Reply To: The recent "discovery" of Dark Matter

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I already covered the fuel system, just line it with plastic or corrosion resistent metals, it not expensive and they are alreayd doing it.
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I asked you to look it up, but here are some links:
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/RT1996/6000/6920v.htm
http://www.evworld.com/archives/testdrives/gmshev.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0UDO/is_12_14/ai_72765923
As I mention before there no variable load on the turbine, its more fuel efficient then a diesel or gasoline engine in such a hybrid configuration. The exhaust gas is not a problem for a <40kw turbine, you can run bleed air over the exhaust system if need, turbines already do this to keep cool, or even better with such hot exhaust you can run a thermocouple or steam turbine and increase the fuel efficiency to up to 50% making it as efficient at a fuel cell, but less massive (though more complex) and more fuel variable. They are already working on making combine cycle engines with steam or thermalcouple enhancements, do I need to provide links?
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I’m already aware of the limitation of biofuels (see fusion oil thread) biodiesel are limited feedstock choices, we can make ethanol (or better yet butanol) on a much wider varity of feedstocks, most importently agriculture waste! How much land is required for soybeans to biodiesel? You want cheap energy to replace oil first things first get all the enregy we waste in our waste (hey that kind of catchy). I’m not against biodiesel, i’m just for what products we can most efficently extract for what we get, biodiesel from soy will have its place, ethanol (or butanol) from cellulose waste will have its, methane from garbage will have its, etc, unless cheap fusion comes around then its everything into oil.