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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The database has a version of the converse eggcorn, ‘eternally ->internally’, and at least one contributor here has noticed ‘infernal combustion engine,’ which is most often used deliberately and sarcastically. But I haven’t seen this phrase posted before. It suggests that the hydrogen -powered SUV is still a long ways off. Examples:
Oh ya, we have the technology to increase the fuel use efficiency of the eternal combustion engine, so why don’t we have access to it?
regulus2.azstarnet.com/comments/index.php?id=134880
What advantages do fuel cells offer over the eternal combustion engine? The thing that most people have focused on is really the environmental factor.
www.sbg.ac.at/ipk/avstudio/pierofun/fue … lcell.html
The invention has applicability to the field of hand tools and in particular tools for use on eternal combustion engines with overhead valves.
www.patentstorm.us/patents/5349732-description.html
The Qur’an is also silent on the eternal combustion engine, there is nothing on hydrocarbons; they could be unclean—as some dhimmis have been insisting …
www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?nam … e&sid=1077
They know that once the eternal combustion engine goes the way of the dinosaur, and/or when fossil fuel becomes a spent resource, the Middle East ...
cliffunedited.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_archive.html
History Channel: Weapeons of ww1 …
The eternal combustion engine really came of age in WWI.
boards.historychannel.com/thread.jspa?threadID=500000218&messageID=500007160
However, if your goal is to stop the greenhouse effect, then the eternal combustion engine may be your worst nemesis.
messages.yahoo.com/Religion_&_Beliefs/threadview?m=ts&bn=17916936%23cristianityaneasywayout&t
The weekend in my neighborhood is an homage to the eternal combustion engine. Lawnmowers, snow blowers and weed wackers orchestrate the soundtrack …
erin-obrien.blogspot.com/2005/11/canned-heat-and-other-delights.html
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I could understand this if used ironically in the sense of a perpetual motion machine – “the only acceptable gas-powered vehicle for a truly green family would have an eternal combustion engine”.
Otherwise it is simply wrong, IMHO.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will buy a ridiculous hat – Scott Adams (author of Dilbert)
Build a man a fire and he will be warm for a day; set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life – Terry Pratchett
http://blog.meteorit.co.uk
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