| From: | JonSzeto <JonSzeto@***.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Rigger Book 2 |
| Date: | Wed, 24 Dec 1997 11:40:03 EST |
> alchol in and of itself makes a poor fossil
> fuel. It burns to hot and has a tendancy to wear out IC engines more
> rapidly than gasoline or a gasoline alchol mixture.
>
Ah. That explains much about why some engines use gas and some use diesel, but
I wasn't exactly sure why. (My engineering specialty is in engineering
physics, not automotives.) I knew that gasoline has a lower flashpoint and
burns hotter than diesel. So I figured that for heavier vehicles (like trucks
and tanks), generating the amount of power required to move those vehicles
would probably result in an unacceptably high amount of heat generated on the
side. On the other hand, for smaller vehicles (like cars) the performance (or
emissions) from diesel are probably unacceptable, hence the reason they use
gas.
-- Jon
