Steam Cars

Managed to get a shot of two Doble type E steam cars on the highway. They weren't hanging around either. The silver one allegedly belonged to Howard Hughes.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Doble
• steam
• car
• Howard
• Hughes

[Myrtone]

Those late steam cars look more like petrol powered cars than steam locomotives look like diesel ones.

[gilbertgotaroot]

@Myrtone I'm lead to believe the Dobels are actually running on Petrol in this footage, quite efficiently too I might add.

[JustSomePerson888]

@gilbertgotaroot - it didn't lose out to gasoline / petrol, the Model-T for example was built to run on vegetable fuel. today called biodiesel and no different to vegetable cooking oils.

the anti-hemp conspiracy contributed to use of oil petroleum and diesels being used instead of alcohol and vegetable fuels from plant crops.

[JustSomePerson888]

why are there suggestions here steam cars ran on fuel besides water. are they talking about the initial water heating? that could be done with batteries today. similar to a tea urn.

[r8wing]

@gilbertgotaroot

Of course there isn't any carbon monoxide (CO) because the burning is complete, at low pressure in a rich oxygen environment, but there's plenty of carbon DIOXIDE (CO2), which is quite normal given the conditions.

[gilbertgotaroot]

@r8wing I spoke with the owner of one of the Dobels and he said that there was no carbon monoxide produced in the combustion process. Jay Leno's also done several interviews regarding the emissions. There is no CO produced.

[r8wing]

@gilbertgotaroot

Then it doesn't count as exhaust, does it? Of course not all the oxygen feed into the burner takes part in the reaction regardless of what type of combustion is used. Anyways, when you burn hydrocarbons you get carbon dioxide, there's no way around it. You may also get nitrous oxide, carbon monoxide and a hundred other compounds, but water and CO2 are for sure.

[gilbertgotaroot]

@r8wing The O2 coming out of the exhaust pipe is not produced in the reaction, it is excess from the turbo charger.

I suggest you check out Jay Leno's material on the Dobels, he's published a lot of it.

[r8wing]

@gilbertgotaroot

You've got it all wrong on combustion. Complete combustion produces CO2 and H2O and is the ideal situation. Incomplete combustion - which occurs when there isn't enough oxygen to combine with all carbon and hydrogen atoms available in the fuel - may yield carbon, carbon monoxide and unburnt hydrocarbons, and is not desirable because it generates a lot of pollution and insufficient heat. To state that combustion generates OXYGEN is ludicrous to the extreme.

[gilbertgotaroot]

@r8wing That's actually incorrect, ~1 gallon of water was required ever 1,500 miles. The large volume of water was used to maintain cooling and ensure supply. As for the emissions, complete combustion produces CO2 and H2O in an oxygen rich environment. In a pressurised/high velocity/oxygen rich environment, complete combustion produces C2, O2 and H2O with small quantities of CO2. All Dobles pass modern emission standards as they produce negligible CO2.