Like who cares anyway......?
Is there any V8 content out there sonewhere?
Murray
Oz.
>11/2/00
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> The real question is how can people so glibly talk about this car,
>or electric cars, or whatever cars, as zero polution??? Hasn't happened
>yet!!! You have to look at the entire picture. What about the fuel
burned
>to provide the power for the air compressor? What about the fuel burned
to
>refine that fuel? What about the fuel burned in transporting this fuel to
>whereever the compressor may be? So---maybe the compressor is
electrically
>driven. OK, then, what about the fuel burned to create the steam, to
power
>the turbine, to spin the generator, to produce the electrical power, to
>lose 25% of during transmission, to run the electric motor, to spin the
>compressor, etc?
>
> Getting serious for a minute--I have never seen any real OVERALL
>analyses of any familiar, or alternative, modes of propulsion and have
>often wondered why not. Are there any out there that anybody knows about?
>There must be significant differences, but how would anybody know which
are
>truly the least polutting?
>
> So much for my crazy view of the world.
>
>
>Cheers,
>
>Dave K.
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>>Notice they don't give you and HP or speed ratings. It's probably slower
>>than a 4 cylinder MGB :)
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>>Can this be true?
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>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_988000/988265.stm
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