Properly inflated tires - Too avant garde for the U.S.?

[Feba]

Re: Properly inflated tires - Too avant garde for the U.S.?

TGM, nuclear powered cars would probably be built a little better than pintos. Also, there are nuclear 'batteries' (they call them batteries; apparently they're basically mini reactors, which require little or no maintenance) which can also be used as a private power supply. I don't really know much about them, though, so I didn't mention them as a home power source.

[Cotners]

Re: Properly inflated tires - Too avant garde for the U.S.?

You might want to look into how a nuclear battery works before claiming its a small atomic bomb.

HINT: what you're suggesting isn't possible.

It was a joke... It's called humor.

[Mhurron]

Re: Properly inflated tires - Too avant garde for the U.S.?

It was a joke... It's called humor.

For things of that nature to be funny, it has to exist within the realm of possibility.

Also there are far to many idiots that believe Nuclear = Hiroshima. Oddly, they often resort to saying it was a joke afterwards.

[Balfree]

Re: Properly inflated tires - Too avant garde for the U.S.?

Jesus Cristo, loosen up a bit will ya.

[Feba]

Re: Properly inflated tires - Too avant garde for the U.S.?

Jesus Cristo, loosen up a bit will ya.

He's right, though. Saying "Nuclear = Atomic weapons" is like saying "Black people = thieves". It takes a small bit of fact, propagandizes it to the point of insanity, ignores all of the other facts, and then proclaims that everything of X group is bad. Even if you are 'just joking', you're still furthering the stereotype, and being offensive(ly stupid).

[TheGrandMom]

Re: Properly inflated tires - Too avant garde for the U.S.?

It was a joke... It's called humor.

Ya, thought the "WHEEEEEEEEEEE! lololololol" would have given that away....guess not.

Jesus Cristo, loosen up a bit will ya.

Amen.

[Mhurron]

Re: Properly inflated tires - Too avant garde for the U.S.?

Jesus Cristo, loosen up a bit will ya.

It had all the humor of yelling out " YOU ATE ACID, YOU'RE GOING TO DIE LOL" after someone eats a french fry they put vinegar on. A lobotomy would be required to find it funny in the slightest.

[Balfree]

Re: Properly inflated tires - Too avant garde for the U.S.?

It's not about it being funny or not, its about you treating people with at least a teensy little bit of courtesy, not trying to stir up shit all the time or push people around.

[Malacite]

Re: Properly inflated tires - Too avant garde for the U.S.?

In the town hall meeting that Obama brought it up in (thank you cnn.com/live ^^) he addressed the issue of upgrading the failing power grids. He also said they would incorporate a system where you could sell back the energy you don't use to the electric companies, so you only pay for what you use.

Sounds like a sweet deal to me. Hell, if college students can build a car that runs entirely off solar energy that can average 60 MPH, I think we can make this work.

[Balfree]

Re: Properly inflated tires - Too avant garde for the U.S.?

Malacite, there is enough knowledge today to make cars run on many things.

I've heard (probably a rumor, i hope) that some guy came up with a way to run a car using some tech he invented but when he made it public he died just a bit after that, eerie.

[Mhurron]

Re: Properly inflated tires - Too avant garde for the U.S.?

Hell, if college students can build a car that runs entirely off solar energy that can average 60 MPH, I think we can make this work.

Except they can't. If you stripped all the safety features, and the chassis of a car that does 30mpg and essentially have nothing more then an engine with a chair attached to it wrapped in molded plastic, you would have a gas powered car that gets more then 60mpg. This is really all the university students have created.

Also, how do you measure gallons of sunlight?

[DakAttack]

Re: Properly inflated tires - Too avant garde for the U.S.?

more then

But they can keep on trying if they're not doing it on my dime.

[Jarre]

Re: Properly inflated tires - Too avant garde for the U.S.?

In the town hall meeting that Obama brought it up in (thank you cnn.com/live ^^) he addressed the issue of upgrading the failing power grids. He also said they would incorporate a system where you could sell back the energy you don't use to the electric companies, so you only pay for what you use.

Sounds like a sweet deal to me. Hell, if college students can build a car that runs entirely off solar energy that can average 60 MPH, I think we can make this work.

In the Uk if you have photovoltaics or a wind turbine on your house, you can get a box where it meters any electric your not using and puts it abck onto teh national grid, you get a rate at roughly half the cost of electic you pay for this, so basically if you only use 75% of the electricity it generates at certain times and non from teh grid, the 25% you can sell back which gets taken off your bill, reducing it to a more managable figure.

But as Feba says, the cost of these renewable energy devices is still high and things like photovoltaics can take 50 years to break even on the purchase cost.

[Yellow Mage]

Re: Properly inflated tires - Too avant garde for the U.S.?

Except they can't. If you stripped all the safety features, and the chassis of a car that does 30mpg and essentially have nothing more then an engine with a chair attached to it wrapped in molded plastic, you would have a gas powered car that gets more then 60mpg. This is really all the university students have created.

Also, how do you measure gallons of sunlight?

You're one alphabet letter behind: he said MPH, not MPG.

[Malacite]

Re: Properly inflated tires - Too avant garde for the U.S.?

Also what part of college students didn't you get?

It was a project they did for school. The vehicle was fairly small, albeit awkward to get inside and can only seat one person but the fact that it was able to perform admirably on a highway running on nothing but pure sunlight was amazing.

My point being that if they can get that far, you can't tell me the big 3 (well, maybe not GM as that company is on verge of bankruptcy) can't design something better and market it.