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- From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
- Subject: Re: Nuclear Power and Climate Change
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- Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 06:42:37 GMT
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- ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith) writes:
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- >>A demonstration and anything in production with a proven track record
- >>is very different.
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- >There are also available commercial production conversion kits to
- >convert a diesel to use propane and natural gas as well. I didn't
- >include this in the first post in the interests of brevity. If you
- >would like, I can post the stuff. (I posted it once a few years ago...)
-
- Go ahead and post. I hope this is something mainstream and not the
- diesel equivalent of some of these home-shop electric car conversions.
- I'm very interested but dubious. For the last year or so I've been
- researching diesels relative to power generation because I plan on
- co-generation for my house to get out from under our Plant-Vogtle inspired
- electric rates using our still relatively cheap natural gas supply.
-
- The scientific literature says basically that NG or propane can be
- burned via intake introduction but that starting, particularly
- in adverse conditions still requires cylinder injection of a suitably
- high cetane fuel. I picked up some SAE papers in December on the
- topic. One paper describes some recent developments on electronically
- controlled direct cylinder injection for NG but it is definitely
- still in the experimental stage.
-
- John
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