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ThorGoLucky
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Posted - 01/30/2013 :  18:26:26  Show Profile  Visit ThorGoLucky's Homepage Send ThorGoLucky a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I almost posted this in the Humor section, but the inventor seems serious...and clueless.

http://www.odditycentral.com/news/chinese-farmer-builds-wind-powered-car.html





Edited by - ThorGoLucky on 01/30/2013 21:32:53

sailingsoul
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Posted - 01/31/2013 :  02:56:06   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send sailingsoul a Private Message  Reply with Quote
The video is a hoot. The reporter says (@1:50) "(he) insisted I take a ride", it's only got one seat! So he side stradles her to the trunk and drives off! This inventor does not take "No Way" from anyone, not reporters or even physics.

There are only two types of religious people, the deceivers and the deceived. SS
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TG
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Posted - 01/31/2013 :  08:04:49   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send TG a Private Message  Reply with Quote
1.21 Gigawatts?

1.21 GIGAWATTS!!!
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BigPapaSmurf
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Posted - 01/31/2013 :  11:46:20   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send BigPapaSmurf a Private Message  Reply with Quote
What the hell is a jig-a-watt?!


"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History

"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini
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Randy
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Posted - 01/31/2013 :  15:42:54   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Randy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf

What the hell is a jig-a-watt?!




A gigawatt is a 1,000 megawatts. Wiki shows a gigawatt is about ballpark output for a nuclear power facility. I worked at a 400 acre solar facility rated at 30 megawatts -- power for about 5,000 homes.
That's quite a powerful little putt-putt car he has there.


"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."

"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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Kil
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Posted - 01/31/2013 :  18:49:40   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf

What the hell is a jig-a-watt?!


Ask Doc Brown! He knows.

He was the inventor of the "flux capacitor" after all, silly.


Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.

Why not question something for a change?

Genetic Literacy Project
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On fire for Christ
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Norway
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Posted - 02/02/2013 :  21:55:16   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send On fire for Christ a Private Message  Reply with Quote
LOL 5000 years of civilization and they come up with this. HAHA

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