From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Thu Mar 16 2000 - 00:36:40 PST
Ernest N. Prabhakar writes:
> * The internal combustion engine won over steam buggies.
It also won over electrical. Granted, they only had lead-acid in these
days, but the fuel cell effect has been discovered several decades
before.
Would you really think that a Carnot process based ICU engine has on
the long run a chance better chance than a snowball in hell, if
pitched against electrochemical power, with its many interesting
synergies?
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