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Topic: This is HUGE: WIKISPEED, first car-maker in the world to accept Bitcoin (Read 19691 times)

legendary
Activity: 3430
Merit: 3080
Any new vehicle of mine is going to be modular, whether wikispeed or some future competitor.

Pay a someone to service and fix your car? Pay them to assemble it? Pay for an entriely new car when new technologies become available?

Hell no. Go wikispeed!
sr. member
Activity: 322
Merit: 250
We are bees, and we hate you.
Alrighty, I'm convinced. The odometer on this car is what makes me really want it.  Grin

Did I miss something about the odometer or is it just the fact that its modular and could be adjusted?
It looks like an analog clock from the 90's. Or now. Almost frighteningly plain.

It would drive the teenagers wild. So new and impressive!
rjk
sr. member
Activity: 448
Merit: 250
1ngldh
Alrighty, I'm convinced. The odometer on this car is what makes me really want it.  Grin

Did I miss something about the odometer or is it just the fact that its modular and could be adjusted?
"Only 300 miles, granny-owned for shopping trips!"
donator
Activity: 490
Merit: 500
Alrighty, I'm convinced. The odometer on this car is what makes me really want it.  Grin

Did I miss something about the odometer or is it just the fact that its modular and could be adjusted?
sr. member
Activity: 322
Merit: 250
We are bees, and we hate you.
Alrighty, I'm convinced. The odometer on this car is what makes me really want it.  Grin
hero member
Activity: 532
Merit: 500
I can't wait until I can afford this!  Cheesy
legendary
Activity: 1904
Merit: 1002
I wonder what producers of hemp fuel do with all the waste product (everything but seeds)... SR?

Similar to how cannabis plants are bred for lots of cannabinoids, hemp plants are bred for attributes suitable to industrial purposes, and have very little cannabinoids. You won't be getting high at all (or at least very much) off of hemp.
Unless you're making fuel from the seeds of cannabionoid varieties. But we stray from the topic.

Except most high cannabanoid varieties have few to no seeds since their production uses the same resources as the drug production.

Industrial hemp will only give you a headache.
sr. member
Activity: 476
Merit: 250
The first is by definition not flawed.
So what happened to the GLBSE prototype aquisition plan? Huh Huh Huh
hero member
Activity: 756
Merit: 501
There is more to Bitcoin than bitcoins.
I wonder what producers of hemp fuel do with all the waste product (everything but seeds)... SR?

Similar to how cannabis plants are bred for lots of cannabinoids, hemp plants are bred for attributes suitable to industrial purposes, and have very little cannabinoids. You won't be getting high at all (or at least very much) off of hemp.
Unless you're making fuel from the seeds of cannabionoid varieties. But we stray from the topic.
hero member
Activity: 496
Merit: 500
I wonder what producers of hemp fuel do with all the waste product (everything but seeds)... SR?

Similar to how cannabis plants are bred for lots of cannabinoids, hemp plants are bred for attributes suitable to industrial purposes, and have very little cannabinoids. You won't be getting high at all (or at least very much) off of hemp.
sr. member
Activity: 366
Merit: 250
#RIP freemoney
I have heard of these external cumbustion engines before but they are not within typical consumer reach just yet. Another interesting technology around the corner is micro-turbine powerplant.


But in the mean time, I'd would rather just love to drive around listening to a big turbo spool maybe even with this decal over the fuel cell/door.



I wonder what producers of hemp fuel do with all the waste product (everything but seeds)... SR?


Only the seed is used to make the fuel, then the leftovers goes to feed pigs, etc.
hero member
Activity: 756
Merit: 501
There is more to Bitcoin than bitcoins.
I have heard of these external cumbustion engines before but they are not within typical consumer reach just yet. Another interesting technology around the corner is micro-turbine powerplant.


But in the mean time, I'd would rather just love to drive around listening to a big turbo spool maybe even with this decal over the fuel cell/door.



I wonder what producers of hemp fuel do with all the waste product (everything but seeds)... SR?
sr. member
Activity: 366
Merit: 250
#RIP freemoney
I have heard of these external cumbustion engines before but they are not within typical consumer reach just yet. Another interesting technology around the corner is micro-turbine powerplant.


But in the mean time, I'd would rather just love to drive around listening to a big turbo spool maybe even with this decal over the fuel cell/door.

sr. member
Activity: 336
Merit: 250
How about an omni-fuel, external combustion engine?



This is the first i've heard about these. Very, very cool.
donator
Activity: 490
Merit: 500
Don't they have a real one built that they can take a picture of instead of using a computer rendering?

They have the little video showing a running prototype:

http://www.wikispeed.com/NotableFacts

But, it looks like they haven't made a real body yet, just the plug to make a mold for the body.
legendary
Activity: 1316
Merit: 1005
sr. member
Activity: 366
Merit: 250
#RIP freemoney

I'd like to see a turbo-biodiesel option powered with hempseed oil ofcourse. Smiley
legendary
Activity: 2030
Merit: 1000
My money; Our Bitcoin.
Don't they have a real one built that they can take a picture of instead of using a computer rendering?
donator
Activity: 490
Merit: 500
This thing looks great and I am really excited for it.  I just hope I actually see one of these driving down the street in California some day.
rjk
sr. member
Activity: 448
Merit: 250
1ngldh
BTW, that is a sexy body shell. I can't wait to hear from someone that has tried it out when they are delivered.
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