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January 31, 2020 Worldwide Use of Crude Oil

Normally, the U.S. Gallons per day and the U.S. Gallons per year would be shown exponentially (10x power), but for the average non-scientific person, (the climate change primer by Dr. D. Michael Schafer was written for the average non-scientific person) showing these numbers written out long hand will have more of an impact.

The following chart applies these percentages to the worldwide gallons of crude oil used per year:

how much carbon dioxide (CO2) is being released into our atmosphere by burning these liquid fuels (Gasoline, Diesel and Jet Fuels). Multiple sources reveal the following:

Computations for CO2 released into our atmosphere

U.S. tons of carbon dioxide dumped into our atmosphere by the burning of Gasoline and Diesel fuel in our existing Internal Combustion Engines (ICE-Gas and Diesel), adds them together and using online conversion, converts U.S. TONS to GIGATONNES

carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuel sources 2010-2018

Bourke Engine uses less than ½ as much fuel as a conventional ICE, switching to the Bourke Engine coupled with a Permanent Magnet AC (PMAC) motor/generator starting with all 2021 engine manufacturing will start the world down the path to significantly less CO2 emissions (average of 9.866 Gigatonnes per year over the last 9 years if the engine had been in use during that time frame).

The video referenced in the website, Crude: The Incredible Journey of Oil, describes a super greenhouse world would not be a habitable place for human beings, with the possible exception of Antarctica or Northern Greenland. A quote from K. Smith taken from Dr. D. Michael Schafer’s climate change primer says it all: ”The rich will find their world to be more expensive, inconvenient, uncomfortable, disrupted and colourless; in general more unpleasant and unpredictable, perhaps greatly so. The poor will die.”

Cut the use of liquid transportation fuels in half (or more), with the use of the Bourke Engine coupled with a PMAC motor/generator

The usage of crude oil has gone up exponentially within the last decade. This is contributing to global warming. While controversial, global warming is having dire effects on our planet. A solution for a reduced carbon footprint is the Bourke Engine. Download a PDF of all 10 slides.

6 Comments

John Doe on May 26, 2020 at 8:10 pm

Very informative website!
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- Admin on May 26, 2020 at 8:16 pm
  
  Thank you very much!
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robert branch on August 12, 2020 at 11:00 pm

hi, i have been following as best as able your progress with the bourke engine for nearly 20yrs, and am still in awe of russell bourke’s design,and am also in awe of the research that you have managed to do over the years
into proving that it worked as “russ” claimed. i wish you well in your indeavors to get

I would eventually love to attempt to build one [castings being biggest issue] followed by trying to find who still has piston grinding machines still
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robert branch on August 13, 2020 at 10:57 am

sorry due to glitch in computor at my end the blog about world wide use of crude oil did not appear until after i left a comment that bourke engine,
after reading blog which i found most informative ,i agree with john doe
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- Robert Zigler on August 14, 2020 at 3:08 pm
  
  Robert,
  
  Thank you for taking the time to review our website. If you agree with the website content, please spread the word as most of the world is not aware that this engine exists. If we can make the website go viral, perhaps the masses can put pressure on engine manufacturers to adopt the design and we can all make an impact on climate change.
  
  Bob
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Roger Richard on August 28, 2020 at 6:59 pm

Don’t forget to visit Bourke Engine TV on you tube for the latest load testing of an original 30″ engine against a kW load. Others on the net have all kinds of opinions, but no actual running rigs. We do. Was Russ right? Stay tuned !
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Global Warming

The chart shows the increase in global average temperature from 1850 to 2018.

Source: Berkeley Earth

Carbon Dioxide In Our Atmosphere

Read all of the scientific reports!!!!!! We are at 415 parts per million, more than anytime in the last 800,000 years. The Bourke Engine using fuel from algae for all transportation and distributive power generation will reduce our carbon footprint for these activities by AT LEAST 85%.

WAKE UP WORLD, WE ARE KILLING OUR PLANET!!!!

2019 – Was the Second Hottest Year on Record!!!!

Global Ocean Acidification

As our oceans absorb excess carbon dioxide, the carbon dioxide reacts with the sea water forming carbonic acid which is changing the pH of our oceans making them more acidic. Research is ongoing as to how the increased acidic level of our oceans is affecting corals and marine life.

Source: IPCC 2007

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