Jack Nicholson's hydrogen car in 1978

[IronLionZion]

This will knock your socks off. But what happened since then?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2245729493419202077&q=jack+nicholson&hl=en


He made the hydrogen with solar power.

[villager]

1. well, the far right took office in the US in 1980...

...and the country hasn't recovered since...

[IronLionZion]

3. Yeah Carter invested a lot into alternative energy research

and Reagan dismantled all of it, even taking down the solar panels in order to bring "glamour" back to the white house.

[villager]

4. and look how fucking glamorous our country is now!

n/t

[IronLionZion]

14. It would be a lot more glamorous,

if Carter had used twice as many helicopters in Operation Desert One. Since that time, energy, civil liberties, health care, unions, defense, just about everything has gone off the deep end of radical right wing lunacy. Not even the roaring 90's could save this country from the damage Reagan did. The effects of Reagan and Bush won't be resolved by the next president, or the second one after that, or the third one after that. It will take decades to fix this colossal mess. Our national debt, Iran/Contra, arming the mujahideen, just everything Reagan touched turned to shit and deeply affects the current mess we're in right now in Iraq.

1980 was a very bad year. It's up to us to make sure that tragedy never happens again.

[villager]

16. I actually remember the afternoon after Reagan was "elected"

I was in college... had to interview someone for my thesis paper, and stood looking out at a gray Northern California day realizing the country would never, ever be the same...

...and won't be, probably ever again. But perhaps something new will emerge from the Neocon rubble...

And yes, if only Carter had used more helicopters...

[Javaman]

22. actually it did, 2000. The stolen election. nt

[jpak]

5. Those solar panels were later obtained by Unity College (Unity, Maine)

They were used to heat water for the cafeteria for many years and were just recently retired from service.

(not many people know this)

[IronLionZion]

15. It's good that someone put them to good use. EOM

[Union Thug]

2. Amazing. Thanks for this. n/t

[Kickoutthejams23]

6. Wow (If Jack drives a cocaine powered car is that considered a bio fuel?)

Put a punitive tax on gasoline and I think the modern Hydrogen cars will take off. Gas is way to cheap. I wonder if that was the problem back in '78 or was it something else. Damn now I have to put my google cap on and see if I can get the real scoop. I feel hydrogen is better for the environment than bio-fuels because Hydrogen won't use surplus food and water resources causing massive unnecessary deaths in third world nations.



BTW I love the infomercial/Battle of the Network Stars set.

[NNadir]

7. It must be a trend.

[hunter]

8. You might want to check out this... if you can find it.

The Case For The Hydrogen Oxygen Car. . .William J.D. Escher
Anolog Science Fiction / Science Fact September 1973

And I may as well post this while I'm at it:

http://www.iahe.org

International Association for Hydrogen Energy

It's been a long time.

[liberal N proud]

9. Who killed the Hydrogen car?

[NNadir]

10. Noah Cross.

He also killed Mr. Mulray.

[villager]

17. "The future, Mr. Gitts."

n/t

[NNadir]

18. Most men never have to face the fact that at the right time and in the

right place...

[villager]

19. Now the country, as a whole, has to face that...

being capable of "anything," etc.

I've always wanted to ask a Republican: "What are you doin' it for? How much better can you eat?"

But then again, they're all Noah Crosses.

[NNadir]

20. Sometimes I think Dick Cheney *is* Noah Cross.

That fucker is pretty sick.

[villager]

21. Perfect analogy.

Or rather "Oh my, yes," as Noah Cheney would say.

[tinrobot]

11. Gee...

I thought they said hydrogen was 10-20 years away.

And this was almost 30 years ago.

[NNadir]

12. All of these schemes are always thirty years away, year after year.

I am holding out for the fusion powered hydrogen car.

[Dover]

13. Maybe we should ask Jack what happened. Anyone have an address?

Afterall, this was a private enterprise, so curious what problems they ran into in getting it off the ground.