Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!apple!voder!pyramid!amdcad!brahms!phil From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) Newsgroups: ba.transportation,ca.environment,sci.electronics Subject: Re: Electric Dreams Message-ID: <1990Sep22.013414.12644@amd.com> Date: 22 Sep 90 01:34:14 GMT References: <38776@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1990Sep21.191817.9215@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Sender: usenet@amd.com (NNTP Posting) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc; Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 17 In article <1990Sep21.191817.9215@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> ghhart@eos.ncsu.edu (GREGORY HUGHES HART) writes: |BELIEVE it was Chrysler, but I'm not sure...the problem with this, and |any other alternative vehicle, is that the car companies have no reason |to change to another design when the old gasoline engine is making money |for them now...Ford even came out with a WORKING 200+ horspower Stirling |engine, but never got it past the research stage because it would cost |money to switch over to the new design... And of course, we know those lazy Japanese would never bother coming out with something better as long as the Americans aren't offering it. (sarcasm, for the understanding impaired) -- Phil Ngai, phil@amd.com {uunet,decwrl,ucbvax}!amdcad!phil Freedom is dead, long live privacy!