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: > > > >> On May 8, 2024, at 7:56 AM, CAREY SCHUG via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> >> wrote: >> >> 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 >
