8 May
2024
8 May
'24
2:17 p.m.
I doubt that creating deisel fuel is purely mechanical. pumping and processing both. And
the glow plug to start is electrical, so will a blowtorch heat it enough to start without
damaging the engine? Of course the propane for the blowtorch is another issue. Maybe a
few farm tractors, with their open frames could be operated, but trucks with all their
controls would have to be redesigned from scratch.
<pre>--Carey</pre>
On 05/08/2024 8:57 AM CDT Paul Koning via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Sure, but classic Diesel engines are purely mechanical.
paul
> On May 8, 2024, at 9:38 AM, Michael Thompson <michael.99.thompson(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Most modern Diesel engines use a common-rail electronically controlled injection
system.
>
>> On May 8, 2024, at 8:58 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
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>>> On May 8, 2024, at 7:56 AM, CAREY SCHUG via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> At a local linux meeting, the leader was disparaging any resurrection of old
technology
>>>
>>> Anybody else reminded of the science fiction story where ethereal life forms
arrive from a distant star system after receiving our first radio transmissions. life
that eats radio and electricity, starting with the frequencies of our first transmissions,
but then mutating(?) to all radio, then electricity even in wires, and wiping out all
communications, vehicles, etc. There is a desperate project to resurrect steam engines
(to build other steam engines) and breed horses. All those steam train museums turn out
to be what saves humanity. just now I realized..shouldn't they also consume all the
light too? But I guess they can't go beyond microwaves.
>>
>> "The Waveries" by Fredric Brown, 1945. Never mind the bit about
light; the author missed the fact that Diesel engines don't need electricity, and also
the fact that thunder can't happen without lightning.
>>
>> paul
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