- 1. Car of your future? (score: 1)
- Author: Wester Potter <wester6935@comcast.net>
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:06:18 -0600
- Wester Potter Media Relations Utah Salt Flats Racing Association
- /html/land-speed/2006-08/msg00403.html (7,606 bytes)
- 2. Re: Car of your future? (score: 1)
- Author: drmayf <drmayf@mayfco.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:47:09 -0700
- Wes, Wes Wes... we will still need their oil to make electricity to make hydrogen for the fuel cell. There is no free lunch unfortunately. Hydrogen is only a power storage medium and it costs as much
- /html/land-speed/2006-08/msg00406.html (8,252 bytes)
- 3. Re: Car of your future? (score: 1)
- Author: "joseph lance" <jolylance@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:53:20 -0400
- We don't use oil to make electricity--we use coal, nuclear, natural gas, hydro, wind/solar(very small), in that diminishing order. Today, most of the electricity to make hydrogen would come from coal
- /html/land-speed/2006-08/msg00410.html (9,559 bytes)
- 4. Re: Car of your future? (score: 1)
- Author: "joseph lance" <jolylance@earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:40:47 -0400
- Only a very small % of electric utility plants have ever been fired with oil. Natural gas fired plants got very popular because environmental regs made new coal plants expensive and NG plants in the
- /html/land-speed/2006-08/msg00412.html (9,656 bytes)
- 5. Re: Car of your future? (score: 1)
- Author: "Rich Fox" <v4gr@rcn.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 06:33:01 -0700
- I could be wrong again, but I am pretty sure those big GE CF-6 motors driving the generators at SFO were burning Jet-A. Some of the other ones that PG&E runs may have burned natural gas, I don't know
- /html/land-speed/2006-08/msg00415.html (7,847 bytes)
- 6. Re: Car of your future? (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Wennerberg <jon@infodestruction.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:24:04 -0400
- Let's change "have ever been" to "nowadays are". Diesel plants used to be common -- before natural gas was in wide distribution, diesel (okay, oil-fired) reciprocating engine plants were the best bet
- /html/land-speed/2006-08/msg00417.html (8,164 bytes)
- 7. Re: Car of your future? (score: 1)
- Author: Bryan Savage <b.a.savage@wildblue.net>
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:27:43 -0700
- Gasoline is $8.00 a gallon in the UK now and they haven't even started to switch to Hydrogen. I wonder what it will take here.. $20.00 a gallon?? Bryan
- /html/land-speed/2006-08/msg00418.html (9,124 bytes)
- 8. Re: Car of your future? (score: 1)
- Author: James Tone <gmc6power@earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:28:55 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
- The Southern California Edison company had all but 2 of there power plants able to run on oil...We ran them that way for years and kept the price of electricity in check...We did this by using the oi
- /html/land-speed/2006-08/msg00419.html (8,096 bytes)
- 9. Fw: Car of your future? (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:49:26 -0700
- FWD with appropriate editing. -- Original Message -- From: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net> To: "joseph lance" <jolylance@earthlink.net>; "drmayf" <drmayf@mayfco.com>; "Wester Potter" <wester6935@
- /html/land-speed/2006-08/msg00421.html (8,475 bytes)
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