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From: G0TEZ@GB7CIP.#32.GBR.EU
To : AUTO@WW
Just a couple of comments:
1st steam car UK,1808 Richard trevithisck.
The Ford Ka is a small but not miniature, 2 Litre petrol car in common use
in the UK for, at least 10 years.
As for cmpressed air used to drive vehicles, it is only just another form
of reservoir, storing power from an electrical(?) input.
Interesting the bit about Brazil. I have heard for 30 - 40 years about the
way the Brazilians used cane sugar to produce alcohol. I suppose nowadays
we would say 'bio ethanol' but it was the commonest car fuel because they
had very little in the way of petroleum reserves. It was funny to hear
that the had people turning up at the pumps who didn't have cars so they
added something nasty to the alcohol, a bit like the flavouring of
methylated spirits, to stop them drinking it.
All part of being 'green' now but the Brazilians did it to save money long
before anyone else tried it.
A little known variation on this came from WWII and afterward. In the UK
hundreds of acres were under cultivation,near me, for sugar beet. Some
wemt to be used as household sugar, no different taste to cane sugar but,
from various sources I heard that some was distilled into alcohol to be
added to petrol. What %tage, I never knew and it is never admitted to this
day.
It is interesting how fast our government jumped on the men who were
collecting used chip oil, filtering it, and using caustic soda to remove
sapons, then putting it in the tanks of their Range Rovers. If they had
just carried on quietly doing it, no one would have said anything but they
told people and then a small firm started producing and selling it. It
wasn't long before the govt slapped a tax on it.
Back to the pumps chaps...unless you want to just brag about being
'green'.
73 - Ian, G0TEZ @ GB7CIP
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