I read a thing at C EN that noted that just placing alumina with hydrocarbons made using them more efficient as fuels
Fuel efficiency is nteresting I strongly favor switching to renewable green fuels There is definitely something to notice about the share growth of green fuels
The doubling
time of green energy is rapid .5 pt to 2 pt over less than 20 years thus hypothetically green energy could be at 32 to 64 pt share mid century
Thats wonderful it also reminds me that anything Right Now that makes hydrocarbons an entire 1 pt more efficient is equivalent to most nonhydro renewable energy That alumina which is either precious as gems or simple as rock dust depending on how you view it might make liquid hydrocarbons more than 1 pt more efficient is motivating
perhaps many people here could think of a new fuel additive that gives more than a 1 pt better efficiency
Here is my new fuel chemical of the moment tunable antiknock compounds, antiknock compounds change the time duration of ignition
I think that antiknock effects efficiency at different engine revs With antiknock agents having adjustable properties the delay is tuned to the rpm of the engine giving slightly higher mileage
Wikipedia says of the antiknock compound Fe(CO)5 that Fe(CO)5 is the archetypal fluxional molecule due to the rapid interchange of the axial and equatorial CO groups via the Berry mechanism on the NMR timescale. Consequently, the13C NMR spectrum exhibits only one signal due to the rapid interchange between nonequivalent CO sites.
That suggests that a version of Fe(CO)5 like FeC-(adjustable ligand)(CO)4 where one of the points on the molecule had an adjustable group could affect the entire molecule geometry to have different effects I was thinking photocatalysis n was pleased to read at another wikipedia article that Photolysis of Fe(CO)5 produces Fe2(CO)9, a yellow-orange solid, also described by Mond Thus zapping Fe(CO)5 with light is currently demonstrated to create a near compound with different antiknock properties
either going with a new photodynamic ligand or the already photolyzable Fe(CO)5 The idea is that either the gas pump guesses what kind of car you have using a camera with a database then pumps fuel with a modified antiknock compound blend that is better for low rev city driving or high rev distance driving
perhaps better would be a xenon lamp that zapped generic fuel at either the tank or through a transparent tube to convert some of the antiknock compound to a better tuned antiknock compound blend during the actual minutes of use