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Title: Wow new automotive power source
Post by: ChadTower on September 26, 2006, 09:22:08 am

Clicky.  (http://money.cnn.com/2006/09/15/technology/disruptors_eestor.biz2/index.htm) SFW.
Title: Re: Wow new automotive power source
Post by: Texasmame on September 26, 2006, 11:17:32 am
Man, you hear about all this alternate energy stuff for cars, but it never seems to catch on or pan out.  Hope this one does.

Eventually, within our lifetimes, hopefully, one of the sources will.  They simply HAVE to - the oil can't last forever and someone, somewhere has to back this stuff to get it rolling to the mainstream. 

"The Gates-Buffett Foundation for an Energy Independent America" has a nice ring to it.  :)
Title: Re: Wow new automotive power source
Post by: AtomSmasher on September 26, 2006, 11:27:31 am
It sounds too good to be true, but hopefully it is true.  The engines in cars have been essentially the same for the past 100 years (granted theres been huge leaps in efficiency, but the core concept is still the same), its about time someone invented something better.

This isn't the first company to make incredible claims like this, so I won't be holding my breath until they release the engine.
Title: Re: Wow new automotive power source
Post by: Havoc on September 26, 2006, 11:30:41 am
How bout Mr. Fusion .... runs off beer and banana peels

(http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/1940/fuscram0.jpg)
Title: Re: Wow new automotive power source
Post by: Hoopz on September 26, 2006, 11:32:41 am
How bout Mr. Fusion .... runs off beer and banana peels

That's a waste of beer!   :angry:
Title: Re: Wow new automotive power source
Post by: ChadTower on September 26, 2006, 11:46:09 am

Gotta use that cheap crappy beer somehow.
Title: Re: Wow new automotive power source
Post by: Hoopz on September 26, 2006, 11:57:48 am

Gotta use that cheap crappy beer somehow.

In-laws, coworkers, boss etc. 
Title: Re: Wow new automotive power source
Post by: ChadTower on September 26, 2006, 11:59:42 am

All toolbags.  Make them bring their own.
Title: Re: Wow new automotive power source
Post by: Hoopz on September 26, 2006, 12:03:55 pm
If they bring their own, they want to stay longer.  Make them drink swill and they will leave sooner.

That's the idea but it never works that way.  Idiots shouldn't be over anyway.
Title: Re: Wow new automotive power source
Post by: Daniel270 on September 26, 2006, 12:48:54 pm
Besides... Mr. Fusion only powered the Flux Capacitor and the Time Circuits.  The engine for the Delorean was still gas powered.
Title: Re: Wow new automotive power source
Post by: shardian on September 26, 2006, 01:33:10 pm
Besides... Mr. Fusion only powered the Flux Capacitor and the Time Circuits.  The engine for the Delorean was still gas powered.
Good thing too. It's not fun stealing plutonium from maniac terrorists. ;D
Title: Re: Wow new automotive power source
Post by: Havoc on September 26, 2006, 01:40:50 pm
how else can you supply the 1.21 gigawatts
Title: Re: Wow new automotive power source
Post by: RayB on September 26, 2006, 02:02:09 pm

Honda's working towards us having our own hydrogen refueling stations:
http://world.honda.com/FuelCell/HomeEnergyStation/

Title: Re: Wow new automotive power source
Post by: ChadTower on September 26, 2006, 02:31:27 pm

Sweet.  Too bad for people in apartments.
Title: Re: Wow new automotive power source
Post by: NickG on September 28, 2006, 03:07:39 am

Sweet.  Too bad for people in apartments.

...and too bad electricity in my area is diesel based anyway, so I would lose even more efficiency
Title: Re: Wow new automotive power source
Post by: danny_galaga on September 28, 2006, 05:12:28 am


its a battery. nothing 'flux capacitor'ish about that. if its more efficient than the other batteries, great! im keen on electric cars myself since they energy can come from where ever. hydro electric, windfarms, nuclear, coal, whole buncha prisoners running in a treadmill...
Title: Re: Wow new automotive power source
Post by: shardian on September 28, 2006, 08:12:00 am
whole buncha prisoners running in a treadmill...

See, now that is what we need. Remember in Conan the Barbarian where he spins that wheel thing for like 10 years straight? That is what we need in prisons. Keep a few of those attached to big 'ol flywheels and have the prisoners keep them going 24 hours a day. who cares if it would only produce an insignificant amount of power. At least it would be productive. ;D
Title: Re: Wow new automotive power source
Post by: ChadTower on September 28, 2006, 08:21:43 am

Think about that one.  Remember what that wheel did to Conan?

Who wants to give prisoners the ability to run indefinitely?  Isn't the reason we keep them in veal cages so that they can't?
Title: Re: Wow new automotive power source
Post by: shardian on September 28, 2006, 08:25:30 am

Think about that one.  Remember what that wheel did to Conan?

Who wants to give prisoners the ability to run indefinitely?  Isn't the reason we keep them in veal cages so that they can't?

...if the prisoners can push that wheel thingy for 10 years, then they deserve to have infinite stamina.  ;D
Title: Re: Wow new automotive power source
Post by: ChadTower on September 28, 2006, 08:32:40 am

We don't want them to have it, though.  I say we burn them for fuel.