Re: Strategic Reserve.

[Michael Roebuck <Mike.Roebuck@cobblers.datacomm.ch>]

On Tue, 31 Aug 1999 09:37:57 -0400, "John Garrison"
<corrjng@rbnet.com> wrote:

>
>Roy Wilke <royboy@bit.dotnet.dotau> wrote in message
>37CB9D2F.1B716EC8@bit.dotnet.dotau">news:37CB9D2F.1B716EC8@bit.dotnet.dotau...
>> No coal or oil - but can't steam locomotives also burn wood? Or anything
>that
>> can be burnt in the loco's firebox, for that matter? Diesels and
>electrics, I
>> take it, are a bit more fussy on what fuel they use.
>>
>
>
>Techincally speaking, if it'll burn it'll work. I've heard of using sugar
>cane leaves for fuel.

Sugar cane waste (bagasse)

 Not very hot burning, so you can only go a few mph,
>but where it's used it's free. (Cuba I think)
>
certainly used in the Philippines.

cheers

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