On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 05:24, Paul Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 04:44:56AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Hmmmm, I wonder where diesel oil comes from? Ooo, ooo, I know! > > Diesel oil comes from the Diesel Oil Fairy, who comes around pumping > > it into filling station tanks every night!!!! > > Where did I question where diesel came from?
>From your previous email: "(not to mention the US a military threat to anybody producing oil)". That statement infers that if we were to start using diesel, we would not need as much oil. > > And poorly maintained diesel engines burn soooooo much cleaner than > > gasoline engines, why it just takes my breath away! <NOT!> > > A poorly maintained diesel still runs cleaner than a poorly maintained > gas engine. The difference is purely cosmetic. Diesels show their > poor maintenance better than gas engines. > > > Like, say, all those people in the Hindenburg? > > That was a far larger amount of hydrogen wrapped in a highly flammable > material. The design was stupid. Do you not realize that the > storage and use of hydrogen has improved over the decades? Why are > you so ready to dismiss over 50 years of progress so easily? I thought you were bright enough to realize that the way that the Hindenburg stored it's H, and the way that a "heavier than air" vehicle needs to store H is radically different. In the Hindenburg, the H was in gaseous form. In a car/van/bus/SUV, it would have to be *highly* compressed. Thus, steel bottles, *highly* compressed gas, high velocities, large masses, and people: the perfect ingredients for unpleasant outcomes. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "What's your genius, perfect 20 years too late Monday morning quarterback answer to how the US should have responded to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan? Oh wait, you're just talking crap - you don't have a real answer, you're just regurgitating crap from NPR." http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=76597&cid=6839483 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
