This year, THE Ohio State University research team set a land speed record for an electric car, 300+ MPH. Of course, Daytona, and ALL tracks, would have to be straightened and moved to Bonneville! (Snicker!)
Remember the Parnelli Jones turbine? A technology that Indy outlawed!With electric, NASCAR could create MORE jobs, with techs that would have to be on call.Plus, they wouldn’t have to lose pit crew, because tires and track bar, etc.
Only the dimmest leftist would believe that powering cars inefficiently with fossil fueled-generated electricity would be good for the environment. Far more efficient to burn it in the vehicle.
The great righty conundrum: We can’t power cars with electricity because of fossil fuel generation, yet electric vehicles, coupled with increasing advances in technology, will lower pollution levels.But, the government shouldn’t be in the business of choosing winners and losers, but it IS, being in the pocket of the fossil fuel lobby.Ohio recently put a hold on “green” energy standards for two years, and is considering extending that hold.Meanwhile, the legislature passed a retroactive tax relief bill for drilling/fracking.Hypocrisy to the max, AGAIN!
Or people could just find better ways to spend their time than watching people drive around in circles (or driving around in circles themselves, for that matter!)
I am about as far from as a gearhead as you can get, but I didn’t live in the South for so many years without watching NASCAR and knowing a little about the tracks, drivers and cars = enough to have hated restrictor plate races because they favored Chevies !
Like golf, or tennis, I can turn on NASCAR racing and fall asleep in my recliner for most of it.
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That said, I confess, I’ve been known to nod off for a quarter of football, or a couple or four innings of baseball.
I’ve even, heaven help me, nodded off during a soccer match !
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But my all time favorite T.V. sports soporific is auto racing.!
And only the dimmest neo-fascist shill would think fossil is the only way to generate electricity. Offshore wind was the only feasible way to propel ships before Watt developed a practical steam engine, and many regions have sufficiently large areas of flat land with wind much like the ocean. A study in the 1970s showed that retrofitting existing dams capable of producing a megawatt or more could be installed to equal all nuclear plants built or planned back then. Iceland will soon be totally powered by their geothermal heat, as could many parts of the world. There is at least one generator in Hawaii running on ocean temperature difference. A tidal plant in France has been working for decades and surprisingly improved fish stocks in the region. In 1976, Jim Bowlin showed that in the time it would take to convert existing coal plants to burn the weed-like western alder, Canada could become energy self-sufficient. Even the poor-soil loving switchgrass can produce commercial amounts of methanol for hybrid vehicles. Turbines powered by river currents are now out of the “experimental” stage. While most of these systems are intermittent (it is dark half the time), they can interlock on a grid. Having competitive rates, low demand periods can be used for battery recharge. This was known and publicized in the 1970s, but awl bidness advertising pressure stopped corporate media coverage, so that today most think this is just science fiction, but they are proven technology. How many have you heard of?
OK, do a noise simulator. But the smoke would still happen with downforce, tire wear, and the inevitable explosion which would equate to “The Big One!”
Quit crying you weenies…I grew up on the dragstrips of California in the mid fifties and early sixties…It was not how you won , but that you won!Then the weenies moved in and made classes and restrictions so they could compete…It was about Racing and ingenuity….It became a “Lambeth Walk”….Look it up!
It’s above the noise! Experiencing genetic destruction from the pollution is manly after all! The electric cars would have to come with a sound track and amplifiers to have any chance at all.
I’ll buy an electric car when I can drive for 4 or 5 hours at highway speeds & recharge in 5 or 10 minutes. I’ll buy an electric car when it costs the same as my gas powered car and it lasts for 200,000 miles and when the cost to repair it is the same as I pay now.
edward thomas Premium Member over 7 years ago
This year, THE Ohio State University research team set a land speed record for an electric car, 300+ MPH. Of course, Daytona, and ALL tracks, would have to be straightened and moved to Bonneville! (Snicker!)
edward thomas Premium Member over 7 years ago
Remember the Parnelli Jones turbine? A technology that Indy outlawed!With electric, NASCAR could create MORE jobs, with techs that would have to be on call.Plus, they wouldn’t have to lose pit crew, because tires and track bar, etc.
