By Land, Sea, & Air - Diesel Powers It ALL

[SkyPup]

Nice 6.5meg movie airing on PBS about the great qualities of diesels and the diesel revolution happening in 2006 with ULSD fuels which enable this revolutionary diesel technology:

http://www.dieselforum.org/video/Spotlight.mov

 

[Av8r3400]

Excellent video! I hope it all comes true sooner than later. I'm very enthused about the Centurion diesel aircraft engine.

Centurion Diesel Aircraft Engines

 

[SkyPup]

The main holdup in diesel engine technology has not been the engine engineering technology, it has been the lack of fuel technology in this country.

ULSD is a true enabler, without it diesels would have no future.

 

[k8ny]

Excellent video.
My son sells Mack, Volvo and Mitsubishi diesel trucks and the diesel technology, especially with computer management and variable timing, is incredible. The emissions problem is all but eliminated.
I believe with the energy crisis continuing, we will all see more diesel application in our lives.

 

[gsxr1100]

nice but military engines and most commerical are out.

 

[Av8r3400]

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[SkyPup]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( nice but military engines and most commerical are out. )</font>

? What do you mean?

 

[gsxr1100]

I mean military and commerical will not go diesel for a lonnnnng time, if ever.

 

[_RaT_]

I assume you must mean aircraft Mike, commercial and military use diesel for many things. Generating plants use jet engines now for generating electricity using primarily natural gas with diesel as a backup. The turbine engines are capable of running various fuels.

 

[SkyPup]

According to the Federal Fleet Report, approximately one-third of the fuel consumed by the U.S. military each year is diesel. They use in vehicles for warfare due to it lower propensity for fires and greater fuel economy in heavy turbocharged machinery.

In fact the entire US Military is working to go to all diesel fuel JP8:

http://www.almc.army.mil/alog/reality.html

Not to mention all the jet engines too.