Only if the wood contains shell and shrapnel fragments from any war you care
to name!
Kit Hildreth
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">From: Scott Seidler <sseidler@easterndatacomm.com>
>Reply-To: Scott Seidler <sseidler@easterndatacomm.com>
>To: "John F. Bates" <jfbjd@swbell.net>, morgans@autox.team.net
>Subject: RE: Zero pollution: 40,000 of them for the Mexican government
>Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 17:11:23 -0500
>
>Ok at this point I think Art Hart should chime in and talk about a car that
>uses a renewable resource (aka: wood) as fuel. Of course you tree-hugger
>Morganites will pile out of the perverbial woodwork to protect those old
>growth forests!!!
>Will it ever end?
>
>--Scott
>56 +4 4 Seat (more or less)
>
>Scott Seidler
>Senior Network Engineer, Sales.
>Eastern DataComm, Inc.
>Phone: 201-457-3311
>Fax: 201-457-1811
>
>www.morgan34.org
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John F. Bates [mailto:jfbjd@swbell.net]
>Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 3:43 PM
>To: morgans@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: Zero pollution: 40,000 of them for the Mexican government
>
>
>The analysis, imho, really should be how efficiently the entire system,
>including the auto, uses energy. This compressed air car takes a quantum of
>energy in the form of electricity, and uses it to compress the air. Then
>it
>releases the air to drive the auto. The power plant efficiency, and the
>compressor's have to be factored in to the picture. The power plant's
>efficiency should reflect the cost of obtaining the fuel and the disposal
>of
>waste products.
>The conventional auto uses refined fuel, the cost of transportation, etc.
>reflected in its price. The cost of disposal of its waste products needs to
>include the cost of pollution, which seems hard to quantify, and needs to
>be
>balanced with the same concerns regarding the stationary power plants the
>air car relies upon.
>You may find that the air car loses out on the energy efficiency, and only
>moves the pollution "upstream" to the power plant.
>I agree with Fred Sisson in that the older cars have already created their
>impact on the environment when built, and if kept up, will have impact only
>where their concentrations are high.
>Of course, Morgans utilize a renewable resource, wood, to a large degree,
>so
>if you build new cars, more of them should be Morgans.:) John F. Bates 56
>+4, other lesser vehicles
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