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Gregzs · « **Reply #160477 on:** March 07, 2021, 12:05:04 PM »

John Matthew Heard Jr. (March 7, 1946 – July 21, 2017)
He had lead roles in several films, including Chilly Scenes of Winter, Heart Beat, Cutter's Way, Cat People, and C.H.U.D., as well as supporting roles in After Hours, Big, Beaches, Awakenings, Rambling Rose, The Pelican Brief, My Fellow Americans, Snake Eyes, and Animal Factory. He also played Peter McCallister in Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, as well as appearing in Sharknado. Heard was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1999 for guest starring on The Sopranos. He also had recurring roles on CSI: Miami, and Prison Break ( Among other film and television roles in the 2000s and 2010s, he played the mayor of Chicago on two episodes of the Fox series The Chicago Code. Heard died on July 21, 2017. He was found dead by staff in a hotel in Palo Alto, California, where he was reportedly recovering after undergoing minor back surgery at Stanford University Hospital. He is buried in South Side Cemetery in Ipswich, Massachusetts.

Gregzs · « **Reply #160478 on:** March 07, 2021, 12:59:00 PM »

Big Trouble In Little China [1986]

Gregzs · « **Reply #160479 on:** March 07, 2021, 01:25:14 PM »

Gregzs · « **Reply #160480 on:** March 07, 2021, 02:45:00 PM »

The owner of this electric vehicle Chevy Bolt did what no electric vehicle manufacturer has done so far.
Something completely logical. I've always wondered why these vehicles haven't been designed to use the energy that wheel rotation produces to charge the batteries of the vehicle.
This man made it at home. What you see in the frame, is a generator that produces current that charges batteries..
You no longer need to stop to charge batteries at charging stations or charge them at night at home.
While the vehicle runs, it charges the batteries.
Simple... Elementary my dear Watson.

Gregzs · « **Reply #160481 on:** March 07, 2021, 02:47:57 PM »

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Gregzs · « **Reply #160483 on:** March 07, 2021, 03:06:30 PM »

Charles Gray, born Donald Marshall Gray (August 28, 1928 – March 7, 2000)
Gray was well known for roles including Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, Dikko Henderson in a previous Bond film You Only Live Twice, Mycroft Holmes in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and as the Criminologist in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). Gray attended Bournemouth School alongside Benny Hill, whose school had been evacuated to the same buildings, during the Second World War. Some of his friends remember that his bedroom walls were plastered with pictures of film stars. On becoming a professional actor he had to change his name, as there was already an actor named Donald Gray. His breakthrough year was 1967, when he starred with Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif in the Second World War murder-mystery film The Night of the Generals. Gray's most prolific work as an actor was between 1968 and 1979, when he appeared in more than forty major film and television productions. From this period, he is perhaps best known for portraying the Criminologist (the narrator) in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and a similar character, Judge Oliver Wright, in its sequel Shock Treatment (1981). Other television appearances included roles in Dennis Potter's Blackeyes, The New Statesman, Thriller, Upstairs, Downstairs, Bergerac, Porterhouse Blue plus a range of Shakespearean roles, such as Caesar in Julius Caesar and Pandarus in Troilus and Cressida. Gray died on March 7, 2000 at the age of 71. He never married.

Gregzs · « **Reply #160484 on:** March 07, 2021, 03:19:21 PM »

Happy 51st Birthday to American musician JOHN FRUSCIANTE! He is best known as the guitarist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. He has also released 12 solo albums and seven EPs. Frusciante joined the Chili Peppers at age 18 after the death of guitarist Hillel Slovak, and first appeared on the band's album Mother's Milk (1989).

