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Old 10-01-2012, 03:36 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by sheepdog 44 View Post
So if piping LPG into your engine helps (whether for power or FE) what about piping pure oxygen? An ember in pure oxygen will burst into a fire, and gas would presumable burn cleaner. Say just double the atmospheric percentage of o2.

I've always wondered what would happen if you drove a car in the prehistoric dinosaur era when they say we had a much richer oxygen atmosphere.
Oxygen "enrichment" has been done by some folks at Argonne National Labs:Clean Diesel Technology.
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