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I should say that I usually have a good experience on Amtrak. Still, if Amtrak could replace electric horns with steam whistles, they could make big strides. A horn is a horn is a horn, but a steam whistle is a voice and a song. People used to know which engineer was running which engine based on the call of the whistle.

~Brian Floca

Topics: Based Big Call Could Electric Engine Engineer Experience Good Horn Horns Know Make People Replace Running Say Should Song Steam Still Strides Used Voice Which Whistle

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I drove an electric car for seven years because of its advanced technology, not because I have any concerns about energy resources. I have none at all. And when environmentalists say that global warming is dangerous, unprecedented and that we'll have a tipping point for atmospheric carbon dioxide, it's just nonsense.

~Burt Rutan

Topics: About Advanced Advanced Technology Any Because Car Carbon Carbon Dioxide Concerns Dangerous Drove Electric Energy Environmentalists Global Global Warming Just None Nonsense Point Resources Say Seven Technology Tipping Unprecedented Warming Years

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Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

~Carl D. Anderson

Topics: Along Both Charge Counting Electric Great Great Majority Length Majority Measurements Negative Number Particles Per Positive Possess Specific Tracks Unit

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The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.

~Carlos Ghosn

Topics: Car Critical Electric Electric Cars Fact In Fact Right Time

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Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.

~Carlos Ghosn

Topics: Car Electric Electric Cars Going Gradual Improvement Market Storm Take

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Cars have a large engine in the front and you have a gearbox, which is cumbersome. Electric cars don't have this problem. The motor is much smaller, the battery is below you. This will allow you to play with different shapes.

~Carlos Ghosn

Topics: Allow Battery Below Car Different Electric Electric Cars Engine Front Large Motor Much Play Problem Shapes Smaller Which Will You

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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.

~Carlos Ghosn

Topics: Car Electric Electric Cars Going Important Transportation Urban Very

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I run like an electric golf cart. Now I look at eating as a way to feed my body and keep me younger. It's not about starving your body, but treating your body like a Ferrari. You don't put in the crappiest gas you can find. You use supreme. In the long term, you'll run clean.

~Carol Alt

Topics: About Body Cart Clean Eating Electric Feed Ferrari Find Gas Golf Keep Like Long Long Term Look Me Now Put Run Starving Supreme Term Treating Use Way You Younger Your Your Body

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I'm really into, like, electric pop music and dubstep, things like that.

~Chandler Riggs

Topics: Electric Like Music Pop Pop Music Really Things

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Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters, alarm clocks, home refrigerators and thermostats, video cameras, bathroom scales, and Christmas-tree lights - all of which are, or soon will be, accessible remotely.

~Charles C. Mann

Topics: Accessible Alarm Bathroom Been Cameras Clocks Computer Controlled Electric Embedded Home Lights Long Major Mundane Networks Now Objects Power Remotely Scales Similar Soon Systems Telephone Video Which Will

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