Yes. Better economy and certainly a little more power. And a bigger drain on my pocket book.
Once I ran out of gas (busted fuel gauge), the only thing that I had was a few quarts of Coleman camping fuel. The thing ran like shit, but I was able to get to a gas station.
Heh heh heh. Actually, the heater works great. Too well in fact. Must be the complete lack of thermal insulation on the firewall and no heat shield on the exhaust system - the turbo charger tends to run hot.
If only I had an 8-track! Have you ever tried a CD player in a vehicle that has a really stiff suspension? It don't work too well. I went instead with a digital media player from JVC and waterproof marine speakers.
Where in my post did I mention accident safety? I have no illusions about the survivability of an accident in the Land Cruiser at speed. My point is that with no electronic systems to fail, I'll be on the road long after your techno-crap car is tits-up in a wrecking yard. Read my post again dip-shit.
The main reason for leaded gas in older cars is for the lubrication that it provides. Running unleaded gas in old VW engines would burn the valves in short order. Lead substitutes do work, but it's an added thing to bother with. Sometimes you can get old heads that have been modified to work with unleaded fuel.
Is an older car worth it? Absolutely! Long after your piece of shit new car packs in it's electronics, my old Land Cruiser will still be going strong. If your POS car is in my way, I'll just roll right over it. And just you try to drive your Fucking Tesla through a four foot deep river crossing.
And just stop it with the 'Think of the Children' argument. Fuck the children.
Yes, avgas is illegal on the street. The FBO that fills you car tanks with avgas is in for one hell of a fine if he gets caught. And for the record, old VWs really love that stuff. I used to full up my old '69 VW camper with it all the time - ran effing great!
"Officer, I sent that while stopped at a red light".
My response would be that you are still busted because: 1. You were at the wheel of a motor vehicle and texting and 2. The engine was running and 3. You were in a traffic lane.
The fact that the light was red makes NO FUCKING DIFFERENCE.
If wrecking cars and paying for those damages isn't enough to force someone to reconsider whether they should text while driving then adding a ticket won't be enough either.
Probably correct. That's why they should have their license pulled for at least a year, be required to attend a really expensive driving class, and where a sigh explaining that they are a fucking retard. And when I say license pull, I don't mean 'restricted' driving. I mean NO driving. That the bus, walk, bike, carpool, or taxi. Can't work because if it? Too fucking bad.
To know what the TOTAL pollution footprint of the car is. That is everything from production of all materials used in the car, the totals for all the power and materials consumed during its useful lifetime and the total cost of recycling the car once it is dead. A lot of the fancy materials used in modern (electric and petrol) cars are expensive and difficult to recycle.
My old land cruiser however, is really pretty much a chunk of steel and some aluminum and a very small amount of rubber, foam padding and cloth for the seats. Pretty much 100% very easy to recycle at a very low cost to do so.
I do not agree. Many great ideas have failed on their first attempt simply 'the time is not right'. It does not mean that it was a bad idea. Subsequent tries on the same idea, modifying a few points have managed to succeed and thrive. Being the first to do something is not always best.
Of course they will only work with Tesla cars. While I understand that it helps sell Tesla brand cars, it does not really help the electric car movement as a whole. Is he going to include a Mc Donalds at every location so they can have a wonderful, healthy bite to eat while they wait?
The only real way to get people on-board with electric cars is to not waste time having to futz around with charging, slow, fast, or 'super'. The only real solution to this is really to have battery swap stations. You pull up, the battery is swapped, and you pay for the power used in the old battery plus a service charge for the swap. It's really the only way to get charged up in just a few minutes, not tens of minutes. In this model, you do not own the battery but rather renting it. This also takes care of the expense of having to replace the battery that you own after ten or so years. As battery technology progresses and power densities increase, you get the benefit of increased range in the same battery format. All automatically.
The down side to this is that electric car manufacturers have to standardize on just a few specific battery pack configurations. Oooooh. That's a deal breaker. Fucking get over it and standardize already.
Now, I know that this is/. and I can already hear your cries of 'That will never work' and 'What a stupid idea' and 'They already tried that and they failed'. Well, to that I say - yes they tried, but it does not mean that it is the wrong way to go. They just could not sell it to enough people. Open your mind to the possibility of it actually being done right.
Build a concrete shell home, complete with garage and bury the thing under a mound or earth four the six feet thick. If 'natural' light is needed, install light pipes. Garden on the roof - easy! This has the added bonus of being more thermally stable, and is a lot more durable when it comes to thinks like tornadoes.
Are there problems with this design? Sure, but the technology to do this exists today.
Getting rid of excess heat is the biggest problem, but if most of the things that generate the large heat loads (water heaters end refrigerators are the biggest) could be put in a 'hot room' the rest of the house would have a better time of keeping cool. In hot areas, going underground even a small amount can provide significant cooling. The other big issue would be drainage, but again proper engineering would solve most of the problems. I do admit that the central US is basically a giant flood plain, so there are some issues to work out.
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Yes. Better economy and certainly a little more power. And a bigger drain on my pocket book.
Once I ran out of gas (busted fuel gauge), the only thing that I had was a few quarts of Coleman camping fuel. The thing ran like shit, but I was able to get to a gas station.
You may just be on to something...
Oooooo. I'm really scared. Wait, don't. There's a Putz with a Wiki pointed at me!
Heh heh heh. Actually, the heater works great. Too well in fact. Must be the complete lack of thermal insulation on the firewall and no heat shield on the exhaust system - the turbo charger tends to run hot.
