87 points

Or how about when a car is overheating and you turn on the heater for that extra bit of heat capacity?

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I regret to inform you that I have experience with this in the middle of summer.

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I’ve been there friend, it’s pretty shitty

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I’m not sure what you people are doing but I’m usually pretty hot and sweaty. Don’t shit in your car.

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8 points

Of course! That’s when the engine is going to over heat. If you’re hot, they’re hot

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8 points

That reminds me of this:

“Of course your keys are always in the last place you look! Why would you keep looking after you find them?”

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14 points

Drivert auxiliary power from life support to plasma coolant.

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2 points

Drivert in this context has got to be the best trypo.

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2 points

Hadn’t even seen it before you pointed it out. That’s staying 😁

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74 points

*divert

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8 points

The confluence of the power streams has put life in these old thrusters

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2 points

Hey man, this is a Christian server.

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65 points

I worked on solar racing cars as a student. The main race crosses outback Australia. One of the questions we often got: Does it have A/C?

No, no it doesn’t. A/C uses about as much power as all of the solar cells on the car deliver. We can either move, or power an A/C-unit.

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Isn’t the outback pretty hot? Think I would channel that power to the A/C and the radio and just include legholes.

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20 points

Yabba dabba dooo!

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13 points

That sounds like a hell of an awesome project

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4 points

It is!

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8 points

We run the A/C until the car is cool, then we move. The rest of the crew is with me on this.

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5 points

So what do you do? Ice vest?

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Jup. They do that. After an edition of the challenge where someone fainted and crashed due to the heat, they also added regulations for airflow. It might be hot outside-air, but that is still way better than inside-over air.

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4 points

Sometimes, but they only work for so long. Mostly just bring plenty water and power through. Every stint is about 4 hours of driving, and then drivers change.

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4 points

Hope you don’t need a fire suit!

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2 points

What about an evaporative cooler?

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7 points

Either too heavy (these vehicles are below 200kg) or it doesnt work long enough. Or you’re now hot and humid, which is worse than hot and dry

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Wow 200kg is super light. No room for water weight in one of those, makes sense!

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62 points

He would say divert you uncultured Philistine!

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12 points

He would also omit “the”. C’mon now

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2 points

Yes thank you, I was worried I would be the only one bothered by this

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ive lived this in a 3 cylinder geo metro that for some ungodly reason had air conditioning. i loved that car.

dump the ac, and drop it into warp 2, youre good to go

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I used to have a 2000 Honda insight that I ripped the hybrid battery out of and just drove it on the 3 cylinders. That thing was geared so high I would drive up hills flooring it in 2nd gear at like 35 mph. 5th gear basically never got used unless I needed to go 85 mph+

Fun car that stranded me only a couple times lol. The “replacement” hybrid battery was an Arduino spliced into the wiring harness to trick the car computer that everything was okay. Felt like some real ghetto cyberpunk shit driving that thing around.

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9 points

They don’t sell too many little cars like the Metro in the U.S. anymore. Sad really.

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I had a similar car, the 1990 Ford Escort Pony. It had a hamster for an engine, but it was fine because the body was a shoebox.

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