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A high-altitude nuclear strike will cook your EFI while nothing short of a direct lightning bolt (or a solid whack with a big hammer) will disrupt the function of your carburetor.
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Outside a nuclear war. There is that little asterisk.
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Aren't you more likely to suffer an EMP pulse from an overzealous SWAT tream? Unless you make a Faraday cage in your engine compartment? That would put you a step ahead of, oh say, Telsas.
A step short of Armageddon might be a volcanic eruption like Mt St. Helens. It was a localized 'nuclear winter' and anything that didn't have a massive cleanable air filter stopped dead in it's tracks. EFI'd or carbed.
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Originally Posted by dustyfirewalker
i also know for a fact more energy is consumed in building vehicles than they burn in a lifetime, we were talking about this the other day in class...
...until we can take pretty much any sort of biomass/trash and let some super enzyme yeast effectively digest it into 20-60% ethanol, or even higher, im stuck...
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That's my rationalization for driving a 40-year-old car. It's not a land yacht, I consider it a mid-size compared to something
really economical. It's a VW Beetle.
As for the second point, you might want to look at
Cool Planet. Biomass to 110-octane gas-o-line.
I had EFI once. The first one—the VW Type III. Eventually I couldn't source a replacement temperature sensor and it went to carbs. Big, HONKING Webers. They sounded like Gabriel's trumpet.
I look on a carburetor as an analog computer where the feedback loop is through constant hand tuning. There is a field of study called
Fluidics. It involves logic circuits and amplifiers implemented in rigid chambers and moving fluids (like gas, or air
) I'd look for anti-detonation elsewhere, though. Maybe sensors in the spark plugs and put it in the ignition system.