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A simple scientific discovery will make OPEC obsolete, slow
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| David Williams 2007-06-08, 9:25 pm |
| -> It has also been known for decades that adding Methanol to your engine,
-> will not only provide fuel to help reduce America's dependency on
-> foreign oil. but it will also absorb moisture that might find its way
-> into your gas tank, without any damage to your engine...
-> Until now nobody has realized, combining the right amounts of Methanol
-> and purified water through destitution or reverse osmose to your engine,
-> will decrease the amount of gas needed, up to 75% .Most estimates are 10
-> to 15% water and 15% Methanol...
-> OK guys shoot this down...
Methanol is a fuel. Of course it is true that adding it to gasoline will
reduce the consumption of gasoline. However, it is *not* true that
methanol is completely harmless. In high concentrations, it can damage
things like hoses.
Hereabouts, in wintertime, we can buy "gas line antifreeze" that we can
add to the gas in our cars. It prevents ice from forming in the fuel
system, which can cause the car to stall. The antifreeze is mainly
methanol. Nowadays, many brands of gas are blended with ethanol, which
is also an antifreeze.
"Destitution or reverse osmose" were presumably meant to be
"distillation or reverse osmosis".
Adding water to motor fuel may, under some circumstances, increase
efficiency somewhat. It can also cause various forms of damage. I do
not believe that the increase in efficiency will allow fuel consumption
to decrease by anything like 75 percent. That's just plain drivel.
dow
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| Leonard Abbott 2007-06-09, 3:25 am |
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| In article <1181357978.912.1181329663@bayman.org>,
david.XXXXXXXX@bayman.org (David XXXXXXXX) wrote:
> The antifreeze is mainly methanol.
I don't know what Planet your on, but here on Earth, Antifreeze is
either, Ethylene Glycol, or Propylene Glycol. Methanol is used as
an AntiWatering Agent in Gasoline Fuel Systems, as it is missable
in both Gasoline and water. Maybe that is what you are discribing.....
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| David Williams 2007-06-09, 9:25 pm |
| -> > The antifreeze is mainly methanol.
-> I don't know what Planet your on, but here on Earth, Antifreeze is
-> either, Ethylene Glycol, or Propylene Glycol. Methanol is used as
-> an AntiWatering Agent in Gasoline Fuel Systems, as it is missable
-> in both Gasoline and water. Maybe that is what you are
-> discribing.....
D*e*scribing.
If you had bothered to read and quote the line I wrote just before the
one you did quote, you'd have seen that I talked about stuff that is
described here, in Canada, as "Gas-Line Antifreeze", which is sold in
wintertime to prevent moisture in the gas tank from freezing in and
blocking the fuel lines, etc.. It consists mainly of methanol, as I
said, and works partly by simply dissolving in the water, lowering its
freezing point, and partly by making the water miscible with the
gasoline, so it simply passes through the engine and out with the
exhaust.
Incidentally, in many countries ethanol is used as an antifreeze in
engine coolants. Your concepts of what happens on Planet Earth are
severely blinkered.
dow
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| Leonard Abbott 2007-06-12, 9:25 am |
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| George Orwell 2007-06-12, 1:25 pm |
| Forget that stuff. Steorn's orbo will set the world on its ear. See their
demo in July in London; it will be broadcast via webcam.
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| Leonard Abbott 2007-06-13, 5:25 pm |
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| > Forget that stuff. Steorn's orbo will set the world on its ear. See their
> demo in July in London; it will be broadcast via webcam.
The "demo" was a complete flop, with the convenient excuse that the lights
were too hot and the heat damaged the bearings, and the replacment
bearings, and etc. Steorn will continue with a long series of excuses for
non-performance, unless they can figure out a way to hide the real power
source and trick the public.
Of course, they are going to continue asking for donations, as long as the
gullible keep sending them money. Now that's really perpetual!
CM
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