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The FLEX project will continue into 2014, with experiments to trial different fuel mixes planned. ®

1 posted on 06/19/2013 8:57:30 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: SunkenCiv

fyi


2 posted on 06/19/2013 8:57:55 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Cool...I mean, er...hot.


3 posted on 06/19/2013 8:59:26 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Its not really new knowledge. We learned that flame doesn’t work so well without convection back in the skylab days.


4 posted on 06/19/2013 8:59:28 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I didn’t look at the URL you posted this from. When I got to the word “boffins”, I stopped reading and checked...

Yep. Sure enough. The Register.

The website voted Most Likely to Abuse the Word “boffin”.


5 posted on 06/19/2013 8:59:53 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Keep Calm: Bright sparks, not aliens, set this fire


6 posted on 06/19/2013 9:00:52 AM PDT by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Location of the International Space Station


7 posted on 06/19/2013 9:04:04 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The results described above have boffins excited that if we make terrestrial fires behave like fires in space, it could make for more efficient internal combustion engines

I do that all the time when my anti-gravity machine is up and running.

8 posted on 06/19/2013 9:08:21 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Unindicted Co-conspirators: The Mainstream Media)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

“Cool Balls of Flame”...

nah, Jerry Lee got it right


9 posted on 06/19/2013 9:41:01 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Absent of gravity, heated gas don’t rise and quickly expose new fuel to more oxygen.


10 posted on 06/19/2013 9:52:07 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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