power unit, plus plutonium's rarity as well.

what if we took hydroelectric, but scaled it down?? like we have a fluid to generate a turbine, and through some pumps and pipes from the water source, we could use that for the scale modeled turbines. all water is re-used while the turbine runs, plus condensation proof piping so you don't lose reclaimed water from the turbines. i once had an idea just like this and one of my friends has an engineering program where i laid it all out

ooh, good idea

you'd only pump it once or twice every 10 or so years, bc it's just water, and have the turbine produce energy to make the car go

If you wanted water jets it's basically water NoS

or instead of water, what if we used compressed air (hear me out)

Pump large amounts of compressed air into your car before driving, and it goes through a system to convert that air to energy, some sort of wind based system, like a miniature windmill yet as powerful as one

It would have vents around the bodywork and a compressing system to change that air to energy, so you would only have to pump compressed air in when your air happens to exit too quickly

i had the compressed air idea once, but that actually exists today tho

for me, the whole diesel engine thing'll be fine. the tribulation will likely wipe us out before we get close to completely running out of oil

true lol

Someday I will design fuel that runs on water and stuff

someday...

yeah but the hydroelectric could easily be left running basically forever until shut off. but to put the vehicle in "park", you'll need to park it like a stick shift, put all the electrical into neutral, then use handbrake/E-brake

So there would need to be a water "catcher" to make sure it can work when turning it on

The idea of having a stick shift manual in a water powered car is good, because that would change the amount of energy required

If you used a automatic, it would require way more technology than a manual

well not exactly a stick shift, maybe a sequential which is more simple. no clutch pedal, just flip thru gears at correct RPM times in a simple up-and-down sort of pattern. most supercars and built race cars have this kind of transmission

True, something like paddle shifters would probably work

Or an automatic with paddles and a manual mode

My dad's SUV and most automatic transmissions in sport-related cars have a manual mode, but there's no clutch pedal and you don't have to hit the brake to switch gears like you do when shifting it from P into D or R into P

my dad's pickup truck is a heavy duty and has a column shifted manual mode, but the brake is required to go PRND

same for mine except it's an SUV