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To: Eric who wrote (67853)1/11/2016 11:07:45 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 86350
 
What you wrote was irrelevant Eric. Here is what I wrote: <Having a stash of lightning in your fuel tank is science fiction Eric. Like a gasoline powered fuel cell. Theoretically doable, maybe. If not for the problems>

Yes, there are capacitors. There is a big difference between having capacitors and having them technologically and economically useful to replace the fuel system in a car. Like gasoline powered fuel cells, they are theoretically doable but they have not been converted to a realistic method of replacing the car fleet.
Formula E is just getting to my battery swap 7SSS after having their silly method of two cars with the driver getting out of one and getting into the other at pit stops. They haven't got to capacitors yet.

Having a quadrillion volts worth of electronic charge ready to short in a gigantic spark would make some people nervous.

It would be nice to do, but doing it is something else altogether. Dumping 100 kilowatt-hours of static electricity into a capacitor in a car would be challenging too.

Do you have a working model somewhere in YouTube to show how it's done?

<They do things batteries cannot do, like discharging all of their electrons in billionths of a second or less..
> Yes, that's one of the problems with capacitors = Granny driving happily along when suddenly she is struck by lightning from her own car. Sudden discharges in a billionth of a second would be a problem in a car.

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