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Before reading the next post, try to guess what this Thread is about.
I bet you R100.00 you are wrong.







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The inventor of the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) was Nicolas Otto.
He lived from 1832 until 1891. Died at age 58.
We call this the Otto cycle.

An English git, James Atkinson made a more efficient version, much, much later.
The Atkinson Cycle engine.
Toyota uses Atkinson cycle ICE's in their Hybrids.
Atkinson lived from 1846 until 1914.
So, he was alive in 1913, he was 67 then.

Then the true Engine God, Rudolf Diesel, who was born in 1858 & was murdered on 29 September 1913.
So Diesel died 107 years ago today (or maybe yesterday).

Diesel was only 55, when he 'disappeared' off the Dresden in the English Channel.

Very suspicious...
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Let's look at the facts; Diesel died while Atkinson was still alive.
Diesel died in the English channel.
The Great War started a year after he died.
The British will ban all diesel engines by 2030.

See where I'm going with this?
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Just out of interest, the key differences between an Otto Cycle & an Atkinson cycle engine are that the Atkinson cycle offers higher efficiency than is achievable in an Otto engine, albeit with some loss of low-speed output. ... Compression and expansion ratios are the same in an Otto engine whilst in an Atkinson expansion ratio is significantly larger than its compression ratio.

So the English don't like low-end power - Diesels are nothing but low end power. Interesting...

BTW, when building a Hybrid, low end power is not important as the Electric motors provide this.
That is why you seldom see a Diesel Electric hybrid vehicle.
The French, did build one recently, think it was Peugeot, but that's the French.
This explains why Toyota prefers the more efficient, albeit with less low end grunt, Atkinson cycle.
The batteries & Electric motor provide the low-end go.

Capish...
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Yesterday, September 29th, is the 107th anniversary of a sad day: the disappearance of Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the petroleum-driven compression ignition engine, or as we know it today, the Diesel engine.
Diesel’s death is seen as something of a mystery, regarded with suspicion. However, to understand the theories surrounding his death, you have to understand Diesel’s life:

Diesel was born in Paris in 1858 to Bavarian immigrants, living in the city until the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, when his family was forced to leave France. He then went to Augsberg, Germany, graduating at the top of his class and going to the Munich Technical University. Diesel started work on his engine when he first began working at the Linde-Ice factory in Paris, finally securing a patent for it in 1892.
The diesel engine gradually became a strong competitor to conventional gas motors due to its higher efficiency and ability to use either petroleum or biofuel. It was soon being licensed to work in factories,

In September 1913, when he disappeared, Diesel was set to cross the English Channel for a meeting in London for the groundbreaking of a new diesel-engine plant and to meet with British naval representatives about installing his engines in their submarines. He was nearly broke—none of his bank accounts contained any significant amount of money, and interest payments were about to come due on October 1st.
Before he left, Diesel gave his wife a suitcase of 20,000 Deutschmark in cash and then boarded the steamship S.S. Dresden in Belgium. After he had dinner, he asked to be woken at 6 the next morning and went to bed.
He did not show up for breakfast. When his room was checked, his things were laid out as if he was going to bed, but the bed had not been slept in. After a search that found no trace of Diesel on the ship, the crew concluded he must have somehow fallen overboard in the night. This suspicion was confirmed when a Dutch tugboat in the North Sea discovered a decomposing body several weeks later. The boat was too small to take on the corpse, but some affects taken from its pockets were identified as Diesel’s by his family.

The death was officially ruled a suicide due to his financial hardships, although skeptics believe that since the body itself was not examined for cause of death, there were no witnesses to his death, and the fact that his oil-industry-disrupting engine was about to be sold to the British navy so soon before the outbreak of WWI, that Diesel may have been murdered, whether to prevent him from making conventional gas engines obsolete (and potentially cost oil companies boatloads of money, even though diesels have absolutely not made gas engines go away) or to prevent diesel engines from entering British submarines.
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Manny "Wiki" De Freitas.

Thanks, I found it very interesting.
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Interesting, Thanks Manny

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Mad Manny wrote:
Wed Sep 30, 2020 3:21 pm
...after the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, he went to Augsberg, Germany, graduating at the top of his class...
Now, Augsberg is an interesting City, it was founded by the Romans.
Augsburg was home to the Fuggers, who built a huge trade empire in Augsburg and founded the famous Fuggerei, the world’s oldest social housing complex.
So the Diesel engine & the Fuggers are from the same city.
Though the Fuggers were dominant 400 years earlier.
So the poor Fuggers never got to drive a diesel... today people who don't drive diesels are still called Fuggers. :lol:

BTW: Jakob Fugger was, in today's money, richer than Bezos, Musk, Gates & Zuckerburg - combined...
He was probably the richest man who ever lived.
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Thanks for an interesting read Manny.

So the English are still holding poor old Diesel accountable by banning diesel power in 2030...



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