They should use the money to pay bigger bribes to the government officials who are working for the oil companies and actively trying to stop this technology from getting to market.
The battle for more efficient cars We're talking about the battle for zero-emission vehicles. Of which, the PHEV is a step on the road towards. Besides which, there's diesel hybrids as well as gasoline hybrids.
* Many automakers have built PHEVs in private workshops, and DaimlerChrysler has publicly tested PHEV prototypes. They are converting up to 40 15-passenger Mercedes commercial vans into PHEVs, with some vehicles using NiMH and others advanced lithium-ion batteries, plus diesel and gasoline engines. The program is in cooperation with California's Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), South Coast Air Quality Management District, and Southern California Edison. See the press release, EPRI announcement and Daimler's description (with graphics).
* The advanced hybrid vehicle research center at University of California-Davis (founded and directed by CalCars advisor Prof. Andy Frank) has converted nine sedans and SUVs into PHEVs that have repeatedly won prizes in US Energy Department-sponsored "FutureTruck" competitions. Dr. Frank, widely known as the "Father of the Plug-In Hybrid," has been working on PHEVs for thirty years, and building them with students for more than a decade.
* CalCars produced the world's first plug-in Prius (the PRIUS+) in 2004. Since then a number of companies have emerged to offer conversions for sale to consumers and fleet buyers, and CalCars has worked to support a growing open-source conversion movement.
* In 2003-04, the US Marine Corps demonstrated a diesel-electric PHEV-20 HUMVEE. (The military likes the silent, zero-heat "footprint" in all-electric mode, and appreciates saving fuel that can cost well over $100/gallon to deliver to front lines.) This advanced Shadow RST-V (Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Targetting Vehicle PHEV, built by General Dynamics, uses lightweight lithium-ion batteries and motors in four wheel hubs. See details and photos and more descriptions.
* Long Island, NY has converted a city bus to a plug in hybrid with 40 miles of all-electric range. Many more heavy-duty vehicle conversions (including three recycling dump-trucks that will run in "silent" mode for pickups) are in progress. see here
Oh, the Future Fund. Right. Is that what it's called? For over 10 years now the government has been taking insanely high taxes and spending it on nothing. In fact, they've been cutting costs and paying back international debt (like we're some kind of third world country). Now you tell me they are spending it on The Future, well why didn't they say so? Boy, that makes me feel much better.
Of course, the "Future Fund" will eventually be used to buy gunships from the US.
A local government can *ask* the federal government for anything they like.
In summary, you are ignorant, and doubly so for calling the grand-parent an idiot. I wasn't aware there was an arithmetic of ignorance.
We should just attribute this for what it is, another BillG hissy fit. From the beginning, a product would become popular because it was easily copied, and them BillG would throw a temper tantrum complaining that people were not paying him enough. Even today, with more money in the bank than a person has a right to, he is still whining that people are not paying enough. Microsoft is a corporation with shareholders, one of whom is Bill Gates.
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They should use the money to pay bigger bribes to the government officials who are working for the oil companies and actively trying to stop this technology from getting to market.
That would be more effective.
Which is not going to happen in the US because the greens have made it impossible to get licenses for new nuclear plants.
Stop telling your one night stands your phone number.
* The advanced hybrid vehicle research center at University of California-Davis (founded and directed by CalCars advisor Prof. Andy Frank) has converted nine sedans and SUVs into PHEVs that have repeatedly won prizes in US Energy Department-sponsored "FutureTruck" competitions. Dr. Frank, widely known as the "Father of the Plug-In Hybrid," has been working on PHEVs for thirty years, and building them with students for more than a decade.
* CalCars produced the world's first plug-in Prius (the PRIUS+) in 2004. Since then a number of companies have emerged to offer conversions for sale to consumers and fleet buyers, and CalCars has worked to support a growing open-source conversion movement.
* In 2003-04, the US Marine Corps demonstrated a diesel-electric PHEV-20 HUMVEE. (The military likes the silent, zero-heat "footprint" in all-electric mode, and appreciates saving fuel that can cost well over $100/gallon to deliver to front lines.) This advanced Shadow RST-V (Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Targetting Vehicle PHEV, built by General Dynamics, uses lightweight lithium-ion batteries and motors in four wheel hubs. See details and photos and more descriptions.
* Long Island, NY has converted a city bus to a plug in hybrid with 40 miles of all-electric range. Many more heavy-duty vehicle conversions (including three recycling dump-trucks that will run in "silent" mode for pickups) are in progress. see here
And now we're seeing the same thing with plug-in hybrids.
People are doing $50 modifications in their garage which turn their hybrid into an electric vehicle, why doesn't the manufacturer do this?
Probably the same reason why Toyota doesn't sell hybrids with the "all electric" switch in the US like they do in Europe and the rest of the world.
Uhhh, move out of the sticks.
Oh, the Future Fund. Right. Is that what it's called? For over 10 years now the government has been taking insanely high taxes and spending it on nothing. In fact, they've been cutting costs and paying back international debt (like we're some kind of third world country). Now you tell me they are spending it on The Future, well why didn't they say so? Boy, that makes me feel much better.
Of course, the "Future Fund" will eventually be used to buy gunships from the US.
Well obviously I've heard of ignorance of arithmetic :)
You're new around here so let me give you a nickle's worth of free advice: don't feed the trolls.
Much better off just developing fully automated artificial wombs. Aka birthing pools. Aka human decanters.
Then you can just send the genetic material in a nice frozen form and when your probe finds a suitable planet, it just dumps the humans out.
You'll need some robots to raise the humans of course. Teach 'em an appropriate language.
Throw in a VCR and tape on Earth and a copy of Wikipedia.
Women are more political than men.
That's not sexist. That's the truth.
You mean other than the fact that you're supposed to be a union of states?
Idiot.
You're an idiot.
Uncle Sam can afford it, pay the blue man!
You forgot one: Google.
If John Carmack worked for Google (instead of being perhaps the greatest games programmer ever) then it'd be front page material.
Not really. They're just trying to use these 238 physicists against us. If they told us who they are, the community could address them.
Confirms the Standard Model.. again.
Takes us one more step closer to a Grand Unified Theory.
And no, there's no practical upshot.. it's pure research.
The most annoying thing is they won't tell us who the 610 physicists are!
Way to make a pointless argument.
Great, and you're distinquishable from an unlicensed user how?
For example, I posted something about this story:
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http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/04
and it got rejected. I can't fathom how that isn't better than this shit story.
Yeah, cause it's not the consumer's fault for choosing to buy a product after it has been shown time and again to be faulty.