Boy,
Doom and Gloom.
I'm going to lay off the Post Toasties for a
while.

Pookie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Spehro Pefhany" <speff@INTERLOG.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: [OT]: Hydrogen Powered Cars


> At 12:43 PM 7/21/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >No that u do think about it, that was a good
ideal.
>
> So if the equipment fails, the engines flame
out? I guess they would
> have to do an analysis to see if the number of
lives that would be lost
> due to crashes from the additional equipment
complexity and so on
> would be more or less than the lives that would
be saved in the rare
> event of a survivable airliner crash. And if it
is less, they would
> probably also calculate the cost per life saved
(design cost, capital
> cost, and additional operation and maintenance
cost), but that is more
> controversial. Classic example, a level
(railway) crossing in a small
> town results in 1 fatality every 3 years. At
what maximum cost should the
> town have a grade separation built? eg.
$2,000,000 would value a life
> at $667K.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Spehro Pefhany --"it's the network..."
"The Journey is the reward"
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