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Re: It's Officially hot here in Yuma AZ today
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Dean, you should suggest to the General that the planes be air-conditioned so that you can work in comfort. We do have portable AC packs but those are primarily for cooling the avionics equipment and to keep circuit breakers from popping in the heat. The most serious problem the heat gives us is over-temping the engines at high takeoff weights.
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Re: It's Officially hot here in Yuma AZ today
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I know. I was being extremely sarcastic, or at least attempting to. As a scientist (Chemist in the industry for more than 20 years), I get to see more than my fair share of environmental reports about global warming and pollution. Scott I figured as much but used it as an excuse to rant. Interesting thought on polymer first, fuel later though. How feasible is that?
With great power comes Awesome irresponsibility.
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Re: It's Officially hot here in Yuma AZ today
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As an academic project, quite feasible. Beyond that, one has to get past the oil cartel. Look at the uphill battle alternative fuels have had. Completely not feasible with gasoline at $2-2.50/gallon. Raise gas prices to $4/gal and ethanol and biodiesel make a whole lot of sense (Oh, wait. That hapened, didn't it?!). Once the cartel realized that there was a lot of renewed interest and funding for alternative fuels, gas prices quickly dropped back to the under $2.50/gal mark. Its all about control. There was absolutely no reason for gas to go from $2 to $4 back to $2 again, other than they proved they could... And we all kept buying, it hurt like heck, but we did it.
That said, all my vehicles have V8's. They get 18-22 mpg, though.
Scott
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