So why don't they engineer the damned things properly?

[polaris93]

Banner Notes - Yeah, she's really going green now.

A hydrogen-burning car would be really nice . . . if it weren't made out of pasteboard and paper-clips. Somehow the damned Greens never seem to understand that their "solutions" to environmental problems have to work in the real world -- you know, the one where physics, chemistry, and biology

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[mauser]

Protecting human life is not a Liberal value, and this is reflected in their automotive designs.

After all, if you die in a crash, you won't be driving one of those horrible pollution factories any more, right? /snark.

[polaris93]

A lot of them aren't even smart enough to figure that out. Remember what you said about never ascribing something to intent when stupidity will explain it nicely? This one was likely in the "stupid" category. The damn liberals can't plan, can't think, can't reason, can't even tie their shoelaces unassisted at times. So I'm chalking the way that car was(n't) built up to stupidity.

[polaris93]

You know what? You'd get no loss in the form of carbon footprints if you put a hydrogen-burning engine and the rest of the assembly into an SUV body. If the horsepower was too low with such a good, sturdy example of American automotive smarts, then you could add more burners or otherwise beef the motor and engine up, too, without generating any carbon in the process. Now: why didn't the builders of that little abomination think of that?

[mauser]

Well, IIRC, the story said the little golf cart came from India, which isn't well known for its automotive designs. It might be suitable for tooling around the alleyways of Calcutta, but not in a Western city.

[galadrion]

Wait - this thing got completely destroyed by a small, Czechoslovakian car?!?

Somebody go tell the Ford Pinto that it's been exonerated...

[polaris93]

Yep. And yep. Disgusting, ain't it?

SUV bodies hydrogen engines

[polaris93]

You know what? You'd get no loss in the form of carbon footprints if you put a hydrogen-burning engine and the rest of the assembly into an SUV body. If the horsepower was too low with such a good, sturdy example of American automotive smarts, then you could add more burners or otherwise beef the motor and engine up, too, without generating any carbon in the process. Now: why didn't the builders of that little abomination think of that?

Re: SUV bodies hydrogen engines

[galadrion]

Now: why didn't the builders of that little abomination think?

Sentence had redundant words; fixed that for you. *wink*