I'd like to see your hood ornament look like one from a 49 or 50 Buick (which the Vulcan ship on Enterprize strongly resembles) but with a propellor on the front...
I'll put one on my TEVan Dave >From: "1sclunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: OT/ethics/hood ornament/update >Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 07:43:17 -0700 >Lee if somebody starts reading from the middle of this string they'll think >we're nuts . I feel like I'm waking up out of a strange dream . Do you >think maybe Mr. little field was testing his device this weekend ? Would >you >feel comfortable driving your EV with a black box socking energy from >another demenstration. (looking for monkeys with crow feathers coming out >now ) that's a question I'll be asking people commenting on my hood >ornament. > Ideas for the ornament >1 something that looks like the device for mursuring wind speed sitting on >top of a pyramid. >2 a megaphone looking funnel with wind tribune at the small end . could >write on the side "tell the good news" >I called Jon Halquest the guy driving clunn car 5 and web master of my web >page and told him about what's going on .At first he was upset (though I >had >lost it) but he agreed to post pictures of the Hood ornaments there. Might >be a good place to start . > Now we need a flyer to go with it . Something telling about the >"movement" >Think how good you'll feel when driving down the road and you see another >(gas or electric)car showing support with one of these Hood ornaments (we >must find a name for them)or just a plug hanging out of the hood/gas tank >I going to down load the pictures of my Mazda truck right after breakfast >after that Mr. Littlefield can either join us and have his car next to mine >on the top ten list or be left out (sour grapes) . Haven't heard from Ford >yet . It will be interesting to see how long before the first commercial >"Interest generator " hits the market . Having it charge the little 9v >batteries might help.Makes more since that a flag on a SUV \ I wonder if we >could set up a program that would sponsor EV builders with some of the >profits like that Paul Newman Popcorn . Now were did I leave those >pictures >Steve Clunn --- Original Message ----- >From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 2:16 AM >Subject: Re: OT/ethics/hood ornament/name > > > > Lee Hart wrote: > > > > > I also tried putting a 4" cooling fan on a small 12vdc > > > permanent magnet motor. This was the most successful; it > > > easily lit an LED (1.6v at 10ma) with a 10 mph breeze. > > > > Hi Lee, how about a "motor pod" for model aeroplanes - there > > used to be several balsa kits for which you could buy a clip-on > > motor/battery/propellor module, made of aerodynamic red > > plastic. > > > > If you want to generate useful amounts of power, I would suggest > > a bicycle dynamo with a high-pitch multi-blade fan. > > > > Evan. > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
