[Gasification] SFC for De-rated EnginesWas:smallscalegasifiers for those that need them

[kenn johnsen]

If we all are going to use a smoking oil car, what are we doing with  
the gas......?


mandag 2. jul 2007 kl. 23:11 skrev Robert Taylor:

>>   It's amazing how disadvantaged we are here in the US for diesels --
>> almost none of the car manufacturers have ever imported all those nice
>> diesels they sell to the rest of the world. Even VW only ever gave us  
>> a
>> couple of the many they've made. Almost seems like a conspiracy. 8-)
>
> Harmon,
>
> It *is* a conspiracy--of the US diesel fuel suppliers, according to an
> article I read a while back (I thought it was on journeytoforever.org,  
> but
> didn't find it there just now with a very brief search). Apparently the
> quality of diesel fuel in the US is so low that the modern diesels  
> that run
> cleanly in Europe cannot meet US (California?) emissions standards,  
> which is
> why the manufacturers won't import them, and diesels generally are  
> branded
> as dirty, causing low consumer acceptance--about 1% (?) of new cars in  
> the
> US being diesels, as against 35% (?) in the EU. But that or another  
> article
> said that a new diesel standard was due to be introduced soon in the
> US--perhaps it is already in force now--so the situation may change.
>
> Robert Taylor
> Taiwan
>
>
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