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SubaruStephen:
--- Quote from: Papersatan on 02 Feb 2015, 09:40 ---Also LED bulbs don't give off uv light so they dont attract bugs!
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You mean I can get rid of the ugly yellow CFL bug lights I have outside my house?!?
:lol: :laugh:
Yay!
metastasis_d:
--- Quote from: Orkboy on 02 Feb 2015, 23:33 ---Electric cars aren't actually as good for the environment as you would think. The large battery banks used require a lot of extremely toxic materials, and it's not like those things last forever. In addition, a lot of the toxic components are manufactured in countries where things like tumor-riddled factory workers don't get on the news. So, yeah. Woo. I'm just waiting for my atomic car.
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Atomic, hydrogen, dark energy, dark matter, antimatter, gluons, quarks, angstroms, thalidomide, post-scarcity, quantum string theory, whatever car.
--- Quote ---Nuclear power is actually better than most other forms of power production, assuming you have the kind of modern fail-safes that were invented after Chernobyl. And if you use the kind of breeder reactors France uses, nuclear waste is recycled multiple times as additional fuel. Downside: With breeder reactors, the waste isn't moderately radioactive depleted uranium, it's very small amounts of motherfucking plutonium. The only really safe thing to do with plutonium is launch it into the sun. Or use it to blow up commies. Ya know, whichever.
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I don't know if we would need to do that, but I'm torn on nuclear weapons. On one hand, they're weapons and they're nuclear. On the other, I can imagine them being useful in various space operations, and I'm a big fan of space operations. Propulsion or some crazy engineering thing, or maybe we'll need them to fight an asteroid. So I think they should be around in case we want to make a hole in something bad or hack the planet or whatever.
But yeah I'm a fan of nuclear power.
--- Quote from: hedgie on 02 Feb 2015, 23:45 ---Well, a pick-up is a practical vehicle for a lot of people. A lot of my friends are either tradesmen, or otherwise have to haul heavy shit a lot of the time. I won't judge anyone for using one, even though they're not normally the most energy-efficient. And one can't always afford another vehicle.
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Whatever crazy energy-efficient vehicle technology they can come up with, I want a pickup truck version. And one that can be autonomous.
--- Quote --- The last time I drove one, though, I didn't like it. The seating was too high, compared to what I was used to, but I was the only person there besides the person whom I was driving who knew how to drive a standard transmission.
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Anti-theft devices.
hedgie:
Actually, I was wrong, it was the *owner* who could also drive a standard, and my passenger was just to shaken-up. Mea maxima culpa. But a standard is certainly useful to ward off thieves. I generally left my first car unlocked, since I never left anything that I cared about it in, and the clutch was so bad that my father was the only other person who could drive it.
Akima:
--- Quote from: Orkboy on 02 Feb 2015, 23:33 ---Electric cars aren't actually as good for the environment as you would think.
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Even if issues with the batteries can be overcome by improved manufacturing and recycling, which they probably can, the key question with electric cars is "How is the electricity that charges the batteries generated?" An EV might not have a tailpipe, but that does not mean it does not have an exhaust.
explicit:
That's the problem with a lot of things that use electricity, you kinda have to use whatever the grid is providing you with (unless you generate your own electricity) and sometimes the only sources they use are dirty fossil fuels. If they use natural gas, renewable sources or nuclear then yeah, it's probably better. You can find out what is used to generate your electricity at your power companies website.
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