5 million miles per gallon
I’m one of the few conservatives who actually support alternative fuels for vehicles. Well, I’m sure there are quite a few of us out there, but we toward the right get a bad rap. So, I wonder if the ESA will be adapting this technology for Range Rovers or Hummers any time soon?
The spacecraft used only 130 pounds of the 181 pounds of xenon fuel it had aboard, according to European Space Agency spokesman Franco Bonacina in Paris. That translates to more than 5 million miles per gallon.
It might take 13 months to get where we’re going, but 5 million miles is a lot to get per gallon! Oh well, I guess as long as we keep not having zero-g on I-40, those ion drives won’t be practical.
Update: Speaking of engine upgrades, the scramjet is one step closer towards an installation in my Miata…
November 16th, 2004 at 11:30 pm
Of course, the most important question is how are you going to get the miata up to speed to fire up the scramjet? Perhaps go-fast stripes and a big spoiler would help. [/tongue in cheek]
November 17th, 2004 at 2:58 pm
I a with you on the alternative fuels.
I think the federal goverment should encourage the use or fules such as EV85 (i think i have that right)
encourage is not fund.
Try giving tax breaks (or better yet don’t pay taxes at all) to the infant alternative fuel industry.
They did that with the internet, and look how fast that took off.
November 17th, 2004 at 3:43 pm
I just find it amazing that after over 100 years of making internal combustion engines, we’ve not come up with anything else. Where’s the innovation?