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What do P.O.'s have to say about this?

Unread postby Riddick » Sat 27 May 2006, 09:08:31

100 miles with 4 ounces. Revolutionary, unfortunately our government will never allow it to happen. An even more compelling reason why our current idiotic administration and its lunatic pre-emptive strike policy needs to go. I find it incredibly ironic that the military wants to develop Hummers that use this engine. Unbelievable.

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Re: What do P.O.'s have to say about this?

Unread postby TheTurtle » Sat 27 May 2006, 09:18:55

Peak Water? :P
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Re: What do P.O.'s have to say about this?

Unread postby markam » Sat 27 May 2006, 09:41:43

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')hat do P.O.'s have to say about this?


The same same that we have said the 817 other times that this topic has been brought up. It is total BS.
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Re: What do P.O.'s have to say about this?

Unread postby Riddick » Sat 27 May 2006, 09:44:35

Yeah, what if it's not? Kind of shatters the P.O. reality doesn't it?
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Re: What do P.O.'s have to say about this?

Unread postby mekrob » Sat 27 May 2006, 09:45:28

This is absolute BS. Water is not a fuel. It is not a source of energy. That is why we use it to fight fires!!! He's uses a massive battery to split up the water into hydrogen and then burning the hydrogen. So he's not using water as a fuel, just the hydrogen of the water as a 'carrier' of the fuel. It would be much more efficient to just use his battery. He probably could have gone 200 miles for the amount of electricity that he used to break up that 4 ounces of water. But he'd rather be a dumbass and get his name in the papers and face on the news. Good for him.
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Re: What do P.O.'s have to say about this?

Unread postby markam » Sat 27 May 2006, 09:57:05

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')eah, what if it's not? Kind of shatters the P.O. reality doesn't it?


Yeah, but it is. I would be willing to bet (any amount) that at no time in the future will you be able to buy a car that runs on water. I will even give you million to one odds.
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Re: What do P.O.'s have to say about this?

Unread postby killJOY » Sat 27 May 2006, 10:07:28

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')ater is not a fuel. It is not a source of energy. That is why we use it to fight fires!!!


Love it!

And if the obvious doesn't sway him, what will???
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Re: What do P.O.'s have to say about this?

Unread postby Riddick » Sat 27 May 2006, 13:18:09

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('killJOY', 'A')nd if the obvious doesn't sway him, what will???



I really hope you're not referring to me here. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say that you weren't; however, if this is not the case all I did was post a video clip and ask for opinions and then I get attacked like a boy scout troop vacationing at the Neverland Ranch.

And you shitheads wonder why I haven't posted anything in over a year.
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Re: What do P.O.'s have to say about this?

Unread postby Zardoz » Sat 27 May 2006, 14:27:03

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Riddick', '.')..And you shitheads wonder why I haven't posted anything in over a year.


No, we shitheads don't wonder at all, if this is the kind of posting you've been doing.

Come on, man. You're citing "Wimp.com" and a gee-whiz, kid-stuff, deny-all-laws-of-physics, deny-all-common-sense, deny-all-basic-logic, lame-ass, brain-dead video, and you wonder why you get laughed at?

You actually think we shitheads are the ones who have the problem. God almighty!

I'm sorry bud, but things are not going to go on like they always have. We can kiss those Lexus GS430s and Mercedes CSL500s goodbye. The Corvette ZO6 and the Cadillac Escalade are going to be allocated to the landfills of history. Forget any dreams of bombing around lakes in 800-HP speedboats ten years from now. You will NOT be vacationing in 40-foot-long motorhomes in the future.

Get over it. A whole new powered-down age is dawning. The Hot Rod Magazine age is about to come to a close.

"Shattering the PO reality..." Give us a god-damned break.
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Re: What do P.O.'s have to say about this?

Unread postby TheTurtle » Sat 27 May 2006, 14:56:45

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Riddick', 'Y')eah, what if it's not? Kind of shatters the P.O. reality doesn't it?


And what if there were 50 Gazillion barrels of sweet light sitting under my back yard? That too would shatter the P.O. reality and I would suddenly find myself richer than Bill Gates.

Ahhh ... fantasy is such a lovely pastime ... :-D
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Re: What do P.O.'s have to say about this?

Unread postby markam » Sat 27 May 2006, 16:25:06

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheTurtle', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Riddick', 'Y')eah, what if it's not? Kind of shatters the P.O. reality doesn't it?


And what if there were 50 Gazillion barrels of sweet light sitting under my back yard? That too would shatter the P.O. reality and I would suddenly find myself richer than Bill Gates.

Ahhh ... fantasy is such a lovely pastime ... :-D


Not me. Surface and subsurface rights are severed in pennsylvania, so probably some coal company would become richer than Bill Gates, not me. [smilie=angry2.gif]
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Re: What do P.O.'s have to say about this?

Unread postby mekrob » Sat 27 May 2006, 16:37:42

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Riddick', '1')00 miles with 4 ounces. Revolutionary, unfortunately our government will never allow it to happen. An even more compelling reason why our current idiotic administration and its lunatic pre-emptive strike policy needs to go. I find it incredibly ironic that the military wants to develop Hummers that use this engine. Unbelievable.

http://www.wimp.com/fuelwater/


You don't seem to be only asking for opinions. You are giving your own, right here. You seem to think that it's real by calling it revolutionary, saying our government won't allow it (no, physics won't allow it), etc. You seem to be completely in acceptance of this and that's why you're getting trashed. You didn't think at all about the physics or energy that is involved, otherwise you would have come to the conclusion that this is just doesn't work. Instead, you maintain that our government is at fault.
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Re: What do P.O.'s have to say about this?

