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Nothing good about Ethanol
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:09:59 -0400, "Juan Jimenez"
wrote: "Roger" wrote in message .. . On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 13:15:29 -0500, Greg Copeland wrote: On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 15:43:09 +0000, Aaron Coolidge wrote: PS, in this widely spread out country purely electric cars are not useful until they have the same performance as gasoline cars, particularly in their recharge time. My gasoline car recharges in 10 minutes and goes 450 miles per charge. Each charge costs $55. It's really pretty cheap, all things considered. For what it's worth, they are making huge strides in battery technology...at least in the lab. They are working on using nanotubes in capacitors which vastly increase their surface area. The result is a "battery" which can be charged like a capacitor (means fast charge) and can survive hundreds of thousand charge cycles. Currently, making them are painful and costly...but research and technology is heading in the right direction. They are also starting to create ICE which create steam from its heat byproduct, which in turn, turn turbines attached to generators, which can keep batteries fully charged. This means, in the short term, better hybrid technology may help out until better battery technologies allow for a pure (or nearly so) electric solution can be found. But where will the electrical energy come from? We do not have the electrical grid capacity to power more than a small fraction of the cars. Huh? You're kidding, right? You think we can power all the ACs but not the battery chargers? sigh No, I'm not kidding. They aren't going to turn off the air conditioners to charge the batteries. BTW, cars are second in CO2 production only to our power plants. Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair) www.rogerhalstead.com |
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