edward thomas Premium Member over 7 years ago
And NASCAR is already trending green with its fuel usage.
jbmlaw01 over 7 years ago
Only the dimmest leftist would believe that powering cars inefficiently with fossil fueled-generated electricity would be good for the environment. Far more efficient to burn it in the vehicle.
edward thomas Premium Member over 7 years ago
The great righty conundrum: We can’t power cars with electricity because of fossil fuel generation, yet electric vehicles, coupled with increasing advances in technology, will lower pollution levels.But, the government shouldn’t be in the business of choosing winners and losers, but it IS, being in the pocket of the fossil fuel lobby.Ohio recently put a hold on “green” energy standards for two years, and is considering extending that hold.Meanwhile, the legislature passed a retroactive tax relief bill for drilling/fracking.Hypocrisy to the max, AGAIN!
Steve Dutch over 7 years ago
Forget batteries. Just embed little metal rails in the track. Plus a slot down the middle to prevent wipe-outs.
Godfreydaniel over 7 years ago
Or people could just find better ways to spend their time than watching people drive around in circles (or driving around in circles themselves, for that matter!)
Linguist over 7 years ago
I am about as far from as a gearhead as you can get, but I didn’t live in the South for so many years without watching NASCAR and knowing a little about the tracks, drivers and cars = enough to have hated restrictor plate races because they favored Chevies !
Like golf, or tennis, I can turn on NASCAR racing and fall asleep in my recliner for most of it.
.
That said, I confess, I’ve been known to nod off for a quarter of football, or a couple or four innings of baseball.
I’ve even, heaven help me, nodded off during a soccer match !
.
But my all time favorite T.V. sports soporific is auto racing.!
edward thomas Premium Member over 7 years ago
Even with the rail in the middle, it didn’t keep our cars from wiping out!
hippogriff over 7 years ago
jbmlaw
And only the dimmest neo-fascist shill would think fossil is the only way to generate electricity. Offshore wind was the only feasible way to propel ships before Watt developed a practical steam engine, and many regions have sufficiently large areas of flat land with wind much like the ocean. A study in the 1970s showed that retrofitting existing dams capable of producing a megawatt or more could be installed to equal all nuclear plants built or planned back then. Iceland will soon be totally powered by their geothermal heat, as could many parts of the world. There is at least one generator in Hawaii running on ocean temperature difference. A tidal plant in France has been working for decades and surprisingly improved fish stocks in the region. In 1976, Jim Bowlin showed that in the time it would take to convert existing coal plants to burn the weed-like western alder, Canada could become energy self-sufficient. Even the poor-soil loving switchgrass can produce commercial amounts of methanol for hybrid vehicles. Turbines powered by river currents are now out of the “experimental” stage. While most of these systems are intermittent (it is dark half the time), they can interlock on a grid. Having competitive rates, low demand periods can be used for battery recharge. This was known and publicized in the 1970s, but awl bidness advertising pressure stopped corporate media coverage, so that today most think this is just science fiction, but they are proven technology. How many have you heard of?
kodj kodjin over 7 years ago
The noise and smoke add to the excitement of racing; without it,the sport would lose a lot of its appeal!
edward thomas Premium Member over 7 years ago
OK, do a noise simulator. But the smoke would still happen with downforce, tire wear, and the inevitable explosion which would equate to “The Big One!”
chain gang charlie over 7 years ago
Quit crying you weenies…I grew up on the dragstrips of California in the mid fifties and early sixties…It was not how you won , but that you won!Then the weenies moved in and made classes and restrictions so they could compete…It was about Racing and ingenuity….It became a “Lambeth Walk”….Look it up!
Rosemary Williams over 7 years ago
It’s above the noise! Experiencing genetic destruction from the pollution is manly after all! The electric cars would have to come with a sound track and amplifiers to have any chance at all.
BWR over 7 years ago
I’ll buy an electric car when I can drive for 4 or 5 hours at highway speeds & recharge in 5 or 10 minutes. I’ll buy an electric car when it costs the same as my gas powered car and it lasts for 200,000 miles and when the cost to repair it is the same as I pay now.