Primemuscle · « **Reply #160485 on:** March 07, 2021, 03:20:54 PM »

Quote from: Gregzs on March 07, 2021, 02:45:00 PM

The owner of this electric vehicle Chevy Bolt did what no electric vehicle manufacturer has done so far.
Something completely logical. I've always wondered why these vehicles haven't been designed to use the energy that wheel rotation produces to charge the batteries of the vehicle.
This man made it at home. What you see in the frame, is a generator that produces current that charges batteries..
You no longer need to stop to charge batteries at charging stations or charge them at night at home.
While the vehicle runs, it charges the batteries.
Simple... Elementary my dear Watson.

Seems like a great idea until you look into it a little deeper. A perpetual motion machine is a hypothetical machine that can do work indefinitely without an energy source. This kind of machine is impossible, as it would violate the first or second law of thermodynamics.

epic is back · « **Reply #160486 on:** March 07, 2021, 03:38:55 PM »

My car has regen (Mercedes)

I don’t even use brakes to slow down at low speeds

It drags the energy out of my already in motion momentum

Charging my battery

This is a gasoline car though

Suppression of tech

oldtimer1 · « **Reply #160487 on:** March 07, 2021, 04:08:16 PM »

oldtimer1 · « **Reply #160488 on:** March 07, 2021, 04:10:57 PM »

oldtimer1 · « **Reply #160489 on:** March 07, 2021, 04:12:13 PM »

herne · « **Reply #160490 on:** March 07, 2021, 06:49:17 PM »

herne · « **Reply #160491 on:** March 07, 2021, 06:58:23 PM »

herne · « **Reply #160492 on:** March 07, 2021, 07:07:09 PM »

herne · « **Reply #160493 on:** March 07, 2021, 07:08:43 PM »

Agnostic007 · « **Reply #160494 on:** March 07, 2021, 07:43:20 PM »

Quote from: Primemuscle on March 07, 2021, 03:20:54 PM

Seems like a great idea until you look into it a little deeper. A perpetual motion machine is a hypothetical machine that can do work indefinitely without an energy source. This kind of machine is impossible, as it would violate the first or second law of thermodynamics.

exactly right.

SOMEPARTS · « **Reply #160495 on:** March 07, 2021, 07:48:45 PM »

Quote from: Gregzs on March 07, 2021, 02:45:00 PM

The owner of this electric vehicle Chevy Bolt did what no electric vehicle manufacturer has done so far.
Something completely logical. I've always wondered why these vehicles haven't been designed to use the energy that wheel rotation produces to charge the batteries of the vehicle.
This man made it at home. What you see in the frame, is a generator that produces current that charges batteries..
You no longer need to stop to charge batteries at charging stations or charge them at night at home.
While the vehicle runs, it charges the batteries.
Simple... Elementary my dear Watson.

This function was available on radio controlled race cars way back in the 90s. The speed control sent power back into the battery in corners when the motor coasted....motor is a generator under those conditions. It's not 100% regen of course.

Marty Champions · « **Reply #160496 on:** March 08, 2021, 05:21:06 AM »

An alternator can run indefinitly after it is jumped and disconected from 12v car battery

Dokey111 · « **Reply #160497 on:** March 08, 2021, 07:29:15 AM »

Quote from: Agnostic007 on March 07, 2021, 07:43:20 PM

exactly right.

our solar system is a perpetual motion machine

stuntmovie · « **Reply #160498 on:** March 08, 2021, 08:41:14 AM »

Can any GetBigger elaborate on DONKEY's intelligent statement ..."OUR solar system is a perpetual motion machine'

Exactly what or whom keeps it in motion?

How does it work?

El Diablo Blanco · « **Reply #160499 on:** March 08, 2021, 09:16:45 AM »

Quote from: stuntmovie on March 08, 2021, 08:41:14 AM

Can any GetBigger elaborate on DONKEY's intelligent statement ..."OUR solar system is a perpetual motion machine'

Exactly what or whom keeps it in motion?

How does it work?

An object in motion stays in motion unless there is friction, air resistance etc... which we don't have in space since outerspace is a vaccuum, so once an object in space starts moving, it will keep on moving until it hits another object.

So you'd be able to open a bottle of aquafina in space baseball