{"id":375602,"date":"2018-08-31T16:09:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T15:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/energy-missing-from-the-nuclear-story\/"},"modified":"2018-08-31T16:09:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T15:09:42","slug":"energy-missing-from-the-nuclear-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/energy-missing-from-the-nuclear-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy: Missing from the Nuclear Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>One of my first memories of watching TV during the early 1950s was ads promoting leaded gasoline for reducing engine knock.\u00a0 Little did I suspect the strange history of that gas.\u00a0 By the beginning of World War I, it became clear that the internal combustion automobile was edging out its rival steam cars and electric cars.\u00a0 Shortly afterwards, Thomas Midgley began researching how to remove the knocking \u201cping\u201d sound from gasoline-powered cars.<\/p>\n<p>Midgley devoted no fewer than six years of his life searching for a fuel additive that would have a \u201cno-knock\u201d effect.\u00a0 He found that corn alcohol would be too expensive.\u00a0 Benzene would also be effective, but it would be impossible to manufacture enough.\u00a0 Both oxygen and chlorine increased knock.\u00a0 Aniline, selenium oxychloride and tellerium worked, but produced an awful smell.\u00a0 Examining one element after another in a periodic table of the time, he finally found a gasoline additive: tetraethyl lead. Since poisonous effects of lead were well known, the product was labeled \u201cethyl gasoline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Multiple states banned sale of ethyl gasoline, prompting a retort from Midgley that car exhaust contained far too little lead to cause concern.\u00a0 A vice-president of a new gas company proclaimed that leaded motor fuel was a \u201cgift of God\u201d as Midgley told his partner that they could make 3\u00a2 from each gallon of leaded gasoline in the 20% of the market they could corner.\u00a0 During the next few decades, leaded gasoline&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/08\/energy-missing-from-the-nuclear-story\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my first memories of watching TV during the early 1950s was ads promoting leaded gasoline for reducing engine knock.\u00a0 Little did I suspect the strange history of that gas.\u00a0 By the beginning of World War I, it became clear that the internal combustion automobile was edging out its rival steam cars and electric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-375602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}