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What is the most viable form of alternative energy to power the airline and truc
« on: June 12, 2010, 10:34:46 AM »
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What is the most viable form of alternative energy to power the airline and trucking industries?
   
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This should be good.

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3. I think airliners should be built as giant manual ornithopters
   
Each row of seats could have a lever, and the plane would fly as long as everybody kept it flapping. Passengers would get exercise, and there wouldn't be any more BS about seat-kicking, or loud talkers, or other annoyances.

Trucks, of course, should be replaced by giant zeppelins...

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4. Makes sense!

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6. Apathy
   
Stop caring. About most everything. Stop buying shit. Stop consuming so ****ing much. At the end of the day then, less will be shipped.

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11. A giant underground pneumatic tube system
   
Like the ones they use at bank drive-ups but bigger.

Fresh camp fire, bound to be more great ideas soon.  :lmao:
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Re: What is the most viable form of alternative energy to power the airline and truc
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2010, 10:39:15 AM »
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6. Apathy
   
Stop caring. About most everything. Stop buying shit. Stop consuming so ****ing much. At the end of the day then, less will be shipped.

Now wait a minute this DUmmy has a great idea. If everyone did this the economy would fall even faster and no one could afford to burn any more fossil fuels Mother Gia will be saved hip hip hooray!!!!111111

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Re: What is the most viable form of alternative energy to power the airline and truc
« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2010, 10:48:58 AM »
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2. I think your premise is wrong. Rather, ask
 "What can we do to drastically reduce the amount of fuel consumed by airliners & trucks?"

The answer, in my opinion, is to replace both with rail. An energy-efficient high-speed rail line from coast to coast (300 mph) would actually be faster than flying when you take all the time-consuming airport hassles into account. A rejuvenated freight system could replace trucks for all but short hauls, with immense savings in energy, road repairs, etc.
 


Which once again shows the simple minded stupidity of the DUmp...they actually think that they can board a train anywhere and get off at a destination of their choice nonstop.

There would still be hubs and switching trains to make it flow just like they do with airlines.
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« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2010, 11:10:08 AM »
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3. I think airliners should be built as giant manual ornithopters
   
Each row of seats could have a lever, and the plane would fly as long as everybody kept it flapping. Passengers would get exercise, and there wouldn't be any more BS about seat-kicking, or loud talkers, or other annoyances.

Trucks, of course, should be replaced by giant zeppelins...

:lmao:

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Re: What is the most viable form of alternative energy to power the airline and truc
« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2010, 11:16:26 AM »
When stupid ='s energy....problem solved.

I really like the DUmmies vaccum tube idea...except we build it above ground so the Muslims can blow it up occassionally.
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Re: What is the most viable form of alternative energy to power the airline and truc
« Reply #5 on: June 12, 2010, 03:38:07 PM »
The whole premise is wrong. Its not the amount of gas we get from oil its what we do with the rest of oil thats the problem. Using oil to make gas to fuel cars trucks tanks and Aircraft is nothing compared to what the other uses for oil are.

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Re: What is the most viable form of alternative energy to power the airline and truc
« Reply #6 on: June 12, 2010, 03:41:48 PM »
Quote from: Ballygrl on June 12, 2010, 11:10:08 AM
:lmao:

OK, a DUmmie made a funny!

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Re: What is the most viable form of alternative energy to power the airline and truc
« Reply #7 on: June 12, 2010, 04:23:45 PM »
Never fear DUmmies, I have your solution. Everything should run on electricity.

First you get these reallllly long extension cords .....
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Re: What is the most viable form of alternative energy to power the airline and truc
« Reply #8 on: June 12, 2010, 04:43:07 PM »
I haz duh solution.

It's safe to assume that half of the cars/trucks are going uphill when the other half is going downhill. Sooooooo, we put all of them on a cable system. The half going downhill will pull the half going uphill over the hill thus they become the energy source required to pull the next one up the hill. We will only need to add in just a little energy to cover for little old lady school teachers that only drive their cars to school where it is down hill both ways.

To hell with walking like an Egyptian, engineering like a DUmmie is more fun.
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Re: What is the most viable form of alternative energy to power the airline and truc
« Reply #9 on: June 13, 2010, 05:03:37 AM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on June 12, 2010, 04:43:07 PM
I haz duh solution.



To hell with walking like an Egyptian, engineering like a DUmmie is more fun.
EXACTLY!
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Re: What is the most viable form of alternative energy to power the airline and truc
« Reply #10 on: June 13, 2010, 05:24:05 AM »
Quote from: Carl on June 12, 2010, 10:48:58 AM

Which once again shows the simple minded stupidity of the DUmp...they actually think that they can board a train anywhere and get off at a destination of their choice nonstop.

There would still be hubs and switching trains to make it flow just like they do with airlines.
Well, there is that small issue that rail does NOT travel in a mostly straight line nor at speeds of 500+ MPH like the jet airliners do. Instead of boarding the plane at 10AM Sunday morning in L.A. and ending up in your hotel room in N.Y.C. with dinner in your belly at 7PM, you would board the train in L.A. at 7AM on Friday and spend THREE DAYS crossing the continent in your little 300 MPH train. We won't even discuss how much fuel a locomotive engine or three consumes over days compared to a jet aeroplane. Especially today's new high efficiency jet engines coupled with vastly reduced weight airplanes built with composite materials.

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« Reply #11 on: June 13, 2010, 05:45:57 AM »
Quote from: PatriotGame on June 13, 2010, 05:24:05 AM
DUmmys are so DUmb! This is like making fun of retards!

Not really.  Most of the mentally deficient didn't do anything to deserve their status.

The DUmb****s, OTOH, . . .
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« Reply #12 on: June 13, 2010, 06:09:18 AM »
Quote from: BlueStateSaint on June 13, 2010, 05:45:57 AM
Not really.  Most of the mentally deficient didn't do anything to deserve their status.

The DUmb****s, OTOH, . . .

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« Reply #13 on: June 13, 2010, 08:23:41 AM »
I bet if they were told that pizza and cheese doodles were made from oil they would drop this "ban oil" mantra faster than a blacksmith with a hole in his glove....
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« Reply #14 on: June 13, 2010, 10:19:48 AM »
Two words, Unicorn Farts.
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Two words, Unicorn Farts.

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« Reply #16 on: June 13, 2010, 11:16:27 AM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on June 13, 2010, 10:41:31 AM
...and Unicorn farts don't smell so therefore there isn't any sulfur to pollute the air when burned.....now, where can we find some unicorns.

According to the song, when the great flood came, the unicorns were "playing silly games" when Noah had to lock down the ark.... 

Silly, silly unicorns....
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« Reply #17 on: June 13, 2010, 12:18:16 PM »
Quote from: diesel driver on June 13, 2010, 11:16:27 AM
According to the song, when the great flood came, the unicorns were "playing silly games" when Noah had to lock down the ark.... 

Silly, silly unicorns....

The truth is Noah gave them the wrong departure time.....

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« Reply #18 on: June 13, 2010, 03:10:35 PM »
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« Reply #19 on: June 14, 2010, 10:02:25 AM »
Here's another DUmmie idea I found.

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« Reply #20 on: June 14, 2010, 10:11:48 AM »
I see stupidity still reigns supreme at the DUmp.



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