Posted on 02/11/2015 5:10:39 AM PST by thackney
Little Richard’s, of course! ;-P
They need to forget all about this electricity thing.
There was a guy back in the ‘70s. He invented a carburetor that enabled a full size car or truck to get 150 mpg! Forget his name...but GM paid him 50 million and bought the rights from him and the plans are stored in a vault somewhere in Detroit.
I know this to be true because his ex-wife’s sister told my Aunt. She told my brother, my brother told my dad and my dad told me. So there really is no doubt.
Di-Lithium crystals were used in the later starships. The earlier ones used Lithium crystals. Unless Wiki got it wrong.
The government already has a work-around solution to that limitation.
As the government closes off more large tracts of land to habitation and makes it more and more difficult to live in the country and small towns, the population will increasingly be concentrated into cities.
In an urban setting there is less need for private cars and less need for cars with long range capabilities.
So gradually the impact of the limited range of electric vehicles will be mitigated by stuffing us into bird coops stacked on top of each other.
Country living will become a perk reserved for politicians and other wealthy and well connected elites.
And, of course, electric vehicles avoid the pollution associated with conventional cars, including emissions of carbon dioxide from burning gasoline.
If I can’t even throw away a light bulb anymore what happens to all those used up batteries?
They’re working on the wrong problem. It’s the long recharge time not range that is the problem. I wouldn’t mind a 200 mile range limit if I could recharge in 5 minutes.
Graphene capacitors.
That, or something like it, is probably the future.
It MAY eventually be possible but there will need to be a major breakthrough in the way electricity is used and stored to get there.
And that still has not happened even though nutters claim it to be so.
Well, I guess in the Pacific Northwest, where much (if not all) of the electric power comes from hydro-electric (and let's not forget about Niagara Falls), you could theoretically claim no emissions from fossil fuels.
Well if Wiki says it, it must be true. There simply is no better historical future authority. ;<)
How far can we be from warp drives, then?
I would think that something like they do with propane tanks for gas grills could alleviate this somewhat. You have someone remove your battery and trade it for a fully charged one (for a fee, of course). That would likely take longer than a fill up with a gasoline-powered vehicle, but certainly not as long as charging the battery would take.
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Atomic Batteries to Power....Turbines to Speed
I would say the problem is storage, not how electricity is used. In a vehicle sized motor 50~100 Hp, 95% efficiency is a quality industrial motor commonly manufactured.
http://www.gepowerconversion.com/sites/gepc/files/product/GEA18868%20X%24D%20Ultra661.pdf
Storage issues include charge time and efficiency.
I would be concerned about trading my new battery pack for one at the end of its service life.
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