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Poteén Power Cars

  • 01-03-2011 12:00pm
    #1
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭


    Can someone please invent us a poteén powered engine?

    Petrol is too expensive now. if we recycled our potato skins to make poteén we could use it to get to work in a poteén power car


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  • #2
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Can't we just power the cars straight from the skins and not be wasting good poteen?

    Spud Mobiles we could call them.


  • #3
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel


  • #4
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Petrol is about 1.50 a litre. A bottle of strong alcohol is what, 15? To be honest, I want them to find a way of processing petrol so you that it gets you drunk(and doesn't kill you). That's a subject worthy of study.


  • #5
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    syklops wrote: »
    Petrol is about 1.50 a litre. A bottle of strong alcohol is what, 15? To be honest, I want them to find a way of processing petrol so you that it gets you drunk(and doesn't kill you). That's a subject worthy of study.

    yeah but the €15 yoyo bottle of alcohol is so expensive because health n safety have to ensure it wont instantly kill you and then the gov lump a fair bit of tax on it.


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,713 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Nothingbetter2d wrote: »
    yeah but the €15 yoyo bottle of alcohol is so expensive because health n safety have to ensure it wont instantly kill you and then the gov lump a fair bit of tax on it.

    Poteen costs around 15 euro a bottle too and in reality its made from barley not potato skins.


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  • #7
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    Simon Green Shock wrote: »
    Poteen costs around 15 euro a bottle too and in reality its made from barley not potato skins.

    traditional homemade poteén was made from potato skins cos back then irish people didnt have barely cos the brits took it all


  • #8
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Simon Green Shock wrote: »
    Poteen costs around 15 euro a bottle too and in reality its made from barley not potato skins.
    15 euro is too much for poitin, thats almost the price of the legal stuff. Ive seen it for 12 in the west.


  • #9
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,114 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    They're already adding Ethanol to petrol: you get 5% in E5 and you can use that with no worries. More than that, best check with your car maker first.

    So you could easily throw a litre of pure alcohol in your tank, assuming you hadn't killed yourself in the process of making it. But I do mean pure = 100%, 200 proof = no water allowed!

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #10
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    One issue I see though is the fuel tank. Poitin would dissolve a normal steel one, so you would have to retrofit cars with ceramic ones.


  • #11
    Pace2008
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Pace2008


    Get onto Dinny O' Rafferty. With a gallon of stout in his car, it does ninety miles an hour.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qovk67yMiFI


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  • #12
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,705 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    Poiteen dissolves steel? Also plastic would be better than ceramic and I'm pretty sure that most cars have hdpe tanks nowadays


  • #13
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Tigger wrote: »
    Poiteen dissolves steel? Also plastic would be better than ceramic and I'm pretty sure that most cars have hdpe tanks nowadays

    I'm pretty sure it does. Isn't it made from Alien blood? It certainly tastes like it.


  • #14
    Daegerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭Daegerty


    FreudianSlippers wrote: »
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel


    Maxol stopped selling it at the start of this year because the government screwed em over.

    Fianna Failure wanted to make sure *nobody* escapes the high cost of fuel.


  • #15
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    syklops wrote: »
    Petrol is about 1.50 a litre. A bottle of strong alcohol is what, 15? To be honest, I want them to find a way of processing petrol so you that it gets you drunk(and doesn't kill you). That's a subject worthy of study.

    WKD. Real rocket fuel


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