[Land-speed] Buckeye Bullet

Wester Potter wester6935 at comcast.net
Tue Sep 29 13:32:45 MDT 2009


No!  The deciding factor is what is used to drive the wheels of the  
vehicle,  Would you classify the Vesco Turbinator as gasolin/jet  
fueled powered or as a turbine no matter what the fuel that was used.

Wes

On Sep 29, 2009, at 12:04 PM, drmayf wrote:

> Let me add some more fuel to the discussion. Let's consider steam.   
> If the analogy between steam and electric or hydrogen is permitted  
> then a steam powered vehicle should be listed as what ever was used  
> to generate the steam, steam being the equivalent of electrons.   
> Then the record for the steam car would be listed as a fuel car and  
> classified somehow in that classification.  Steam, as are electrons,  
> the media which powers the final drive. So if a steam car is a  
> "steam car" then both the buckeye bullet and the Ford Fusion should  
> be reclassified as electric cars since final drive power was  
> electricity.   What if the steam car had used hydrogen to fuel th  
> eburnes that made the steam? Would i thave been classified as a  
> hydrogen fuel car? Can't have it both ways, I am thinking..
>
> mayf
> drmayf wrote:


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