[ExI] day 5

[Mike Dougherty]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2025, 10:24 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> This evening I went by, the ports had four ICE cars and five Teslas, no
> one charging.  As far as I know, this place has sold no electric power.
>
Given other news, my first thought on ICE was not 'internal combustion
engine'

Of course the other meaning of "ICE cars" would be unpleasant to think about

So now that I've written it out,  I wonder if there are external combustion
engines.  Would Orion rockets qualify?  Are steam engines external
combustion relative to the motive power of the steam pistons?

Does 'engine' automatically imply fuel consumption?  Or is it the
mechanical aspects?  I know some people refer to the "motor"
interchangeably with "engine" but I was always corrected that a motor was
electrical (as in the ubiquitous pump motors or fan motors around the house)

So is it redundant or superfluous to specify "internal combustion" to
discuss engine cars vs motor cars?

fwiw, there's no argument here as much as musing on the
context/disambiguation of the term.

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