[Vwdiesel] Alternative diesel

[Mark Shepherd]

Bill what a brilliant backbone to my thought. It's a shame I
didn't think of it before...I know Brazil used to distil
their sugar cane... maybe there's room for a patent  with
respect of diesels....
Super posting
M the M

----- Original Message -----
From: William A. Thompson <twogreek at hotmail.com>
To: Mark Shepherd <mark at shepher.fsnet.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Alternative diesel


> http://www.snopes.com/autos/grace/sugar.asp
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Shepherd" <mark at shepher.fsnet.co.uk>
> To: <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 2:28 AM
> Subject: [Vwdiesel] Alternative diesel
>
>
> > Here in Canada they put spigots into maple trees
> and let the
> > sap run into
> > pails.  They collect the sap and when it is all
> gathered it
> > is boiled over a
> > fire in a big tub and stirred.  The result is
> our world
> > famous Maple Syrup.
> > Great on pancakes, etc.
> >
> > ... Yummy yummy...(reminds me I bought some last
> summer and
> > it was/is very thin my last lot was very
> viscous.. but then
> > I kept it a few years)...
> >
> >  I guess you could put maple sap in the
> crankcase of
> > a diesel engine and when it is time for an oil
> change, drain
> > out the syrop
> > and use it on your pancakes! ;)
> >
> > But seriously, I don't think sugar like syrops
> are suitable
> > as engine fuels.
> > have you ever seen what happens when sugar
> dissolved in
> > gasoline gets into
> > an engine?
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > ... Ah you mean the 'sugar in the fuel tank'
> sabotage...
> > Heard but not experienced.
> > Call me crazy but who'd have thought we'd bring
> back
> > Thalidomide 'poison'..
> > I guess its too many lateral puzzles in my
> youth(and now)
> >  What actually happens? Blocked jets in the
> carb? Surely if
> > the crystals dissolved in the tank then any
> crystallisation
> > in the jets could be redissolved with a less
> than saturated
> > solution. Could it be precipitation caused by
> the cooling
> > effect of gasoline vaporisation?
> > Maybe it was carboning up of the combustion
> chamber. Would
> > this happen in a diesel?
> > Don't know much about sugar except as an errant
> school boy
> > it sure blended well with Sodium Chlorate ;o)
> > Miser
> >
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