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  • There was a guy in the 1970s during the oil embargo that figured out you can run a V8 on literal gas fumes and get 100mpg. He drove about 200 miles to prove it. Car companies studied the car. It was true, but the car had no power; like 0 to 60 in a minute or something. It was bad for the engine, it needed a system that heated the gas and pressurized it, over complicated and basically a bomb under the car. The conspiracy is the car companies just agreed not to make it in a backroom deal with OPEC.








  • My first car had electrical problems. I had to go through the trunk if I locked it. It wouldn’t start and I gave up trying to figure out where the problem was so I always pushed started it. I always left a note on the window saying the door was open, please dont break the windows. I can’t start it with the key. There’s nothing in here to steal.

    About once a week I’d see my door open, but nothing destroyed. It also helped it was a manual transmission. I bought it for $1800 and sold it for $1200 after adding 50k miles. 1995 civic











  • Started looking into what liquids they are using and realized i was reading treatment chemicals they add to the boiler water. I know there’s some reactors that use molten salt, but they are just used as energy transfer to… the boiler full of water. Lol. The properties of water expansion from liquid to steam probably can’t be beat or it’s qualities of cheap, simple, good enough.