Re: Air conditioning question

[Michael Hogan <mikhogan@stic.net>]

Diesel locomotives, power-plants, and some riverboat ferries do exactly
this.  But I don't believe its practical in an automobile...

Michael Hogan
87CGT


>Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 09:18:49 -0400
>From: John Cunningham <johnc@together.net>
>Subject: Re: Air conditioning question
>
>it just seems to me that it would never make sense to convert to a system
with
>significant additional frictional and heat energy losses from an
unnecessary set
>of steps:
>
>- - making electricity from kinetic energy with a big alt.
>- - converting the electricity back to kinetic energy with an electric motor
>
>johnc