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06-02-2005, 02:35 PM
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Gas engines no longer king of the hill.
New electric motor
"Imagine an electric car that produces hardly any noise, no air pollution, and is as fast as a Ferrari...... There are no gears - the motor provides enough torque at one revolution per minute to put a vehicle into motion - and it spins at up to 2,500rpm. "Size for size, we can provide 400% more torque than any type of motor currently available," says managing director John Bryant." reported on /. as well of course. I wouldn't mind slapping one of these in a golf cart. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] 
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06-02-2005, 02:36 PM
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Re: Gas engines no longer king of the hill.
Unfortunately, you're distance is limited by the length of your cord.
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06-02-2005, 02:41 PM
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Re: Gas engines no longer king of the hill.
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Unfortunately, you're distance is limited by the length of your cord. [/ QUOTE ] One more reason why we need an Apollo style crash program to develop technology to get passed these problems. Here are some promising technologies: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/eve...r_zeolite.html http://sbir.gsfc.nasa.gov/SBIR/succe...s/105text.html
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06-02-2005, 02:47 PM
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Re: Gas engines no longer king of the hill.
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"Imagine an electric car that produces hardly any noise, no air pollution, [/ QUOTE ] I won't bother with being as fast as a Ferrari, these two alone are enough to ridicule at this time. 1) Noise - okay, it produces less noise at the location of the car, what about the extra power production facilities needed to power the car? 2) No air pollutions. Does everyone understand the power has to be made somewhere? Does everone understand producing power generates some pollution?
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06-02-2005, 03:06 PM
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Re: Gas engines no longer king of the hill.
You are new to the forums so I will take it easy on you. Yes, I am very well aware of all of these facts. Still electric power cars are many times more efficient than gasoline powered cars.
The energy problem is a massive one. There are mutliple was of producing pollution free energy. Solar, Fusion and OTEC are all capable of producing the worlds energy needs without creating any pollution. There are also many ways of producing biofuel to eliminate the majority of the worlds oil needs. Biofuel does not produce pollution in the long run as the carbon is in a cycle. However many techonolical barriers must be overcome and that is why I think we need an Apollo style program now. - belongs in politics forum I have covered this topic many times. Search the archives as I have numerous posts. I am busy right now, if you need more help later I will provide links to the threads.
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06-02-2005, 03:50 PM
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Re: Gas engines no longer king of the hill.
So you do realize every form of energy has some polution (waste) associated with it. All of them. There is no 100% effient way to produce power. Some pollute less than other, but all create waste.
The energy problem is massive only because it's under too much government (the whole patchwork of city, state, and federal) control/regulation/red tape/restrictions. Pick your favorite solution (my personal choices are nuke plants and bio-desiel - I'm a fatboy and like big vehicles) and there is some massive government roadblock. Micro-management (which we now have) results in nothing. What we need is to out of the way.
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06-02-2005, 04:04 PM
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Re: Gas engines no longer king of the hill.
your forgetting wacki, that the world is controlled by the evil oil companies. It will be a loooooooooooong looooong time (we will both be dead) before the internal combustion engine isnt the norm.
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06-02-2005, 04:23 PM
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Re: Gas engines no longer king of the hill.
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So you do realize every form of energy has some polution (waste) associated with it. All of them. There is no 100% effient way to produce power. [/ QUOTE ] This is dumb. Wacki acknowledged this... it just so happens that some methods are far more efficient than others. [ QUOTE ] The energy problem is massive only because it's under too much government (the whole patchwork of city, state, and federal) control/regulation/red tape/restrictions. [/ QUOTE ] Ehhh... I think this is pretty wrong. Remove regulations and the refineries/energy companies will cut costs to remain competitive, and the first things to go will be any sort of environmental protections. IE: Why spend the money to dispose of the waste properly when they can freely dump it in the river? FWIW, I agree that nuclear power has gotten an ill-deserved bad rap and shouldn't be discounted.
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06-02-2005, 05:04 PM
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Re: Gas engines no longer king of the hill.
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[ QUOTE ] So you do realize every form of energy has some polution (waste) associated with it. All of them. There is no 100% effient way to produce power. [/ QUOTE ] This is dumb. Wacki acknowledged this... it just so happens that some methods are far more efficient than others. [/ QUOTE ] Yup, it is dumb. *thinks about the ignore button* I'm curious as to what kind of pollution the poster thinks OTEC, solar, and fusion produces that is so bad. Sure there is some pollution during construction, but that doesn't really count. Also, I don't consider biomass energy production as something that really causes pollution. There is some, but it's nothing to worry about. The CO2 is in a cycle and the net effect in the long run is an unchanged atmosphere.
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