There used to be a fuel heater option available in the 50's and 60's buses. A source of burned down buses. This is all very vague in memory. I worked on VW's in the 80's and never actually had one cross my path, but I feel like I can almost picture it in the engine bay.
Be careful. On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 12:24 AM, Jan Steinman via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > Perhaps this is a sacrilege on this list, but I'm planning to provide > cabin heat in my 1981 Electranagon with... diesel fuel! > > I got hold of an old Webasto hydronic heater. You can find them used among > boat people, bulletin boards at marinas, etc. They sip a tiny bit of diesel > fuel, and turn it into fairly large quantities of hot water, which I plan > to run through my Vanagon's heater core. > > Electricity is (as HT Odum would put it) a "high transformity fuel," > meaning it is highly refined and contains a lot of embedded energy. Why > waste it heating up resistors? A 3kW electric heater running for an hour > uses up over ten percent of a typical EV battery, whereas one tank of > diesel will last me all winter. > > Anyway, just a thought... > > Jan > > > From: Al via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> > > > > It's that time of year, time to get the heater installed in my EV. > > :::: When money becomes the deciding factor in food marketing, some very > bad things can happen. I keep thinking about how during the famine in > Ireland, the country’s grain was sold in the higher English commodity > markets to pay rents to absentee landlords while the Irish people starved. > Now that’s what I call real price discovery. -- Gene Logsdon > :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op :::: > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -- Put this question to yourself: should I use everyone else to attain happiness, or should I help others gain happiness? *Dalai Lama * Tell me what it is you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver, "The summer day." To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. *Warren Buffet* Michael E. Ross (919) 550-2430 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Google Phone (919) 631-1451 Cell (919) 513-0418 Desk michael.e.r...@gmail.com <michael.e.r...@gmail.com> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141028/42839b0a/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
