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WheelsOfConfusion
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Apparently they are quite running. Quite running, indeed. |
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dazedb42
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| LOL I hope that is a typo.. The poor bugger can't get any decent funding but he was getting about 60mpg back in the 70's and he reckons the design is a lot more efficient now. I just like the idea of being able to use anything to power the steam engine. |
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WheelsOfConfusion
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 5:49 am Post subject: |
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| You can use nearly anything to power a turbine. Combustible perfume or ethanol, gasoline or swamp gas. |
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Kilgore
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 5:50 am Post subject: |
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I would use vodka.
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dazedb42
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 5:53 am Post subject: |
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| only cheap vodka I hope...if you touched my stolichnya I would be peeved... |
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Lemontree
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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What about using cheap beer, like Miller Lite or something? Its not good for much else.
*beer snob* |
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WheelsOfConfusion
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Lemontree wrote: | What about using cheap beer, like Miller Lite or something? Its not good for much else.
*beer snob* |
Too much water to burn. |
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Lemontree
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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| WheelsOfConfusion wrote: | | Lemontree wrote: | What about using cheap beer, like Miller Lite or something? Its not good for much else.
*beer snob* |
Too much water to burn. |
*sigh* Good point. I suppose I'll go back to using it to water my lawn. |
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Xilonen
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Location: Bellingham, WA
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Lemontree wrote: | | WheelsOfConfusion wrote: | | Lemontree wrote: | What about using cheap beer, like Miller Lite or something? Its not good for much else.
*beer snob* |
Too much water to burn. |
*sigh* Good point. I suppose I'll go back to using it to water my lawn. |
wouldn't it be better for you and your lawn to just.. not buy it?  |
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Lemontree
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Xilonen wrote: | | Lemontree wrote: | | WheelsOfConfusion wrote: | | Lemontree wrote: | What about using cheap beer, like Miller Lite or something? Its not good for much else.
*beer snob* |
Too much water to burn. |
*sigh* Good point. I suppose I'll go back to using it to water my lawn. |
wouldn't it be better for you and your lawn to just.. not buy it? |
Didn't you get the memo? Logic kills!
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Xilonen
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Lemontree wrote: | | Xilonen wrote: | | Lemontree wrote: | | WheelsOfConfusion wrote: | | Lemontree wrote: | What about using cheap beer, like Miller Lite or something? Its not good for much else.
*beer snob* |
Too much water to burn. |
*sigh* Good point. I suppose I'll go back to using it to water my lawn. |
wouldn't it be better for you and your lawn to just.. not buy it? |
Didn't you get the memo? Logic kills!
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it's been emperically proven that i'm still alive! |
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WheelsOfConfusion
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Bah, that's running headlong into the problem of induction! |
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John Mytton
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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| I remembered reading in a Popular Science about a steam-powered Volkswagen from the 1970s. I'll see if I can find it. |
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John Mytton
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WheelsOfConfusion
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| Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:05 am Post subject: |
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| Looks like we need pg 137 onward. Also, can you shrink those down to about 1/3 the current size? They are quite huge. |
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