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To: Eric who wrote (45105)	12/23/2013 12:01:36 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

There's probably a link somewhere. I don't remember the exact figure for Halo efficiency but I was pleasantly surprised how high it can be. I have been predicting the demise of the industrial revolution Otto and Diesel engines for 30 years, but the engineers keeping those in business have made continual improvements, holding the line. They were doing a fantastic job for decades and kept right on improving them. It is an unacknowledged amazing process that 100 years later leaves the modern day version of the steam engine still the totally dominant form of motive power. It's basically still a collection of hundreds of bits whirring around like 120 years ago. Belts, cogs, cams, levers, pistons, shafts, nuts, bolts, washers, screws, seals, oil, pipes, lead-acid battery, wires, spark plugs, generators, cooling water, exhaust, valves, chains, pulleys, pumps, gears, ball bearings, and a flammable liquid. All squashed up into a tiny little bundle of umpty horse-power. Qualcomm hired Chris Borroni-Bird from General Motors to help with Halo. autonews.com The end-game should be a car with gasoline-powered fuel cell, with Halo and small pit-stop batteries and electric motors in each wheel, with regenerative braking, all integrated with mobile Cyberspace for interactive management of the 3D realm of other vehicles, roads and pedestrians. The cars would be autonomous [no large stupid primates allowed to hold onto the steering wheel which would be obsolete. Maybe there would be a joystick for manual control in some situations. Upper surfaces would have photovoltaics. The fuel cell would eventually be dispensed with when there is enough Halo installed and battery swap pit-stops available. The new age car will be a passenger compartment, a baggage compartment, 4 wheels with electric motors in each, a pit-stop battery underneath with a Halo coil. Only 4 moving parts - the wheels. You could ask your Qualcomm friend to send you a link to the technical data on Halo. Here's one news.bbc.co.uk They say up to 95% and 90% for Halo Mqurice