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To: Eric who wrote (70212)	5/25/2016 12:53:27 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86350

Eric, I know you think that's a winning argument, <Well then put your money into it if you think it is so great!> , but I have much better things to put my money into and I don't know of anyone doing that. Even if they were, it might be better to wait until there is a very large market of electric cars with their owners increasingly frustrated by queuing for "free" superchargers for an hour or two, or five hours, or a couple of days on Thanksgiving weekends. <No car manufacturer is going to do it today. Just not needed with today's vastly improved batteries. (and they are getting better and better at a very rapid rate now)> Lack of imagination says "There's no need today and no demand for it". As Steve Jobs knew, there's no point asking people what they want because they don't know they want it until they are offered it. Like CDMA, which was not only not wanted but supposedly breached the laws of physics, but now not only does everybody want it, but they are wanting OFDM for even more turbocharged mobile Cyberspace. People will definitely want a cheap little lightweight battery which enables even higher performance and energy efficiency at lower cost per kilometre when they can recharge in 7 seconds instead of 7 hours or even 70 minutes. Most of the time they will recharge at home or somewhere with a cheap Halo off-peak recharge, with photovoltaics supplying a lot during the day when the sun's out. But when the chips are down and need extra juice NOW, they will opt for a very fast and very cheap 7SSS. Even if you can get capacitors with good capacity, the wiring to dump the electrons into a haystack of electrons in the car will be heavy and hot, though maybe there will be 500,000 volt superconductors sending lightning strike amounts of electricity into the car in 7 seconds. As you can imagine, that would have potential for some serious accidents. But pouring billions of gallons of gasoline with high flammability into cars is done with nearly zero accidents these days, so it might be doable to pour petaquadrillion electron volts into a car in seconds might be doable. Mqurice