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# Wow, you're a genius
If only the motor car industry had thought of this, they never would have built them!

Forget doing years of feasability studies and cost/benefit analyses, your cartoon clinches it.
(I helped save b3ta! chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Thu 14 May 2009, 12:07, archived)
# *handbag*
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Thu 14 May 2009, 12:14, archived)
# It's just like that stupid Humvee/Prius comparison
It annoys me when people are desperate to drag us backwards.
(I helped save b3ta! chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Thu 14 May 2009, 12:22, archived)
# I've got a vauxhall.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Thu 14 May 2009, 12:23, archived)
# I've just got a normal hall
but my living room is quite plush
(I helped save b3ta! charlie brown doesn't have a dog but still enjoys shitbagging, Thu 14 May 2009, 12:49, archived)
# um, the motor industry make what they can sell
they're not really into hard ethics
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Thu 14 May 2009, 12:17, archived)
# They've currently made a lot that they can't sell too.
LOLOLOL
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Thu 14 May 2009, 12:19, archived)
# never said they were.
(I helped save b3ta! chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Thu 14 May 2009, 12:20, archived)
# you said "If only the motor car industry had thought of this, they never would have built them!"
the reality is: if punters thought of this, the motor industry would never have built them
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Thu 14 May 2009, 12:24, archived)
# but plenty of people have thought of this, both in the motor industry and outside.
and the idea is complete nonsense.
(I helped save b3ta! chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Thu 14 May 2009, 12:29, archived)
# i think the point of the cartoon is that changing energy from one state to another requires more energy
and that the folk buying the cars are ignoring the increased energy demand because it's going on elsewhere. hydrogen cars solve urban pollution problems, but that's about it
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Thu 14 May 2009, 12:39, archived)
# My point is merely
that the energy to make the hydrogen has to come from somewhere.
(Half of Stephen Fry's right buttock pissed on your dog on, Thu 14 May 2009, 12:29, archived)
# it costs energy to extract fossil fuels too.
(I helped save b3ta! chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Thu 14 May 2009, 12:39, archived)
# yes, but if you then burn the fossil fuels to make hydrogen it takes even more energy
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Thu 14 May 2009, 12:45, archived)