SES used to be Steam Engine Systems and then became Scientific Energy Systems to make it easier to raise money from investors. Many good engineers worked on this project for about seven years. The money and the project parameters came from the EPA. |
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Tom Kimmel and Hal Fuller preparing to load the Monaco |
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Therefore, the rules were very difficult and much of the work had little to do with making a good and practical steam car. As an example: everything had to fit under the hood, it had to be able to condense all of the steam even under the most extreme driving conditions, it had to withstand a month of freezing weather, it needed to be competitively powered, meaning at least 150 horsepower. |
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