Re: [ARSCLIST] Edison factory fire

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Richard:

No offense, but Wired is one step more credible than Art Bell, but nowhere near reference-credible.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard L. Hess" <arclists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Edison factory fire


> At 05:50 PM 2007-01-23, Roger and Allison Kulp wrote:
> > Edison and his electric car.
> > http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/223/electric-car-timeline.html
> > http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/collection/tech.php?id=2345874&lid=1
> >
> > You don't mess with big oil,be it John D. Rockerfeller,or 
> > Halliburton.They run the country,in more ways than one,the same way 
> > that mafia dons used to run things. I'm surprised Edison didn't turn 
> > up dead,because of this.
>
> Ummm...did you know that Rudolf Diesel originally wanted his engines 
> to run on vegetable oil, but he "committed suicide" in 1913 and then 
> the engine was redesigned to run on dino-oil.
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72404-0.html?tw=rss.index
>
> Someone responded to me that dino oil is more plentiful than 
> vegetable oil so that was a good thing.
>
> Sorry for the off-topic excursion.
>
> Richard
>
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