| Posted by TurboZutek |
9/22/2004 7:32 PM | remove |
Petrol ? Was the central heating run from Petrol ??
How unusual! :-?
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| Posted by SoupMeister |
9/26/2004 4:56 PM | remove |
In most parts of Greece, this the rule, not the exception! Diesel heating is being obsoleted these days (an environmental nightmare), but this is a much older building.
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| Posted by TurboZutek |
10/1/2004 1:11 AM | remove |
I see.
We are running mostly Natural Gas in the UK with DeiselJet for large buildings and factories.
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| Posted by SoupMeister |
10/1/2004 10:09 AM | remove |
Interesting. I thought there was no Diesel in the UK. I certainly haven't seen any black smoke of death. And the only large building I've seen the innards of is the James Clerk Maxwell Building. Appleton Tower too, I suppose, but the machine rooms are sort of separate and inaccessible. And I never smelled any Diesel around them.
How big a building are we talking about? And what's the gain of heating large buildings with diesel over using gas? Gas is so much cheaper.
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| Posted by TurboZutek |
10/5/2004 12:57 AM | remove |
The UK standard for oil heating is Paraffin / Diesel mix. If you take a look at a few of the scottish hospitals and asylums you will see they nearly all use oil heating.
I think this came around as a standard as we could pump heating oil straight out the north sea and into houses with minimal processing - the same cannot be said of petrol.
You do not get petrol powered heating systems here at all - petrol cannot be readily bought tax free here. Diesel (Coloured red) is very cheap.
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| Posted by SoupMeister |
10/5/2004 8:38 AM | remove |
TZ, you've just made me realise just how stupid I was. Ngggg. *bangs head on monitor*
It IS diesel, actually (and I've corrected the description to this effect). From what I remember, it's not the same diesel used on cars and lorries. Different additives (if any!), and it's also taxed differently (cheaper, but not tax free). I have no idea if there's paraffin in it.
I'll ask next time I visit.
I'm still in the process of looking at the Scottish sites (that's a good collection, btw!), and I've noticed at least one such photo.
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| Posted by TurboZutek |
10/5/2004 3:39 PM | remove |
Ah right that makes sense then.
Yeah, here if the diesel if for heating purposes (or generators, pumps etc etc) it is tax reduced and coloured RED. If you use this in your car you might get caught and your car impounded and SOLD.
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| Posted by SnakeCorp |
2/2/2005 8:23 PM | remove |
You can run diesel vehicles on modified cooking oil, can't you?
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| Posted by courtney |
2/12/2005 5:05 AM | remove |
Yep - "biodiesel" - http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_svo.html
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| Posted by TurboZutek |
6/28/2005 9:07 PM | remove |
Often times you don't even need to titrate it down to 'biodiesel'.
I often ran my Corsa on clean veggie oil.
Let's not tell the crown though, eh?
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