What kind of moronic
question is that?
One directed to a moron!
Yes I have walked down the beaches in Bermuda and had
tar stick to my feet but if you think that is heavy fuel that is like
comparing fresh coffee to the goop sitting in a coffee pot for a month.

Where do you think that "tar" comes from?

Learn some basic chemistry if you even know what chemistry is.

Look up my last name and then look back 1959 - 1969 Dow Chemical's
top management. When you read through the Vice Presidents you might
find something interesting. Then, come back to me with an off group
email and I will send you a little information about few awards I
achieved and where to confirm that information. Then you can eat my
shorts. - You just stepped in a big pile!

"when was the last time you worked on a ship?" I am a retired
engineer. I worked for a company that did contract work for the US
Navy. I have been on PLENTY of ships in Norfolk. No of course I dont
know what fuel oil is how could I???


You don't know what it is and I don't believe you have had any time on
a big ship, 9or at least anywhere near the fuel system. You seem to
think it is the same thing as light diesel. It gets thick and that is
why you need to steam it. Read all about it at the links I posted in
the previous response. You really should make sure you feet are tied
down next time you open you flapper.


I'm so stupid I dont even know
what a ship is.

You're right about that!

You never did answer my question though and you wont. But I will ask
it again. Do you really think the US Navy and the US military would use
ships that require an entire 7 day period to get underway?? They would
be sitting ducks.

BOZO- I was talking about a medical ship leaving Boston. You should
learn to read! The ship uses HEAVY FUEL OIL and had been SHUT DOWN
before its call!
Yes I am so stupid I dont even know I am stupid, My wife tells me
that every day but at least I dont prove it almost daily on this
newsgroup as you do to my once amusement, and now aggravation.

You're a loser caught in your own crap. It's hard to believe that
anyone with your mentality could be married. I, by the way, don't make
a habit of posting 4 times in a row. I would think that even you would
be able to sum it up in at least 2 posts. Even better, you rant about
the same things in the other posts. You claim the heavy fuel oil dose
not need to be thinned? Try learning something before you try and teach
it. Here are a few words from one of the links I posted -
http://www.nrtee-trnee.ca/eng/progra...vyFuel_2_E.htm
"HFO is a low-grade fuel primarily used in industrial boilers and other
direct source heating applications (i.e., blast furnaces). It is also
used as a principal fuel in marine applications in large diesel
engines. Given its high boiling point and tar-like consistency, HFO
typically requires heating before it can be moved through pipes or
dispensed into a boiler or other heating vessel to be burned.

HFO is the least expensive of the refined oil fuels and can only be
used by facilities that have preheating capabilities. HFO is typically
high in sulphur and other impurities that are released into the air
when the fuel is burned.

All you had to do was type in HFO or heavy fuel oil into google and you
would never have made such an ass out of yourself! Some "engineer" you
must have been. You are willfully stupid and arrogant to boot., You are
the lowest form of life on this planet in my eyes and you are a
laughable joke to anyone that knows what HFO is or what an engineer is
supposed to know. If you were an engineer for anyone, I am sure you
were fired in the first day of work.
You also claimed that nearly all navy ships use turbine gas. Many navy
ships are contracted from the merchant marines and are not Navy at all.
They are whatever they are and some are even steam drive - yes you
read that right. There is a ship that supplies basses in the Maldives
area that runs off of steam. One of my best friends was a real engineer
about a real boat there that runs off of steam. That was why he took
the job, for the experience. But, then again, I don't recall saying
anything about a Navy ship anyway. You just thought that ships run off
of diesel since that is all you have seen in your little marina.