Re: Ya gotta be yidding me!

ayatollah obama <osama.obabma.by.anyname@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 6, 11:54 pm, "Heywood  Jablowmi" <hsqui...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> <BurtonU...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On May 6, 2:39 pm, "JR Weiss" <jrweiss98155rem...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> "HarryNadds" <hoofhearte...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> When gas hits
>>>> $6.00 a gallon maybe we will get serious about hydrogen based
>>>> fuels. OHHH BOY !!!! That's what I want for my car. I want 30
>>>> gallons of
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>>> super cooled,pressurized high explosive in the trunk of my car.
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>>> It's not any worse than 30 gallons of hot, pressurized liquid "high
>>> explosive"
>>> (i.e., gasoline)!
>>> Is gasoline "pressurized in the tank? Is it kept in a super
>>> insulated tank because it's at damned near absolute zero? Btw,
>>> where does all this hydrogen come from? How is it generated? How
>>> long and how many billions would it take to convert all cars to
>>> hydrogen, build the infrastrucure to get the hydrogen fuel to the
>>> stations and build stations where a person could conveniently fill
>>> their "hydrogen tank"? Why not use the money you'd use to develop
>>> hydrogen for cars and develop light weight, large capacity
>>> batteries and build cars that are totally electric powered? I have
>>> a few electrical outlets in my home but can't find a single
>>> hydrogen outlet.
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>> There are cars that run on compressed air.... if government would
>> take one
>> of the few systems
>> that are available and phase out the manufacture of gas engines and
>> take
>> the nessary steps that
>> are needed to reduce our dependency on oil, we would not be in this
>> mess.
>> Secondly if we
>> even showed the world that we are seriously considering steps to
>> reduce oil
>> dependency the
>> price of crude would drop. As Americans, we have a system that
>> works, and
>> we are to greedy
>> and to lazy to do the right thing and get off the oil addiction...
>> We could
>> be doing things like
>> building better mass transit systems and serious research into
>> alternate
>> fuels, but it's easier to
>> just pull up to the pump.
>>
>> We are being weaned off of oil .... Considering that other nations
>> have
>> been paying more than
>> we have for a whole lot longer than us we should consider ourselves
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> The compressed air car of theaircar.com is one of the more interesting
> ideas. The web site has changed and doesn't go into much detail
> anymore about the engine. You can look it up on the 'way back
> machine'.

> The only problem I've seen is the tank is 7,000psi.
> A pin-hole would cut the car, and everything else, in two.

Pure fantasy.

> Where's Tesla when you need him.

In the loony bin, where he belonged.

> One smart guy...

One raving loony actually.

> The entire AC power grid, flourescent lights, spark plugs, coils,
> AC motors, radio, Radio controlled devices, turbines, generators,
> tasers, cattle prods, and more were all his inventions.

Like hell they were.