[biofuel] Re flywheel engines

2000-12-16 Thread Karl D JŠrnhammer
Are these the oldies that you heat with a blow lamp and then swing the fly wheel. They go 'flump' and an age later if your lucky they will 'flump' again, blowimg a nice smoke ring out the stack. They will tick over at less than 100rpm for ever. Some of the old ones have a cooling system

Re: [biofuel] Re: diesel plane engine

2000-12-16 Thread skaar
no, pistons to replace the turbines, i gotta figure out what ratio to make them. "Alan S. Petrillo" wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > i have some of the biggest hurdles done with my design of a diesel > > airplane engine, but it's just a combination of turbine jet engine > and > >

Re: [biofuel] Re: diesel plane engine

2000-12-16 Thread Alan S. Petrillo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have some of the biggest hurdles done with my design of a diesel airplane engine, but it's just a combination of turbine jet engine and diesel piston engine. Would that by any chance be a diesel engine with a supercharger on the intake side and a power recovery

[biofuel] half brained idea

2000-12-16 Thread biodiesel65
had a interesting thought to promote biodiesel. take a 4 wheel drive diesel pickup. remove tranny and replace with high wattage alternator (perm mag generator?). mount electric motors on all wheels. fill bed of pickup with batteries, fill her up with biodiesel and go drag racing. a biofuelie

Re: [biofuel] half brained idea

2000-12-16 Thread Bryan Fullerton
$50,000? where do you come up with that figure? Please don't quote the military pricing.. Allt he parts necessary to do that kind of conversion should be available on the net.. --Bryan - Original Message - From: jerry dycus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@egroups.com Sent: Friday,

Re: [biofuel] half brained idea

2000-12-16 Thread jerry dycus
Hi Brian and All, --- Bryan Fullerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $50,000? where do you come up with that figure? Please don't quote the military pricing.. Allt he parts necessary to do that kind of conversion should be available on the net.. --Bryan 4 Wheel motors are not cheap. The

[biofuel] Kite Surfing on Veggie Oil - With Joshua Tickell.

2000-12-16 Thread Adrian Lake
x-richHi folks, It's been a while between communications - well, actually for most of you - this is the first time you have heard from me! We have been run off our feet getting some exciting things together to promote biodiesel in Australia and getting the best information and support