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Gryphonadmin
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"Oh, hell and death."
 
   My thumbs are too fat to operate DCF from the Droid browser.

--G.
And it's always the threads that make it look like I 86ed them out of pique, too.
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1. "RE: Oh, hell and death."
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   >My thumbs are too fat to operate DCF from the Droid browser.

Anyway. As I was saying before I so rudely interrupted myself, I should have elaborated before on my definition of "car" in the sentence that went something like, "I can't see an all-electric car being fun to drive." You're right that the Tesla is (reportedly) amusing; however, because of its marked impracticality, it rather fails my test for being a car as opposed to a big toy. I commute something around 150 miles a day at the moment, and I require something at least entertaining enough to drive that I don't feel like I've spent two and a half hours pushing a rock up a slope. Given the empirical evidence available, if I had a Tesla I'd spend a decent percentage of that time pushing it up a slope. This isn't really encouraging. :)

It's like the old good/fast/cheap thing. You can have a car that's fun, you can have a car that has a range of more than a couple hundred miles at best, and you can have a car that takes only a few minutes to refuel (as opposed to a full working day). But at present you'd be hard-pressed to find an all-electric car that's even one of those things, and my whole argument is that sure, if you put enough monkeys behind enough typewriters one of them would eventually come up with the fix for that, but it's not worth it.

To the argument that hydrogen-powered cars explode, there are two possible responses. One is to cast a significant glance toward that research into bonding molecular hydrogen to metal, where, one imagines, it doesn't particularly explode. The other, which I shall choose because it's less work, is to sit calmly down on the couch and remark dismissively, "Oh, Mother, don't be so sentimental. Things explode every day."

Now I believe I was done discussing this anyway, but I shouldn't like to give the impression that I zorched the other thread deliberately because it was beginning to irritate me. It was a legitimate clickographical error. :)

--G.
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The Traitor
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2. "RE: Oh, hell and death."
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   LAST EDITED ON Apr-08-11 AT 01:59 AM (EDT)
 
I never doubted it was anything more than an errant click for a second, although it has been known for me to provoke... moderate irritation here before (nobody actually gave enough of a toss to really be annoyed those times).

Your talk of bonding molecular hydrogen to metal intrigues me; I'm not exactly one hundred percent on how that would work, so if you could furnish me with a link it'd be much appreciated. It does sound interesting, and I agree with you that hydrogen cells are probably the furthest forward in terms of usefulness. Plus, anything that makes your car, y'know, not a tiny metal Hindenburg is probably good.

I worry about this sort of thing because I recently had to navigate the Shepherd's Bush one-way system coming back from a gig there. Basically, imagine the bit with the asteroid belt from Star Wars but with unlicensed taxis and boy racers. And you're in a gods-know-how-old Subaru Imprezza held together by gaffer tape and blind hope. And there's a weird smell coming from the glovebox that you think might once have been a cheese sandwich, or possibly a sock, but you don't want to check because then it'll get worse.

I am never, ever taking my boyfriend's car to a gig again. Just... just never.

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"Together we will build an empire of a million shining suns." -- Dave, Dictator of Utopia.

Oh, and you can't hear the satnav over your own terrified screams. So it goes on forever.


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3. "RE: Oh, hell and death."
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   I actually have moderate-to-high hopes for this engine. Current thoughts seem to use it in a hybrid/electric platform, but even there it has several advantages of conventional interna combustion - much higher efficiency, diesel instead of 'regular', so it could take non-petrol fuel, much simpler design...

OTOH, it's only in the 'look how nifty this is' phase, so who knows if it'll make it to market



==Jeremy
And who exactly is this diabolical 'they' to which we keep referring? If there's some grand conspiracy going on, the right hand doesn't appear to know what the left is doing. --Raziel (Soul Reaver II)


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