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- From: jamesh@aifh.ed.ac.uk (James Hammerton)
- Newsgroups: sci.energy,talk.environment
- Subject: Re: FEATURE: "Energy Without Oil" Executive Summary
- Keywords: energy environment oil press
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.173541@aifh.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 17:35:41 GMT
- References: <Greenpeace.19Jan1993.0937@naughty-peahen> <Greenpeace.19Jan1993.2006@naughty-peahen> <1993Jan20.045415.4178@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <1993Jan21.105316.12424@aisb.ed.ac.uk> <90524@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>
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- Organization: Dept of AI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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- In article <90524@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>, mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM
- (Mark Wilson) writes:
- # In <1993Jan21.105316.12424@aisb.ed.ac.uk> jamesh@aisb.ed.ac.uk (James
- Hammerton) writes:
- #
- # |In the global warming report, there is documented two cars; the first
- # |from volvo does 71mpg, the second 92 mpg from peugeot. Also I remember
- # |reading about an interesting design in the press a year or so back where
- # |there was a combined diesel electric engine. While the car was running
- # |at steady speeds the electric engine did most of the work. During
- # |braking the battery was charged, whilst accelerating the diesel comes
- # |into play. The mpg rating claimed was around 100mpg, I think it was
- # |Volkswagen that made the car.
- #
- # Are these real world cars, or cars that were designed to maximize mileage
- # at the expense of everything else.
-
- At the moment I don't have the details with me, I'll do a second reply to
- this which will give them(The details are in the Greenpeace Global Warming
- report).However I would like to point out that, even if it is the case that
- they maximised mileage at the expense of other qualities, the fact that such
- a high mpg is possible suggests that the 30 odd mpg we get now on average
- could be significantly increased without doing so.
-
- James
-
-
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- * James Hammerton * If Pascal is equivalent to the *
- * Email: jamesh@uk.ac.ed.aisb * mini-metro,then ML is the concept *
- * * car where steering is done *
- * * recursively using the gearstick. *
-