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CAR ACCESSORIES, SPARE PARTS AND TOOLS
Welcome to this presentation of affordable vehicle equipment. Down on this page there is also some information about alternative energy sources for vehicles.
Spare parts, equipment and tools for your car - All types of quality equipent for every car fabricate and model: Exterior, interior, styling, transmission, stearing, wheels, electric system, radio, fuel system, motor, trimming and performance parts, driving computer, navigation, seats, doors, locks, glasses, brakes, suspention, exhaust system, driving security, computer system, telephone and comunication, and much more.
Internal and external car equipment, car electronics - By clicking at the banner below, you will find a great collection of accessories for your car, like lanterns, antennas, auto radio / stereo / music, communication electronics, security equipment, GPS nevigation equipment, dashboard equipment, car body parts, washers, window accessories, interior styling, bags, tool boxes, interior lights, seat equipment and more. You also find workshop tools and parts for higher car performance and higher class functions.
Books reading materials and elecronic media about cars and other motor vehicles -
By clicking at this banner you will find a grat range of books, calendars, manuals, videos and collectibles about: Modern and classic cars, auto racing, motorcycles, trucks, tractors, trains, boats, aviation, military history, bicycles, americana, and collectibles.
Comodities for your use in your cars or on journeys, GPS NAVIGATION - By clicking at the banner below, you will find a great collection of comodities for your car, or comodities to bring with you on tours, lke tools, lanterns, Auto radio / stereo / music, communication electronics, security equipment, nevigation equipment, interior commodities, bags, seat equipment and more. There are also repair parts and performance parts.
You also find every kind of tools you need to work on your car: Mechanical tools, electric adjustments instruments, mechanical diagnostic equipment, electric diagnostic equipment, styling tools, painting equipment and more. Examples:
To see a couple of product examples, please scroll down
Superstore with car workshop tools, road map and GPS systems and much more - By clicking at this banner, you will enter a superstor where you can find vehicle specialty tools, navigation computers, tools for most other purposes, and also articles of these cathegories: Herbs and food, Camping and outdoors, Kitchenware, Housewares, Bath and Body, Equipment for Pets, Teas and Koffee, Herbs and Spices, Hydroponics, Sport and Games, Musical Instruments, Media, Electronics, Health and Personal Care.
SOME OTHER ITEMS
Create your T-shirts, underwear, sportswear and other clothes as you want them yourself with SpreadShirt designer
- By clicking at the banners here, you will find a flash-based tool that you can use to design your own clothes. You can give them the background colors and patterns you want, choose drawings and place them where you want on the clothes, and create texts to place on strategic sites on the clothes. You can then purchase the clothes of your own design and get them sent to you within 48 hours.If you live in America, please click at this banner.
If your home is in UK, please click here.
Watches - Quality models of many brands for affordable prizes: Citizen , Casio , Chase-Durer, Hamilton , Movado , Oakley , Pulsar, Seiko , Skyhawk, Suunto watches, swiss quality models. All kinds of watches, flight chronographs, dive watches, chronographs for advanced applictions, titanium watches.
Electric remote control helicopters and other hobby items: The battery technology is by now so advanced that it is possible to make electric flying remote control hobby aircrafts that are able to hover in 20 min - 1 hour between each charge-up, and these models are not expensive. Because of the electric battery technology and easy controls, there exist hobby RC aircrafts suited for both indoor and outdoor use, and suited for every age and experience level. Pleace click at the banner to learn more or order. You will also find other types of RC models and many other hobby items.r.
Special collection of
nitro driven models: This is a very great collection of nitro diven airplane models with various motor technologies.
Special collection of helicopter models: Perhaps the greatest shop of helicopter models and helicopter model accessories.
Nitro powered and electric redcats: Nitro powered redcats: Hurricane XP PRO, Monsoon XP, Avalamche XP, Tornado BP, Tsunami, Tsunami ultrawide, Volcano SV SV Pro, Tremor ATV XTB XtG XTK XTR. Electric redcats: Lightning XTK, Tornado EPX, Tsunami EPX, Volcano EPXr.
