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The standard car's internal combustion engine works at a crazy scale, however it still dumps over half of the energy of the fuel as heat through the radiator. T

• coldtea 13y ago
  If it's as good as the "standard car's internal combustion engine" then it's mighty near great. Seing that the other alternatives to "standard car's internal combustion engine" are either off the market or marginal/niche. People complained in this post that it wasn't good. As in: crap compared to the standard. For the analogy with cars to hold, it would have to be like a seriously brain damaged internal combustion engine -- not like the "standard car's" one.
  • rdl 13y ago
    If we're going with cars, it's more like say, 1960s British cars. Amazing industrial design, good engines and overall performance, etc., but crap electrical systems compared to other companies of the time -- yet people bought them because the overall package was still good, often largely due to how amazing the E-Type looked. Saying "the Jaguar electrical system sucks; for a company who makes such amazing products it's an embarrassment" was perfectly true, even if you still buy a Jaguar (along with lots of other people). (although I think it was mainly other British marques who had horrible electrical systems at the time, and was more a 1950s thing)