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   Amy Blankenship to Don   
   Re: Stupid Car   
   26 Feb 08 11:32:16   
   
   XPost: alt.planning.urban   
   From: Amy_nospam@magnoliamultimedia.com   
      
   "Don"  wrote in message   
   news:fq1b13013o3@news5.newsguy.com...   
   >   
   > "Jack May"  wrote in message   
   > news:5IudnWp4z9OpAl7anZ2dnUVZ_jadnZ2d@comcast.com...   
      
   >> There is not enough surface area on a car for enough solar cells to keep   
   >> the batteries charged for reasonable use.   
   >   
   > Yet.   
   > Soon, my idea of accellerated solar cell performance will hit the market   
   > and heads will swivel.   
   > It involves bonding chips back to back and suspending them over a fresnel   
   > lens enhanced mirror and the whole thing is bathed in isopropyl coolant   
   > under another fresnel and all of it measures less than .001" thick, the   
   > thickness of paint.   
      
   That's nothing on the older idea of strapping buttered toast to the backs of   
   cats to create a perpetual motion machine.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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