natural gas

What, do you feel like your naive ideas are being undermined?

If there was a worthwhile market for CNG-fueled Old Wings, there would
be a plethora of conversion kits on the web.

 

<Shrug> It's a start.

 

Found this URL for CRT-diesel vs. CNG busses.

http://www.dieselnet.com/news/2002/04carb2.php

They confirm much of what you say but assert
higher NO2 and NOX for diesel.

You'd expect lower CO2 emissions for CNG just
because of the ratio of hydrogens and carbons
in the two fuels, but I haven't tried to work the math
to confirm this.

 

Nope you've been looking me up...

No it just means nobody has tried. There are supercharger kits
available and all sorts of other goodies, like real brakes.

Now be a good bitter old man and **** off.

 

Part of the problem I think is fractured jurisdictions. In the bay
area, there are multiple counties which voluntarily participate
in BART. I am absolutely amazed that Santa Clara county has
paid into BART but you still can't take a BART ride up the
penninsula to San Francisco. Eventually, you may be able to
get there by way of a long detour through the east bay
and Oakland. Even within the county, there are glaring
problems getting to the airport.

Two more of my favorite crackpot solutions:

More telecommuting. Why bother to leave home ?

Multi-passenger van sized jitneys. San Francisco
used to run these down Mission street and they were
way quicker than Muni at a competetive price. I've
also seen similar in Mexico City.

 

Ah. I may have been mistaken on that point, then.

It was 10 years ago.

 

Well, OK, if you feel that way. But I'm cutting you out of my will,
you're not getting my 1957 Moto Guzzi V8. 8-P

 

So? Who cares? Yours hasn't had maintince since it was
assembled...you've already proven to me you haven't a clue on
maintaining vehicles.

ignorant **** I want a new one anyway.

 

...even in Britain! <gd&r>

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

...for extra-strength frames, like those pressurised-frame Bimota
GP racers years ago. IIRC they had a pressure gauge so the rider could
see if the frame had cracked and leaked, so he could stop riding _before_
it collapsed.

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

There is a natural gas pump across the street from my job. A couple of
months ago a guy was filling up and his work van's fuel tank burst at
the seam and then ignited for a few seconds.
I ran out to see what the noise was and this guy was staggering towards
me with his jeans torn to shreds (like a demin hula skirt.) and his hair
all burned off.

At least with gasoline, when you overfill the tank, it just runs out on
your Reeboks.

 

Not if there's an ignition source (as there obviously was here)....