Favorite youtube video

[Grall]

Britain = white trash-land of Europe.

Always whenever there's a story in the papers here about "my 6-year-old is smoking" "my 11-year-old is pregnant", "my 8-year-old weighs 80 kilos" the article has been borrowed from a brit tabloid.

 

[Gubbi]

Cheers

 

[gamervivek]

Classic

bwahahhaah the daughter is embarrassed that her mother's getting more action at her age

bet she never saw that coming when she was having teen-age angst of "I can sleep with whomever I want, whenever I want"

PS- she also gets money hahaha

PPS - the daughter should be proud that her mother the world's first prostitute grandma.

 

[Sxotty]

Not really sure why people think free soloing is super cool, but whatever. Funnily enough once I led a climb with some dude watching. He was talking lots about how bad ass he was and he always free soloed. So I rap off and clean the route, he starts up gets about 12 feet up and falls on his arse. Maybe he learned his lesson the easy way, who knows.

 

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[KimB]

Well, with the gay rights stuff that's been on the rise lately (due to the rash of gay suicides in the US), I thought these two videos were just fantastic:

(Copious use of the word "fuck" enclosed...)

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

Jaguar's new electric/hydrogen concept car.

0 to 60mph in 3.4 seconds, cranks out 780bhp courtesy of a quartet of electric motors and a pair of micro gas turbines, and reaches a screaming 205mph at its absolute zenith. You can go for 68 miles just on electric juice or 560 if you let the gasworks recharge the Li-ion battery pack on the go. So it's gorgeous inside and out, it comes with swan doors, high-res LCD screens and an aluminum body

More info here.

 

[Davros]

so the turbines just recharge the battery ?

Looks like a Spyker

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

so the turbines just recharge the battery ?

Dunno, it doesn't say if the two mini-gas turbines are for the power train or just the electric power generation system.

Looks like a Spyker

I think the Jag looks nicer - much more refined and less "busy" than the Spyker body shape. Look at the size of the wheels, the teardrop shape of the roof, continuous rear quarter windows and the way the rear curves around.

I presume the Spyker isn't a 200 mph electric car though...?

 

[Davros]

No, but it does sound fabulous, unlike the jag

ps: have you seen the interior

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

No, but it does sound fabulous, unlike the jag

ps: have you seen the interior

Yeah, and I've seen that Top Gear. To me, the Spyker (both inside and out) looks like it was made by a man in a shed. The Jag looks like it was made by a Culture warship out of liquid metal:

There are more articles with more details at Automoblog and Car.

 

[Grall]

The Jag looks like it was made by a Culture warship out of liquid metal

That's clearly prototype/mockup interior. No way such a car would be certified for use on public roads with a glowing dashboard that fucks up your night vision... Looks nice, but completely impractical in real use.

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

That's clearly prototype/mockup interior. No way such a car would be certified for use on public roads with a glowing dashboard that fucks up your night vision... Looks nice, but completely impractical in real use.

Probably the interior lights only come on when the doors are open - like most other cars today.

 

[Mintmaster]

so the turbines just recharge the battery ?

If you have 780 HP electric, do you care?

Looks like a Spyker

Doesn't look very similar to me at all, especially after looking at the Top Gear video.

 

[aaronspink]

so the turbines just recharge the battery ?

Yes. The parent of Jaguar also took a stake in the company that makes the turbines the same day the car was unveiled. The energy conversion using the micro-turbines is apparently much more efficient than conventional combustion engines.

 

[Mintmaster]

The energy conversion using the micro-turbines is apparently much more efficient than conventional combustion engines.

Do you have any source for that? In general, turbine engines are less efficient than piston engines. The reason they're used in aircraft is their mechanical simplicity and thus reliability.

 

[Davros]

did you see when topgear built a car they used the same idea but had a diesel generator charging the batteries

 

[Grall]

The energy conversion using the micro-turbines is apparently much more efficient than conventional combustion engines.

Perhaps so, but turbines tend to be ear-shatteringly noisy sons of bitches, and spew lots of NOx compounds (which are quite unhealthy, as we all know.)

How have they solved those two issues?

 

[MfA]

Lean burning gas turbines aren't that bad NOx wise are they?

 

[Gubbi]

Lean burning gas turbines aren't that bad NOx wise are they?

Even if they are, scrubbing the exhaust gases with ammonia greatly reduces the problem.

Cheers