***The OFFICIAL Weekend Singles Thread*** April 25-27 - The Car (a liberal's enemy)

April 25, 2008 | WFTR

[Froufrou]

1. I just hope he picks someone who doesn’t flip-flip like Romney on abortion.

2. Longest drive, San Antonio to Seattle.

3. When driving, I wouldn’t say different, but I want more of ‘On the Road Again’ type songs.

[Nowhere Man]

WHY haven't FC’s that can handle Methanol or such been put out there for at least a “full test” nationwide, involving perhaps 10000 different vehicles, of different types, for about a year or more?? or perhaps standby “generators’ or micro power stations to power businesses and such?? (There are a FEW of these—but there need to be MANY more, to get them to be accepted by the “average Jane or Joe” who often do NOT have ANY idea of what a fuel cell even is.)

I DO know(or at least have been told or read) that many FC’s need to “warm up” to operational temperature, of a few hundred degrees or so, before they will react properly and produce power. this MIGHT be a problem, and necessitate some kind of “preheater” device, especially in the cold times or areas.

I always thought that if we would use ethanol or methanol, we should use the waste by products of food instead of food itself, that way, it would not "eat" into our food products plus we'd be using what would be waste anyways. IIRC, I think Indy Cars and a Formula Ones use methanol as fuel. As to the pre-heater, cars have batteries anyways so we can fire up the pre-heater from the batteries (like glow-plugs in a diesel engine) from the existing 12 volt battery.

[Nowhere Man]

I have to agree, the CD player has some metal construction, it is somewhat heavy and it plays well, I tried it with headphones. We bought a Zenith 25 inch console TV in early 1983 and we are still watching it today, it was made in 1982. Our microwave is from 1985 and it still works.