Most modern Diesel engines use a common-rail electronically controlled 
injection system.

> On May 8, 2024, at 8:58 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
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>> On May 8, 2024, at 7:56 AM, CAREY SCHUG via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
>> wrote:
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>> At a local linux meeting, the leader was disparaging any resurrection of old 
>> technology
>> 
>> Anybody else reminded of the science fiction story where ethereal life forms 
>> arrive from a distant star system after receiving our first radio 
>> transmissions.  life that eats radio and electricity, starting with the 
>> frequencies of our first transmissions, but then mutating(?) to all radio, 
>> then electricity even in wires, and wiping out all communications, vehicles, 
>> etc.  There is a desperate project to resurrect steam engines (to build 
>> other steam engines) and breed horses.  All those steam train museums turn 
>> out to be what saves humanity.  just now I realized..shouldn't they also 
>> consume all the light too?  But I guess they can't go beyond microwaves.
> 
> "The Waveries" by Fredric Brown, 1945.  Never mind the bit about light; the 
> author missed the fact that Diesel engines don't need electricity, and also 
> the fact that thunder can't happen without lightning.
> 
>    paul
> 

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