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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (124128)	9/18/2000 2:24:40 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) of 1572711

Dear Dan: Currently automakers use robots to spray paint onto your car, make welds, etc. The job of finding a fueling point can be made very easy. You add to the tasks performed by the on board computer (in your car) to send via RF or IR, the position of the fueling point, the make of it (probably standardized on one form allowed (like one used in aircraft or racing cars)), and the pumps arm merely rises to the correct height and body position (could get a magnetic signal or beacon (possibly GPS) to make it really simple)) and activate the connection actuator. This would supply the LiH, suck any boil off gas back to the cyro storage unit, and maintain a solid grounding. The majority of the cost would be on the pump unit (station owned) and thus cheap for the car owner. Maybe from less than a dollar (true price of gasoline fuel point to $100 at most (remember economies of scale would reduce this to $10 or less)). Do you know how much those gasoline pumps go for now (the vapor recovery ones of course)? Adding a robotic arm for fueling is not that hard. Making the position standard on cars and trucks (to reduce costs of arm is harder but doable) is the hard part but, we are starting with a clean slate (any engineer will tell you that if, the design was done now, the current system would not be acceptable and would need to be changed). You can get a robotic arm for under $1K that could do the job and the actuator would probably run $3K to $5K depending on the design requirements (when robotic vision becomes an off the shelf item, this price would be even cheaper and much more doable). A saturday night special (gun) does not sound economical either to a 17th century nobleman who just paid the equivalent to $1 million (in today's dollars) on his dueling pistols but, you can get them for $10 or so. Do you include documentaries as well since, they are movies too? Pete

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