Is it me, or it is getting hot in here?

The elusive Electric Car and more.

On the usual last Thursday of the month, Consilience Forum hosted a presentation by Konrad J. on the topic of Global Warming. Or "Global Heating," as some insist we call it: a fuzzy blanket can be warm. We are talking about a process more similar to slowly heating a pot of water - and we're the frog sitting in it!
Konrad, loaded with his impressive electronic equipment, gave a short outline of what the process is, and demonstrated a lot of data and facts on how it is beint tried to be dealt with. The highlight of his presentation, howewer, was the brief history of the electric car. Not the hybrid car, not one of the many prototypes wchich we see being unveiled from time to time, only to fade into obscurity. A real deal, fully functional, available to any consumer (provided they live in California) electric car that was relased in the Nineties (!) and was proving to be a viable alternative. Unfortunately, it was backed out from the market by the producer, due to car and fuel industries pressure.
All the time when we've been hearing that the wholly electric cars are not developed enough yet to be practicall to use on the wide market - to slow, to costly, to difficult to charge - it had been proven wrong already.

After the presentation, we got ourselves in a holiday mood by plaing some Christmas-themed party games, like "pin the nose on a reindeer," ate (vegetarian) bigos, and listened to carrols.

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