On 3/5/05 15:27, "Marc Perdue" <marcperdue@ADELPHIA.NET> wrote:

> Back in the 70s and 80s, there were a number of new and different
> carburetion and fuel delivery systems developed for engines to improve
> their efficiency or to use different, and renewable, fuel sources.  Most
> of these designs were scarfed up by the car companies, presumably to
> develop further and install on their vehicles, but for some reason they
> never really saw the light of day after that.  Hmmmm . . .

From a program on PBS a while back, many of the technologies that were
purchased were very rigorously pursued. Some were not bought up even with
"inventors" screaming how good they were.  Turns out a lot of what was being
"discovered" was actually old technology that had been tried before.  Some
back in the 30s.  others went on to become various types of injection or
lead to newer air systems that are in use today.  Many of the others just
could not be economically done.  They would have had to be individually
tuned to each vehicle.  Todays computers are doing that on the fly now.  So
you might say that technology is with us.

One I have been watching is the E85 fuels.  From what I have been reading
the current E85 is itself a transition product but they don�t say to what.
What I would like to see is a new fuel that is backward compatible.
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