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Re: Sterling Engine
Posted by Patrick Dingle at 03/08/2001 7:04 PM EST
Coach on team #639, Red B^2, from Ithaca High School and Cornell University.
In Reply to: Sterling Engine
Posted by Gary Bonner on 03/08/2001 1:06 PM EST:
Some say the combustable engine was one of the greatest inventions of all time. It was an important an necessary step in the progression of technology, but I will be more than happy to see it go.
Some of the biproducts in gasoline can give us lung cancer. I feel bad for the people in big cities that breath it in every day. Combustion engines spew CO2 into the atmosphere in huge quantities, far more than forests and the ocean can absorb. This has caused global warming, and will quickly get worse until these engines are eliminated. Gasoline supplies will eventually run out.
What really irritates me is how politicians don't care about this problem (they all say they do, but they're all hypocrites). With the high gasoline prices, they did not talk about exploring alternatives to gasoline, but opening up parts of Alaska for drilling.
THANK YOU Dean Kamen and DEKA for addressing this important problem. If a car comes out that runs on a modification of the Sterling Engine, I will be among the first to buy it. Hopefully costs will be low enough that combustion engines will forever disappear. Next, let's get rid of all the power plants that use combustion as a means to produce power. Unfortanutely this invention will cause a HUGE shift in the world economy, and many countries will lose their one and only primary export -- gasoline. However, the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks.
Dean Kamen is eliminating all the negative sides of technology.
Patrick
: Also for what it's worth....
: I received a copy of the latest Edmund's Scientific catalog today. On the cover they have a sterling engine that runs on a hot cup of coffee.
: Time to sell that Exxon stock and invest in Starbucks?
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