Charge the batteries with a steam turbune generator. It can be powered with a wide range of fuels. Preset the venturis by computer for the common variations and keep those batteries charged with a very fuel efficient direct constant speed setup that needs no transmission. You get free power using the generator to help slow down or stop. Electric Scrapers(road building equipment)have been in daily use ever since R.G LeTourneau invented it in the 50's. He put a separate motor at each wheel. Westinghouse bought the patent. You want them sprung, for a nice ride so mount them inboard where the differential is now. With a motor at each wheel you will have secure handling in curves and off road like you can't get close to with a gas guzzler. and you can design in any hearty growl a capricious owner may want, even varying it at a whim. "Honey lets do Lamborgini today OK?" Start now and the batteries will catch up fast.
Speaking from another day and time, you have hit on the whole point of it! Visibility and invisibility are as much psychological as applied physics. I just read what is supposed to be a true account of a maimed Chinese house church leader locked in a maximum security prison who walked slowly through three check points and out the front gate in the light of day. I was myself once a victim of quadranopsia. During the occurance I could not see items in the lower left quadrant of both eyes near the field equator, yet there was a sense of normalcy in my field of vision. There was no perceived abnormalcy until cars passing me in the left lane just vanished! Remember how magicians make things disappear? It is not about the event but one's perception of it. Perhaps the easiest way to make someone invisible is turn him into a geek! For that you don't even need a cloak.
How did a blog about communication get into social issues? Oh Well, in a nutshell, Communism is about, 'the Government rules.' Capitalism is about, 'the company rules.' In the modern world neither system is clearly just that. Things have muddied up alot. Market driven economies tend to exist in greater or lesser proportions in both systems and they really are about, 'the customer rules.' Whether or not China is more responsive than the USA in the marketplace has more to do with things other than who makes the rules. Harvard business school educated executives in the States (who make corporate business rules) have a short sighted (quarterly)profit motive, where Eastern cultures have a more patient and long term economic strategy and world view. And the fact that a counter girl in China smiles at you where you cannot find a counter girl nearby at Walmart (where so many Chinese products are sold) is not telling the whole picture. Now can we talk about cell phones?
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Charge the batteries with a steam turbune generator. It can be powered with a wide range of fuels. Preset the venturis by computer for the common variations and keep those batteries charged with a very fuel efficient direct constant speed setup that needs no transmission. You get free power using the generator to help slow down or stop. Electric Scrapers(road building equipment)have been in daily use ever since R.G LeTourneau invented it in the 50's. He put a separate motor at each wheel. Westinghouse bought the patent. You want them sprung, for a nice ride so mount them inboard where the differential is now. With a motor at each wheel you will have secure handling in curves and off road like you can't get close to with a gas guzzler. and you can design in any hearty growl a capricious owner may want, even varying it at a whim. "Honey lets do Lamborgini today OK?" Start now and the batteries will catch up fast.
Speaking from another day and time, you have hit on the whole point of it! Visibility and invisibility are as much psychological as applied physics. I just read what is supposed to be a true account of a maimed Chinese house church leader locked in a maximum security prison who walked slowly through three check points and out the front gate in the light of day. I was myself once a victim of quadranopsia. During the occurance I could not see items in the lower left quadrant of both eyes near the field equator, yet there was a sense of normalcy in my field of vision. There was no perceived abnormalcy until cars passing me in the left lane just vanished! Remember how magicians make things disappear? It is not about the event but one's perception of it. Perhaps the easiest way to make someone invisible is turn him into a geek! For that you don't even need a cloak.
How did a blog about communication get into social issues? Oh Well, in a nutshell, Communism is about, 'the Government rules.' Capitalism is about, 'the company rules.' In the modern world neither system is clearly just that. Things have muddied up alot. Market driven economies tend to exist in greater or lesser proportions in both systems and they really are about, 'the customer rules.' Whether or not China is more responsive than the USA in the marketplace has more to do with things other than who makes the rules. Harvard business school educated executives in the States (who make corporate business rules) have a short sighted (quarterly)profit motive, where Eastern cultures have a more patient and long term economic strategy and world view. And the fact that a counter girl in China smiles at you where you cannot find a counter girl nearby at Walmart (where so many Chinese products are sold) is not telling the whole picture. Now can we talk about cell phones?