Soybean-powered car...
03-01-2006, 11:34 AM
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Soybean-powered car...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/...n1329941.shtml
Videos too...the car look snifty!
I could go for some soya milk right now!
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CBS) The star at last week's Philadelphia Auto Show wasn't a sports car or an economy car. It was a sports-economy car — one that combines performance and practicality under one hood.
But as CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman reports in this week's Assignment America, the car that buyers have been waiting decades comes from an unexpected source and runs on soybean bio-diesel fuel to boot.
A car that can go from zero to 60 in four seconds and get more than 50 miles to the gallon would be enough to pique any driver's interest. So who do we have to thank for it. Ford? GM? Toyota? No — just Victor, David, Cheeseborough, Bruce, and Kosi, five kids from the auto shop program at West Philadelphia High School
The five kids, along with a handful of schoolmates, built the soybean-fueled car as an after-school project. It took them more than a year — rummaging for parts, configuring wires and learning as they went. As teacher Simon Hauger notes, these kids weren't exactly the cream of the academic crop.
"We have a number of high school dropouts," he says. "We have a number that have been removed for disciplinary reasons and they end up with us."
One of the Fab Five, Kosi Harmon, was in a gang at his old school — and he was a terrible student. The car project has changed all that.
"I was just getting by with the skin of my teeth, C's and D's," he says. "I came here, and now I'm a straight-A student."
To Hauger, the soybean-powered car shows what kids — any kids — can do when they get the chance.
"If you give kids that have been stereotyped as not being able to do anything an opportunity to do something great, they'll step up," he says.
Stepping up is something the big automakers have yet to do. They're still in the early stages of marketing hybrid cars while playing catch-up to the Bad News Bears of auto shop.
"We made this work," says Hauger. "We're not geniuses. So why aren't they doing it?"
Kosi thinks he knows why. The answer, he says, is the big oil companies.
"They're making billions upon billions of dollars," he says. "And when this car sells, that'll go down — to low billions upon billions."
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Videos too...the car look snifty!
I could go for some soya milk right now!
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CBS) The star at last week's Philadelphia Auto Show wasn't a sports car or an economy car. It was a sports-economy car — one that combines performance and practicality under one hood.
But as CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman reports in this week's Assignment America, the car that buyers have been waiting decades comes from an unexpected source and runs on soybean bio-diesel fuel to boot.
A car that can go from zero to 60 in four seconds and get more than 50 miles to the gallon would be enough to pique any driver's interest. So who do we have to thank for it. Ford? GM? Toyota? No — just Victor, David, Cheeseborough, Bruce, and Kosi, five kids from the auto shop program at West Philadelphia High School
The five kids, along with a handful of schoolmates, built the soybean-fueled car as an after-school project. It took them more than a year — rummaging for parts, configuring wires and learning as they went. As teacher Simon Hauger notes, these kids weren't exactly the cream of the academic crop.
"We have a number of high school dropouts," he says. "We have a number that have been removed for disciplinary reasons and they end up with us."
One of the Fab Five, Kosi Harmon, was in a gang at his old school — and he was a terrible student. The car project has changed all that.
"I was just getting by with the skin of my teeth, C's and D's," he says. "I came here, and now I'm a straight-A student."
To Hauger, the soybean-powered car shows what kids — any kids — can do when they get the chance.
"If you give kids that have been stereotyped as not being able to do anything an opportunity to do something great, they'll step up," he says.
Stepping up is something the big automakers have yet to do. They're still in the early stages of marketing hybrid cars while playing catch-up to the Bad News Bears of auto shop.
"We made this work," says Hauger. "We're not geniuses. So why aren't they doing it?"
Kosi thinks he knows why. The answer, he says, is the big oil companies.
"They're making billions upon billions of dollars," he says. "And when this car sells, that'll go down — to low billions upon billions."
©MMVI, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
03-01-2006, 12:46 PM
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damn you I was gonna post this and you beat me to that too. I kenw I shoulda put it up this morning 
well at least I didn't get the chuck norris fist handed down on me from Srika if I did the repost
well at least I didn't get the chuck norris fist handed down on me from Srika if I did the repost
03-01-2006, 12:48 PM
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03-01-2006, 12:52 PM
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Originally Posted by slyraskal
damn you I was gonna post this and you beat me to that too. I kenw I shoulda put it up this morning
well at least I didn't get the chuck norris fist handed down on me from Srika if I did the repost
well at least I didn't get the chuck norris fist handed down on me from Srika if I did the repost
for moi.
03-01-2006, 02:43 PM
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That's the ultimate car isn't it? Sporty and runs clean.
