Re: [LAD] OT: alternative fuel for cars [was: Re: Car engine sound emulation for future electic cars. ideas ?]

Patrick Shirkey wrote: Sure. Getting net energy from that is the hard part. :) Reminds me of a story by Stanislaw Lem where Prof. Tarantoga is visited by one of those crackpots who's invented a perpetuum mobile, claiming that it's a real device. He keeps on turning the handle on that thing, "See, it's working! I don't have to turn the handle, just ignore that, it would work anyway!" Hilarious. Anyone else know that story? So what's next? Quadrature of the circle? P=NP? Proof of the Riemann hypothesis? -- Dr. Albert Gr"af Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany Email: Dr.Graef(a)t-online.de, ag(a)muwiinfa.geschichte.uni-mainz.de WWW: http://www.musikinformatik.uni-mainz.de/ag