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05-16-24, 01:12 PM | #1 |
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Electric Cars
I don't think electric cars are going to make it. They're expensive. And if everybody gets one, it will probably collapse our rickety old grid here in the US.
We should go back to steam. With modern technology, bringing one up to pressure would be a matter of seconds instead of minutes. And they'd be much lighter than they used to be. I wonder why the automakers don't offer a model powered by something like the Cyclone Engine from Cyclone Technologies? It would be better than electric or hydrogen or any of that other stuff. There's some company trying to get started selling mini-reactors to power homes and remote sites and things. I was reading about them the other day. Why not pair a mini-reactor with the Cyclone Engine in automoobiles? Zero carbon cars. |
05-16-24, 01:24 PM | #2 |
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No, we need horses, but a special breed of horses with anti-burp systems and fart filters.
Ah, damn, animal wellbeing. No horses then. Bicycles. Thats the German way. China builds 240 new airports until 2032 or 2033. Germany puts its money on bicycles. Or as EVP-head Manfred Weber (CDU) of the EU said: "We must convince the world that our way is the only right one."
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05-16-24, 02:09 PM | #3 |
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Convincing me to believe that anything "they" say is valid became impossible quite a few years ago. Manfred must still be wet behind the ears if he truly believes that anyone with more than four functioning brain cells still believes anything promulgated by the people who labor under the delusion that they run things. Sorry Manfred, automatically rejected as untrue. You'll have to sell that idea to the folks of whom P. T. Barnum spoke.
The name of the mini reactor is the NuScale Modular Reactor. It was just recently approved by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Meanwhile, they're assembling ITER in France, a fusion reactor that I think uses molten salt. Now, if NuScale could shrink their reactor down to automobile size, with consumer pricing, and the automakers paired it with the Cyclone Engine, we'd have zero carbon cars that don't need gas stations! So much the better if NuScale could shrink and modularize the ITER technology and use fusion. As for electric cars, think of poor Texas with their grid. "What happened? Why did the power go off?" "The people in Austin just got home from work and plugged in their cars." |
05-16-24, 02:33 PM | #4 |
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unluckily EU plans to ban classic cars,
so we can enjoy overexpensive electrocars, stupid EU
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05-16-24, 02:40 PM | #5 |
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What's the correct information regarding banning combustion engine from 2030 ?
'Cause here it is said it is the Production and import of these type of cars who will be forbidden after Jan. 1st 2030. It will not be forbidden to drive these cars after this day. Markus
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