Electric Car? How about a Compressed Air Car?

On 2007-11-13 19:07:50 -0800, Dave said:

The recent discussion of the merits of various electric cars. I'd
summarize the current state of the art as one of interesting
technologial developments, but an unsolved basic problem: How to store
an adequate amount of the source of motive power in a manageable
package. Batteries aren't there yet - and may never be. NEVs are a
joke, and the 3-wheel "motorcycle" types are marginal at best.

Now it appears that someone has come up with the idea of running a
vehicle on compressed air.

Eh. Why not wind-up springs or rubber bands? Or, better yet, some large
animal could be trained to pull a vehicle the size of a car. If the
animal was a plant-eater, it would be a continually renewable source of
energy. We could give the animal a name, such as 'horse,' for
'horsepower.'




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Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

C J Campbell wrote:


Eh. Why not wind-up springs or rubber bands? Or, better yet, some
large animal could be trained to pull a vehicle the size of a car. If
the animal was a plant-eater, it would be a continually renewable
source of energy. We could give the animal a name, such as 'horse,'
for 'horsepower.'

Nope, there are plenty of folks out there bitching about the carbon
footprint of livestock.

On 2007-11-14 11:16:45 -0800, "Gig 601XL Builder"
wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net said:

C J Campbell wrote:


Eh. Why not wind-up springs or rubber bands? Or, better yet, some
large animal could be trained to pull a vehicle the size of a car. If
the animal was a plant-eater, it would be a continually renewable
source of energy. We could give the animal a name, such as 'horse,'
for 'horsepower.'

Nope, there are plenty of folks out there bitching about the carbon
footprint of livestock.

Which, I guess, is the point. No matter what you do, those guys will
complain. So why bother to do anything at all to address their
complaints?
--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

On Nov 14, 1:29 pm, C J Campbell
wrote:
On 2007-11-14 11:16:45 -0800, "Gig 601XL Builder"
wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net said:

C J Campbell wrote:

Eh. Why not wind-up springs or rubber bands? Or, better yet, some
large animal could be trained to pull a vehicle the size of a car. If
the animal was a plant-eater, it would be a continually renewable
source of energy. We could give the animal a name, such as 'horse,'
for 'horsepower.'

Nope, there are plenty of folks out there bitching about the carbon
footprint of livestock.

Which, I guess, is the point. No matter what you do, those guys will
complain. So why bother to do anything at all to address their
complaints?
--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

The best way is to shoot each and every person who compains about your
carbon footprint, and bury them 6 feet under. That way, you are
reducing their carbon footprint by 100%, and you can claim that you
are indeed actually doing something to help the environment... :-)

wrote:


The best way is to shoot each and every person who compains about your
carbon footprint, and bury them 6 feet under. That way, you are
reducing their carbon footprint by 100%, and you can claim that you
are indeed actually doing something to help the environment... :-)

There's an enviromental policy I could support.

On 2007-11-14 13:02:21 -0800, said:

On Nov 14, 1:29 pm, C J Campbell
wrote:
On 2007-11-14 11:16:45 -0800, "Gig 601XL Builder"
wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net said:

C J Campbell wrote:

Eh. Why not wind-up springs or rubber bands? Or, better yet, some
large animal could be trained to pull a vehicle the size of a car. If
the animal was a plant-eater, it would be a continually renewable
source of energy. We could give the animal a name, such as 'horse,'
for 'horsepower.'

Nope, there are plenty of folks out there bitching about the carbon
footprint of livestock.

Which, I guess, is the point. No matter what you do, those guys will
complain. So why bother to do anything at all to address their
complaints?
--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

The best way is to shoot each and every person who compains about your
carbon footprint, and bury them 6 feet under.

Except for the lawyers. Them you bury 24 feet under, because deep down
they are really nice people.
--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor