Hi Alec Cameron, hope you are having a nice day
Wednesday, 10 September 1997 18:28:10, Alec Cameron wrote to Jock Rogan
Subject: Heat Engine Electric
 AC> Hi Jock
 AC> On (Sunday, 7 September 1997) Jock Rogan wrote to Alec
 AC> Cameron...
 AC> Maybe this is an option that needs re- inventing. The inherent
 AC> self regulation of the fuel consumption to match the demand, is so
 AC> darned simple that the energy efficiency should be better than some
 AC> alternatives. And that self regulation, would function with variety
 AC> in fuels. Coal, coke, wood, charcoal, garbage would probably run OK
 AC> as cocktail or individually.
 AC> The furnace would not really rate as a pressure vessel, these
 AC> plants were built to drive large stationary engines the same as
 AC> used to ne fed by town gas. And the later automobile versions,
 AC> simply breathed into the carby. The "safety valve" could be as
 AC> simple as an open water column of say 1 meter height.
Pity our public transport people could not use this style of engine to 
generate
electricity which could then run trams or trolley buses?
 AC> No way! Keep the curtains closed to help house insulation
 AC> performance. A window is a convenient emergency exit!
 LOVE THIS IDEA!
 -=> Yours sincerely, Jock Rogan <=-
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.!. O.K. to continue??    
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