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To: marcos who wrote (6305)	4/9/2005 10:15:47 PM
From: Stephen O	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8273

I encourage all of us younger Canadians to visit the World War 1 sites at sometime in their lives. About 4 years back I visited Ypres in Flanders. It was one of the most moving days of my life. There is a Canadian War memorial just outside the town, small cemeteries within the town and a magnificent museum within the reconstructed guild hall, mind you the whole town was reconstructed to look the way it was before the war.

To: marcos who wrote (6305)	4/9/2005 10:41:15 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 8273

A truck is just a large machine that masks the owner's desire to drive a convertible sports car but not to be known to do so. I think a cummins 4 will not get the beast to much more than 38 miles per hour, or it will take a half hour to get to 60 mph. OK, maybe 40 seconds and five gears. You will need at least a 6, about 150 horsepower or more, to have zip. The early combustion people were surprisingly practical. Carnot thought diesel fuel/kerosene would be the substance of choice for air-expansion engines as he knew them. He had thought they could approach 70% efficiency if a way could be thought out to use all the waste heat they generated and rejected to the cooling system, and exhaust. No air expansion engine gets much more than 30% today, even if standing still and loading a generator. Diesel invented the most efficient engine of all time. Someone pushed him off a ferry in the channel in order to take a better advantage of his invention. Henry Ford though the ideal fuel was alcohol, as it was renewable and less dangerous than hexane. Carnot toyed with the idea of alcohol, with but though was low in heat value. I think gramps was at Vimy. At least he was at Ypres and got gassed in some Tavern with some French girls who said they knew him well. EC<:-}