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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread.
QCOM 179.02+3.7%Nov 5 3:59 PM EST
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (1838)7/6/2000 7:29:48 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 12229
 
Capstone, CPST, has zoomed in price subsequent to IPO. Worth watching for people who want to make a lot of money. There is still the silly idea that Ballard Power will do well with vehicle fuel cells. They won't. That's a silly fantasy based on political pressure for zero emissions. It's not really zero emissions people want, it's cleaner air so they can see to the horizon and enjoy clean clothes, buildings and eyes with negligible carcinogens and stuff floating in the air.

Turbines are the way to do that. Running steadily, with flywheels and electric motors, turbines can provide a lot of power, quietly, cleanly, cheaply, with catalytic converters for super-clean emissions. No more diesel engines belching clouds of goo. No hugely complex reciprocating engines burning expensive high-octane gasoline.

The flywheel stores the energy while the turbine power isn't needed for pushing the vehicle [turbines need to run at fairly constant speeds for optimum performance] then can download the energy to an electric motor which would turn the wheels. [I'm not sure that's the exact drive-train plan, but it would be about right - maybe they'd have a motor in each wheel?]. Then, when braking, the wheels would generate electricity to be stored in the flywheel.

Flywheels are getting quite good these days.

Mqurice
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