I grow my own beans out in the barn between the mushrooms.........! :-)

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

Shawn Wright wrote:

>Where do you buy your coffee?? I need some of that... ;-)
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>On 1 Nov 2005 at 9:36, John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET> wrote:
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>>Given that the engines in use today in vehicles are heat engines, and
>>the fuels that are used to provide that heat have specific values of
>>BTU's per pound, how does one increase fuel efficiency, i.e., increase
>>the miles per gallon on fuel?
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>>Reduce vehicle weight is one way.
>>Reduce friction.
>>Streamlining for the vehicle.
>>Better fuel metering.
>>Congress legislating that it be so??
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>>What else???
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>>Is it really possible to get more BTU's from a pound of fuel than a
>>pound of fuel has??  What good does better mixture control and
>>vaporization actually do? Given better mixture control and vaporization,
>>can fuel efficiency actually be increased beyond where it is now, just
>>on that basis?
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>>The whole business about fuels and fuel efficiencies is about energy
>>exchange without energy loss. Is it possible??
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>>Given E = MC2, - the potential for large energy release from a tiny bit
>>of matter - we have so much "potential" energy in the form of solid
>>matter that it is mindboggling, yet even with Einstein's equation we
>>cannot tap  that energy in a truly controllable way  The rock simply
>>sits there or there is a big "Bang". Doesn't seem to be any "In between"
>>point where we can meter off a bit of all that energy as we need it. I
>>suppose one might consider an atomic pile as a controlled metering, but
>>it is really a a controlling of natural radiation being emitted from a
>>radio active substance. Not quite the same as deliberately  "cracking"
>>an atom of inert solid matter in a controlled way to siphon off a
>>specific amount of it's energy.
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>>I really would like to be able to stick my banana peel and  a beer - can
>>and all - into the power generator on my Vanagon and fire up the "Flux
>>Capacitor".
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>>There it is............this mornings pondering at coffee!
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>>Regards,
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>>John Rodgers
>>88 GL driver
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>Shawn Wright
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