Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!unmvax!ariel.unm.edu!hydra.unm.edu!ee5391aa From: ee5391aa@hydra.unm.edu (Duke McMullan n5gax) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Electrolysis Car of Yesterday Message-ID: <1990Nov18.194346.15184@ariel.unm.edu> Date: 18 Nov 90 19:43:46 GMT References: <1990Nov17.213701.25601@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <4086@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Sender: news@ariel.unm.edu (USENET News System) Distribution: usa Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 25 In article <4086@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> minsky@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) writes: >One problem, though. When going up steep hills the motor gets >awfully, and the generator gets very cold. I'm worried that something ^ Insert?: "hot" >will go wrong. Any suggestions? Sure, Marv. What you do, is attach each to a good, insulated heat sink with an embedded heat pipe, and run the two heat pipes to a thermocouple. Use the derived juice to power a small carbon-arc, through which air is propelled. This should generate sufficient carbon and nitrogen oxides to allow you to bring the car UP to emissions standards. Still, I'm not sure just WHY you're getting that heat transfer. I've thought about it a good bit, and it sounds to me like a good AI problem. There ought to be someone around MIT who knows something about that.... d -- "I purr, therefore I am." -- Rene Decates Duke McMullan n5gax nss13429r phon505-255-4642 ee5391aa@hydra.unm.edu