If only I had an 8-track! Have you ever tried a CD player in a vehicle that has a really stiff suspension? It don't work too well. I went instead with a digital media player from JVC and waterproof marine speakers.
Where in my post did I mention accident safety? I have no illusions about the survivability of an accident in the Land Cruiser at speed. My point is that with no electronic systems to fail, I'll be on the road long after your techno-crap car is tits-up in a wrecking yard. Read my post again dip-shit.
Thanks for the info.
You must be a young bugger.
The main reason for leaded gas in older cars is for the lubrication that it provides. Running unleaded gas in old VW engines would burn the valves in short order. Lead substitutes do work, but it's an added thing to bother with. Sometimes you can get old heads that have been modified to work with unleaded fuel.
Is an older car worth it? Absolutely! Long after your piece of shit new car packs in it's electronics, my old Land Cruiser will still be going strong. If your POS car is in my way, I'll just roll right over it. And just you try to drive your Fucking Tesla through a four foot deep river crossing.
And just stop it with the 'Think of the Children' argument. Fuck the children.
Fucking Pansy!
Not all airports have 'self serve' fuel, and FBOs are not supposed to fill gas cans for that very reason.
Yes, avgas is illegal on the street. The FBO that fills you car tanks with avgas is in for one hell of a fine if he gets caught. And for the record, old VWs really love that stuff. I used to full up my old '69 VW camper with it all the time - ran effing great!
It also smells different. I don't know why.
"Officer, I sent that while stopped at a red light".
My response would be that you are still busted because:
1. You were at the wheel of a motor vehicle and texting and
2. The engine was running and
3. You were in a traffic lane.
The fact that the light was red makes NO FUCKING DIFFERENCE.
If wrecking cars and paying for those damages isn't enough to force someone to reconsider whether they should text while driving then adding a ticket won't be enough either.
Probably correct. That's why they should have their license pulled for at least a year, be required to attend a really expensive driving class, and where a sigh explaining that they are a fucking retard. And when I say license pull, I don't mean 'restricted' driving. I mean NO driving. That the bus, walk, bike, carpool, or taxi. Can't work because if it? Too fucking bad.
I suspect that if you were to lock up all four wheels at the same instant, the anti-lock function would go out the window.
If you send a text while driving you are a MORON. Pure and simple. Dickhead.
Funny that. What ever happened to 'lead by example'?
And while texting while driving is not considered 'impaired' it sure as FUCK SHOULD BE.
Dude, I've driven the 'tad-pole' design for a while. It is WAY more stable than the single wheel forward three wheelers. Stop being a dick.
Well, to be fair, most Diesel electric locomotives are piston engine, not turbines.
However, they are the greenest for a long fucking way.
To know what the TOTAL pollution footprint of the car is. That is everything from production of all materials used in the car, the totals for all the power and materials consumed during its useful lifetime and the total cost of recycling the car once it is dead. A lot of the fancy materials used in modern (electric and petrol) cars are expensive and difficult to recycle.
My old land cruiser however, is really pretty much a chunk of steel and some aluminum and a very small amount of rubber, foam padding and cloth for the seats. Pretty much 100% very easy to recycle at a very low cost to do so.
I do not agree. Many great ideas have failed on their first attempt simply 'the time is not right'. It does not mean that it was a bad idea. Subsequent tries on the same idea, modifying a few points have managed to succeed and thrive. Being the first to do something is not always best.
Of course they will only work with Tesla cars. While I understand that it helps sell Tesla brand cars, it does not really help the electric car movement as a whole. Is he going to include a Mc Donalds at every location so they can have a wonderful, healthy bite to eat while they wait?
The only real way to get people on-board with electric cars is to not waste time having to futz around with charging, slow, fast, or 'super'. The only real solution to this is really to have battery swap stations. You pull up, the battery is swapped, and you pay for the power used in the old battery plus a service charge for the swap. It's really the only way to get charged up in just a few minutes, not tens of minutes. In this model, you do not own the battery but rather renting it. This also takes care of the expense of having to replace the battery that you own after ten or so years. As battery technology progresses and power densities increase, you get the benefit of increased range in the same battery format. All automatically.
The down side to this is that electric car manufacturers have to standardize on just a few specific battery pack configurations. Oooooh. That's a deal breaker. Fucking get over it and standardize already.
Now, I know that this is /. and I can already hear your cries of 'That will never work' and 'What a stupid idea' and 'They already tried that and they failed'. Well, to that I say - yes they tried, but it does not mean that it is the wrong way to go. They just could not sell it to enough people. Open your mind to the possibility of it actually being done right.
I can print my very own Pink Slime in the comfort of my own home. Yay!
Oh, wait...
FINALLY!!!! Someone gets it.
To take the rooftop garden a bit further -
Build a concrete shell home, complete with garage and bury the thing under a mound or earth four the six feet thick. If 'natural' light is needed, install light pipes. Garden on the roof - easy! This has the added bonus of being more thermally stable, and is a lot more durable when it comes to thinks like tornadoes.
Are there problems with this design? Sure, but the technology to do this exists today.
Getting rid of excess heat is the biggest problem, but if most of the things that generate the large heat loads (water heaters end refrigerators are the biggest) could be put in a 'hot room' the rest of the house would have a better time of keeping cool. In hot areas, going underground even a small amount can provide significant cooling. The other big issue would be drainage, but again proper engineering would solve most of the problems. I do admit that the central US is basically a giant flood plain, so there are some issues to work out.
You can then sell the chippings to the other guys to use in their printers