Posted on 09/04/2007 10:37:19 AM PDT by 300magnum
Like they killed the Fish carburettor.
Charge/discharge...
you can dump charge regular battery packs right now...
If you can get them from my ex-wife, they’re yours.
To protect their presently unprofitable business?
I once was struck by lightening as I toped a hill during a thunder storm
Hmmmm
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Hey bud, I'm a LAWYER, not GODZILLA.
That won’t even come close to the energy demands we’re talking about.
Some simple math: 1)Assume the vehicle efficiency is equivalent to a 50 mpg car. 500 miles would consume 10 gallons of gasoline. 2) 10 gallons of gasoline at 135000 BTU per gallon equals 1,350,000 BTU. 3) 1,350,000 BTU's equal 4000 KW. 4000 KW delivered in 5 minutes require 80,000,000 Watt-Hour per hour delivery rate of electricity. 4) 80 million watts at 220 volts equals 360,000 amps.
It would take 24,000 extension cords to carry this current. You might be able to charge the vehicle in five minutes, but it would take 6 days to plug, and unplug the cords.
Amen brother.
[energy demands we’re talking about.]
I think it’ll be at least enough for the average commute.
Without violating your NDA can you comment on wether this is something they just think will work or is something they have produced in a lab and they are working on mass manufacturing process?
There is another company with a theory about manufacturing rechargable aluminium batteries but have never made a prototype.
A working prototype would be very encouraging.
Duh, the dielectric is everything in a capacitor.
The thinner the dielectric the more plates can be used in a given space.
If they haven't determined the 'functionality and strength' of the dielectric, they haven't done anything.
If you are using 10,000 volts, 50 amps would charge it in 6 minutes.
This would also make an excellent magazine for a laser or other energy based weapon.
Other interested parties, even those with energy-technology experience/track-records/investments, might inquire with the EEStor and its principal capital investors:
to see if they may be willing to take-on some other partners; gaining access to capital and other resources that might help advance the conclusive production of a successful product.
The basis of the benefits of the additional partners is that there is most likely technical, mass-production and quality-control hurdles that EEStor must still overcome and, with conquering those hurdles in mind, having greater resources to do so can accrue benefits to EEStor and the existing capital partners, not just the new ones.
I hope that the kind of venture capitalists and energy-engineering principals I am thinking of are in fact approaching EEStor with offers to join them and with resources to help the project along.
Of course, the current investors and new ones would be looking for clarity of existing and remaining issues as well as clarity of the scientific proof of any claimed successful results. If the principal scientists are very convinced of the theoretical basis of possible success, but still unclear of the totality of the practical means to it, they should not be afraid of additional outside capital and technical resources to advance the theories to practical ends.
But, if the actual primary hurdle for EEStor proves, in the long run, to be their own fear of loss of control and thereby they deny themselves additional assistance that they need, and if the theoretical potential is correct, then their effort could remain fruitless for them, while others, less greedy for their own fame and maximum reward may succeed, based on the same theories, but with additional assistance they allow themselves to obtain in larger partnerships with others.
I don’t know if the theoretical goal of EEStor is or is not practical. I do know that finding the proof of the answer to that question, regardless of that answer, is of great benefit to many more people than just EEStor and its partners. I hope they seek and obtain greater assistance and come to that final answer sooner rather than later, so the energy-hungry world can more quickly put their solution to use or know to quit hoping for it and look more energetically elsewhere.
It’s power. P=EI. The less E, the more I is needed.
A car using this technology would get about the equivalent to more than 100 MPG. Gasoline engines are very inefficient. But yes, they are claiming a very high energy density.
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