Re: How to Convert Your Car/Truck to Run on WATER! (((DON'T MISS)))

"nu-monet v9.0" <nothing@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On a more realistic note, I've long hoped that some
>good engineer would make a modern design of the
>Stanley Steamer.  There is a good possibility that it
>could achieve efficiencies with modern engine design
>at least in the range of internal combustion engines,
>yet could possibly be far more fuel efficient.
>
>Im****tantly, it is not a scalable engine, so would be
>limited in use--but those limitations might be just 
>right for some major applications, like town cars or
>some variety of mass transit.
>
>I didn't come up with this idea, either.  Others have
>both recreated Stanley Steamer designs and speculated
>that it has some big advantages over internal combustion.
>
>But it seems that engineers are either fascinated with
>the old design, or don't know enough about the old 
>design to consider improvements to it.

I don't know the details of the old Stanley design, but there were a
lot of very skilled people working on steam cars in the seventies.
The fact that none of them got gas mileage anywhere near what ICEs can
produce seemed to be pretty convincing.
-- 
Tomorrow is today already.
Greg Goss, 1989-01-27