Gasoline and petroleum are explosive hydrocarbons. By hydrocarbons I mean chemicals made of H (hydrogen) and C (carbon) as in a few of the commonly know fuels:
Yet, not all hydrocarbons are explosive – for instance, pavement (sidewalks roads etc.). Pavement is a nonflammable hydrocarbon. Typically, folks don’t think of silicon as being flammable. When someone says silicon, I think of beach sand, soda bottles, or medical equipment (silicon is used to make silicone). For this reason often times, folks think of silicon as something stable. For instance, silicon glass melts at very high temperatures, and even then, it does not explode.
However, there may be some sort of chemical way to make silicon gasoline. Thus, I am not talking about a vehicle that runs on sand. For combustion engines, I am talking about replacing hydrocarbons with hydrogenate-silicon. That means the compounds with the C (carbon), would be replaced by Si (silicon) in the picture.
The idea is that vehicles would consume chemically altered explosive silicon compounds. The silicon would be chemically altered through hydrogenation.
The periodic table says that silicon is the closest thing to carbons, especially because both carbon and silicon have four valence electrons.
There is so much sand out there, and that is the primary appeal of inventing a silicon combustion engine. However, this procedure would probably not be environmentally safe. In fact, it may be worse, but that isn't a guarantee, because it may be better for the environment gas. Perhaps, through experimentation secrets may be revealed.
