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Politics : Manmade Global Warming, A hoax? A Scam? or a Doomsday Cult?
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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (3817)2/15/2014 12:01:31 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 4326
 
We are not discussing continuing with Yank Tanks. When the past is obsolete, new designs are required. Which doesn't mean a centrally planned Kremlin style one size fits all design for 4 fatties and a dog: <The operator wouldn't break a sweat, especially since they'd be sitting on a battery-powered machine which would do the heavy lifting, which wouldn't be very heavy at something like 100 kg, or maybe only 50kg. Some tiny city car batteries might be only 20 kg. The Segway I hired was light enough for me to lift and I could go for about 10km if I remember rightly. > As you can see, I described a variety of cars.

Neither does a car have to suit all purposes and people. Swarms of people have little cars. Those are the ones which would be most suitably replaced with fast swap battery cars, including for 200 km trips with four people in the car. Dirty great SUV Yank Tanks would remain on diesel, gasoline, or a Capstone turbine or something or other while the low-hanging fruit changed to fast-swap batteries.

<I thought we were talking about cars - sedans four people and a dog can take a family trip in>

"Hey, I know somebody who uses a huge vehicle to tow a large boat 500 km to the beach each weekend" isn't an argument that everyone else should not consider fast-swap little battery cars.

Try to think what I am describing rather than what I'm not.

Let's play spot the difference.






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