[Bill-n-Brillo]

Originally Posted by jimbo2012

Bill U need to cut back on the popcorn

I've been trying to but it apparently isn't helping much........

Bill

[George Bieniaszek]

Originally Posted by jimbo2012

I agree

I haven't said much about our solar panel cart add-on becoming available at TV, but the R&D is just about done, my partner & I are going to do it.

So maybe you can be one of our guinea pigs? For testing

Jimbo - I certianly would be interested in taking a look at your solar panel once you have a final product. Any preliminary stats on your panel VS some of the ones that are currently available from some of the cart manufacturers?

[jimbo2012]

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[skyguy79]

Originally Posted by Bill-n-Brillo

I've got gas.

Bill

Take two and... DON'T see me in the morning!

[2 Oldcrabs]

Gas is the way to go. Your only restriction on distance is the next gas station. The newer Yamaha and Club Car are quieter and little smell. I have never had a cart smell in the garage.

[cgalloway6]

Originally Posted by jimbo2012

How can 6 pounds (or one gallon) of gasoline create 19 pounds of Carbon dioxide?

It seems impossible that a gallon of gasoline, which weighs about 6.3 pounds, could produce 20 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2) when burned. However, most of the weight of the CO2 doesn't come from the gasoline itself, but the oxygen in the air.

When gasoline burns, the carbon and hydrogen separate. The hydrogen combines with oxygen to form water (H2O), and carbon combines with oxygen to form carbon dioxide (CO2).

CO2 molecule with one carbon atom (atomic weight 12) and two oxygen atoms (atomic weight of 16 each)A carbon atom has a weight of 12, and each oxygen atom has a weight of 16, giving each single molecule of CO2 an atomic weight of 44 (12 from carbon and 32 from oxygen).

Therefore, to calculate the amount of CO2 produced from a gallon of gasoline, the weight of the carbon in the gasoline is multiplied by 44/12 or 3.7.

Since gasoline is about 87% carbon and 13% hydrogen by weight, the carbon in a gallon of gasoline weighs 5.5 pounds (6.3 lbs. x .87).

We can then multiply the weight of the carbon (5.5 pounds) by 3.7, which equals 20 pounds of CO2!

Source How can 6 pounds of gasoline create 19 pounds of Carbon dioxide?

But your "carbon footprint" doesn't change, carbon in = carbon out. Yours just comes out of a smokestack of a coal-fueled power station located in Northeast Florida in Putnam County, on the St. Johns River, south of Jacksonville.

[jimbo2012]

Not really.

[cgalloway6]

So do you believe carbon is either created or destroyed during combustion or do you not believe the source of your electricity?

[jimbo2012]

This was discussed recently, gas operated carts use 4+ times that of electric carts.

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