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Rahvin
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Message 18 of 33 (914587)
01-24-2024 11:35 PM
Reply to: Message 17 by GDR
01-24-2024 7:09 PM


Re: Maybe this is the answer
That video makes the car look like a perpetual motion machine. it says the car performs electrolysis onboard...that's great, but it doesnt say where it gets the power to do that.
The car engine is just a hydrogen combustion engine, and it uses water as a hydrogen storage medium. All wonderful...but it takes more energy to split water than you can get back by combusting it (turning it back into water) even if the engine was 100% dedicated to running the electrolysis, without even running the car. Entropy is a thing, and 100% efficiency does not exist.
If this were not so, we could solve a lot more than gasoline powered cars or lithium issues. This would be an infinite energy hack and it would prove the laws of thermodynamics wrong.
There's a massive gap there not explained in the video. The gap is roughly the size of the observable universe.
Curiously, I cant seem to find anything from Toyota about this engine. All I see are a few different AI-voiced videos that say much the same thing...and fail to say the missing thing.

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Rahvin
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Message 30 of 33 (917346)
04-03-2024 10:20 AM
Reply to: Message 25 by Percy
04-02-2024 8:52 AM


Re: The Full Self Driving Experience
We've had a Mustang mach-E for a little less than a year.
Ford has their own "assisted driving" feature. It only works on freeways, not surface streets, but I use it somewhat regularly. Works pretty well.
The one real issue is that it sometimes seems to detect a speed limit change and then will suddenly try to slow down from what I had set the speed to be. Happens in the same places repeatedly so I think it's a GPS hiccup with a parallel street that runs along the highway - the speed limit would match up. I just quickly re-set the speed and it continues just fine.
So far I've really liked going electric. I do miss my Mustang GT, but I work from home since Covid and we didnt need 2 cars any more, and the Mach-E works better for Costco runs or picking up family from the airport. We don't drive a lot so it actually charges just fine on a 120 outlet using the portable charger that came with the car - didn't need to install a new 240 circuit or anything.

-->“The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.” - Francis Bacon

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers

“A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.” – Albert Camus

"...the pious hope that by combining numerous little turds of variously tainted data, one can obtain a valuable result; but in fact, the outcome is merely a larger than average pile of shit." - Barash, David 1995...

"Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends." - Gandalf, J. R. R. Tolkien: The Lord Of the Rings

"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."
1 Corinthians 15:26King James Version (KJV)

-->Nihil supernum --> -->


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