The Future

[sys]

mdh.

[The Big Train]

I don't see how much different this is than a kegerator*

[sys]

is a kegerator 3 km long and routed beneath a medieval town's streets?

[The Big Train]

It is not, but how is this different than a water pipeline?  I mean I guess for this POS town it may be futuristic, idk I just don't see it

[sys]

how is this different than a water pipeline?

it is filled with beer.  i swear you'd be able to answer these questions yourself if you tried.

[The Big Train]

how is this different than a water pipeline?

it is filled with beer.  i swear you'd be able to answer these questions yourself if you tried.

So a system that lets out the released carbonation?

I mean this isn't a quantum computer or anything. I'm not trying to be an ass or sarcastic

[sys]

So a system that lets out the released carbonation?

they probably have to toss the first little bit in the mornings.

[star seed 7]

sounds like it's a metered connection, so that wouldn't be ideal

[The Big Train]

Great read, guy is a true once in a generation

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/755929747763245061

[pissclams]

i like elon musk a lot (i mean his public persona, i haven't actually spent enough time around him to gauge his true character)

[Tobias]

is that a pissclamsbrag in the wild?

[CNS]

Wow.  The fleet thing is awesome too.

I want our state, and the surrounding ones, to install charge stations so I can leave for denver after work, wake up two or three times to plug the car in, then wake up in the morning in CO.  That would be awesome.

[Rage Against the McKee]

Wow.  The fleet thing is awesome too.

I want our state, and the surrounding ones, to install charge stations so I can leave for denver after work, wake up two or three times to plug the car in, then wake up in the morning in CO.  That would be awesome.

I think charging is too slow for stations to make much sense. It would be way better to have battery exchange stations. Just change them out like you do propane tanks.

[mocat]

[Emo EMAW]

Wow.  The fleet thing is awesome too.

I want our state, and the surrounding ones, to install charge stations so I can leave for denver after work, wake up two or three times to plug the car in, then wake up in the morning in CO.  That would be awesome.

I think charging is too slow for stations to make much sense. It would be way better to have battery exchange stations. Just change them out like you do propane tanks.

In the future charging will be nearly instantaneous.

[CNS]

Wow.  The fleet thing is awesome too.

I want our state, and the surrounding ones, to install charge stations so I can leave for denver after work, wake up two or three times to plug the car in, then wake up in the morning in CO.  That would be awesome.

I think charging is too slow for stations to make much sense. It would be way better to have battery exchange stations. Just change them out like you do propane tanks.

In the future charging will be nearly instantaneous.

From what I have read in the last year or two, we have the tech now to do this, but the concern is safety considering how stupid most American drivers are. 

[Rage Against the McKee]

Wow.  The fleet thing is awesome too.

I want our state, and the surrounding ones, to install charge stations so I can leave for denver after work, wake up two or three times to plug the car in, then wake up in the morning in CO.  That would be awesome.

I think charging is too slow for stations to make much sense. It would be way better to have battery exchange stations. Just change them out like you do propane tanks.

In the future charging will be nearly instantaneous.

Well, in the future it would be nice to have over-the-air charging infrastructure built into the roadways so that cars never need to stop to get a charge. We aren't nearly there yet and something needs to be done for the present, though.

[_33]

I just thought of an idea of making a car that runs on wind energy.  Because you know how when you're driving there is a lot of wind because of how fast you are going (if you don't believe me just stick your head out the window while driving down I-70 sometime), well that would produce the electricity to run the car.  Just have to figure out how to get the windmill on top of the car.

[Gooch]

Wow.  The fleet thing is awesome too.

I want our state, and the surrounding ones, to install charge stations so I can leave for denver after work, wake up two or three times to plug the car in, then wake up in the morning in CO.  That would be awesome.

I think charging is too slow for stations to make much sense. It would be way better to have battery exchange stations. Just change them out like you do propane tanks.

In the future charging will be nearly instantaneous.

Well, in the future it would be nice to have over-the-air charging infrastructure built into the roadways so that cars never need to stop to get a charge. We aren't nearly there yet and something needs to be done for the present, though.

Most states can barely keep the roads they have now passable. These new magic roads ain't coming anytime soon.

[Emo EMAW]

Wow.  The fleet thing is awesome too.

I want our state, and the surrounding ones, to install charge stations so I can leave for denver after work, wake up two or three times to plug the car in, then wake up in the morning in CO.  That would be awesome.

I think charging is too slow for stations to make much sense. It would be way better to have battery exchange stations. Just change them out like you do propane tanks.

In the future charging will be nearly instantaneous.

Well, in the future it would be nice to have over-the-air charging infrastructure built into the roadways so that cars never need to stop to get a charge. We aren't nearly there yet and something needs to be done for the present, though.

I mean the not so far future.  The technology exists today.  It just hasn't been commercialized yet.

[Dub]

Why not just make a badass battery and install the solar as the roof?

[The Big Train]

Guys I don't think you grasp the future, where we are going, we won't need roads.

[The Big Train]

Uhh where the eff do I grab one of these

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/23/parrot-disco/

[CNS]

That sounds like a crazy amt of fun.

[Rage Against the McKee]

I wonder what kind of range it has.