Vitamins. minerals, anti-oxidants, glyconutrients, noni, acai mangosteen and other supplements
All products to help for specific common diseases, pleace click here
Products for erotic pleasure or to improve sexual life for both sexes, please click here
Skincare, natural drugs for skin problems, quality cosmetics anti-aging products
INFORMATIONAL RESOURCES - Here is an article about available and futuristic fuel technologies. To find other information resources, please go to this page
Alternative and futuristic fuel technologies
The use of oil and other fossil fuels has spawned a lot of concern, because fossil fuels produce carbon mono-oxide CO2 that increases the greenhouse effect in the atmosphere and thus causes global heatening, and because of toxic outlets of several kinds from the combustion process.
Also fossile fuel is a limited resource that is getting steadily more expensive. Therefore there is an ongoing quest for new energy sources to drive motorized vehicles: Here is a survey of some of these:
A. ENERGY SOURCES USED DIRECTLY
IN VEHICLES
Ethanol or
ordinary alcohol.
Ordinary alcohol (C2 H5 OH) can be used as
a vehicle fuel, and is used in many places allready. Burning of alcohol does not
produce toxic vaste. However, also alcohol produce CO2 during combustion and a
such it contributes to the greehouse effect. Alcohol can be produced from
fermentation of sugar, and the sugar must come from cultivated plants. Extensive
production of alcohol therefore takes away agricultural land that could be used
to grow food.
However, in places where the cultivation of
food produces vaste that must be burned or broken down in anyway, the
fermentation of this vaste to produce alcohol for use as fuel, makes sense.
Methanol:
Methanol is the simplest form of alcohol, having
the formula C H3 OH. Metanol is very toxic when ingested, and most be handled
with care, but is not toxic for the environment, and the burning of Metanol does
not produce toxic vaste. Burning of metanol also produces CO2 and contributes to
the greenhouse effect, but not so much as gasoline or diesel.
Metanol can be made from natural gas. Switching from gasoline to metanol will make the greanhous effect increase more slowly, but also methanol combustion increases the greenhouse effect.
Electricity made from clean sources: Electric cars are by themselves clean, and by now it is possible to make electric cars with nearly as good performance as gasoline or diesel fuelled cars. However, batteries used to power cars has so far a poor storing capacity, and it takes a long time to refuel a battery.
It the electricity is made by solar cell panels, hydroelectric plants or wind energy, the use of electricity will lesson the greenhouse effect and take away toxic vaste form the environmen.
However, production units making clean electricity, also destroy natural areas, even though they produce a clean energy form. An example is the impact extensive installations of wind-mills have in many areas, and the over-flowing of vast areas by dams built to produce hydro-electric power.
If the electricity is made by burning oil or natural gas, this energy form will not be better for the environment or cheaper than gasoline or diesel.
Electricity can also be made by atomic power plants. If the vaste from these plants are kept locked down for a long period, these plants can be said to produce clean energy. But the storing problem is considerable. Also uran and other fuel for fission is a limited resource that will be used up during some years.
Electricity from clean production processes is therefore a candidate for future vehicle powering, but only to a limited extend.
Hydrogen: Hydrogen is non-toxic. When hydrogen is burned, it produces no greenhouse gas or toxic gasses, but only water. However, hydrogen is very explosive when mixed with air. There is therefore a problem of safe handling. This problems however, can be solved, for example by using special metals that dissolve hydrogen in the crystal lattice.
Hydrogen can be produced from natural gas, or by means of electricity. It the electricity is made by solar cell panels, hydroelectric plants or wind energy, hydrogen is a very environment friendly fuel in a certain sense. However, production units making clean electricity, also destroy natural areas, for example huge installation of wind-mills and huge dams to produce hydro-electric power.
Hydrogen is one of the most likely canditates for the future fuelling of vehicles, but also hydrogen have its limitations because of the impact the prodution units will have upon natural areas.
COLD FUSION: In 1989 to chemists announced that they had managed to produce heat from cold fusion of deuterium packed into a palladium crystal lattice. They were chriticised for poor documentation and poor scientific practice and rediculed.
However, as the time have passed, steadily more reports of cold fusion have been mede from scientists trying to reproduce the findings, and cold fusion seems by now to be a rality.
Also govermental agencies has a positive interest in the potesiality of cold fusion, but on the public news media, cold fusion seems to be a taboo field.
