Greg, Your reason may well be correct, but never-the-less, it is still the typical experience on dive boats, and it is considered a negative experience by all divers. And on dive boats, there are plenty of situations where due to a diver in immediate need a few hundred yards away from an idling boat, the captain is compelled to ram the throttle and ruch over to the diver...the exhuast fume issue is unavoidable with normal diesel.
I expect Biodiesel would make a very big impact in this experience. Regards, Dan Volker > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Harbican > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 12:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Biofuel] A new area someone should "push" biodiesel... > > That's because instead on bringing up the speed gradually, > they gun the engine. > > I have been on boats like you mentioned, most were the > "skipper" gunned the engine, and it was bad. > > On the few, that were brought up to speed gradually, the > exhaust wasn't bad. > > You can see the same thing on heavy earth moving equipment. > When they gun > the engine, you see a burst of heavy black smoke, but, if > they are brought up to speed gradually, then you only see a > little smoke. > > Greg H. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan Volker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 08:18 > Subject: [Biofuel] A new area someone should "push" biodiesel... > > > > > > Typically, even on the newest charter boats, whenever the > boat goes from > > idle, to 5 or more mph, during the initial acceleration, > there is a huge > > concentration of diesel exhaust which gets pulled into the > rear passenger > > area of these boats > > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): > http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
