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williegoat JUN 11, 11:09 AM
Make AMERICA Great again! Burn fossil fuels just for fun.

Corvette is first in class and Caddies finish 3&4 overall.

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"Ain't no rest for the whiskers."

MidEngineManiac JUN 11, 12:10 PM
Awwwww, yer gonna make the gweenies quwyyyyyyyyy how offffeeeennnndddddeeeddddd they are the planet is falling...or something <MeM shrugs> I really dunno what it is this week.

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williegoat JUN 11, 12:35 PM

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Originally posted by MidEngineManiac:

Awwwww, yer gonna make the gweenies quwyyyyyyyyy how offffeeeennnndddddeeeddddd they are the planet is falling...or something <MeM shrugs> I really dunno what it is this week.

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There is nothing better than 62 fire breathing, dinosaur squeezin', 600 hp chariots driving in circles for 24 hours, 140 miles from the scene of the crime.
rinselberg JUN 11, 10:52 PM

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Originally posted by MidEngineManiac:
Awwwww, yer gonna make the gweenies quwyyyyyyyyy how offffeeeennnndddddeeeddddd they are the planet is falling...or something <MeM shrugs> I really dunno what it is this week.


Do most of the people that MidEngineManiac is trying to mock as "gweenies" distinguish between the climate impact of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, vs the orders of magnitude or many times over larger climate impact of the "24 Hours of Daily Road Traffic" with gasoline and diesel-powered cars and trucks?

"You make the call."

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Jake_Dragon JUN 12, 02:07 AM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:

Do most of the people that MidEngineManiac is trying to mock as "gweenies" distinguish between the climate impact of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, vs the orders of magnitude or many times over larger climate impact of the "24 Hours of Daily Road Traffic" with gasoline and diesel-powered cars and trucks?

"You make the call."
rinselberg JUN 12, 02:54 AM
I think that photograph (from Jake_Dragon) has been posted to bring the Canadian wildfires into the discussion.



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Emissions from wildfires in Canada in May alone reached almost 55 million tons of carbon dioxide, or almost a tenth of the country’s [Canada] total annual carbon output. Most of those emissions will later be locked away again as the forests regrow—but some of that CO2 will linger in the atmosphere, creating one of climate change’s devastating feedback loops.


"The 'fire equivalent of an ice age’... humanity enters a new era of fire"

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We have changed our relationship to fire. We may never be the same.


Shannon Osaka, Michael E. Miller and Beatriz Ríos for the Washington Post; June 10, 2023.
https://www.washingtonpost....fire-smoke-pyrocene/

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MidEngineManiac JUN 12, 03:09 AM
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Originally posted by rinselberg:

Do most of the people that MidEngineManiac is trying to mock as "gweenies" distinguish between the climate impact of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, vs the orders of magnitude or many times over larger climate impact of the "24 Hours of Daily Road Traffic" with gasoline and diesel-powered cars and trucks?

"You make the call."




https://thecountersignal.co...ion-of-cars-by-2050/
williegoat JUN 12, 10:01 AM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:

I think that photograph (from Jake_Dragon) has been posted to bring the Canadian wildfires into the discussion.



Jake's photo shows sand from the Gobi desert blowing through Beijing. It is a dust storm. A natural occurrence. It happens here all the time.



I once stood on top of a dune in the Imperial Sand Dunes in California and just to watch a storm roll over us. Out ATCs started rolling into the wind as the sand around their wheels was displaced. The dunes were literally swallowing the machines.
fredtoast JUN 12, 10:39 AM
Poor poor Willie and Maniac.


https://www.designnews.com/...focused-le-mans-2024

Motorsports is changing. The electrification of racing is becoming a reality with the success of the Formula E worldwide electric racing series, Volkswagen’s stunning victory with an electric racer at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, and an announcement that electric cars will be competing for the World Rallycross Championship in 2020.

In 2024, the Le Mans 24 hour race in France will introduce a racing class for electric vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells. Companies like BMW and Audi have already expressed interest. The push to electric racing cars has some wondering what opportunities electrification might present. One such person is Nic Perrin.
MidEngineManiac JUN 12, 12:08 PM

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Originally posted by fredtoast:

Poor poor Willie and Maniac.


https://www.designnews.com/...focused-le-mans-2024

Motorsports is changing. The electrification of racing is becoming a reality with the success of the Formula E worldwide electric racing series, Volkswagen’s stunning victory with an electric racer at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, and an announcement that electric cars will be competing for the World Rallycross Championship in 2020.

In 2024, the Le Mans 24 hour race in France will introduce a racing class for electric vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells. Companies like BMW and Audi have already expressed interest. The push to electric racing cars has some wondering what opportunities electrification might present. One such person is Nic Perrin.



They better be inventing quick-change battery packs !!! Or shortening the race.

EV's can be insanely fast and quick off the line, but 24 hours ? More like 2.4 hours.....maybe......If they build light and get lucky.

Not to mention the "smoke show" the 1st time one goes into a wall. Did they research exactly what the Li smoke is going to do to the spectators ?

I'm thinking the sky falling will be the least of their problems just about then.

Poor Toast. That idea is going to get toasted.

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