Re: cars, air L3er

2002-11-06 Thread freewire
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 20:57:53 -0600, Dan Minette wrote: We've now gotten to the point where we are discussing strongly conflicting data from different sources. Rereading my post, I was worried that it might appear that I will simply not accept any number you put out. But, I am applying self

Nukular L3 (was: cars, air L3er)

2002-11-06 Thread Deborah Harrell
Chipping in with my selective .02$ worth, mostly from a medical perspective (since my environmental engineering days were limited to a summer-and-a-semester of graduate school -- before I thought I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up ;D ). Articles about Chernobyl, the problems of uranium

Re: Nukular L3 (was: cars, air L3er)

2002-11-06 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 4:53 PM Subject: Nukular L3 (was: cars, air L3er) Chipping in with my selective .02$ worth, mostly from a medical perspective (since my environmental engineering days

Re: Nukular L3 (was: cars, air L3er)

2002-11-06 Thread Deborah Harrell
My reply is already up to 22K, and I still have more sources to read! This might take a while...reading Committee reports is not particularly exciting. ;P I'll try to trim it down a bit more, once I've finished reading. :) Debbi Not Trying For The Longest Post - Really! Maru

Re: cars, air L3er

2002-10-31 Thread Dan Minette
criteria or on how I apply them. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 8:26 PM Subject: Re: cars, air L3er http://www.awea.org/faq/instcap.html http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/14061/newsDate/17-Jan-20 02/st

Re: cars, air L3er

2002-10-31 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 03:23 AM 10/31/2002 +, you wrote: on 30/10/02 1:52 am, Kevin Tarr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: External combustion engines (steam engines/turbines) are already more efficient than internal combustion engines, and what happened to the Stanley Steamer? -- William T Goodall Well

Silliness in this post Re: cars, air L3er

2002-10-30 Thread Julia Thompson
William T Goodall wrote: External combustion engines (steam engines/turbines) are already more efficient than internal combustion engines, and what happened to the Stanley Steamer? commercial Aren't they the ones that are tough on dirt, gentle on carpets? /commercial Julia who

Re: cars, air L3er

2002-10-29 Thread freewire
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:32:47 -0600, Dan Minette wrote: I think remote, not rural is where the break even is. From http://www.go-solar.com/Pvinsolation.html I got the average sun hours as 4.8/day. If you factor in the fact that the cells rarely operate at peak efficiency, you are talking close to

Re: cars, air L3er

2002-10-29 Thread Kevin Tarr
External combustion engines (steam engines/turbines) are already more efficient than internal combustion engines, and what happened to the Stanley Steamer? -- William T Goodall Well come on ;-) They couldn't go far, took hours to warm up, had to carry both fuel and water, very dangerous in

Re: cars, air L3er

2002-10-28 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 6:51 AM Subject: Re: cars, air L3er On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 11:42:23PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote: Are you sure, at http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0004691.html I

Re: cars, air L3er

2002-10-28 Thread Erik Reuter
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 12:02:21PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote: From what I've read in Physics Today, it is going to be very hard to squeeze out added efficiencies. Everything that I see indicates that we need to do a lot of fundamental research before there is a breakthrough. So, money

Re: cars, air L3er

2002-10-28 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 12:27 PM Subject: Re: cars, air L3er On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 12:02:21PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote: From what I've read in Physics Today, it is going to be very hard

Re: cars, air L3er

2002-10-28 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 1:32 PM Subject: Re: cars, air L3er - Original Message - From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 12:27 PM Subject

Re: cars, air L3er

2002-10-27 Thread freewire
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 15:40:50 -0500, Dan Minette wrote: Please forgive the lateness of my reply. Life gets in the way. ..much snippage throughout... Feel free to check my figures, but it appears that the energy storage is consistant with about 12% efficiency. Which kinda makes sense, because

Re: cars, air L3er

2002-10-27 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 2:48 PM Subject: Re: cars, air L3er On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 15:40:50 -0500, Dan Minette wrote: Please forgive the lateness of my reply. Life gets in the way. ..much snippage throughout

RE: cars, air L3er

2002-10-13 Thread Kevin Tarr
William Taylor Do you mean Howard Hughes? What did he do to a steam car? How old are you? Howard died in 1976, and I doubt he was swinging an axe for many, many years before that. I'm total crap without a spellchecker. I remember that in a Howard Hughes film biography, his

RE: cars, air L3er

2002-10-13 Thread Kevin Tarr
As bad as: How many Fs in Birffday? ---age 6. I still hear college as colledge. And here the best money I've made in the past year came from picking up 200+ electrical engineering and computer books. I don't have to understand them to sell them. I do wonder about the felt pen $1.00 price in

Re: cars, air L3er

2002-10-12 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 2:53 PM Subject: Re: cars, air L3er On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 13:54:47 -0500, Dan Minette wrote: Well, it would be very hard to believe. Lets look at some numbers. The general efficiency

RE: cars, air L3er

2002-10-12 Thread Kevin Tarr
Damn the answers are good and fast here. So I take it not one engineer on this thought project thought of a ruptured air tank in a collision with a 28 gallon gas tank? I thought a ruptured gas tank does not explode unless the gas is first mixed with air. I remember what Howard Huges did with an