Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #53777
From: Bill Bradburry <bbradburry@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Political Rant...Not!
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:25:38 -0500
To: 'Rotary motors in aircraft' <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>

I am amazed that so few words could have so many errors in them! 

 

Fortunately, I am not required to point them out!

 

Bill B

 


From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of David Staten
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 2:15 AM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Replaced Tension Bolt, Oil Seal, Thrust Bearing ... back ...

 

Well, I can agree with Lynn for one thing.. Carter was 2nd worst president ever.... (After Bush 43)...  :P

 

Ethanol in fuel was never about efficiency. NEVER. It was about replacing a very toxic oxygenate (MTBE) with something cleaner burning and less toxic. Lead in aviation fuel will go the same way.. its inevitable. One plant makes the lead that goes in it. They go tits up and the 25 percent of the aviation fleet that burns 75 percent of the leaded avgas will be knee-capped brutally.

 

Biofuel is not exclusively ethanol. Its also HYDROCARBONS synthesized or processed from living matter, as opposed to fossil fuels naturally developed from long dead matter. Its bacteria in a digester/reactor with a feedstock and a product stream. Ethanol is in cars to reduce smog.. nothing more. Biofuels in aircraft do not necessarily have to include ethanol (but it could).

 

Ifwe dont start doing more than paying lip service to preserving our environment, we will have the worlds best military protecting the worlds largest ecological wasteland.

 

As long as we are overly dependent on fossil fuels, we will be subject to the foreign policy of others. Biofuels, Nuclear, Solar, Wind, Hydroelectric... all things that need to be developed further. And if we wait until its too late to transition, our worlds best military will be reduced to throwing rocks and writing nasty letters, because our turbine powered planes and tanks dont run on good intentions.

Personally... if we have to burn oil... Why burn mine (ours) when I can burn yours (theirs)..

 

I'm not hardly a hairy, stoned, tree hugging hippie, but I do recognize their point..

 

Dave

 

 

 

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