Posted on 09/26/2008 9:04:23 PM PDT by Reaganesque
Unfortunately, the driver of the SSC in that record run died a couple months ago in an ultralight test. I got to the airport about 30 minutes later.
Actually meant “ultralight crash”. Chuck Bigelow, 71, was a well-liked man.
for the renewable energy ping list
Several years between charges — reminds me of the Segway. Lotta hype, will it deliver? Only their barber knows for sure.
If I had a dollar for every projected new scientific breakthrough that was just around the corner, that never materialized, I’d have two or three dollars... well maybe twenty.
It would be nice. I’m looking forward to the February revelation that probably won’t come. LOL
Okay maybe it will.
you know the segway gets a bad rap, but I sort of thought they might build the first widely available robot off of its platform...
The car is VERY cool.
And the driver/pilot must have been an incredible man to be so active on the cutting edge into his 70’s ...Da*mn I should be so lucky !
I am skeptical. Years between charges is only part of the issue since it doesn’t say how many miles between charges. I am not aware of any current battery technology in which batteries can hold a charge for that long even without being used. Battery development tends to be incremental and to come up with such a dramatically advanced battery out of the blue is questionable.
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