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Running Target  Group: Members Posts: 1,333 Joined: 19-August 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9,168  |
Sheesh. All you people and your "Science."
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Oct 9 2006, 09:22 PM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
i take it some people have not heard about the burning laptops lately, or the major battery recall that sony have done. as i have begun to understand, current lithium-ion and lithium-polymer batteries loves to violently burn when they become to hot. now scale those up to the size of modern day car batteries and one should maybe start to worry. however, i did read something about a company making rechargable batteries out of silver. for one thing they didnt have the instability of said lithium based batteries. |
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Oct 9 2006, 09:27 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,333 Joined: 19-August 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9,168 |
The downside of that is all the poor bastards that took "Moderate Allergy: Silver" for 10 bps.... |
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Oct 9 2006, 10:55 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 433 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Somewhere in Iraq Member No.: 1,789 |
Most of the electric cars though are ran by the GridGuide system so they don't have that large of capacitors for energy storage. They might have enough to run for about 2-3 hours but not enough to make a crater. Besides, by 2070 (as well as being in a universe that ignores and/or bends the basic laws of science) car manufacturers should be able have grounded or found ways around the exploding car battery of doom. Having them as the standard and norm instead of the exception also might have accelerated the manufacture and development of non-explosive electric car batteries.
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Oct 10 2006, 01:29 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 633 Joined: 23-February 06 Member No.: 8,301 |
I don't much expect cars to be high explosive devices, but it evokes an interesting image to describe to the group with a car suffers critical damage. Much like hollywood cars explode in a fireball bigger than they ever could in reality, cars in my game might unleash a blinding hail of sparks and a pulse that you can feel in your gut.
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Oct 10 2006, 02:51 AM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
literaly if you have a cyberheart :P
allso, whats cheaper? creating new non-explosive batteries, or using explosive ones and bribing the legal system to look the other way? |
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