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|    Dhu on Gate to Loran    |
|    Re: Argentina's Cold May    |
|    15 Jun 24 01:29:36    |
      XPost: can.politics, alt.global-warming       From: campbell@neotext.ca              On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 10:58:07 -0600, Loran wrote:              >       > Why? Sulfur is bad for jet engines. In the combustion chamber sulfuric       > compounds become sulfuric acid (similar to how some cities used to get       > acid rain). That extremely hot acid is then flung against the 1st stage       > turbine stator and 1st stage turbine wheel (aka some of the most expensive       > parts in a modern turbine engine).       >              They're moving to composite ceramics instead of metals in jet engines,       and anyways there's as much energy in sulphur as in carbon ;-)              Dhu (goodbye, Carbon Monoxide, hello, sulphur dioxide! The air ., ., ., is       everywhere!)                            --       Je suis Canadien. Ce n'est pas Francais ou Anglais.        C'est une esp`ece de sauvage: ne obliviscaris, vix ea nostra voco;-)        Duncan Patton a Campbell              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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