Didn't you guys forget Rick Byrnes and the Ford. He went 200 with a hydrogen
power vehicle.
GB
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From: "drmayf" <drmayf@mayfco.com>
To: "LSR" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:29 AM
Subject: [Land-speed] Buckeye Bullet
> 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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