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To: Aqua225

Also, you get a bump in efficiency, because you do not have to throttle a engine, you can burn super lean, since the diesel burns and lights the dispersed charge of natural gas, a mixture that probably would not otherwise burn.

Most of our car engines, unless you have one that has a throttle-less direct injection system, lose a gob-smack of energy because the engine is continuously pulling againt the artificial vacuum.


29 posted on 05/22/2012 3:33:15 PM PDT by Aqua225 (Realist)
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To: Aqua225

Weird, a little research on google, indicates that natural gas doesn’t like spark ignition at a compression ratio above 11.5:1.

I would not have guessed that..


30 posted on 05/22/2012 3:37:41 PM PDT by Aqua225 (Realist)
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