4 Stroke cooling requirements

[fishinwrench]

1 hour ago, Bgctrading said:

So... Are we heading UP the lake just a little bit with every boat??

Not much. Definitely not measurable.  You can hold your hand under the exhaust water and it feels the same temperature as the water going in.    The pee stream on a 2-stroke V6 Mercury will be steaming right before the thermostats open, then it cools right back down.  But the exhaust water coming out the prop is always cool as a cucumber.  

If you catch some of that exhaust water in a glass jar you'd be surprised how clean it is.   Everybody (in California) thinks 2-strokes are such terrible polluters.....but they really aren't.  Not to the water anyway.  Oil and gasoline doesn't mix with water, fuel stays on top and evaporates as if you spilled a few drops on dry concrete. Oil drifts to the shoreline and is absorbed right back into the earth, where it came from.    So there's your "renewable energy". 😊

 

[luckycraft]

2 hours ago, Bgctrading said:

So... Are we heading UP the lake just a little bit with every boat??

Not more than mother nature

[moguy1973]

23 hours ago, Flysmallie said:

Let’s hope so. Either that or the fish will be ready to eat when you get them to the boat. 

That reminds me of a story someone told me when I was a kid about Yellowstone National Park. The story goes when Europeans were “discovering” America and headed out west they found this gorgeous stream and near the bottom they could see a bounty of trout swimming.  They started fishing for them and as they caught them and brought them to bank they noticed they were dead and fully cooked ready to eat.  They didn’t know how this could possibly be happening.  They then noticed steam coming off the top of the water and realized the local geysers they had seen were causing hot water to flow into the stream and since the hot water was less dense than the cold water at the bottom the trout could exist and live at the bottom but when caught and drawn through the hot water it was cooking them. 
 

I don’t know how much truth was In this story but as a kid I believed it. 😎

[fishinwrench]

33 minutes ago, moguy1973 said:

 

I don’t know how much truth was Is this story but as a kid I believed it. 😎

And now do you understand how religion works?   😅

[MrGiggles]

15 hours ago, Bgctrading said:

So... Are we heading UP the lake just a little bit with every boat??

Yes, in the same way that one drop of rain raises the ocean, not in a way that you could measure.

[moguy1973]

6 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

And now do you understand how religion works?   😅

Not sure I'll ever understand that.

[Will S.]

1 hour ago, moguy1973 said:

Not sure I'll ever understand that.

Simple just like politics. When someone is trying way too hard to "convince you 24-7" run.

[jdmidwest]

21 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

 Oil drifts to the shoreline and is absorbed right back into the earth, where it came from.    So there's your "renewable energy". 😊

 

Actually oil was created by the breakdown of carbon in deposits of vegetative matter compressed by pressure and maybe some heat over many years.  Then it was refined by someone on a machine to get rid of its impurities.  The stuff I use has many additives.

But I am ok with it going back into nature.  I doubt if I live to see it drilled back out of any of the lakes I fish.