Re: Don't buy GAS {slightly rocco related}

[Mark Mages <wasserbox@yahoo.com>]

Dude - I met the guy who is in charge of the solar
racing team for A&M univ. down here - their solar
powered cars run a race every year from Chicago to
Denver... his car was one of 3 that actually finished
w/out a breakdown...
He gave me a pamphlet - pretty intense stuff... I
almost bought an 84 GTi offa him...

Come to think of it, for his personal cars he had an
88 16v all teed out, a 16v pickup conversion w/recaros
& a coraddo dash, and that GTi... I shoulda bought it
instead of my rocco - If it hadn't looked like crap,
but it was one running m.f...

Of course, that was before I got into these lil pocket
rockets, so I didnt fully appreciate what anything on
them was..

man - actually that is really amazing... how much I
have learned from this list... <<sniff>>  well,
talking to you guys then reading my bentley to figger
out what the f#%#$ you were talking about...

--- "Wm. Josiah Erikson" <wje97@hamp.hampshire.edu>
wrote:
> I've thought about this for years... like have a
> bunch of solar cells on top
> of your car, running a little system that converts
> water into H2 and O for
> you while it sits in the sun, and stores it in
> tanks. Then you have a small
> supply for driving for awhile... it might not have a
> big range unless you
> let it sit for awhile, and you couldn't just drive
> it for long trips, but it
> would still be cool. I dunno, I'm sure there's a
> better way.
>     Lots of good thoughts out there... there are
> much better things to run
> cars on than gasoline.
>     -Josiah
> 
> Joshua Strait wrote:
> 
> > As far as I know those hydogen powered buses have
> a special tank with
> > the hydrogen stored in some special way so it
> can't explode in an
> > accident.  Think of the performance if they start
> making H2 powered
> > cars.  Unlike electric they would be internal
> combustion so you could
> > do many of the same mods to them as you could a
> gasoline engine, also
> > H2 is much more explosive than gasoline, this
> would be an advantage
> > wouldn't it.  Now, if they could just think of a
> way to easily split
> > H2O into its components (within the car) and use
> the H2 for fuel we
> > could have a water powered, water cooled car.  It
> will be cool.
> >
> > Josh.
> >
> > >Also would you want to be on a Hydrogen powered
> bus in an accident
> > >(Pictures of the Hindenburg Airship in the 30's
> come to mind)
> >
> >
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Mark

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