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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!darkstar!steinly
  2. From: steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.energy
  4. Subject: Re: More External-Combustion Info
  5. Date: 19 Nov 92 11:01:16
  6. Organization: Lick Observatory/UCO
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  8. Message-ID: <STEINLY.92Nov19110116@topaz.ucsc.edu>
  9. References: <1992Nov16.215307.11973@bsu-ucs> <1992Nov17.071642.22601@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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  12. In-reply-to: houle@nmt.edu's message of 18 Nov 92 15:19:42 GMT
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  15.    In article <1ebhauINNm1l@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
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  17.    >Personally, I can't
  18.    >imagine very many situations in which having to wait 30 seconds between the
  19.    >time you turn on the ignition and the time you can start the car moving would
  20.    >be a serious problem.
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  22. The police might not agree ;-)
  23.  
  24. (yeah, I know emergency vehicles are a small part of the
  25. problem, but they're going to get pretty expensive if they're
  26. going to have to be made or operated differently from ordinary
  27. vehicles...)
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