Posted by Mike Jones on June 5, 2009, 10:27 pm
Responding to residualselfimage1999:
[...]
> Jeromy Clarkson of BBC's Top Gear ( a UK auto review TV show) criticizes
> electric vehicles, HeVs, and PHEV and because of the high cost and low
> energy density of batteries ( which means extra weight and lower range)
> He prefers using either a conventional diesel or gasoline engine to
> power a
> vehicle.
Clarkson is a shameless shill for the UK's Road and Transport Lobby.
He has no talent for the jobs the media keep handing him, and his most
famous skill is putting his foot in his mouth on a regular basis.
How the **** he ever got a second season on Top Gear is beyond me, as is
his now established fan base. No accounting for human behaviour I suppose.
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Posted by Lord Gow333, Dirk Benedict's n on June 6, 2009, 4:27 am
> Responding to residualselfimage1999:
> [...]
>> Jeromy Clarkson of BBC's Top Gear ( a UK auto review TV show) criticizes
>> electric vehicles, HeVs, and PHEV and because of the high cost and low
>> energy density of batteries ( which means extra weight and lower range)
>> He prefers using either a conventional diesel or gasoline engine to
>> power a
>> vehicle.
> Clarkson is a shameless shill for the UK's Road and Transport Lobby.
> He has no talent for the jobs the media keep handing him, and his most
> famous skill is putting his foot in his mouth on a regular basis.
> How the **** he ever got a second season on Top Gear is beyond me, as is
> his now established fan base. No accounting for human behaviour I suppose.
Yugo fan, right?
LG
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Posted by Mike Jones on June 6, 2009, 6:42 pm
Responding to Lord Gow333, Dirk Benedict's newest fan!:
>> Responding to residualselfimage1999:
>>
>> [...]
>>> Jeromy Clarkson of BBC's Top Gear ( a UK auto review TV show)
>>> criticizes electric vehicles, HeVs, and PHEV and because of the high
>>> cost and low energy density of batteries ( which means extra weight
>>> and lower range) He prefers using either a conventional diesel or
>>> gasoline engine to power a
>>> vehicle.
>>
>>
>> Clarkson is a shameless shill for the UK's Road and Transport Lobby.
>>
>> He has no talent for the jobs the media keep handing him, and his most
>> famous skill is putting his foot in his mouth on a regular basis.
>>
>> How the **** he ever got a second season on Top Gear is beyond me, as
>> is his now established fan base. No accounting for human behaviour I
>> suppose.
>
> Yugo fan, right?
>
> LG
If they handed the program over to Hammond, it'd be the program it could
have been, without a pig-ugly talentless mutant like Clarkson getting in
the way.
Not that I'm biased or anything, you understand... ;\
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Posted by News on June 20, 2009, 12:45 pm
> Clarkson is a shameless shill for the UK's Road and Transport Lobby.
> He has no talent for the jobs the media keep handing him, and his most
> famous skill is putting his foot in his mouth on a regular basis.
> How the **** he ever got a second season on Top Gear is beyond me, as is
> his now established fan base. No accounting for human behaviour I suppose.
Top Gear is entertainment - it is not a serious autro show. It is full of
pranks.
Posted by Joesepi on June 7, 2009, 1:14 am
You imply we will be able to compress air to contain more energy than the
energy of the fuel used to compress the air?
It's not April Fools day. Maybe we could harness ghosts to help push the
vehicle. This could offer even higher apparent efficiencies...well over
100%.. This has been quite popular and Haunts County
www.ghostscarbonfootprint.com
> What would supply the energy to compress the air and why would we not just
> run that energy source a directlly as possible to avoid more energy losses
> in an inefficient storage system?
The goal/advantage would be to pressurize the air so
the its energy density would be greater than the
fuel source that it replace. When this is accomplished
one can achieve the ultimate reward - a high density
energy source coupled with an extremely efficient,
simple and reliable engine/motor .
> electric vehicles, HeVs, and PHEV and because of the high cost and low
> energy density of batteries ( which means extra weight and lower range)
> He prefers using either a conventional diesel or gasoline engine to
> power a
> vehicle.