Prototyping Zinc/Mg - Air w/ Harbor Tugs

Aug 12, 2008 3 Replies
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A couple years ago an Israeli company was working on zinc or magnesium "fuel" systems for motor vehicles. The additional weight would be like an additional person in the vehicle -- not a biggie. The real problem was it would require an infrastructure, governmental action, etc. to be practical for road transportation.



I posted that it would be easier to prototype the system with something that never went very far and always returned to a home base where the oxides could be collected and sent for reprocessing.



After it's demonstrated then it could be pushed for motor vehicles.


Bret Cahill



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Problem with prototyping it for short distance runs is that it might not scale up for long distances and if you don\'t have a market for the production version of the short-run prototype then you\'re SOL and, if your marks bought into your hare-brained scheme, all you\'ll have done is wasted someone else\'s time and money. But that\'s no skin off your teeth, is it? JF
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"all you\'ll have done is wasted someone else\'s time and money while they supported you." is what I meant to say. But perhaps even "all you\'ll have done is knowingly wasted someone else\'s time and money while they supported you." might be apropos. JF
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Why not?

You need to go back to reading Harliquin romance novels.

Bret Cahill

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