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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: HPilot who wrote (22561)7/30/2008 5:28:47 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 36921
 
Hugh, that post had me baffled. For a start, battery-powered cars can go a long way if they have enough battery. A range of 100 km in commuting vehicles is easy without having a truckload of battery to carry around. <A good battery has a range of only 20 to 40 miles.>
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Look at these projects for example: post-gazette.com < Smaller auto makers are largely behind the current revival. Silicon Valley start-up Tesla Motors Inc. last week began taking orders for its Tesla Roadster, a battery-powered electric sports car ($85,000 to about $110,000) that the company says can go up to approximately 135 miles per hour and run for 250 miles per charge. Similarly, Wrightspeed Inc. is developing a $100,000 electric sports car that it hopes will last 200 miles per charge and run up to about 120 mph. Another start-up, Phoenix Motorcars Inc., plans to begin selling two electric vehicles early next year that it says will be able to go up to 85 mph and last 120 miles per charge.>

I'm not sure what you mean by this <They have been able to run fusion reactors, they have problems with expensive shielding lasting only about 5 years. Solve that problem or find a source for helium 3 and we won't need batteries, fuel cells with hydrogen manufactured using fusion reactors would be a better answer. >

I suppose you mean fusion reactors are making some small headway and that hydrogen from electrolysis of water using electricity from fusion reactors could be used for fuel cells on cars. I'd back methanol or ethanol as a fuel cell fuel rather than hydrogen. We'll be waiting a long time for fusion reactors.

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