On Oct 19, 9:50 am, "Eisboch" wrote:
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On Oct 19, 9:38 am, "Eisboch" wrote:
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Seems as though Corning has always been an up and down kind of
business.

After the telecom fiasco, Corning downsized, got rid of some weak
product
lines and focused back on their core business. The stock has slowly
recovered from a low of about 2 bucks a share up to the mid to high
20's.

Many years ago Corning developed the ceramic "rice" used in catalytic
converters for gas powered cars. I was involved in the design,
building,
test and installation of several sputter deposition systems that coated
the
"rice" with the catalytic material.

In addition to LCD glass (their primary business) and fiberoptics,
Corning
is the primary supplier of the catalytic material now required in the
newer
diesel powered trucks. I think I recall reading that by 2012 it will
also
be required in diesel powered boat applications. (Boating content
-) )

Eisboch

Wow, that's a lot of heat to disperse from the boat, assuming the
converter will be inside the hull, which would probably be the case....

Good point, although there's already quite a bit of heat generated by a pair
of big diesels running anyway. The heat generated by the converters will
obviously have to be carried away through a water cooled jacket or
something.

Have you read about the new diesel powered pickups? They go through a
exhaust particulate filter regeneration process every once in a while. When
they first came out, some Ford pickups were exhausting flames that started a
couple of grass fires.

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Read an interesting article not long ago about trying to reclaim the
heat energy. A good amount of the potential energy of gasoline or
diesel fuel is wasted as heat.