I get a lot of engineers at my job who don’t understand the concept but they react to it in extreme ways. Like when we talk about plasma, there would always be someone bringing up how you can’t use certain materials near plasma or near heat or in vacuum. Yet some how the machines we make work and you even have on your hands a little TV screen powered by all sort of circuitry that shouldn’t exist because x or y factor that some guy always thought wouldn’t work because they were not in the team that actually made the thing work. But do keep telling us how plug-in hybrids don’t work. I only spent a decade in that industry actually developing motors, gear drives battery packs etc, and just so that some guy over here who maybe had one or drove one last week and has some options now controls the conversation. To me. Seeing is believing. I drive a little hybrid, I watch the gauge and it tells me, hey you got 57 mpg! Yey! But what I believe is that I do maybe 14 trips a year to go get gas and it’s way cheaper than when we fill up the van. As a user of my Toyota hybrid, that’s the bottom line regardless of my engineering degree and years of experience in the matter.
I get a lot of engineers at my job who don’t understand the concept but they react to it in extreme ways. Like when we talk about plasma, there would always be someone bringing up how you can’t use certain materials near plasma or near heat or in vacuum. Yet some how the machines we make work and you even have on your hands a little TV screen powered by all sort of circuitry that shouldn’t exist because x or y factor that some guy always thought wouldn’t work because they were not in the team that actually made the thing work. But do keep telling us how plug-in hybrids don’t work. I only spent a decade in that industry actually developing motors, gear drives battery packs etc, and just so that some guy over here who maybe had one or drove one last week and has some options now controls the conversation. To me. Seeing is believing. I drive a little hybrid, I watch the gauge and it tells me, hey you got 57 mpg! Yey! But what I believe is that I do maybe 14 trips a year to go get gas and it’s way cheaper than when we fill up the van. As a user of my Toyota hybrid, that’s the bottom line regardless of my engineering degree and years of experience in the matter.