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This nugget of comedy was in the Dallas Morning News last weekend. The guy sounds like some kind of delusional snake oil peddler... I wonder how many idiots he'll get to jump on his bandwagon? :punchout:

My favorite quote... "Until we get one built and see how it runs, we can't find a single flaw in it."

I'm working on a car that runs on butter.

Because free energy is such an obvious solution...

Any energy generated would be negated by the energy required to pump the water back up. Now if you lived in a very rainy enviroment, you could store a large resevoir on top of you car, and let the water run out of the bottom...

Oh and don't turn at all, or slow down, or speed up too quickly.

I think I'm going to patent the "hopes and dreams" carb. Runs on Unicorn blood and ground up fairies. Leprechauns will do in a pinch, but you may get knock if it's hot out.

Wow... I believe it was 7th grade science class where we learned that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. What an idiot. Is DMN trying to become the next National Enquirer?

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Originally Posted by cam76034

I'm working on a car that runs on butter.

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You get one that runs on bacon and you've got something...

Mmmmm... Bacon.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/prod...ueez-bacon.jpg

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Originally Posted by Dave04

You get one that runs on bacon and you've got something...

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That's a waste of Bacon.....

I notice he did not mention the speed at which the 220 genset will have to turn to generate any apreciable amount of power. So do you think he even calculated the fluid flow necassary to do the job and the power requirements of the pump to do it?

Just another dreamer

The government will just squash this like they did the 100 mpg carb.

Holy crap. I'm in the wrong line of work. Who needs a perpetual motion machine when you can create energy out of nothing with little more than a 12-volt battery and a pressurized water wheel? :roll:

I'm sure 12v (what is re-charging the battery?) can push a car and a hundred gallons of water down the road at a nice clip. Haters! :cat:

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Originally Posted by sammm

I'm sure 12v (what is re-charging the battery?) can push a car and a hundred gallons of water down the road at a nice clip. Haters! :cat:

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Dude, how dense are you? He's obviously recharging the battery with excess power from the 240-volt generator. Duh! :roll:

This is depressing:

For a while as a boy, he lived in a car in Lindsay, Okla., with his sister and mother. He bathed in the Washita River each morning before heading off to second grade.
"My intent is to get my idea into the hands of someone who can make it work," said Thompson, the father of eight children.

What really annoys me is the reporter at the DMN that couldn't do 5 minutes of research to understand just how implausible this scenario is and how newsworthy it isn't. It just perpetuates ignorance in elementary physics. You're a journalist for God's sake. Do your job.

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Originally Posted by Nails

This is depressing:

For a while as a boy, he lived in a car in Lindsay, Okla., with his sister and mother. He bathed in the Washita River each morning before heading off to second grade.

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Wouldn't that be considered upper middle class in Lindsay, OK???

::Rimshot:

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Originally Posted by jrj512

The government will just squash this like they did the 100 mpg carb.

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Originally Posted by Nails

For a while as a boy, he lived in a car in Lindsay, Okla., with his sister and mother. He bathed in the Washita River each morning before heading off to second grade.

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I bet the runoff in the water made him retarded... the article never says whether or not he made it past second grade.

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Originally Posted by POS Racing

Wouldn't that be considered upper middle class in Lindsay, OK???

::Rimshot:

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Be nice, I was born in Lindsay, OK.

Ever bathe in a river?;)

Would using heavy water be considered a performance upgrade?