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Rob Turk wrote:
> "Montblack" <Y4-NOT...4monty4blacky@yvisiy.com> wrote in message
> news:11i7ijop5g4kpf3@corp.supernews.com...
>> ("On-Condition" wrote)
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>> I didn't tell him I was planning on running discarded Chinese buffet
>> "grease" through it. <g>
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>> Heat the grease with exhaust tubing - start and shut down with a small
>> Jet-A tank. See, I have thought this all through.
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>> http://www.greasecar.com/index.cfm
>> Check out the FAQs
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> On Dutch television they showed a diesel truck that could switch from
> regular diesel to chicken fat, garbage from a chicken processing plant. The
> truck ran equally well on both types of 'fuel'...
Some buses in Halifax ran on fishing industry waste oils.
For all I know that could be the whole fleet by now.
What I like about diesel in airplanes is the possibility
of low rpm power for sometimes double the range (at lower
speeds). A radial will turn very smoothly at 1000 rpm
and the diesel would be torquing near optimum just audible
around 1400-1600 (?).
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Re: Why no new diesel radials?
