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JONTHEBOMB:

--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on December 15, 2006, 12:25:42 am ---Are you saying you don't use any gas or you have a plan for when gas runs out?  If you don't drive a biodiesel or electric car, then you better be asking that question to yourself.
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I use mass transit, my bike or my own two legs to get where I need to go.  As for a plan when gas runs out I do not have one, but my first car will be one that runs on an alternative fuel that is renewable.


--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on December 15, 2006, 12:25:42 am ---Besides, we won't be running out of gas for a couple hundred years and by the time we do they will have perfected another technology to power automobiles.  Hell, they just need to improve the battery because a decent electric engine is more then a match for any gas engine, and is far more efficient too (in terms of fuel consumed to power output).  There have been a number of electric cars made that have beat Ferrari's down the 1/8th mile (I don't think they are able to win in the 1/4 mile yet).  But that technology is still a ways off before its good enough for widespread use.

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I have researched when oil is going to run out.  It's very possible we could be out of oil in 20 years.  I guarantee we will have exhausted the world supply of oil in 50 years. 

For the electric engine if the range was improved then it would be a good alternative.  But don't you enjoy the smell and sound of a gas engine as opposed to an electric engine?
ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on December 15, 2006, 01:18:44 pm ---Technically... any additional electrical load creates additional mechanical load for the alternator, no?  Therefore, your radio does use gas.

How much?  Gas your radio wastes = the amount of times MrC agreed with the republicans.

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What does a car radio pull, anyway, in terms of amperage?  Think reasonable consumer level radio and default speakers, no amp.  Can't be that much.
Ed_McCarron:
Minimal.  Moderate volume, 4 speakers?  An amp would be heavy.

Its a small number.
ChadTower:

But we know that if we add one amp it adds many amps.

How circular.   :)

AtomSmasher:

--- Quote from: JONTHEBOMB on December 15, 2006, 01:20:12 pm ---I use mass transit, my bike or my own two legs to get where I need to go.  As for a plan when gas runs out I do not have one, but my first car will be one that runs on an alternative fuel that is renewable.

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Oh thats right, your still in college which means you can get away with not having a car.  Get back to me a few years after you graduate and have a real job, if you buy an alternative fuel vehicle then I will be impressed, but I doubt you'll still consider it worth the hassle at that point.


--- Quote ---I have researched when oil is going to run out.  It's very possible we could be out of oil in 20 years.  I guarantee we will have exhausted the world supply of oil in 50 years. 

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I did a little research on this a few years back and I guarantee we won't.  If I remember right they discovered a new oil pocket in China a few years back that they estimate could fuel the world for 100 years from just that one location.


--- Quote ---For the electric engine if the range was improved then it would be a good alternative.  But don't you enjoy the smell and sound of a gas engine as opposed to an electric engine?

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Both the range and the time it takes to recharge needs to be improved before it becomes a viable alternative.  Didn't they recently release an electric motorcycle (maybe it was just a single prototype) that ran on electricity, but they decided a silent motorcycle was too dangerous so they put a speaker on it to make it sound like a gas powered one.
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