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Re: Electrolysis Car of Yesterday

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From: Duke McMullan n5gax
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 1990 19:43
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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



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