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Old 04-10-2011, 12:40 PM  
Bill8
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a $120k car isn't an answer to anything, it's a toy for the rich.

a $50k car isn't an answer to anything, it's a status symbol for the liberal elite.

you need a pricepoint that the average family can afford, that can be manufactured and sold by the tens and hundreds of millions, to make a real impact, and counteract the price rise associated with the decline in the last remaining superfields of oil.

like I said, I've been watching the wave disk engine for a while, along with another dozen or so promising technologies.

all those technologies share one thing in common.

all of them are trapped in the prototype or theoretical stage, all of them are developing with glacial slowness (much like the tesla), and none of them are any closer to manufacturing than they were 2 or 3 or 5 or 10 or 20 years ago.

that's the big problem and the big puzzle - why are we so slow now?
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