BTW, it's a kit car with an 92(?) Accord platform, or at least used to be....
http://www.k-1attack.com/menu.php
BTW, it's a kit car with an 92(?) Accord platform, or at least used to be....
http://www.k-1attack.com/menu.php
03-01-2006, 03:20 PM
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The sizzle in the Steak
mmmmm
03-01-2006, 03:38 PM
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Soyabeans, Moogie Howser...not soya sauce.
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03-01-2006, 03:47 PM
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Originally Posted by slyraskal
If 5 kids at a West Philly high school auto shop can do this, what the heck is honda, toyota, and ford doing? 
03-01-2006, 03:54 PM
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Originally Posted by slyraskal
I'm all for that!
03-01-2006, 04:15 PM
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Soyabeans, Moogie Howser...not soya sauce.
Call me when it runs on the Kikkoman...otherwise
03-01-2006, 04:35 PM
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Originally Posted by slyraskal
what about soy milk?
03-01-2006, 04:43 PM
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Originally Posted by AsianRage
Can't someone just create a Mr. Fusion?
Not possible.
03-01-2006, 04:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Yumchah
Well, then they'd need to create a Flux Capacitor and a device that can convert the food into the 1 point 21 gigawatts needed to run the car, dummy.
Not possible.
Not possible.
03-01-2006, 04:46 PM
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Originally Posted by slyraskal
But it could work if you use a lightning rod
It's possible!
03-01-2006, 04:49 PM
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Well, then they'd need to create a Flux Capacitor and a device that can convert the food into the 1 point 21 gigawatts needed to run the car, dummy.
Not possible.
Not possible.
it's 1.21 jigawatts of electricity.
03-01-2006, 04:50 PM
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Originally Posted by slyraskal
what about soy milk?
03-01-2006, 04:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Moog-Type-S
It's not giga...
it's 1.21 jigawatts of electricity.
it's 1.21 jigawatts of electricity.
It's gigawatts. Not jigawatts...Doc Brown just pronounces it with the "j" sound.
03-01-2006, 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Yumchah
You drinking expired soy sauce?
It's gigawatts. Not jigawatts...Doc Brown just pronounces it with the "j" sound.
It's gigawatts. Not jigawatts...Doc Brown just pronounces it with the "j" sound.
You of all people should know that!
03-01-2006, 05:03 PM
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What about soy additives from GNC? Those things really work!
03-01-2006, 05:04 PM
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Speaking of soy protein, I hear too much of it gives a man bewbies.
03-01-2006, 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Yumchah
Speaking of soy protein, I hear too much of it gives a man bewbies.
But I don't know if it's 100% true or not, and maybe it depends on the person?
may have the answer.
03-01-2006, 05:09 PM
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Speaking of soy protein, I hear too much of it gives a man bewbies.
03-01-2006, 05:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Moog-Type-S
Got something you want to tell us about?
03-01-2006, 05:18 PM
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Originally Posted by slyraskal
He's not into that, he likes robot bewbies.
03-01-2006, 05:19 PM
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Yes. I like robots with man bewbies.
03-01-2006, 05:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Moog-Type-S
03-01-2006, 05:24 PM
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^ Shwing! 
03-01-2006, 05:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Yumchah
Well, then they'd need to create a Flux Capacitor and a device that can convert the food into the 1 point 21 gigawatts needed to run the car, dummy.
Not possible.
Not possible.
Flux Capacitor allows for Time Travel. Mr.Fusion allows for the 1.21 jigowatts of energy. Two different things that works to make the Delorean into a time machine. Of course, in the movie, Mr Fusion wasn't a source of energy for the Delorean, because gas was still being used. But Mr. Fusion can still be used to create energy, thus, my original comment
03-01-2006, 05:29 PM
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^ Shwing!
03-01-2006, 05:30 PM
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Originally Posted by AsianRage
uhhhh....
Flux Capacitor allows for Time Travel. Mr.Fusion allows for the 1.21 jigowatts of energy. Two different things that works to make the Delorean into a time machine. Of course, in the movie, Mr Fusion wasn't a source of energy for the Delorean, because gas was still being used. But Mr. Fusion can still be used to create energy, thus, my original comment
Flux Capacitor allows for Time Travel. Mr.Fusion allows for the 1.21 jigowatts of energy. Two different things that works to make the Delorean into a time machine. Of course, in the movie, Mr Fusion wasn't a source of energy for the Delorean, because gas was still being used. But Mr. Fusion can still be used to create energy, thus, my original comment See, I thought the Delorean didn't need gas once Doc slapped in Mr. Fusion...
03-01-2006, 05:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Moog-Type-S
Nice Shwing reference, Garth!
