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- From: ledwards@leland.Stanford.EDU (Laurence James Edwards)
- Subject: Re: External-Combustion Cars -- Possible?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.211607.6700@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <1992Nov12.111359.11804@bsu-ucs> <1992Nov13.191148.12117@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 21:16:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.191148.12117@ke4zv.uucp>, gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) writes:
- |> [...]
- |> Go to the library and look up "Stanley Steamer." These vehicles used
- |> a flash boiler and could start up from cold in under 1 minute. They
- |> could out accelerate any gasoline engined vehicle of their day, and
- |> had a top speed over 120 MPH. They were produced around the turn of
- |> the century. A recent emissions test on one of these antiques showed
- |> it to handily meet current California emissions standards. But it's
- |> fuel economy is horrid. Steam engines are fun, but the reason they
- |> have been replaced in railroading and in automotive usage is that
- |> their Carnot efficiency is poor. That means they burn a lot of fuel
- |> and generate a lot of CO2.
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- Interesting, what kind of mpg (assuming they used gas) did stanley steamers
- get?
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- Larry Edwards
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