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re: US Navy 'game-changer': converting seawater into fuel
Posted on 4/8/14 at 5:12 pm to Spirit of Dunson
Posted on 4/8/14 at 5:12 pm to Spirit of Dunson
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so they modified the fuel source instead of creating a more robust engine
Who's "they"? Do you how many automobile companies there were in early stages of the industry? And NO ONE could come up with a more robust engine that ran on vegtable oil that was cost efficient?
I imagine it was cheaper at the time to produce gasoline than vegtable oil OR gasoline was still a more powerful fuel.
Sorry,not buying it especialliy in the days before the EPA exsisted and they weren't blending and regulating the industries to death (both oil and automobile)
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Posted on 4/8/14 at 5:35 pm to RD Dawg
quote:Rudolph Diesel. Otto engine company. You know, the early developers of the compression ignition engine.
Who's "they"?
quote:in the days of the first diesel engine? about 2 that had standardized manufacturing processes.
Do you how many automobile companies there were in early stages of the industry?
quote:You think it was cheaper to produce gasoline than to crush peanuts?
I imagine it was cheaper at the time to produce gasoline than vegtable oil
quote:oh. Now I see what is happening here. You're an idiot.
Sorry,not buying it especialliy in the days before the EPA exsisted and they weren't blending and regulating the industries to death (both oil and automobile)
I wasn't commenting on the merits of one or the other, just saying that other liquid hydrocarbons have similar energy value. It was a strategic choice by early manufacturers to focus on petro-based hydrocarbons. That was what they chose, and we have all benefited from it. You had to go and make this all dumb and political.
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