As someone who doesn’t care about NASCAR one bit, I submit it is international. It’s at Daytona international speedway, and it’s so cool the Aussies took one look at it and said “fook mayte, look at em crazy ‘Mericans! We need that Dow-unda!” And V8 super cars was born.

I can haz Daytona 500?

The most impressive part of this video is the brakes on that thing when he rounds the corner and discovers the Clampet family log truck!

COTD!

Lord Vader is going to be pissed when he finds out:

The safest thing to do in life is to lie down on the floor and remain perfectly still. It's also a damned boring way to die.

I wouldn’t say they made no sense. They made perfect sense. They were a compact, high power package, before the turbines. Just imagine how big and heavy a 4300 hp liquid cooled V engine would be!

Pratt and Whitney R-4360 wasp engine. 4 rows of twincharged air cooled radial awesomeness! 4300 hp out of 3800 lbs.

If you look up “feral, unhinged beast” on the Internet a picture of this 911 should be the first last and only result.

Good post! I can appreciate a logical rational conversation like this!

This is true. I don't know if we cure cancer yet or not. From an industry standard it certainly is more profitable for them to sustain then cure. You hear these people argue there are cures but they refuse to release them. I honestly don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me either way.

That's very true. It wouldn't be the first time we subsidized something!

You’re correct, the intent of the catalyst is to eliminate harmful compounds and replace with more manageable CO2 and water.

You keep coming back to gasoline production, you’re right that should be included, but I’ve yet to see numbers from you on what that cost is. Post some.

Nice job ignoring my rebuttals to your posts. Don’t like facts do you? I’ve yet to see you post any, just your opinion. I like the personal insults too, that’s classy.

You’re the one cherry picking by wanting to avoid manufacturing because it doesn’t fit your narrative of electric cars being the savior of humanity. What matters is total environmental impact.

Ditto for electric cars. You need to look at the cost of mining and refining all the rare earth elements needed for electric cars. A Prius takes 2X as much carbon emissions to create as a regular car. Then there is the problem of what to do with that material once it’s worn out. You accuse me of cherry picking but the…

Here is a great article on boiler and energy production efficiency it’s just technical enough while breaking the complexities down:

The thing is no one ever looks at the total package. That’s like these people that gloat about how good their Prius is for the environment but ignore the massive manufacturing cost it puts on the environment. It takes 2x as much carbon emissions to make a Prius as it does to make a regular car.

It might, it might not, no one knows. Just like in the 70s global cooling was all the rage...