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Comment Re:Getting to be meaningless stat... (Score 1) 117

if you can find a way to reduce the power consumption

For many years, hypermilers have known many ways to do just that. The problem is that these ways are being ignored. I find this most exasperating. All this whining about range, but as soon as you improve the aerodynamics and thus the range, you get even louder whining about the supposed ugliness of the looks. The early 2000s Honda Insight is the most recent car I know of that has "skirts", wheel well covers. Dimples like on golf balls also help, and you don't want them all over, only on trailing edges. The Corbin Sparrow, an obscure electric vehicle, is the only one I know of that used dimples along the trailing edges. I suggested that truck trailers could use dimples, and this one idiot I knew even complained about that being ugly, as if he cared about the looks of grey boxes.

Worst of all on the aero is the refusal to cover the underside. Most people don't like driving around without a hood, but it's okay to have all this machinery and support hanging from the underside, in the open and creating more drag.

Another "duh" to save fuel is weight reduction. Weight snowballs, too. More weight means the car needs a bigger engine, which adds more weight, which forces the engine bay to get heavier to support that weight, which of course adds still more weight. One line that's nice to be on the good side, is light enough to not need power steering.

Comment Look over here! Mars, yeah!! (Score 1) 297

This is a classical Look-over-here strategy .

To much reporting about what the Dodge brothers are doing to the government and to people's private data, Tesla dealers burning, Tesla stock dropping, but...
... "look over here, Mars, cool? Right? Cool!"

Except that now the reaction is, "So the idiot will go to Mars next year???

While the image boost part of his strategy might not work, at least we're talking about Mars now, so that part still worked.

Comment Re: Thank you RFK Jr! (Score 1) 88

Yes.

It is especially funny, when the same company produces a variation with all natural colors for the EU market and a slightly more colorful artificial one for the US.

But the tendency to pour color into everything, I wouldn't blame it all on the FDA

Maybe if people had some cooking classes in school, they'd learn that sugar coating isn't bright white unless you add titanium dioxide, mint ice cream normally doesn't turn green, and cooked vegetables don't have the same bright color as fresh ones.

Latest thing I found: Green food color in pickles.

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