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To: Hawkeye who wrote (1822)	3/12/1998 12:28:00 AM
From: Stephen O	Respond to of 5827

I have just read an article from Manchester Guardian dated Feb 8th, 98 about a French engineer who has invented an urban car that runs on compressed air. The mexican company DINA will mass produce 40,000 ZP taxis and urban delivery vehicles a year. The ZP stands for zero pollution. One tank full vehicle ran for 10 hours with top speed of 100kmh. House electricity will fill tank in 4 hours using small compressor in the car. Apparently Mexico chose this design by mr Negre after mexican authorities did tests on dozens of electric and other non polluting experimental vehicles. Car is also being studied by the Netherlands. Another advantage is a carbon filtering system which filters polluted air sucked in during braking and exhales purified air later. Does anyone know anything about this? It seems a very simple solution, so who would then need Ballard and its fuel cells other than for stationary electricity generation.

To: Hawkeye who wrote (1822)	3/12/1998 2:32:00 AM
From: Gary105	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 5827

Hawk or anyone, can you point me to the A.D. Little release on converting gasoline to hydrogen?? Any idea of what happens to the carbon? From what very little I've read thus far the carbon is converted to CO during steam reforming and then the CO is selectively catalytically oxidized to CO2 (again this is very cursory and I may be wrong). My question is whether or not and how the heat in the carbon conversion is captured? For example maybe a portion is used to generate steam for reforming. Ideally I'm looking for an energy balance starting with the raw fuel and ending with the electric output of the fuel cell. Thanks, Gary