Chevrolet Ups The Ante!

Dec 18, 2003 30 Replies

Here's an interesting link regarding the topic:

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Ethanol efficiency looks to depend on numerous items but it can deliver a 2:1 energy gain when the production process is optimized.

With wind power I don't see one large site dominating but several smaller sites contributing that add up. The geothermal sites don't have to be everywhere but the good sites can produce allot of electricity for distribution.

One huge untapped source is the use of tides and ocean currents. The energy available from this source would probably supply all our electricity needs if it were developed properly.

Electric cars can reduce pollution if we utilize the proper sources for the production of electricity. It's also easier to remove the pollutants from one source like a power plant than several combustion engines. Just think of all the used motor oil, antifreeze, transmission fluid, gasoline additives etc. that aren't needed with electric cars. Batteries can be recycled but for electric cars to proliferate battery technology will need to take a quantum leap forward. Batteries that recharge in less than 5 minutes and give a 300+ mile range are needed to make electric cars practical for the general population, IMO.

The over population problem is really only a problem in the undeveloped portions of the world. It looks like humans do voluntarily control their numbers when they have a high standard of living. Look at Europe and the U.S. for example. European governments are trying to give financial incentives to get their citizens to reproduction at a rate to just keep the population from declining. It isn't working. The U.S. would have a stagnant population if it weren't for immigration.

I guess the key is to raise the standard of living for the rest of the world. Either that or nature always has a way to correct over population problems. Maybe we're overdue for another plague? ;)

From an Albertan....

Alberta has more oil in our oil sands than Saudi does light crude. This is a fact. The problem, is refining it. Currently, it is un-economical. I don't know what the $ break even point is, but I imagine it is pretty high. As for gas, Alberta cannot pump it fast enough to the US. You're all making us rich, and that is cool, but we all know it's going to run out eventually. Even here in the Saudi of North America, we know that. It's only a matter of time till electric cars take over, and such.

Brad

PS: My Bronco gets 9mpg if I drive it nice. It's sad, but that's reality...

It's gonna happen. Read this.

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General Motors Corp. plans to spend $10 million to build a new factory northwest of Detroit for low-volume production of high-performance engines, the automaker said Wednesday.

"A small but very passionate group of customers wants and demands vehicles with uncompromising levels of performance," said Ed Koerner, GM Powertrain's vice president of engineering operations. "The new Performance Build Center is dedicated to satisfying these customers."

UAW Pontiac Local 653 will represent the plant's hourly employees, who will come from other GM locations. Production is slated to begin in the summer of 2005.

A GM spokesman said the company has yet to announce the center's expected volume or which vehicles would use the engines.

GM Powertrain, based in Pontiac, produces engines, transmissions, castings and components for GM vehicles and other automotive, marine and industrial manufacturers.

GM is no longer the sleeping giant. With Lutz in charge they're on a roll.

Patrick '93 Cobra '83 LTD

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I don't believe there are any significat political or social forces at work that can curb the exponential World population growth anytime in the forseeable future. If there were, there are powerful religious, political, and economic forces that would fight ferrociously against them. Any serious action on population is decades in the future. Anything near ZPG is a fantasy.

Personally, I don't

I couldn't agree more. Our arrogance will be our undoing. Nature will deal with us eventually. What's left of the Earth will heal and it will be a garden again. The only question is how much is left for her to work with once we're done destroying things.

Technology is our saviour and as a consequence our ultimate destroyer. Without it, humans could have lived on this planet in harmony with nature untill the end of the World. With technology, we'll continue to arrogantly refute the laws of nature so we can support ever increasing billions at ever increasing lifstyles. This folly will come to a very nasty end.

LJH

95GT

That is literally true.

If we don't care what happens to humans then everything really is right with the World.

LJH

95GT

"Larry Hepinstall" wrote in news:0eFFb.227513$ snipped-for-privacy@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net:

Serious political/social forces aren't needed, as nature takes care of itself. AIDS is doing a pretty good job at keeping the numbers down.

Nature is already dealing with us. Look around.

There will be plenty left. Again, I think it's presumptuous to think that we could destroy nature. The only thing we'll destroy is ourselves.

Not to get into theology, but we weren't given the brains to be able to develop technology by accident. You think man wasn't meant to invent things? Man was given an inherent gift of intelligence; it's our free will to either use it or not.

Joe Calypso Green '93 5.0 LX AOD hatch with a few goodies Black '03 Dakota 5.9 R/T CC

snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (Patrick) wrote

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I'm just guessing, but could the Blue Devil name be based on the "Blue Flame" six that powered the original Corvette? It's as if the son were finally washing out the blot that the father -- or in this case the grandfather -- placed on the family name? This Blue Devil motor would REALLY wash out the blot.**

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** 1954 Corvette specs: 235 ci "Blue Flame" inline six, 150 gross hp @ 4200, 140 lb-ft @ 4200, 2,886 lbs., 2 spd Powerglide the only available tranny, 0-60 in 11.0 secs, 1/4 mile in 18.0 secs (Motor Trend June 1954).

AIDS, isn't making much of a dent in the population problem.. yet.

God gave us the brains to be wise as well as inventive. Why do we choose only to be inventive?

"Larry Hepinstall" wrote in news:jPKFb.228574$ snipped-for-privacy@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net:

It's a good start. Not to mention who knows what's just around the corner...

Good question. I blame it on Rush Limbaugh. ;)

Joe Calypso Green '93 5.0 LX AOD hatch with a few goodies Black '03 Dakota 5.9 R/T CC

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Here's the story on the "Blue Devil" name:

Chevy is not confirming the existence of a super-high-performance Corvette called the Blue Devil (AW, Dec. 22), but officials acknowledge it's possible that engineering and racing development prototypes based on the sixth-generation Corvette do exist and may have picked up the moniker.

And yes, as many AutoWeek readers have suggested, the Blue Devil name was chosen intentionally to catch the attention of General Motors CEO and Duke University Blue Devil alumnus Rick Wagoner.

Chevy officials say they have no production plans for the 600-hp,

7.0-liter V8-powered Blue Devil, despite information obtained by AutoWeek pointing to a 2006 production debut of the $100,000 sports car. The production C6's worldwide premiere is just days away at the Detroit auto show.

Patrick '93 Cobra '83 LTD

So it's just another case of kissing the boss's ass. Ick!

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