Incredible Fuel Mileage Rumor?

Has anybody heard about this? :H

I heard from a friend of mine that supposedly GM has a car which can get over 3000+ miles to the tank. Supposedly a couple traded in two cars for another newer car for a road trip. They drove cross country round trip on a little more than a quarter of a tank. When they got back they wrote letters to the company saying the car was incredible and asking how it worked. Within weeks of sending the letters, three anonymous agents in all black w/ ski masks surrounded the car and removed a component from the engine bay approx. the size of a concrete block. Apprently, obviously, there was something there that wasn't supposed to be. Since then, the car has returned to a more "normal" fuel efficiency. After this happened, the owners returned to the dealership to explain what happened. The dealership couldn't explain the agents, but did say that the car wasn't supposed to be on the lot, and therefore wasn't meant to be sold. They got a full refund on the car, hense getting a free car and one incredible story.

 

Ahahahahahahahahah. That's a well known urban legend. A good one though.

 

no shit. seriously? just heard about this tonight from a friend of mine.

 

yep thats an urban legend. i think it was on mythbusters or some other urban legen debunking show.

 

that sort of thing pops up every time gas prices get high, in the 70's ther was a rumour that a guy had invented a 500 mpg carbeurator and then mysteriously dissapeared,



interestingly enough the inventor of the diesel engine died under somewhat mysterious circumstances after revealing his invention as a veggie oil engine, it was then re-released as a burner of byproducts of the gasoline refinement process....

that of course could just be another rumour, people like that sort of thing....

 

there's been rumors of cars that ran on everything from water to horse crap, and alot of them are feasible. I'm sure some of the stories of car companies buying panents to alternate car fuel designs are true, but hopefully when the oil runs out they'll release the new cars.

 

Wow, that miracle car keeps getting better and better. Was only giving 200 MPG back when they had carburetors:

http://www.snopes.com/autos/business/carburetor.asp

 

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That bulb looks to be an old carbon filament lamp, and judging from the reddish-orange glow, it is operating somewhat below design voltage. Not surprising that the thing would last a long time. Just don't bang it too hard, as those carbon lamps were fragile The fact that it runs continuously is a big factor, as well. Almost all bulb failures occur at turn-on, because of the incredible thermal and mechanical stresses caused by heating the filament from room temperature to white heat in a few milliseconds.

If the dim light and poor color rendition don't bother you, you can put 240V bulbs in your 120V fixtures, and they will be the last bulbs you ever install. Not a bad idea for bulbs that are hard to replace.

 

Conmen tell people what they want to hear.

 

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Another trick to get longer bulb life (on AC) is to put a diode in series with the bulb, operating the bulb on half-wave rectified voltage. They even sell little "buttons" with diodes in them that you drop into lamp sockets for this purpose. Obviously, you pay a brightness penalty here, as well.

Lots of interesting info on the technical aspects of lightbulbs at:

http://members.misty.com/don/bulb1.html

Of course, installing LED replacements is probably the ultimate cure for the problem of burned-out bulbs. At work, I am currently in process of replacing all the indicator/annunciator lamps on control panels (hundreds of them) with LED replacement lamps as a small part of a general facility renovation and upgrade. While the little bulbs cost about $4 each, between the reduction in power consumption and reduced labor for relamping, they should pay for themselves in a few years.

 

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but powerpoints here ARE 240V

 

Putting about a two cups of sugar into your gas tank when you fill up will also give you about an extra 8 or 9 miles per gallon.

 

hahahahaha, ever hear of aliens? WHy the hell u think Roswell isn't a more detailed map area for google earth map? U know, we must face it, the pyramids were put there by aliens. We almost have the technology to make dem good spaceships, but it seems that these aircraft will be used to kill our own people instead. :braincough:

 

Theres a really poor google map for Oxfordshire in the UK but still not sure theres any alien artifacts burried there. Also we are no where near building interstallar spaceships, but apart from that you were spot on.

 

The guy in the ski mask was actually me, but dont tell anyone. The black box I removed was full of newts tails and magic potion. It really does work. Send me $20 and I'll send you one in the mail

 

Worm I think your blazeing to much.

 

wtf! i thought sugar would destroy and engine! and regarding google earth, the place whrere the Nazca lines are in Peru is not well defined either. they should be easily seen and are not.