FW: Alternative energy and energy conservation - automotive

[Cascone, Ronald]

Neal: What is the fuel for this car?

 

Ron

 

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Subject: Re: Alternative energy and energy conservation - automotive

 

In a message dated 3/1/2007 8:29:45 A.M. Central Standard Time, rcas...@nexant.com writes:

Neal: Wow! Very impressive. Sounds as if this would be world changing. Have you contacted the automotive majors? The DOE?  Has there been press coverage? A formal report? I may want to cite this in one or more reports we are doing.

 

Ron

 

Ron, the school with whom we worked is South Spencer County HS in Rockport, IN. Our main man on the job was Ray Neihause and his advisor was Bob Hardy. The student leader of the project was Michael Martin who was awarded a full engineering scholarship for his work.  His a great kid and will go far.  Below is the Official State of Indiana results of our 2004 competition.  Nobody got very excited about it at the time.

 

As I said, the car did better the next year.  This was a high school competition in Indiana. The college competition is nationwide and has more impressive results yet.  However, as with some of our other projects, we tend to commercialize our results rather than allow them to be purely theoretical. We are doing just that with our gasifier and other less spectacular technologies.  We hope to be able to build this car as an urban commuter.

 

Our company is approved by the US Dept of Transportation to write original certificates of title for motor vehicles. We can build this car and issue a title to it ourselves.  We had to achieve this status for one of our more infamous projects. We designed and built the first of those awful 2 wheel trailers that have a radar gun and LED panel to tell you your driving speed relative to the posted speed limit.  We built those for 2 years as the exclusive manufacturer after we came up with the design. We did not patent it and so it is now made by anybody who has a welder and a desire.  But if you ask anybody why they are designed just they way they are, they won't know. We did it.

 

Neal Van Milligen

www.kentuckyenrichment.com

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Official Results of the 2004 IMSTEA Super Mileage Challenge

 

Stock Class

 

Pos.     No.                  School                                     MPG

 

1          87        South Spencer High School                  1525.62

2          12        Mater Dei High School             1211.94

3          46        South Dearborn High School                752.26

4          59        Wawasee High School              711.43

5          6          Greenfield Central High School 707.21

6          32        Mishawaka High School                       506.65

7          52        Lafayette Jefferson High School            407.37

8          65        Chesterton High School                        366.97

9          20        Terre Haute South Vigo H. S.               356.97

10        37        Carroll High School                              343.36

11        45        South Adams Vocational Auto  339.82

12        84        North Daviess High School                   265.36

13        64        South Newton High School                   227.08

14        47        Westview High School              217.48

15        72        Warsaw High School                            207.53

16        40        Jac-Cen-Del High School                     181.27

17        25        Eastern Greene High School                 167.76

18        89        Bellmont High School               161.62

19        68        Whitko High School                             142.25

20        71        Evansville Bosse High School    130.16

21        83        New Castle High School                       121.97

22        76        West Noble High School                      115.89

 

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In a message dated 3/1/2007 2:56:14 P.M. Central Standard Time, rcas...@nexant.com writes:

Neal: What is the fuel for this car?

The rules required that we use gasoline.

 

This was basically a demonstration of high tech air flow modeling, light weight components, reduced friction, and restraint in construction to avoid unnecessary weight. Our production model would add some weight for a self starting engine, more power, a heater for the driver compartment and some other comforts.  This would reduce the MPG but still be a very good commuter car.

 

I should add that these vehicles were 3 wheelers, as you might have noticed on the various web pages for these events. That allows us to be classed as motorcycles for federal and state purposes. The driver and passenger would have to follow motorcycle rules when on the road.

 

We used two wheels forward and one in the rear for power.  The engine is in the rear.

 

I would like to make a hybrid out of this design and use the engine to power a modest battery bank sitting forward.  It might even be practical to use a very small diesel engine to operate a generator for the batteries. In that case we could use veg oil, or some manifestation of it,  as the fuel.

 

I can picture Paul Olivier scooting about rural Vietnam in one of these waving to the guys on motor bikes who would be getting less than half of his MPG.

 

Neal