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500 Miles on a 5-Minute Recharge?
ctroutwi writes "In the wake of rising gasoline costs there have been plenty of alternatives seen on the horizon. Including Hybrids, Biofuels, fuel cells and battery powered all electric cars. CNN has recently posted a story about a company (EEStor) that plans on offering UltraCapacitor storage products. The claim being that you charge the ultracapacitor in 5 minutes, with approximately $9 of electricity and then drive 500 miles."
The price per gallon of gasoline in the US is mostly tax. So if this technology did become useful, then we'd all start having to pay road taxes on our electricity bills...yay. In other words, a direct cost comparison of untaxed electricty versus heavily taxed gasoline makes the electricity look much better than it actually is.
Well, while it is true the US really needs to get off the dependance from islamic petroleum....I'd heard somewhere recently that the experts speculate we have enough oil in the earth to go another 140+ years.
While I'd like to live forever, I kinda doubt I will...so, I'll be long dead before we run out....so, I'm not too terribly worried.
I like driving fast cars, and will continue to enjoy so till I'm too old to drive....
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
An old man always remenisced of the age when he was younger and owned such a car that had bumper technology as nothing more than primitive affordable steel-plating bolted on the front and rear of the body. Any car that had a similarly equipped bumber would be symetrically obstructed from causing any damage to the already-thick steel chassis and shell. The "bumper-car" known at fair exposition grounds should be heeded. All automobiles should be constructed with a bumper standard; giving heed to the verry low-riding "pleasure craft" to have a more symettrical bumpter-height, and medium-sized automobiles to have two symetrical bumpers for those lower-riding as well as their class, and the larger craft to scale downwards.
It is shameful the shell that covers the motorist and his guests or passengers/property is worth more than most modern artisanry. Let's just try to prevent colliding automobiles at a popular damage site at the bumper, not at the caboose or seats of the helmsman or operator/driver.
without prejudice
Although the idea of nuking brown people is better then viagra for republitards I suspect that even most of the republitards realize that nuking an entire country the size of Iran will have serious consequences for the entire world. Sure you get a massive hard on thinking about all those dead a-rabs and you fuck the hell of out of your wife or GF but that radiation will eventually come around to the US. It will also effect china. Then your wallmart will be empty and then how will you supply your GF with fake silver jewelry?
In the mean time you can get hard thinking about dead iranians, lebanese or palestenians. No shortage of dead a-rabs around to keep your dick hard.
evil is as evil does