veggie oil?? -->> Try Water ?

[Steve Sears]

Why did I just do "air quotes" when I read the word "laser" in that article.
Sharks with frickin' lasers on their heads! mooohooohahahahahaha!
Maybe Rasmussen had it right the first time in 1916 when he started DKW -
which stood for Dampf (steam) Kraft (powered) Wagen (car) - which was, a 2
ton steam-driven car.....he just needed to add some "lasers"
Cheers!
Steve Sears
1987 Audi 5kTQ - looks like Mr Bigglesworth after the cryo-freezing (V8 hood
and 200 front doors on, work continues....)
1980 Audi 5k - would brake for Felicity Shagwell - if the brakes worked
1962 and '64 Auto Union DKW Junior deLuxes - lasers arrived today (actually,
original euro-headlights....but I could mount lasers in 'em....)

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> "WATER: THE ULTIMATE  PROPELLANT
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> "Will water be the fuel of the future to power aircraft and spacecraft?
>
> "If so, mankind will be employing a technology of
> the god's and, as in other fields, modern science
> will be only catching up with ancient knowledge.
>
> "The news of the possible use of water as an
> abundant and clean resource as the "fuel" for jet
> propulsion comes from the Tokyo Institute of
> Technology that has been developing technologies
> for powering small un-piloted planes by
> subjecting their "engines" to laser beams fired
> from the ground or from satellites.  In what has
> been hailed as a great success, the Tokyo team
> reported in the June 10 issue of Applied Physics
> that they made a tiny paper "plane" fly by
> subjecting its "motor" of aluminum plates to
> laser beams.  Causing minute amounts of the metal
> to vaporize, a jet stream was achieved that cause
> the plane to soar.
>
> "The experiment thus attained the trick of
> creating an ejected jet of some mass that pushed
> the plane forward.  In regular jet planes, the
> jet is created by burning petroleum fuel and
> ejecting the hot gas.  In the Tokyo experiment,
> the heat was provided by the laser beam, the jet
> by the evaporated aluminum.  To scale the
> propulsion system up to full size, Takashi Yabe,
> head of the Tokyo team, proposed using water as
> the propellant.    Water can be harvested from
> the atmosphere as the plane files,? he said.
> Reporting the experiment and the water-use idea,
> the journal New Scientist (15 June 2002)
> illustrated the futuristic "water engine? "
> ........  "
>
> http://www.20kweb.com/weird_stuff/water_the_ultimate_propellant.html
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> -- 
> Cheers,  Fay
>
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