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- From: hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987)
- Subject: Re: Carburetors, gasoline, and why I don't recycle
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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 07:07:17 GMT
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- Dave Williams (dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us) wrote:
- :
- : -> : gallon. On a news program years ago, I saw a group of college :
- : -> students who had developed a carburetor that guaranteed at least :
- : -> 100 miles per gallon of regular unleaded gasoline.
- :
- : > Here we go again. What you describe is called an URBAN LEGEND.
- :
- : Yup. It must be that time of year again.
- :
- : About five years ago, Motor Trend did a cover story on an engine that
- : burned water. Even the SAE's journal got suckered by that one. After a
- : few months, they quietly dropped the stories.
- :
- : Oh, and don't forget the Smokey Yunick Miracle Motor, or the various
- : wonder machines burning methane from fermented chicken manure, or any of
- : dozens of Popular Science specials.
-
- OK, that's an interesting leap of logic. We go from a method that is
- impractical (burning H2 from hydrolyzed water) to a method that does work,
- that of burning methane from biomass. Perhaps you can explain to us how the
- two are the same? Seems to me that renewable resources are the way to
- go.
-
- Burn alcohol. Support the farmers.
-
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- Dave Hinz - Opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's. Obviously.
- hinzd@picard.med.ge.com
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