High Speed Steam Powered Car

CodeWanker wrote in to tell us about a story about new steam powered vehicles that are aiming to set speed records. The car is kind of goofy looking, but more eco friendly (which works for the Prius ;) Don't expect to see anything like this at your local dealer any time soon tho.

Comments

Regression

[lordkuri]

It seems that lately a lot of stuff has started to regress to older tech. Steam power, hand labor being of higher value craftsmanship, blowing up "those damn arabs" (ok, that last one was a potshot, sue me)

Is this just history repeating itself, or are we really going to start progressing towards an almost dark ages type society where we ressurect old tech and reuse it constantly?

tho?

[Anonymous Coward]

you would think that a person having the time to submit an article to slashdot could spell "though" correctly.

Not To Sound Silly...

[LegendOfLink]

But doesn't it strike anybody just a bit odd that we're reverting to very "old" technology?

Maybe it's just me, but lately, going retro seems to be the new trend. Hello 1880's!

Re:The Prius/hybrids actually isn't good at all

[Enigma_Man]

It was obviously an exaggeration, mister "I.M.Clueless". I meant twice the weight of the propulsion system. A regular gasoline engine might weigh 400 lbs, but a gasoline engine plus batteries and an electric motor and all the adaptors necessary is going to weigh 800 lbs, and then it's going to take up twice as much room to store all the stuff. Hybrids get so much criticism because they don't increase gas mileage by enough of an amount to offset the amount of work that went into them. It's not a sound technology, it's the hip new thing from automakers to appease the clueless tree-huggers who don't actually know about the environment.

-Jesse