• chocrates@piefed.world
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    I thought that too, but think about it but this way. These races are about pushing the limits of engineering.

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      No, if they wanted to push engineering, they would make them run multiple races, not rebuild @ $25,000 for a three second burst of noise and make a motor that can only last 540 revolutions.

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        But you can’t make one go as fast in one race if it has to run for more races. You’re talking about pushing engineering in a different direction

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      Hmmmm no

      Scientihic research is about pushing the limits of engineering. This is just a very wasteful show

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      Lol, yeah. That’s how my friend tries to get me into Formula 1, and I can definitely see and respect it from that angle. I just can’t get past the resources wasted to make a spectacle out of it. I’m just a curmudgeon like that haha.

      Those arguments go away with Formula-E but I just haven’t dove into it

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        Those arguments go away with Formula-E

        But they don’t. Formula E is bullshit Greenwashing. Whatever these cars burn in a race weekend is a drop in the bucket compared to the vast waste of resources used to fly hundreds of tonnes of equipment and cars and people around the world. Formula E could be entirely in Europe with races a short distance apart.

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          The win would be the engineering knowledge gained from pushing an electric vehicle to it’s absolute limits, at least in theory.