Battery technology was stuck in the Stone Age for decades, so the Tesla was the real start of practical EVs. And every new technology sucks at first: firearms, washing machines, televisions, computers, calculators, cell phones, laptops, cars themselves....

At noon—in the summer—in some places—yes. But there is huge capacity at night, when most charging is done. If only we had a place to store power made at night that could be tapped later to smooth out demand peaks... How about millions of electric cars plugged into a smart grid? Conveniently, that ALSO solves the unreliability of solar and wind from hour to hour.

Unless NONE of the numerous promising battery breakthrus pan out, we'll have much, much better batteries in a few years. And the VERY DAY a battery is developed that is light, inexpensive, holds enough energy to drive 200 miles, and can be recharged in 10 minutes or so, virtually all gasoline and diesel vehicles will be obsolete.

I love electricity. That's the future. We're just gearing up research worldwide that will change electricity storage immensely in the next several years.

And Fixed, there's a little company called Special Edition in my little home town that will build you a Spyder or Speedster replica about as authentic as you want (albeit fiberglass instead of aluminum) for 35 grand. They'll leave it hollow, too, if you want to make it a battery electric.

And I agree with Brian about hydrogen. That's a whole other infrastructure to build (supported primarily with hydrogen stripped out of natural gas). By the time that could be put in place, batteries will have improved to the point that anything else is pointless.

I just revised the treatment to 12 pages, and there's a sweet role for a jet ski rider who saves the protagonist at the beginning and then gets eaten himself, but you'll have to talk to the man who just optioned it for 600 bucks.

You children can have your monster engines and your new-fangled fuel injectors and your fancy-pants AIR BAGS.

I'll drive art.

Well, I thought I'd kick it up a notch since they seemed unimpressed with my PowerPoint slides featuring pictures of robots fighting dinosaurs.

I don't care what they say. Robot Invaders of Dinosaur Island is a great idea. "None of the characters can talk" is not thinking creatively. Haven't they ever heard of "show, don't tell"? And "How can a dinosaur fall in love with a robot?" DUH. It's a GIRL robot. I don't know how those guys got successful in the first place.

You're talking to a guy who has written an 11-page treatment for Island of the Mega Gorillas, a 13-page treatment for 2014: Acid Storm, and a 6-page treatment for Sharkitect: Builder by Day, Destroyer by Night.

YOU DON"T KNOW MY CRAZY

/too lazy to write the screenplays; too crazy to stop writing treatments

Slow Dance With Money is on the board.

Stargate!

Don't blame the victim, Matt!! Or should I say DISEMBAUDIO?

Disembaudio revealed!

Okay. Hint time.

/not tired of this thread yet

Careful, braedan. As someone who has fielded many Britons' comments on the subject of UK vs US spelling, believe me when I say the English (the Scots are all right) don't have a sense of humoUr about this sort of thing.