Why Not Natural Gas As Airplane Fuel ?

too combustible
stuff is very dangerous liquified
it doesn't have the ooomph w/o tres cher dangerous additives
so, neverminddddd

"Robert Cohen" wrote in message
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too combustible
stuff is very dangerous liquified
it doesn't have the ooomph w/o tres cher dangerous additives
so, neverminddddd

Most people don't quite know what jet fuel is like.

On Aug 18, 5:48*pm, "Jim Davis" wrote:
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too combustible
stuff is very dangerous liquified
it doesn't have the ooomph w/o tres cher dangerous additives
so, neverminddddd

Most people don't quite know what jet fuel is like.

sort of kerosene (smells like it) ?

Robert Cohen wrote:
too combustible - citation?
stuff is very dangerous liquified - citation?
it doesn't have the ooomph w/o tres cher dangerous additives - citation?
so, neverminddddd

"Robert Cohen" wrote in message
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On Aug 18, 5:48 pm, "Jim Davis" wrote:
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too combustible
stuff is very dangerous liquified
it doesn't have the ooomph w/o tres cher dangerous additives
so, neverminddddd

Most people don't quite know what jet fuel is like.

sort of kerosene (smells like it) ?

Basically a modified diesel fuel. Not as highly volatile as people think.

On Aug 19, 4:02*pm, "Jim Davis" wrote:
"Robert Cohen" wrote in message

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On Aug 18, 5:48 pm, "Jim Davis" wrote:

"Robert Cohen" wrote in message

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too combustible
stuff is very dangerous liquified
it doesn't have the ooomph w/o tres cher dangerous additives
so, neverminddddd

Most people don't quite know what jet fuel is like.
sort of kerosene *(smells like it) ?

Basically a modified diesel fuel. *Not as highly volatile as people think.

okay: vat the h is our prob--sounds like a slam dunk if it's just
souped up or down diesel that runs jet engines too?

is it that difficult/unfeasible for General Electric-Boeing etal to
adapt and/or make natural gas propulsion (whatever)

what if society pretends there's a "war" going on: because that's
what is happening economically-politically if not by direct violence

Aren't changing or overhauling engines routine maintenance

most airplanes aren't young

i must skeptically doubt that "natural gas works," because united
parcel freight planes woulda done it already, as per their trucks
(which also aren't so dang loud-annoying as they used to be)

"Robert Cohen" wrote in message
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On Aug 19, 4:02 pm, "Jim Davis" wrote:
"Robert Cohen" wrote in message

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On Aug 18, 5:48 pm, "Jim Davis" wrote:

"Robert Cohen" wrote in message

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too combustible
stuff is very dangerous liquified
it doesn't have the ooomph w/o tres cher dangerous additives
so, neverminddddd

Most people don't quite know what jet fuel is like.
sort of kerosene (smells like it) ?

Basically a modified diesel fuel. Not as highly volatile as people think.

okay: vat the h is our prob--sounds like a slam dunk if it's just
souped up or down diesel that runs jet engines too?

is it that difficult/unfeasible for General Electric-Boeing etal to
adapt and/or make natural gas propulsion (whatever)

what if society pretends there's a "war" going on: because that's
what is happening economically-politically if not by direct violence

Aren't changing or overhauling engines routine maintenance

most airplanes aren't young

i must skeptically doubt that "natural gas works," because united
parcel freight planes woulda done it already, as per their trucks
(which also aren't so dang loud-annoying as they used to be)

Here's some info on the different types of jet fuel.
http://www.csgnetwork.com/jetfuel.html

"Robert Cohen" wrote in message
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too combustible
stuff is very dangerous liquified
it doesn't have the ooomph w/o tres cher dangerous additives
so, neverminddddd


Here's another link I just found.
A380 superjumbo in natural-gas powered test flight.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02...gas_fuel_test/

What I really wanna know is why we don't see
more coal-fired aircraft....



(Oh, OK.....:-).....THERE, are ya happy now?)

Bob M.

On Aug 19, 4:50*pm, "Jim Davis" wrote:
"Robert Cohen" wrote in message

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too combustible
stuff is very dangerous liquified
it doesn't have the ooomph w/o tres cher dangerous additives
so, neverminddddd

Here's another link I just found.
A380 superjumbo in natural-gas powered test flight.http://www.theregister..co.uk/2008/0...gas_fuel_test/

Thanks, it's good to know they are trying alternatives: and a 40%
"synthetic" stuff---60% jet fuel mixture works

If they "merely" modified the engine perhaps they could use 100%
natural gas, which has got to be less expensive than jet fuel (i would
think "less expensive" and domestically plentiully available)

Theose "additives" sound like some of the stuff (dry gas) i often
generously dumped into my '86 Dodge Ram B-250 van's gas tank mainly to
seemingly dry out the moisture but maybe it helped other things too.

It actually seemed to work, because I would otherwise have a harder
time with starting it in the 1990s, but then i finally sold it via e-
bay for only $400 to a guy in Savannah and the price of an Air Tran
back ticket to the Atlanta area.

I would have kept it, but it was so ratty-looking my wife didn't want
the ugly embarrassment in the driveway.