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by Elsh
Wed Jul 02, 2008 6:32 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Something I don't understand with Hybrid cars.
Replies: 30
Views: 40990

Re: Something I don't understand with Hybrid cars.


I have two questions about that:

1. what is the life expectancy of the battery?

2. what is the cost of a replacement battery?

Those two things would determine your actual savings.

From the Toyota website:

Hybrid-related components for hybrid vehicles are covered for 8 years/100,000 miles ...
by Elsh
Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:51 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Something I don't understand with Hybrid cars.
Replies: 30
Views: 40990

Re: Something I don't understand with Hybrid cars.

I've got plans to attend the Detroit Auto Show this year. My understanding is that the new prius will be the first plug-in model. If so, I'll leave the auto show having bought my prius there.
by Elsh
Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:55 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Something I don't understand with Hybrid cars.
Replies: 30
Views: 40990

Re: Something I don't understand with Hybrid cars.

I think he means that the car will pay for itself in 12 years due to savings on gas.
by Elsh
Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:52 pm
Forum: Spirit Walker Universe
Topic: SPIRIT WALKER - CHAPTER 18 SPOILERS
Replies: 33
Views: 40581

Re: SPIRIT WALKER - CHAPTER 18 SPOILERS

I think we should go back to the consolidated spoiler thread. IMO discussion has really died down since we switched to the chapter specific threads.
by Elsh
Mon Jun 16, 2008 1:57 am
Forum: Spirit Walker Universe
Topic: SPIRIT WALKER - CHAPTER 16 SPOILERS
Replies: 46
Views: 55578

Re: SPIRIT WALKER - CHAPTER 16 SPOILERS

If they use no Alchemy devices but that detector that Danna used, when meeting Kyven for the first time, in the black keep they could certainly detect any active shaman powers. Since we know that the Loremasters don't allow Arcans in the Black Keep and are paranoid about shaman I would say that ...
by Elsh
Thu Jun 12, 2008 3:45 pm
Forum: Spirit Walker Universe
Topic: SPIRIT WALKER - CHAPTER 16 SPOILERS
Replies: 46
Views: 55578

Re: SPIRIT WALKER - CHAPTER 16 SPOILERS

My guess:

Dana will die in the conflict, she will volunteer to give Kyven her humanity and life through him and help him rather than just die.
by Elsh
Sat May 24, 2008 1:11 am
Forum: Spirit Walker
Topic: Spirit Walker, chapter 14.
Replies: 55
Views: 74662

Re: Spirit Walker, chapter 14.

I'm surprised how often I wish I'd skipped over the whole ivy thing and gotten a degree somewhere more affordable

$800/month student loan payments are not what's up
by Elsh
Thu May 15, 2008 8:02 pm
Forum: Spirit Walker Universe
Topic: Spirit Walker Spoilers - Chapter 14
Replies: 49
Views: 59571

Re: Spirit Walker Spoilers - Chapter 14

That's a very plausible explanation. Also, he might be unwilling to become more like that which he hates 'the shadow fox'.
by Elsh
Thu May 15, 2008 12:51 am
Forum: Spirit Walker Universe
Topic: Spirit Walker Spoilers - Chapter 14
Replies: 49
Views: 59571

Re: Spirit Walker Spoilers - Chapter 14

Every time I remember that Kyv has done little but speak to Clover and still hasn't asked what the other powers are, I lose a little respect for Kyven.
by Elsh
Wed May 14, 2008 10:35 pm
Forum: Spirit Walker Universe
Topic: Spirit Walker Spoilers - Chapter 14
Replies: 49
Views: 59571

Re: Spirit Walker Spoilers - Chapter 14

The story narrator says that he's the only Shadow Fox Arcan, the shadow fox says that there are plenty shadow fox monsters. I don't see any contradiction in the two statements. The arcans know all about the shadow foxes, clover even told him that she knew about them and their powers.
by Elsh
Wed May 14, 2008 8:59 pm
Forum: Spirit Walker Universe
Topic: Spirit Walker Spoilers - Chapter 14
Replies: 49
Views: 59571

Re: Spirit Walker Spoilers - Chapter 14

He could still hear that voice, just like it was yesterday. And it was the last time he'd ever heard his father's voice. His father died in a mine accident six months after Kyven began his apprenticeship… which put even more pressure on him at his first year test.

Kyven's father is dead.

He was ...
by Elsh
Wed May 14, 2008 7:55 pm
Forum: Spirit Walker Universe
Topic: Spirit Walker Spoilers - Chapter 14
Replies: 49
Views: 59571

Re: Spirit Walker Spoilers - Chapter 14

I don't think a full human can cross breed with an Arcan, same way Fel spelled out that Arcans of one breed can't mate with another of a different breed. We know as fact that the Ancients used weapons that damaged the land. We know the Ancients are on a technical level the same as us, so we can ...
by Elsh
Wed May 14, 2008 2:33 pm
Forum: Spirit Walker Universe
Topic: Spirit Walker - Spoilers - Chapters 1 through part of 14
Replies: 391
Views: 425622

Re: Spirit Walker - Spoilers - Chapters 1 through part of 14

Ok its a lot of quotes but it shows how Fel has been stressing that the Energy used by the crystals and the Shaman are the same. So to me the Shaman get their Energy from the Spirits themselves not from the plane they inhabit. They even state that the crystals are trapped forms of spirit energy not ...
by Elsh
Wed May 14, 2008 2:07 pm
Forum: Spirit Walker Universe
Topic: Spirit Walker Spoilers - Chapter 14
Replies: 49
Views: 59571

Re: Spirit Walker Spoilers - Chapter 14

Pretty interesting.

We know that Shamanism is a genetic ability passed through breeding to future generations.

The scene where Kyven impregnated the prostitute indicates that much, so where is Kyven from? Might one of his real parents been an arcan?
by Elsh
Tue May 13, 2008 6:58 am
Forum: Spirit Walker Universe
Topic: Spirit Walker - Spoilers - Chapters 1 through part of 14
Replies: 391
Views: 425622

Re: Spirit Walker - Spoilers

There is some problems with the Drain the worlds crystal solution:

1. there is only around 1,000 Shaman to do the job and they have to get real close to do it. The Shaman are the spirits agents in this world.

I'm not sure that we fully understand the extent of the spirit's powers on the non ...