Re: Compression

[jlandry@domain.elided (John A. Landry)]

In a brilliant stroke of genius, "Steven Stegmann" <s_stegmann@domain.elided>
blurted out:

>How 'bout this one.   In Europe after WWII when fuel was scarce they got 
>some vehicles running by installing a gas generator.  What was this you 
>ask.  It was a cylinder about 2ft diameter and 5 ft high.  Anything 
>organic was burned in a fire starved for oxygen.  The exhaust gasses 
>from this were then piped to the vehicle engine and burned in the 
>engine.  They didn't move very well and were a general PITA but... you 
>use what you got in that kind of situation.

Hmmm... this sounds like a good theme for a movie.  Yeah... that's it... we
could call it "Road Warrior" and film it in Australia.  Maybe we could even
talk Mel Gibson into staring in it?

John L.
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