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100-MPG Air-Powered Car Headed To US Next Year
An anonymous reader sends us to Popular Mechanics for word on a New York automaker with plans to introduce a US version of the air-powered car, with which India's Tata Motors made a splash last year. Zero Pollution Motors plans a sub-$18,000, 6-passenger vehicle that can hit 96 mph and gets over 100 MPG, using an untried dual engine — the air-powered motor being supplemented by a second (unspecified) engine that would kick in above 35 MPH. The company estimates that "a vehicle with one tank of air and, say, 8 gallons of either conventional petrol, ethanol, or biofuel could hit between 800 and 1000 miles." The vehicle could be introduced to the market as early as 2009.
What happens when we run out of air!??!??
which is totally what she said
We steal it from Druidia. Better get working on Mega-Maid.
For an additional $5000 the car comes equipped with a politician and a special adapter to route all the hot air into the tank.
Ape 1: SPACEBALLS?!
... there goes the planet ...
Ape 2: Oh shit
It depends on where you're at.
I was over at Spaceball City the other day and a gallon of Schweppe's Air was $4! Spaceballs: The Air was even more expensive at $5. They had some cheap off brand air for $2.50 but you never know what you get with the generic stuff.
On Mars, there's just an outright tax on air that everyone pays. It's like 15% of your income but there are expemtions for midgets and girls with 3 hooters.
This gives a new meaning to the word "vaporware" :P
If I had a nickel for every time I had a nickel, I'd be richcursive!
Arrrrrr, Matey!
>>For an additional $5000 the car comes equipped with a politician and a special adapter to route all the hot air into the tank.
:)
That's a rip off - around here, you can buy a politician for a lot less than $5000.
MadCow.
I used to have a sig, but I set it free and it never came back.
and told her that i liked her tatas
she slapped me
why does she hate fuel economy?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
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Well, we could go nuclear
Nuclear waste needs to be stored forever. I don't know if that's worse than emmissions and global warming or not; I'm just a layman.
By the time fusion happens, all our present tech will be obsolete anyway.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
It will definitely keep you fit. I believe the vehicle will also have a hole in the floor so you can supplement the engine with some legwork.
I propose we call this new currency "energon cubes."
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By god, this is america, if we can make a river catch fire we sure as hell can make the air burn....
You're the one equating laughing gas with air.
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