Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 16, 2025

I gotta admit, I agree with Lucy.

She can use a gas-powered heater to boil the snow and use it for a turbine. Yep, that’ll work. Or maybe not.

Having lived in some “wintery” states, I would opt for self-clearing snow.

Perhaps a career in marketing.

Ask the nearest Yeti…..

Run your snow blower on hydrogen. Use some of the heat from the motor to break down the snow into hydrogen with oxygen as a by-product. You might get enough hydrogen to run it for a few more seconds. It’s kind of like the concept of regenerative braking to add a little bit of power to your EV. Doesn’t do much, but every little bit counts, right?

“Except for the sure-fire part, it’s still a great idea”. Absolutely – next stop, turning lead into gold; I’m sure I’ve read about that, somewhere .. just give me a second …

If she can somehow get to work with snow, why stop there? Make one that works on garbage – clean the streets while driving (problem with Doc Brown’s Mr. Fusion powering the DeLorean v2 is that it uses too little garbage to be a street cleaner)!

Maybe inspired by Al Capp’s Li’l Abner car that ran on smog.

Love Non Sequitur, but detest this little girl. The instant I see the day’s cartoon is her, I move on. She’s never funny.

Don’t give up yet. Danae. Figure that the Deuterium in snow would power a high efficiency cold fusion snowblower! Pseudo Science at its most brilliant!

Danae has a concept of a plan for an outline of an idea

Given that facts and science don’t matter any more, apparently, surely a perpetual motion machine will be patented any time now and up for sale before we can say bah humbug.

I have a gas powered for the heavy stuff, but use an electric for the lighter ones.

Put a paddle wheel on it to run an electric motor as you push it through the snow. I’m a genius!

Clearly you’ve never had a daughter who marches to a different drummer.

Lucy has always made more sense than you, Danae.

How about an electric snow blower with a solar panel?

Maybe an Organic Snow Remover? Wait for the sun to come out.

agreed

She’s the one writing a new history book based on what she likes…Reality bites….

LOTS of energy to be harnessed in snow: use the “snowball effect”.

It’s a short step from cars that run on water. That failed because there weren’t enough cars running on hydrogen for the water cars to sniff behind.

she is refreshing

Another idea shot down, Danae.

I’m not so sure about the fire part.

Echos of one of my all time favorites.

“… the slaying of an original, beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”

gocomics bloomcounty 2013/03/01

that annoying brat all week, and here we go again!

That much snow is an incredible heat sink. She just has to invent an endothermic engine. Instead of loading cars with heat producing fuel, just load a tank with ice or liquid air.

At least she has a horse to talk some sense. We can all use that, including politicians and business people.

Decades ago, in the ‘80s, I came up with an idea for ’robot lawn mowers’. I didn’t have the practical engineering skills myself, and relatives of mine who did, thought my concept was silly and laughed it off. Now, 40 years later, I see ads for such mowers on TV, and I own a robot vacuum cleaner — much the same sort of concept and device.

Darned science!

convert the snow to water to hydrogen gas, easy, make it scalable and marketable

Yeah, stupid reality. Antidote? Comics!

Don’t all kids have brilliant ideas like that? A lot of politicians do.

Leave it to her to try making snow (essentially) cannibalistic.

Her next idea will be to sell novelty light bulbs with dollar sign filaments.

I feel the same way whenever I see “wheaters” at the top of the comments. :)

Harness the temperature differential between the human body and the snow and run a high efficiency motor. Work hard enough and the energy provided will be so great that the job will be so easy you can do it without breaking a sweat.

I wish my neighbour would run out of gas. Especially when l’m on night shift!

Now days, if you can scam enough people on Kickstarter, Go-Fund-Me, or social media, you can still turn a profit with useless ideas like perpetual motion.

Reminds me of a display I saw in a food court. Students from the local campus of a major state university (Go Blue!) had made a vehicle with a special new non-polluting power source! Compressed air! (I hope I don’t need to say more, especially in the context of this cartoon.)

There’s a long, long, long history of people who’ve claimed to have invented perpetual-motion machines. Some of them made fortunes off of their scams, but most were just self-delusional.

Simple really. Just melt the snow and split the water molecule into its componant oxygen and hydrogen atoms. Then use the hydrogen as fuel, burning the oxygen! Don’t give up so easily!

How many people besides me got to the 2nd line and had alarm bells go off?

When it comes to bad girls I much prefer Alice (Cul De Sac) to Danae…

Danae doesn’t have the followers of a certain businessman.,,yet.

Well, we already have hydrogen engines, so you need a converter to change water into hydrogen. That’s all.

WELL today’s strip 3/17/25 is not here so look on Arcamax, since this won’t let me post links!

Why are all the comics stuck on the 16th?

None of Monday’s comics are posted! Must be the new & improved GC!

Nothing updated?

What happened to the comic I got in today’s email for Mar 17. Even when I explicitly set the url to …/nonsequitur/2025/03/17, I still get this one. Was it too political?

Did DOGE clobber GoComics now?

Brilliant idea!

They’re called steam engines ! ;-)

Danae is the female equivalent of Calvin.

How do you convert snow into energy.

Kill Frosty and use his magic remains