You know, Jones, it would be fun to pursue this line of reasoning to its logical conclusion. As so.
The car is a miserable form of transport. Firstly, it runs on fossil fuels. Rather, we should have the vehicle run on waste vegetable matter. Preferrably the vehicle should have an on-board processing plant so we could "feed" the vegetable matter into it directly. What gets left over from a car is CO2 and pollution, but with my new vehicle the resulting waste would be a rich fertilizer, the better to grow more fuel! Also, tires really suck wind. And you need roads to drive on. Let's replace the wheels with something more rugged, like articulated stilts. Then we can "ride" on most any terrain, even up hills and across water! No roads required now. Now the steel needed to make a car is an expensive and energy rich material. Better we should make our new vehicle out of something more common, like carbon. Common as dirt. Finally, big manufacturing plants also consume a lot of energy and are very wasteful. My new vehicle will need no manufacturing, rather, it will be able to make copies of itself as needed! How revolutionary is that! This new vehicle needs a name. How about...Trigger???? Think I can get a patent on my revolutionary vehicle? (smile). I should try; I think there may be a big demand for this technology in the near future. Remember, you heard it here first. K. -----Original Message----- From: Jones Beene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 3:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Vo]: Re: Biomimicry in Automotive BTW - in previous postings the term "ambient heat" is a bit inaccurate since the high end of ambient is optimum- what one can derive from direct solar, for instance. About 150 degrees F is adequate for onboard production in an automobile of peroxide in the 2 gallons per hour range. This is easily derived from waste heat, since some small amount of combustion cannot be eliminated easily from any design. The peroxide is made in low concentration by superoxidation of water, and then enriched in a secondary cascade to a usable level. At the genset - a mid-grade enrichment is taken to HTP in one step and then burned at once, so that no HTP is stored. HTP is too dangerous to be stored but is rather easy to enrcih from 40-50% in one step. The midgrade itself is less dangerous than gasoline, for instance, but does have some associated risks. And as for miniaturization - most every cell in your body is doing this for energy, even though the peroxide itself is toxic to them as well - if - that is, it were to be made in excess and before it is needed. That is where anti-oxidants like vitamin C come in. ... and where "just in time" manufacturing, and where Biomimicry comes in, as well
