You're welcome Barbara. Meanwhile, NZ spectrum auctions happening on Monday.
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Leap Asleep - they are not registered bidders.
Also, Capstone share price continues to go berserk. Regenerative braking is effective and combined with ABS and disk braking would be effective and save significant energy in city driving. To see how effective regenerative braking can be, try out the Fisher & Paykel "Smart Drive" washing machine. A high speed spin cycle stops in a second with no friction system. Pretty cunning, cheap, no wearing parts, get energy back in a car etc.
Friction disk brakes in a car could act as a backup and boost to maintain limiting friction in a feedback loop with the ABS system for maximum stopping speed.
I'd love a jetfuel turbine powered car, with flywheel, regenerative/ABS braking, Globalstar WWeb system, catalytic converter. There'd be no more [or very few] deaths by fire in car crashes as jet fuel is not volatile and won't just burst into flame [the vapour cloud with jetfuel is negligible and flame contact with the liquid would be needed to light it.
It would be quiet, cheap, clean, powerful, safe, with no maintenance [compared with the absurd piston systems currently used].
Any suckers owning Ballard stock should bail out! The car companies are just feeding in a few dollars to look good. Fuel Cells are NOT economic or effective for cars [or trucks or buses]. Okay, maybe for very high mileage buses, taxis and the like the capital cost might be justified but that's all, and questionable.
Why not just go with a turbine?
Mqurice
PS: Jetfuel is a bit high in aromatics, which are cheaper, but dirtier burning than lighter kerosenes, so they'd tend to pollute in cities, unless there was a particulate trap to collect muck before the catalytic converter heats up and starts working. Maybe there could be a startup fuel such as gasoline with automatic switchover to jetfuel after a minute or two of warming up. Water injection would help keep it clean. I bet this is interesting to CDMA investors. What do you think Valueman? Do you want a turbine-powered diesel-beast? |
