Re: Green Car Sets Speed Record

2004-11-17 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Julia Thompson wrote: We use LPG for cooking, hot-water heaters and central heating. There's no natural gas line to our house, so we use the LPG instead. A lot of people in this area who aren't served by natural gas lines to the house do this. But do you have the LPG in _lines_ or do

Re: Green Car Sets Speed Record

2004-11-17 Thread Julia Thompson
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Julia Thompson wrote: We use LPG for cooking, hot-water heaters and central heating. There's no natural gas line to our house, so we use the LPG instead. A lot of people in this area who aren't served by natural gas lines to the

Re: Green Car Sets Speed Record

2004-11-17 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Bryon Daly wrote: LPG is better known as propane, isn't it? If this is the case, then it´s wrong. LPG is a mix of many things, and among them there is propane. A quick google found this page: http://www.hawaii.gov/dbedt/ert/activitybook/fs-propane.html with these factoids (among others):

Re: Green Car Sets Speed Record

2004-11-17 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Julia Thompson wrote: We have a tank buried in the yard that has a line running to the house. A truck comes out on a regular basis and tops off the tank and leaves a bill on the front door. Ah, ok. A curious intermediary solution :-) They send natural gas through lines, not LPG (which, as

Re: Green Car Sets Speed Record

2004-11-17 Thread Julia Thompson
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Julia Thompson wrote: We have a tank buried in the yard that has a line running to the house. A truck comes out on a regular basis and tops off the tank and leaves a bill on the front door. Ah, ok. A curious intermediary solution :-)

Green Car Sets Speed Record

2004-11-16 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/energy-tech-04zzzh.html When the non-profit organisation IdeeVerte Competition decided to create a 'green' racing car, they turned to space technology to make it safer. Running on liquefied petroleum gas, one of the least polluting fuels, and lubricated with

Re: Green Car Sets Speed Record

2004-11-16 Thread Bryon Daly
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:36:25 -0600 (CST), Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Running on liquefied petroleum gas, one of the least polluting fuels, :-)) Ah! Ignorance is Bliss! LGP is widely known in