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Lemon Power!!!!

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:21 pm
by Hancockshire
We all know & love the lemon battery, so what if there was a train powered by such scientific fuel?

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:23 pm
by laalratty
Not that I've heared of, but i''m sure someone will try and have a go now it has been suggested. I suspect that the current will be too low to move an engine though, let alone pull a train

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:59 pm
by made-in-england
laalratty wrote:Not that I've heared of, but i''m sure someone will try and have a go now it has been suggested. I suspect that the current will be too low to move an engine though, let alone pull a train
He said lemons, lets not bring the rasins into it!

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:12 pm
by mhlr
I think you would need a hell of a lot of lemons for that to work!!! And with all that weight, the power to weight ratio would still be completely the wrong way around!

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:05 pm
by DLRdan
i aggree with pete, it might be a bit of a lemon. Just remember time flys like an arrow and fruit flys like a banana

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:47 am
by Hancockshire
Ok, but what about those old Hotwheels cars that you put your fave drink in it & it goes?

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:59 pm
by mhlr
Hancockshire wrote:Ok, but what about those old Hotwheels cars that you put your fave drink in it & it goes?
very low power... you would never make a train move with it.

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:06 pm
by Dr. Bond of the DVLR
I dunno, If anyone would pay me I would try it!! And besides it might onely be an inspection trolly on something, or could be the dredded cousain of bluebell the rail car!!

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:40 pm
by SLRmidge
Mr. Bond of the DVLR wrote: And besides it might onely be an inspection trolly on something, or could be the dredded cousain of bluebell the rail car!!
'Bluebottle' please :lol:

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:57 pm
by Dr. Bond of the DVLR
'Bluebottle' please
Ooops sorry! What would the lemon powered cousain be called I wonder?!

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:59 pm
by LMS-Jools
"Lemon Squeezy Bottle"

perhaps  :roll:

Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:39 pm
by laalratty
Right people, I have split away the stuff about lemon squeezy bottle and Davros to the off topic sction, so that you can carry on about doctor who without the chance of anyone moaning about it being off topic.
The new topic is here
http://gardenrails.myfreeforum.org/view ... 7784#17784

Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 5:14 pm
by SLRmidge
But my Bluebottle now runs on lemon juice :roll:

Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:00 pm
by LMS-Jools
Bring back the Lemon Squeezy Bottle

you tyrannical dictator you ! :evil:

lol

Lemons and Coffee

Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 8:41 pm
by Crackingjob
There have been soda powered ones, wind ,compressed air etc...even one powered by a stirling engine (found that in an old SMT magazine)

but Coffee!!!!

Apparently many years ago in Brazil they had too much and a fall in world prices, and coffee was being dumped until they compressed it in to bricks and used it in locos.

Crackingjob
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Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 10:17 pm
by DLRdan
one brick or two :lol:

Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:42 pm
by cjallenby
Those fish must have ha a mega caffine rush after it got dumped in the sea!

Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 12:07 am
by Pendo Pilot
Sorry to dig up an old topic but....

Lemon power then, ok so the amount of lemons needed to move train power/weight issue. How about lemon power supplying power via overhead wires. Then the loco could be made really light?

Just an idea anyway/

Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 12:40 am
by Narrow Minded
You could always rig up some sort of hamster wheel :D

Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 9:22 am
by DolwyddelanLightRail
Narrow Minded wrote:You could always rig up some sort of hamster wheel :D
Now i LIKE that idea! :lol: