Same Ballard/Ford technology as Buckeye bullerr II.
Wes
On Sep 29, 2009, at 10:48 AM, <speedtimer@beyondbb.com>
<speedtimer@beyondbb.com
> wrote:
> Didn't you guys forget Rick Byrnes and the Ford. He went 200 with a
> hydrogen power vehicle.
> GB
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "drmayf" <drmayf@mayfco.com>
> To: "LSR" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:29 AM
> Subject: [Land-speed] Buckeye Bullet
>
>
>> Dale Pulju sent me a note about the Buckeye Bullet setting a record
>> of 300 + mph with Hydrogen. Now this brings an interesting
>> question or two. But first, I say well done to that effort! Now
>> the questions: they had previously set a record using batteries.
>> Batteries are electric storage devices. So the record was listed as
>> an electrical record. Good enough I say. But now another record is
>> claimed as a hydrogen record. Yet the car's drive system was
>> electrical. Hydrogen (actually hydrogen and oxygen mix) was used
>> to produce electricity which powered the car. So was the original
>> record using batteries really a gasoline record because the
>> batteries that supplied the power were charged via some generator?
>> Or Nuke because the electrons came from that? With the H2O2 and
>> the fuel cells generating electrons I believe that the record is
>> really an electrical one. Think hard about this. Do the rule
>> making authorities need new definitions of what actually powers a
>> vehicle? Take a hybrid vehicle. Doesn't the gasoline motor
>> provide most of the power? If so, why is it called a hybrid? If I
>> could put a gasoline powered generator in a car and use the gen
>> power to run the electric motor that drives the wheels, would that
>> be electrical or fossil fuel powered? It cannot run without
>> gasoline so is it defined as a petroleum powered car or electrical.
>> Isn't that what a hybrid is? Me, I think that the drive mechanism
>> has to be primarily fueled by something directly and that should be
>> the definition. for instance the car that Jesse James used had a
>> true hydrogen motor. The fuel was directly powering the vehicle.
>> The Ford Fusion and the Buckeye Bullet used electric drive to move
>> the vehicle and I think that is electrical. Not hydrogen.
>>
>>
>> Any thoughtful comments out there? I am sitting here waiting for
>> parts....
>>
>>
>> mayf
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