Unread postby Riddick » Sat 27 May 2006, 22:07:43

I've been a member longer than all three of you. Do some research into my posts. I've worked for our so-called wonderful govt. And I actually believe that P.O. is real.

What I don't need is to post a few things and then get attacked for them, even if they've been covered before.

Do you clowns do this to newbies too? What a way to welcome new people that might or might not know everything about physics, science and maybe on the fence about P.O.

The test is complete. Nothing has changed on this site except the addition of a few more assholes.
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Re: What do P.O.'s have to say about this?

Unread postby azreal60 » Sun 28 May 2006, 02:43:21

I would say it is long exposure to people just trolling away with dumb ideas that has people ready with stock answers to their questions. It's just, come on, if you post something dumb, be prepared to be thought dumb. The few times I've made a dumb ass remark, I at least had the politeness to blush about it.

That, and Mekrob is correct, you wheren't asking for opinions about weither that was correct or not, you where asking people to go on a Bush bashing fest. While I'm always up for that, at least bash the man for the things he's actually responsible for, not fairyland nonsense.

Long and the short, if they thought you where just making an honest mistake, I think your reception would have been a bit gentler. I've seen people come in here and post junk, and they at least got the chance to be corrected before people brought out the phasers set on kill. You however as you said have been on this site long enough to know better. Which is why you got the response you got.

However, I do think he has a point. Unless the person is obviously trolling guys and gals, do try to at least make an attempt to reason with them. Only when they start sputtering denials of reality should you bring out the shotguns.
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Re: What do P.O.'s have to say about this?

Unread postby killJOY » Sun 28 May 2006, 05:38:49

Riddick, this forum doesn't amount to a hill of beans in the great scheme of things. You need to develop a thick skin or you're going to waste psychic energy over nothing.
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Re: What do P.O.'s have to say about this?

Unread postby Riddick » Sun 28 May 2006, 09:23:17

I wasn't trolling. I did it to prove a point. I remember participating in a bunch of threads that revolved around the topic of "getting P.O. into the mainstream" or something like that; and, there were a lot of us that wanted to "spread the word" so to speak but we all found that most sheeple looked at the subject in a shaky light: as in difficult to understand; or the majority of people believe that there's plenty of oil, the CEO's are just war profiteering; or my favorite - "they'll just switch over to something else". We also found that a lot of people seemed to associate the P.O. crowd with conspiracy theorists, so there was a lot of resistance that way too.

My point? Although I didn't come out and say, "what are your opinions, please?", the title of the topic was in the form of a question. The immediate response was to swarm and destroy. I couldn't help but think that if a new person posted something like that, they would probably never come back if that was the response they got. No one likes a know-it-all and that goes double for a know-it-all who degrades a person who the know-it-all thinks isn't as informed as they are.

I've actually had acquaintances in the past that approached me about P.O. and I've pointed them to this site. They had a few questions and opinions but got berated in the same manor. Now they think P.O. is a scam and think that anyone who is a P.Oiler is a nut. So much for spreading the word to the mainstream.

Sorry to step on anyone's toes but it sure didn't take long for some of us to go from 0-90 in the blink of an eye. Yes I fanned the fires in a hurry too, but if you read the post from the beginning, no one offered any scientific points on why this wouldn't work (they just said it was horsehit and then moved on - I learned in college that anyone can have an opinion but if it is not backed up by some facts then the opinion is horseshit too). I could've done a thread search for this but how many people would do that (especially new people)?

Maybe it's because we all know how critical the situation has become and we're feeling helpless to act, thus we're hyper-sensitive to the issue. Maybe it's because some of us like to rip into a stranger once in awhile to blow off some steam....from the safety of our computers.

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Re: What do P.O.'s have to say about this?

Unread postby killJOY » Sun 28 May 2006, 09:31:31

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') did it to prove a point. I remember participating in a bunch of threads that revolved around the topic of "getting P.O. into the mainstream" or something like that; and, there were a lot of us that wanted to "spread the word" so to speak but we all found that most sheeple looked at the subject in a shaky light


This is, sadly, the truth. Two and a half years later, I'm not so infatuated with my own motives.

I can deliver information, but others are responsible for informing themselves.

My editorial columns, postings, and even class topics on PO have not the lit the fire I originally set out to light. I'm beginning to think it's too late, and no longer talk to people about peak oil unless they bring it up first, or in some way reveal that they are receptive to it.
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Re: What do P.O.'s have to say about this?

Unread postby mekrob » Sun 28 May 2006, 09:43:12

Riddick, if you were doing it as an experiment in order to find out how we'd react to a newbie asking this question, then you should have gotten a new name. Because we were able to (or at least I was) see you've been a member for so long and with 400+ posts, you were obviously informed of PO and all of the science all with it, or you could have at least gotten a good handle of it. That's why we were so harsh. You should have known about the science and just laughed at this idea. If you were a newbie or pretending to be with a new name, then there would be less attacks and flame going your way and instead much more help. Go over to the site where a new guy introduces himself and see how helpful people are. I'm more than willing to help a newbie, but if someone with 400+ posts starts to put up BS like hydrogen or whatno, then of course I'm going to attack his stupidity.

Sorry for the miscommunication.
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Re: What do P.O.'s have to say about this?

Unread postby markam » Sun 28 May 2006, 10:10:50

So does this mean you don't want to bet me about whether we will have water cars? :x
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Re: What do P.O.'s have to say about this?

Unread postby Riddick » Sun 28 May 2006, 20:28:51

LOL. As crazy as you look in your picture. Forget it.
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