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Old 07-03-2008, 12:54 PM  
Sly
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Originally Posted by jetjet View Post
this does sound a little extreme.... so all the brightest engineers working for all of the biggest manufacturers are missing something that is that huge??

these kinds of stories have been coming out for decades, never seem to amount to anything

if it's true though, the effects on the entire world's economy are hinging on some dude in Ohio, guess we can always hope
There are all sorts of technologies that we don't know about, and the reason we don't is often because of cost. Engineers are often limited in what they can really do because of cost.

This specific car may or may not get 110 mpg... but what's going to hold it back is the cost of getting it set up. If it costs $100,000... right now it wouldn't make sense. But as prices rise for energy and the cost of implementing the system drops, it could become quite feasible.
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