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- From: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers)
- Subject: Re: All-wheel drive???
- Message-ID: <C1F8H4.M6w@javelin.sim.es.com>
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- Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
- References: <1jnmm3$qkg@agate.berkeley.edu> <ramage.727704451@tesla>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:55:52 GMT
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- ramage@ece.scarolina.edu (Dan Ramage) writes:
- >robinson@cogsci.berkeley.edu (Michael Robinson) writes:
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- >>He claims he saw an old Spagthorpe prototype that had a driven front wheel.
- >>It was a water-cooled bike, but instead of a radiator, it had sort of a
- >>boiler affair. They ran steam lines down the front forks to a steam
- >>turbine in the front hub (the hub apparently looked sort of like a
- >>front drum brake type deal). The clever part was the centrifugal vane
- >>advance on the turbine which would adjust the vanes for maximum torque
- >>when stopped, and maximum power at speed.
-
- >>I was sort of skeptical, but he explained the reasoning behind it: an
- >>internal combustion engine is only about 70% efficient, with the rest
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >No where even close. An internal combustion engine is around 30%
- >efficient and that is probably a little high.
-
- Is this the net's first serious followup to a Spagthorpe article?
- Congratulations on your catch Michael, are you going to mount him in the
- den, or just hang him on the wall in your garage?
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- Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com BIX:blaine_g
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