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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (22567)	8/1/2008 8:38:04 AM
From: HPilot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

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.> This may be BS pie in the sky stuff. In reality you have to under power the car so much nobody will have one, or build it so light it won't carry more weight than two people and a toothbrush, or put in so many expensive batteries you will have to have a lifetime long payment plan to pay for it. I have driven real battery powered trucks and they got nowhere near the range they were supposed to, and got less than half the range when new in a couple of years. On top of that a lot of batteries gave out in a few years and cost the equivalent of an engine overhaul. 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. How long can it take to send men to the moon and bring back helium 3. Reliable fusion powered reactors using this for a fuel can be built now. So this is the longest time it could take to have fusion reactors. A cannister of liquid helium 3 the size of two shaving creme cans can power a city for something like a year, so its not like they would have to bring back a lot of the stuff. Other wise it may take less time to solve the shielding problem. Maybe they can develop better batteries in less time, but I am now thinking not. This fusion reactor will very soon be able to generate 500 MWatts of power. jet.efda.org