From:	"Michael A. Kauffman" <mak9@******.EDU>
Subject:	watts and multiF
Date:	Fri, 23 Apr 1993 18:53:51 EDT

Well watts is apparently out. Ok. I'll try to remember that. Please excuse
any reference to kW and watts in my future posts. (I know I'm going to forget
and slip in a watt or two.)

MultiFuel: I have been looking back over the recent post on MultiF, and I've
come up with a question. What is the difference between MultiF and IC?
Robertson seems to believe that a multifuel engine can run on various types of
fuel. I'm not so sure I agree with him.

I believe the best place to start is to define what I believe a 2054 IC will
use as fuel. In my opinion IC engine would run on gasahol and ethanol as well
as gasoline. That is if gasoline as we now it exists. With the push toward
cleaner more efficient vehicle, additives like alcohol would become more
prevalent and by 2050 universal. What I'm trying to say is that any that is
used as gas substitute in an IC now, would fall under IC in 2050.

As for Multifuel, these engines are of different design and use completely a
different type of fuel then a IC engine. I don't see MultiF as an engine that
burn many different types of fuel, but as a class of engines that each burn a
different type of fuel. One may use hydrogen and another solid fuel. These
engines, in my opinion, were thrown into a single category because it saved
the of coming up with stats for each type fuel. Besides the differences would
probably be minor at least in those fuels that were in common use.

Just another idea on MultiF. Any comments are welcome.

Mike Kauffman
AKA Amonchare