#16 Re: The Light
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2022 11:20 am
Only on the part of this conversation relative to CO2 emissions.
My last senior of my fathers blood his youngest brother now 90+ was only telling me last night about early motor vehicles.
One thing he mentioned, the waste heat of internal combustion is inefficient. He remembers a time when the waste heat powered a steam cylinder.
He also mentioned vehicles that brought a gas plant for internal combustion of their own. You put any old wood and coal in it. Harvested the gas for youre engine. He told me the name but it has escaped me. Something like “bring along”
Baxi in collaberation tried an additional electricity generating Sterling engine powered by waste heat of combustion. It was about £10,000 the measly amount of electricity generated never made up for the enormous cost of the unit, even with the feed in tarrif. The units were utterly unreliable and most of them were given up on.
My last senior of my fathers blood his youngest brother now 90+ was only telling me last night about early motor vehicles.
One thing he mentioned, the waste heat of internal combustion is inefficient. He remembers a time when the waste heat powered a steam cylinder.
He also mentioned vehicles that brought a gas plant for internal combustion of their own. You put any old wood and coal in it. Harvested the gas for youre engine. He told me the name but it has escaped me. Something like “bring along”
Baxi in collaberation tried an additional electricity generating Sterling engine powered by waste heat of combustion. It was about £10,000 the measly amount of electricity generated never made up for the enormous cost of the unit, even with the feed in tarrif. The units were utterly unreliable and most of them were given up on.