Sure, but classic Diesel engines are purely mechanical.
paul
> On May 8, 2024, at 9:38 AM, Michael Thompson <michael.99.thomp...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Most modern Diesel engines use a common-rail electronically controlled
> injection system.
>
>> On May 8, 2024, at 8:58 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On May 8, 2024, at 7:56 AM, CAREY SCHUG via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> At a local linux meeting, the leader was disparaging any resurrection of
>>> old technology
>>>
>>> Anybody else reminded of the science fiction story where ethereal life
>>> forms arrive from a distant star system after receiving our first radio
>>> transmissions. life that eats radio and electricity, starting with the
>>> frequencies of our first transmissions, but then mutating(?) to all radio,
>>> then electricity even in wires, and wiping out all communications,
>>> vehicles, etc. There is a desperate project to resurrect steam engines (to
>>> build other steam engines) and breed horses. All those steam train museums
>>> turn out to be what saves humanity. just now I realized..shouldn't they
>>> also consume all the light too? But I guess they can't go beyond
>>> microwaves.
>>
>> "The Waveries" by Fredric Brown, 1945. Never mind the bit about light; the
>> author missed the fact that Diesel engines don't need electricity, and also
>> the fact that thunder can't happen without lightning.
>>
>> paul
>>
