Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:07:44 -0500
Reply-To: Mike Collum <collum@VERIZON.NET>
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From: Mike Collum <collum@VERIZON.NET>
Subject: Re: gas mileage
Not exactly .... but years ago I read an article about a guy in England that
had a chicken farm and had been running his car for years on the ... er ...
leavings. It seems he found a way to process the methane.
Mike
> Pardon my "g" in all this. It has quit working but by the hardest.
>
> I had an interesting conversation with an old man quite a while back.
> He is most likely dead and gone by now, but he told me a tale of owning
> an old Omni that got 78 miles to the .gallon.
>
> You see, he tinkered a lot, and he tinkered with the Omni and built a
> special carburetor for it using one from a Ford Pinto as the basis. I
> beleive those Pinto carbs were Holleys, if Im not mistaken. Anyway, he
> cobbled some parts together, including parts from an Audi, and parts of
> a Pasche airbrush, installed it, tuned it, tuned the motor, and arrived
> at 78 plus miles per gallon, and that 78 was the lower mileage. Drove
> the Omni all one summer, until he was hit by a drunk who totaled the
> Omni and nearly him with it. He never ot back around to building up
> another. To much trouble, and he was kind of crippled up from the
> accident and hurt a lot.
>
> I was wondering whether anyone else had heard of such from a credible
> source. I know technology is held by the big powers that be, but you
> never know what genius lurks in a barn or garage somewhere.
>
> Albert Einstein was thought once to have a brain of sufficient use to
> operate a milk truck, but nothing more. Turns out Einsteins genius was
> in thinking things out first by reasoning. When he was sure of his
> concepts, he would ask a dear friend who was a serious mathmatician to
> run the mathamatical proofs for him.
>
> So who knows what might be found in a barn or old garage somewhere.
> Perhaps a fuel control that will enable 100 miles to the gallon of fuel,
> or maybe even use banana peels to get 300 miles per fuel unit. Or an
> engine for a space vehicle to drive it near the speed of light but be as
> small as a Wasserboxer without it's accessories.
>
> Who knows.
>
> Regards,
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 gl driver
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