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Posted by buickanddeere on January 24, 2004 at 05:04:23 from (192.75.48.2):
In Reply to: Re: electricity / gossip posted by Gomer on January 23, 2004 at 21:26:45:
The G was built to burn the cheap light oils straight off the batch distillation vessel technology. An over abundance of light/heavy oil products were by-products at the time.
Back then they just let the LP, butane, methane burn off or used it in process heating. The surplus of heavy oils they now make asphalt from was just dumped and buried.
Cat cracking and continuous distillation tower technology wasn't utilized until late in WWII. Allowed making more gasoline in total and of higher octane per barrel of crude.
The various light oils, kerosene and white gas was/is cheaper than high octane gasoline which has processing inve$ted.
The G with it's 4 to 1 compression isn't mechanically efficient but would run all day on anything that would pour and burn. Run the old girl on the cheap stuff, not gasoline
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