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Hi Pete and all,
"You don't know where I heard what?"
I don't know where you heard "cell" substituted for "tank". There are
living cells, voltiac cells and then a variation was invented, the fuel
cell that produces electricity directly from fuel. Until it appeared on
packet recently I've never heard of a fuel tank referred to as a fuel
cell, somebody's monkeying around with the English language again.
I know you have already stated the Tata Mini Cat has an onboard
compressor but questions still flew. The BBS being an open forum not
everything is directed to you personally but in any case they seem to
have it straight now at the tail end of the subject.
Yes, electric vehicles have been around a long time and batteries have
always been a problem. Edison outfitted a Ford Model T flatbed truck but
due to the usual pitfalls of lead-acid batteries it was an instant
failure. That was one of several failed experiments and they say Edison
was a genius, not really.
You say in effect there is no way to become energy independent but there
is, solar electricity, wind power and solar heating have already
accomplished the fact. Trouble is only the rich can achieve that goal,
installation and maintanence is beyond the means of the average person.
You're one of those who use a practical approach, conservation. Funny how
that was rule number one in my family... TURN OUT THAT LIGHT! Ah, kids
have other things on their minds but you have to teach them young or
they'll be wasteful all their lives and complain "it costs too much, boo
hoo."
You mentioned turbine powered cars, I don't know about clutches burning
out but they went over like a lead balloon for another reason. Crysler
produced a trail version, there still are a couple around, very rare. At
the 1964 World Fair in New York GM put turbine versions of their
production models on display as a promotion, then farmed them out across
the country in a beta test. Talk about bad timing, having poor
acceleration they couldn't compare with the muscle cars popular at the
time so they flopped. Nothing much has been said since so many don't know
about this but I was there, lucky me.
I know about Brasilian cars running on ethanol since sugar is so
plentiful but sugar itself? Strange, small steam locomotives have been
hauling cane to Cuban mills for over a hundred years but they burn cane
after the sugar is extracted but not sugar, that would make quite a mess
and how that mass of carbon left behind in the boiler could be removed I
haven't a clue.
73 de Warren
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Message timed by NIST: 14:30 on 2011-Dec-05 GMT
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