Infinite Energy Magazine is taken seriously. It's editor, Mallove, was one of the best and brightest at MIT who left MIT because of the manner in which cold fusion research was dealt with there. The French and Japanese, last I heard, were still spending money on this line of research, so that the first Pons-Fleischmann mobile you see will probably say Toyota or Mitsubishi on it rather than Ford or GM.
My brother occasionally attends antique car shows and auctions and tells me he's had a Stanley Steamer up to 105 mph in the Chicago area and had to shut it down for fear the old-tech tires wouldn't handle it very long; the idea of a steam-powered car isn't all that alien a thing.
They fired him?
My brother occasionally attends antique car shows and auctions and tells me he's had a Stanley Steamer up to 105 mph in the Chicago area and had to shut it down for fear the old-tech tires wouldn't handle it very long; the idea of a steam-powered car isn't all that alien a thing.
I was not attacking steam-powered cars. Why do you even inject this?
Steam cars are perfectly feasible but not particularly competitive with later technologies, compared to which they are inefficient and dangerous. Just for one thing, no matter what you heat the water with, you have to carry a lot of water or make lots of stops for same.
Your brother wasn't just risking a wreck. He might have learned something about steam burns had he popped a gasket. (Assuming Stanleys even had gaskets.)
Steam cars are not so much alien as anachronistic.