History of the automobile

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I’m watching a pbs show called GREAT CARS and its currently showing the history of the automobile. I’m amazed that a STEAM car was first in 1884. And it got up to 34mph!!!

Wow this is interesting. It also showed the drawbacks of not having devoloped the sparkplug yet – the open flame

I’m generally a docubuff and like this stuff. if you have any favorite links on the subject why not post them here???

Kevin

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[Garibaldi]

When is that on, I may have to check it out! Sounds like an interesting show!

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I think it was 11am local time on Sundays. As they say “CHECK YOUR LOCAL LISTINGS”

Kevin

[Garibaldi]

Thanks Kevin, that gives me a day to gear in on. I’ll check it out and see if I can find it.

[Anonymous]

Many decades ago I read that if you could open the
throttle wide-open on a Stanley Steamer you could have
the car for free.

I don’t know if that’s true but steam is VERY powerful.

Here’s something to think about……………

You are supposed to keep water out of a diesel engine
or the injectors, or the engine, could explode.

Well, if water is powerful enough to destroy the engine, why not just control
the amount of water, and run the engine on water!

I’ve been wanting to try that for 10 years but I don’t have
a diesel that I can play with.

Fortunately other people are thinking the same thing. I’ve found
some talk about it on the internet, but of course the nay-sayers
always have to shoot the idea down.

Anybody wanting to try it should watch the
movie ‘The Water Engine’ first!!! icon_eek.gif icon_eek.gif icon_eek.gif

Yikes! icon_sad.gif

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Actually the WATER ENGINE is next door to the WARP DRIVE at AREA 51

Kevin

[Garibaldi]

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Hi,

Actually the WATER ENGINE is next door to the WARP DRIVE at AREA 51

Kevin

:haha:

@Shadow, I’d be interested to see if you could pull that off. It would provide a much cleaner and more environmentally safe form of energy for our vehicles! I’ve also heard of this “sponge” that a guy invented that absorbs hydrogen. When the hydrogen is absorbed into the sponge it is NOT volatile! If this could be used in hydrogen powered cars it may provide the solution to safe hydrogen fuel sources!

[Anonymous]

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Hi,

Actually the WATER ENGINE is next door to the WARP DRIVE at AREA 51

Kevin

Hi Yoda! icon_biggrin.gif

[Anonymous]

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@Shadow, I’d be interested to see if you could pull that off. It would provide a much cleaner and more environmentally safe form of energy for our vehicles!

That’s why I mentioned that the movie ‘The Water Engine’
should be watched. It’s very disturbing, showing that it’s
nearly impossible to implement changes in the way we
use or buy fuel.

Now, on to the water diesel.

The compression ratio in a diesel is much higher than in a
gas engine.

When the air is compressed it is VERY hot. Then the diesel
fuel is injected, and when it hits the HOT air, it explodes.

Well, if water was injected it should turn to steam. It might
be ‘flash steam’.

There would be problems, like rust. Ceramics and stainless
steel would solve that peoblem.

I don’t know if the water diesel could actually propel a vehicle,
but it might work in a diesel-electric hybrid. That’s what
locomotives are, and we know how POWERFUL those are!

Okay, who has a diesel engine that they want to fill with water?!!! icon_sad.gif

[Garibaldi]

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@Shadow, I’d be interested to see if you could pull that off. It would provide a much cleaner and more environmentally safe form of energy for our vehicles!

That’s why I mentioned that the movie ‘The Water Engine’
should be watched. It’s very disturbing, showing that it’s
nearly impossible to implement changes in the way we
use or buy fuel.

Now, on to the water diesel.

The compression ratio in a diesel is much higher than in a
gas engine.

When the air is compressed it is VERY hot. Then the diesel
fuel is injected, and when it hits the HOT air, it explodes.

Well, if water was injected it should turn to steam. It might
be ‘flash steam’.

There would be problems, like rust. Ceramics and stainless
steel would solve that peoblem.

I don’t know if the water diesel could actually propel a vehicle,
but it might work in a diesel-electric hybrid. That’s what
locomotives are, and we know how POWERFUL those are!

Okay, who has a diesel engine that they want to fill with water?!!! icon_sad.gif

That makes sense. I know the specific heat for water changing from a liquid to a gas is somewhere around 2900 J, compare that to only 334 J for a change from solid to liquid. This means there is a lot more potential energy in steam, perhaps this could be exploited to at the very least (like you said) work in a hybrid system.

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