It remains however to prove that this process can produce enough heat in enough amount and stably inough to be practical. If this shows to be true, cold fusion can be the main source of energy for vehicles in the future.
The heat from cold fusion can be used directly for driving a vehicle, can be used to produce electricity that is then used to generate driving force, or can be used to produce hydrogen for use as a fuel.
A. PRIMARY ENERGY SOURCES
The alternative energy sources listet above, are not primary energy sources in most instances. They are energy sources produced by transforming energy obtained form more primary sources in the first place.
Vehicle traffic in the amount you find on earth by now, and even increased vehicle traffic can only be maintained if one succeeds in finding clean and environment friendly primary sources that are long lasting to obtain the energy from in the first place. Let us looke at the alternative energy resources of interest:
Water power: Electricity is allready produced in a great scale from water descending down from higher altitude. However, there is a limit for how many and how great power plants that can be built without totally destroying the environment. This limit is soon reached.
Solar radiation power: Solar radiation can be converted directly into electricity by solar panels. Much energy can be obtained from the solar radiation. However, there will be a limit to how great areas you can cover by solar cell panels. There is therefor an environmental limit also for this energy source.
Cold fusion: Cold fusion is a promising energy source, but the feasibility of using this process to extract great amounts of energy in a stable fashion, is not yet proven. If it proves to be practically useful, this source may show to be able to give the population of earth all the energy it needs. Cold fusion was detected in 1989, but because the process does not confirm to current theory, the discovery was for a long time dismissed. By now the discovery has been confirmed firmly enough to be regarded as real, but it is very poorly understood.
Hot fusion: There has been tremedous efforts done to produce a hot fusion process that gives out more energy that is put in. If building hot fusion reactors get to success, this may also be the main source of enrgy in the future. But, the feasibility of hot fusion is even less proven that that of cold fusion.
Nuclear fission - traditional technology: In traditional nuclear fission a mass of radiating material has adensity that make it critical, that is every fission of an atom trigger ejections of nucleons that create new fission. Such a process must be controlled in an absolute sense to avoid mdangerous meltdown or even explosion. Such nuclear nuclear fision is an established technology that produces heat that can produce electricity. However, it is clean only if the vaste from the process can be locked down or stored away for many thousand years. Uranium material to be used in fission reactors is also a limited resuorce. Nuclear fission therefore cannot furnish the world with very much more energy than it allready does.
Nuclear fission - new approaches: Nuclear fision with enough energy yield in certain materials can be induced by shooting neutrons into the material from an accelerator. Thorium seems to be the most actual fissionable meterial for this kind of reactors. The vaste from such a reactor has a half-life of only 500 years, and they therefore do not cause a so great vaste problems as conventional fission produce. because the process is not critical, there is no danger of explosion or meltdown. The amount of thorium on earth is also so great that thorium reactors can solve the energy shortage on earth for a very long time. Still the process will produce dangerous vaste and as such give an environmental danger.
Earth Heat: Down in the earth it is hot, and the heat is a practically endless resource. By drilling channels some thousand meters downwards, much energy can be taken up and used for production of electricity. Earth heat can give a contribution to the growing energy demand in a cleanly way, but it is impractical to set up such power plants everywhere. Still, earth heat can show to be a very useful energy source in the future.
Wind power: There will always be mechanical power in the wind, and this power can be converted to electricity in a cleanly way. But taking out much wind power, demands huge and vast installations of windmills, disturbing the environment over great areas. Wind power can therefore only give a limited contribution to the earth's demand for energy.
Wave power: There is energy in the waves in the sea. This energy can be taken out in a cleanly way to produce electricity. But taking out very much of this energy, demands wide areas of power plant installations that disturbe the environment. Therefore wave power can only contribute a little to the future energy supply.
A. Conclusion
If cold or hot fusion shows to be practically useful, the earth will have all the energy it demands, and the energy will be clean. If not, one must use a combination of different sources, and set up power plants to take out the energy from these sources where it is most practical. Thorium reactors can be a an important contribution.
Energy must also be consumed in a much more echonomical way than now, both in vehicles and other applications.
PRODUCT EXAMPLES
Here is just one product example, an audiovisual system for for Mercedes Benz. You will find similar systems also for other car types by clicking at the link.