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Subject:Re: Cleaning up your Vanagon
From:John Rodgers
Date:Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:06:21 -0500

OOPS!!! My bad!!

It was at Ohio University that the idea of pee for fuel originated.
Check the link below.

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/07/08/urine-power.html

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

John Rodgers wrote:
> Just to stir the pot ---
>
> Why not a new Zetec, convert to pee (courtesey Univ. of Ill.), then
> requesting testing. There won't be anything coming out of that tailpipe
> but water in the form of steam and what ever nitrogen that came into the
> engine on the intake stroke - which ain't much.
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
>
>
> Allan Streib wrote:
>> Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET> writes:
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>>
>>> Al, you make important points.  One quibble.  Is the Zetec cleaner?
>>> I've heard that it cannot pass California emissions test.
>>>
>>
>> It's far cleaner than a waterboxer.  California won't even allow it to
>> be tested for smog without the original factory drivetrain, or at least
>> transmission.  So even though on its actual emissions it's clean enough
>> to meet the standards, they won't even consider it.
>>
>> Allan
>>
>> --
>> 1991 Vanagon GL
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