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Steam should have been replaced with electric engines right away, bypassing whole combustion engine age.
by shmerl 2y ago
Steam should have been replaced with electric engines right away, bypassing whole combustion engine age.
- spiderice 2y agoI think we should have gone straight from steam to faster than light warp drives
- kragen 2y agoworking on it
- RheingoldRiver 2y agowho said we didn't? we just haven't observed them yet (this is a bad relativity joke)
- avidphantasm 2y agoNo, teleportation, duh.
- cmcclellan 2y agoThey should have invented Li-ion batteries as well. What were they thinking…
- shmerl 2y agoThey could focus on battery technology more for sure and much sooner than they did. Demand didn't drive it until much later primarily because they thought that combustion engine is good enough. First electric cars existed already in 19th century by the way.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoThat's still 19 centuries too late. They had simple batteries in ancient times; they should've doubled down on that back then. /s
- ffgjgf1 2y ago> They could focus on battery technology more for sure and much sooner than they did How? That would have required massive investment not backed by any rational reason. Only way ICE cars wouldn’t have won is if governments had decided to ban them, which would have been absurd.
- ffgjgf1 2y agoI would have just went directly to fusion..
- self_awareness 2y agoThe era of horses should have also been eliminated. Instead of horses, they should have gone directly to electric.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoMaybe, maybe not. ICEs weren't developed in isolation - they were a part of the larger development, that of petrochemical industry, which is responsible for near everything we recognize as modernity. Rudimentary batteries are cool, but without petrochem, they'd be powering wooden cars with sheet metal exteriors, cleaned with fat and spring water, and moving slower than a horse.
- slackfan 2y agoBasically did, but then was promptly abandoned, because electric sucked really really badly.
- chinchilla2020 2y agoSteam is a power generator. Electric engines are a power consumer. What you are saying here makes no sense.