Why not ask the FIA who classified the vehicle?
DW
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--- On Tue, 9/29/09, drmayf <drmayf@mayfco.com> wrote:
From: drmayf <drmayf@mayfco.com>
Subject: [Land-speed] Buckeye Bullet
To: "LSR" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 8:29 AM
Dale Pulju sent me a note about the Buckeye Bullet setting a record of 300 +
mph with Hydrogen. Now this brings an interesting question or two. But first,
I say well done to that effort! Now the questions: they had previously set a
record using batteries. Batteries are electric storage devices. So the record
was listed as an electrical record. Good enough I say. But now another record
is claimed as a hydrogen record. Yet the car's drive system was electrical.
Hydrogen (actually hydrogen and oxygen mix) was used to produce electricity
which powered the car. So was the original record using batteries really a
gasoline record because the batteries that supplied the power were charged via
some generator? Or Nuke because the electrons came from that? With the H2O2
and the fuel cells generating electrons I believe that the record is really an
electrical one. Think hard about this. Do the rule making authorities need
new definitions of what
actually powers a vehicle? Take a hybrid vehicle. Doesn't the gasoline
motor provide most of the power? If so, why is it called a hybrid? If I could
put a gasoline powered generator in a car and use the gen power to run the
electric motor that drives the wheels, would that be electrical or fossil fuel
powered? It cannot run without gasoline so is it defined as a petroleum
powered car or electrical. Isn't that what a hybrid is? Me, I think that the
drive mechanism has to be primarily fueled by something directly and that
should be the definition. for instance the car that Jesse James used had a
true hydrogen motor. The fuel was directly powering the vehicle. The Ford
Fusion and the Buckeye Bullet used electric drive to move the vehicle and I
think that is electrical. Not hydrogen.
Any thoughtful comments out there? I am sitting here waiting for parts....
mayf
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