
Episode 133: Oldsmobile Diesels
Well There‘s Your Problem
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The Discredited Diesel Engine
The diesel engine is based on just like compression and heat, it's actually like, stupidly efficient. You only adjust power through adjusting the amount of fuel that's actually dumped into the cylinder because it doesn't have to mix or anything. And then also there's no electronics required to operate them. The first one I owned was a 1983 Mercedes Benz 300 turbo diesel,. Oh, yes. It was, I bought it from a dude who lived literally in a swamp in Texas when I rolled up to buy it. Because he was insistent that if there was a nuclear war, the resulting EMPs would still allow him like they wouldn't affect his diesel. Well, not matter. If you
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