BTTT! It was a Stanley that tried to kill him.
The Doble has a sparkplug for ignition.
The video on Jay's website is EXCELLENT. Amazing car.
-Curt
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:43:02 -0500
From: Rich Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Steam engine hybrid
To: Mercedes Discussion
on Jay's website is EXCELLENT. Amazing car.
-Curt
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:43:02 -0500
From: Rich Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Steam engine hybrid
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
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It seems than at Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:29:35 -0500, Harry wrote:
This is being tried by someone on a CAT diesel. The engine
heat is converted to steam and stored. It can then be used
run half of the combustion engine as a steam engine, alone or
in combo.
A few years ago I saw a John Deere 70
I think there were fairly advanced condensing steam cars in the
50's...something was mixed with the water or used in place of the
water...alcohol, maybe?
Chris
MG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually there were quite a few condensing steam
train engines starting
from way back in the 1700 all
Here's an interesting article about the early Doble steam car:
Excerpt:
In early 1924- over ten years after the unofficial demise of steam
technology- the Doble brothers shipped a Model E to New York City to be
road-tested by the Automobile Club of America. After sitting overnight in
freezing
Jay Leno has one of those. There was a show about it, he about singed
his face lighting the thing off -- it uses gasoline and you have to
stick a long match in it to start the fire. But it did warm up very
fast and move off quickly, seemed to have plenty of torque/power for
acceleration and
I found this through a google search, it was in an auto blog.
Harry
British company Clean Power Technologies is working on a novel new type of
hybrid powertrain. They are taking advantage of the fact in an internal
combustion engine upwards of thirty-five percent of the energy in the fuel
goes
Actually there were quite a few condensing steam train engines starting
from way back in the 1700 all the way to the end of the steam era. Many
of them were used in service but none were really successful, not
because of the condenser size but because of the amount of dirt stirred
up by the
This is being tried by someone on a CAT diesel. The engine heat is
converted to steam and stored. It can then be used run half of the
combustion engine as a steam engine, alone or in combo.
Where can I get a kit fior my SDL?
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Subject: [MBZ] OT Steam engine hybrid
This is being tried by someone on a CAT diesel. The engine heat is
converted to steam and stored. It can then be used run half of the
combustion engine as a steam
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Subject: [MBZ] OT Steam engine hybrid
This is being tried by someone on a CAT diesel. The engine heat is
converted to steam and stored
Don't forget the cool steam whistle you could have to let other
motorists know that puffing billy is coming through.
However I don't think you get that chugging type sound out of a turbine,
ahh well you can't have everything.
Hendrik
not a train spotter
Tom Hargrave wrote:
If I had the time,
Peter Frederick wrote:
The heat exchanger to recover the exhaust is going to be half the
size of the car, at least.
I once saw one with a 2300 Pinto engine in a LTD. IIRC there was too
much junk in the engine bay and they left the hood off. I can't remember
what they used for a motor, but it
: Monday, April 28, 2008 8:18 PM
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Steam engine hybrid
The heat exchanger to recover the exhaust is going to be half the
size of the car, at least. That's why no one ever made one, even for
locomotives. Ships get to use the ocean, which works
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