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Well wait, they're not talking about using the car's momentum to power the car, just its heat. The heat is waste, this just makes it somewhat more efficient.
by orblivion 15y ago
Well wait, they're not talking about using the car's momentum to power the car, just its heat. The heat is waste, this just makes it somewhat more efficient.
- protomyth 15y agoyes, more efficient - not a perpetual motion machine
- orblivion 15y agoOh I see what you're saying, sorry. You mean that the writing would be ambiguous to those not as familiar with the concepts, they might take it to mean that all the energy would come from the heat.
- protomyth 15y agoyeah, as my down-voted comment mention, I figure the HN folks would get what the author meant (once again, good article), but it might give the false impression to someone less familiar with the concept. They might take the sentence as suppling all the energy, and someone picking up the article might use those sentences as a basis for a headline (catchy = headline grab).