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Originally Posted by woodydel
People might call themselves engineers but they sure as hell are BRAIN DEAD!
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We're not all brain dead. Marketing and purchasing make all of the decisions without any thought of implementation. So many times there is nothing we can do but push ahead with a bad idea.
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Originally Posted by woodydel
Why aren't we using microwaves beamed from space where the Sun SHINES ALL THE TIME?
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Space is an absolutely brutal environment to operate in, solar radiation, meteors, repairs are impossible. Think of all the repairs that have had to be done to Hubble or the International Space Station, then picture a solar array that is several square miles in size.
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Originally Posted by woodydel
They were making ELECTRIC cars and trucks way before I was born. What is that supposed to be the sum total of their "inventiveness", a car with a battery?
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EVs would be much further along if big auto management weren't fighting them all the way. Take the EV1. Many Engineers pored there heart and soul into it and created a great car, but because of GM politics it got defective Delco batteries so never lived up to it's potential, saddled it with incompetent marketing and advertisement, lots of misinformation, and lawsuits to repeal the ZEV mandate.
Anyway Engineers have to do the best with what they got...which most of the time isn't much.