Keith Addison wrote: "The use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today. But such oils may become in the course of time as important as petroleum and coal tar products of the present time." -- Rudolph Diesel, 1912
And appropriate technology is People's Technology, developed to go with Fritz Schumacher's "Small is Beautiful - Economics as if People Mattered". Sounds like you want a People's Government though ... should be Lupo-sized, get 100 mpg, run on WVO, clean and very efficient? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Lupo caught my attention. "The Lupo 3L, 3-cylinder TDI uses a Turbo Direct Injection diesel engine of 1.2 liters displacement, which produces 61 horsepower and 103.25 lb-ft of torque at 1,800 rpm. The Lupo 3L TDI was introduced last year in Europe, becoming the first production car being able to travel 100 kilometers (62 miles) on just 3 liters (0.79 gallons) of fuel. The engine also uses a turbocharger with variable blade geometry, a charge-air intercooler and various friction-reducing designs that have increased the efficiency of this engine to more than 40%, a record value for a passenger car." Excerpts from; "VW Lupo TDI driving for a record in fuel efficiency" - July 8, 2000 http://www.dieselnet.com/news/0007vw.html "Volkswagen Lupo: A Thrifty Spin in a 99 (110 in Canada) M.P.G. Car" By PHIL PATTON In Italian, lupo means wolf . . . http://www.baileycar.com/diesel-Lupo_html.html As well as a quote from; "Hypercar Chronology - Elements of Hypercar Vehicles are Emerging" dating from 12/91-9/01 http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid414.php "12/00: Volkswagen plans to create a prototype of a diesel-powered, two-seat car that garners 282.5 miles per gallon before the end of 2002. The new offering would use only one liter of diesel fuel for every 100 kilometers (62 miles) traveled, and a single-cylinder, 1.0-liter diesel engine would power the vehicle. To comply with strict European safety regulations, it would be built with protective crash structures but would only weigh 1,000 pounds. Volkswagen did not indicate exactly when the car will appear or whether it will be offered to the public." ÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE credit report with a FREE CreditCheck Monitoring Service trial http://us.click.yahoo.com/ACHqaB/bQ8CAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
