[Gasification] Fwd: For Your Safety from Shell Oil Company - THIS IS NOT A JOKE! Clash of technologies.

[Rolf Uhle]

Hallo Ronny,

long time no hear!
is your GEK mounted and running?
No chance to come and see us here on the island?
1.5 h flight from your workplace...

you know  we are still waiting for you, don't you?
Don't wait for the summer, too many visitors here.
Right now we are enjoying a lovely spring ( you could bring some rain along, 
though) Almond trees still blooming (flowering?) at their best. 
Shall produce many almond shells for gasification.
Our new automatic shell fired central heating boiler is working great!
Come and have a look at it !

Rolf




Am Sonntag, 18. März 2012 13:02:37 schrieb Ronald Hongsermeier:
> Dear Dr. Thomas Reed,
> 
> Pardon me, but I think you're being somewhat imprecise in your language
> here. I think you might be right that air laden with gasoline fumes must
> be displaced. If you put 15 gals of something in it displaces 15 gallons
> of something else. This is why we don't allow smoking on the apron at
> the airport. However, a cigarette burning or a piece of glowing ash
> thereof is a completely different animal than the energy level generated
> by a cell-phone. Jet fuel is considerably different than gasoline, is
> considerably different  from diesel, etc.  _And_ 15 gallons of
> gasoline-fume-laden air being mixed with ambient air is not the same as
> 15 gallons of fuel. Also, don't most gasoline pumps recover at least
> part of the fumes?
> 
> I have only tanked with gasoline for a short period here in Europe and
> on too seldom trips to the USA over the last 20 years and I think that
> people talking on cell phones while their tanking is bad practice just
> because I think you should concentrate while doing so. If we tank an
> aircraft with passengers on board at the airport, a full crew from the
> airport fire department has to stand by mounted up, suits on with the
> pumper engine running. So I think it also good practice when you're
> filling up your car that everyone get out and stretch their legs, make a
> potty stop, etc. Everyone will be in a better state of mind and body
> afterwards.
> 
> 
> regards,
> Ronald von Handyheaven
> 
> On 18.03.2012 08:34, Thomas Reed wrote:
> >> Dear EVERYONE OWNING A CELL PHONE!
> >>
> >> (I presume this will reach thousands of people.  If each of you sends
> >> the warning to your friends, it will reach millions, and third round
> >> could reach more billions than there are on earth!
> >
> > WHEN YOU FILL A FIFTEEN GALLON FUEL TANK, FIFTEEN GALLONS OF HIGHLY
> > COMBUSTIBLE GASOLINE POUR OUT ON YOU AND THE GROUND.
> >
> >> READ THE WARNING below from my friend Michele LeJeune, and KEEP YOUR
> >> CELL PHONE AWAY FROM HYDROCARBON FUMES WHEN REFUELING YOUR CAR!
> >>
> >> Pass it on to your lists of friends and we will save thousands of lives!
>