I hope this ship holds together!

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• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • akilou@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Drivert auxiliary power from life support to plasma coolant.

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    • gst0ck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• xia@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  *divert

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  • tiltinjon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hey man, this is a Christian server.

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• Hagdos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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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    • khannie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yabba dabba dooo!

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  • The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That sounds like a hell of an awesome project

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    • Hagdos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It is!

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  • ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So what do you do? Ice vest?

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    • Rednax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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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    • Hagdos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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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  • DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hope you don’t need a fire suit!

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  • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What about an evaporative cooler?

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    • Hagdos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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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• EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  He would say divert you uncultured Philistine!

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  • amansman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He would also omit “the”. C’mon now

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  • LordKitsuna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • soylentgreed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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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• RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Haha I didn’t think people still retained that ancient knowledge of motoring success. The good ole days of weak 4-cylinder cars and trucks, when you’d disengage the AC to get more power to go up a hill or something. I’ve met several people who didn’t know it was even a thing.

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean, crappy 4 cylinder cars are still a thing.

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    • RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes of course they are, but modern 4-cylinder engines have advanced a lot since the old days of last century’s engines.

      Today it’s not hard to find a 4-cylinder that can put out 100 horsepower per liter, or even more. They can pull that little car up the hill with the AC on full blast.

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean most cars are 4 cylinder. (Aren’t they?)

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    • psud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Most modern 4 cyl cars are better than old ones. The engines are more powerful and the car lighter

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  • cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I still do it on our 2011 Subaru when merging onto a highway.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Subaru’s are a meme

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  • brianorca@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Many more recent cars will do this automatically at high throttle conditions, such as acceleration to pass.

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    • RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Far out

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s still a thing for old cars like mine.

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Jfc, I thought I was the only one geeky enough to not only do that, but admit it in public

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• thefattman@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is literally my brother in his electric truck on the highway trying to eek out a bit more range

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  • 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not important, but in case you didn’t know – In that usage the word is ‘eke’. ‘Eek!’ is the sound you make when someone jumps out from a closet wearing a spider mask.

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    • stratosfear@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Or when a spider jumps out from a closet wearing a person mask

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• aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I feel this, used to drive a 70 horsepower car, overtaking on South African roads with that was a struggle.

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• 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My car does this automatically. If you floor it, the vents start blowing hot air.

  It does make me wonder how much it really helps.

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  • ccdfa@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Like the vents start blowing hot air or the ac shuts off temporarily? If the former, then your ac probably just can’t keep up with the extra heat in the engine

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    • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Several cars disable the AC compressor when they detect that you’re flooring it. This removes the mechanical load from the engine, releasing a bit more power to the wheels for as long as you’re balls to the wall.

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• xkforce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  youtube.com/…/UgkxVXqWU5tj1nlID4Y11TScD3zeEnzk-dQ…

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• ReverendIrreverence@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I do that going up long, steep grades when the truck is fully loaded

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