"Austin Shackles" wrote in message
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On or around Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:43:16 -0000, "Robin"
enlightened us thusly:

So we get to find out the actual figures in the budget. Great.
Robin

The relevant text:-
Road Fuel Gases 7.35

bloody gits.

so what's the next magic solution, Hydrogen I suppose. which is a LONG
way
from being the magic pollution-free fuel that everyone keeps dreaming of.

Hybrids.

I am quite interested in the Honda Insight MkII

I reckon that with serious investment, you might get a substantial amount
of
genuinely-renewable hydrogen (not produced, for example, from methane but
cracked from water by renewable electricity) in oh, about 20 years.

even then, it requires a radical rethink of the way the whole system
works -
you start working out the volume of fuel which is used currently for
transport of all kinds, and it's a truly big number.

Granted that high-efficiency PV solar panels have been made and
demonstrated
and work, and you can get H out of the H2O with such, the sheer volume of
the problem is such that this ain't gonna be practical in the short or
even
really medium term, and governments only look at most 3 years ahead
anyway.

The problem is that LPG isn't really "a solution". The fact that most LPG
conversions are aftermarket doesn't help matters, as often the actual
emmisions that can be achieved by a guy in a garage are much worse than what
can be achieved in a research lab with multi-million budget.

Modern car engines are very highly tuned to reduce emmissions, but the
aftermaket LPG solutions are tuned so that they work. I suspect many
conversions end up being no cleaner than they started off with.


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