• DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works
    35·
    23 hours ago

    The Tesla flying car is clearly a Spectacle for Fools, but the gas being used is basically compressed air and doesn’t contribute to our greenhouse gas problem.

    There’s plenty of other aspects to this to make fun of that are factually accurate.

            • timochka@lemmy.zip
              2·
              20 hours ago

              If your gas is compressing itself, it’s creating a high-pressure environment in your, err, guts. That means it’s creating a lower-pressure area outside - i.e. you are sucking gas in to compress it.

              Farting or belching - i.e. ‘gas’ in American - is rapid /decompression/, not compression.

              (In practice, I think it’s rather more a case of gas is /created/ by biological means, i.e. it is not ‘compressing’ anything per se.)

              It’s possible that you suck more for not being able to take a joke, though.

        • timochka@lemmy.zip
          5·
          16 hours ago

          “It” does nothing of the sort.

          But yes, it’s likely that an electric cryo pump would be used to fill a feed tank at the fuelling station, I wasn’t expecting it to be fuelled by unicorn farts.

          Now, since apparently we have to walk this step by step for you, how do you think the electric compressor is powered? The clue is in the name “electric”, if that helps.

          And for your gold star - try to work out where “electricity” comes from. In the US. You know, “clean coal” country.